I find this remarkable, given that there are no exploding starships or cyber-ninja or giant monsters in it or anything. Still, it looks funny and there’s a heavy Seventies vibe to it; plus, my mother and my sisters have deftly separated me out from my children and told me to go have a nice day off, so who am I to argue? That’s right; I am not to argue at all. I am to go eat the colorful native foodstuffs of my childhood* and go watch a movie while the family goes on with sucking up as much grandson/nephew time as they possibly can.
Such are the ways of my people. Seriously, there are tremendous advantages of being a Boston Irish son who has presented the womenfolk of his family both grandchildren, and an officially-designated Good Daughter/Sister-In-Law. It’s drastically unfair, of course, but as the philosopher once noted it’s unfair in my favor and so I don’t give a tinker’s dam.
Moe Lane
*Basically, properly-made porkroll.
How was the movie?
Got its own post. Short version: it was like a violent GUMSHOE RPG adventure. Which is to say, I liked it.
I just got out of it myself. There are some inaccuracy (Jaws II came out a wee bit later than 1977). Is Misty Mountain supposed to be Christy Canyon? Well, Christy is still very much with us.
The comedy is both very broad and biting. If you go in thinking it’s a comedy, you’ll come out laughing. It IS a great comedy about these two losers trying to make a difference. Well, one of them is more functional than the other.