Nine days, eleven movies. Let’s whip through these!
Dead Man’s Wire
No one can compete when Colman Domingo speaks.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Wait: Maybe Ralph Fiennes could compete.
The Loves of Hercules (MST3K version)
The best thing to come out of this movie was Mariska Hargitay.
The Red Badge of Courage
A hacked up mess. I wish the original John Huston cut was available.
Nouvelle Vague
I wonder what Godard would have thought of this pretty straightforward story of the making of Breathless.
The Thin Man / After The Thing Man / Song of the Thin Man
Walk of Fame watches. In the first two films, Nick and Nora are the coolest people in the room, and almost always drunk. In the last (actually the sixth in the series), the are ten years older, they have a kid, they are often out of the loop, and they are far less entertaining.
He Who Gets Slapped
Walk of Fame watch. The first movie from Metro Goldwyn Mayer, and it’s pretty wild.
Disneyland Handcrafted
It’s insane that they went from a dirt lot to the most famous theme park on Earth in just one year. And so much detail went into things that no normal person would ever notice. Fascinating.
The Testament of Ann Lee
I think I would have enjoyed this a lot more if it didn’t have the narration.
Best of this bunch: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Worst: The Loves of Hercules (but the MST3K riffing made it a fun watch)
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