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Lisa Frankenstein (2024)
Instant cult classic energy.
I have to give this a 7. It's campy. Corny. Filled with cliches, but, it's still an enjoyable movie, funny, and with enough originality to keep you watching and entertained. I loved it, if I'm being honest. The set designs, the characters, the colors and cinematic elements were all great. Even the music was top notch.
It's 1989, and Lisa Swallows is an outcast rebel with a loving family anxious to make her fit in. Her stepmother is the exception. She wants to see Lisa institutionalized, for a variety of reasons.
Lisa herself is a rebel teen in high school who has taken to an abandoned cemetery as she's obsessed with death and dying. She saw her mom killed by an axe murderer, and as such, she's been traumatized. But not to worry, a lightning storm and a bit of magic after a disastrous party changes Lisa's life forever.
Honestly, I can see this becoming a cult classic. Maybe even in a few years, seeing some new generation of outcasts falling in love with it.
Road House (2024)
The kind of corn you expect.
This is not the original. It's not a remake. This is a new edition to the family, and it's every bit of corny you expect it to be. Let's be clear here; this was a bad movie. But it was high budget and visually pleasing-ish. And to be fair, if you're looking to watch a movie where men beat the living crap out of each other, this is your movie.
Elwood Dalton is a retired UfC fighter, and the movie starts with him winning a fight on name recognition alone. Post Malone plays some nobody tough guy who wins the 7th fight of the night, and he'll take on anyone, till he sees Dalton, of course. Walking away in shame, we see the roadhouse bar owner, and she's here to hire Post Malones character(I don't remember his name, that's how corny it was), but when she sees Dalton win without effort, she wants to offer him an absurd amount of money to bounce at her bar. Finding him outside, having just been stabbed by some upset gambler, she's even more impressed. He of course turns it down the $20k she offers because of course.
He goes on to change his mind after a half hearted suicidal attempt with a train that he just barely survived, and he makes his way to the glass key to work the bar.
A lot of stuff goes wrong, but it's mostly the corny dialogue that goes wrong. He of course falls in love with some ER doctor who just happens to be the local corrupt sheriffs daughter, and her dad is in league with a local rich guy who has decided to target the bar to turn the whole strip of land into a resort of some sort. And of course he decides to do this with local thugs and bikers.
And then Conor McGregor. Sheesh. What a cornball tough guy. Every line out of him was worse than the one before it. He was a character that should have been left on the cutting room floor.
Honestly though, I've seen much worse. The plot holes were big enough to drive through; and the fight scenes were sometimes over produced and seemed almost bollywoodish, but without the self deprecation Bollywood has, but it was still enjoyable for me. Idk. It was corny as hell. But I don't hate corn.