The Life of Brian
Monty Python at its finest.
Inherit The Wind
Spencer Tracy at Scopes Trial.
Mamma Mia!
Meryl Streep in a musical.
Next: Non-Mummy movies set mainly in a desert.
The Phantom Menace
Tatooine is a desert planet.
Lawrence of Arabia
Peter O’Toole as TE Lawrence.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Australia has lots of desert.**
Next**: mummy movies: one classic Universal, one Hammer, and one CGI one.
The Mummy’s Curse
Chaney Jr. as mummy Kharis.
The Mummy’s Shroud
Eddie Powell as mummy Prem
The Mummy Returns
Rick & Evie defeat Imhotep.
Next: Movies made in the 21st Century without the use of CGI.
127 Hours (2010)
Talk about your desperate measures.
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Bluescreen predates CGI by decades.
Inception (2010)
Surprisingly, no. Very determined director.
Next: movies featuring multiples (twins, triplets, etc.)
movies featuring multiples (twins, triplets, etc.)
Twins
Schwarzenegger and DeVito are twins?
Multiplicity
Keaton clones juggle work/family
Double Impact
Double the Van Damme. Sigh
Next: Movies shown on MST3k
The Crawling Eye
Actually good, until ridiculous monster.
Robot Monster
I saw in glorious 3D.
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Mars needs Christmas! No, doesn’t.
Next: more MST3K movies!
The Green Slime
Short meant to sell show
This Island Earth
Particularly memorable for ovipositor gag
At the Earth’s Core
Most recent; aired last month
Next: Movies with a good musical performance that didn’t really need to be in the movie
The Wizard of Oz
Could have been great anyway.
The Awful Truth
Gratuitous, good, Irene Dunne performance.
Cabaret
Per book, Bowles mediocre singer.
Next: movies starring someone who was in Twin Peaks: TOS (Fire, Walk with Me can count only once). No one should complain they can’t think of three, because I can think of seven right now.
Blue
Lipton’s screen debut, in 1968
The Hidden
MacLachlan again plays oddball agent
Men in Black II
Boyle is hungry, evil alien
Next: David Lynch movies
The Elephant Man
John Hurt in heavy make-up.
Blue Velvet
Now song creeps me out.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Prequel to great TV series.
Next: films of Isabella Rossellini.
A Matter of Time
Her screen debut, in 1976
*In the Pope’s Eye
*Catholic comedy was very controversial
Joy
Her most recent, in 2015
Next: Movies you really, really hate
Forrest Gump
With heat of 1,000 suns.
Pretty Woman
Pretty awful. Pretty unbelievable. Bleh.
The Phantom Menace
A feast of annoying characters.
Next: more movies you really, really hate.
Liquid Sky
Eighties androgynous punk sf mess
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Shatner. Must. NeverDirect. Again.
Moulin Rouge
Hyperkinetic French “romantic” anachronistic twaddle
Next: more movies you really, really hate
To Be or Not to Be (1983)
Remake my favorite film? Pox!
The Sixth Sense
M. Night Shyamalan. Enough said.
Rain Man
Insult to real autistic people.
Next: films of Helen Mirren.
The Queen
Resemblance only slight; characterization outstanding
The Long Good Friday
Stole show as gangster’s moll
Excalibur
Never, ever trifle with Morgana
Next: Films of Nicol Williamson
Robin and Marian
Was Audrey Hepburn’s comeback film.
Black Widow
Winger and Russell both hot.
Excalibur
Best-cast King Arthur film, IMO.
Next: films of Diana Rigg.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Her screen debut, in 1968
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Played the only Mrs. Bond
The Great Muppet Caper
Forgot she was in that!
Next: Films of Charles Dance
Ghostbusters
Was in the girly one.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Made a good Mr. Bennett
Good Morning Babylon
About making Intolerance; played Griffith.
Next: movies with “Babylon” in the title.
Made it too hard again.
Good Morning, Babylon
The making of Intolerance (1916).
The Fall of Babylon
Intolerance segment released as standalone.
Return to Babylon
Decadence of 1920s film stars.
Next: films with “ghost” or “ghosts” in the title.
A Chinese Ghost Story
Tsui Hark’s Hong Kong Classic
Ghostbusters
I looked at the trap
The Ghost and the Darkness
Some crap movie about lions.
Next:
Movies shot in black and white for artistic reasons, long after color was available and cheap.