Starman, 1984. Three Stars.
I had no idea that this movie existed! It's so cute! Jeff Bridges is stellar (har har) as the alien dude. Also, he is YOUNG and ADORABLE! I had only really known him as The Dude! I would make out with alien Jeff Bridges! That's as far as I would go; I don't want no alien baby business!!!
So, this was enjoyable to watch. I don't really have anything special to say about it.
Though I was a little disappointed in that the TV guide said that the alien "borrows" a guy's body, so I thought there would be some gory slaying happening here. Turns out it's the good old-fashioned "Your husband's dead, and I'm going to take on his familiar shape so you will hopefully not fear me." Which, ultimately, I'm okay with.
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How could you not have seen this movie before? If you had hung out with us more you could have seen it sooner!
—Mike and Ricki
How come when I ask when you can hang out, I don't hear from you?
You introduced me to Cemetery Man!! Three and a Half Stars! :D :D :D :
You should come over right now.
- Mike and Ricki
Another 80's classic is Beetlejuice--Tim Burton before he started taking himself too seriously. Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis are cast hilariously against type as a too-wholesome-for-words couple (him in a lumberjack shirt and John Denver glasses, her in ringlets and a calico frock). Their greatest passion is restoring their antique farmhouse in rural Connecticut. As the movie opens they die, and even their death is right out of Martha Stewart: Their Volvo station wagon crashes off a historic covered bridge.
Their beloved house is sold to a clan of rich, obnoxious Manhattanites (Jeffrey Jones, the fabulous Catherine O'Hara, and Winona Ryder as their Goth-chick daughter) who hire a decorator (Glenn Shadix) to give the place a trendy makeover that's so ugly that Baldwin and Davis come back from the dead to haunt them away, with the help of an over-the-top performance by Michael Keaton as the title character. Great cameos by Dick Cavett and Robert Goulet.
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