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Grease (1978)
Energetic
For some reason, it took me until this year to finally see this movie. This is a bit surprising since I am a musical fan, most of my friends love this movie and I knew the songs so well. But I was pleasantly surprised to watch it!
First, I was surprised by how un-innocent the movie was. Listening to `Summer Loving' could lead one to believe this was a simple story about 50's high school students. Whoops, it's not, it's actually a parody of that. But, that gives it a lot of amusing (adult) humor.
But the most impressive thing about the movie is how energetic it is. They really don't make them like they used to. The music and dancing really gets you excited as you start tapping your feet with the rhythm. Just compare this energy to today's computer-generated films, like Star Wars Episode II! Ewan McGregor reading lines unemotionally to a CGI Yoda? YAWN
John Travolta (really) swinging Olivia Newton-John through the air? COOL!
Hollywood really has lost something.
The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)
Wow; I am still questioning reality
Have you ever been in a long drawn out state of disbelief that was so surreal you questioned reality? I can not even believe that I saw this video, I am not sure if it really exists. It seemed like I was in a really bad dream shared with other people. I recommend watching this video with friends. Their MS_3000 comments kept me realizing that I was awake and what I used to think was real was still real. It is really hard to say whether watching this movie was bad or good, I have no opinion on that matter. All I can say is that it was a new feeling for me, sort of like a state of mental shock. Perhaps I do not remember the '70s enough to remember how bad television was back then. This is the complete opposite of the cookie-cutter standard network shows of today, which, while uncreative and very annoying, do tend to be of relatively high quality, where if you only saw one of them, you would probably enjoy it. The SW special will remind you of a high school video project you once did, where you started out with some really dumb idea and then you even forgot that idea and just shot whatever you felt like at the time. I guess what shocks me the most is the people who act in this mess. I usually consider these people to be rational beings. I am just so shocked over the experience, I can not really say if it is worth watching or not. If you love surreal feelings, you might actually enjoy it. I guess my response was somewhere disjointed from good or bad, it was just different. If this review does not make any sense to you, please forgive me, I only ended watching that video two hours ago, and I have yet to fully re-enter the rational world.
Lake Placid (1999)
Amazing
As evident from most of the other reviews, people who have connected with this movie, as I have, connected quite solidly. It was one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. I have not been scared by a movie since I was 13 years old, so horror movies that take themselves seriously, like The Blair Witch, are extraordinarily boring and annoying. But a comedy which isn't trying too hard, as a dumb Adam Sandler movie does, to make you laugh but still makes you laugh is an excellent film. Lake Placid is it. The best part was that I couldn't garner a single thing about how good or bad the film was from any of the reviews I had read before I went to see it. Brendan Gleeson as the hic Sheriff really deserves most of the credit for making this film awesome. But, of course, since he is not a big name, you don't ever hear anything about him. Instead you hear about Bill Pullman, who is nothing special in this film.