Finally, Microwave Massacre
(★★½)
After months of talking, some of the moviegang got together at Thunderbase to watch Microwave Massacre, even though I tried dissuading them beforehand. See, even sight unseen, I became skeptical of the merits of this film.
However, upon watching it, its clear intention of being ridiculous won me over, to some extent. Though, I wouldn’t say that the action qualifies as a “microwave massacre” as no one gets massacred with a microwave…
See, Jackie Vernon (!?) is Donald, a construction worker who eats lunch every day with Roosevelt and Philip, two much younger and hipper workers, and complains about his wife’s attempts to get him to eat gourmet food.
Between his misplaced anger towards his wife, his frustration with his food, and watching a newscast on TV, he develops a new strategy…
Kill ladies and store them in the fridge to eat for lunch! For himself, and for his co-workers, who love it!
He becomes obsessed with it, finding more ladies to add to the fridge and even dreaming of a giant “lady and mayo sandwich!”
Anyway, it is basically terrible. The ideas behind it, the script, the acting… Roosevelt and Philip read their lines so badly it feels like it must be “bad acting on purpose” or maybe just really bad acting. A zillion juvenile jokes and ogles of ladies, ridiculous nudity scenes, terrible special effects, outstandingly bad 70’s decor… But it was fun to watch with a group and was very intentionally tongue-in-cheek
Thunder even seemed quite taken with it, at least at first…
In a much much different mode, we watched Escape at Dannemora.
(★★★★½)
This was really good! The story of two felons who convince a desperate-for-attention prison employee to help them escape from the Clinton Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison in New York. Great directing, great acting! Del Toro and Paul Dano are very convincing in their roles, but I would have to say that Patricia Arquette and an unrecognizable Eric Lange steal the show with their “so good it doesn’t even feel like acting” performances as the woman brought into the scheme and her doting husband. A great script, a totally engrossing storyline, and the “too real for comfort” backdrop of the town. It just feels real and is extremely engrossing.
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