Week 125 Bonus Recap

One hundred and twenty five weeks.  That’s a lot of weeks of bad movies.  That’s a lot of time that I have spent watching the movies that many people don’t want to see.  The movies are left to rot because they don’t look as good as other movies.  I made a vow to watch a large number of these movies because every movie deserves a fair shot.  And that’s what I have been doing for these two and a half years.  I’ve been watching the movies that most people let slip by.  Because I want to see if they’re really as bad as people think.

I’ve gone through the history of the Sunday “Bad” Movies many times before.  You don’t need to read all that again.  You could go back and take a look at the posts I made at 25 weeks, 50 weeks, 75 weeks, or 100 weeks.  Any of those would do for a history.  It’s not like much has changed in the blog since week 100.  There were a few bonus posts, but no big format changes.  So how about I just discuss the last twenty-five posts and the small things that have happened in there?

The first thing I should write about are the bonus posts.  I tried to make them a regular thing, and up until February, it worked.  I’ll get into that post in a minute.  Bonus posts have always been a thing that happened in the Sunday “Bad” Movies.  Okay, not always.  But I have a history of having bonus posts.  This is a bonus post.  I did a bonus post when Paul Walker passed away.  I did a bonus post when I read The Disaster Artist because it was about The Room.  It’s not like they are completely new to the blog.

At week 100, I thought I would go all out with a bonus post.  I enlisted other people to help with it.  I had them write a little bit about their feelings regarding bad movies.  And I made a post using their musings.  It was pretty fun and I liked having other people contribute their thoughts.  It sparked something inside me, and I tried to recreate it through a couple of other posts.  They ended up having diminishing returns, which culminated in February’s post.

My idea for the post in February was to do in depth thanking of some of the most frequent people to suggest movies for me to watch.  I was going to talk about the movies they suggested and why I appreciated the suggestions.  The final thing I wanted to add was the people talking about their suggestions and why they suggested the movies.  The problem was, one of the people hasn’t used Twitter regularly in forever, and nobody else responded to me.  I didn’t get anyone’s participation.  I waited an extra week, edited the post a little bit to get it to work for that next week, and still got no response.  Without people participating, the post didn’t feel right and I never put it up.  So that happened.

As for everything else, the blog has been chugging along at a steady pace.  Each week, I would watch the movie(s) that needed to be watched and get the post up on time.  I do feel as though the overall quality has gotten better in this quarter than it has been in the past.  I’ve been more satisfied with the writing since post 100 than I had been with the writing before.  That’s something.  The average post quality seems to be getting better in my eyes, which makes me happier.  I can only hope that you guys have also seen a rise in the quality.

With all of that said, I also use these mile-marker 25 week posts to lay out the statistics of the Sunday “Bad” Movies.  Sure, I have a statistics page on the blog now.  I’ve had it since around the time that the posts got their own blog.  I still like to have a record of what the statistics were like every 25 posts as a way of showing how that section of the Sunday “Bad” Movies influenced everything.  It serves as a sort of historical document on what the Sunday “Bad” Movies were at every 25^th week.

The first statistic that I want to give is the top actors featured in the Sunday “Bad” Movies.  There were a couple of changes to the top ten list in terms of the people featured.  Most of the top 10 remains the same, however.  In total, 251 actors have been features in multiple movies throughout the Sunday “Bad” Movies.  Note that it is movies, not weeks.  So, here’s the list.

Again, the rules are as follows.  The ranking goes by the number of movies that an actor has been featured in.  If there are multiple actors with the same number of movies, it then goes to number of franchises.  Within the actors with the same number of movies and franchises, it goes by the order in which the final movie was featured in the Sunday “Bad” Movies.  If that is the same movie, the next most recent is the ranking criteria.  If all of their movies are the same, then it goes by last name alphabetical.  And in the very rare case that all of that stuff is the same, then first name will have to be how they get ranked.

So here are the ten actors most featured in the Sunday “Bad” Movies:

1. Lloyd Kaufman – Bachelor Party in the Bungalow of the Damned, Big Ass Spider!, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, The Toxic Avenger Part II, Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
2. Ed Gale – Tiptoes, Chopper Chicks in Zombietown, Howard the Duck, Santa, Jr.
3. Danny Trejo – Death Race 2, Death Race: Inferno, Rise of the Zombies, Anaconda
4. Adam Sandler – Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, Going Overboard, Jack and Jill
5. Joe Fleishaker – Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, The Toxic Avenger Part II, The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie, Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
6. Louis Gossett Jr. – Iron Eagle, Iron Eagle II, Aces: Iron Eagle III, Iron Eagle IV
7. Rick Collins – The Toxic Avenger, The Toxic Avenger Part II, The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie, Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
8. Dan Snow – The Toxic Avenger, The Toxic Avenger Part II, The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie, Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
9. Jaime Pressly – The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure, Torque, Cruel World
10. Cary Elwes – Hansel and Gretel Get Baked, The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure, New Years Eve

