Bad Movie Thursday

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?”

Date Watched: 4/12/18

Starring: Michael Fassbender, lots of “others”.

Plot: Have you played the game?  It’s the game.

Rules

• Time Travel
• “Assassin” or “the Creed”
• Talk about or show the Apple of Eden
• Assassinating people (with the hidden blade = 2x)
• Present time Fassbender mirroring past Fassbender.
• Jeremy Irons standing pensively in the window.

Quotes

• “Violence is what kept me alive.”  –  “Well, technically you’re dead.”
• “When I die today, don’t waste your tears.”
• “He’s synchronizing…”
• “I can’t feel my legs.”  –  “The paralysis is temporary.”

Viewer Quotes

• “There’s nothing quotable in this movie.”
• “He’s so awesome he broke the machine.”  –  “He got an achievement.”
• “That guy went for the claw hand?”  –  “That’s what I would go for.”
• “I don’t understand, at all.  Was this attempting to set up a sequel?”

Things We Learned

• The Animus must fling your body forward to synchronize your memories.
• Assassin’s and Templars have been at war for centuries.

Viewing Date: 3/1/18

Starring: Jason Statham, Jessica Alba, Tommy Lee Jones, Michelle Yeaoh

Plot

Arthur Bishop thought he had put his murderous past behind him, until his most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life. Now he is forced to travel the globe to complete three impossible assassinations, and do what he does best: make them look like accidents. (via IMDB)

Rules

• Incoherent fight scenes
• New locations
• Planning and gadgetry

Quotes

(None- believe it or not, this movie was not heavy on the great dialogue)

Viewer Quotes

• “How much time is left? 50 mins”  (we check) “48 minutes.”  “Ugh. I was being facetious.”
• “He’s one part MacGuyver, one part Jason Statham.”

What We Learned

• You can jump on a hang glider mid-flight with no issues.
• Your home should always be wired to self-destruct
• The mechanic doesn’t really fix anything.
• Shark repellent is a thing.
• Jason Statham has super lungs and is some kind of Aquaman.

Date Watched: 02/15/2018

Starring: Sly Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Terry Crews, Mel Gibson, and probably more.

Plot: Barney augments his team with new blood for a personal battle: to take down Conrad Stonebanks, the Expendables co-founder and notorious arms trader who is hell bent on wiping out Barney and every single one of his associates (i.e. – the old crew is only around for 20 minutes before the movie resets with a totally different cast.)

Rules

• Explosions (advanced)
• Every new character introduction (or cameo)
• “Stone Banks”
• Gratuitous product placement
• Scenes with way too much plot exposition

Quotes

• “Time to mow the lawn”
• “I’m the knife before Christmas!  I was doing knife tricks when you were still sucking on your daddy’s tit.”
• “Who you calling amateur, grandpa?” – “Grandpa’s about to crush your windpipe.”
• “A one-way trip is better than no-way, which is how I live now.”
• “I can use it to jam the signal.” – “Why didn’t you think of that?” – “Well I use it to check the weather.”

Viewer Quotes

• “Look, he’s got milky white eyes now.  That’s how old he is.”
• “Is that Randy Couture?” – “Yes, can you tell me what his character name is?” – “Captain Cauliflower Ear?”
• “What’s Paul Walker’s brother’s name?  Is it Mall Walker?”
• “If Sylvester Stallone was a superhero, he wouldn’t be The Flash.”
• “Another scene that’s just going on forever!”

What We Learned

• Stallone can outrun a collapsing building.
• Explosions don’t cause any injury, they just force people back like a gust of wind.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jet Li are having some kind of illicit affair.

Final Take: You should know what you’re signing up for when you watch Expendables 3.  Suffice it to say, you’ll think the movie’s almost over, only to find out it’s only halfway.  It’s an OK movie, but so much of that terrible exposition could have been cut out.