Aeronautic Primates and Other Delights

I had a vacation March 12-20, but when I came back, work was a trash fire, so we're doing a double this week.

Movies I've seen before are in italics

Rifftrax Live: Night of the Living Dead
Freaky (2020)
Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Vampyres (1974)
8 1/2 (1963)
Leprechaun (1993)
Leprechaun 2 (1994)
Leprechaun 3 (1995)
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Toby Dammit (1968)
Zach Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)

Rifftrax Live: Octaman
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)
Rifftrax: Catwomen of the Moon
Rifftrax: Honor and Glory

I liked Freaky a lot, although I had less trouble buying Vince Vaughn as a teenage girl than I did as a slasher-style killer.

I hit a stopping point in the Fellini box set. I worry that I spent money on a box set for a director that ultimately isn't for me. Don't get me wrong, I liked La Dolce Vita up until the last vignette and I still love 8 1/2. I just don't think the set is bringing me the joy that, ironically, the Ingmar Bergman set did.

Vampyres is a lesbian vampire film that desperately needs a plot. sol_se and I kept waiting for the plot to kick in. Eventually we realized it just wasn't going to happen and we resigned ourselves to finishing the movie.

On St. Patrick's Day, I remembered that I had a triple feature of Leprechaun movies. They are quite bad. We decided that Warwick Davis is actually playing three separate leprechauns with three separate sets of rules, perhaps in three separate continuities. Of the three, the second one is probably the "best", although it has some rapey subtext, so I can't recommend it. So basically don't do what I've done.

We watched all of Zach Snyder's four-hour cut of Justice League more-or-less in one sitting. I probably like it better than the theatrical release, although I have objections to some of Snyder's decisions, most of them centered around Superman. Snyder does not understand the character on any level.

You may have noticed a lot of Rifftrax. I just put in for a subscription to Rifftrax Friends, which is their streaming service. Yeah, everybody has a streaming service these days. They just have so much of their catalogue on there, it made more sense than waiting for stuff to pop up on Pluto or Amazon Prime.