Basic Instructions by Scott Meyer for March 25, 2024

Either “My Dinner With Andre” or “Plan 9 From Outer Space”

For different reasons, my preteen hated Forbin (the bad guy won!) and War of the Worlds (that’s it? That’s what killed them?). I loved them both.

Brings to mind Steve Macdonald’s song “I Just Love Those Old B-Movies” – complete with the female of the species Just Not Getting It.

There was a movie theatre in Seattle that showed a lot of art films — I remember that I would read the reviews carefully and avoid anything that inspired the word “glacial”. As in “The plot unfolds at a delicately glacial pace . . .”

I’m reminded of the movie Layer Cake, where the protagonist winds up being shot by a minor character at the end, right out of nowhere.

If liking bad movies makes you a bad person, there aren’t any good people.

I trust that the possible implication in the first panel — that Missy knows he had wanted to marry her despite thinking she’s not good — is not intended!

I like one movie where the bad guys win: “The Great Silence.”

It’s like he’s held up a mirror to my life complete with the conversation I have with my wife on a regular basis. Who doesn’t enjoy a well made B movie? Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers and Zombie Strippers are 2 Classics.

She can take some comfort in the fact that he seems to have good taste in women.

Come on Meyer! You have one (possibly) job to do! To once a week, be wryly amusing. 10’s of people (possibly) are counting on you.

I often think of “The Bad Lieutenant”. I won’t say it’s a “bad movie”, but when it was over I was frustrated, slightly confused and felt like I should shower.

Um, speaking of replaying old things…