Irrelevant But Awesome

Get it? Wrap party? Is this thing on? Anyway, With Summer of Netflix finishing up yesterday, frequent reviewers Alexa, Joel and Chris took this chance to reflect on some of the hits and misses of the series. Here's what they had to say as well as some superlative awards: Alexa:  I really enjoyed participating in Summer of Netflix because it was a great way to finally see some movies that I’ve been meaning to watch for a while, and an excuse to revisit some old favorites. A few highlights as we wrap up: Favorite movie: Almost Famous. I had seen this one before, and fell in love with it all over again. Almost Famous is Cameron Crowe at his best, presenting an infectious portrait of ‘70s-era rock ‘n’ roll that overflows with love for the genre and time period without feeling overly sentimental, all grounded by an extraordinary cast. Runner up: Short Term 12 Second runner up: In Bruges Least favorite/biggest disappointment: They Came Together. My reaction after watching...

Joel:  This movie was dumb. And not the good kind of dumb where it can still be enjoyable to turn off your brain for ninety minutes and just enjoy the movie for what it is. This is the cringeworthy, painful to watch kind of dumb where you check your watch and can’t believe it’s only been four minutes since the last time you checked and will this terrible, terrible movie ever end. And it’s not that I don’t get the jokes, or it’s just not a movie for me. Each joke of the movie gets the reaction of “I get it. It’s not at all funny, but I get what the joke is supposed to be.” Don’t be a Menace was one of the first parody movies where references to other movies started to replace actual jokes about other movies. It’s a symptom that has continued into the more recent Epic Movie , Meet the Spartans , The Starving Games , etc. This one is slightly better than the other ones because at least it keeps most of its references within the same genre of “Growing up in the hood” movies inst...

If you haven't kept up with Summer of Netflix thus far, never fear because you can simply join us for the 2nd half of July, we won't tell anybody. But even if you're joining us for the first time or you've religiously watched every movie on every day since the beginning, here's what you have to look forward to for the rest of July!