Bad Movie Thursday

Viewing Date: 8/6/20

Starring: Meera Rohit Kumbhani, Nick Thune, Adam Busch

Plot: Dave, an artist who has yet to complete anything significant in his career, builds a fort in his living room out of pure frustration, only to wind up trapped by the fantastical pitfalls, booby traps, and critters of his own creation. (via IMDB)

Rules

• Origami
• “It’s bigger than it looks” or other references to the size of the Maze
• “Maze”  (borderline advanced rule

Quotes

• “Did she die or did she just turn into a craft project?”
• “Everyone are assholes!”  “Is.”  “Everyone is assholes!  No that doesn’t sound right.”
• “Hey Brynn.  Thought you were dead.”

Viewer Quotes

• I think we needed mushrooms to watch this.” (several other similar quotes about this movie and drugs)

What We Learned

• It’s an old fort trick to use a towel and tape.
• Life is a series of incomplete moments of which there is no escape.
• When you die in a cardboard maze, your blood and guts become paper products.
• The only thing a minotaur wants more than to eat human flesh is to be free (and eventually go to a bar).

Final Take

This movie has apparently won several independent movie awards and based on the ratings, is very popular.  It was SO close to hitting the checkmarks of a cult classic.  The movie starts out really strong, has some funny moments and bizarre trippy scenes (the puppets, the optical illusion room) that bring me back to the crazy movies that we loved in high school and college (like Meet the Feebles).  Unfortunately, the movie really lost steam from about half way on and the end wasn’t anything special.  Still worth watching, it just falls short of what could have been a BMT classic.