At least 10 good things
about
Bad Movies
- Unknown Origin (Sci-Fi, R, 1995)
- Homage to Alien, Alien2, the Thing, the Thing From Another World, the Hidden, Deep Star Six, Leviathan and the Abyss.
- They call Rock, Paper, Scissors: "Roshambo"
- Not one single obviously-an-actor-in-a-rubber-suit
- Roddy McDowall
- The doc from Babylon 5 (Richard Biggs)
- No matter who you suspected of being corrupt, you were right!
- The gratuitous nudity was in another movie entirely.
- Cool slow-motion burning man scene.
- The outside of the Russian ship looked cool.
- At least four different types of terrain inside the base.
- Lawnmower Man II (Sci-Fi, PG-13, 1996)
(with help from Doug)
- Matt Frewer
- Cool Hippie Dude (with nice retreat from technology into plants)
- Frankenstein metaphor played up with respecting and fearing what
evil technology you build and stopping others from using it.
- Good Sets
- Good Virtual Sets
- Kids weren't annoying
- It outlines Microsoft's strategy to get everyone to use MSN
- "In the future, everyone will live in virtual reality."
- Technology so simple, a dog could use it.
- Attempted murder with a runaway subway train.
- Zarkorr! The Invader (Sci-Fi, PG, 1996)
- American Big-Rubber-Monster-Movie. Hey, how often do you get these?
- The alien representative.
- The plot.
- "crypto-zoologist"
- Opening the movie with the production company's URL.
- Lead actor's name: Rhys Pugh.
- Dialog shines through acting.
- Zarkorr! theme music over credits.
- Uses the internet for actual information research. Wacky.
- "What are you? Some sort of God-Damn question asker?"
- The Demolitionist (Sci-Fi/Action, R, 1995)
- Cool outfit (including the dentist Hand-to-hand staff of doom)
- Nice dream sequence (with Satan, even)
- Nice Guns (give good muzzle flash)
- Richard Grieco as a villain
- The Pike-Godzilla cameo
- Not completely a rip-off of Robocop
- Electric kick-stand
- Gaseous blood
- Techno-undead
- President Bono
- The Black Scorpion (Super-hero/Action, R, 1995)
- A super villain -- The Breath Taker
- "My wheezing warriors..."
- Daddy dies smoking
- "Read my lungs; I have no trouble breathing."
- Garrett Morris
- "Man, I like her boots!"
- The captain's smoking habit.
- Using L.A. smog as a plot device.
- Russo's cooking.
- A car with a secret identity.
- The Transformers: The Movie (Animation/Sci-Fi, 1986)
- Orson Welles's voice (and, indeed, it's the last movie he was ever heard
in since he died in the making of it)
- Leonard Nimoy's digitally remastered voice to fill in the spots that Orson
was too dead to speak for.
- The sharkdicons
- Eric Idle as the leader of the rubbish people?
- "KLATU BARATA NICTO"
(hey, any movie with that quote gets big points in my book).
- Some heroes actually die halfway through a kids movie!
- World eating villian. mmmmmm
- "Do you speak TV?"
- Casey Kasem,
Judd Nelson,
Scatman Crothers and
Robert Stack
- Dare to Be Stupid by
Wierd Al.
- Dungeons and Dragons (Fantasy, 2000)
- The dragon fight at the end
- A chance to see Tom
Baker again after all these years
- Glorious ranting, oh, rant-tastic ranting, on the part of
Jeremy Irons.
- Jimmy Olsen, a hero,
wheeeee!
- The audience. Good lord, what entertainment, what geeks... my people!
- Casting Richard
O'Brien as the king of thieves.
- The thing in that Damodar's head. Especially the thought eating moment.
- The Dimension Door spell effect
- Beholders. (Sure, I'm bummed they and all the other monsters didn't do
much, but just the look of them waking up and grunting!)
- The various wand designs. Really cool looking wands.
This gets really tough if you let more than a few days slip by. The best is
to jot down the good parts while or right after watching.
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i,jasona