What did you watch this week sunshine? (06/06-06/12)

Happy summer! Pour me another cocktail and let's go skinny dipping at the beach.

Stop or my mom will shoot It's been a long while since I seen it, but I would guess around a 6/10
Haven't seen Open 24 hours, but it sounds interesting
Come to daddy 7/10
The island 7/10

I watched:
Cruising (1980) 6/10
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) 6/10
Feel the Beat (2020) 7/10
Fast & Furious (2009) 6/10
I Think I Love My Wife (2007) 6/10
Candleshoe (1977) 7/10
The Kid Who Would Be King (2019) 6/10
In The Heights (2021) 9/10
On the Town (1949) 8/10
The Kid Detective (2020) 8/10
Lady in the Lake (1946) 7/10
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967) 6/10

The Island was a mess but entertaining 6.5/10

Murder, My Sweet (1944) - A very complicated plot. Almost as confusing as The Big Sleep. Some of the motivations don't make sense to me. 5.5/10

The Elephant Man (1980) - Love this movie. Hopkins gets overlooked for acting in this as he is so normal. 8/10

Long Ago, Tomorrow (1971) - The main character in this movie was not very angry about all the crap that happened to him. The death at the end just happened so fast. Not a big budget movie. 6/10

Ace in the Hole (1951) - This movie keeps getting better with age. It might be Kirk's best performance. Someone on the boards said it was satirical. I didn't see that at all. A very dark drama. 8.5/10

I started and stopped a lot of bad movies this week. The only one I finished and enjoyed was the remake of Annie 2014, cute family stuff. 6/10

The Djinn (2021) - 5/10
Promising Young Woman (2020) - 7/10
Big Legend (2018) - 6/10
Cold Hell (2017) - 6/10
American Heist (2014) - 4/10
Iron Sky (2012) - 5/10
The Woman (2011) - 5/10
Middle Men (2009) - 7/10
Bright Angel (1990) - 6/10
The Jigsaw Murders (1989) - 5/10

And out of the ones you watched:

Open 24 Hours - 7/10
Come to Daddy - 6/10
The Island - 6/10

Greetings!
Open 24 hours 6/10
The Island 6/10

My week:
Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) 7.8/10 I do enjoy movies like this. I thought it was well done. The story was familiar, and cliché and most likely stolen from other stories, I mean that's what Disney does, but it does it well. I'm not an expert in animation, but I thought it was beautiful. Awkwafina's voice was a little jarring at first, but I honestly didn't mind it. I did enjoy this one.

Boss Level (2021) 8.3/10 Just when I thought I was sick of time loop movies, Boss Level proved me wrong. This was just as fun as the first Happy Death Day. Some of the violence was gloriously over the top. I'm glad to see more movies go this route. This was also the first movie in a while that I liked Mel Gibson in. He's done a lot of crap since his meltdown so I was glad to see him back in form. Frank Grillo was gruff and great. I will probably watch this again some time soon.

Swing Shift (1984) 6/10 I am pretty sure that I had seen at least part of this before but I really didn't remember it. All in all it was okay. I've been reading a lot of books set around WWII lately so I thought, eh why not?. I was disappointed a little. I do really love Hawn and Russell together because they do have great chemistry, and Christine Lahti was beautiful and the best part of the movie, but the story was a bit meh.

The Amusement Park (2019) 6/10 So, if you don't know, this is a PSA filmed by George Romero sometime in 1973 for The Lutheran Society about elder abuse. I guess they didn't like it and buried it for like 45 years. It was surreal, bizarre, and I did feel some empathy for the elderly, it kind of missed the goal posts for me. I did think it was kind of cool that the star of this, Lincoln Maazel, did live to be 106. I hope he was treated better than he was at the Amusement Park.

Communion (1989)

This is one of those movies that slipped through the cracks on me. When it came out I REALLY wanted to see it and always have but the stars just never lined up. I went through the same thing with Will Smith's Wild Wild West this year.

