Hi all, this tumblr mainly exists as a way of tracking all the movies I've been watching and some of the initial thoughts, and general feelings, I've had about them.
5/5 - Fantastic movies; movies which need to be seen and enjoyed by everyone.
4/5 - Movies which are very good but don’t have that spark which compels you to make others watch them as well.
3/5 - Average movies; watchable and enjoyable, but nothing which elevates them higher. The baseline all movies are given before watching.
2/5 - Can be watched but really bland and forgettable.
1/5 - Minimal to no reason to watch these films. It may have some redeeming factors e.g. it’s so bad it’s good or there’s one character that’s awesome enough to make it not a total waste of time.
0/5- Total waste of time. Nothing redeemable about these films.
As with every review blog/site, this is all my own personal opinion so feel free to take everything with a grain of salt.
Also I'm Scottish so all reviews will be in UK English. Get used to theatre, colour and words ending in -ised.
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#370/#87 Women in Trouble
A selection of insights into the interconnected lives of two porn actresses, Electra Luxx (Carla Gugino) and Holly Rocket (Adrianne Palicki), and a branching list of other woman they know, or meet, over the course of one hectic day.
I watched the sequel to this film Electra Luxx (review here) about a year ago not knowing it was a sequel. It was trashy, silly and overall just a fun watch so I thought I’d give this one a go as well. Give me a chance to see where the characters originated and fill in some of the back story.
I’d say both films are about on par with one another. Luxx was maybe a bit better overall, with a more interesting roster of characters, but they both have a slightly disjointed charm to them. Holly Rocket and the flight attendant Cora (Marley Shelton) make a bit more sense overall now.
I’ll be interested to see the final part of this trilogy whenever it does come out. 2.5/5.
P.S. The funniest section of the entire movie happens during the credit sequence between Luxx, Rocket and a porn blogger played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Great character moments all round in the last few minutes.
#76 Electra Luxx
A flight attendant (Marley Shelton) gives a pregnant ex porn star (Carla Gugino) her late rockstar boyfriend’s final selection of songs in exchange for seducing the flight attendant’s boyfriend (this sort of sounds like the start of a bad joke when you actually write it down). Things don’t go to plan however and soon we are shown snippets into the lives of the porn star Electra Luxx, the flight attendant, a pair of party girls on holiday in Mexico (one of which is actually in love with the other) (Adrianne Palicki and Emmanulle Chriqui), a private detective (Timothy Olyphant) and a porn blogger (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). (It’s as confusing as it sounds).
This film is enjoyably silly. It almost feels like a selection of skits rather than a complete movie. It also has a slight pulp fiction feel to the whole proceedings as well.
It’s also the 2nd in what is to be an eventual trilogy. I did not know this before I started the film and as such I think I missed out on a lot of things as I haven’t seen the first. Despite this however, it’s still an enjoyable indie film to watch. It made me laugh a couple of times and that’s what I was looking for from it.
Also the hot mom from Spy Kids is the porn star in this. That’s got to be worth a look. 2.5/5
