The Review: A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire 10/10

This movie was messy as hell! I had never seen A Streetcar Named Desire but I have heard of it and and this is what I told L. I thought the movie was about. Some dude that races cars is in love with some woman named Stella that wont be with him because of his streetwise ways. He gets wet and yells her name. I was wrong. This movie was about all kinda shit I didn't know they were talking about back in 1951. I mean, this movie came out when my parents were 1 and 0 years old! This movie had everything! Abusive marriages. Alcoholism. Lies. Student fucking. Just...everything! This lady named Blanche DuBois who is a teacher shows up in New Orleans to stay with her sister, Stella. She lives there with her husband Stanley who is a true piece of work. Blanche says that she is off from work because of her nerves. She acts like she is damn near a princess and Stanley's attitude rubs her the wrong way but she tries to deal with him. He on the other hand can't stand her immediately.

The Review: The Day The Earth Stood Still

For a movie made when my father was 1 years old The Day The Earth Stood Still looked pretty damned good. I decided to check this out on Amazon. I've heard of this movie for years and even knew what the robot, Gort, looked like from posters, pictures, and random things. But this movie was not about what I thought it was. It was actually far more thought provoking and insightful than the “robot comes to Earth and humanity fights back” tale I expected.

The world gets information that something is moving fast around Earth but nobody is seriously worried about it until a spaceship lands in the middle of a baseball field in Washington D.C. The military shows up and this alien named Klaatu gets out. He removes a small device from his jacket and it springs open with spikes and a soldier pops his ass in the shoulder with a bullet. This big ass robot named Gort starts disintegrating guns until Klaatu calms his shit. Klaatu is like “That was a gift for your president that would've let him study life on other planets but fuck it now. I'm hurt!”