92. Emma Mae (1976)
Off DVR, Shown on Turner Classic Movies (widescreen, uncut)
This movie isn't that impressive unless you view it in the context of the times, there weren't black voices or faces like this on the screen at the time and you can tell this was done on a tight budget so they have to get props for pulling the movie together at all. The acting is pretty robotic and the story isn't that great, but it's a cool portal back to when the movie came out. This is also called Black Sister's Revenge, but the print I watched on Turner called it Emma Mae.
93. It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)
Off DVR, Shown on Turner Classic Movies (widescreen, uncut)
Octopus eats nuclear waste, Octopus becomes giant, Giant Octopus attacks. That is really all I need out of a plot and it's delivered is spades here. This has really nice stop-motion work done by Ray Harryhausen when the octopus attacks Frisco. Good for a 50's monster movie watch.
03/17/2008
90. Irma la Douce (1963)
Off DVR, Shown on Turner Classic Movies (widescreen, uncut)
This is one of the few Billy Wilder movies that I haven't seen and I was really disappointed with the plot and by extension the entire movie because of how predictable it was. Jack Lemmon falls into being Shirley Maclane's pimp but he falls in love with her, so he comes up with a plan so she doesn't have to ho anymore and that is by (gag) dressing up as a fictional person and borrowing money and working during the night so she doesn't have to work the streets anymore. This was the most predictable Wilder movie I've ever seen and I'm going to fault the original material it was adapted from. You can see all the possible complications coming from this scheme a mile away and not even Lemmon really made me enjoy this. Below Average Wilder Picture
91. Of Human Bondage (1964)
Off DVR, Shown on Turner Classic Movies (widescreen, uncut)
I'm a Laurence Harvey fan (star of the old school Manchurian Candidate) so I'll give anything a watch that he was in, now in this movie he plays a straight up classic gentleman virgin who expects loyalty from a floozy waitress and for some reason after being shown up goes back to her, and he even passes good proper woman who actually like him for who he is and aren't gold diggers like the floozy but he still goes back to her. Maybe the novel better explains this limp wristedness but I just didn't get why Harvey didn't hand the floozy her walking papers and make one of those good women happy. I'm blaming the novel it was adapted from and not Harvey's acting. Oh, and that poster really sucks, it makes it look like some Doris Day movie, which it's definitely a sight better than.
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