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It’s not even really hot yet. Yesterday was 92, which is more than manageable for a spoiled wuss like me – when the air conditioner is working. Unfortunately, mine is not. I can’t get the damn thing fixed until Saturday (and it’s a holiday weekend so I’m grateful for that, I suppose), and I’m stuck here all humid and irritated. Plus my damn cat thinks warm weather means “I sleep on you,” fur and all. I even went as far as putting on John Carpenter’s The Thing, just to bask in its lovely frigidity, and that made me think of the opposite! For example, *Five Flicks to Avoid When Your #$@!ing Air Conditioner is Broken. (How’s that for a set-up?)
1. Do the Right Thing](Do the Right Thing (1989) - Movie | Moviefone) – I haven’t seen Spike Lee’s masterpiece (yeah, I said it) in quite some time, but to this day I can still remember how the director was able to deliver a palpable sense of sweaty, sticky, nasty mega-heat. It only adds to the tension of the tale, of course, but the weather almost plays a specific character in this flick. A villainous character. Also, there’s sex in this movie. I try not to think about sex when I have no air conditioning.
2. Sunshine](Sunshine (2007) - Movie | Moviefone) – You want hot? Hop on board the Icarus 2 (not a smart name for a spaceship) and head on up to the sun. Why? Oh, so the world’s most laconic scientist can kick-start the massive fireball from a nuclear payload heretofore unimagined in the annals of speculative science fiction. Seriously, if you watch this (rather entertaining) sci-fi / horror film on blu-ray, you can actually get a suntan from Act III. (Cinematical does not actually endorse this behavior.) Also, Robin Tunney = hot.* (Wrong! Robin Tunney was in Supernova; Rose Byrne was in Sunshine. Duh, me.)*
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