Movies Watched -- The Rapture (1991)

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100 minute running time so the perfect length … W.D. By (written and directed by the same person, i.e., somebody’s baby) … Mimi Rogers has amazing, huge tits, just heavenly … she plays the world’s sexiest phone operator by day who is a swinger by night … meets long-haired David Duchovny, sexiest man alive with his shirt off … soft-core porn in the beginning turns into heavy, dark movie about religion and the Rapture (the Second Coming) … how weird can a movie be?!? What in God’s name did the public make of this movie back in 1991? Just bizarre… Yellow rating alone for Mimi Rogers’ amazing bones and breasts… this was a John Farr reco. I can’t imagine anyone ever gave Tolkin money to make another movie after this one. He’s like a horny sex fiend who is also interested in deep questions and inexplicably tries to combine the two.

[Knock, knock] You have to believe. If you don't, you go to Hell.

Movies Watched -- The Parallax View (1974)

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102 minute running time so the perfect length… fed into the conspiracy theories that came out of the tumultuous 1960s, political assassination, shadow government, CIA stuff, distrust of the Warren Commission report, the investigative reporter as hero (Watergate era), etc. … Warren Beatty plays Jim Morrison, sexiest man alive with the movie contracts to prove it, bra-less Paula Prentiss and her fabulous breasts in white sweater … shocking ending … this movie should be a double feature with The Conversation (also from 1974). There are some nice touches in this movie such as the damn spill gates flood, the redneck sheriff, and the final scene with runaway golf cart on the convention floor. I guess it’s a green-go, though this was a re-watch for me so I sort of sped through it. It’s a John Farr reco too.

Jealous ex-lover face … my favorite scene

Movies Watched -- Runaway Train (1985)

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112 minute running time so 12 minutes too long … this was a weird one, a combination prison break / existential drama / runaway train action movie starring John Voight and his goofy Hispanic accent … the real reason I saw this (other than it being a John Farr recommendation) was it had Rebecca De Mornay in it, and I loved her in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle… mid-1980s sexism still pretty strong, a lot of cussing in this movie. Yellow rating at best.

The only person on the whole train is a woman.

Movies Watched -- Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

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130 minute running time so 30 minutes minutes too long… young Al Pacino… I forgot how funny this movie is, they’re all such nitwits, both cops and robbers. I also totally forgot about the sex change angle, but of course it’s a tragedy in the end. This is a John Farr recommendation and I’d recommend it too if it were 30 minutes shorter.

He doesn't have plan. It's all a whim.

Movies Watched -- It Could Happen To You (1994)

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101 minute running time so a perfect length … movies from the early 90s are the end of an era, right before cell phones and the internet destroyed everything … this is really cute, Nic Coppola playing a doofus (again) and skinny-assed Bridget Fonda (nepo babies both) along with Rosie Perez, who was annoyingly fun, not unlike the role Luis Guzmán played in Out of Sight … the undertaker from Six Feet Under, also co-starring NYC and the old coffee cups, I don’t know who else I recognized… this was not from John Farr, but from the same person who recommended The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, which I also really liked. I tried to send “Elizabeth Ervin” an email and a tweet in thanks, but received no response.

This is feel-good stuff, wholesome fun for the whole family, green-go, recommended. No swearing, no tattoos, no cell phones, plus goofy, often slightly racist humor is a win!

You want a sick day, get sick.

Movies Watched -- Helter Skelter (1976)

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183 minute running time … that’s over three hours long, but amazingly I didn’t fast forward much, so it must have been well made … it was hilarious how incompetent the police were, and these were rich white people who got murdered, which makes it doubly shocking. The actor who played Manson was really good (meaning really scary). Prosecutor Bugliosi comes across well, which is not surprising since he wrote the script. This was a John Farr recommendation.

Blackie will wipe out whitey…

Movies Watched -- Mean Streets (1973)

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110 minute running time but felt like forever… Who cares about these lowlife Italian guys, other than Marty Scorsese? … gritty early 1970s Manhattan … went to fast forward after 20 minutes and never looked back .. stars Harvey Keitel and Bob De Niro… I just didn’t care. John Farr recommended it, but I sure don’t.

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