This Week in Movies: November 1 - 7
Nov. 8th, 2020 07:22 pmThis week was interesting for a number of reasons beyond the election and Destiel. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sol_se started a new job that is... not aligned with my job time-wise. She's also set-up in the living room on video, so I have to stay out, which is interesting because we only have the living room and the bedroom (and the kitchen and bathroom, but these are not really hangout spots). So I'm basically waking up three hours earlier and then fucking around without access to video games for 4-5 hours. On Fridays, when she works and I don't, it's 8 hours (9 less her lunch). Luckily, I had an old TV lying around that I wasn't using. Combining sol_se's Fire Stick and a new, very sketchy DVD player (the box doesn't say DVD anywhere), I have myself a little entertainment center in the bedroom. I'll be watching a lot more movies solo now, I think.
Movie I've seen before are in italics.
L'assassin habite au 21 (1942)
Piranha (1978)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
Death Becomes Her (1992)
Alucarda (1975)
L'assassin is an early Henri-Georges Clouzot (Diabolique) film. It's a lighthearted romp about finding a serial killer! I found it very amusing.
The new DVD player is Region-free, which I tested out with my Region 2 Piranha disc. Great fish-ploitation from Joe Dante.
Sol_se expressed some interest in revenge-horror, so we watched the Phibes duology. They are both very strange films and Vincent Price is clearly having a ball.
We recently gained access to HBO (not HBO Max) and Death Becomes Her was on. I could have sworn I'd seen it before, but as it turns out, I had not. It's a lot of fun.
Alucarda is a film very dear to me, so I showed it to sol_se. I think this might have been a mistake. Watching it with her, I could only see all the things that were wrong with it. She didn't really care for it, either. Oh well.
sol_se started a new job that is... not aligned with my job time-wise. She's also set-up in the living room on video, so I have to stay out, which is interesting because we only have the living room and the bedroom (and the kitchen and bathroom, but these are not really hangout spots). So I'm basically waking up three hours earlier and then fucking around without access to video games for 4-5 hours. On Fridays, when she works and I don't, it's 8 hours (9 less her lunch). Luckily, I had an old TV lying around that I wasn't using. Combining sol_se's Fire Stick and a new, very sketchy DVD player (the box doesn't say DVD anywhere), I have myself a little entertainment center in the bedroom. I'll be watching a lot more movies solo now, I think.Movie I've seen before are in italics.
L'assassin habite au 21 (1942)
Piranha (1978)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
Death Becomes Her (1992)
Alucarda (1975)
L'assassin is an early Henri-Georges Clouzot (Diabolique) film. It's a lighthearted romp about finding a serial killer! I found it very amusing.
The new DVD player is Region-free, which I tested out with my Region 2 Piranha disc. Great fish-ploitation from Joe Dante.
Sol_se expressed some interest in revenge-horror, so we watched the Phibes duology. They are both very strange films and Vincent Price is clearly having a ball.
We recently gained access to HBO (not HBO Max) and Death Becomes Her was on. I could have sworn I'd seen it before, but as it turns out, I had not. It's a lot of fun.
Alucarda is a film very dear to me, so I showed it to sol_se. I think this might have been a mistake. Watching it with her, I could only see all the things that were wrong with it. She didn't really care for it, either. Oh well.
