I'll try to post some notes about some of the movies just in case I don't have time to do full write-ups. (My reviews are usually pretty short anyway.)
Teen Wolf - This isn't a great movie, but it is a fun movie. Michael J. Fox was always fun to watch when he was younger, and this movie is no exception. I think I would have liked this movie more if Scott had tried to hide the fact that he was a werewolf, rather than showing off. There should have been more scenes with Scott and his father, with his father trying to help him through it.
It was kind of annoying that the guy who played the wolf when he was playing basketball was about a foot taller than Michael J. Fox. There must have been someone they could have found who was a good basketball player and closer to his height.
Also, I know this movie was from the 1980s but the surfing on the truck scene was dumb and dangerous. If this movie was released today, I'm sure there would be a lot of kids getting hurt (or killed) trying to copy him. (There was an incident recently where a 15-year old kid car-surfed on an Uber car and he fell off and died. When I heard about it on the news, I immediately thought of this movie and wondered if he watched it.)
Once Bitten - When I watched this, I was surprised when I got about halfway through it and realized that I'd already seen it. (It must have been sometime after seeing
Liar, Liar, when I was trying to find more Jim Carrey movies.)
This movie was kind of fun, but a little bit dumb. I think Jim Carrey was the main reason that I liked this movie. He's always fun to watch in these kinds of crazy comedies. The dance scene reminded me a little bit of the dance scene with Danny and Sandy in the first
Grease movie, when Cha-Cha pulls Danny away from Sandy.
Akira - This was an interesting movie, but it isn't really my type of movie. The tone of the movie is a little too dark for my taste, and there wasn't much in the movie that I could relate to, so I didn't really connect with anyone or anything in the movie.
I wasn't really sure what was going on when Tetsuo was in the hospital, until I realized that he was having some kind of hallucinations. I think I kind of felt confused through most of the movie, but at least it looked like it was supposed to be a happy ending.
I'm going to try to watch it again before I submit my list because I'm hoping that I'll understand it a little bit more than I did the first time.
Grease 2 - As a fan of musicals, I really wanted to like this movie. And as a fan of the first
Grease movie, it was hard to avoid comparing this with the first movie, but I tried to judge it as a stand-alone movie. While I didn't
hate this movie, unfortunately there's not much about this movie that I
liked either.
Ignoring the fact that the actors are way too old to play teenagers, sadly, most of them aren't very good actors either. There aren't really any likable characters in the movie except for Michael, (Maxwell Caulfield), but he's also kind of a dull character. The story just felt like it's been done 1000 times before, and usually much better. The songs had catchy tunes, but they're not good songs either. (Just because I
remember the songs, it doesn't mean that I
liked the songs.)
Like I said earlier, I didn't hate this movie, but it wasn't great either.