Bad Movie Thursday

Date Watched: 7/17/2014

Starring: JCVD, JCVD’s Daughter

Plot: Friends get together for a night out in a bar. Life is wonderful as a couple share their proposal moment. When, suddenly strange things start to happen. Loss of power. Throughout the city. No phones, no lights, just darkness as the friends try to cope. Then an invasion from UFOs, big ones! The sky is darkened by the ships of the alien invaders. The takeover of planet Earth has begun as our the five friends struggle to survive amid the chaos and calamity. Will love survive the terror?

Rules

• Adidas logo
• Flashbacks or flash forwards
• 24 and 36
• Buildup without payoff
• Weird shaky camera
• Fistfights
• Seeing an alien (don’t count on it)

Quotes

• “Hey, I’m a nice guy.  Now get the fuck out of here.”
• “Dirty bomb, filthy bomb, disgusting bomb…doesn’t matter.”
• “What’s making me feel panicky is the fucking spaceship outside.”

Viewer Quotes

• “That was an incredible scene”
• “How not to film a sex scene…close ups of a dude’s ass”
• “OK, the power’s off.  Understand how that works?”
• “Mobile phones don’t work, land lines don’t work, radio doesn’t work, electricity’s out, no big deal.”
• “He really does look like the Shermanator.”
• “Still nothing has happened.” – “It’s character development.  It’s a character piece.”
• “Somebody better get murdered by an alien soon.”
• “Do you think we’re going to see an alien this entire time?”
• “Do we classify that as an explosion?” – “Yeah, I think that’s about as good as it’s going to get in this movie.”
• “Well I guess she doesn’t got a fella anymore!”

What We Learned

• White guys should not wear corn rows.
• The English wait in queues politely even during an alien invasion.
• The English believe immigrants don’t deserve a place in line.
• One night stands make great companions in an alien invasion.