Right. It’s not a movie we’d pay to see (though few meet that criteria). It has more of a feel of a TV crime show, like Bosch.
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Axel F I see as cheap mindless fun entertainment. No real hidden messages - except maybe the estranged father-daughter angle. But agenda. Nothing deep. Sometimes I like that like a beach novel.
We saw Emily the Criminal last night on Netflix. It was better than we thought. A girl who can’t pay her student loans gets involved with credit card fraud. You want to like her and feel sorry for her, but i don’t think she’s really a good person.
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I agree on Emily the Criminal. I thought it was meh . . . but I did keep watching to see what happened at the end.
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We watched Last Stop in Yuma County last night. H thought it was fine but I didn’t like it at all.
Does this mean I get to pick a rom-com tonight LOL??
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Hubby often consults me about what to watch. But when he cooks dinner, I usually tell him he that gets to pick the evening programming.
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Harry Connick Jr. has a new rom-com movie coming out on Netflix, called “Find Me Falling,” on 7/19, which looks entertaining for a summer movie.
He’s a lonely rock star who moves to Cypress after his new album bombs. I set a reminder for it on my account.
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We were in the mood for a disaster movie and re-watched Dante’s Peak last night. Can’t wait for Twisters to open in theaters! I think we will re-watch The Perfect Storm tonight.
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I enjoy disaster movies but the ones based on true stories tend to make me melancholy. Perfect Storm, wonderful movie and book, really put me in a funk!
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Didn’t read the book, and still scarred from watching the movie!
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I’m with @Leigh22 and @Mwfan1921 on the Perfect Storm. Extremely well-done and moving movie (and book), but I can’t watch it again.
I did watch the recent “remake”/“updated” movie about the Uruguayan soccer team plane crash in the Andes, Society of the Snow, as I read it was more faithful to the story than Alive. I found it well done.
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Our neighbor knew the crew of the Andrea Gail well. He sold them the locator buoy on the boat. Of course, after the tragedy, everyone wondered why there was no signal from the beacon - was it defective? It turns out that someone had put the switch in the “off” position to save the battery. 
I read that since that time, it’s now a requirement that the beacon be in the “on” or “automatic” setting.
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DH’s celebrity crush is Nicole Kidman, so we watched “A Family Affair” on Netflix yesterday. Zac Efron, Joey King, and Kathy Bates are also in it. It’s totally cotton candy fluff, but we enjoyed it. The acting was decent and it was a fun story.
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I couldn’t get over how old Zac Efron (36) looked and how much “work” was done to make Nicole Kidman (57) look younger.
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His face looks quite different after breaking his jaw and needing surgery, including plastic surgery.
As for Nicole Kidman, I will never understand why aging people, even those in Hollywood, get such extensive plastic surgery that they hardly resemble themselves anymore. Not sure I can watch anything with her in it at this point.
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Is she still your husband’s celebrity crush? Was he bothered by it at all?
I noticed that the avoided showing close shots of her hands and often covered her neck.
She’s @mainelonghorn’s H’s crush! I don’t think my H cares for her though, but he wouldn’t watch a movie like that regardless who was in it!
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Oops sorry, got the two of you mixed up. 
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Fun story, decent summer entertainment again. Both actors looked different for sure.
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Has anyone watched “Mother of the Bride” with Brooke Shields on Netflix?
After watching “A Family Affair” with Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron the other night, I’m a little “gun shy” about devoting another 90-120 minutes of my life to another film in the same rom-com category. 
I watched it - even more contrived than “A Family Affair” - so good to work on a project, puzzle, etc. while you’re watching.
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