It's definitely been a rainy morning, with a cold front pushing the temps about ten degrees cooler than they've been.
Those were the double header of new ones seen on Tuesday.
"Hoppers" combined Frankenstein and environmental issues, featuring a university professor who could transfer people's minds into robotic animals.
Now, add in a college girl who's very attached to an endangered pond destined for demolition by a freeway project.
Combine thoroughly with the girl making off with her brain inside the robotic beaver as she attempts to save the pond beloved by her and her grandma.
Pretty good, but it's a message not aimed at me.
Like I told Carolyn, I've been in that choir for decades!
I do want my great-nieces and great-nephews to see it, though.
I had followed that on Tina Tuesday with "I Can Only Imagine 2", which has debuted almost exactly 8 years after the first one.
However, this is set more like 20 years after our first encounter with MercyMe.
This time, like that time, the focus is on a father-son relationship, though it's between the singer and his teen son, rather than the singer and his dad.
I really liked the dynamics here, as well as the 'life on tour' setting.
"Undercard" was a sports movie, featuring 62-year-old Wanda Sykes in her first serious role as 'Cheryl "No Mercy" Stewart', a once-famous boxer now working as a trainer and hoping one of her students will be the next champ.
Honestly, that's the movie in a nutshell.
Fame had led her into drugs and alcohol abuse, as well as the loss of her son to his grandmother's care.
Boxing isn't one of the sports I tend to watch, but the movie was good.
That had been early last Wednesday, before yet another meeting of the Two Firsts Post.
The next day, I did indeed see a double header, but one of those shown above is not correct.
I did buy the ticket for "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die", as I wanted to see it again... but something was amiss with the audio in that screening room.
That was fine, as "The Bride!" started at the same time, so I took a chance on that one.
What an amazingly good choice that was!!!
Set in 1936 Chicago, we find 'Frank' with a bad case of the blues.
After decades of watching 'Ronnie Reed' musicals - movies which don't actually exist, but that I'd watch gladly!!! - he has become only too aware of how lonesome he is and how much he wants someone to love.
He's in Chicago to talk a mad scientist into fashioning him a 'Bride', and a recently deceased entertainer suits the bill just right!
So, science fiction, mingled with dance musicals, and the draw of rom-com and intrigue of murder mysteries... if that wasn't meant for me, what is?
I'm so excited about seeing it again!
What else was there?
Oh, yes, "Psycho Killer", billed as a horror that featured Malcolm McDowell, star of , "A Clockwork Orange", one of the best horror-scifi movies ever (and one that I've seen multiple times since 1981).
Ahem, back to the movie at hand, shall we?
I'd rather not, as it missed out on being great.
First, the man of my interest had a bit part as a satanic cult leader who also had hedonistic sex parties at his house.
Second, not once did it use the song by The Talking Heads, which, given the cult leader's bent, could have been a nice inside joke for music fans.
Oh, well.
So, here's how that all played out.
On Friday, 27 February, I attended my second movie ever at Smart Senior, a group run by Memorial Hospital.
Elizabeth, the manager at the 65th street center, has bags of popcorn and drinks for those who sign up for the near-weekly movies.
The cost for using the facility and attending events there?
That's just $20 per year - wow!
That day, I watched "Tower Heist", from 2011, an ensemble film with Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck, Michael Pena, and Matthew Broderick as hotel workers out to win back their pensions from the evil Alan Alda.
All in attendance laughed and had fun at that one!
(On the first Friday, I'd seen "Loving", based on the true story of an interracial couple in 1958 in Virginia, banished from their home because their marriage was illegal there.
We all watched it, hoping for the best as their case went to trial in 1967, but there was no laughter from us folks who had lived that history.)
(On the first Friday, I'd seen "Loving", based on the true story of an interracial couple in 1958 in Virginia, banished from their home because their marriage was illegal there.
We all watched it, hoping for the best as their case went to trial in 1967, but there was no laughter from us folks who had lived that history.)
This was from the one I'd been most excited to see: "E.P.i.C." (the abbreviated title for "Elvis Presley in Concert"), which I had thought would be footage from his residency in Las Vegas.
Nope, that's not what Baz Luhrmann delivered.
Instead, the director had pieced together previously unseen footage from two movies from the 1970's ("Elvis: That's The Way It Is" and "Elvis On Tour") and sandwiched those between overdubs from his own movie, "Elvis", from 2022.
I enjoyed the concert bits, but certainly not enough to ever sit through this new amalgam again.
Before it, and right after my appointment with Dr. Whipple, I went to "How To Make A Killing", a nice murder spree flick with Glen Powell.
Surprisingly, he keeps his clothes on in this one!
LOL!
That's why I had dinner solo from Zaxby's, caught between the movies.
I really like their Zensations chicken salad!
Yes, it did come with an eggroll, but I'd already eaten it, as well as part of the salad, before I thought to take the picture.
I did so to send to my stepmom, Bonnie, in memory of all the times she and I would meet at that Zaxby's in Bluffton.
I really do want to go see her this summer...
it's been too long!
Maybe there will even be a good sports movie or nature documentary for us to see... that would make it just like old times for us!
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