Bad Movie Thursday

Date Watched: 6/25/15

Starring: Adrian Paul, Richard Grieco

Plot: A group of refugees from Earth work to survive on a hostile alien planet.

Rules

• Unspecial effects
• Predator cliches (including invisible people)
• Picking up random people
• “Why should I follow you?”
• Canned sounds

Quotes

• “Couldn’t you find anything bigger?”  –  “It’s bigger than yours.”  –  “That’s what your momma said.”
• “Are you sure this water is safe?  Most of the water on Earth is polluted.”
• “But there’s only two of us, and you’re not my type.”
• “I’d be happy to assist by digging a grave for Hannah.”
• “If we’re going to save humanity, we’ve got to stay human.  We’re going to bury her.”
• “Why should I follow you?”

Viewer Quotes

• “Apparently they found a woman.”
• “That’s why you can never trust short people.”

What We Learned

• When you crash-land on an alien world, rub mud on your face.  It’s common knowledge.
• Signaling with two fingers means “When I duck, throw a knife in this guy’s face.”
• On alien worlds, you can go into nature to collect bottles of water from the trees.
• It’s a good idea to arm yourself with bows but no arrows.  You can find arrows just lying around.
• Real guns can be made to fire electrical pulses.

Final Take: That was basically a made for Sci Fi tv movie.  I remember liking the Highlander TV show back in the day that this Adrian Paul starred in, but he has literally done nothing since then.  Now he’s in this movie and I realize why.  I like living in a world where movies like this still get made, though.  You throw enough crap against the wall and eventually something will stick.  This one did not stick.  Back to the drawing board, Asylum.

Date Watched: 6/11/2015

Starring: Sherilynn Fenn, Lance Henriksen, Richard Norton, Chef

Plot: In an apocalyptic future, a man with extra-human powers goes on the run.

Rules

• “My Child”
• Visions or prophecies of the future.
• Mutant power usage
• Isaac Hayes

Quotes

• “Don’t say perfect.  Don’t tempt God to take him away.”
• “We have to share each other.  Share each other’s spaces.  Passing along our lineage, from loin to loin.”

Viewer Quotes

• “These sound effects are terrible.”
• “Is that a rubber band gun?  Have to get up close with a rubber band gun.”
• “Whoa – she’s a Palpatine!”
• “Come on Movie – give us something here.”
• “It could be nothing more than a freak’s wet dream, but I need to know.”

Things We Learned

• “Don’t be afraid, child” is a good phrase to use to make people feel comfortable when you first meet them.
• Mutant healing powers also wash blood off your skin, cleaning you up real nice.
• It’s pretty easy to switch your car to solar.

Final Take: Pretty boring movie.  Some OK scenes, but we totally lost interest midway through.  You’d think a movie about mutants with super-powers would be a little more interesting.  Turns out no.

Viewing Date: 6/4/2015

Starring: Kirk Cameron

Plot: The Biblical prophecy of Armageddon begins when the Rapture instantly takes all believers in Christ from the Earth. A reporter left behind learns that the Anti-Christ will soon take power. (IMDB)

Rules

• Say “Buck”
• Say “Infotactics”
• Piles o’ clothes
• People praying
• See a bible

Quotes

“I’m going to the UN.  The only place that offers any hope.”

Viewer Quotes:

• “Nic Cage was a kinder, gentler Captain Steele.”

What We Learned

• A Russian is the anti-Christ
• It is hard for most of the unbelievers to repent even after witnessing proof of the rapture (even though lack of proof was the only thing landing them in their current predicament).

Final Take
Well, this is a sparse entry.  I won’t lie.  We lost interest mid-way through and didn’t really pay attention.  The big debate is whether or not this was worse than the recent Nic Cage version.  On the plus side, a lot more happened (different scenes, plot advancement).  On the negative side, there was no action and it was pretty terrible.  We still haven’t lost “faith” in the potential for this series to be bad.  We’ll watch the sequels and hope they keep our attention.

