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

Last post by M.10rda - August 19, 2026, 02:44:33 PM

I guess that was the power of evil keepin' the lights on.

[BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS CATCH A FIRE]

#32

Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...

Last post by Allhallowsday - August 19, 2026, 02:29:44 PM

BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS CATCH A FIRE 

[SAMMY DAVIS JR. Sings LAURINDO ALMEIDA Plays]

#33

Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...

Last post by Allhallowsday - August 19, 2026, 01:21:02 PM

SAMMY DAVIS JR. Sings LAURINDO ALMEIDA Plays  

#34

Bad Movies / Re: 100 Historical Movies in O...

Last post by Rev. Powell - August 19, 2026, 11:33:28 AM

Hate to go back-to-back, but we're so close and so we don't get stuck:

97. Spotlight (ends in January 2002)

We need three movies in 24 years, not including future-set sci-fi.

#35

Games / Re: Movie Title Chains

Last post by Rev. Powell - August 19, 2026, 09:05:30 AM

#36

Games / Re: Answer the question with a...

Last post by Rev. Powell - August 19, 2026, 09:03:11 AM

If you were going to Latin America, what would you pick as your destination?

#37

Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...

Last post by Rev. Powell - August 19, 2026, 08:47:16 AM

#38

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

Last post by bob - August 19, 2026, 08:14:20 AM

91

#39

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

Last post by Rev. Powell - August 19, 2026, 07:57:33 AM

90. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

#40

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

Last post by indianasmith - August 19, 2026, 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!