by Mighty Amy

Note: The title for Overboard in spanish speaking countries translates to “A Sea
of Trouble.”

My interest in Overboard was re-kindled during a Kurt-Russel-Movie-Knowing Contest that I was having against a co-worker in my company’s North Carolina office. I lost the contest at the point when the guy said “I should get back to work.” That is also a moment when I felt very embarrassed about who I am in society.

Speaking of society, I believe today’s would not tolerate a RomCom whose premise is really the common-law felony of false imprisonment paired with a hearty helping of Stockholm Syndrome. But I could be wrong. We are a society that tolerated the movie Old Dogs.
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by Mighty Amy

The first Fast and the Furious brought us Vin Diesel as the king of an underground high jacking street-racer gang. That sounds good right? Hijacking Ferraris?! Hijacking Japanese import cars? Hijacking gold? Russian whores?!

This gang was hijacking DVD players, which were widely available in Walgreens for reasonable prices in 2001, the year the movie came out. DVD players aside, the movie was full of cars and nitrous oxide systems (NOS!). Even the most crappy, non-existant acting can’t ruin lines like: “I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I’m free.”
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by Mighty Amy

The following is a review of three Harrison Ford movies in the order that I saw them.
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by Mighty Amy

“I know I’m human. And if you were all these things, then you’d just attack me right now, so some of you are still human. This thing doesn’t want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It’ll fight if it has to, but it’s vulnerable out in the open. If it takes us over, then it has no more enemies, nobody left to kill it. And then it’s won.” - RJ MacReady
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