Sometimes I like to re-watch old movies I liked at younger age, and sometimes just trying to watch an old movie that I never watched. The reactions are mixed. Great cult movies, even if they feel stale and dry after so many years, are still watchable and from the distance of years you can still admire a good screenplay, great directing and acting. Movies like The Terminator, Alien or comedies like Ferris Bueller's Day Off or Fast Times at Ridgemont High still look great and feel great as something that aged well and can be still enjoyed.

But other movies just collapse and you wonder how someone even made them. Year of the Comet is like that. I watched it for the first time and it kinda reminded me Romancing the Stone, same concept of sexually repressed young female in boring and unfulfilling life goes to adventure in which she encounters mysterious stranger, get's into dangerous and exciting situations and finally opens up and gets laid. The difference is of course in the details. And while Kathleen Turner was chasing with Michael Douglas in his prime after a a huge gem in exotic jungles of Colombia, in Year of the Comet much less famous actors Penelope Ann Miller and Tim Daly are chasing huge bottle of wine in... Scotland.

Needless to say the result of such interesting and exciting setup feels as heavy as huge bottle of wine and tastes as stale as a 30 years old piece of bread. Not sure I can tell what exactly ruins this movie, if it's low budget or bad writing, or maybe boring filmmaking without a lot of imagination, but it's probably all of the above because this movie looks and feels like a cheap knockout done in a hurry by people that don't really care as long as they get their paycheck. Romancing the Stone feels old, but it's still an interesting and suspenseful movie that some may still enjoy. Year of the Comet is better put deep in the cellar to lay on the shelf and collect dust.