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Bad Movies / Re: 100 *alliterative* movie t...

Last post by bob - Today at 08:14:20 AM

91

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Bad Movies / Re: 100 *alliterative* movie t...

Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 07:57:33 AM

90. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...

Last post by indianasmith - Today at 06:00:17 AM

DO NOT ENTER (2026) - This was a pretty cool found footage film about a group of Instagram urban explorers who break into a hotel where gangster Meyers Lansky supposedly hid some $300 million of his loot, only to find the place is haunted by something not quite human.  Really well done overall, although the ending was a little cheesy.  A solid 4/5.

We watched this over the weekend partially on Indiana's recommendation. Uhh. Well, no need for me to spend several paragraphs enumerating each thing about this film that made no sense or didn't work for us - that would be... everything about the film - dialogue, plot, lighting, editing, direction, acting (excepting perhaps the very earnest off-brand Gerard Butler guy who's wandered in from a different movie). Okay, I'll single out one particular area of the film for ridicule: we simply couldn't make sense of its (fictional, theoretically cool) location - an enormous abandoned hotel on the Jersey Shore where real estate isn't exactly valuable or anything which has been totally abandoned since either the death of Meyer Lanski (in 1983, hmm) or else it's been abandoned for less time (maybe only since the owner ate his wife's heart and became a seven-foot tall bald albino mutant) except for however much time it's been abandoned people have been going there to search for Lansky's hidden fortune, which is laying out in plain sight in an unlocked room that two characters literally run into accidentally yet that fortune's never previously been found pluswhich the hotel still has electricity and plenty of lights and a security system left running (who's paying the bill???) and cut-rate Gerard Butler's wife disappeared into the hotel and never returned "two and a half months ago" but when he finds her body it's perfectly preserved and intact but also her friend who was disappeared with her turns up alive (has she subsisted on the rats and bugs who otherwise would have eaten Mrs. Butler's body???)      - - - and so on.

All that said, this film is so ridiculous and so haphazardly constructed by the end that it's impossible to take it even a little seriously (unlike say this year's OBSESSION, which is occasionally competent enough to make its many many shortcomings loathsome and offensive) - and thus, impossible to really hate or be mad at it. Ergo as DNE reached an ending that I agreed was pretty "cheesy", it is so clearly such a Bad Movie that it really belongs on this website and I'm glad that Indiana rec'd so much enjoyment from it. What else are bad movies for?

My 1/5 plus Indiana's 4/5 makes for a perfect badfilm 5/5. 

There's one for the "Things I learned from bad movies" thread - abandoned buildings will always have perfectly working electricity!

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Bad Movies / Re: 100 *alliterative* movie t...

Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 01:26:26 AM

okay that can be 88


89. TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (2011)

(got my double whammy in, I'm happy!)

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Bad Movies / Re: 100 *alliterative* movie t...

Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 01:05:44 AM

87. The Great Gatsby

way back in time at #4 

Oops! Missed that. So I propose Jeremiah Johnson

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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...

Last post by LilCerberus - August 18, 2026, 09:56:59 PM

RIP Frank Beard

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Bad Movies / Re: 100 *alliterative* movie t...

Last post by bob - August 18, 2026, 09:15:14 PM

87

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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...

Last post by M.10rda - August 18, 2026, 09:07:17 PM

DO NOT ENTER (2026) - This was a pretty cool found footage film about a group of Instagram urban explorers who break into a hotel where gangster Meyers Lansky supposedly hid some $300 million of his loot, only to find the place is haunted by something not quite human.  Really well done overall, although the ending was a little cheesy.  A solid 4/5.

We watched this over the weekend partially on Indiana's recommendation. Uhh. Well, no need for me to spend several paragraphs enumerating each thing about this film that made no sense or didn't work for us - that would be... everything about the film - dialogue, plot, lighting, editing, direction, acting (excepting perhaps the very earnest off-brand Gerard Butler guy who's wandered in from a different movie). Okay, I'll single out one particular area of the film for ridicule: we simply couldn't make sense of its (fictional, theoretically cool) location - an enormous abandoned hotel on the Jersey Shore where real estate isn't exactly valuable or anything which has been totally abandoned since either the death of Meyer Lanski (in 1983, hmm) or else it's been abandoned for less time (maybe only since the owner ate his wife's heart and became a seven-foot tall bald albino mutant) except for however much time it's been abandoned people have been going there to search for Lansky's hidden fortune, which is laying out in plain sight in an unlocked room that two characters literally run into accidentally yet that fortune's never previously been found pluswhich the hotel still has electricity and plenty of lights and a security system left running (who's paying the bill???) and cut-rate Gerard Butler's wife disappeared into the hotel and never returned "two and a half months ago" but when he finds her body it's perfectly preserved and intact but also her friend who was disappeared with her turns up alive (has she subsisted on the rats and bugs who otherwise would have eaten Mrs. Butler's body???)      - - - and so on.

All that said, this film is so ridiculous and so haphazardly constructed by the end that it's impossible to take it even a little seriously (unlike say this year's OBSESSION, which is occasionally competent enough to make its many many shortcomings loathsome and offensive) - and thus, impossible to really hate or be mad at it. Ergo as DNE reached an ending that I agreed was pretty "cheesy", it is so clearly such a Bad Movie that it really belongs on this website and I'm glad that Indiana rec'd so much enjoyment from it. What else are bad movies for?

My 1/5 plus Indiana's 4/5 makes for a perfect badfilm 5/5. 

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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2

Last post by FatFreddysCat - August 18, 2026, 08:22:28 PM

"Terminal Island" (1973)
In a dystopian near future, California has outlawed the death penalty. Instead, they deliver death row offenders to an island 40 miles off the coast to live out the rest of their lives "Lord of the Flies" style. When a new female inmate arrives, she finds herself smack in the midst of an ongoing war between two factions of prisoners, and must choose her side.
An action packed exploitation flick that's best known for having two future stars of "Magnum P.I." in its cast (Tom Selleck and Roger "T C." Mosely. Cheap, sleazy fun.

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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...

Last post by Rev. Powell - August 18, 2026, 08:04:39 PM

I miss Count Binface.