Man, this has some cast. Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Dianne Wiest, Hank Azaria, Christine Baranski…

Ben Gazzara! I was thinking “hm, Hank Azaria sure looks young to have been in all those Cassavetes movies in the 70s”, and that’s because… he’s not Ben Gazzara.

Oh, yeah — now I understand why I thought the plot was kinda unreasonable when I saw this in the 90s — the son is supposed to be 20, and the daughter-in-law-to-be is supposed to be 17, so they’re kids, and kids by weird things. But Futterman was 29 and Flockhart was 32 at the time, and that’s what they look like, so I kinda thought they were… weirdos.

It’s a classic for a reason. It’s hilarious and it’s got real nerve.

The Birdcage. Mike Nichols. 1996. ⚄

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Man, the bitrate here is ridiculously low. It’s like less than 2Mbps? So there’s banding de luxe.

Hey, this is properly scary. I think I saw this at the time, but I don’t remember it being this spooky. It’s like a proper horror movie.

This is so scary! It’s a lot of jump scares (all the mirrors don’t help), but it’s got a real intense atmosphere. I had almost forgotten that horror movies could be this scary — horror movies these days is just people being tortured, and that’s a whole nother thing.

This movie’s really unrealistic. I mean… Virginia Madsen married to this guy?

I’m joking because I’m totally ascared of this movie.

I loved the first two thirds of this — I haven’t been this scared watching a movie since I watched Love, Actually.

The last third, though, was a let-down. There was some good stuff, but it was mainly just kinda… sad… I mean, melancholic. I liked that it went kinda insane, but it could have gone even more insane?

So I’d give the first two thirds a ⚄ and the last third a ⚂, so:

Candyman. Bernard Rose. 1992. ⚃

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Oops. This is a documentary? Or a … mockumentary? Uhm… I’m not a fan of either genre, but I hope it’s a mockumentary…

Looks like it’s a documentary?

Darn! I was gonna skip all and any documentaries suggested by Queerty.

Now I want to see the original film (that this is a documentary about). It looks really interesting.

OK, now I’m back to this being a mockumentary.

I still have no idea whether anything in this movie is “real”. I mean… an actor called Crispin Glover? It just seems unlikely.

I still don’t know whether this is a parody of documentaries or not — if it’s not, it’s a… documentary…, and if it is, it’s still not funny?

The final scene’s pretty good.

But I’m gonna give Rubin and Ed a go. With this “Crispin Glover”.

The Beaver Trilogy Part IV. Brad Besser. 2015. ⚂

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