September Movies - Week 2

Good Afternoon Ladies & Gentlemen,

Yup, more shenanigans as we have five shows in four days this weekend... but looking forward to it... but here are some movies that we squeezed in...

September 6 – The Replacements (2000)
 
Shane Falco! Yes, the sports comedy loosely based on the NFL-strike season of 1982 where the regular players are on strike, so they hire a motley crew of scabs to play the last few weeks of the season (so fans can’t ask for their money back) and Keanu Reeves stars as the down-on-his-luck quarterback who gets one last chance from old school coach Gene Hackman! Is this the greatest football movie ever made? No, that’s Any Given Sunday… Greatest sports comedy ever made? No, that’s Baseketball… Does this movie make me happy every time that I watch it because of how insanely dumb it is at some times, yet still pretty heartwarming in its nonsense? Absolutely!
 
Rating – 10/10 – Orlando Jones always puts Izzy in the mood…
 
September 8 – The Lost Boys (1987)
 
Single mom with two teenage kids from Phoenix move to the weird coastal city of Santa Carla (definitely not Santa Cruz or Santa Clara) which is apparently the Murder Capital of the World? Why would that be? VAMPIRES!!! Hijinx ensue… now… this movie is so 80’s it hurts. Director Joel Schumacher has a style… and it’s on full display in this weird, creepy movie… but it also has a fun side with teenagers trying to figure out how to kill vampires… and just sitcom level shenanigans… and yeah, it’s just a dumb fun time.
 
9/10 – If you haven’t seen it, you’ll either love it or not… and I can see both sides… not for everybody… and a little full of itself at times
 
September 9 – The Cutting Edge (1992)
 
So I remember watching this a few times as a kid (I assume my mom LOVED it or something) and it was harmless… pretentious uppity figure skater (Moira Kelly) & has-been loudmouth hockey player (DB Sweeney) are paired up to bring USA some Olympic gold on a few months training… and hijinx ensue. Yeah, it’s a romantic-comedy… though some choices made are just… you know, rom-com choices for plot prolongment… and I love that the American skating coach is an English guy doing a Russian accent… and I kept waiting for the dad (played by the Stepfather himself, Terry O’Quinn) to turn dastardly evil instead of just distant WASP mourning his dead wife through his princess daughter… but yeah, not a bad little flick. One fun fact I found out: Moira Kelly broke her ankle or something making this movie… and it kept her from being the little sister in “A League of Their Own” so Lori Petty stepped in… but Moira instead became the voice of Nala in The Lion King… and Lori Petty, I don’t know… was Tank Girl!!! Alternate universe: Moira Kelly as Tank Girl?!? You’re right… she’s more the Naomi Watts role in Tank Girl…
 
Rating – 8/10 – Not bad for a rom-com but now I want to watch Tank Girl…
 
September 11 – Street Fighter (1993)
 
Loosely based on THE fighting video game but… really it’s just a weird mish-mosh war movie with Jean Claude Van Damme as a blonde general leading the Allied Nations (not the UN) army against the warlord M. Bison (Raul Julia who’s amazing as always) in the country of Shadowloo… and hijinx ensue. So many characters that get just a few minutes of screentime… JCVD is in full cokehead mode… Kylie Minogue & Ming Na Wen are fine as hell… PG-13 nonsense… Captain Sawada for some reason… yeah, I think you know where this is going…
 
Rating – 10/10 – RAUL JULIA WAS GONE TOO SOON!!! HE’D STILL BE DOING NIC CAGE LEVEL PERFORMANCES IF HE WERE STILL AROUND!!!

Have a great weekend & come on out and see us if you're in Eden, Ogden, Draper, or back in Eden again!!! We're EVERYWHERE (in Northern Utah)!!!

​Steve