Saw Voyage of the Rock Aliens (thanks, Nina!) It was a fairly wacky rock musical in the style of those pokey old teen musicals that Grease kind of perfected. The film contains a lot of nonsense, but primarily revolves around a love-triangle between teen Deedee, teen Frankie, and ABCD who is an alien come to Earth to research the inhabitants. Also, there's a tentacle monster in the town lake, and also homicidal chainsaw-wielding maniacs. The film keeps expanding and expanding in confusing directions. It's a fabulous mess but it's the sort of film that I think is supposed to be collaborative: they provide the scenario, you provide the commentary.
I saw this solo, alas, which made the film a bit of a slog. The film has a very wholesome and kind of sweet energy however, so it's not a bad watch, just a bit tedious. Although it's deep in the 80s, its heart is clearly in the 50s with juke boxes and school cotillions and so on. This was always meant to be a camp film. There's a lot of broad acting and bewildering moments. At one point, during a music video, the aliens arrive atop a tractor on a beach. Everyone claps and one of the girls welcomes them to town. Is this real? Is this the music video? Where did they get the tractor? Other moments are confusing and strange, but this one nearly breaks the reality of the film. By far the most confusing moment.
One saving grace: the people are all fairly attractive, so that's nice.
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