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twistedmentat posted:I remember at the time there were book readers going "no in the book the cavemen were highlanders, it was way better" as if putting them in kilts would have made then going Hup hup cake! and learning how to fly harriers in about a day better than the pilots in the past did better or at least make more sense. I gave up on the book after the point where the movie ends because it grinds to a halt, but at least in the book instead of old fighter jets that mysteriously still work, the humans use the alien learning machine thing to teach themselves how to fly stolen alien fighter crafts. Like, it's a pretty terrible book, but it's way more coherent than the movie.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Funny thing is that Cowboys and Aliens has the same premise. In Cowboys and Aliens Harrison Ford goes "What are they going to do, buy something?" when he's told about their plan. But yea it being a Scientology text explains a lot. The villains are Psyklos, which is meant to be Psychologists, because El Ron hated them. Also has an slave Alien Race the Chinkos, because El Ron hated Asian people.
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Most "bad" films are just bad and boring, not in any entertaining way, despite the hyperbolic efforts of various podcasters to play them up: "ohmigod this movie was INSANE!" But Battlefield Earth? The sort of bad that makes you question the judgement of everyone involved. It's awful and awkward with minutes of starting. The acting is terrible, even for thinly drawn characters. I suspect the producers knew it was terrible but thought it didn't matter, throw in some special effects, action and scenery chewing, and it'll be the next Star Wars. The Room has the same quality. It's like it was directed by an alien who has no first hand experience of humans, and the edited at random or assembled by a computer from a list of tropes. One perhaps smart commentary I read, frames The Room as the story of a relationship breakdown solely from the point-of-view of an oblivious man who thinks he's a great husband, has done all the right things, and can't understand what went wrong or why his wife is unhappy. Which casts the movie in a much darker light. nonathlon has a new favorite as of 12:25 on Apr 19, 2020 |
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twistedmentat posted:In Cowboys and Aliens Harrison Ford goes "What are they going to do, buy something?" when he's told about their plan. But yea it being a Scientology text explains a lot. The villains are Psyklos, which is meant to be Psychologists, because El Ron hated them. Also has an slave Alien Race the Chinkos, because El Ron hated Asian people. I think part of the idea was meant to be that the humans are as baffled by the aliens as native americans are baffled by the violence and greed of white settlers. My guess was Battlefield Earth was made partly by Scientology true believers, mostly by people who just wanted to fulfil the contractual obligation and get it out the door and get away from these terrifying freaky Scientology people.
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nonathlon posted:Most "bad" films are just bad and boring, not in any entertaining way, despite the hyperbolic efforts of various podcasters to play them up: "ohmigod this movie was INSANE!" That was pretty much my thoughts, too. Battlefield Earth is bad in almost every conceivable way, and it's even worse because it tried to be so ambitious. The Room is just weird. It's more technically incompetent, but the level of filmmaking was never there to begin with. It's fascinating because of that window into Tommy Wiseau's mind. I've read The Disaster Artist, and the behind-the-scenes of making it are really fascinating. I mean, the movie is what it is, but there's a whole extra layer of fascination once you find out, for example, that Wiseau didn't know that most productions rent equipment, and not outright buy it. Or don't shoot both film and digital for a reason. Or build sets if they have locations they can scout. Or the other things that actual experienced professionals told him that you don't do. I can't imagine a similar scenario with Battlefield Earth. It's like the difference between a car that was produced and failed because multiple people didn't see or didn't care about an engineering fault, versus a car that was specifically designed by someone who had remembered the fantasy car they imagined as a kid and really wanted to build that. For better or worse, you can tell Wiseau wanted that in his movie. Ghost Leviathan posted:Funny thing is that Cowboys and Aliens has the same premise. Holy poo poo, I'd forgotten about that. I saw it in theatres and thought it wasn't bad and delivered what it promised up until that reveal. Most resources that you can find on Earth should be much easier to obtain on, say, an asteroid (unless it's unobtainium or something). Twitch posted:I gave up on the book after the point where the movie ends because it grinds to a halt, but at least in the book instead of old fighter jets that mysteriously still work, the humans use the alien learning machine thing to teach themselves how to fly stolen alien fighter crafts. Like, it's a pretty terrible book, but it's way more coherent than the movie. Agreed. Again, they could've used the colonialism argument and said that humans aren't actually stupid, but have been denigrated by aliens over centuries to believe that, after they learn to use the alien weapons against aliens. Terl somehow keeps talking about "man-animals" and them being too stupid to train, and yet he somehow knows about the library in Denver and man's great accomplishments and technologies. There are a few interesting nuggets of commentary that are just lost in this cloud of poo poo.
