Apparently I'm constantly watching movies now.
Rocketman was okay. I appreciated that it tried to do something to separate itself from the usually extremely formulaic way of doing music biopics by adding some fantasy elements. If you're into Elton John you've probably seen it, but if you haven't, it passes the time just fine.
The Dirt, the Mötley Crüe biopic on the other hand I found quite entertaining. This one sticks extremely close to the formula, but refreshingly enough their career arc actually DOES fit pretty well into the formula (which generally goes: difficult youth - band meets - first success - excessive partying - increased success - tragedy and/or internal conflict - low point - re-union/making amends). The movie also quite sensibly focuses on being entertaining instead of trying to convince this band was/is a unique miracle snowflake. There's no larger point to be found here, but it's probably the best version of this film you're going to see. Also, it's the Mötley Crüe story, so basically Spinal Tap meets Trainspotting.
Would recommend.
I also watched
Mortal Kombat. It's a terrible turkey of a film, but if you're too young or too cultured to not have seen these types of eighties style fantasy B-films, at least Mortal Kombat is the entertaining sort of terrible. (I'm aware that it's actually made in 1992, but except for the excessive amount of early crappy CGI, everything else about this is so eighties.)
It's probably the fourth time I've seen this film, so... you know. It's terrible, but a cult classic!
