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Feb. 11th, 2018 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatHaven't done much this weekend, wrote, cleaned, watched television, bought groceries, cooked, and surfed the net.
In a bit of a book slump. The second book in the Highlander Time Travel series that I'm reading, about Highland fairies with the gift of shifting unwary heroines through time, is better than the first one and focuses on a bit of history that I rarely see in novels. We're in the 14th century with Robert the Bruce attempting to keep Scotland from those pesky English. (The English do not come off well in historical romance novels for some reason. I'm not sure why this is. Do the American writers just not like the English for some reason? Or is it all that nasty history? We have our own nasty history, so we can hardly judge. And some of it sort of jumps over into nasty English history. Let's face it human history isn't very nice, sort of violent and with a lot of slavery, torture, war and rape, actually. If I was an objective alien, I'd consider letting us destroy ourselves and mosey elsewhere.)
Thought about movies that seem to have disappeared but remember fondly from the 1990s and 1980s. This was after watching Moonstruck on Amazon Prime. I'd seen it, but forgot the plot. The only part of it I remember is Cher walking back from a lovely night with Nick Cage, kicking a tin can. It's shorter than I remember and focuses more on Cher's aging parents and relatives than Cher. Also everyone in it but Cher and Nick Cage are dead now. It was filmed in 1986.
Anyhow...movies I miss and would like to see again, because I loved them, even though they were hardly critically acclaimed:
* Ladyhawk - Mathew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfieffer. {Rutger Hauer is another one of those actors that I kept following around, much to my own chagrin. (headdesk). Just because I follow them around doesn't necessarily make them great actors or their roles great. My taste is...mixed. I own this.)
* The Long Kiss Goodnight -- Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, David Morrison, Brian Cox, and Craig Bierko. (I was following Geena Davis, Samuel L Jackson and Craig Bierko around for a bit as a well.)
I love this movie. I don't know why. The critics hated it. Silly critics. I saw it twice in the movie theater for about $5. And six times on television. It has a badass female spy who lost her memory,
and she hires Sam Jackson to help her get it back. Much chaos ensues.
* The Last of the Mohicans -- (don't read the book or see prior movies) Stars Daniel Day Lewis, and his best movie in my opinion.
* Nobody's Fool -- Paul Newman and Bruce Willis, and various others, about an old guy in s small town. It's funny.
* Pretty in Pink -- Molly Ringwald, James Spader, Andrew McCarthy, Annie Potts, the guy from Two and a Half Men (no not Charlie Sheen and Anston Kuchner, the other one).
* Say Anything -- John Cuzack. I loved the John Cuzack movies. My favorite is Gross Point Blank.
* Top Gun -- Kelly McGillis, Tom Cruise, Tom Skerrit, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards...bad movie, fun music video.
Ahh...the 80s and the 90s...they had fun romantic movies back then. Less heavy on the satire and crue humor.
In a bit of a book slump. The second book in the Highlander Time Travel series that I'm reading, about Highland fairies with the gift of shifting unwary heroines through time, is better than the first one and focuses on a bit of history that I rarely see in novels. We're in the 14th century with Robert the Bruce attempting to keep Scotland from those pesky English. (The English do not come off well in historical romance novels for some reason. I'm not sure why this is. Do the American writers just not like the English for some reason? Or is it all that nasty history? We have our own nasty history, so we can hardly judge. And some of it sort of jumps over into nasty English history. Let's face it human history isn't very nice, sort of violent and with a lot of slavery, torture, war and rape, actually. If I was an objective alien, I'd consider letting us destroy ourselves and mosey elsewhere.)
Thought about movies that seem to have disappeared but remember fondly from the 1990s and 1980s. This was after watching Moonstruck on Amazon Prime. I'd seen it, but forgot the plot. The only part of it I remember is Cher walking back from a lovely night with Nick Cage, kicking a tin can. It's shorter than I remember and focuses more on Cher's aging parents and relatives than Cher. Also everyone in it but Cher and Nick Cage are dead now. It was filmed in 1986.
Anyhow...movies I miss and would like to see again, because I loved them, even though they were hardly critically acclaimed:
* Ladyhawk - Mathew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfieffer. {Rutger Hauer is another one of those actors that I kept following around, much to my own chagrin. (headdesk). Just because I follow them around doesn't necessarily make them great actors or their roles great. My taste is...mixed. I own this.)
* The Long Kiss Goodnight -- Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, David Morrison, Brian Cox, and Craig Bierko. (I was following Geena Davis, Samuel L Jackson and Craig Bierko around for a bit as a well.)
I love this movie. I don't know why. The critics hated it. Silly critics. I saw it twice in the movie theater for about $5. And six times on television. It has a badass female spy who lost her memory,
and she hires Sam Jackson to help her get it back. Much chaos ensues.
* The Last of the Mohicans -- (don't read the book or see prior movies) Stars Daniel Day Lewis, and his best movie in my opinion.
* Nobody's Fool -- Paul Newman and Bruce Willis, and various others, about an old guy in s small town. It's funny.
* Pretty in Pink -- Molly Ringwald, James Spader, Andrew McCarthy, Annie Potts, the guy from Two and a Half Men (no not Charlie Sheen and Anston Kuchner, the other one).
* Say Anything -- John Cuzack. I loved the John Cuzack movies. My favorite is Gross Point Blank.
* Top Gun -- Kelly McGillis, Tom Cruise, Tom Skerrit, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards...bad movie, fun music video.
Ahh...the 80s and the 90s...they had fun romantic movies back then. Less heavy on the satire and crue humor.
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Date: 2018-02-12 04:09 am (UTC)Top Gun: I agree with you entirely. It's really a bad movie; a stinker of a script with lame acting in spots. But with nice visuals and a very pleasantly memorable sound track.
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Date: 2018-02-12 07:52 am (UTC)I LOVE that movie.
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Date: 2018-02-12 08:27 pm (UTC)I also liked Mohicans, though I haven't seen it in some time. And after the eclipse last year I tried to get Ladyhawke on Netflix because Mike had never seen it. After having it as a "long wait" in the queue for months they finally marked it unavailable.
I've never seen Top Gun or Pretty in Pink (though I saw a few scenes from it). I saw Nobody's Fool but don't remember it well. Also saw Moonstruck and ditto, as I mostly remember wondering why it had done so well at the Academy Awards.
I also saw both Grosse Pointe Blank and Say Anything. I liked them both, though I haven't felt any need to rewatch them.
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Date: 2018-02-12 11:50 pm (UTC)I can't remember Nobody's Fool. And...Moonstruck, while fun, boggled my mind as to why it did so well at the Academy Awards. It's a fun little movie but hardly ground-breaking or memorable. (I couldn't remember it.)
Gross Point Blank -- works better if you went to high school in the 1980s in the midwest. Because it's a satire of the 1980s, and high school reunions. Basically a hit man goes to his high school reunion and hooks up with his former high school sweetheart.
Long Kiss Goodnight -- completely agree. Great heroine, complicated, and one of Sam Jackson's better films and characters. It's available on Youtube but nowhere else, dang it.
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Date: 2018-02-12 11:51 pm (UTC)But I think it's the best film about small town life. Filmed entirely in Beacon, NY -- where my brother used to live.
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Date: 2018-02-12 11:53 pm (UTC)The book? Sigh. I read it. It's crap. Talk about purple prose. They wrote horribly in the 1700s. Just saying. ;-)