The Random Thought Thread

shutyertrap said:

We would rotate each get together for who got to pick the movies, always a double feature. What some people never understood was the concept of a movie being so bad it becomes good. A bad movie just gets boring after a half hour and the enthusiasm in the room falls off a cliff. My three best picks were...

Torque - motorcycle version of Fast & Furious that had us howling with laughter. Every moment is completely over the top, right down to how beer bottles are set down.
Sheena - a stupefyingy dumb movie, made for kids, that features the longest bit of frontal nudity I've ever seen in a PG movie. Like 30 seconds worth.
Megaforce - Had Needham's magnum opus. A movie that is so unintentionally gay, so poorly thought out, and laughably terrible in all the best ways.

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trash80 said:

I've had the pleasure of watching all of these, though it has been quite a long time ago and they may need to get a revisit soon. The so-bad-it's-good movie barometer is how I gauge people and couples. Thankfully, my wife usually enjoys similar fare, and we have been doing our own MST3000 thing long before that ever existed.

Here are some that younger me thought were awesome (hell yeah for post Apocalypse), but now me (since I have recently watched them again) realizes they have few redeeming qualities beyond nostalgia.

Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085935/
City Limits - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088925/

Some others that I think may have possibly held up a little better but I haven't watched in ages , so I'm probably wrong.

Galaxy of Terror - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082431/
The Blood of Heroes - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094764/
The Ice Pirates - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087451/

On a similar but different note, when the Duran Duran song came on in A View to a Kill, I had told my wife where the band got their name, and now she wants to watch Barbarella - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062711/ which I haven't seen in 30+ years. There are so many bad but good movies out there, though I'm not sure about some of the newer films that have inorganically grown into "cult-status" like the Room, and Birdemic, and that one "filmmaker" guy (forgot his name) (edit: Neil Breen) that spends way too much time in desert. (not Ishtar )

Oh, there is another strange and odd film you may want to sample if you haven't, Tiptoes - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316768/ and I'm still amazed at the cast this one has, obviously something is going on behind the scenes we are not privy to.

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Jeff Strong said:

Absolutely a huge fan of DD and RCR. Really appreciate the heads up as a reminder I need to get this.

Having fun with Langrisser? I’ve never played, but heard good things.

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Jeff Strong said:

So who’s going to be the one to play all the Bond video games from start to finish? Beyond the legendary Goldeneye which I played the snot out of back in its heyday, there were some solid titles during the Gamecube era as well, though I’ve only played bits and pieces of those.

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wilbers said:

Just watched Spider-man Far from Home. Without the ACDC pinball table I don't think I'd have got the Back in Black by Led Zeppelin joke. Still got 4 MCU films I haven't seen - Thor Ragnarok, Black Panther, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Captain Marvel.

When I was buying it (well using my Sky award to get it for free) I also saw that Black Lightning is a series - character just appeared in Crisis on Infinite Earths that I saw last month and I didn't twig that it was a series - don't think its been broadcast in the UK yet. Batwoman has just started a couple of weeks ago so I'm watching that in the wrong order as well.

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