{"id":13435,"date":"2024-01-14T19:25:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T00:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13435"},"modified":"2024-01-14T19:25:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T00:25:19","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13435","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another week, another five movies. Here&#8217;s what I watched:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0055230\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1-2-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"Night Tide\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1-2-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1-2.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0061814\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-2-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Incident\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-2-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-2-672x1024.jpg 672w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-2-768x1171.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-2-1008x1536.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-2.jpg 1308w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7026488\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Come True\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-2-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-2-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-2-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0055230\/\">Night Tide<\/a> is a fever dream of a B-movie\u2014some interesting visuals and a very early performance by Dennis Hopper, but not especially memorable.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>Its oddly generic title notwithstanding, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0061814\/\">The Incident<\/a> is tense and unnerving, and it has a pretty remarkable, varied cast.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>Right up until its huge swing and a miss of an ending, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7026488\/\">Come True<\/a> is a really effectively creepy little movie.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068264\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/4-2-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ben\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/4-2-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/4-2-673x1024.jpg 673w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/4-2-768x1168.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/4-2-1010x1536.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/4-2-1346x2048.jpg 1346w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/4-2.jpg 1489w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt26084002\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/5-2-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"Self Reliance\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/5-2-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/5-2-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/5-2-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/5-2.jpg 1012w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/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=\"alignleft 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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068264\/\">Ben<\/a> is bad, but also bad in very perplexing ways. I don&#8217;t remember a lot about <em>Willard<\/em>, but that at least was understandably a horror movie, whereas its sequel is all over the map. It&#8217;s not so much that the movie is never <em>scary<\/em>; it&#8217;s that it&#8217;s hard to even tell what it&#8217;s trying to do, and the movie is never interesting enough to really care.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>I wanted to like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt26084002\/\">Self Reliance<\/a> a lot more than I did. I like the cast a lot, and the movie plays with some smart ideas, but it&#8217;s usually more amusing than outright funny. I think the script also has some fundamental structure problems, with whole characters I&#8217;d excise or combine, for a much sharper focus. I&#8217;d like to see Jake Johnson write and direct more comedies after this, but this initial outing left me a little flat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also rewatched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0049096\/\">The Court Jester<\/a>, in memory of Glynis Johns, who died earlier this month and was the last of the movie&#8217;s surviving main cast. It&#8217;s a movie I know I saw most, if not all, of as a child, but which also holds up remarkably well as an adult some four decades later. It&#8217;s just a pure, silly delight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another week, another five movies. Here&#8217;s what I watched: Night Tide is a fever dream of a B-movie\u2014some interesting visuals and a very early performance by Dennis Hopper, but not especially memorable. Its oddly generic title notwithstanding, The Incident is tense and unnerving, and it has a pretty remarkable, varied cast. 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