A rough patch

Racing with the Moon (1984)

The most boring piece of boringness I've seen in a long time. And the chick at the video store said she liked it (yeah, the same one who scoffed at Valley Girl), which made it even worse cause it gave us false hope. Cory likened it to a Lifetime movie and he totes nailed it; that's exactly what it felt like. But Lifetime movies don't know any better! They have tiny budgets and leading men like Mario Lopez and Jason Priestley, not Hollywood budgets and Sean Penn and Nicolas Cage! Ugh.

Birdy (1984)

I don't know where to begin with this movie. It is so weird. But, unfortunately, not cool-weird. More like dumb-, boring-weird. Pretentious, yet an extremely simple story; it somehow manages to be flat and melodramatic at the same time. Which is a pretty strange combo.

There is a scene with Birdy and a girl and her boobs that is pretty cool-weird though. And also Nicolas Cage's face is all bandaged up and he's crying and yelling a lot, so you get to see him make some pretty funny faces.

But really, the most notable thing about this movie is how it ends. Whoa, if anything ever deserved a WTF?! it's the ending to this movie. Seriously. I want you all to watch it, just so you can truly understand what I mean about the WTF?!ness about the ending. I guess, then, I kind of like it for that. I don't know. I'm sure it's not the case, but I like to believe that Nic was like, "...so...after watching all this footage, I've decided that the only way I'm going to let you attach my name to this two hour mess is if you replace Your ending with this incredibly bizarre Other ending I just thought of that doesn't really resolve anything, and that isn't really even an Ending at all, just a scene to put at the end to make the audience go WTF?! Ok? Ok. Now get me out of here."

My favorite Man Who Wants To Fly movie is still Brewster McCloud.

Oh, and on second thought, you probs shouldn't watch it just for the ending, or the funny faces, or even the cool-weird boob scene. It's really not worth it.