RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie Thread!)

[Senor Citizen]

Sea of love

Disgusting movie where Al Pacino kisses Ellen Barkin in a very long scene. It must have been Al`s idea. And it has Al`s ass on white undies.
Soundtrack has saxophone so 1 point for that.

Beethoven's 2nd

Is it okay to say that movie is stupid, bad and entertaining because it was family comedy made for kids?

Grumpier Old Men

Couple of funny jokes but because I`m not Mike Stoklasa, I don`t find old people funny.

[lester1/2jr]

^ I will be sure to avoid all of those. or see them, who knows

The Cold (1984) - also called The Game also called ... garbage. 3 millionaires invite random people to have a "game" that doesn't appear to have any rules or point. They wander around what looks like the bottom floor of an abandoned Holiday Inn trying to somehow win. There is some brief nudity with decent looking women, tons of bad jokes and worse acting, and a general "we are cashing in on the VHS horror boom with nothing at all to say in that style of cinema" vibe.

The guy who did Monster a Go Go (which I remember as part of my least favorite Something Weird DVD two fer) and Giant Spider Invasion is at the helm, so you know it's gonna suck. And yet....and yet....and yet it does have that recent Viewings Bad movies thread feel down so perfectly that I did enjoy it. It's another one where it seems like they're all working on another movie and making this during the breaks in action. In one scene, two frisky contestants are having sex in the sauna. They think they are locked in and the guy clearly has tighty whities on. Why would the character do that and why did I have to see that?

2.5/ 5

It stinks, yet it does have a tiny, microscopic amount of charm and cleverness. I watched it based on this https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTvcaY-EQbZ/ post.

[LilCerberus]

Tonight's Stinker
She Devils on Wheels (1968)
https://youtu.be/jkvglNHlpdw?si=DdjQSsfdJmuZbayy

And boy, what a stinker! Plot? What plot?
The Maneaters, an all female biker gang gets together for a race, & the winner gets to pick out her stud for the evening..... They go back to their pad & mayhem ensues, but the next morning, there's an issue with one of the girls wanting to go steady with one of the studs (against the rules)... Later that night, they force her to torture the boy she likes....
Then there's the matter of one of the girls completing her initiation....
At the halfway point of this movie, an all male hot-rod car gang tries to take over the abandoned flat top they use to race..... The girls kick their butts, the guys swear revenge, & some semblance of a story emerges....

The sound in this print drops out several times.... Lots of scenes of riding & love-ins to stretch out the runtime.... A plot point about one of the girls (possibly the others) living a double life as a girl next door is mentioned but never delved into....
Ends abruptly..

[M.10rda]

That's a terrible movie indeed, but some of the dialogue and violence is pretty amusing.

[zombie no.one]

seen that one a few years ago... bit like a tame  cut price Russ Meyer.  a more appropriate title might've been SLOWER PUSS¥CAT, MEOW MEOW

[M.10rda]

The Long Night (1947) - Henry Fonda is a working class shlub who gets involved in a battle of wits with evil stage magician Vincent Price over a girl. I really liked Vincent Price here. It's earlier than most of his more well known stuff and the character is more noir-ishly sinister. On the whole, it's more of a noir-tinged drama though. Fonda is a great actor but he isn't really "of the night". decent budget, memorable cinematography it's just a little slower than, say, Ace in the Hole (1951). I don't think I'd watch it again

4.25 /5

Ann Dvorack as his magician's assistant is not really my jawn. The love triangle girl is much cuter

THE LONG NIGHT (1947):
The world is certainly big enough for Lester and I to never fight over the same dame! I only came to LONG NIGHT for Ann Dvorak, as a hardcore Dvorak stan since o.g. SCARFACE. Even 15 years later Dvorak has a killer set of legs and a great personality, and as an actress in her mid-30s    I guess she was pretty lucky to even pull a role this good in a semi-serious flick where she's in a bizarre love quadrangle with big star Henry Fonda, popular 40s character actor Vincent Price, and young thang Barbara Bel Geddes.  If that romantic scenario doesn't make much sense to you - well - this entire movie doesn't make any sense. It's ridonkulously overwritten and stanky with melodrama, presumably calculated to capitalize on Fonda's profile as an all-American underdog hero. Really though the entire film hinges on Fonda being a smart and decent guy that nonetheless simply cannot control his urge to murder...!!!          I dunno.

Fonda is a good actor, though, and Price is a lot of fun in (again) a nonsensical role where he might as well just twirl his moustache and cackle sadistically. The crime-thriller parts are well-shot and directed. And Dvorak -  Sigh!  Hollywood only had 5 more years of work for her. I hope she enjoyed three decades of peaceful retirement...

2.5/5
Only 12 years later, Bel Geddes would be relegated to the "old broad" role in VERTIGO (at the exact same age Dvorak is in LONG NIGHT) opposite bizarrely old, hard, and cold-looking "young thang" Kim Novak... what a weird business old Hollywood was.
Ironically, most of Jimmy Stewart's issues in VERTIGO would be solved if he stuck w/ Bel Geddes and forgot about Novak, just as most of Fonda's issues in LONG NIGHT would go away if Fonda could be satisfied w/ foxy, leggy, sassy Dvorak and just let Price have Bel Geddes. The young thang is never worth the trouble!

[LilCerberus]

Tonight's Stinker
Avengers Grimm: Time Wars(2018)
https://youtu.be/5wFpGlAYtC8?si=FmS89Sb5mmxaLylh

Fairy tale characters Alice (through The Looking Glass), Snow White, Red Riding Hood & Sleeping Beauty are butt kicking girl bosses who work for A group that tries to keep fairy tale characters from destroying the world....
Magda, queen of Atlantis has followed an escaped Prince Charming to the modern world, sends fish men to destroy the city, and manages to send the girls back to fairy tale land, from which they must escape & stop Magda from marrying Prince Charming...

Pretty fast paced action comedy....
The first half feels pretty convoluted & confusing, but starts to make sense after a while...
Sorta plays out like an unsold television pilot...