{"id":499,"date":"2021-02-08T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T07:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/?p=499"},"modified":"2021-02-07T17:17:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T16:17:59","slug":"radishflix-2021-highlights-of-kw05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/08\/radishflix-2021-highlights-of-kw05\/","title":{"rendered":"RadishFlix 2021: Highlights of KW05"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Highlights…yeah. It’s two movies. Private Eyes<\/em><\/a> Season 4 finally hit German TV, and Mr Radish and I are watching Star Trek: Lower Decks<\/a><\/em> on Amazon even though it’s terrible and we don’t laugh at all.

I spent the better part of three days’ couch time this week watching Series IV, V, and XII of Red Dwarf<\/em><\/a> in preparation for Holly Hop 2021<\/a>, a virtual fan con which was smeggin’ brilliant. (I think the last fan event I attended was the 1998 X-Files Expo<\/a> at Mare Island, but when meatspace Red Dwarf meetings resume I hope there’s a streaming option for international fans. I had that much fun. And there was no waiting in line for the ladies’ room.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hannele<\/a> is a dressed hologram from the Series V episode “Holoship” because she *wanted* to be and not because it was the best last-minute costume I could throw together with materials from my own stash. Really.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Spaceballs<\/a>\u00a0(1987)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kabel Eins, Deutsch<\/em>
Swallow whatever beverage you’re drinking before reading further because I am going to shock you: if you have only ever seen this movie in German<\/a>, it is not the least bit funny at all. The Schwarz is “Der Saft”–the juice. Barf is “Walli”–a normal name for a dog. “Use the liquid juice!” Yawn and yawn. The voice actress for Dot Matrix gave a valiant attempt but could not equal Joan Rivers.

Another movie I was not allowed to see until I left home but have previously enjoyed over and over, this rewatch was disappointing but I enjoyed a few real laughs at the visual jokes and was able to play the other jokes in my head. I think it held up. I might have to explain to a nephew what video tape is, but I think he’d get all the sci-fi parody bits. In English.

Note to self: Assume all the synchronization of all the movies are always wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!<\/a>\u00a0(1988)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Netflix, original<\/em>
Somehow this movie–with a sex scene<\/a>, gasp!–got past the parental censors, so I first saw it when beating up the Russian Premier was actually kind of edgy. I have a feeling it’s been quoted and memed and parodied(!) to death, but I’d forgotten how funny the baseball game was and had several genuine laughs.

I’ve been scared to watch movies I liked when I was fifteen in case I’ve changed too much, but other than laughing more every time something happens to Nordberg than I did back then, it seems I haven’t. Phew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sadly it’s all series these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radishflix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}