Ooh, a reminder that sometimes I did talk about things not directly involving gay people.
Recently (last two weeks) I've watched:
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) - Maybe it was just trying to be arty with the subject but the prancing around the homosexuality (DAMN IT! GAY PEOPLE!) of the central but not present character felt really old fashioned. Good monologues and some witty writing but didn't do much for me. For some reason I just can't buy Montgomery Clift in any role indicating great intelligence.
Madagascar (2005) - Had to watch it so I could review the sequel. Way too much emphasis on movie spoofs but some good laughs mixed in with the crap.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) - Actually a bit better than the first. Less moving spoofing, more time with the funny penguins and lemur. My MousePlanet review
here.
Mad Max (1979) - I was sure I'd seen this before but it turns out I hadn't. All of my memories of it must be from
Road Warrior. Anyway, it is a crap movie.
Cactus Flower (1969) - I wish someone had told me sooner that there exists a romantic comedy coupling Walter Matthau with Ingrid Berman (and at one point she does the bugaloo) so I wouldn't have waited 34 years to see it. It is not a great film and I don't know how Goldie Hawn got her Oscar out of it, but there are some great lines and I always love Matthau.
30 Days of Night (2007) - For a cheesy vampire horror movie it wasn't bad. The timeline involved made no sense (or the vampires were much more incompetent than they were made to appear for reasons not explained). There should be a creepy Ben Foster in every movie. Yes,
every movie.
Fahrenheit 451 (1966) - The best of the spate of bad science fiction cult classics from the '70s I've watched recently. Maintained the essence of the book without needing to be a slave to it (someone is working on a new version and I am not looking forward to a visualization of the Mechanical Hound). Plus it all looks super goofy.
Lord of War (2005) - Nicolas Cage in the least annoying performance in quite a while. "Based on true events" story of a gun runner. Nothing worth remembering, nothing worth deriding.