Keeping Track (August 23, 2012)

So let’s see if I remember what I’d watched…

At Home

Mystery Science Theater 3000: the Movie- it’s a showing of This Island Earth (1955) and I still have no idea what that film is about, but the MST3K team’s delivery is damn funny!

Safe (2012)- surprisingly mediocre but it’s never boring. It just wasn’t very well shot and the story was too simple and therefore, should not have been delivered in such a complex manner. And why was Statham’s character a cage fighter and then a bum? You’d have the same film if he’d never stopped being a cop. lol

The Cold Light of Day (2012)- just terrible. It stars Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis, and Sigourney Weaver and it constantly misfires on all cylinders. And it’s never interesting. It’s a drama that’s serious in tone but is never interesting.

Hey, at least now we know that Cavill can deliver a really good American accent. :O)

Re upcoming films, I am only looking forward to Spielberg’s Lincoln and Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master. There aren’t many upcoming films this year that I’m excited about.

Speaking of MST3K, I saw a live satellite riff by that crew of Manos: The Hands of Fate (as well as the shorts Welcome Back, Norman” and “All About Cylinders” or some such). This was a week ago, and I still hurt all over from laughing!

I also saw ParaNorman, as my sisters took me for my birthday. I expected to like it a lot, but even so, it exceeded my expectations.

At home, I finally got around to watching Metropolis (1927). LOVE.

@Nir: Re SAFE, “surprisingly” because you thought it would be worse? I thought my review had prepared you for mediocrity. ;-) The hero’s backstory is indeed ridiculously over-complicated but the one thing he has to be for the plot to work is an EX-cop.

@Michelle: Thanks for the PARANORMAN recommendation, I was on the fence and that put me over. And, happy birthday!