Benogus

What a shockingly uncomfortable film from Rob Reiner. While Micheal Douglas and Diane Keaton give good performances, they're wasted on a script that doesn't know how to properly build up to these emotional beats. Orion stays unlikable throughout and him becoming a better man and father feels inauthentic which leaves the viewer wondering why Leah falls for him outside of him giving her a good job. Characters set up to be important are promptly forgotten for the next hour only to show up in the last ten minutes as if the film just now remembered them The scene where Sarah meets her mom is my least favorite. Not only for it happening far too early in the movie, thus making the final act feel largely empty, but I found the film's treatment of her mother to be oddly mean. When Rita meets her for the first time in nearly a decade, she immediately opens her heart out to her, genuinely happy to see her daughter again. But then she collapses out of exhaustion and Orion decides to ditch her for the rest of the day with the film forgetting her therefore after. There was nothing in the scene or previously in the movie showing Rita to have been someone to not give a chance to reconnect with her daughter outside of being a former junkie. We don't even get a mention of what she's like personality wise or her current situation. Maybe I'm too empathetic or something but as someone who has parents that don't care about me, Rita wasn't an example of that. Disappointing misfire from Rob Reiner. Hope this is as bad as his films get

lmao they retconned Lightyear

I had a good bald friend who was a big Jackass (and early 2000s television) fan who sadly passed away after getting rejected by adoption services due being in his 70s. Watched this in his honor and had a fun if disgusting time. Fly high my Chris Benoit buddy! 🙏