Watched Bohemian Rhapsody yesterday on TV. The film was so-so (sad ending) but loved the music.
Did you know that Adam Lambert (new frontman of Queen) appeared briefly in a scene where Mercury, played by Rami Malek, is at a truck stop on the band’s first North American tour. While making a call to his fiancée, Mary Austin (played by Lucy Boynton), Mercury notices the bearded trucker heading into the men’s room, suggesting they are about to hook up. That moment in the film is the first that implies Mercury, who died of AIDS at the age of 45, was interested in men. (thx Yahoo)
Starship Troopers. I last saw it the 90s most likely and although it went over my head to some degree at the time I liked it.
Holds up really well today, I didn’t realise how well executed a film this is. Great to see it on Bluray rather than VHS. I did also read the book by Robert Heinlein back in the 90s but it is a different although nonetheless worthy read from what I remember.
It really is well done, and more timely today than ever before. When it was released, I think a lot of people didn’t understand it is a satire, and they thought it was promoting the ideology and lifestyle depicted (with the black uniforms reminiscent of uniforms worn by Nazis in World War 2, and jingoistic slogans, like “The only good bug is a dead bug”). So, it seemed that many science-fiction fans were upset that they made a satire out of Heinlein’s story, and many non-science-fiction fans were just baffled by it. On its own terms, it really is a well-done movie.
A serial killer pins his crimes on two college students who gave him a ride.
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I like road trips, movies about New Mexico, movies with/about cars, and motels. So I thought this would be a perfect movie for me. Well, it was an acceptable one. Not the best film or script out there, but it was fine enough for a boring, rainy Monday night.
IMO Rated R for various elements of violence, lewd language and exposure of blood.
“Butley” (1974) - Alan Bates reprises his leading role in the stage production in which he plays a witty, yet prickly college literature professor who, in the course of a single day, manages to alienate everyone in his life. The playwright Harold Pinter directed this excellent adaptation of the play by Simon Gray.
A three-person crew on a mission to Mars faces an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger jeopardizes the lives of everyone on board.
Just finished it. The movie is average, but the plot is somewhat interesting.
The space suits feature LED head lamps, no close ups, but at least they are in the movie.
Only watch if you have nothing else to do, it is a bit of a slow one.