Myssi's Movie Mondays

I didn’t see that many movies this weekend, but the ones I did see were not bad.

First up is Dead Alive. In this Australian movie, people turn into zombies after a rat monkey bites an old woman in a zoo as she spies on her son and his date. The old woman bites her nurse and some gang members and then they bite others and that’s how they turn into zombies until Lionel, the old woman’s son, kills them all with a lawnmower. His mom dies too in a really gross way.

Recommendations? Even though it looks like a pretty cheap movie, it’s a pretty entertaining movie. It’s not the best, but parts of it are really funny, which is what makes it worth watching.

Next is “Love with a Proper Stranger” with Steve McQueen and Natalie Wood. The poster makes it look like a delightful romcom, but it’s anything but a comedy. Steve McQueen plays Rocky, a sax player and Natalie was his one-night-stand who happens to be a good girl with three brothers. Natalie tells Steve that she’s preggers and asks him to find her a doctor. Instead of a doctor, they find some hack with a suitcase and Rocky threatens to beat everybody up. Rocky comes clean with N’s family and after getting his ass kicked, asks N to marry him. She decides she doesn’t want to marry someone who is being forced to marry her, moves out of her family’s apartment and starts dating Tom Bosley’s character, Columbo. (Part of me was hoping it was Columbo from TV, but this character is a cook.) After a few weeks (there’s no baby bump on her), Rocky decides to propose again and N kicks him out. Finally, Rocky serenades her outside where she works, she smiles and they embrace. The End.

Recommendations? Since you know how it ends, there’s no point in watching it unless you really like Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen.