I'm working my way through the entire Criterion Collection catalog and this is the one i'm on now:
Mac and Me - 6/10
I actually found this pretty hilarious. So many scenes were so inappropriate to laugh at, but I did.
Like a boy in a wheelchair falling 100 feet into a lake in a ravine.
Don't worry, he's saved by an alien and they become friends and have a dance off later at McDonalds.
I also found out that in this movie if you are close to death you can recover quickly by consuming Coca-Cola and Skittles. What, no Big Macs?
It works on Aliens so why not humans? They also had a fake out death scene at the end. Guess who saves then? Not Coke this time, but special alien powers.
NASA is totally OK with this and lets them become USA citizens. There is actually a scene of them dressed up in human clothing.
The alien dad apparently knows how to drive and was given a pink cadillac to drive everyone around.
I was so glad at the end they displayed this giant message "We'll be back!".
This is the best scene. They should show this in film schools:
BTW there is a scene of them capturing the alien by hiding in a closet and sucking him up with a vacuum cleaner.
No, I am totally serious! Who comes up with this stuff? Even worse they get him out by putting it in reverse.
Reminds me of the cut scene from Goonies where they got attacked by an Octopus and shoved a Walkman in it's mouth and pressed play to scare it away. What?!
I regret clicking play on that clip. That's what I call 80's hell. Acting is so terrible.
Waterboys - (6/10)
It's was inevitable that I'd see this one since it's one of the most popular films of Shinobu Yaguchi. 'Waterboys' and 'Swing Girls' gets mentioned in later Yaguchi film trailers. Which tells me they were big hits. But, they are my least liked of Yaguchi's films.
I think it maybe due to not understanding some of the humor the movies? I find that 'Swing Girls' has more humor that I understand, but others just awkward and odd, which perhaps maybe due to cultural differences. Same for 'Waterboys,' and I found pretty much all the humor in this movie really awkward, and unfunny.
I held off this movie because the theme of all boys synchro team seems cringy, and it is indeed cringy to me. I really can't appreciate stuff like this.
I find that in both movies, the plot transitions are abrupt and awkward. Plot elements doesn't seem to develop.
One scene I liked was with Aya Hirayama and Satoshi Tsumabuki. When they meet for the first time. It's an interesting encounter, but how the relationship develops is abrupt and awkward. I wish they did more with these two, but there's probably no room for it.
Both, 'Waterboys' and 'Swing Girls' uses the same formula, and is formulaic. It seems the ending scenes presentation is the big payoff, but I really didn't care for it. The character transitions are too forced in both movies. Unrealistic.
I should have just stopped watching then finish this, payoff not worth it sitting through.
A Yaguchi film I stopped midway is
Robo-G. Another Yaguchi film I didn't care for.