RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie Thread!)

[Dalmatian Bobby Samaritan]

Not many films make me angry but this one does.  I think it's the worse Star Wars cash-in of the time.  At least films like War of the Robots tried to have some excitement in them.  This is so shoddily made in all departments I can't even call it so-bad-it's-good.  The effects are amateurish. They don't even bother with laser effects - any of the lame battles are fought using cattle prods.  The location used to represent various planets is just scrubland.  The writing and pacing is immensely childlike, lazy and boring and the cast clearly have problems mustering any enthusiasm - who could blame them.  Attaching Wells' name to it is the ultimate insult.

1979, the same year as the book The Brethren (The Inside the Supreme Court book written by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong) was written? Ok. A worse cash in than Mandalorian and Grogu or Chuck Schumer farting on the Senate house floor while giving his Iran speech? Are you saying that you would have loved to stand behind that?

So correct me if I am wrong but Boba Fett was the bad guy right and yoda was the the good guy.    Or is it the opposite? And a Shape of Things to come was a book written by H.G. Wells. Never read it but I suppose that each is entitled to their opinion. I mean how about all of those Land Before Time sequels that went straight to video that were nothing more than merchandising shark schemes. And I loved Land Before Time and I generally hate cartoons. So explain that.

I guess I am a little confused as to what a cash in is these days. I mean if it is Star Wars, who cares. That movie has made a ton already. (Why can't we be talking about a Cash in for Boys From Brazil or The Da Vinci Code. This movie that you are talking about was made only two years after the release of the original star wars. Tell me about a Cash in on Ivanhoe. How about Shirley maclaine's cash in on her belief that she can communicate with aliens from Zeta Reticuli or the Pleiadians.)

[M.10rda]

I assume you are consciously gesturing to OUT ON A LIMB, the two-part/four-hour miniseries from the 80s adapted from MacLaine's own memoir and starring MacLaine as herself. I endured the first evening for the aliens but there were no aliens in Part 1, only romantic melodrama. On night 2 I think I made it 25 minutes in and then nodded off and missed the aliens. 

[LilCerberus]

Tonight's Stinker
Hells Angels on Wheels(1967)
https://youtu.be/K_TspgXRbMg?si=be_rocIUpMKVFYfF

Hell's Angels cruise around San Francisco, cause some trouble, the pull up to a gas station, where Jack Nicholson works as an attendant.... He gets fired after mouthing off at an impatient customer who doesn't like being one pump over from bikers.... He later shows up at their hangout, where he get in it with one of the Angels when they break his headlamp.... The leader (Adam Roark) breaks it up & offers him a new headlamp if he follows them, to a rumble.... Afterwards, he falls for one of the girls, but she's not into monogamy....
Following a gratingly long party scene, the Angels decide to make Jack a perspective member....

Lots of riding & rumbles, with very little time put into story development....
Failed to sit through this one as a kid, & quickly remembered why.....