And, of course, I need to go through the directors as well.  The rules are the same as with the actors.  Though, with directors, I only go with the top five because there are exponentially more actors who have been featured in the Sunday “Bad” Movies than directors.  Most movies only have one director.  They have many more actors.  Here are the top 5 most featured directors, as of week 125:

Lloyd Kaufman – Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, The Toxic Avenger, The Toxic Avenger Part II, The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie, Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV

Roel Reine – Death Race 2, Death Race: Inferno, The Marine 2

Charles Band – Evil Bong, The Gingerdead Man, Evil Bong II: King Bong

Sidney J Furie – Iron Eagle, Iron Eagle II, Iron Eagle IV

Michael Herz – The Toxic Avenger, The Toxic Avenger Part II, The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie

The final little thing that I would like to do before I head off into the next week of the Sunday “Bad” Movies is quickly thank the people who suggested the movies that I watched in this quarter.  These people are important to my experience of watching bad movies as they are the ones who point out many of the bad movies that I end up adding to the schedule.  They deserve some credit for their work, however minimal it was in the bigger scheme of things.

@TheCatFilmFan and @rosstmiller – You two suggested Jack and Jill.  By my own rules, a double suggestion must be added to the schedule.  I hated it almost as much as the first time I watched it, though that final scene still works like gangbusters.  It’s all the Jill stuff that turns me off of the movie.  Pacino is great, but Jill is such a grating character.  Ross, you also suggested one of the Leprechaun movies that I watched for week 120.  Those movies are a hoot and I found a new appreciation of Back 2 Tha Hood that I didn’t have when I first saw it a few years ago.  Thank you for that rewatch.

@JeramyWainwrigh – Frogs was an interesting movie to watch.  Not something I had known too much about before watching it on your suggestion.  Now I’m going to have to watch it again soon because I’ve had it assigned for me for a review.  I’m not as afraid of it because I know what I’m getting.  Thanks.

@LastFilmSeen – Your suggestion, Santa, Jr. was about the same as any Lifetime or Hallmark movie I’ve seen.  Dispensable fluff.  It’s entertaining enough but nothing that is going to stand out.  It was fine while it was on, and I still sometimes think about it.  So thanks for that.

@nickissac – D.E.B.S. is an interesting movie.  Not because it’s good.  Far from it.  But it does tackle the topic of lesbians in a way that was refreshing.  Especially for a movie from 2004.  It wasn’t about sex or about how weird it was that two girls could love each other.  It was simply about the love.  It was like a lesbian Romeo and Juliet, and that was nice.

@robtrench, @1sttimewatchers, and @TheTrueBrendanF – The movie that you guys suggested, Riki-Oh:The Story of Ricky, was one of the craziest movies I have seen in a long time.  Over-the-top action, practical effects, and an odd story.  It was a perfect addition to the Sunday “Bad” Movies and I’m glad that you guys suggested it.

@refocusedmedia – I got myself way too excited for The Time Machine (I Found at a Yard Sale).  You were right in saying this was a bad movie.  I was expecting a dumb, fun bad movie though.  What I got was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen.  It hurt to watch the movie.  Thanks for making me feel again.

@SebastianNebel – You gave me my second Uwe Boll movie to watch with Blackwoods, which was an interesting one.  I wouldn’t say that I liked the movie.  But there are some interesting twists and turns that I think better editing would have helped with.  I’m always open to another Uwe Boll movie in the future.  I don’t hate him as a filmmaker yet.  Thanks for giving me one that I thought about for a while.

@jaimeburchardt – No thanks section would be complete without you, bud.  You’ve given me three of the best suggestions that anyone could have.  Simon Sez is the third of those.  If people think that Dane Cook was bad in his romantic comedy phase, they haven’t seen this movie.  Thanks for pointing it out to me, bud.

@JEBermanator – I had a lot of fun with The Million Dollar Duck.  It’s an old style of slapstick comedy that I very much appreciate.  It is a good movie?  Perhaps not.  But in terms of me enjoying the movies I watched, this was one of the most surprisingly enjoyable movies to have been suggested to me in a while.  I wasn’t expecting to be as entertained by it as I was.  Thanks.

@SilverEmulsion – You suggested a monster movie I had never heard of from the 1990s that had a man in a monster suit.  Zarkorr!The Invader.  That was interesting.  And a tiny “mall tramp” alien woman telling a postal worker to stop the monster because he was average.  Okay.  This was a strange movie.  Thanks for that.

@TheTalkingCan – One of the things that I had mentioned wanting to include in the Sunday “Bad” Movies was some Pauly Shore.  Your suggestion of Bio-Dome allowed me to do just that.  And it allowed me to see why Pauly Shore was never meant to be a leading man.  Thanks for knocking this movie off my list of movies that I needed to see for the Sunday “Bad” Movies.

And with that final thanks, I bid you farewell.  We’ve gone through all that we can go through with this post.  It’s been a good one.  A look back at the last twenty-five weeks for when I want to take a look at the quarter.  It has been a fairly good twenty-five weeks, and I hope the next twenty-five are just as good.  I'll see you all next week for Top Dog.  Thanks.  Goodnight!