I watched 25 movies in the last 22 days. Here’s a sentence or two about each of them.
Madam Satan: Walk of Fame watch. The best thing about this is the dress.
Send Help: Works in spite of its ridiculous premise that Rachel McAdams could be unattractive.
Plan 9 From Outer Space: Terrible but earnest.
Arco: Probably a much better movie in the original French. The stunt English voice casting just doesn’t work.
The Heiress: Walk of Fame watch. Another movie that tries to make the Civil War era protagonists more palatable by claiming slaves actually had a pretty good time.
Little Women (1933): Walk of Fame watch. Fun to watch 26 year old Katharine Hepburn as the world’s most adult teenager.
The Nut: Walk of Fame watch. Sort of a silent movie live action Wallace & Gromit with some Mr. Bean thrown in.
Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man: Walk of Fame watch. Should be called The Wolf Man Wants to Die and Spends Less Than Ten Minutes with Frankenstein’s Monster.
Clash of the Wolves: Walk of Fame watch. Any movie that disguises a dog by putting a beard on him AND IT WORKS is okay by me.
Jezebel: Walk of Fame watch. Bette Davis destroys lives by wearing the wrong color dress.
Islands: It was fine, but so unmemorable that I had to look it up to remember what I watched.
Leave Her to Heaven: Walk of Fame watch. Pretty sure Heaven doesn’t want her.
Dancing Sweeties: Walk of Fame watch. Not very interesting story of a couple that gets married minutes after meeting as part of a promotion at a dance hall.
Stormy Waters: Walk of Fame watch. Hey, don’t cheat the captain of the rescue boat or he might have an affair with your wife.
The Magnificent Ambersons: Walk of Fame watch. Orson Welles could direct, but my favorite part was the end credits.
The Beast of Hollow Mountain: MST3K watch. Almost completely a cattle ranch story, with a little dinosaur sprinkled on at the end.
Starcrash: MST3K watch (hey, YouTube kept playing them!). Battle of the perms.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die: Sam Rockwell needs to be in more movies.
The Average Woman: Walk of Fame watch. The Below Average Movie.
Million Dollar Legs: Walk of Fame watch. Best use of W.C. Fields ever.
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie: Astounding. Brilliant. I wonder how much more I would have understood if I had watched the series.
4D Man: Monsterdon watch. Why test on safe an available materials when you can do risky experiments on yourself?
The Son-of-a-Gun: Walk of Fame watch. Some decent bits, but not great. The barely watchable print didn’t help.
Wuthering Heights: The script felt like it was written by someone who had the story described to them on the subway. Somehow made sex scenes between two ridiculously beautiful people boring.
Rocco and His Brothers: Walk of Fame watch. One of Rocco’s brothers sucks.
Fifteen of these were part of my “Watch something for every motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame” project. Many of them were not great. I just finished the south half of Vine Street and I’m moving back onto Hollywood Boulevard. I’ve got almost 80% of all the stars, and over 20% of those are contiguous. Contiguous section in red:
I’m not going to make any more individual stars for my blog, but I’ll eventually update my Walk of Fame Letterboxd list.
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