Movie Review

Austin Powers Goldmember

In this movie, it takes place in 2002. The character Dr. Evil has a hideout behind the famous Hollywood sign. He and his 'minions' will go back to 1975 to retrieve John Van der Smut, aka Goldmember, who has a way of making a tractor beam from cold fusion. Shortly after this, Austin Powers and British Intelligence arrest him. Austin is knighted for his effort and notices his father isn't there, the famous Nigel Powers, played by veteran English actor Michael Caine. So when he finds that his father has been kidnapped, he travels to 1975 for clues and is led to a roller disco club called Studio 69 where he finds Foxxy Cleopatra, played by R&B musician Beyonce. Her character is an FBI agent undercover in the club. This movie is pretty funny too, mainly because it takes place in 1975, which is different than the 1969 Swinging London scene from the 1st 2 movies, and you get to see Michael Caine be funny, hard to picture this one!!

Movie Review

Austin Powers and the Spy Who Shagged Me

Basically the title comes from a play off the title of one of the other James Bond movies, the Spy Who Loved Me, and contains parts of Diamonds Are Forever(laser gun plot and cloning), Moonraker(outer space trips), You Only Live Twice(secret volcano base), the Man with the Golden Gun(Mini Me based on the character of Nick Nack), On Her Majesty's Secret Service(opening sequence when Vanessa dies)

Basically what this movie is about is while he is in cryogenic freezing, someone breaks in and steals Austin Powers'  "mojo", the force that makes women just crawl all over him. Mike Myers plays multiple roles, as Dr. Evil and as another character called Fat Bastard. And in this movie, the character Dr. Evil has a clone of himself that is 1/8 the size of him called Mini Me, played by Verne Troyer. Dr. Evil has designed a time machine that he uses so he can go back to 1969 and steal Powers' mojo.

But meanwhile the real Austin is in 1999 enjoying his honeymoon with Vanessa Kensington. And when Austin Powers has to go back to 1969, he gets his own time travel machine, in the form of a Volkwagen Beetle, that has been totally 60s-ified, with 1960s psychadelic colors. If you see this movie and see the car, I will get a VW Bug and design it like that, lol!! That would be my car!!!! When he arrives back in London 1969, he arrives at a party at his apartment with a CIA agent named Felicity Shagwell(Heather Graham). When Austin is told there is an assassination attempt on him, both the spy and the agent escape and chase after a character called Mustafa(Will Ferrell) and he tells them that Dr. Evil has set up an island volcano hideout. 

Basically the movie ends with Dr. Evil escaping, and Austin and Felicity going thru the time machine back to 1999. This movie is pretty funny. All 3 of these movies basically poke fun at the James Bond movies, but never offensively. I love them, they're hilarious!!!!

Movie Review

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

For those who may not have ever seen this or ever heard of it, this movie is about a British ladies man named Austin Powers, who also is a spy, a sort of James Bond-like figure. It's funny and supposed to be poking fun at the James Bond movies in a funny way. He is a British spy who lives in the Swinging 60s of London.

His enemy in the movie is named Dr. Evil, and the same actor plays both Austin and Dr. Evil, Mike Myers. This movie is basically a way of lightly poking fun at the James Bond movies, and I love these movies, they are really funny!! The movie begins in 1969, when he is trying to stop Dr. Evil and is cryogenically frozen and wakes up 30 years later in 1997. He works with Vanessa Kensington, played by beautiful English actress Elizabeth Hurley. Basically the movie is about him trying to stop Dr. Evil, and trying to charm ladies along the way with his charms. Sorry if that doesn't seem like the best description, sorry. But it's really funny, and will make u laugh!! And in the movie he drives a Corvette convertible with the Union Jack, aka British flag design on it. And I would give this movie a 5 out of 5 star rating for funny movie!! And plus, some of the music used is actually from that decade, they don't use any Stones or Beatles music, but they do use music from the Who, the song My Generation.

Retro/Vintage

I have 2 b probably the biggest hippie anyone in my family knows, they all know I'm totally in to the 1960s scene, as some would call it. So this blog is devoted to all things retro/vintage!

