ooh, how about a “bad movie” topic?!
I think everyone should be able to appreciate bad movies.
One of my favorites is called GingerDeadMan. Yes, it’s about a killer gingerbread man. Yes, it’s awful, but what sends it over the top is that the always insane Gary Busey plays the Ginger Dead Man in question. This is, of course, hilarious, because Gary Busey is a nutcase.
There is also a cheesy horror movie called Gargoyle, which has downright terrible special effects and also holds a record for movies i’ve seen: most shots fired from a pistol without reloading. It was somewhere around 19.
Of course, this little number will always be on the top of most people’s lists: youtube.com/watch?v=HyophYBP_w4
Troll 2-- which actually doesn’t contain trolls, but goblins (in a town that is oh-so-coyly named Nilbog. I guess Sllort was just a bad town name)–is quite possibly one of the best worst movies ever made (so much so that a documentary called Best Worst Movie was made of it((The Room notwithstanding))), it’s hilarious and cute and the best part is none of the actors in the movie actually had any acting experience.
The reason i like bad movies so much is -because- they’re bad. Not just that they’re funny in a bad way.
To explain:
we all grew up watching movies, more or less. Everyone wants to be rock gods and movie stars at one point growing up, and i would register that anyone with a camera spent at least a few days of childhood making lame home movies to watch with friends (i know i starred in a vast number of them). That said, there is something special about cheesy bad movies with a bunch of nobodies acting in them–something really charming about how bad it is, because it was these people’s chance to do what a lot of people always wanted. Sure, they’re downright disasters, but more often then not they have a lot of heart, which makes them more special (in my opinion) than the generic studio-run big budget movies where everyone is just doing it for a paycheck.
Well, ok, Gingerdeadman was just for a paycheck. But that’s not important.