I'm at almost six million readers since the first public post of 2008 (everything prior to that is just saved space for recipes). I won't be here when number 6,000,000 hits, probably late next week, but to them I say - thanks for all the kindness shown, and thanks for visiting a place that's become a small warm spot in each day for me. But not one I can't leave for 10 days. Enjoy the saved posts. I will be mostly absent, but not alone.
You've seen them, worse, you or your family members may have PAID to see them
Here is the HOTR top ten list of bad movies (two were a tie). While I get off to work and home to pack, please feel free to add your own.
Dreamcather (2003) -You lost me at parasitic butt weasel.
Slugs (1988) - If the monster can be thwarted by a giant salt shaker, you need to rethink the concept.
Vampire Hookers (1978) - No words necessary.
Gingerdead Man (2005) - Gary Busey is a possessed cookie. repeat. Gary Busey is a possessed cookie.
Robot Monster (1953) - Put a man in a gorilla suit. Put a diving helmet on his head. Watch audiences either lose interest or completely doze off. It was so boring Mystery Science Theater never took a shot at spoofing it that I know of.
Spidermen/X-Men 3 (2007, 2006) -You know what the best thing is about superhero trilogies? The first two movies.
The Core (2003) - Let me put it this way: this is a science fiction movie about the end of the world that didn't bother to consult any real science. I kept looking for Al Gore's name in the credits.
Howard the Duck (1986) - Failure goes by many names. The Edsel, Waterloo. Fans of the comic book hated it, sci fi lovers hated it. I'm sure there's a fetish group that is into over sized superhero ducks, but I really don't want to know.
Armaghedden (1998)- Shop Class saves the world! Resolute on violating every law of dramatic unity and physics, Armageddon makes The Core look like a documentary.
Have a great Friday and a great week all of you!
- Brigid and Barkley
36 comments:
Have fun and travel safe!
Have a very safe trip and enjoy!
you could add "Toxic avenger" and "CHUD' to your list. It's worth watching "Toxic Avenger" for the quote 'I always did wanna cornhole me a blind girl"
Armegeddon? No way!!!!
Best movie evah! Coolest of the bunch!
... oh, and you're welcome. :)
have fun Brigid.
Have a wonderful and relaxing time, out here in the west.
Do you mean to tell me that you have watched all of those god-awful movies? You poor, poor, dear.
Bob
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You forgot Waterworld!
Travel safe and enjoy your time away.
wv: ovenreem. How one cleans a really dirty oven. Which reminds me...
Have a safe trip, we'll be here when you get back!
Bad movie? "Showgirls" anyone?
Enjoy your trip!
I hereby nominate Dennis Hopper's cinematic tour de force: Space Truckers.
Also nominated in the "it was an okay comic book but really sucked at the theater despite using Megan Fox to distract viewers from the special level of suck" category: Jonah Hex.
Skyline. It was so bad, someone decided that they needed to destroy LA again with outer space aliens using almost the same plot less than two years later figuring no one would remember. Shockingly, no one did.
6,000,000 hits! Congratulations!
and I just passed 7,000.
Have a safe and fun trip!
I had a marriage counselor named Howard, once. I called him 'Howard the Doc.'
'Jus sayin'
At one point, when completely exhausted from moving a friend's household (including his large library), he got good pizza, poured much strong drinks for everyone, and put in a movie.
I forgot that he had a running competition with another friend present for worst movie possible. Which is why I ended up on the floor, hoping that I could find the energy and sobriety to crawl away and not see the rest of Jesus Christ, Vampire Slayer.
Take care of yourself, hope you and your dad have fun, and never watch that movie unless you have good friends to MST3K it, and high-proof brain bleach at hand.
I am sad.
:-(
You put one of the greatest movies of all time on your list.
"Howard the Duck" one liners...
oh everyone can't be perfect.
:-)
Josh
Don't forget Ishtar, and Fishtar (aka Waterworld), and the WORST movie of all time, The Blair Witch Project!
Actually the only thing wrong with the Edsel was the name and the marketing.
And I'd bet money, a retro version would sell like crazy!
Have a great trip and enjoy the time with your dad!
PS - Have mucho fun with family and friends. Heh.
I nominate "Laser Blast!" from the 70's. This film was so bad, that, when I was in the Navy, I had to turn in our movies and I deliberately kept an eye on the film to make sure it never came back to our ship. But somehow, they slipped another copy into our batch. Shame when we turned in that batch a month later, it happened to fall over board as we were taking it off the ship.
Have a safe journey both ways!
Dress warm! There's still lots of snow up here. Oh, and don't forget about Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, starring a young Pia Zadora!
Bubblehead, you would have to bring up Laser Blast. Uhhggg. I thought that I had eradicated that particular memory. So I'll raise you. Do you remember 'Gods Gun'? It has to be the worst western ever made. The crew of the Patrick Henry threatened to put the projector operator out the TDU if it ever was shown again.
Brigid, god bless and rest up. You deserve it. Your posts are always creative, usually insightful, and often make me think.
Someone beat me to "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians". Though, the film seems to have disappeared from the Internet Archive which makes me wonder if someone picked up the copyright.
