Movies

Movie critics seem to have an easy job. I've never found one with whom I completely agree. So if I give you my opinion on a movie, I'm just as likely to have people not agree with me as I don't agree with them. With that bit of logic, I declare myself a MOVIE CRITIC.

I have hundreds of movies that I've never watched, so I will review them for you and maybe there will be one you like. In the 70's I used to go to "art" movie theaters in Atlanta. One of the strangest movies I have ever seen was made by David Lynch. Actually, he's made a lot of strange movies. Remember the tv series "Twin Peaks". But the strangest one was "Eraserhead". I consider myself a logical person and when I see or hear something that doesn't make sense, I get an uneasy feeling. It's sort of like driving down a road that you think you know where it goes and suddenly you find yourself somewhere you didn't expect to be. I remember feeling shocked when the audience started laughing at a scene that was horrifying to me.

Another movie that I saw back in the 70's was the cult movie "Rocky Horror Show". It played at the same theater every night at midnight. The cult following would dress up like characters in the movie and when the actors would say certain memorable lines, the audience would say them in unison with the actors.

Recently I watched a couple of newer movies that were a little strange, but not in the same way that "Eraserhead" and "Rocky Horror Show" were strange. "Memento" and "eXistenZ" are both weird movies. These are movies that while watching them you have to keep rethinking what just happened. "eXistenZ" appears to be a movie that was made on a $10 budget. In the scene where they are driving down a road, it looks like the car is sitting in a studio with a screen behind it like old 1930's movies. But with actors like Jude Law and Willem Dafoe, you have to think it's worth watching.

Using a rating system of 1-5 stars, I would give all of these movies 5 stars for weirdness. If you don't like weird or strange movies, don't even watch them. Among the reasons, at least for me, for watching movies is the potential for being weird. Here's a special alert for MOM, don't even think about watching these movies!

Howard, thanks for the corned beef idea. I have already ruined the one I bought Saturday. I'll try your idea when I finish this brisket next year. Now that I think about it, corned beef does go with cabbage.

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