More movies:

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1995)

I just thought of putting the release year in parantheses after the movie title. What a neat idea, right? Well... OK, so it isn't, but the REALLY COOL novel idea I'm going to incorporate with the release years is that I don't actually know the release years of these movies at all! I'm just guessing! Isn't that awesome!?!!

(I'm going to count this as my first journalistic innovation. It is what I hope to be a first of many.)

I thought it would be hard to be disappointed by what would most certainly amount to a glorified TV episode, but here I am... kinda disappointed. This is for a few simple reasons. 1) The movie "This Island Earth", really isn't all that terrible, or really all that conducive to humorous, sarcastic quips. 2) It's 75 minutes long. And 3) (this is the major one) I enjoyed the between movie clips much more than I expected... which sort of made me wish they had skipped the whole "make fun of bad movie" part of the film and instead make a straight homage to all the terrible movies that they have endured throughout the years. Like the scene in which they use the Manos hands to remove the Hubble space telescope. It was both cheesy, fun, and a perfect reference to one of their more infamous episodes. You could make a nice 80 minute movie out of that.

After Hours (1985)

I watched this a week or two ago, so it's not nearly as fresh on my mind as the above one (which I finished watching about 30 minutes ago), and I was going to write about it as soon as I watched it, but didn't for a variety of reasons (all of them pretty much boiling down to "I'm lazy"). Anyway, what I was going to say back then was "Dang, I need to watch a lot more Scorsese." Cause this movie was good, you see. It's kind of a simple plot... boring office worker decides to do something different and travel downtown to hang with this girl he met, only to have that go terribly wrong, and after that sees his entire night take a surreal downward spiral after multiple failed attempts to return to the comforts of home. It's executed *so* nicely, though... with that vivacious Scorsese visual flair (ack, what a mouthful) in full swing, and plus, it's funny to boot. There's this one moment (I don't know if you'll ever see it, but in case you do, I won't say what it is), in which something ridiculous happens and the main character essentially turns to us to perfectly sum up the entire movie... it's so wonderful, and probably one of my more favorite comedic scenes I can think of.

As far as Scorsese comedies go, The King Of Comedy is slightly better, but you know. This was a nice, unexpected surprise. Also, it reinforced the idea that I pretty much need to see everything that Scorsese has made. You know how it is... you want to see the best of the best, and only the stuff that you love will prompt you into exploring the (band, director, author, etc)'s more minor works. I watched this (what seems to be considered a minor work for the man) expecting nothing, and now I've got about three Scorsese films that I plan on watching this weekend (Aviator, Casino, and New York, New York), and two more I could easily fire up on Netflix's Watch Instantly.

I was going to write about more stuff that I've seen, but I have one that I'd really like to write about, but I don't think I have the mental capacity right now to do it justice. So I'm just going to not write about it at all. That's the logical way out, I'd say.