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.

Starring: Vic Morrow, etc1. 

Date Watched: 6/12/2014

Plot: It’s a Japanese Star Wars rip-off.  Whatever makes sense is Star Wars.  The rest is gibberish.  

Rules

• Star Wars rip-offs (music, characters, whatever)
• Voiceovers
• Walnuts
• Space clipper ship
• Anachronisms (stuff out of time/place)
• “Gavanas”
• “Jillucia”
• Every time Aaron complains, whimpers, or throws a tantrum.
• “Liabi”

Quotes

• “You used a precious military rocket for a robot funeral?”
• “Master, don’t get smashed.  Must find place to sleep tonight.  No more booze.  No more booze.”
• “No Roko, you must believe in the glorious seeds.”
• “These nuts were so strange.  I looked at them carefully.”
• “If you’re scared, do not come.  Goodbye.” <robot voice>
• “Two more to find.  But no robots included in deal.  Too bad.”  

Viewer Quotes

• “It’s the Space Highway Patrol”
• “Look – robot boobs!”
• “I saw the movie Gravity.  This is not how it works.”
• “Did they not know how space works?  People had been in space at this point in time.”
• “Jack, Jack, get off my back.”
• “God, that Aaron guy fucking sucks.”
• “Why do they have comics painted on the walls?”

What We Learned

• You can swim in space and all you need is a long sleeved shirt and pants. 
• In Japanese movies, all the grown ups act like spoiled children
• Aliens can send space hieroglyphic messages
• When you destroy the moon, every trace of it is eradicated.  There are no remnants.
• The moon’s destruction is not a big deal and does not have much of an impact on Earth. 

Final Take

Viewing Date: 4/10/14

Starring: Michael Rooker, Casper Van Dien

Plot

A co-ed group of Special Forces agents search the wilderness for a predator type creature that has been on a killing spree.

Rules

• Dismemberments, Cut off limbs
• Screeching birds (this one really pays off)
• Teleporting horse
• Remember ‘creature vision’ is a house rule

Quotes

“There isn’t anything on Earth that could scare him.”  (in a wooden and laconic voice).

“I think I’ll drop back a piece.  Sniff around a little.”

“They call him Cotton Mouth Joe.”

“Whatever it was it fooled us.  It had our number- big time.”

“What was down there?”  “Don’t ever ask me that again.”

Viewer Quotes

“On yeah.  He’s a native American alright.”

“Where did he come from, where did he go…”

“Why would he be fishing at the top of a waterfall?”

“How many times have I seen the life go from Casper Van Dien’s eyes?…”  “Not enough.”

What we learned

There are ‘undercover’ search and rescue teams.  They dress just like normal hikers.

If you’re on a covert mission in the backwoods of California, you’d better have an underwater demolitions expert in your crew.

If guns, grenades and landmines don’t stop a supernatural killer, you might as well try a poorly-planned electricity trap.

Final Take

This movie was a poorly written, unintelligible mess, but you know what?  It had non-stop, nonsensical action and killing, so it was a winner in my book.  We had to rewind a number of sequences to try to figure out what the hell just happened, but ultimately, it really didn’t matter.  A guy dressed as the grim reaper, riding a teleporting horse was racking up an incredible body count for no particular reason (I think it had something to do with being an Indian spirit), makes no sense, but we were entertained.

 Starring: David Hasselhoff, Christopher Plummer

Date Watched: 4/17/2014

Plot: An outlaw smuggler and her alien companion are recruited by the Emperor of the Galaxy to rescue his son and destroy a secret weapon by the evil Count Zarth Arn.

Rules 

• Stupid Star Maps
• Horrible Ship Models
• Terrible space battles
• Sliding down poles
• “Stella Star”
• Stupid hick robot says stuff
• Alien Powers

Quotes

• “I only have logic and emotion circuits.  No room for craziness.”
• “Give me any trouble and I’m gonna clean out your sinuses real good, lady.”
• “Now may be a good time to use your ancient system of prayer, and hope it works for robots too.”
• “Stop!  No one can survive these deadly rays.”
• “Time for a little robot chauvinism.  You stay here.”
• “I can’t leave you.  You’re the only human-like friend I’ve ever had.”

Viewer Quotes

• “Why did he slide down that pole when there’s stairs on either side?”
• “Did they only shoot one take for every scene?”
• “What the fuck is going on?  Every scene is less than 30 seconds long.”
• “How can we do the entire Star Wars trilogy in an hour and a half?”
• “Oh God.  A southern bumpkin robot?”
• “Those seats do not look comfortable.  I guess they haven’t discovered ergonomics in the future.”
• “Oh!  How did we miss that?  It doesn’t have any joints though.  We’re OK.”
• “They have airfighters?  They were riding horseback?”
• “That thing’s the most worthless whatever-it-is that I’ve ever seen.”
• “Is he telling the robot to fire the laser cannon, or do they have a laser cannon robot?”
• “Who expected that we’d see cavemen in this movie?”
• “Is she still wearing her bikini?  Covered in siran wrap?  Look at how awkwardly she’s walking.  Did she poop her pants?”
• “I’d like to think that someone that can see the future would be a pretty good swordsman.”
• “How do you think he goes?  Does he just disappear?”  –  “There will be flashing… Nailed it.”

What We Learned

• Attractive prisoners have to wear prison-issued bikinis.  Everyone else is in rags.
• Huge alien robots are inept and do not have joints.
• When in trouble, use your laser shooting mask as a club and run away.
• What happens when you stab a robot with a lightsaber?  It disappears.

Final Take

That was one of the “best” thursday night movies we’ve seen in a while.  So entertainingly bad.  The special effects are some of the worst I’ve seen, and the acting isn’t much better.  For some reason almost every actor’s voice is dubbed, and the plot jumps from scene to scene without any logical connection.  Despite all of that, it’s entertaining all the way through.  A young David Hasselhoff is just icing on the cake.  Check it out if you get the chance.

Starring: Christian Slater and meteor man

Date Watched: 2/27/14

Plot: Four astronauts working at a lunar base suffer a meteor strike that brings an infection that leads to paranoia, fear and death.

Rules

• People refer to meteors or you see meteors
• Malfunctions
• Shots of outside that are obviously models
• Excuses for seeing the alien
• Alien noises
• Hallucinations

Quotes

• “I’m sensing what it’s doing”
• “My guess is…is that it sampled Bruce’s DNA when it bit him.  It figured out that the male was physically stronger so it replicated itself into him to survive.”
• “It’s taken on human form.  It should be easier to find.”
• “It is clearly a threat to mankind”

Viewer Quotes

• “It’s an inherently smart organism.  It doesn’t learn, it just knows.”
• “Those space masks are just gas masks with hoses attached.”
• “Step 1 is for you to get back to Earth with your terrible space disease.  That’s all that matters.”

What We Learned

• Aliens can read our positions through their human hosts
• When an airlock is open things move in slow motion
• Aliens are inherently smart, knowing how to use complex systems the day they are born without training of any kind.
• The best way to treat carbon monoxide poisoning in an inebriated person is to put them on a treadmill.   
• Escape pods take a long time to prep.  Do not count on them in emergencies.   
• Alien species exist simply to kill all humans.  Just because there can be only one species.
• Aliens are masters of human hand to hand combat

Final Take