Betsy Goes to the Movies... and sometimes her friends go too

Or as I like to call it, something to make me feel better after last week's movie.  I enjoyed this movie so much. You get sucked into the characters and their lives and histories, you want to fight for them, the cinematography is well done, it has humor in all the right places without making anyone look clownish or ridiculous, the pacing was great so that you got everyone's back stories and p...

I don't even know where to start with this. It's another baffling Netflix movie in that you have such a bad movie with such a good cast. I feel that there was too much of an attempt to try to make the movie more serious than it needed to be instead of letting it fulfill its fun alien-horror-b-movie campfest potential.  If you want this movie to make sense, find one of the many articles that e...

I’m sorry for the delay on this! Everything changing at work with the lifting of all restrictions and no notice so we could prepare properly kind of threw a wrench in the works for my week. Remember when I said I would get around to a bad movie eventually? Here you go! We recorded it in January as part of the Alecia Covid recovery therapy, and I did feel some vindication. This time she was the one...

I know I promised a bad movie soon, but that definitely did not happen this week. This is a really great movie! I chose it at Erin's suggestion because the Bulls' first home game of the season was Tuesday. I had never seen it before. I was not disappointed. Listen as Erin and I wax nostalgic about old Durham (more so for her than me since she's lived in Durham her whole life whereas I didn't move...

For Cinco de Mayo, I start with a little history lesson about the origins of the holiday, which actually have nothing to do with Mexico’s Independence Day (and came along about 50 years later), and then I thought, “why not choose a movie that actually kind of personifies what Cinco de Mayo is all about?” So I give you El Mariachi from Robert Rodriguez, a movie about an underdog who never asked to...

AKA, How Alicia Learned to Fast Forward Using an Apple TV Remote. I am so happy that this is the last one! It starts with the kitten sneezing, which I thought was adorable, so I kept it in. Plus that may be the only redeeming quality about this whole thing. This recording is definitely lackluster. We were just completely done by the time we got around to this one. I edited out so many yawns, but I...

In the interest of full disclosure, the cats make up about 75% of this episode. My rants make up the other 25%. So much yelling at the screen... so much.  Listen as I get very confused (again), Alicia and I have a difference of opinion regarding the definition of the word "crazy", and we coin the phrase "Skelabella". You know, instead of Skeletor. I was definitely over it by the time we got a...

Three down, two to go. This is going up so late because it took the better part of a week to get through the editing. One again I obsess about hair, Alicia relives some of the more embarrassing moments of her adolescence, we both still can't stand Bella or Edward, and pressuring your partner to do anything they don't want to do is not cool.  Episode notes are on the website, so enjoy my miser...

Happy post Easter! This one came from my friend Andi (although I had been sitting on it for a minute waiting for the perfect opportunity to use it in the podcast). We both felt that Easter was that opportunity. One of the things I love about this movie is that it chooses to focus on how Jesus preached love and compassion for everyone by having him be a total bad ass who saves the lesbians who are...

Holy great movie, Batman! Erin and I loved watching this one. It was recommended by our friend Neal who promised I would not be disappointed, and he was right as you can tell by how much we start giggling about two minutes in. You can all listen to me suffer through terrible movies another time. This one was completely worth watching. Listen as Erin and I make it dirty in a way that would make poo...

This is the perfect movie for St. Patrick's Day for me. It's hilarious, whimsical, charming, funny, delightful, very well written, and completely sucks you in. It's one of my all time favorites, and I'm kind of mad at myself for going so long between watching it the first time and seeing it again. Alicia, Erin, and the cats joined me for this episode. We were so tired when we recorded this, but it...

Yes, there's more. Also, while we decided to do all five movies, they are not going to be back to back.  I love how gleeful Alicia is at the start of this episode. Admittedly we were getting a little punchy because we had just watched the first one. If you want to know my feelings about the fact that they cut Jacob's hair so he could become part of the wolf pack, read the episode notes on my...

