Milkwater

This is pretty good. It’s got good lines and actors and stuff. The cinematography is really basic, though. It’s just over shoulder/over shoulder/over shoulder/over shoulder.

And then it turned, like, super serious…

What a downer.

This is like a … manic pixie girl movie, but for once the tragic manic girl is the main character. I guess that’s progress and stuff, but it’s not cute.

OK, but that bit doesn’t last forever. It just seems like it did.

Four fifths of this is really good, but that part where all the drama is: It’s kinda bad.

Milkwater. Morgan Ingari. 2020. ⚃

Trouble in Mind

Man, the cast of this movie… I surmise that it was a total flop when it was released, but they sure did pick some interesting actors.

But I can understand why — it seems really out of step with 1985. It’s more like a 70s movie? It’s all earnest and stuff. I’m guessing the director is a Robert Altman fan?

Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Altman’s great.

On the other hand, it’s got Hill Street Blues energy.

It’s got a mood kinda in the middle of Hill Street Blues and Twin Peaks? Which is very of its time, I guess.

I don’t think you can bomb worse than that, so I guess the studio didn’t really release it? Just pushed it to a couple of theatres on Long Island?

And it’s so weird — this is almost an amazing movie. It’s so close — the performances are great, the sets are fantastic, and the mood really works. But it’s so … weird. It’s kinda formless? Which I like… not knowing where anything is going or what the movie is even about… but you have to have faith that this is going to cohere somehow, and the movie hasn’t really earned that trust.

There’s so many interesting things in this movie that I want to watch all of Alan Rudolph’s movies.

This veers between something as scintillating as Liquid Sky and… something not like Liquid Sky.

It’s simply Divine!

I could see me giving this ⚀ or ⚅ depending on the day. It’s unique.

It’s like Robert Altman x Twin Peaks. But before Twin Peaks.

OK, now I want to see all of Rudolph’s movies.

At random, I’m giving this movie:

Trouble in Mind. Alan Rudolph. 1985. ⚅

Elvira’s 40th Anniversary, Very Scary, Very Special Special

Wow, Elvira looks amazing.

I’ve never seen any of the original Elvira stuff — I guess it was a kinda local phenomenon?

Such banter! I love it.

But the rest of this movie is the 1988 movie Elvira: Mistress of the Dark? So confusing! I think I was that one back in the day? And I remember it being pretty amusing?

This is really sweet! And fun. I keep forgetting how much fun these genre movies from the 80s were. The 80s were like a rerun of the 50s, right? I mean, for movies. The 70s were all serious and gritty, and the 90s were all post modern, but there was a whole bunch of really sweet, entertaining movies in the 80s.

You can’t not like this movie.

That said, it does seem to spend a lot of time spinning its wheels.

Eep! And then we’re back to Elvira commenting the Elvira movie.

Heh heh. I assume that’s a reference to a real review.

I like this a lot, but there should be more jokes per time unit.

Most amiable.

Oh! There’s more movies? It’s a series of specials? I’ll be checking them out.

Elvira’s 40th Anniversary, Very Scary, Very Special Special. Jim Kunz. 2021. ⚃