Bad Movie Thursday

Date Watched: 09/20/18

Starring: Michael Gross, Jamie Kennedy, Tremor O’Neill

Plot: Graboids are attacking people in a desert, that also may supposed to be a snow-field.  Time to suit up.

Rules

• “Graboids” or “Assblaster”
• Nods to Oregon
• Severed limbs/body parts

Quotes

• “Hell, I’m hotter than a .50 cal on full auto.”
• “From one kill-site, we recovered a severed head, a torso, and a half-eaten testicle.”
• “That flaming sphincter is on the roof.”
• “Get back here!  Don’t follow stupid with stupid.”
• “Oh come on.  If you’re going to piss like a puppy, stay on the porch.”
• “My balls are in the guiness book of balls.”
• “At least the gland wasn’t in the prostate.”

Viewer Quotes

• “Did he crap his pants or something?” – “Did he have an assblaster?”
• “I one day hope to high-five Jamie Kennedy for some reason.”

Things We Learned

• You can fly over Canada and land in California
• Assblasters explode when you shoot them in the ass.
• Don’t let the urgent get in the way of the important.
• It’s impossible to count the graboids without a seismic vibration monitor.
• Blood ain’t thicker than ammo.

Final Take: It’s exactly what you’d expect.  You should know what you’re getting yourself into by now.

Date Watched: 7/19/2018

Starring: Treat Williams, Digimon Honsou

Plot: A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who have taken over the ship first.

Rules

• “Jezebel” or “Hercules”
• “Argonautica”
• Tentacle Attack
• Jump scares (real or empty)
• Askew camera angles (advanced rule, discretionary)
• Obvious green screen scene

Quotes

• “What you got there?”  –  “Peanut.”  –  “Peanut”?
• “I think she broke my nose.”  –  “Give me a chance and I’ll break the rest of your face, not that anybody would notice.”  –  “What is this about?”
• “Who gives a shit what they are?  Just tell us how to kill these motherfuckers.”
• “You mean I can have anything I want?  How about a cold beer?”
• “I don’t mean to sound like a pussy, but this shit is starting to freak me out, man!”
• “Can you just…get…asthma, or do you have to be born with it?”

Viewer Quotes

• “No good quotes, just bad dialogue.”
• “This soundtrack is like something you’d find on a casio keyboard.”
• “This is good late 90’s gore.”
• “This guy is probably going to turn into a tentacle.  He’s been a tentacle this whole time.”
• “To a creature this size, a human being is like a piece of popcorn.  Why spend all this effort for a few kernels of popcorn?”
• “The only way to slow ’em down is to feed ’em.”  –  “What do we feed ’em?  All I got is a wet stick of gum and a breath mint.”

Things We Learned

• Mercenaries run across table tops when clearing a room
• Very large octopuses have mouths at the end of their tentacles.  Mouths within mouths.  Also the tentacles can see.
• A room full of dead bodies is also full of screams.
• Man is the real monster.

Final Take: Pretty good, better than expected.  Some good sequences.  Djimon Hounsou had a great follow-up effort after his academy award winning role in Amistad.

Date Watched: 05/24/2018

Starring: Keegan Michael Key, Denis Leary, Patton Oswalt, Bob Odenkirk

Plot: In the town of Dillford, humans, vampires and zombies were all living in peace – until the alien apocalypse arrived. Now three teenagers – one human, one vampire, and one zombie – have to team up to figure out how to get rid of the visitors.

Rules

• Riblets
• Zombie/Vampire tropes
• “Dillford”
• “Brains”
• Alien Spaceship

Quotes

• “Not everything in your life is under your control.  Sometimes you vink at them and they don’t vink back.”
• “Come on, man, for the love of shit!”
• “I would love to chain all of them to their lockers, in a manner that would make sure they would not escape.  Then just roll sticks of dynamite, like old fashioned dynamite, down the hall and blow up the school.  And then I’d spare a couple of faculty, not this mother-fucker… I should fucking eat you!”
• “Call me swiss cheese ’cause I’m holy”
• “I know you’re thinking about killing yourself, and I don’t blame you.  Just wait to see if you get better.  If you don’t get better, go for it.”
• “Leading cause of puff tongue.”
• “Insurance is for suckers.”
• “Thank you for being so understanding, but in this case, you’re not understanding correctly.”
• “He just put some intestines back, and took different intestines.  What the fuck does it matter?”
• “The Dillford Shitter…It’s him!”
• “We have to have family yoga on Saturdays.  A lot of families do that.”
• “FYI, my dick’s bigger than yours.”
• “I thought you shit yourself at your piano recital.”  –  “It was a bag week.”
• “Why does he think he has the brains?  He doesn’t even seem to have any language skills.”
• “Give him the high cheese, Daggy!”

Viewer Quotes

• “This is a vastly different movie from the first half”

Things We Learned

• Kids don’t go in the teachers’ lounge.
• Zombies get smarter when deprived of brains.
• Ned has a huge hog.
• Vampires can put protect themselves with sunscreen.
• Aliens can’t see you if you’re naked.
• Organic cotton is no different from skin.
• Zombies disguise themselves as doctors.

Final Take: This movie was not bad.  The beginning was great, the middle was pretty boring, but the end did a good job of taking it home.  Worth a watch.

Viewing Date: 4/26/18

Starring: Michael Gross, Jamie Kennedy

Plot:  The stakes are raised for survivalist, Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) in his most dangerous monster hunt yet. When Gummer’s hired to capture a deadly Ass-blaster terrorizing South Africa, he and his new sidekick Travis Welker (Jamie Kennedy) engage in a battle of survival against the fiercely aggressive Ass-blasters and Graboids. Discovering the monsters have evolved into even more lethal creatures, their killer mission takes on a whole new level of unseen terror–far more than they bargained for (via IMDB).

Rules

• Say “Grabboids”, “Ass Blasters”, “Shriekers”
• Remember the house rules- creature vision, mustaches, stock footage, dismemberments- and you’ll be fine.

Quotes

“If you have ass blasters, you have graboids.”

“You’re just another pimple here on the ass of progress.”

(Drinking urine) “Definitely an acquired taste.”

“This is a bag of dicks.” (assessment of a bad situation)

Viewer Quotes

“Man he looks old.”  “Which one?”  “Well, both of them, but Jamie Kennedy looks terrible.”

“I never thought I’d say this, but Michael Gross greatly outshines Jamie Kennedy.”

“Father son?  How did we not see this coming?”

“When he made Son of Mask, do you think he knew he would be Son of Tremors?”