August Movies - Week 5

Good Afternoon Ladies & Gentlemen,

Okay, another busy week... but Sushi is doing great & learning a lot... still working on separation anxiety... but we all watched some movies...

August 28 – Grease 2 (1982)
 
Yup, 40 years ago there was a sequel to the musical sensation “Grease” and it starred Michelle Pfeiffer & Maxwell Caulfield (Rex Manning from “Empire Records”) and everybody in it looks like they’re at least 30 with 15 years of tap… and Adrian Zmed is the least intimidating human being on Earth… and it takes the questionable elements of the original and cranks it up to 11 with the over the top horniness & songs with the least bit of subtlety… and I’ll say it… better than the original. Though still a rough musical at nearly two hours long… listen to our episode for Sexy Singin’ September for more details!
 
Rating – 7/10 – Not my bag but… it was okay… and early 80’s Pfeiffer is easy on the eyes
 
August 29 – Streets of Fire (1984)
 
This “Rock & Roll Fable” is basically what writer/director Walter Hill thought was the ultimate movie when he was a teenager in the 50’s and… holy shit, I have to agree! It’s basically “The Warriors” with a kickass rock soundtrack throughout, all kinds of crazy stunts & explosions, over the top masculinity, basically the story is about a biker gang (led by babyface Willem Dafoe) kidnapping a singer (Diane Lane) Double Dragon style… and then her ex-boyfriend (Michael Pare) comes back to town to get her back with the help of a veteran lesbian (Amy Madigan) and the singer’s new boyfriend / manager (Rick Moranis). Hijinx ensue… and it’s absolute craziness!!!
 
Rating – 10/10 – The soundtrack is incredible too! Did I mention that? A lot of songs that sound like Hall & Oates or Meatloaf but sung by Diane Lane!
 
August 30 – Crash of Moons (1954)
 
You know how I feel about “Moonfall” and though I’ve yet to see the Asylum version “Mooncrash” this popped up on MST3K on Tubi so I had to check it out… man, can they make moons crashing dull. Don’t get me wrong the MST3K helped but… man, I damn near fell asleep watching it WITH their jokes. Maybe it’s the new puppy running me ragged & the other vermin in the house just destroying everything in my home but… yeah, this one was a rough. Oh… two moons are going to collide… and there’s a space station or something in the middle… and only Richard Crane can save the Greflurbiacs or something… Star Trek gibberish…
 
Rating – 5/10 – The jokes make it better but… you really need them.
 
August 31 – Sharon’s Baby (1975)
 
Also known as “The Devil Within Her” or “Son of Satan” or “I Don’t Want to Be Born”… this one was for the Grindbin podcast (love those guys) and man oh man… Joan Collins is in it… Rosemary’s Baby on acid… check out their episode for all the details! Spoilers though: There’s no character named Sharon so… that leaves even more questions at the end of the movie than usual!
 
Rating - ???/10 – It’s on YouTube too under “Devil Within Her I Don’t Want to Be Born”!
 
September 1 – Splice (2009)
 
Okay, I finally watched this movie that… was questionable back when it first came out (and I LOVE “Species”… even the 2nd one) but it’s about two scientists (Adrian Brody & Sarah Polley immediately before she retired from acting) who splice a bunch of animal DNA together with human DNA… and of course make an abomination of God & Science… that they THEN RAISE over the course of a few weeks (?), name Dren because it’s Nerd backwards (?) and a whole bunch of weird French movie BS befalls them (though I think the director is Italian, Vincenzo Natali), blah blah blah, HE F**KS THE CREATURE!!! Seriously guys, it’s what this movie is known for… that’s why I didn’t do spoilers… but as crass as I made it by just blurting it out… the movie is even more mystifyingly stupid about it… and what happens after, somehow takes it up to 11/10 on the weirdness scale.
 
Rating – 9/10 – Look, it’s a horrible movie in many ways… but at least it’s a little unique in how horrible it is. I enjoyed it.

Onward to Fall!!!

​Steve