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Fake Marriage and the Hitchcock Spoof

 I didn't post last week because I had only watched two new movies that week. So this is last week and this week.

Sunday: Tokyo Twilight (1957)

       This is a Japanese film. Shukichi is a banker. He had to raise his daughters by himself after his wife abandoned them. Shukichi has done the best he can. His daughters are grown. They are both struggling. Takako fled from her abusive husband with her child back to her father's house. Akiko, the youngest, is a student. She is out late every night and hangs out with the wrong crowd. Then the two women discover their mother is back in town. They both have a hard time with this news. I thought this movie was alright.

Tuesday: Malaya (1949)

       During WWII there is a rubber shortage. After returning from Asia a reporter named John tells government officials that he knows where they can get rubber. He will team up with a smuggler to get it out of Malaya. The only problem is the smuggler, Carnahan, is in prison. He is let out to help with the mission. If it is successful he doesn't have to go back. John and Carnahan come up with a plan to work with the navy and a man on the island to smuggle it out. It does not go as they plan but they aren't completely unsuccessful. This movie was alright. James Stewart and Spencer Tracy starred in it.

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Sunday: Tokyo Twilight (1953)

      This is another Japanese film. Tomi and Shukichi  are in Tokyo to visit their adult children and their families. They don't seem to have time for their parents. They pass them back and forth. The only person who genuinely wants to see them and spend time with them is their son's widow. She takes them around the city. Tomi falls ill and they go home early. Even with everything that happens the children are still eager to get back to their busy lives. This movie was ok.

Monday: To Live and Die in LA (1985)

       Secret service men Richard and Jim are trying to take down a money counterfeiter. This is Jim's last mission before he retires. When he is killed Richard is determined to bring down the counterfeiter. He will use any means possible, even if it's against the law. The counterfeiter is Eric, an eccentric criminal and artist. He is clever and dangerous. Richard thinks he can stay one step ahead and take Eric down. I thought this movie was alright. Eric is played by Willem Dafoe. I have never seen him that young. 

Wednesday: High Anxiety (1977)

       Richard is a psychiatrist. He is very anxious and has a fear of heights. He has become the new administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous. Once there he starts to realize there is something going on with the doctors there. They are covering up something. He goes to a conference in San Francisco. The doctors send a hitman after him. This movie was entertaining. It is a spoof on Hitchcock films. There are lots of good references to his movies. There is the shower scene from Psycho, but instead of being stabbed he is hit with a newspaper by the bellboy. At a park he gets surrounded by birds, like in The Birds, but instead of attacking him they poop on him. 

Friday: Morbius (2022)

      Michael is a doctor and scientist who suffers from a rare blood disease. He has spent his whole life looking for a cure. Then he starts to research vampire bats and their healing properties. Michael thinks he has found a cure and tries it out on himself. But it goes wrong. He becomes super strong, has super hearing, and has a craving for blood. Michael does his best to control it, but his thirst for blood makes him dangerous. Soon he will have more to worry about. I thought this movie was ok. The CGI wasn't great. Going from man to vampire bat man and back didn't work out. I still found it entertaining enough. There was a twist that I wasn't expecting. Also Matt Smith, who played my favorite Doctor on Doctor Who, is in it. 

Saturday: Marry Me (2022) 

      Kat is a pop superstar. She is set to marry her pop star fiance at their upcoming concert. Charlie is a divorced math teacher trying to connect with his daughter. His work friend ends up with tickets to the concert and brings Charlie and his daughter. Right as Kat is about to go on stage and get married she finds out her fiance cheated on her. On stage she brakes down. She sees Charlie holding a Marry Me sign (name of her song) and says yes. They get married on stage. It's a strange situation. Kat wants to keep up the act that they are married, at least for a while, so she doesn't seem completely crazy. They get to know each other and start to have real feelings towards each other. I thought this movie was cute. I'm not sure that Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson have the best chemistry. But I guess that's kind of the point. 

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