And while I dearly love the flick (it is, after all, the origin of my pseudonym), I recognize that most people view Mike Nesmith's "Tapeheads" as a bad movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQev90aW4Sg
I've got one that's got to be added to the list - District 9. Blair Witch projects meets bad sci fi.
The aliens will do anything for cat food. They can build a ship that flies across the galaxy, but they can't make their own cat food? Filming quality horrible (on purpose). I kept waiting for it to get better, but it never did. About halfway through we started watching at 1.5 speed, just to get through it.
Armageddon should be enjoyed while imbibing liberally and ignoring all laws of physics. You gotta love the quote: "You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?"
Have a safe trip!
Laurie
Have a wonderful trip.
B -
Aside from the fact that she's 1429n and 263.07true from me, we're do'in great. The message prior to the PS got mangled. Should have been:
I DID like the sailing cat in WaterWorld though.
My worst? "Stewardess Academy" A good friend and I used to look for, uh, questionable movies. After leaving that turkey, Pete commented that we just went through the movie version of how you quit smoking by sitting under a card table, covered with a blanket and smoke a whole carton.
Waterworld was pretty lame but that quad .50 was cool.
I wish you safe travels and a refreshing vacation.
Well, I only recall seeing two of the ten (X-men 3 and Armageddon). And one of the comment-contenders (Ishtar).
So my brain doesn't need much bleach.
I remember when Lawdog first pointed his readers in your general direction. One redhead to another. Been here ever since. (You're lots purtier, too!)
Don't forget "Night of the Lepus".
Have a safe and good trip. Enjoy your time with your Dad.
YeOldFurt
w/v = stens (British or Norwegian?)
I am fortunate to have a friend who is a veritable truffle dog when it comes to finding awful movies; All I need is five bucks, half an hour, and the brain bleach for after!
Jim
Have a safe trip, and give your Dad a hug from all 6,000,000 of us. 2008? Thats when you started? Kim De Toit (sp?) clued me into a new blogger (that's you), and I've been reading you every day ('cept when I'm out riding a horse in the high desert or mountains.) When spring rolls around, I gotta go out and ride. Used to take my old army 357, 7" bbl (Pietta clone). I think tomorrow since it's a 6,000,000 event, I'll take my Beretta Bisley 357 7" bbl instead. Nice gun...
But I digress. Your writing has touched all of us, in ways that only God knows. And if ya want to know what that's all about, get up really early, before the sun comes up, listen to the crickets, dig a hole to get worms for fishing, get your dog with you and watch the sun come up, if yer lucky your heart will be full of wonder.
Movies? Everybody has their opinion. I hated "Wizard of Oz". Saw it as a kid, my Mom loved it (first color version on the the telly), I hated the flying monkeys, and how someone had the power to melt a bad person. I knew the witch was bad, but hang them. What's with all that melting crap. Gave me nightmares for weeks.
I do ramble on...
Mike in Idaho
Enjoy the time with your dad ...
My additions to the list would be:
10
Bolero
Walked out on both of those back in the day.
You all have a good trip.
I always thought the universally recognized worst movie ever was Ed Wood’s “Plan 9 From Outer Space”. Most notably, the star, Bela Lugosi, died during filming but they left him in the film and continued with a very poor double.
My personal nomination was the 1968 film, “Green Slime”. The film featured wonderful special effects like rockets moving across the screen with the tail flame exiting then turning upward in the frame, visible laser beams, people in rubber monster suits, etc. It was played seriously but it was so bad, it was fun.
Honorable (dishonorable?) mention goes to 1980 film “Battle Beyond The Stars” which has been disavowed by practically everyone who ever starred in it. To my discredit, I actually paid money to see this one but briefly considered demanding a refund at the time. Another honorable mention goes to the Star Wars Christmas Special which was shown once but has since developed a permanent presence on the Intertubes.
Nothing but Trouble. At least it lived up to it's name.
Have a great vacation.
I'd forgotten about Nothing But Trouble, but for some unfathomable reason I'm quite fond of it.
Jim
A long time ago, in a place far, far away, I remember seeing the double feature:
Jesse James meets Frankenstein's daughter
- and -
Billy the Kid meets Dracula.
'nuff said.
Have fun on your vacay!!!
A check on google while trying to explain the awfulness to Calmer Half corrects me: it's Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter. Guess the brain bleach (daiquiri version) did kick in after a while.
Unfortunately, that same pair of "I can out-bad-movie you!" also resulted in five minutes of Blackula at a different date. Only five minutes, because I said to the malamute, "You want walkies? Okay!" A malamute never refuses walkies, and never wants the run to end - at least not when limited to a geek's pace.
wv: cries. What you do when you realize you're too drunk to leave and they're putting on a low-budget monster-truck horror movie.
Spaceship aka Naked Space aka The Creature wasn't Nice with Leslie Nielsen and Cindy Williams of Laverne and Shirley fame.
Saw this while stationed in Baumholder Germany. It was the only movie I've ever taken back. We couldn't even make it 30 minutes into it. If the High School drama club props aren't bad enough, the bad acting, horrible storyline and downright stupidity push this over the cliff.
A Sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEyEL-BvbqQ
You were warned.
w/v:crohmeds- what you need to take after watching the above movie.
Have fun with Pops and I want to know about the fast ride when you get back.
6 million? Rock on sista!
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