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Files of the Unexplained: File: Bizarre Blobs of Washington (2024)
This happened to my family too
In October 2020, my son's family and I were traveling near North Cascades national Park in a heavy rainstorm. Several large clear blobs began to collect on the windshield. We stopped to look at them a little closer, and there were also blobs on the ground. We poked them with sticks, and found that they were more gelatinous than watery. Because it was raining we got back in the car and continued on on our way. When we got closer to a town and had cell phone reception, we googled what it could be. "nostoc" came up - - a blue green algae. Mystery solved. I think it's a stretch to say this stuff is unexplained when a simple Google search identified it right away.
Tremors (1990)
Still good after repeated viewings
I recall Roger Ebert's surprised "thumbs up" review of this movie when it came out. He was prepared to hate it, but it's goofiness, wit and characters' charm won him over, and he called it campy in the best possible sense. It's a fun movie-do you really need to know more??? Michael Gross, fresh off of his ex-hippie dad role in "Family Ties", and Reba McIntire's sweet country girl images are turned on their heads with their gun-loving, Doomsday prepping and bomb-making. Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward are perfectly cast and have great chemistry. I will still stop my channel-surfing if I come across this movie and watch, much to my husband's chagrin!
The Lovebirds (2020)
blatant rip-off of "Date Night"
If you've seen "Date Night", you've seen this movie. so, no spoilers. If you haven't seen it, don't read this. Couple headed out for a nice evening, their relationship at a standstill (break-up vs boredom), get involved in a crime, and rather than go to the police, it's off to solve the crime themselves. Same blackmailing scheme, same cop involvement, same climax at the waterfront, same kind black woman cop who knows they're not involved. I love the actors, and a couple of their remarks are funny, but if this HAD been released in theaters, it would have bombed the first weekend, and we'd never hear of it again. The quarantine might be the best thing to happen to it, since people will watch based on the actors' likability.
Gisaengchung (2019)
WTF ???
It was mildly enjoyable for 3/4 of the film, but the ending felt like another movie was spliced in. Very disappointing "best picture"....I can't explain why without spoilers, so I won't try.
Strange Evidence (2017)
Overly dramatic and always explainable
You can google every video and find the explanation...if you even need to...case in point, the SpaceX launch footage...or the "layer of cocaine" in Tulum's cenote....i wonder how much they pay all these "experts" to put aside their advanced degrees to offer outlandish possibilities instead....its just junk TV
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
always makes me think...
So, you wake up from fainting 25 years earlier in your life, in your teenaged body, but you still have all the memories and life experiences you faced in those subsequent years. What would you do differently??? if you're ME, you still marry the guy cuz it's been a great life with him, but there are people i'd have been nicer to, and would have stood up for myself (and others) much more. but that's me...
But Peggy Sue hasn't had a great life, and her husband hasn't been faithful. Now going thru a divorce as the adult, she's finds herself back with her husband when he was just a kid and trying so hard to make her love him. She doesn't want to have the same miserable life with him she's known, but in the end, she realizes that to boot him from her teenage life, she also boots the two kids she had with him, and she's not willing to do that.
I love everything about this movie. i love the performances, and the cinematography. The music by John Barry sets the tone, and it tugs at the heartstrings every time. I love that grown-up Peggy now understands how better to treat people she dissed in her selfish youth, and stands up for those who are weak when confronted by bullies. Those are the kinds of things I would try to correct if i could have a do-over with my senior year in high school. I wouldn't be one of the sheep Michael Fitzpatrick talks about. Being a mother, I'd want to protect the kids who were bullied.
I loved that the old guys at the lodge just happened to have a ritual to send her back to her time, and no one (but her grandfather) seemed astonished that it actually seemed to work.
The one, teeny weeny issue i always think about is, if her peers (Michael, Richard Norvick) could "remember" this "different" Peggy and how she impacted their lives, why not her grandparents? wouldn't they have mentioned it to her, at some point in her life, that she had talked to them about time traveling when she went to visit them that night? She only told Richard and her grandparents that she'd come from the future---Richard, while not openly saying so, certainly had more of a relationship with her than when they were in school. Michael, who is only seen in 1960, still makes it apparent that they spent time together in her second go-round. And she told her grandparents....but they don't mention it again, apparently. ah, the paradox of time travel.