Date Watched: 5/21/2015

Starring: Nobody agreed to star in this movie

Plot: Beaver swamp turns into a deadly zombie epidemic.  This movie was created by coming up with a title and then filling in the remaining details.

Rules

• Beaver Attacks
• Sexual Innuendos (x2 for those that include “Beaver”)
• Sorority chick bitchery
• “Beaver” (Advanced Rule)

Quotes

• “My butt hurts.”  –  “Yeah, thanks to your boyfriend.”
• “Oh, it’s ok, Mary.  My daughter’s a total fucking bitch, too.  A real whore.  Sometimes she brings people home, I don’t even know what sex they are.  And I’m not saying anything negative about them, I’m a very liberal woman.  But my daughter is a real piece of work, and not that attractive.”
• “All I know is they’re fat rats with big stupid-ass teeth.”
• “I’ve never seen a beaver up close before.”  –  “Maybe you should try going down on me every once in a while, Buck.”
• “It’s just those kids scissoring each other to Lady Gaga.”
• “Oh Fuck!  Suck a bag of dicks!”
• “I’m sorry I never ate your pussy, baby!  I promise I’ll go back and eat all of it.  It just smells so bad down there.”
• “Listen, we cannot turn against each other right now.  That is exactly what the beavers want.”

Viewer Quotes

• “Those are nice outfits.  Those shorts are amazing.”
• “Who do you think is the first one to die?  Maybe the huge bitch?”
• “Which guy’s the biggest douche bag, I can’t even tell.”
• “He just held up his own foot.”
• “The beavers have taken out the phones!”
• “Why are the beavers staying outside the house?  Couldn’t they just chew through the wood?”

What We Learned

• Some sorority girls are just the worst.  Absolutely the worst.
• College guy’s apparently wear Letterman’s jackets now.
• Kids today have terrible tattoos.
• When being attacked by beavers in the water, throw a dog, then swim towards the farthest shore.
• Beavers get a lot smarter when they turn into zombies.
• If you get bitten by a zombeaver, you don’t turn into a zombie, you turn into a beaver zombie.  This also applies to Bears.
• Jealous ex-girlfriend zombeavers will bite your dick off.

Final Take:

Date Watched: 4/23/15

Starring: ??????

Plot: Timid, video game-loving DJ Santiago seemingly digs his own grave when he agrees to bring a violent criminal kingpin the head of Machine Gun Woman.

Rules

• Gratuitous ridiculousness (Sex or violence)
• Stupid 70’s music
• Decapitations
• “Machine Gun Woman”
• Showing a person’s bounty
• Grand Theft Auto stuff

Quotes

• “This little bag of farts says he’ll bring in the most blood-thirsty woman in the continent?”
• “Fucking straws all clogged up.  To enjoy it you’ve gotta suck hard, and I don’t like sucking.”
• “Pretty boy like you.  Your balls could get cut off, you know.  Do you want that?”
• “What did this mare do to piss you off so much?”
• “Please don’t kill me… I’m a good boy.”
• “I could go away with you and your mom, but you’ll have to get used to my habits, and my temper.”

Viewer Quotes

• “He’s literally wearing a Michael Jackson Thriller jacket.  That’s amazing.  And this guy’s wearing a Tom Brady jersey half shirt.”
• “I can’t take the name Chase Sausage seriously.”

Things We Learned

• In Chile, they bury 10 feet under.
• You need a license to buy a gun in Chile
• Sexy Chilean killers have C-section scars
• Taking a bullet out will magically cure someone of their wound

Final Take

First of all, watch this movie dubbed.  Brings the ridiculous factor up about 12 points.  I’m pretty sure everyone I know is qualified to do some english-dubbed voice acting, and I’m determined to add that to my resume somehow.  All in all this was a decent watch.  It was entertaining, and it was over before you really had a chance to start getting bored of it.  There was some gratuitous violence and some nudity, it went out of its way to parody Grand Theft Auto on many occasions, and it was done in Grindhouse style.  All that said, it was definitely less than the sum of those parts.  I’d probably give it solid C+/B-.

