{"id":13187,"date":"2023-09-24T16:01:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T20:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13187"},"modified":"2023-09-24T16:05:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T20:05:49","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13187","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched 6 movies last week. There was something like a theme to them:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0091680\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1-3-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"One Crazy Summer\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1-3-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1-3-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1-3-768x1181.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1-3-999x1536.jpg 999w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1-3.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1103275\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2-3-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Two Lovers\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2-3-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2-3-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2-3-768x1137.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2-3.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0023590\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/3-3-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Three on a Match\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/3-3-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/3-3-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/3-3-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/3-3.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0091680\/\">One Crazy Summer<\/a> sometimes feels like an &#8217;80s teen comedy, sometimes like a spoof of one, and sometimes like a cheap cartoon. It&#8217;s silly enough and sometimes fun but largely forgettable.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m struggling to decide if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1103275\/\">Two Lovers<\/a> has a happy ending. Along the way, it&#8217;s a well-acted drama about damaged people trying to find something that will make them feel whole.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0023590\/\">Three on a Match<\/a> is interesting, if only because it&#8217;s so very much a pre-Code movie, but it also feels overly melodramatic, with several good performers struggling to give good performances.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0073594\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/4-3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Four of the Apocalypse\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/4-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/4-3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/4-3.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0035884\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/5-2-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Five Graves to Cairo\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/5-2-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/5-2-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/5-2-768x1157.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/5-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/6-2-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"Six-String Samurai\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/6-2-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/6-2-708x1024.jpg 708w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/6-2-768x1111.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/6-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve never really been a fan of Lucio Fulci&#8217;s horror movies, so it was something of a shock to discover how much I enjoyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0073594\/\">Four of the Apocalypse<\/a>, one of only a small handful of spaghetti Westerns the director ever made. It&#8217;s a surprisingly poignant film, with the low budget and questionable dubbing you expect from the genre, but with a lot to recommend it.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>I&#8217;d have cut the last ten or fifteen minutes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0035884\/\">Five Graves to Cairo<\/a>, which I think do a little worse than gild the lily. But it&#8217;s otherwise it&#8217;s a very smart and tense little spy thriller, with good performances, particularly by Erich von Stroheim and Akim Tamiroff.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0118736\/\">Six-String Samurai<\/a> was maybe a third as long, you&#8217;d say it was a promising enough student film, with some occasionally clever moments, and then probably never think about it again. At an hour and a half, though, it&#8217;s <em>really<\/em> tedious and repetitive\u2014well shot, for such an otherwise no-budget affair, but with almost nothing even approaching a script.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was a silly theme\u2014you&#8217;d be surprised how few, good, movies there are that start with some numbers\u2014but because of it I wound up watching at least a couple of movies I might never have even heard of otherwise, and which I quite enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p>I also re-watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0117951\/\">Trainspotting<\/a>, which I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d seen since it was in theaters. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s as shocking or original as it seemed some thirty years ago, but it really does hold up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched 6 movies last week. There was something like a theme to them: One Crazy Summer sometimes feels like an &#8217;80s teen comedy, sometimes like a spoof of one, and sometimes like a cheap cartoon. It&#8217;s silly enough and sometimes fun but largely forgettable. I&#8217;m struggling to decide if Two Lovers has a happy &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13187\">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-13187","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\/13187"}],"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=13187"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13197,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13187\/revisions\/13197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}