At least 10 good things about Bad Movies

• Unknown Origin (Sci-Fi, R, 1995)
  1. Homage to Alien, Alien2, the Thing, the Thing From Another World, the Hidden, Deep Star Six, Leviathan and the Abyss.
  2. They call Rock, Paper, Scissors: "Roshambo"
  3. Not one single obviously-an-actor-in-a-rubber-suit
  4. Roddy McDowall
  5. The doc from Babylon 5 (Richard Biggs)
  6. No matter who you suspected of being corrupt, you were right!
  7. The gratuitous nudity was in another movie entirely.
  8. Cool slow-motion burning man scene.
  9. The outside of the Russian ship looked cool.
  10. At least four different types of terrain inside the base.
• Lawnmower Man II (Sci-Fi, PG-13, 1996) (with help from Doug)
  1. Matt Frewer
  2. Cool Hippie Dude (with nice retreat from technology into plants)
  3. Frankenstein metaphor played up with respecting and fearing what evil technology you build and stopping others from using it.
  4. Good Sets
  5. Good Virtual Sets
  6. Kids weren't annoying
  7. It outlines Microsoft's strategy to get everyone to use MSN
  8. "In the future, everyone will live in virtual reality."
  9. Technology so simple, a dog could use it.
  10. Attempted murder with a runaway subway train.
• Zarkorr! The Invader (Sci-Fi, PG, 1996)
  1. American Big-Rubber-Monster-Movie. Hey, how often do you get these?
  2. The alien representative.
  3. The plot.
  4. "crypto-zoologist"
  5. Opening the movie with the production company's URL.
  6. Lead actor's name: Rhys Pugh.
  7. Dialog shines through acting.
  8. Zarkorr! theme music over credits.
  9. Uses the internet for actual information research. Wacky.
  10. "What are you? Some sort of God-Damn question asker?"
• The Demolitionist (Sci-Fi/Action, R, 1995)
  1. Cool outfit (including the dentist Hand-to-hand staff of doom)
  2. Nice dream sequence (with Satan, even)
  3. Nice Guns (give good muzzle flash)
  4. Richard Grieco as a villain
  5. The Pike-Godzilla cameo
  6. Not completely a rip-off of Robocop
  7. Electric kick-stand
  8. Gaseous blood
  9. Techno-undead
  10. President Bono
• The Black Scorpion (Super-hero/Action, R, 1995)
  1. A super villain -- The Breath Taker
  2. "My wheezing warriors..."
  3. Daddy dies smoking
  4. "Read my lungs; I have no trouble breathing."
  5. Garrett Morris
  6. "Man, I like her boots!"
  7. The captain's smoking habit.
  8. Using L.A. smog as a plot device.
  9. Russo's cooking.
  10. A car with a secret identity.
• The Transformers: The Movie (Animation/Sci-Fi, 1986)
  1. Orson Welles's voice (and, indeed, it's the last movie he was ever heard in since he died in the making of it)
  2. Leonard Nimoy's digitally remastered voice to fill in the spots that Orson was too dead to speak for.
  3. The sharkdicons
  4. Eric Idle as the leader of the rubbish people?
  5. "KLATU BARATA NICTO" (hey, any movie with that quote gets big points in my book).
  6. Some heroes actually die halfway through a kids movie!
  7. World eating villian. mmmmmm
  8. "Do you speak TV?"
  9. Casey Kasem, Judd Nelson, Scatman Crothers and Robert Stack
  10. Dare to Be Stupid by Wierd Al.
• Dungeons and Dragons (Fantasy, 2000)
  1. The dragon fight at the end
  2. A chance to see Tom Baker again after all these years
  3. Glorious ranting, oh, rant-tastic ranting, on the part of Jeremy Irons.
  4. Jimmy Olsen, a hero, wheeeee!
  5. The audience. Good lord, what entertainment, what geeks... my people!
  6. Casting Richard O'Brien as the king of thieves.
  7. The thing in that Damodar's head. Especially the thought eating moment.
  8. The Dimension Door spell effect
  9. 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!)
  10. 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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