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twistedmentat posted:In Cowboys and Aliens Harrison Ford goes "What are they going to do, buy something?" when he's told about their plan. But yea it being a Scientology text explains a lot. The villains are Psyklos, which is meant to be Psychologists, because El Ron hated them. Also has an slave Alien Race the Chinkos, because El Ron hated Asian people. Also the Psklos were all evil because every member of their race got their heads messed with by psychologists to remove their morals. There's one "good" Psyklo (the one played by Forest Whitaker in the movie) and he's only good because it turns out he was secretly born outside the system.
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rydiafan posted:The one legitimately good moment in battlefield Earth is when the aliens see the main character eating rats out of desperation, and then they assume that he must really like rats, so they try to bribe him with dead rats later. Right up there with Travolta bragging about how he was the best marksman in his class AT THE ACADEMY! and shoots off the leg of a cow. And then continues firing willy-nilly. The scene is supposed to imply that he's such a good shot that we only need to see the results, but the acting is so awful, he's just convulsing with his gun. Also, why were there cows in a pen like that? Somehow I doubt humans have the ability to cattle ranch, and I doubt the Psychlos give a poo poo about cows.
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mojo1701a posted:Also, why were there cows in a pen like that? Somehow I doubt humans have the ability to cattle ranch, and I doubt the Psychlos give a poo poo about cows. They discovered burgers and steaks while stomping through someone's backyard and decided that that aspect of human culture can stay.
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rydiafan posted:The one legitimately good moment in battlefield Earth is when the aliens see the main character eating rats out of desperation, and then they assume that he must really like rats, so they try to bribe him with dead rats later. I watched chunks of Battlefield Earth while falling asleep, and this is the only part I remember with any clarity. "HUNGRY, LITTLE FELLA?  "
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I had reason to think of the legendarily terrible movie Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever which caused me to wonder who the director was. Then the mystery deepened:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wych_Kaosayananda posted:His directorial debut was Fah, released in 1998, which at the time was the highest-budgeted film in the history of the Thai film industry, but failed in the Thai box office. Started with a poo poo film, made another poo poo film, moved on to lovely films. How does this guy have a job? nonathlon has a new favorite as of 19:55 on Apr 25, 2020 |
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That movie is an insult to bad movies. Give the movie concept to the syfy channel and only 10% of the budget and I guarantee they would have churned out something more interesting than what we got with the big budget and actors with recognizable names. I tried to create a very scientific plot illustrating my theory of the relationship between budget, trying to be good, and how good it is, but I got a headache and gave up. The gist is that this movie would fall in the most shameful region of the plot.
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Jestery posted:I watched Movie 43 recently Quick clarification: did you misspell "erratic" or "erotic"?
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Continued spending my Saturday night during this lockdown with a good one. I decided to pick 1994's On Deadly Ground, the first and so-far only directorial attempt by Steven Seagal. Maybe it's cheating to pick an action movie directed by a man most people don't take seriously in the field that made him famous anyway, but I disagree. If anything, what makes this movie so good is you can tell Seagal slapped his trademark sense over it: it's self-indulgent, grandiose with his character, makes no attempt to go past one dimension for any of its characters, and technically incompetent from a filmmaking perspective as it is. The one good thing I'll say (other than the so-bad-it's-good value) is that there are a lot of explosions. They're not quality explosions, but they're there. I think the only reason anyone agreed with having it be about an oil rig in Alaska was they could find any excuse to blow something up. So what's the plot? It doesn't really matter, but Seagal works for an oil baron named Jennings, played by Michael Caine. He finds out that the initial fire and explosion on a rig that claimed four men was intentional by the corporation and its owner (CEO? they don't mention what he is. Just that he's the boss). The reason Jennings' company is being sloppy with getting a new rig running with obviously-faulty parts is so they can keep a lease on oil fields so they don't revert back to the Alaskan natives. Why they waited so long before the deadline to get it going is never said. I'm pretty sure a super-rich oil tycoon's company isn't going to get a rig going right before a deadline. Have there been tons of cases of corporate ineptitude and outright malice just to save a buck? Oh, absolutely. But "We need to get this oil rig going within 13 days, but the good parts don't come for 30" is too much for a project that took at least a decade (or 3 decades. I forget). Now, I know Michael Caine is no stranger to stinkers purely for the money (cf. Jaws: The Revenge), but you can tell he went for the paycheque for this one. He really hams it up as the evil oil baron. Now that I write this, I'm starting to think that the plot isn't set up because of ineptitude or greed, but because Jennings has an addiction to rage. He yells at everyone when he can. It's my belief that he set up this entire stunt just so he could go off on everyone around him: on his staff, on his henchmen, on Seagal, on TV reporters, and even the director of the commercial that is supposed