The results are in

[Eric Jonas]

I was very pleasantly surprised to see that 28 people had responded to my previous querey about which movies my friends and I should have rented for our bad movie all-nighter. We had trouble finding all the movies we wanted at the video store, but we still managed to get a good bunch of ten together.

The result of the competition was that two of the competors, myself included, were able to survive the entire roster of 10 movies. So, for a tie-breaker, in we two are going to watch-and I kid you not-Sextette, over, and over, and over, and over again until one of us just can't take it anymore. This could very realistically mean that we are going to sit through 25 or more consecutive viewings of Sextette. We are very, very sick people.

Here's a relation of what we watched, etc.

1. Wizards (An old animated movie that's an allegory for WW2. Many people seem to like it, but something about it just made it hard for us to swallow.)

2. Halloween III (It was pretty strange seeing a Halloween movie that inexplicably does not feature Michael Meyers. I really don't know what they were thinking. The idea of using Halloween masks that turn children's heads into bugs is just about the stupidist idea for an evil plot this side of Plan 9.)

3. Barney's Great Adventure (The musical numbers did not help. I'm just glad we saw it so early in the night. As it was, watching it at ten at night almost did two of our five participants in.)

4. The Brother from Another Planet (Perhaps I was still trying to recover from "Barney," but I seemed to think this one was pretty bad. Looking at the IMDB, though, makes me question my judgement on this one. Perhaps it's worthy of a second viewing.)

It's worth noting, however, that this movie did in two of the five members (wimps) though I have reason to suspect that it was "Barney's Great Adventure" that really did the damage.
 
5. Puppet Master III (With only three contestants remaining, this movie actually didn't hurt as much as we all thought it would. Even so, it was still bad enough to put one of the remaining three contestants to sleep.)

6. Can't seem to remember what this one was.

7. Parents (Has its moments, but generally not very entertaining. I may be contested on this one, but I think it deserved its place in our lineup.)

8. The Land Before Time VII (They've got some nerve to have made seven-scratch that, eight movies in this series. What is wrong with them?)

9. Howling V (Terrible-especially after enduring more than 24 hours of sleep deprivation)

10. Popcorn (Not all that bad, but still cheesy. Again, we started watching it at 9 AM after 15 hours of bad movies, so by that time my senses were long gone.

All in all, a lot of fun and a great warm-up for B-Fest 2003.

[Mofo Rising]

Yes.  That'd do.

1. WIZARDS - I don't enjoy very much.  I like to keep my hippies and my fantasy settings separate.

7. PARENTS - Hate this movie.  A skull rating would be descriptive enough if the skull was black and it killed you by looking at it.

10. POPCORN - I enjoy this one, but mostly because it has Jill Schoelen in it.

Have fun with your SEXTETTE party.  (That sentence doesn't sound right at all.)

[Steven Millan]

              Watching "Sexette" will be as much sheer torture as "Showgirls".
              And,that Peace  robot in "Wizards" seems to be the inspiration for Boba Fett (George Lucas must have seen this film for the idea). By the way,Ralph Bakshi rules(I miss that dude).
                   Best of luck on your 2nd. party,Eric.

[ErikJ]

I have a great suggestion for your next party. A little gem called "2 Idiots in Hollywood." As bad as this movie is I just can't get some of the tidbits out of my mind. The spanking song or the really bad monster quote, "When the moon is full, I become a wolf." Believe me just typing it here doen't do it justice. Trust me on this one. It some great bad movie fun.

[Nathan]

Eric Jonas wrote:
>
> The result of the competition was that two of the competors,
> myself included, were able to survive the entire roster of 10
> movies. So, for a tie-breaker, in we two are going to
> watch-and I kid you not-Sextette, over, and over, and over,
> and over again until one of us just can't take it anymore.
> This could very realistically mean that we are going to sit
> through 25 or more consecutive viewings of Sextette.

I doubt it.  One and a half times should about do it.

> 2. Halloween III (It was pretty strange seeing a Halloween
> movie that inexplicably does not feature Michael Meyers. I
> really don't know what they were thinking. The idea of using
> Halloween masks that turn children's heads into bugs is just
> about the stupidist idea for an evil plot this side of Plan 9.)

Actually, John Carpenter's original idea for the Halloween franchise was that all of the movies be completely unrelated, connected only by the fact that they take place on Halloween.  But once the first one was so popular, the producers insisted that the second one be a direct sequel.  That, combined with the fact that H3 sucked in its own right, made it seem like it was a "one-off" from the series, and they went back to focusing on Lil Mikey.

Nathan

[Lee]

What's with everybody knocking "Parents"? This movie is pretty cool. Although I admit, if my parents were like this I'd run like HELL!

[Eric Jonas]

Truth be told, I kind of liked it, too.

[me]

I have a suggestion. Why don't you watch all the Child's Play movies.  Me and my friends watched them all in one night and the laughter kept us up all night.  I mean, a killing, possessed doll, what's funnier than that?!  One quick warning though, the movies keep getting worse and worse.  Child's Play 1 is pretty good, but by the time you get to Bride of Chucky, you wonder what kind of idiots even bothered making another one.  Still, quite fun if you have nothing better to do with your time.