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Black Mass (2015) - Ima just take a moment to talk about this.

It's not as bad as I was led to believe. A lot of people were really down on it - in fact in the middle of watching it, I was reading an article about the Toronto Film Festival which described it as one of the bombs of last year that the festival needs to rebound from.

But I thought it was decent. It had a couple of things I liked in particular.

First of all, organized crime figures are assholes. Like really. They will kill your mom if she is in the way of a hundred bucks. But they are so often painted in a sympathetic light in TV/movies. Whether it is Tony Soprano with those ducks, or Michael Corleone and his daddy issues. Al Capone is a freakin' folk hero.

But I liked that Whitey Bulger was a portrayed as a completely unsympathetic creepazoid psychopath. I also found how he used being a registered FBI informant to be a fresh angle.

Johnny Depp actually is a good actor. He does not just play idiotic Tim Burton creations. He can be a person. Good supporting cast too.

My only complaint was that you want Bulger to really suffer in the end but unfortunately, they just went with the true story - spoiler alert?? - he got tracked down and busted without incident and put away.

Anyway, it was not an all-timer but 7.1 out of 10.


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The winter hill gang couldn't hold the five families' jocks. Seriously, the reason Black Mass sucked was because it was a story about a two-bit southie gang that didn't even run drugs in their own 10 block neighborhood. They bootlegged cigarettes and fixed harness races. I have personally bootlegged cigarettes and it would take anyone of us 4 hours at the track and $10,000 bucks to fix a harness race.
 
You Me Her is keeping me on board though. A lot of it is straight sex appeal especially the lesbian part - I would be out if the decision was based strictly on dialog and quality of the jokes etc. - not that it is the worst ever, but just not enough by itself - but the sexy bits ---> it is keeping me on board.
 
Stranger Things is addictive as fok. It was way past JL's bedtime (he doesn't go to sleep until we do) at the end of episode 3 and the wife and I looked at each other like "I don't wanna stop now."

4 episodes in. JL gets to nap at daycare anyway. He pointed at the TV several times and say "scawy show".
 
JL is watching his stupid Youtubes on our only TV.

Me - Babay do you wanna watch the scary show?
JL - No.
Me - Let's watch the scary show.
JL - No.
Me - I'll give you candy if you let us watch the scary show.
JL - Ca'dy! *runs to the kitchen*

I'm an excellent father.

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