to protect his public image (a perplexing cameo by actually-decent director Irvin Kershner). He's the kind of man who wishes he had had a son just so he could yell, "I don't have a son!" at. And then there's his entire look: he's an oil baron, so of course he needs a bolo tie, a horrible black suit (I know it was the '90s, but COME ON), and a cowboy hat. Unfortunately, all background stops there. Sometimes you can hear a Southern drawl come out from him. Sometimes you can't. He really, really doesn't stick to one accent. He does, however, stick to one jet black dye job. In a better movie, an obvious dye job would be a signal to a character's vanity or that he's uglier on the inside than he is, but in this case, I'm willing to bet it's some kind of unintentional metaphor for his love of oil. The plot then goes awry when they discover Seagal on the trail, so they send him into a booby-trapped rig where they try to blow him up. Seagal magically survives being thrown far away by an explosion, and they magically don't see his body being thrown clear to check (which they later realize they should). He's then found by a local Inuit tribe, nursed back to health by the chief and his daughter, and is spiritually reborn as a "bear" (there's a whole long hallucination, I guess, where he imagines all of this while told a creation story about how a bear was created so man would have something to fear as it rapes and pillages mother earth). It takes at least an hour of the movie to get from that basic setup and rebirth before he starts his plan to blow up the oil rig. He finds the cabin owned by his whistleblower friend who told him about the faults, and it's been ransacked by Caine's goons, led by John C. McGinley. McGinley has a ridiculous goatee and round sunglasses that are just plain goofy. I like to think he actually survived the movie (we never see his body hit the rear rotorblades of the helicopter) and discovered he can do more damage as a corporate consultant, because it's almost exactly the same look he sported (including the villainous upper lip sneer) as he did in Office Space. He then flees to his cabin in the mountains, with a shitload of explosives. It's never explained why he's hoarding explosives for a war, other than he was a soldier or something. It was never hinted that he had a problem with the company until now, so why? He's such a skilled martial artist that he should be able to just punch the oil rig to explode in exactly 3 minutes. There's absolutely no tension in any of the fight scenes because he always kicks everyone's rear end handily. R. Lee Ermey shows up halfway through the mayhem as an "independent contractor" by McGinley to kill Seagal, has a shotgun on him at point-blank range, and Seagal still disarms him and shoots a giant hole through him almost immediately. So he takes all the tools he needs, rigs the cabin to blow up and take a pursuing helicopter down with him, outsmarts the henchmen on horseback, and then eventually blows up the rig. We know this. It's tedious. The entire sequence of him figuring out a way to take down the rig would be appreciated in a better movie, since there's seemingly a method, but since other moments are peppered with ridiculous moments that would rival a horrible Batman script, we just don't care. The henchman start to discover after a while that Seagal is a formidable force because the hired guns discover that he has blanks in his employment from before. They deduce he's some kind of former high-level special government agent. Then again, that might explain via paranoia what's with all the explosives and firearms in his cliffside cabin. Incidentally, the character's name is Forrest Taft. It doesn't really matter what his name is, other than it came out about 5 months before Forrest Gump did. I only mention this because it's interesting. I'll still be referring to his character as "Seagal" because he only really plays one kind of character: himself. I realize I'm meandering here, so I'll try to wrap this up by talking about the ending. After all of this, he shows up to the Alaska State Legislature, and live-narrates a documentary about how awful pollution is and that the oil industry is guilty of crimes against humanity. OK, I'll bite. He then mentions something about alternative energies with goofy-looking cars and carburetors that give you 100 miles per gallon of gas (I assume that's a lot. If that's anything like 100km/L, then yes). It's so self-indulgent that I am absolutely not surprised that test audiences had to sit through an 11-minute long speech and was forced to cut it down. Even if all of this were absolutely accurate and doable, it really rings hollow from a character that just killed untold amount of people and caused untold amounts of destruction, not to mention from a movie that had him convalesce and become entwined in Inuit spirituality, but then give a speech about how it's actually bullshit and he needs to kill the bad guys because the gods won't. I even howled at the earlier scene where he defends a Native man' s honour by fighting the redneck rig pigs abusing him and finishes it with a quasi-spiritual quiz about what it takes "to change the essence of a man?" and the guy who just took multiple gut-punches and an even worse ego-thrashing by saying that he needs more time to change. Basically, the movie is a mess. There's a lot of action, but it takes a while to get there after the initial fire and explosion meant to kill Seagal. Some of the shots of snowscape are nice to look at, but other than that, it's not really much. Even past the screenplay level, the fight choreography is a joke (as I mentioned), the special effects aren't anything really, and the plot serves just for the needlessly-violent action scenes. At least making it an action movie saved it from being an even-worse feature-length bullshit documentary directed and narrated by Steven Seagal.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Quick clarification: did you misspell "erratic" or "erotic"? Yes
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The dialogue in Fantasy Island is powerfully bad. I mean it's all powerfully bad but yowza!