Viewing Date: 3/5/2015

Plot: If the worst day of your life consisted of accidentally killing your girlfriend with an axe, chain-sawing your own arm off, and watching in horror as your closest friends were devoured by a zombified Nazi battalion, you’d have to assume that things couldn’t get much worse. In Martin’s case, that was only the beginning. (via IMDB)

Starring: Some Norwegians

Rules

• Waking the dead / turning someone into a zombie
• say “zombie”, x2 for “zombie squad”
• Dismemberment / disembowelment
• Star Wars references

Quotes

“I have chocolate.  I could get it for you.  It’s double-triple fudge.”

“Didn’t we agree to be more casual around here?”

“I was expecting Hoth, but this is more Endor.”

“It would be easier if you could buy weapons here.” “Yeah.  What the fuck is wrong with this country?”

“Don’t hurt me!  I have two kittens!”

“What are you talking about?!” “It’s Satan’s arm.  It’s a long story.”

“We’re fucking nerds.  That’s what we do….  Technical shit.”

“What did the forensic team say?” “That’s not the forensic team, that’s Tim Ollie.  They dressed in all white today.  They thought it would look more professional.”

“I didn’t know there was supposed to be an ugly face convention in town.  Come get me if you dare.”

“What the hell is going on?  Is there a carnival in town?”

Viewer Quotes

“They have violated every rule.”

What We Learned

• There are Nazi zombie doctors can reattach limbs
• You can siphon gas with someone’s intestines
• You can hide from nazi zombies by posing as a mannequin
• The best way to counter an evil Nazi zombie army is with a slightly less-evil Russian zombie army
• A seagull translator would be invaluable to police detectives

Final Take

This movie was fantastic!  We enjoyed the first one as being a better-than-average zombie horror comedy, but this one was a serious step up.  The production value went up, it was in English (Norweigian dubbing didn’t really hurt the first one though), and they broke all of the unwritten rules of going over the top in horror movies.  Multiple murders of handicapped people, children, women with baby strollers- but in a funny way (can I say that?)…  Absolutely ridiculous, but the dialogue was spot on and had funnier parts than most comedys coming out these days.  The guy who played the museum employee nailed it.  This will likely go in as one of the top 10 most enjoyable bad movie Thursday films so far.

Date Watched: 2/26/15

Starring: Lance Guest, Robert Preston

Plot: A video-gaming boy, seemingly doomed to stay at his trailer park home all his life, finds himself recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force.  Every video gaming boy’s secret hope.

Rules

• “Starfighter”
• Iconic 80’s images
• “Ko-Dan”
• Centauri speaks in the third person.
• That thing closing over the alien’s eye

Quotes

• “Shifting into star drive at Columba Zeta.  Hold tight.”
• “Not even your mighty starfighters will be able to save you.”
• “What if the Wright brothers thought that only birds should fly?  And did Galoka think that the Utils were too ugly to save?”
• “An exact duplicate of you only not as loud.”
• “Where’d it go?”  –  “It’s still there.  Suspended in the Xenon mist.  It’s only visible when you look dead ahead.”
• “Terrific.  I’m about to get killed a million miles from nowhere with a gung ho iguana.”
• “I’ve locked it’s beamer frequency so it can’t report back to the armada.”
• “A mobile cave that never went anywhere?  Fascinating.”
• “We’re locked into the moon’s gravitational pull.  What do we do?”  –  “We die.”
• “Alex, what is all this?”  –  “I’ve been to another planet, Ma.”

Viewer Quotes

• “You think all these old people give a shit about this video game?”
• “This is the best thing you can hope for your son, that something like this will happen in his lifetime.”
• “Now he just needs to drill this chick, then come out and get high fives from everyone.”
• “In typical 80’s fashion, the one hot chick has no boobs.”
• “Wow, that looks terrible.  Is this still the video game graphics we’re watching?  I think the original playstation has better graphics than this.”
• “Is that Will Ferrell?”
• “Wouldn’t you have wanted to move the base, knowing that there’s someone that wants to kill you all and knows exactly where the base is?”
• “You can’t stay on Rylos with Centauri and Grigg.”
• “So anybody could have been a Starfighter.  It took no skill.”

