Because I Said So

Diane Keaton is the mother of three adult girls, and she's worried that the youngest (Mandy Moore) will end up alone. Mom herself is relationship-challenged. So the question is, "Will mom and the youngest daughter find their true loves?"

Who gives a shit?

• Chick-flick, of course. Men rate it 4.6, women rate it 6.2. IMDb top 100 voters rate it 4.3. Overall score is 5.0.

• Metacritic: 26/100

• British critics: 22/100

• 5% positive reviews, per RT. Metromix called it "The worst date movie since Saw III."

• Despite the harsh criticism, it was a near-miss at the box office. Grossed $42 million. Solid opening weekend of $13, especially good since it got dumped on Super Bowl weekend. Solid multiple of 3.2. It opened as the #2 movie, just missing number #1, and stayed in the top three in its second week. It dropped less than 30% in week two, and managed to pass the film which edged it out for #1 the previous week. All of which says that a lot of women liked it and told their friends about it.

Rated PG-13. The only nudity is some thong action, but I made a film clip since I think Piper Perabo is really cute. I love her animated facial expressions. Her butt is not so bad either.

 

Night of the Comet

Night of the Comet (1984) is a post-apocalyptic bubble gum comedy.

All earth is anxiously awaiting the arrival of a comet which will pass close enough to Earth that people will be bathed in the comet's tail. Catherine Mary Stewart, movie usher, arcade game master, and overall hot chick, is having an affair with the projectionist, and the two stay in the projection room, which is iron-clad. Stewart's Valley Girl sister, Kelli Maroney, gets in a fight with her WSM (wicked stepmother), and spends the night in a metal shed.

Stewart wakes up in the morning, and finds that most people have dehydrated into a pile of orange dust. Most of the few who haven't are headed for the same fate, but for now at least, are fast moving zombies. She discovers her sister at home and alive, then they meet a young man who spent the night in a metal truck trailer and also seems uninfected. Meanwhile, a group of scientists including Mary Woronov is trying to capture survivors and make a serum of their blood.

A member requested that I cover this because he found it sexy to see Kelli Maroney playing a cheerleader with an automatic weapon. Maroney is seen in a bra and panties, and other sexy outfits, and it is not a bad film at all. Both sisters were likable characters, the film had one foot in comedy and one in horror, and there was a feel-good ending. Yes, it was mostly mindless and predictable, but sometimes that is not a bad thing in a film.

IMDb readers say 6.1, which is not bad at all for the genre, and I agree with that assessment.

Kelli Maroney

Catherine Mary Stewart

 

The Last Kiss Goodnight

"Babe in Bondage" alert. Today we have Geena Davis in some serious trouble, as she is all tied up in her underwear. Not to fear -  she wins out in the end.

 

 

 

 

Eliminators

Scientist Abbott Reeves (Roy Dotrice) is conducting time-travel experiments in the Mexican jungle. Reeves orders his assistant Dr Takada to decommission the half-human, half-cyborg Mandroid (Patrick Reynolds), when Mandroid starts having flashbacks to his life as a human. Instead Takada helps Mandroid escape and tells him to seek out robotics expert Nora Hunter (Denise Crosby). Nora is surprised to find that Reeves, thought killed, is alive and that he has stolen her robotic designs to build Mandroid. She immediately sets forth on an expedition into the Mexican jungle, joined by Mandroid, the wily boatman Harry Fontana and Takada's ninja son who has come to find his father. Fighting their way past Neanderthals brought back via Reeves's experiments and river pirates, they eventually discover Reeves's plan to go back in time and make himself the Emperor of Rome.

3.2 at IMDb, only 2.6 from the top thousand voters, 2.4 from voters aged 45 or older.