RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie Thread!)

[Rev. Powell]

Good job, Rev!  It is one of the worst films w/ Ed's name attached to it...

If I did I good job, why do I feel so bad? DR. X still hurts 2 days later.

[M.10rda]

Like they say to the troops:
We thank you for your service. 

[zombie no.one]

GRAVITY (2013)

first time watch. I like to wait for the hype to simmer down a little :)

this would've made a genuinely gripping 20 minute short. aka the first 20 minutes or so. maybe even 15.

after that it very quickly becomes rinse and repeat. also Clooney's character is totally non-credible, to the point of daftness.

one well executed JAWS-esque jump scare aside, the whole thing fell off a cliff and landed with a thud, for me.

couldn't finish it.

[M.10rda]

THE PUBLIC CEMETERY UNDER THE MOON (1967):
I didn't get on with this at all and I think I need to stop trying to watch 60s Korean horror. This has the same shortcomings as BLOODTHIRSTY KILLER, only they are fatal instead of merely crippling. BLOODGTHIRSTY KILLER was 65% wacky nonsensical horror mayhem and 35% stultifying domestic melodrama (unfortunately it was the last 35% of the film!). THE PUBLIC CEMETERY UTM is about 15% horror and 85% stultifying domestic melodrama - those ratios are trending in the entirely wrong direction, dudes!

There are two laff-out-loud ridiculous macabre moments in the first 5-ish minutes, which gave me a lot of hope for this. Then two women try to poison an infant, then try to stab that infant, and fail - none of which is particularly entertaining but at least it isn't boring. Then TPCUTM stops dead for at least a full hour of romance, teary heartfelt promises, infidelity, betrayal, non-horror-related death, a shockingly unexciting (and bloodless) police interrogation torture scene, more tears and recriminatory chest-beating, and finally about 10 minutes of ghostly action, then some more melodrama right at the end.

Clearly Korean audiences in the 60s liked their horror very mild and with an overwhelming dose of soap operatic bull$#1t. This was painful to get through.

1/5
I suppose you could watch the first 5 minutes and stop. I assure you it never gets better.