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Drunken Master (1978)

YouTube clips of THE DEVIL RIDES OUT 😳

[Ron]

Ron should be home by Tuesday night!  

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[Ron]

Ron should be home by Tuesday night!   

Drunken Angel (1948)

Godzilla vs. The Guy From The Hamburger Train

Mother (2017) - It was hard to get lost in this movie as it was just so strange and unbelievable, but it was entertaining enough and I watched it in one night. In contrast, I was previously on my second or third night of "Holocaust 2000" and eventually just gave up.

Jennifer Lawrence is a submissive/ traditional sort of wife (this is taken to ridiculous extent) who is re-doing her massive house while her husband has writer's block. Her husband is so desperate for attention that he invites some random couple looking for a bed and breakfast to basically live with them. J Law not standing up for herself becomes basically a running joke. It's too insane to be taken seriously. More and more people show up and tear up the couple's house and the husband seems to not mind.

The whole thing feels like, awkwardly, an ego trip for the writer /director Darren Aronofsky who is a fairly prominent director but not particularly famous and wouldn't be recognized really anywhere. I was annoyed at having to imagine what the various things represented, rather than driven by curiosity to discover their meaning. I gather it's some sort of abstract take on the life of a successful creative type.

If you just take it as face value though, it's a wacky ride with some creepy stuff and solid performances. "Life ain't nothing but a funny funny riddle" isn't that what John Denver taught us?

4.45 / 5


edit: Yeah I missed ALL of this https://collider.com/mother-movie-explained/ (<---- spoilers)

Happie Earth day, a celebration dedicated to some guy who murdered his girlfriend, stuffed her body in a trunk & went on the lamb for twenty years.....

Devo - Planet Earth
https://youtu.be/3XBvjUc7P9Y?si=7vQqU5cpkFe0PvqB

Duran Duran - Planet Earth
https://youtu.be/8NF6Qa84mno?si=3dzuDYMjFhBH0wa-

And Happie PassOver, too!

[THE STRANGERS (2008)]

THE STRANGERS (2008)

A young couple staying in an isolated vacation home are terrorized by three unknown assailants.

Oh man, this film was unbelievable. It's like they took all the clichés of horror movies, put them together into a blender, and then threw them into a poorly conceived story in which the main characters are a bunch of hysterical morons. The sad thing is that they're not even stupid funny like in FRIDAY THE 13TH, where they're supposed to act idiotic so we cheer as they get disposed of. No, THE STRANGERS takes itself very seriously, supposedly mimicking a real-life situation, and yet we have things like victims splitting apart for no reason, girl twisting her ankle, the phone won't work, bad people with scary masks, a friend mistaken for a bad guy, jump scares, false jump scares, and the list goes on and on.

Non-existent soundtrack, random sound effects meant as cheap shocks, and worst of all, the movie has shaky camera for its entire run, as if a drunk chimpanzee filmed it. I almost vomited. Make sure you have Dramamine ready before watching this film - or better yet, don't watch it at all.

2/10 I gave it an extra star because at one point I managed to get a glimpse of Liv Tyler's legs.

Legend (1985)

A demon wants to kill the last unicorn to plunge the world into eternal night. Can a nature boy and a princess save the day?

This is another instance of a perfectly good plan being ruined by disastrous understaffing. If Darkness had employed, say, a dozen half decent henchmen, none of this would have happened. Now he has to entrust a key part of his plan to three bumbling goblins, and leave his stronghold essentially unguarded, so any intruder has the run of the place. Invest in your underlings, that is what I say.

One wonders who this is made for. The simple linear plot and even simpler characters make it something for young kids, yet it is strangely dark and creepy. Make up and prosthetics are top notch and Tim Curry has the best demonic laugh in cinema, but these can't make up for the lightweight script.

I believe there's two cuts of this movie, one which has a more "adult" plot. I honestly don't remember which one I watched, I do remember enjoying it tho.