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Stephen King's Cell is possibly the worst film I've ever watched. How can a movie with John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson be so bad? But I soldiered through it because I'm a hero.
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Aginor posted:Stephen King's Cell is possibly the worst film I've ever watched. How can a movie with John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson be so bad? But I soldiered through it because I'm a hero. The book was no treat either. Like the part where King just randomly kills a character.
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Dredging up this thread to say that I’m watching Eragon right now, and wow, this is really really bad. Update: it’s getting worse. Uncle Lloyd has a new favorite as of 00:33 on Jun 7, 2020 |
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Aginor posted:Stephen King's Cell is possibly the worst film I've ever watched. How can a movie with John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson be so bad? But I soldiered through it because I'm a hero. I thought the first 5 or so minutes was OK, but everything after was total nonsense, and not in the good way. That ending with that goofy rear end face cusack has running around in circles...what were they thinking? It's not quite as heavy-handed as The Happening was with its "technology/humanity bad" message, but it came pretty close. i realize i am very late to replying to this but I forgot this thread existed for a while.
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Uncle Lloyd posted:Dredging up this thread to say that I’m watching Eragon right now, and wow, this is really really bad. When I found out the writer of the books it was based on was a kid and the son of a publisher, that explained everything.
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Just watched "Leonard Part 6" It's just , not good in any way. Like, you could quite easily cut off a half of if Cosby is a retired CIA(doesn't matter) agent(basically the translates to black-pratfall-batman) who is a successful restaurant owner(doesn't matter) in San Francisco (barely matters) who needs to stop a radical terrorist vegetarian from taking over the area using mind controlled animals. While his daughter is ostensibly being taken advantage of by an older man in the showbiz industry (yes Cosby wrote and produced this) Like it's all poor setup and no payoff and not fun. I get some real Austin Power meets Buckaroo banzai type vibes from this movie but Cosby has this real soft go with the vibe type delivery of all his lines that undercuts every line in this film. The Butler (his "Alfred" ) narrates the whole film making sure you get every beat you "need" Spoiler And like the ending does not make sense, the McGuffin is this orb that contains coloured fluids, Cosby needs to swap this orb for his.wife. Cosby's Butler swaps out the fluid with coloured detergent to render the plan non functional even after the swap. So Cosby and his wife escape their lobster death room and are able to leave. But for some reason need to go back and stop the antagonist's plan. If the McGuffin wasn't important why did the antagonist want the orb back? If the orb was successfully sabotaged why did the plan need to be stopped? Its true how did this get made territory https://youtu.be/6okmqn-omDU This is one of the less crazy scenes
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muscles like this! posted:The book was no treat either. Like the part where King just randomly kills a character. Isn’t that what he always does when he gets bored? In ‘under the dome’ he just kills everyone that isn’t the main character and the love interest and her kids. You could tell he just wanted to end the story.