1960s

TV
Some of the popular TV shows at the time include:

• Gunsmoke
• Wagon Train
• The Andy Griffifth Show
• The Untouchables
• Rawhide
• The Jack Benny Program. Back then, things like this were called 'programs' instead of 'shows' like we call them today
• The Ed Sullivan Show
• Petticoat Junction
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E
• The Lawrence Welk Show
• Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
• Hawaii Five-O

Music
When it comes to 1960s music, most of the music that dominated the 1960s was from the British Invasion era. Bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Dave Clark Five took America by storm and suddenly all these girls started screaming bloody murder for these guys from England. It wasn't just Brit rock that rocked America, it was also Motown, 'Message Songs', classic rock

British Invasion

The Beatles

The Rolling Stones

Gerry and the Pacemakers

The Kinks

The Who

The Dave Clark Five

Dusty Springfield

Petula Clark

Motown

The Temptations

The Four Tops

Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

Diana Ross and the Supremes

Classic Rock

Jefferson Airplane
Jimi Hendrix

Janis Joplin
The Doors
Steppenwolf
The Mamas and the Papas

Lovin' Spoonful
David Bowie. I just noticed he has 2 different colored eyes, whoa, cool, and he was pretty good looking in the 1960s

Pink Floyd
The Moody Blues

'Message Songs'
These songs always have a hidden message hidden within the songs

Bob Dylan
Peter, Paul and Mary
Joan Baez
Barry McGuire
John Lennon
CCR(Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Sly and the Family Stone
Crosby, Stills and Nash, which would later go on to be known as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

Movies
Alot of the movies in the 1960s were either James Bond movies or dramas

• Lawrence of Arabia

• Performance

• Bonnie and Clyde
• Psycho
• Dr. Strangelove
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Midnight Cowboy
• The Graduate
• A Hard Day's Night
• West Side Story
• Planet of the Apes
• Goldfinger
• In the Heat of the Night
• Rosemary's Baby
• Yellow Submarine

• The Pink Panther
• Cape Fear
• The Miracle Worker
• Georgy Girl
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips. I seen this movie and I have to say it was very good. Very sad at the end!

Pop Culture

If only this came in a VW hippie bus! 

The Beatles' first movie 

Marilyn Monroe artwork done by Andy Warhol 

Andy Warhol picture of British model Twiggy 

Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger and Beatle John Lennon 

1970s

Music
In the 70s, there was an abundance of disco music, dance music, and rock still continued to be popular, and some rock songs were even played in disco clubs,  and some songs were even inspired by disco club songs, like The Rolling Stones' song 'Miss You', which was inspired by the thumping beat of disco music. Also in the 1970s, punk rock began to emerge, with bands like the Ramones, The Sex Pistols.
Here are some popular musicians of the 1970s, now mind you, most of the musicians from the 1960s became even more popular in the 1970s and later on:

• Alice Cooper

And this is the same man that my sister goes head over heels for!
• Black Sabbath

• Bob Dylan
• Bruce Springsteen
• Ike and Tina
• David Bowie. During the 1970s, he was known as Ziggy Stardust with his band The Spiders. Almost like a before and after picture.

• Elton John
• James Taylor
• Bob Marley and the Wailers
• Paul McCartney and Wings

• Minnie Riperton
• KISS. My favorite one is the one with the star over his eye, 2nd from the left

• The Police

• The Rolling Stones

• The Who

• Rod Stewart

• The Sex Pistols

• The Ramones

TV
For some reason, alot of the shows that were on in the 1970s had to do with police work.
Here are some popular TV shows from the 1970s:

• Charlie's Angels

• WKRP in Cincinnati

• Streets of San Francisco
• The Waltons
• Chips
• Starsky and Hutch

• The Dukes of Hazzard

• The Muppet Show
• Dallas
• Kojak
• All in the Family
• Laverne and Shirley
• The Odd Couple
• Happy Days
• Sanford and Son
• Taxi

Movies
Here are some of the movies of the 1970s:

• The Godfather

• The Godfather, pt. II

• The Deer Hunter

• Ned Kelly

• Star Wars
• A Clockwork Orange

• Chinatown
• Taxi Driver
• American Grafitti
• M*A*S*H
• The French Connection
• Rocky

• Serpico

• Dog Day Afternoon
• The Sting
• Dirty Harry
• All the President's Men
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail

• Carrie

• Monty Python's Life of Brian

• Sunday, Bloody Sunday
• The Towering Inferno
• Tommy



Pop Culture

I love this cartoon!!!!!!!!!!!!