HBO free preview weekends are the worst

[healingmirth]

If I had tried to find three movies with fewer plot points in common, I'm not sure I could have. I mean, I'm always sure someone could have, but not me. And yet, they were on in more or less sequential order tonight, so watch them I did.

Tonight I watched:

Contagion - did not make me prohibitively frightened of leaving the house, or touching anything or anyone ever again, so I count that as a win.

Brave - how is it possible that in the past year, I picked up not a single clue of what the actual plot of the movie was? Well played, trailer editors. I guess.

Magic Mike - it saddens and confuses me that my least favorite thing about the movie was Matt Bomer. Really, really saddens me.

Comments

[kitewithfish]

I had no idea upon watching Brave that it involved a bear. No idea.

Also, Magic Mike is both glorious spectacle and deeply depressing.

[healingmirth]

I don't think I ever saw the full trailer for Brave, just the TV spots, but I went back to watch the trailer online, and the evil bear only appears in the story the father is telling to the triplets. It's mostly "plucky girl, awful suitors" like they'd intended to market it as a rom-com instead of a story about family and loyalty. And bears, clearly.

To be fair, I have no idea what the plot of any of the Cars movies are, besides talking vehicles, so maybe it's not supposed to matter, if you're Pixar now?

I haven seen Boogie Nights since it first came out, but Magic Mike was a lot closer to that than I expected, even knowing that one of the characters makes some Bad Decisions. I absolutely appreciated it for what it was, though.