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So I decided to watch this movie on amazon called "The Devil's Forest To Wood Witch" because that doesn't make any sense, and in the first 30 seconds they've spelled "the" wrong (ths) and have a "what follows, actually happened" warning. Got to love the production values, I think I'm in for a treat. edit: there was just a double staged beach proposal vlog, I already am hoping all four of the main characters die. Now they're shouting stuff like "you're not a journalist, you're a BLOGGER!" as they debate on whether to "reason" with the killer tree/norse god or go back into town like non-idiots. Now she's trying to interview the thing and it sucked the soul out of her fiancee. Hope it was worth the likes+subscribes. So based on the credits/end credits/amazon menu, this movie has three titles - The Devil's Forest To Wood Witch, The Wood Witch, and Wood Witch: The Awahening (they really needed a proofreader). overall not the worst movie about a murdering tree that i've ever seen. yeah I eat ass has a new favorite as of 14:42 on Jul 25, 2020 |
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Did I mention Leonard part 6 here? It's basically bill Cosby trying to blend get smart and police squad, while also being the straight man and the funny man simultaneously It's very bad and should have been put in as evidence in his trial
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Leonard Part 6 was a crime against humanity. Movies like that I'm always reminded of Ebert's quote about 'I'm offended that you even thought this would entertain me.' We watched a bad movie the either night called 'Night of the Creeps'. It's the tamest, most bloodless 80s horror movie ever. Seriously: no nudity, and anytime anyone but a zombie dies the camera cuts away to some blood splatter. But it does have some hilariously scene chewing performances and some fun practical effects, and most important it's short. I also appreciated the handicapped main character being a total dickhead and getting killed halfway through and then never mentioned again just because it breaks your expectations.
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Can I get a mod ruling on sharing a movie I found at Dollar Tree back in highschool? It's garbage in every way but I'm pretty sure it isn't legally on any service and more people should experience this monstrosity https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0270847/ I will rip it and share the link if given the greenlight
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Has anyone watched The Boogeyman? Thats the movie that the SA paywall has scenes stolen from. Its got to be good, it has John Carradine in it.
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wesleywillis posted:Has anyone watched The Boogeyman? I've seen Boogeyman, Boogeyman 2, Boogeyman 3, and Cucuy: The Boogeyman, but I don't think any of them had John Carradine in it. also Len I hesitate to say that movie sounds good but it certainly sounds like something I want to watch.
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The first one definitely did.
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It's not good in any way it's 100% bad. But I found out David C Hayes still offers it for sale, his website links to an Amazon posting Also he made a sequel https://abnormalent.blogspot.com/2020/01/back-woods-2-mamas-beefbilly-jamboree.html?m=1 And his website is eye searingly bad
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wesleywillis posted:The first one definitely did. looks like he was in "The Boogeyman" from 1980. The "Boogeyman" series i saw started in the early 2000s I think.
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It's a pretty awful film but I have a soft spot for it: Wild In the Streets (1968). It's an alternate history where the Boomers are able to muster the people power to not only change the minimum voting age to fourteen, but run a hippie candidate in 1968 (as a Republican, no less) and win. The hippie administration promptly decides to impose a mandatory retirement age of 30 and forcefully haul anyone of retirement age to LSD concentration camps. No, really. What's interesting about the film is that it can't seem to decide whether it's sympathetic to Boomers of the time or if it's a moral panic film warning of the dire consequences of hippiedom receiving mainstream acceptance. Either way, it's an amusing film and I'd be interested to see what Rifftrax would do with it.
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Len posted:Can I get a mod ruling on sharing a movie I found at Dollar Tree back in highschool? It's garbage in every way but I'm pretty sure it isn't legally on any service and more people should experience this monstrosity I don't want to skate too close to public  here, generally speaking, but if that were to get ripped and uploaded somewhere, what you do in PMs is your own business.ETA: Len posted:It's not good in any way it's 100% bad. But I found out David C Hayes still offers it for sale, his website links to an Amazon posting That being the case, definitely do not post a link to it publicly.
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That's fair, I didn't realize it was still legally available until after I posted that. I personally wouldn't pay the  David C Hayes is asking for it but if you want to experience a thing that's always an optionEdit: yeah I eat rear end I don't have plat but if you post an email we can work out a thing, I'd love to get your thoughts on this thing Len has a new favorite as of 19:15 on Jul 25, 2020 |
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Great googly moogly he made a sequel to plan 9 from outer space AND beast from yucca flats https://abnormalent.blogspot.com/p/feature-films.html?m=1 I feel like he's auditioning for RiffTrax. EDIT: looks like most of them are available cheap through Amazon Prime. I brought my Drake has a new favorite as of 20:35 on Jul 25, 2020 |
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