Film Shapes

So another cheap flick thanks to Reading cinemas in New Lynn. This one left me a little more satiated than the last. [Incidentally, I've since heard and read numerous scathing reviews of X-Men: Apocalypse. Some folk hated it. I felt more lethargy that hate]. The Nice Guys . Can't really suss out the title. In fact, it may be the worst thing about the film. I enjoyed this a lot. It put me in mind of a bunch of other films, such as The Big Lebowski , L.A. Confidential , even Chinatown a little but mostly Kiss Kiss Bang Bang , also by Shane Black. Actually, he's just gone and remade his earlier work, transplanting Crowe for Kilmer and Gozzle for Downey Jr. Remade 10 years later but RESET about 30 years earlier. Wuzzannhhh? Well, it's the same odd couple, buddy action comedy thingy but with a nice greasy spoon of 70's U.S. politics underwriting it all. It's set between the oil crises, birds are dying due to air pollution, hippies protest, killer bees appear i...