I watched 6 movies last week:
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- Roger Ebert called The Milagro Beanfield War “a wonderful fable, but the problem is, some of the people in the story know it’s a fable and others do not.” I’m not sure he’s wrong about that. There’s a lot to like about the movie, with some very agreeable characters and amiable pace, but it does seem a little uncertain what kind of story it wants to be.
- Start the Revolution Without Me has some goofy charm, but not enough to be more than passingly amusing.
- Wolfs is entertaining enough, buoyed by the two leads bouncing gruffly off of one another, but it feels like a movie designed to be forgotten.
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- Someone’s Watching Me! feels like a TV movie, but John Carpenter does bring a certain creepiness to it, and Lauren Hutton’s off-kilter performance keeps things interesting. Too bad about that very anticlimactic ending, though.
- At the end of Will & Harper, the pair joke about hitting the road again and doing their road trip again in reverse. Reader, I would watch that movie. There’s a wonderful warmth, honesty, and empathy to their journey together, even when things get difficult or the world around them gets ugly and cruel.
- Alison’s Birthday is not without its share of creepy moments, and that ending, though belabored, is interesting. It’s just never entirely satisfying.
I also re-watched Murder by Death, which was more than a little dated—Peter Sellers’ Charlie Chan impersonation really only works because the movie calls him on it, and that’s the point of it, but even then it’s a little cringe—but it’s still very fun and silly fun.