Our Times (Nuestros Tiempos), a MexIcan film about a husband and wife team of college professors who develop a time machine in 1966 and accidentally transport to 2025 during the first trial.
Not a great movie by any means but it does try to illustrate the progress women have made in 60 years and I appreciated the effort.
There is a moment where the husband interjects himself into his wife’s big moment and delivers some of the most cringe-inducing remarks ever, all while believing that he is progressively celebrating International Women’s Day.
I watched the weirdest film, Sex Kittens Go To College (1960). You know it’s weird when the title song is Sexpots Go To College, but the title got changed. It stars Mamie Van Doren as a genius former stripper “Tassels” who is hired as the head of the science department, a young and cute Tuesday Weld who is infatuated with the oafish football star, Brigette Bardot’s sister Mijanou Bardot as an international student, Martin Milner of Adam-12 fame, some vaudeville eras comics, Electro a robot built for the 1939 New York World’s Fair who here is known as Thinko, and a chimpanzee who steals the show. Oh yeah, Conway Twitty sings a song (and later disavows being in the film).
The plot involves something something about the robot and the lottery and gangsters, and these fine young ladies. It goes about as as a merry romp, until Thinko has a dream sequence of his fantasy, which includes four strippers (I counted them) who go totally topless. This lasts for nearly nine minutes (I had to rewatch the sequence to time it). TCM aired this the other morning, with the topless scenes airing about 9:00 AM. I was surprised that a film from 1960 would show that much.
I’ve seen it twice, though not for many years. Also in the cast were John Carradine, Jackie (Uncle Fester) Coogan and Maila (Vampira) Nurmi. The “oafish football star” was played by Norm Grabowski - Wikipedia, who was well known in custom car circles.
It’s a total T&A flick with four good looking young women who are hired to clean up an old house. One of the four can’t wait to take her top off and dance but the shy, bookish one won’t follow suit. Eventually David Carradine (who hangs himself in the opening scene, very unfortunate) gives them a book that looks kind of like a cheaper version of the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis from Evil Dead, a demon comes out who looks like a cartoon wolf and then bad things start happening. More T&A and deaths. There are a couple of funny meta scenes, Dick Miller and Arte Johnson are also in it, and the shy bookish girl wins in the end.
I can’t believe it, but this is actually a good movie. I’d heard a couple of positive reviews, but the opening 30-40 minutes were pretty standard stuff. A competently made movie, more or less a “kids go to camp slasher” movie, but then the movie actually kind of finds a way to show that it isn’t just your normal horror movie. It was kind of great and at the very least, original and entertaining.
I like the fact that:
the kids at summer camp are kids. They are 10-12 years old, not 20 year old pretending to be teens. These are actually kids.
The horror aspect of it is low, very low. I think that is appropriate since it stars kids
What could have been a lazy slasher copycat ends up being something really different
I’m surprised. Check it out. It isn’t something amazing, but it also isn’t really what you think or expect.
Fun movie.
If anyone sees it…why was it called Marshmallow? I paid attention, but obviously missed it.
I watched Hit Man today on NFLX. It’s a dramedy starring Glen Powell as Gary Johnson, a real-life college professor who also worked as an undercover cop posing as a hit man. Very well done and entertaining.
One of those films that’s perfect up until the ending which it totally fumbles. Apparently this was one of those films they kept reshooting the ending and you can tell because it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense and just kind of ends when you think a huge action scene is about to happen.
Which sucks because Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson have AMAZING chemistry together throughout the entire movie, Die Hard 4 should have reunited them!
I just got back from MI:Final Reckoning. I’m like, “who are these people? Why does the film act like I should know who they are, how they relate, and what is going on? When did Luther get cancer?” I mean, I’ve seen all the movies, several times. I have no memory of some of these people.
Then I get home - oops, I forgot not only that I missed watching Dead Reckoning, but I own it! I was saving it to watch right before part 2.
Hilarious. Yeah, they don’t do direct sequels like this new one, but they did this time. One bad guy repeated in another MI movie, but it would have been pretty easy to follow without seeing it. I think it is MI5 and MI6 that share a villain. Their stories, however, are unrelated. The sub and the key and the blah blah blah were all from the previous mission.
Yes, I admit, it was easy to follow along. It’s obvious they put in the effort to make it (mostly) stand alone. Everything I didn’t know that was important was explained enough to follow it.
I found the stylistic choice to show the plan in flash-forwards, and then when the plot gets there, they don’t show them again and assume we remember an hour later, very interesting, I don’t think I’ve seen that before.
(but the plot doesn’t stand up to even the most casual scrutiny! It makes no damn sense!)
I liked that Tom comes on before the film and personally thanks us* for watching the film, in the theater. Wonder if they’ll put that in the DVD,
*All six of us in the theater. Well, it was a slow Tuesday night.
Yeah, this movie was dumb fun, as in crank up your suspension of disbelief and you’ll have a good time. Bloom was definitely the standout - he nailed that character.
Agree completely. I saw the movie for the first time when I was in high school with a history (?) class at the Carthay Circle Theater (one of the old “palaces” that’s now gone). I found the movie a bore and Scarlett a raging bitch.
That’s why I purposely binge watched all of the prior M:I movies immediately before watching Final Reckoning. I can’t say it helped me that much. And I didn’t put together where the science guy and Inuit (?) wife fit in until the drive home (he’s from the first movie).
One interesting thing about Sinners is that the character played by Hailee Steinfeld comes into the dance hall (in Louisiana in 1932). One person there asks why an obviously white woman would want to come into a place where everyone else is black. She says that her mother’s father was half-black. In fact, Hailee Steinfeld’s mother’s father was half-black (and, furthermore, was half-Filipino). Presumably she was deliberately cast in the role because of this.
The funny thing is, in the first MI film, after the gang break into the CIA HQ to steal the other half of the knock list, Kittridge tells his underling that the ‘science guy’ better be working in a radar station in Alaska by the end of the day (I didn’t remember this, I watched it again after seeing the final one).
