What movies have you seen recently?

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It's Alive. Wow, that had an early Rick Baker make up. There was recently a HUGE auction of his props, appliances, body modes, etc. He has retired. I remember seeing pictures of the baby in Famous Monsters of Filmland when I was a young teenager. Very low budget. I have not seen it though. It is amazing how many movies are titled "It's Alive." Both with and without the exclamation mark.

I watched Naked yesterday.

It is another Mike Leigh film. This one stars David Thewlis as Johnny, or known to Harry Potter fans as Remus Lupin. As if to foretell the future, there is a line in this 1994 film where he tells someone "I use to be a werewolf." He is no Remus Lupin in this film. He plays an insanely intelligent person who uses his intelligence to fluster, confuse, belittle, and possibly inform other less intelligent people. Like John Lennon, he has a very sharp tongue. It is a very raw film, and definitely not for everyone. There are at least a couple rapes, attempted rapes, a bit of sadomasochism, and a lot of interesting people, but rarely interesting in a warm and fuzzy way. It is a bit of Britain's underbelly, the people that don't fit to one degree or another.

Trivia: the character Louis, Johnny's ex-girlfriend, played Sky on Doctor Who in Midnight. That is the episode where the Doctor is stuck with a bunch of people in a "bus" and Sky is taken over by an alien who repeats everything everyone says until it say it in sync with them, and then takes over the doctor. It is one of the scary Doctor Who episodes, like Blink.

Iron Man

Mad Max: Fury Road

I finally got a chance to see yesterday with family and I don't recall holding on to the sides of my seat so hard because of how intense the movie was. Overall, a great movie with great acting and Tom Hardy proves himself a worthy replacement for Mel Gibson.

It's Alive II: It's Alive Again.

Sequel to It's Alive, with the father of the mutant monster baby now dedicating his life to try to save other mutant children that would otherwise be killed by the government, by contacting expecting couples with a warning, and allies who will help them. He believes these children are the next step in human evolution, and must be saved at all cost - - but with horrific results. Maybe the first pro-life horror film ever!

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps

"Armageddon". An underrated cheesy classic. Lots of fun!

"Galaxy quest"

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Senator Jimmy Stewart, known for killing outlaw Lee Marvin, tells the story about his deed.

I ended up watching Insidious 3 with this young woman I like.

Hopefully you had the chance to put a comforting arm around her shoulder when she got scared.

Alien from L.A.

Project Almanac.

High school kids find the secret to time travel, and so use it selfishly, only to discover that their misuse of this new, unpredictable science has caused events to change radically, causing deaths. In the end, the only way things can be corrected is if the science had never been developed years before. Better movie than I thought it would be, considering that it was an MTV production.

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Wild Wild West.
I think this movie is a mess. Good idea bad execution. If they have given me that huge budget I could have made a much better film.

Oh yeah how could I forget. Last night I watched

Now You See Me.


I really liked this one.