Weekly Recap #17: My Big Announcement

Howdy!

I need to catch up, which means this post is going to be pretty long, so let's just jump into it.

#110 F The Prom

Available on Netflix

Two friends who diverge on very different paths at the beginning of high school come back together to stick it to the popular kids.

I have quite a bit to say about this movie, the first of which being how I can't believe this movie is actually real. At the very beginning, I remember thinking 'this is written like a Youtube video', then Lily Singh showed up and I found out it was written by a Fine brother, and it all started to make sense.

Every part of this movie was cringe-worthy, but what I was most astonished by was how many inappropriate jokes it thought it could get away with. For example, in one scene, a character's dad told his teenage son that his teenage girl friend looked like she was a "good lay". And that wasn't even the worst one. Now, I have no problem with dark jokes, but the rule is that they have to be funny -- and when the guy from Sharknado is the reading that line, it's anything but.

At this point you might be asking why I watched this movie in the first place, because the title doesn't really scream "good content". I have this thing I do where I binge true crime podcasts that are great, but make me very sad and anxious, so I try to remedy that with watching bad movies, which for the most part, I really do love. But this movie wasn't fun. It was trite, unoriginal, and not funny.

#111 Guava Island

Donald Glover's quietly released film based on his most recent album.

Two things surprised me about this film: 1) that I didn't know about it and 2) that nobody's talking about it. I really loved it. It was beautifully shot and told a cohesive, interesting story in 50 minutes.

#112 Deadly Switch

Who let this lifetime movie on Netflix?

What a wild, sad adventure that movie was. I'm secretly obsessed.

#113 Knock Down The House

A documentary that follows three underdogs on an adventure into Congress.

I ugly cried almost the entire time. Watching this documentary made me more hopeful than I've felt in a long time.

#114 Class Rank

A girl ranked second in her high school class helps a classmate run for the school board in hopes of abolishing the class ranking system.

The concept is interesting, but the annoying lead and predictability made it hard to appreciate the originality.

#115 Long Shot

The youngest Secretary of State prepares to run for the presidency when she forms an unexpected bond with a hot-heated, scruffy man from her past.

I was worried that the whole goddess Charlize Theron and bum Seth Rogen dynamic would get old fast, but the actors put so much more into their character's dynamic, that it never felt like one was better than the other. Even though they were unconventional from the outside, you really believed their relationship and rooted for it. A classic rom-com for sure.

As you can see from the title, I have an announcement.

From now on, I'm going to be posting on Mondays.

I know this may seem like a small announcement, despite my somewhat misleading title, but I do have a few people that actually look for my posts every Sunday -- which makes me endlessly happy, by the way -- and I wanted to make sure they know that I appreciate them enough to keep them in-the-know.

If you're asking why I'm making this change, I'll tell ya: I thought Sundays would be the easiest day to finish these, but they ended up not being as easy as I originally thought. It's as simple as that.

See ya next Monday!