{"id":800,"date":"2021-07-05T15:31:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T13:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/?p=800"},"modified":"2025-08-30T12:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T10:59:23","slug":"radishflix-2021-highlights-of-kw25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/05\/radishflix-2021-highlights-of-kw25\/","title":{"rendered":"RadishFlix 2021: Highlights of KW25\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Halfway through the year I am at 116 movies, none of which have been seen on airplanes–or in a Kino<\/em> (movie theater). They were finally allowed to open on July 1, but there aren’t any in Freising, so we never go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Relations<\/a> (1936)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Cable, original English<\/em>
More Dick und Doof<\/em> (Laurel and Hardy). I liked this one, an identical twins gag, better than Sons of the Desert<\/a><\/em>. There is a scene at the end where they wobble around like Weebles<\/a> that is the whole reason everyone should watch more old movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top Gun<\/a> (1986)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Netflix, original English<\/em>
The last time I saw this one was 2011, in a theater for an anniversary release. The planes–who are the true stars of this movie–look much better on a big screen than on a tablet computer.

I had completely forgotten that a good three-quarters of the dialog ended up being catchphrases in middle- and high-school, or maybe it’s more accurate to say many of the catchphrases from middle- and high-school were lifted from this movie. (The rest came from The Naked Gun<\/em>, Tim Burton’s Batman<\/em>, and Wayne’s World<\/em>. Watch this space, I guess.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shrek<\/a> (2001)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Netflix, original English<\/em>
The last time I saw this one was 2001, in a theater, with someone who was integral at the time but is no longer in my life, and somehow I could not separate that experience from the film. “It all came flooding back” is overblown and trite, but instead of thinking about the film, I was thinking about the relationship. This could be a data point in favor of re-watching over and over, until external context has no meaning…but I’m going to stay with the once-a-year rule.

I’m a big Mike Myers fan anyway, but I think it holds up. I had forgotten how funny Eddie Murphy’s Donkey was, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bigfoot Alien Connection Revealed<\/a> (2020)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

YouTube<\/a>, original English<\/em>
Dokus<\/em> are movies, too.

I’m not sure I learned anything I didn’t already know from Earthfiles<\/a>, but I enjoyed hearing some different first-hand accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Naked Gun 2\u00bd: The Smell of Fear<\/a> (1991)<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Robert Goulet!
Image stolen from Internets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Cable, original English<\/em>
Another movie I hadn’t seen in years, but remembered all the catchphrases from high school. I will be stealing all the gags for Twitter.

German Netflix has the first and third movies of the franchise, but not this one. I am assuming the German broadcast rights belong to a different synchronization company. This particular cable station never has subtitles, so I can’t speak to the quality of joke translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They Were Expendable<\/a> (1945)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Cable, original English<\/em>
A story of PT boats in the Philippines in the early days of WWII. It was very well made, but of course it couldn’t *not* be–Robert Montgomery, who played the lead, had skippered a PT boat during the war, and director John Ford had received awards for his documentary work in the Pacific. Also featuring Iowans John Wayne and Donna Reed, who plays a nurse from….Iowa. “Tall corn, you know?” Based enough on real people and real events that Ford and Reed were sued by the nurse, for making her look a bit unprofessional. Heh.

No happy ending but given the time and place I had not expected one. Bonus points for a lucky black cat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stealing all the gags for Twitter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radishflix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t