July Movies - Week 5

Good Afternoon Ladies & Gentlemen,

It's the last day of July... and so probably the busiest month of the year with regards to art shows & events starts up in a few hours... but luckily our friend Katie is coming the first two weeks to help out & sell her art as well!!! So basically if I go quiet for a few weeks, don't worry... you can just find us at Eccles Art Center's Summer on August 2nd, then Ogden's Farmers Market on August 3rd... as well as Ogden Pride Festival later on August 3rd... and all day on August 4th... followed by the Weber County Fair from August 7th to 10th from 11 AM to 11 PM each day... and again at Eccles Art Center on August 8th... and the Farmers Market on August 10th... and then one last time at Craft Lake City's DIY Festival at the Utah State Fairgrounds on August 11th... yup, 11 shows in ten days... because we're bad asses!!! Here are some movies we watched to get inspired by...

July 25 – Ricky Stanicky (2024)
 
Three childhood friends have blamed their hijinx for decades on a kid named Ricky Stanicky… but he’s made up. Now they’re “adults” and things are getting real… and after decades of blaming their lies & deceit on Ricky Stanicky, now their loved ones are calling them on their BS and want to meet this legendary Ricky… so they hire a down-on-his-luck actor (John Cena) to study up & BE Ricky Stanicky… and of course… hijinx ensue. This movie… is pretty preposterous… but man, I really liked it. To be fair, I watched this one by myself & I’m sure Izzy would think it’s… okay… but as long as you can get past the “the protagonists of this movie are all lying a-holes” and that’s got a lot of the (thank goodness implied) gross-out humor from the director of “Dumb & Dumber” then I think you’ll have a fun time as well. Great performances by Cena, William H Macy, even Zac Efron wasn’t that bad…
 
Rating – 8/10 – Worth a watch if you like raunchy comedy
 
July 27 – Under Paris (2024)
 
Brendan from What Were They Thinking? Podcast told me about this movie… well actually he just asked if I had seen it… and he hadn’t, just that it seemed like a movie I would watch… and he was right to think so. Basically a French diving research team is tracking a mako in the Indian Ocean… and it’s growing faster than expected… and then kills the team save for one lone survivor (hot French chick). Three years later, she’s a guide at a Parisian aquarium… but is then notified by basically Greenpeace’s militant division that the shark they were tracking… is in the Seine River in Paris now… possibly to breed… that’s right, it’s Jaws The Revenge, I guess?!? Anyway, hijinx ensue as everyone involved bumblef**ks their way through events that happen & Steve is just screaming at the TV “A Net will do just fine! Or a barrel of oil or something… whatever…” Now… the movie is better than most of those SyFy shark movies like “Jurassic Shark” or “Three-Headed Shark Attack” or even the “Sharknado” sequels… but it’s definitely not on the Jaws sequel or Deep Blue Sea or The Shallows level.
 
Rating – 7/10 – I like shark movies… but this is quite mid
 
July 29 – The Trust (2016)
 
Nicolas Cage & Elijah Wood are cops… well, crime scene investigators… and when the elder stumbles upon a suspicious evidence receipt… it sends him down a path that basically leads to him convinced that they should rob a drug dealer’s vault located in an otherwise inconsequential apartment location in Las Vegas. Does he have any real evidence that there’s a safe there? Not really… more circumstantial… but he has a hunch… and hijinx ensues. Honestly, this movie is kind of a dark comedy… until the third act… intruged?
 
Rating - ???/10 – Well then hear all about it on Everything I Learned from Movies during Nic-August Cage!!!
 
July 31 – Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
 
Yes, the highly anticipated Marvel movie where we finally get full penetration as Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) and Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) are together at last trying to save the universe… and spoilers… cameos ensue!!! Without going deep into it, this movie was a HELL of a lot of fun… if you enjoyed the first two movies (each of which was movie of the year when they came out) then this one is right up the same alley with even zanier stuff happening. That being said… will it be my movie of the year the same year where we’ve already had a Dune movie, a Mad Max Movie, a Planet of the Apes movie, a STUNTS movie & plenty more to come?!?
 
Rating – 10+/10 – Well, it’s already off to a fine start with that ranking!!!

Pray for Mojo... and come see us at any of the events in Northern Utah the next two weeks!!!

​Steve