Understands its audience more so than its predecessor. More jokes and hijinx. No Elias Koteas though. Production doubled and you can tell with the sets & turtles, remarkable puppeteering! Surprised this only made half the box office of the 1990 film, this felt more "important" as a 7yo back then.
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My Blue Heaven 1990
The unofficial sequel to GoodFellas! written by Nora Ephron, whose husband was Nicholas Pileggi (who wrote GoodFellas!)
The weirdness doesn't stop there.
Home Alone was released in 1990 as well. In it, the Wet Bandits were played by Joe Pesci & Daniel Stern. In the same year, Pesci starred in GoodFellas and Daniel Stern in My Blue Heaven.
& even more weirdness: on the marquee of the movie theater we see them drive by in My Blue Heaven is for White Hunter,…
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Loqueesha 2019
I watched Loqueesha (it’s on Amazon Prime) and it’s just as terrible as you imagined it would be. A few surprises/thoughts:
1. They acknowledge the problematic nature of the premise of the film but don’t really address it. It’s a bizarre confrontation that ends in the two people (the white guy and black woman) kissing.
2. There are a large number of non-white speaking roles in the film, more so than all of the Coen Brothers movies combined.
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