Bad Movies

[Benton]

The Strange Ones.

Watched it on Hulu. Meandering, at times hopelessly confusing and it works too hard to twist.

Acting wasn't bad though.

[grampahol]

I love crappy old movies..especially a lot of them made back in the 1930s and that era.. Amazingly families had children and young women got knocked up by only kissing. Sometimes they didn't even go that far...just the doomed sounding music was enough to create a single mother when such things were taboo.. The best part is the tough guys had arms half the size of my scrawny arms.. All they needed to do to win was sound tough.. "Oh yeah?"..."YEAH!"  I know I was always frightened.. 
Subscribe to the Criterion channel.. Always lots of old classic campiness.. and don't forget Classic Reel.. That's the motherload of crappy old flix and it's just $2 a month.. Tough to beat!  

[George Cantstandya]

I don't usually go for bad movies.  However last month I Googled movies on Amazon Prime worth watching and ran across an article listing several movies.  That is where I found The Greasy Strangler.  It is purposely bad.  It has bad acting on purpose, bad special effects.  But I could not stop watching it.  It's gross and not in a typical gory movie way, but gross in other ways.  You have to see it to understand.  And that damn music got stuck in my head for days as well as this phrase, "Bullshit Artist!"





So if you have Amazon Prime and like really weird and bad movies that one is worth a watch.  The ending was a total WTF?  Well the whole movie is filled with WTF moments.   "Hootie Tootie Disco Cutie."

[grampahol]

You guys are missing out on a regular thriller with Judy Garland.. Pigskin Parade is an all time great account of how TSU (Texas State University) beat Yale.. 

Yeah, it's THAT bad, but "fun for the whole family" if nobody in your entire extended family has never had fun ever in the past.. 

[*michaelsean*]

Showgirls. Constant boobs, and I still couldn't sit through the whole thing.

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(01-10-2020, 04:49 PM)Donnyho Wrote: I believe “Miami Connection” and “Hard Ticket to Hawaii” are both on YouTube. I can’t recommend “Miami Connection” enough. It’s fantastic.

It is?

Are all the softcore scenes intact? 'cause I've seen tits on YT (in Sopranos clips), but all of Sidaris' films have a TON of softcore porn in them lol.

Speaking of, I can't remember what DVD I purchased, but it was cheap on eBay and the seller threw in, "3 free DVDs!," with it. All three DVDs were part of an Andy Sidaris pack, I think called Babes, Bullets and... something else with a B lol.

Anyways, Buff Bagwell is in one (or is it 2?) of the films, along with Julie Strain (the chick who was in Heavy Metal 2000, known for being like 6'1 tall and is VERY attractive) and a bunch of other softcore regulars and the like. I think I watched just one of the films, found it atrocious (lol) and haven't bothered with the other ones. I believe it's at my parent's house, but no idea where it is now.

So yes, any film by Andy Sidaris will be a horrid film

Cats that came out recently, has been flayed alive by everyone and is currently sitting at 2.8/10 on imdb. From what I gather, it's because the CGI is absolute shit.

Going back to Softcore films, I've only ever seen Skyscraper, but check out Anna Nicole Smith's films; also horrid, terrible films, but ANS is indeed a gorgeous woman (whoever thought she could act was completely out to lunch). Skyscraper has Deron McBee in it, complete with his trademark massive hair (he was one of the original American Gladiators {Malibu} and was in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation).

Then there are the Pamela Anderson films, where she's the best thing in it (from an acting and visual standpoint); Snapdragon, Raw Justice... and there's one more I can't remember, culminating with Barb Wire. Though I haven't seen it, from everything I've read, Barb Wire is actually not too bad (not in the category with the above films, anyways), but people killed it because it was a Pamela Anderson vehicle and nothing more.

It's also not, "BAD," but Gareth Evans' (the Raid films, arguably the best action films since the year 2000, the second one especially) first feature, Footsteps, is clearly a student-film/pet project that he made when he was graduating from film school and it is... rough. I'd give it a 5/10 at best. Production values are significantly less that the above-mentioned films (hence it being rough), but it is a bit better, otherwise.

[Interceptor]

(01-20-2020, 10:35 AM)michaelsean Wrote: Showgirls.  Constant boobs, and I still couldn't sit through the whole thing.

I think you lie! I'll have to check this out for myself....

[*Go Cards*]

Never knew people enjoyed "Horrid Flicks" before now.

I just fall asleep during and forget them it seems.

Maybe it is all the herbal consumption that has fogged my memory though. It is purely for medicinal reasons though, lol.

[Interceptor]

Blood Of Heroes

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(01-20-2020, 11:33 AM)Interceptor Wrote: I think you lie! I'll have to check this out for myself....

Showgirls isn't as bad as it is just phoned in.

EVERYONE phoned it in, from Verhoeven (who just wanted to fill the film with {bad} sex and nudity, making it less serious than his previous films), to Gershon (who was blindsided by the actual film, expecting it to be a SERIOUS drama, with a heavy plot and an Aesop), etc. Most egregiously though, Joe Eszterhaus wrote a horrid script. Berkley was the only one who really put a ton into it, but because the script and setpieces were shitty, she had nothing to work with (not to mention that she rushed into the role, trying to distance herself from Jessica Spano).

That and everyone made a joke of the whole thing lol.

Legitimately, with a proper script and better production, the film had potential to be a great re-telling or serious piece on the plight of a Las Vegas worker; be it as a Showgirl or a stripper.

Instead, it became a ridiculously campy and over the top bunch of crud.

Seriously, it is a VERY interesting look into just how Hollywood can be, the production of this film; I've read up extensively on it and it is still one of the more intriguing film stories out there, mainly because of one main thing; "how the hell did they **** it up so badly?"

[Donnyho]

(01-20-2020, 11:06 AM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: It is?

Are all the softcore scenes intact? 'cause I've seen tits on YT (in Sopranos clips), but all of Sidaris' films have a TON of softcore porn in them lol.

Yup, it’s the full, uncut movie.

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(01-20-2020, 03:27 PM)Donnyho Wrote: Yup, it’s the full, uncut movie.

[Interceptor]

(01-20-2020, 03:27 PM)Donnyho Wrote: Yup, it’s the full, uncut movie.

Like a bad version of Boogie Nights?

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(01-20-2020, 07:50 PM)Interceptor Wrote: Like a bad version of Boogie Nights?

"Bad," and "Boogie Nights," don't fit in the same line together.

Let's just say that it is more of a really bad 80s TV show (bad Magnum PI or something), but with horrid effects (dummies!), campy to death and the length of a feature film (almost).

And a ton of nudity/softcore pornography.