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I’ve seen two movies that I’d previously never seen since we last convened for MOVIE MONDAY.
Tomorrow on the Cigars & Cinema Podcast we’re discussing Out of Sight - https://www.youtube.com/@ogtcigars-oakglentobacconi8932/streams
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Fifth Dimension - I think I wanted to like this movie more than I did, because it does have kind of an earnest energy to it and a quirky premise. However, despite its attempts to make Buckaroo and his entourage seem super-cool and like the ultimate heroes, I never quite bought it. It’s just too thin, and as much as I like Peter Weller, his performance never feels charismatic enough for me to buy what they’re selling. But, the movie does wholeheartedly embrace its nature as a parody and isn’t afraid of being absolutely silly, which provides some amusing ideas and I did chuckle throughout the film. Empty calories, but kinda tasty.
Libeled Lady - This is a screwball comedy from 1936 starring Myrna Loy, William Powell, Spencer Tracy, and Jean Harlow. It’s about a newspaper man whose newspaper prints a libelous story about a wealthy socialite, so they hire a libel expert to try and manufacture a situation with the socialite that will clear the newspaper. 30’s/40’s screwball comedies has to be one of my favorite genres and this one delivers. The dialog is well-written and everything moves along at a brisk pace, and the movie is full of so many double-crosses and changes of fortune that it’ll make your head spin. Good fun.
And, the usual MOVIE MONDAY thing:
1. Name a movie. Any movie. If I've seen it, I'll briefly tell you what I think about it. I'm sure you're dying to know.
2. If you want, we can then dig deeper into our agreement/disagreement about said movie.
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Aliens still as great as ever. It could be my age showing, but really, the 80's are really over-represented in the conversation about GOAT action movie. Ripley is the paragon of female empowerment without having a whole fake "Girl power!" vibe that Marvel movies have been kinda ruined with. Calm under pressure, determined, brave and forthright. No super powers required. Pantheon level character.
Source Code was pretty good. I forgot what it was about so I rewatched it. Didn't realize Jeffrey Wright was in it, as my awareness of him only started in S1 of Westworld.
Finally, Carrie. Man, that movie is campy. Also, a total throwback to the days when horror movies were in part a license to show naked girls. Gonna get an R rating anyways, so we might as well show nudity too. When people talk about a movie that couldn't be made today, despite having been remade twice since, there is no way we'll ever see that opening girls locker room scene in a mainstream movie again. Having watched/read some biographies about the young directors of the 70's (Lucas, Spielberg, De Palma etc.) and how horny those fuckers were, it's right there on the screen. The #MeToo movement's biggest whale is probably in that group. The rest of the movie isn't all that great either. I can't really see how people thought that was scary, even back then, when movies like The Exorcist predated it. It's hailed as a classic, but it's really dated and doesn't hold up.
Aliens, on the other hand, is a timeless masterpiece.
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