Having read a lot about Watergate, that was a prevailing thought for most of it...until it suddenly wasn't

Leprechaun—Probably the most infamous of the pre-Friends roles, Jennifer Aniston actually comes out surprisingly with her dignity intact. The movie's always worse than you want it to be (Leprechaun 2 is the good one) but you see pretty quickly why she became a star.

The Unborn—Timothée Chalamet's uncle directs this occasionally evocative horror film about the terrors of childbirth. Could stand to be a little more pulpy or a little more in touch with its central metaphor, but a good watch. Kudrow has two lines, but is cast with some of her Groundlings cohort

Dance Til Dawn—Matthew Perry barely gets a few lines in, but this is a hugely fun TV movie about prom night with every '80s TV star you can imagine...Alyssa Milano, Christina Applegate, multiple actors from Growing Pains and stealing the movie, Kelsey Grammar and Edie McClurg as overbearing parents

So we kicked off the show with a pre-season where we watched one movie per each Friend. For Courteney Cox, there was only one choice.

Masters of the Universe—Courteney Cox anchors the real world section of the film which is camp fun, but never QUITE as fun as it's threatening to be.

Not to refer to a man's movie, but I think America Fererra's big speech would play a lot better if it was entirely in an unbroken close-up ala Renee Zellwegger's big reveal in Down With Love.

Its extremely funny that they have this cool speech and all it ends up meaning in the movie is that Justin Hammer will start funding new suits which he wanted to do anyway. Remember people thinking it would turn into an Armor Wars

Watching it now, and just got a big Will Ferrell scene and I can so clearly hear Hamm's cadence reading these lines and making them sing

Love the Jacques Tati PlayTime visual nods

(also replace Will Ferrell, who I generally like but is on slightly the wrong wavelength, with John Hamm)

And I don't think fidelity to the source was even the goal here (unlike Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein which tries for most of its runtime before going completely off the rails when Helena Bonham Carter self-ignites)

Kind of how he turns Pinocchio from a tale warning children against disobeying their parents into one that warns against blindly following authority

Like...I've seen Hellboy. I know this guy's not going to do a one-to-one adaptation, but to morph the central character into something reflecting his own experience.

And you get the teases to that through costuming. When his mother dies, you fully expect to see him integrate the red of her cloak into his outfit, which he does through his kerchief, BUT you also see him immediately cloak himself in the black coat of his father.

The father/child stuff in the movie is SO strong. I love that Victor doesn't reject the creature for his unnaturalness as in the book, but rather his perception of its intelligence. He steadily becomes his father, overly concerned with how his offspring reflects on him rather than their own needs

Is the creature softened from his role in the novel? Yes! But, what, am I supposed to be mad at GUILLERMO DEL TORO for loving his monster too much?

Like, Frankenstein is nice enough to let you know the first second you meet adult Frankenstein that this is not going to be a direct adaptation of the book, but rather an extrapolation of it's themes as they relate to the director