My Top 5 Movies of March
Better late then never right? March was a very good movie month for this household! We did a rewatch of all the Terminator movies because one of the many Movie Podcasts we listen to was doing a watchalong so we got to revisit some favorites and some not so favorites.
Singing In the Rain, 1952, 5 Stars
This one was one I had always heard of and never seen. We all know many of the scenes from this film just because we live in the world and it’s ingrained in our pop culture. I had no idea how ingrained. Every song is a banger and every song is the best.
The Terminator, 1984, 5 Stars
I remember my first watch of this. I had no idea. This was just a genre of film completely out of the realm of my possibility. Arnold is too good.
The Abyss, 1989, 5 Stars
I love to hate this film. It has no right to be as good as it is. It is my worst nightmare of the deep sea. I hate it. But I love it. It makes me so sad that it is a masterpiece.
The Night of the Hunter, 1955, 4.5 Stars
The movie poster does this movie no favors. This is a dark, gritty, noir, western thriller. It’s brilliantly lit and black and white and creepy as hell. I picked this one because it was name dropped on a podcast I listen to and so I went in pretty blind and I’m so grateful that I was. Just look at this thing.
T2, 1991, 4.5 Stars
Yet another rewatch of another incredible film. Not as good as the first, of course, but the pacing is great and the practical effects are top notch.
And now to the low of the low of the month:
Santa Clause, 1959, 1/2 star DNF
This a rarity for me, this is a true DNF. I was about 30 minutes in and I had to turn it off.
Number 1, it is unfortunately a product of it’s time and there is some slight racist undertones at points.
Number 2, the did some AI upscaling BULLSHIT. This thing was a horror show and a half visually and it was literally making me so uncomfortable in the uncanny valley of it all that I felt physically ill.
Terminator Genisys, 2015, 1.5 Stars
Boring. Boring. Boring.
