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Monday, November 8, 2010

Bad Movies

For some reason I really like what are considered "Bad Movies"..  For instance Im once again up watching Wild Wild West... Now everyone knows this movie was a collossal bust as far as movies go and is considered a hiccup in the epic career that is Will Smith's.  Nevertheless, this movie comes on I watch it.  I guess I enjoy the onscreen back and forth between Jim West and Artimis Gordon played by the highly underrated Kevin Kline.  I suppose I could man up and put on the Monday night football game but I dont like the Steelers or the Bengals and could care less about the outcome.

OK well here's another example, Wild Wild West is now over and I'm flipping channels and look what else is on. Another failure of a movie considered horrible by most but has an underground cult like following.  I'm talking about none other than Howard The Duck!!!  How can you not get a kick out of this movie??  Lea Thompson branching out on her own, trying to set the world ablaze with her own franchise.  Tired of playing second fiddle to Michael J. Fox and his Back to the Future franchise she sets out and defies her agent and takes the role as Beverly, young musician aspiring for greatness but comes across an alien life form in the shape of a midget duck.  Toss in some Tim Robbins and the Principal from Ferris Bueller's day off and you have yourself a blockbuster right???  FAIL!!!  George Lucas may be a god in the Sci Fi world but this was a swing and a miss.  Still its a train wreck and I cant change the channel.  Plus whats with the sexual innuendo between Howard and Beverly?  Perhaps this is some kind of window into the mind that is George Lucas?  Perhaps he has some kind of bestiality fantasies he's letting loose on the world?  I dunno, personally I think I'm just really tired. 

2 comments:

  1. Nothing like a good "bad" movie man. Plot inconsistencies, poor character development, questionable effects....the list goes on. It's not right that I get so much pleasure from another's failure, but hey it is what it is. Good stuff Dave, keep it coming!

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  2. Well I will never forget watching those really really bad horror films which were so badly scripted we put in our own lines...And the music sounded like the music from bad porn movies..UMMM...And why do I know this comparison?...Not sure...I never!! But we made these movies so hilarious that they became infectious and we spent that whole summer renting everyone we could find...Those were the days:)

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