What We Learned

• People are all white balding men on Rylos.  Even the women.
• All aliens are humanoid, with arms, legs and heads.  But of course Star Trek taught us that.
• Earth isn’t at war with anyone except themselves.
• Don’t bother learning to be a good starfighter.  It all comes down to the death blossom in the end.
• Aliens don’t die.
• Betas make terrible stand-ins.  At the first sign of trouble they’ll fold and admit they’re a beta.

Final Take:  Nothing like a little nostalgia.  This movie is supposed to be a grand epic, but it’s really pretty simple.  It’s fun if you have fond memories of it from watching it as a child like I do, but it’s definitely not an instant classic.  I don’t think any of those actors went on to anything else after that movie, so that might tell you something.  It’s fine. You’ll like it.  Just don’t expect to remember it a week from now.

Date Watched:  2/19/15

Rewatch: 1/23/25  We didn’t all enjoy the masterpiece that is Division III the first time around, so we decided for a rewatch ten years later.  We were also curious as to why this post is one of the most popular on our illustrious blog.

Starring:  Andy Dick

Plot: This ensemble comedy follows the Pullham University Bluecocks, a small liberal arts college with a Division III football program (the lowest division in the NCAA). When the head coach unexpectedly dies, the future of the flailing football program is in jeopardy, as they have not had a winning season in decades. In a desperate attempt to create some media attention for the athletic program and the university, President Georgia Anne Whistler hires known lunatic and felon, Coach Rick Vice, for what could be the football programs final season. Vice, an overly aggressive redneck racist, quickly becomes the team’s and athletic director’s worst nightmare. Vice especially butts heads with Mitch DePrima, a reluctant quarterback who was drawn to the college thinking he would play ball as a big fish in a small pond, only to find himself riding the bench in his final year. Navigating between an insane coach, meat-head teammates, his male cheerleader roommate and the sexy new sports trainer, Mitch struggles to find himself. But Vices particular brand of unorthodox coaching, may just be the spark that Mitch and the entire team need to turn the program around and become winners!  (From IMDB)

Rules:

• Say “Rick Vice”
• Double Entendre’s
• Cameos
• Shooting guns
• Coach abuses his players
• Coach says “Get Some”
• Not lighting a cigarette
• Bike throwing
• *new* Breaking clipboards

Quotes:

• “It’s like black history month all the time.”
• “I was abused sexually and otherwise.”
• “If you don’t pick up the pace, I’m going to rip off your little peckers and shove them up your mother’s hot pockets, little f$ck and f$cks.”
• “This world is run by greedy self-serving morons.”
• “Why don’t you step up into the gauntlet you bitch nuts.”
• “I don’t care if you like slits or dicks, the best player is playing.”
• To the hot girl – “You got any raisins? How about a date?”
• “What the f$ck are you doing out there? Having a little sewing circle?”
• “You’ll be all be up to your poop shoots and blood and guts in Iran soon anyway.”
• “You’re whining more than Mike Vick’s puppy.”
• “I’ve heard of Sigmund Freud, cause he’s the one that f$cked his mother.”
• “Hello Roy, how long you been sitting there eyeballing and assf$cking me?”
• *new* “Darwinism?  I call it evil-ution.”
• *new* “I’m French Irish.”

Viewer Quotes:

• “Wow, this whole movie is like one big awesome quote.”
• “Are all the college players in this in their 30’s?”
• “Is he drinking from a coffee mug with Hitler on it that says “Fail!”?”

Things we learned:

• Andy Dick is an amazing filmmaker.
• You can snort protein powder like cocaine.

Final Take:  This was a great flick filled with many awesome lines from AD.  We had a great time watching it, and we would definitely recommend Division III to others.  If you are easily offended then this is not the movie for you, but then again Bad Movie Thursday probably isn’t either.

*update*:  Second watch was just as good.  Its an offensive, quotable, pile of garbage, but in the best way.  We’re hoping for a sequel (Division IV?) assuming Andy Dick doesn’t die first.