I’ve been watching a lot of crappy movies lately, especially with the snowy weather we had in South Carolina this weekend, but each one has been more forgettable than the last. Regular reader Ponty asked me to write a review of a really bad movie, but that requires a movie to be bad and memorable. Most of the dreck I’ve watched lately has been bad and boring. The vast majority of bad films—indeed, probably the vast majority of films, period—fall into this category.
My aunt, also a regular reader and subscriber has asked me to review 2021’s The Electrical Life of Louis Wain. I plan on doing that soon, but I have to track down the film first. It looks like it’s on Prime Video, so I’ll have to see if there are some credentials I can borrow to watch it (or I’ll just break down and get an Amazon Prime membership).
So I was in a bit of a bind going into Sunday, with no film rising to the level of reviewable (or, I should say, with the inability to remember any details of any films I’ve watched recently). Then my younger brother mentioned that he and his wife were going to watch Nobody (2021) Saturday after their kids went to bed, and I remembered that I’d purchased the DVD from RedBox months ago, and had been meaning to watch it ever since.
Nobody was a film I wanted to see in theaters. The premise—an everyday working stiff finally cracks and takes action against bad guys—is one I’ve always enjoyed in movies (probably as a form of wish-fulfillment), and Bob Odenkirk is a comedy legend. Comedy, action, the little guy throwing punches? That’s my kind of flick.
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