Feel Good Films: BABY DRIVER and THE BIG SICK
Fun movies are back! Really fun! Movies that make you grin for 2 hours… make you wanna text your friends…make you excited to spread the word on social media.
For a while it seemed like movies were getting darker and more depressing — with overly-flawed characters fucking up, and endings leaving you wondering whaaaaa?
But now that the world is getting darker, films are lightening up and providing a much-needed escape from News that just gets more bizarre with every alert.
Meant to post about these two fab films right after seeing them opening weekend, but got busy-busy and kept putting it off. Still they stayed with me. So, here goes…
My two favorite films of 2017 so far are —
BABY DRIVER –
Edgar Wright’s passion project is totally in sync… the story, the music, the choreography, the cast to die for (Ansel Elgort, Lily James, Jon Hamm, Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx.) BABY DRIVER’S got everything going for it from A to Z: Action, Bank robberies, Car chases, Danger, Electricity… you get the picture . For me to love-love-love a movie, it’s gotta have Romance, and it’s gotta have Heart. BABY DRIVER has both! Plus it has chills and thrills! I can’t say enough good things about this summer surprise. It’s a little bit unexplainable —you’ve gotta experience it yourself.
THE BIG SICK —
Speaking of ROMANCE, this is the awkwardest, charming-est, funniest true-life-love story of Silicon Valley star Kumail Nanjiani’s and writer Emily V Gordon’s up-and-down, culturally doomed, physically challenged love-connection. Hilariously written by the couple and produced by Judd Apatow, THE BIG SICK is fresh, funny and frustrating. By the end you’ll feel like Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter and Ray Romano are your own family members you’ll want to hug one moment, murder the next.
BABY DRIVER and THE BIG SICK are the kind of films I’d love to audition for, be cast in, see again for the first time… you get the picture… sigh…
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Awesome pick on the movies. But the initial quote (“Whatever is good for your soul, do that”)… That is a hard one. I have had to give up almost everything that has been good for my soul, until I feel like I am barely a shell. Still, I will check out those movies when I have time. Would feel good to laugh again.
Sometimes laughter is the only thing that can help us get through these challenging times.