Queue Tips: The best medicine.

Just reviewing some recently watched DVDs on my Netflix queue.  You know how they say that laughter is the best medicine?  Well, "Medicine Man" might just cure some of your ills as you laugh at how bad of a movie it is.

Actually, no.  You'll be sad.  Don't waste your time with this one.  I don't know why anyone would ever think Sean Connery and Lorraine Bracco would be a good pair.  Bracco is a braying one-trick pony with her annoying nagging that worked so well in "Goodfellas ".  But that was for a few minutes at a time and her husband kept trying to silence her or avoid her.

In thish film, Connery believesh he hash found a cure for cancer.  And he struggles to create more before the rain forest where he is working on is cut down or burned down or something.  What he really should have been working on is a dose of shut-the-hell-up for Lorraine's character.

Next up is "Misery", and you pretty much know what it's about.  This film has been reference or parodied so often that it was no longer suspenseful when I finally watched it.  If you're curious, you might as well check it out.  It's a good film that has unfortunately been ruined by others.  There are characters here that reminded me of Marge Gunderson in "Fargo", especially with all the snow.

I'm working on a sequel for this film.  It's called "Misery Loves Company".  It's about a landlord who tortures his tenants after finding out the male one is not actually gay and, along with the two female ones, have been making a fool of him resulting in ensuing craziness.  Also, the landlord keeps hearing canned laughter in his head.  Also, the detectives who are trying to save them are a bickering old couple.

Last one for now is "Midnight Run".  This is pretty much just "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" with Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin instead of Steve Martin and John Candy.  The plot itself is nothing special, and some of the situations don't necessarily make the most sense.

For example, I don't know how it worked in the '80s, but canceling another person's credit card couldn't have been as easy as making a simple phone call.  In any case, wouldn't a person call their credit card company upon finding out that they have been cancelled?  But this is just a fun movie, and those things can and should be forgiven.  What really makes it worth watching are the performances of and chemistry between De Niro and Grodin.

There was a rumor a few months ago that they would make sequel to this, but fortunately I haven't heard anything about it since.  I guess the best name for it would have been "Another Midnight Run".  The plot?  A bounty hunter has to take a fugitive cross country -- no, around the world -- by midnight.  Only this time, they have to take a giant slobbery dog with them.  It'll be a hit.