Recently Watched Films

Apparently this was his first leading role. I also didn't realise it was him until halfway through the movie.

The 1988 remake is quite dire. The special effects don't seem 30 years better, and the acting is worse, except for Kevin Dillon, who just looked way out of place because he was in a different league to the rest of the cast.

A Fritz Lang I hadn't seen before. Unfortunately the genre is outside of his usual wheelhouse and was far from his best movies. 

Old school monster movies have become a new interest. Unfortunately this one wasn't very good, even if it does have Steve McQueen in the lead role (I had no idea he was in this movie until I started watching it; it seems very outside the kind of movies he was known for).

This on the other hand was very good!

Finally one re-watch from my Argento blu-rays:

I was intended to re-watch the Argento's I'd already seen in release order but I mixed up the dates of this and Suspiria and already did that one a little while ago. Next steps Inferno, Tenebre and Phenomena before watching Opera for the first time off of Prime. After that I'll start going through the Mario Bava's again.

I didn't even know Forbidden Planet had a sequel.

In a good or bad way?

I watched the Rifftrax of this which was funny, but I think it's a pretty good movie in it's own right.

Invisible Kid... 

Forbidden Planet's 'sequel'. Nowhere near as good or interesting. This came on my blu-ray set as a bonus feature, which may be telling in itself that they're not charging extra for this whole movie. 

There's Lynch and then there's Lynch. This is Lynch. Couldn't make fucking head or tail of it. I mean I guess I couldn't really with Mulholland Drive either, but I at least enjoyed that movie all the same. This one I could do without. Some may call this artistic and a masterpiece. I call it arty-farty and a load of crap. 

My father fell asleep in front of the TV. He wouldn't have normally let me watch it either!