Independence Day Resurgence. It just wasn't worth the 20 year wait.
I am pretty disappointed overall with the tone of movies after the '90s. It is as if screenwriters completely lost their sense of humor at the same time. Everything is so dark and mopey. I have almost entirely stopped going to the movies.
That said, I had a bit of a movie night when I got back from camping.
Watched
A Goofy Movie for the first time, and found it to be an underrated animated gem. Classic 90s material. Upbeat music, and a very unDisney-like non-traditional family. A good watch for dads and sons.
Followed that up with a rewatch of
This is the End. If you liked
Superbad,
Pineapple Express, etc, this is in that vein, but with even more dicks. Raunchy, a couple jokes that missed the mark with me, but I laughed out loud more than a few times. It seems like the cast had fun making it, and that is a positive as far as I'm concerned.
Ended my viewings with a rewatching of
Hot Tub Time Machine. I liked it better the first time I saw it. In my opinion,
This is the End is a superior film, far more rewatchable. I like raunchy jokes and guy movies, but
HTTM was a bit too sexist for me, in that the women were one-dimensional pieces of scenery. Movies can certainly be male-oriented without being sexist. They can even have male characters be sexist without the movies themselves being sexist, if that makes sense. A couple cases-in-point: all the
Lethal Weapon movies,
Die Hard. The women in those films are not center-stage, but they are certainly strong and certainly not objects.
