May Movies - Week 1

Good Afternoon Ladies & Gentlemen,

We had our first show of the year this past weekend with Davis County Pride & it was a lot of fun... and mildly profitable... but we also watched a few movies...

May 3 – Dead Man on Campus (1998)
 
We finally watched this movie about two college roommates (Thomas Everett Scott & Marc Paul Gosselaar) trying to get their other roommate to commit suicide in order to save their grades for the semester (rather than studying or whatever) and hijinx ensue… and apparently, this wasn’t the only movie that came out that year with the same premise? Why would I watch this movie? Well… our guests on an upcoming episode have watched this once per week… for a school year… and so we brought some experts on to break it down with us. So what did we think?
 
Rating - ???/10 – You’ll have to listen to the podcast to find out.
 
May 5 – Burnt Offerings (1976)
 
This was another one for the podcast… but I know we had watched a few years ago, probably right before I started this whole thing. Basically it’s one of those haunted house movies about a family moving into an old house sight unseen… and hijinx ensue. The main difference with this one is… the cast is absolutely stacked with Oliver Reed, Karen Black, Bette Davis, Burgess Meredith & more… and also… this one never gets talked about. You always hear about the biggies like Amityville Horror but… let’s face it, Amityville is boring as all hell. We all know it. Nobody talks about this movie… or Changeling (1980) and the like… but this movie is pretty good… and the last 5 minutes is absolutely worth the other 100 minutes before.
 
Rating – 9/10 – Definitely worth a watch… and go ahead & listen to our episode about it with a REAL movie professor who picked it
 
May 7 – Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
 
Max (Mel Gibson) is just trying to survive in the post-apocalyptic wilderness when the Gyro Captain (friend of the podcast Bruce Spence) pulls him into a scenario where a ruthless band is trying to take over a peaceful outpost that’s the world’s last bastion of guzzoline… and he has to save them in order to get fuel for his car & leave… and hijinx ensues. If you haven’t seen this movie, do yourself a favor & see it TONIGHT!!! Director George Miller is great… and I can’t wait to see Furiosa later this month… over 40 years after this movie!!!
 
Rating – 10+/10 – I own this on many formats… and it’s amazing every time
 
May 9 – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
 
We watched a premiere of this movie at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco with most of the major cast & crew in attendance… and it holds a special place in my heart as I love the Planet of the Apes franchise (yes, even 2001) and this movie… has an ape firing from the top of a tank in a 360-degree pan shot… and the overall story of apes & humans living separately across the Golden Gate Bridge… and through betrayal & overall dumbf**kery leading them into a tale of violence & redemption…
 
Rating – 10/10 – I still get Nick Acevedo & Toby Kebbell confused… and they’re both in this movie, though Toby is mo-capped. This movie is great!

That's right, gearing up for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes this weekend!!! LFG!!!

​Steve