I don’t know about seeing Paul Weitz‘s Moving On (Roadside, 3.17). A white-haired Jane Fonda telling white-haired wife abuser Malcolm McDowell that she intends to kill him is a silly contrivance. Where’s the upside or the intelligence in offering a warning? Unless, of course, Fonda is only looking to frighten.
I’ll tell you what’s frightening — the difference between present-tense McDowell and the way he looked in Lindsay Anderson‘s If… (’68).
At least I’m now thinking of re-watching Martin Brest‘s Going in Style (’79), which wasn’t half bad. (Or was it?) At the very end of the trailer George Burns says about a chubby kid, “If he eats any more jelly donuts they’re going to have to take him to kindergarten in a moving van.” One, that’s fat-shaming. Two, maybe the kid grows up to be Vincent D’Onofrio‘s Private Pyle from Full Metal Jacket (’87)?