{"id":12870,"date":"2023-04-23T13:46:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T17:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=12870"},"modified":"2023-04-23T13:47:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T17:47:04","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=12870","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched 8 movies last week:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0047573\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-4-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-4-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-4-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-4-768x1181.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-4-999x1536.jpg 999w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-4.jpg 1264w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0074751\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2-3-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"King Kong\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2-3-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2-3-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2-3.jpg 758w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0073778\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/3-3-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Switchblade Sisters\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/3-3-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/3-3-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/3-3-768x1158.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/3-3-1019x1536.jpg 1019w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/3-3-1358x2048.jpg 1358w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/3-3-scaled.jpg 1698w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0047573\/\">Them!<\/a> is maybe the quintessential 1950s sci-fi monster movie.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>The 1976 remake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0074751\/\">King Kong<\/a> billed itself as &#8220;the most exciting original motion picture event of all time,&#8221; which is really saying something\u2014especially since most of that is decidedly not true. I don&#8217;t think the remake an embarrassment, and probably would have been less so before the special effects (and that final act at the Twin Towers) became so dated. But it&#8217;s also nothing all that special.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>Gene Siskel <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FPXxRwTgPGA&#038;t=12m55s\">once said<\/a> that he enjoyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0073778\">Switchblade Sisters<\/a> at first as a campy &#8220;cultural artifact&#8221; but thought it got old by its third act. I&#8217;d agree with the first part, but argue it gets old only a few minutes into its first.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0064541\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/4-3-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kes\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/4-3-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/4-3-672x1024.jpg 672w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/4-3-768x1171.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/4-3.jpg 984w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068767\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/5-3-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"Fist of Fury\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/5-3-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/5-3-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/5-3-768x1087.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/5-3-1085x1536.jpg 1085w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/5-3.jpg 1413w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0037077\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/6-2-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Miracle of Morgan&#039;s Creek\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/6-2-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/6-2-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/6-2-768x1164.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/6-2-1013x1536.jpg 1013w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/6-2.jpg 1116w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0064541\/\">Kes<\/a> is kind of a heartbreaking movie.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>The bad dubbing and over-the-top acting in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068767\/\">Fist of Fury<\/a> holds only so much charm for me, but the fights themselves are a lot of fun.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0037077\/\">The Miracle of Morgan&#8217;s Creek<\/a> is maybe a little <em>too<\/em> screwball a comedy at times, and can almost become exhausting, but it&#8217;s also <em>very<\/em> funny\u2014and it&#8217;s fascinating the hoops it has to jump through, given its basic premise, to stay within the Hays Code.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6920084\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/7.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0024368\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/8-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mystery of the Wax Museum\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/8-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/8-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/8-768x1134.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/8-1040x1536.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/8-1387x2048.jpg 1387w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/8.jpg 1624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1-704x1024.jpg 704w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1-768x1117.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>For reasons even I don&#8217;t understand, I&#8217;ve watched all of the <em>Resident Evil<\/em> movies, and the only thing I could tell you about them with any certainty is that they are very bad. So I didn&#8217;t have great expectations for the prequel\/soft reboot, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6920084\/\">Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City<\/a>, but oh boy, did I not expect it to be quite <em>this<\/em> bad. There are so many characters who wander aimlessly in and out, and not a single one of them is worth caring about, and this may actually be one of the worst structured movies I&#8217;ve ever seen. It&#8217;s apparently full of Easter eggs for anyone who&#8217;s played the video games\u2014I never have, making my decision to watch the movies even more baffling\u2014but it would almost have to, when it&#8217;s trying to cram two-plus games into a single hour-plus adaption. I really did not enjoy this.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0024368\/\">Mystery at the Wax Museum<\/a> doesn&#8217;t have that big of a mystery, but it does have a wax museum, so I suppose that&#8217;s not false advertising. It&#8217;s not great, and I found Glenda Farrell&#8217;s performance a little grating, but the early Technicolor horror has its charms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also re-watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0056217\/\">The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance<\/a>, which really holds up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched 8 movies last week: Them! is maybe the quintessential 1950s sci-fi monster movie. The 1976 remake of King Kong billed itself as &#8220;the most exciting original motion picture event of all time,&#8221; which is really saying something\u2014especially since most of that is decidedly not true. I don&#8217;t think the remake an embarrassment, and &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=12870\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12870"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12889,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870\/revisions\/12889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}