Wow, this movie is a lot of bad. To give you the run down of how this happened to come into my life, Alicia had just recovered from Covid, and in a moment of weakness (there was whiskey), I told her that because I knew she loved the movie that if she wanted to, we could do it for the podcast. Needless to say, she was all over it. My plan was to just do the first one, and now there will be five. No...

I, in my infinite wisdom, decided to watch this alone in the middle of night when everyone else was asleep. I have no idea why I thought it was a good idea at the time. Even editing this scared me all over again, especially when Alicia walked past my room in the dimly lit hallway, and all I saw was her dark reflection in the warped mirror at the foot of my bed while I was at the part with the pict...

This one was brought up to me on Twitter by the folks at the Choose Films podcast, and I figured it was the perfect way to round out the Valentine's Day theme. It has a great cast. The beginning is full of implied plot devices, but don't worry because the plot and timeline are both such convoluted train wrecks that you will never remember any of them. It was not the best movie I've ever seen. It w...

Welcome to the Valentine's Day episode of my podcast! I really couldn't think of a better movie than this one to celebrate. Romance sex, betrayal, medical toxic waste infected zombie beavers... it's just perfect! I also convinced Alicia to make another appearance on the podcast and watch it with me. This movie was sent to me last year by my friend Izzie. She is a never ending source of bad movies,...

I. Love. This. Movie!!! My friend Andi sent it to me over a year ago. It is so wonderfully, delightfully bad! A preacher becomes a weredinosaur called a velocipastor, and let me tell you, nothing was spared for the special effects! As in they really didn't go out of their way on this one. But the dialogue, story, low budget, everything comes together for a cinematic masterpiece that I could watch...

This is another one of my favorites. It is crude, hilarious, and over the top. It was also exactly what I needed after watching The Room . In fact, I watched them back to back just to restore my mental equilibrium.  I have absolutely no idea how the cast pulled this off with straight faces, but I would love to see a blooper reel from it. If you want to watch this one too, I found it on Peacoc...

We all knew this one was coming. My friends Elaine and David just convinced me to get it over with sooner rather than later. It was kind of like pulling off the band aid except the wound really requires about fifty stiches, and you bleed out trying to figure out if you did the right thing or not. Yes, this movie is that bad.  Episode notes are on the website! I hope you enjoy my suffering. If...

This is another one I never saw before, and I feel that this movie really aged well! For me it wasn't scary so much as suspenseful. My friend Erin, who had never seen it either, watched it with me. It was great even though we kept going off topic and had to rewatch the scene in Quint's house three times because we couldn't stay focused.  Also there are more cameo appearances by my cats becaus...

Trust me to start watching the Tremors franchise backwards. I actually hadn't seen any of them until I saw this one. This was recommended by a friend who apparently knows me and my movie tastes very well because I thoroughly enjoyed how bad it is. It's on Netflix if you want to see for yourself.  Episode notes are on the website, so enjoy my take on continuity errors and baffling dialogue!

We had a bad holiday movie, and now we have a good holiday movie! I forgot how good this movie is. It has humor, action, me yelling at the screen-- a lot--, and guest appearances by my cats who decided that while I was recording was a good time to get zoomies and beg for food. So listen, enjoy, and check it out on Amazon Prime if you want to relive this holiday classic yourself.

I did it. I watched the Star Wars Holiday Special , and I dragged my friend Alicia with me. To be fair, it was her idea to watch it in the first place. I figure it's the perfect movie for the holidays, so enjoy! Contains baffling storylines, repurposed footage, spoilers,  language, and a brief reference to Wookie porn because Itchy is a dirty old man. I mean Wookie.   The copyright for t...

Welcome to the first episode of Betsy Goes to the Movies! I have always wanted to see this movie but never got around to watching it. Well, here you go! Visit my website at betsygoestothemovies.com for episode notes, and I hope you enjoy it! Contains spoilers.  The copyright for the movie poster is held by the artist and/or studio and is not my intellectual property. It is reused here under t...