November Movies - Week 5

Good Afternoon Ladies & Gentlemen,

A 5th Week of November?!? Yup... and we watched some movies...

November 26 – Congo (1995)
 
A telecommunications company looking for diamonds in the Congo loses contact with their expedition team, so they send in their VP of communications / former CIA lady doctor in with secretly with another expedition led by Romanian Tim Curry to help a pair of Berkeley scientist partners reintroduce their gorilla that speak with sign language back into the Virunga jungles because… they don’t want jobs or something. Throw in a battle for power of the region, a lost city of Solomon’s diamond mines, some killer gorillas, cameos from half of Hollywood and you have THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE!!!
 
Rating – 10+/10 – I had to share this with Katie… she loved it… OBVIOUSLY!!!
 
November 27 – The Last Unicorn (1982)
 
This is one of Izzy’s favorite movies as a kid when she had the VHS… and I had a babysitter that for some reason we always watched the last ten minutes on a tape before starting to watch “The Karate Kid” but… it’s based on the beautifully illustrated book by Peter S. Beagle (whom Izzy has met) and has the voice talents of Christopher Lee, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Angela Lansbury & AMERICA!!! Basically it’s about a unicorn who’s told that she’s probably the last of her kind by a passing hunter… and then confirmed by a butterfly… and so she starts on a quest to find others… and there’s a Red Bull (that apparently does NOT give you wings) and hijinx ensue. Now… kids shows in the 80s apparently really got into existential crises & dark depressing stuff much more than they seem to nowadays… but this movie is beautiful (from Rankin-Bass who brought the 70’s Lord of the Rings shows and 80’s cartoons like ThunderCats) and you should probably check it out!
 
Rating – 9/10 – I will warn you though… Mia Farrow & Jeff Bridges are not singers by trade… the songs start great and get progressively worse
 
November 28 – Action USA (1989)
 
This movie was brought to me by the Grindbin Podcast (it’s on Tubi, you’re welcome) and it’s about a woman who’s boyfriend is murdered (after being beaten, dropped out of a helicopter, an incredible car chase ending in jumping a bus and/or going through an exploding trailer & then blasted) in front of her… and then she finds herself deep into her boyfriend’s illicit side without knowing anything about it… and the only people that can save her are two FBI guys (one if which is Mac’s Dad from Sunny in Philadelphia) and over the top hijinx ensue! The bad guys… are incredibly ridiculous. The good guys… are incredibly ridiculous. The plot… is incredibly ridiculous.
 
Rating – 10/10 – I loved every single second of this crazy movie!
 
November 29 – The Last Witch Hunter (2015)
 
We’re celebrating the “Last” Month on the podcast… so we went with Vin Diesel’s D&D character passion project that bombed… but he still insists there’s a sequel coming. Kaulder (Diesel) is an 800 year old soldier who killed the Queen Witch centuries ago… but he’s still alive slaying witches because of it. Michael Caine is the 35th handler of his affairs… and he’s being replaced by Elijah Wood… and then hijinx ensue & the Queen Witch may be coming back. This movie reminded me a lot like Bloodshot from a few years ago. It’s not… horrible. Just kinda dull & predictable dumb fun. We had seen this a year or so ago & I remembered very little other than the obvious stuff that you probably already know with regards to the cast. It’s a’ight…
 
Rating – 8/10 – Could be worse… could be better… ends with a horrible take of “Paint It Black” by Ciara
 
November 30 – Space Mutiny (1988)
 
Yes, we watched the Rifftrax version of this Star Wars ripoff starring Reb Brown & Cameron Mitchell… but it’s about a pilot saving a spaceship from an internal coup d’etat by the security crew and the golf cart chase scenes are pretty ridiculous. It’s not great… but I’d recommend seeing it with friends. It’s weird that the romantic leads appear to be in their early 40’s but they dress like they’re 16 & 22. Anyway, Rifftrax helps…
 
Rating – 7/10 – The movie’s a little rough… but laughably rough

December starts in a few hours & I plan to mark off the other 93% of my checklist for 2022 before the end of the month... Pray for Mojo!

​Steve