Anyway, I gave it a 9/10 on the now defunct IMDb scoring system.
I would have LOVED it in 1989. Today I liked it, almost a lot. Mr Walken was great in it. The rest of the cast was too but Walken nailed it.
It's on Amazon PRIME now.

hey! i'm the crank who's always saying 'it's far too hot out' every day of the summer. but i'm glad other people enjoy it.

open 24 hours - i only gave this a 2.5, but i remember it being fun. i might put it on the re-watch list'

come to daddy 3.5 - i wanna give this a re-watch too. i barely remember it, but i recall thinking it was the kind of twisted ugly film that ticks off a lot of my favourite boxes.

the island - i gave that a 2.5 as well. i remember really liking the firs hour, but i thought the action scenes in the back half were too choppy & quickly edited.

my week:

in a glass cage (1986) 4 definitely belongs on any list of the darkest, ugliest films ever made. i wish it was a little shorter, but there's no denying its ugly power.

woman on the run (1950) 4 fun, lean, occasionally very witty. only complaint: the version streaming on prime is colorized, and looks cheap and really quite atrocious. boo for that.

safe (1995) 5 i low-key believe that this is one of the greatest movies ever made.

one of the qualities that elevates it is the sound and score.

the music reminds me in part of coil's rejected hellraiser score. maybe that's just me, but it has that same feeling of creeping horror. it has a bit of goblin in it too, maybe.

streets of fire (1984) 3 i didn't love this.
it has it's fun moments, for sure. it's a silly throwback b-movie, trying to capture 50s rock films, i guess, and it gets some of that.

i wish it had more music.
and i wish i can dream about you hadn't been talked over so much - it's clearly the best song in the film.
& i wish that last song hadn't been such a silly, overblown bonnie tyler sounding track. that was underwhelming.

it's still a fun film. but i really think it could have been better..

macabre (1980) 3 shame that this is such a slog for most of its running time, because there is some crazy shit in here

last shift (2014) 3.5 i definitely under-valued this when i watched it last year.
not that it's great.
but it's really good.
it's really well done, slickly executed and properly paced from beginning to end.

i think this is gonna work its way into my rotation of horror films i'll regularly throw on. it's perfect sunday evening relaxing before work tomorrow stuff.

wild things (1998) 3.5 this movie is trash nirvana.

got me horny.

obsession (19490 3.5 very solid suspense drama. dawdles a little bit, perhaps. it's easy to imagine a tv series giving a story like this a good 50 minute treatment. columbo or something like that.

but it's still a cool little story. cute dog.

camp wedding (2019) 1.5 almost completely devoid of anything enjoyable. it's a comedy that's not funny, it limps along with almost no energy, and it's weirdly confusing, with far too many bland characters. and all that texting really truly messed with my nervers.

i'm easy to please, but this did nothing for me.

pvt chat (2020) 4.5 vinyl copy of the fall's grotesque spotted at 47m20s!!!!!

fall vinyl or no, this is a terrific surprise. not just in its general level of quality, but in the way it changes & is actually sympathetic & even oddly sweet. also filthy in parts. nice nudity. girl is super foxy.

great! highly recommended.

beyond the valley of the dolls (1970) 5 this is one of the most perfect films ever made. all sensible smart people recognize this fact.

hell house llc 3 (20190 3 not as good as the other two, but still very fun.

the amusement park (2019) 4 long lost george romero film now streaming on shudder. absolutely a downer, but an earned downer. very neat to see this resurrected.

the hills have eyes (2006) 4 dawdles a bit in the middle.
a bit too long.

but they did not go lightly on the gore.
if you're gonna make a slasher, make it tough and ugly and brutal.
they did that.

green for danger (1946) 3.5 entertaining if not completely satisfying murder mystery.

it moves along quite nicely, but...all the revelations and surprises aren't really set up in a satisfying way. we just learn them, with none of the classic 'ah, that's why that person was doing that' revelations.

septien (2011) 3 i would have liked this a lot more if it was about tukel & his paintings tbh.

it's quirky and odd, and if you like your indie cinema that way, by all means watch it. it's fine.

but it doesn't really come together in a satisfying way. certainly doesn't land any emotional punches.

afflicted (2013) 4 watch #2 confirms my initial impression that this is a very well made movie. builds its characters properly, and is the rare found footage film that actually has exciting, fun action scenes.

day of the outlaw (1959) 2.5 did not dig this at all tbh. found it very flat and unengaging. tina louise looked smashing, though, and i say that as a marianne man.