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Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
A hidden gem
Lots of negative reviews here, and I respectfully disagree.
BATFTM gives you plenty of what you expected, but a lot more.
The putting-a-band-together sublot was delightful and well casted.
If you want to reach just a little, you could say that this movie's message aimed high and hit the mark.
It is no accident that the band literally comes from hell to play and save the world, when the old adage is about heaven having a helluva band.
And as a huge William Sadler fan, I found his portrayal as an agreeable Death riveting.
Still a 6, though.
Dead by Dawn (2019)
James Baylis thinks he's the black Vincent Price...
...and that's what makes this show such a guilty pleasure. He has the perfect voice to narrate the wonderfully creepy nocturnal predation. It's almost impossible to watch an episode and not find yourself imitating it. It does bear mentioning, however, that NatGeo does owe its audience literacy; "drownding worm, beauty regiment," really?
The photography is as good as it gets in a nature series, and while it doesn't really reveal the type of surprises you get in, e.g, the Planet Earth series, it gives you what you came for.
Insidious (2010)
Possibly the worst movie I've ever seen...
...of any genre. This ridiculous turd makes Battlefield Earth look like Casablanca. There are parts of Airplane! that are scarier than the scariest parts of this movie. The ending (and I only watched the whole flick because it got to the point where I had to see if it could get any more idiotic) is laughable, and the most frightening part of the entire time-wasting experience is the way that the formerly hot Barbara Hershey has aged.
On the other hand, it was fun to see Farrelly Bothers favorite Lin Shaye in a role like this, and Patrick Wilson did give us Lynch in The A Team. So they get a pass. But James Wan should be waterboarded.
Have I made myself clear?
Everglades! (1961)
Everglades lyrics
"In the Everglades there's a way of life, There's a way of peace without stress or strife, There's a natural danger and a man to face, Lincoln Vail of the Everglades."
This theme song was to the tune of "Everglades," a Kingston Trio song of the period, and totally unrelated in its story:
He was born and raised around Jacksonville. A nice young man, not the kind to kill. But a jealous fight and a flashing blade sent him on the run to the Everglades. Runnin' like a dog through the Everglades.
Now, the posse went in and they came back out. They said he'll die and there ain't no doubt. It's an eye for an eye so the debt is paid. He won't last long in the Everglades. A man can't live in the Everglades.
Chorus: Where a man can hide and never be found and have no fear of the baying hounds. But he better keep moving and don't stand still. If the 'skeeters don't get then the 'gaters will. Running like a dog through the Everglades. (Last time - Skipping like a frog through the slimy bog. Running through the trees from the Everlys.)
Now, the years went by and his girl was wed. His family gave him up for dead. But now and then the natives would say they'd seen him running through the Everglades.
Now, he never heard the news on the radio. He was deep in the 'glades so he'll never know. His running and hiding didn't make much sense for the jury had ruled it was self-defense. Running like a dog through the Everglades.
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