RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie Thread!)

[zombie no.one]

yeah not the most kid-friendly scene (oh hang on, kids probably loved that scene)... but I get what you mean. beyond 'family movie' type stuff really, which is kind of where I think the JP franchise is supposed to be pitched?

fwiw I watched a Wesley Snipes 2000s era film tonight which was so unremarkable I can't even be bothered to report on it. not even for you guys. sorry

[lester1/2jr]

The Game blew my mind and had my spouting conspiracy theories. To each their own, I guess.


Also, I've never gotten Jurassic Park. A bunch of CGI dinosaurs who cares? They should have actually created dinosaurs, then I'd watch it.

[M.10rda]

I liked THE GAME. It isn't Fincher's best but the cast is good and it's fun to watch Michael Douglas get jerked about.

[zombie no.one]

The Game blew my mind and had my spouting conspiracy theories. To each their own, I guess.

of course, that's the way it has to be and I totally respect all you guys' takes... it's super rare that I ever change my own opinion on a movie after 1st watch, but it has happened

[zombie no.one]

KILL SWITCH (2008)

"Seagal's best movie in years" says the blurb on the dvd inlay

so of course it's no better or worse than any of his films from the preceding 5 years or so (and I have them all, so I can say that), and is definitely worse than any which precede that.

this one starts with a flashback sequence to a traumatic event in Stevie boy's childhood, when he and his brother are playing in the woods, and his brother goes to retreive a frisbee or something, and is killed... by... someone?

this event flashes back a few times throughout the movie, with increasing intensity, although what it has to do with the main plot I have no idea...

Seagal talks with a truly ridiculous regional twang of his own concoction in this one, which sounds half hillbilly redneck and half LA pimp...

fights is fought and heads is cracked and it's all okay in the end.

[LilCerberus]

Tonight's Stinker
Rocket Attack U.S.A.(1960)
https://youtu.be/rysX2mJmveA?si=UED4GmPkLAguw4IF

The Soviets have launched a new Sputnik, so the U.S. military sends a spy to Moscow to see what's up....
Upon arrival, he learns his contact is a woman who's started an affaire with a top ranking Soviet minister, and that they have all the research data they need to start work on an ICBM....
Meanwhile, American attempts to get a missile up fail, so the only option is for the American spy to sabotage the Russian missile....

Cold war & space race exploitation....
About an hour, with mostly a narrator talking over stock footage...
The acting is mostly stiff, with most of the scenes over dubbed, while some recite their lines as if they only just saw the script, a second ago.....
Meanders for the first half, then switches directions.....

[LilCerberus]

Tonight's Stinker
First Man Into Space (1959)
https://youtu.be/Fp_9o4AIDqM?si=Y3DcQSQdhVeD0mtV

A repurposed Bell X-1 (in other words, stock footage) is shot off into space... The airbase commander says it's reached it's limit & should turn around, but the pilot is his reckless younger brother, who pushes the plane AND himself slightly beyond.... He manages to get back to Earth, but wrecks the plane.... Instead of returning to the airbase, he goes to see his girlfriend, which puts him in deep doo-doo with his already irate older brother, but Washington gives him another chance....
The pilot disobeys orders again, the plane runs into a cloud of space dust.... The plane returns to earth with no pilot....
Then about halfway through the movie, cattle, people & a blood bank are attacked by a creature that breathes like Darth Vader....

Get plodding at times in spite of the runtime, the pilots personality & the premise make for some real headscratchers......

[Newt138]

Just finished a horrid film

Smokey & the Bandit 6 Bandit and the Beauty

But wait you are thinking there is only 3 S&tB films. Well that was until 1994 when 4 made for tv sequels got unleashed.

This one had Kathy Ireland as the female lead. Bandit is on his way to a race,Kathy steals his car. Bandit ends up driving a bus full of Nudists and nuns.

Total s**t.