I am currently 114 weeks into the Sunday “Bad” Movies. That’s a lot of movies that I have watched
and written about that fall into the bad movie category. It has taken me over two years to get to this
point, watching, on average, just over one bad movie a week. It’s crazy to think that I have done that
much work just so that I can watch and write about movies that most people
would write off as crap. I enjoy it, so
that’s all that really matters to me.
Though, I do like that some people read and appreciate what I write.
This post is mostly for the people who read the blog
posts. More specifically, this is for
the people who want to follow along, week by week, and watch the movies during
the week that I’ll be writing about them.
I don’t think there is anyone that crazy, especially since it’s hard to
find some of the movies. But, just in
case, I’m going to make this post for those people. If you aren’t caught up or recently got
introduced to the blog, this is more for you than anyone.
On week 61 of the Sunday “Bad” Movies, I released a second
post. That post wasn’t about that week’s
movie, Big Ass Spider! It was instead a
look at the first fifty weeks as I chose ten movies that represented the blog
the best. They weren’t the best movies
that I had seen in those fifty weeks.
They were the ten movies that showed what the Sunday “Bad” Movies truly
were. There was good bad, bad bad, and
unique movies included in those ten movies.
They were meant to be a way to allow anyone to come in and watch the
movies with me without needing to watch all of the movies before.
I’m going to do the same thing again with this bonus
post. Instead of the first fifty weeks,
I will be taking a look at weeks 51 to 100 and choose the ten movies that I
think best represent the Sunday “Bad” Movies out of those fifty weeks. Once again, these are not the best
movies. Nor are they my favourites. They are simply the ten movies that I believe
best tell someone what this blog is, what it is about, and what I do with
it. So let’s get started with the first
of the ten movies.
I wanted to begin with the most unique of all of the movies
I watched in the fifty weeks that this post is covering. It was a movie framed like no other movie
that I have ever watched for the Sunday “Bad” Movies and I can’t think of any
movie similar to this one. The movie was
set up to play out like an episode of a wrestling show. There were character introductions with
vignettes about how the characters ended up in the brawl, there were commentators
that took the audience from one match to the next, and there were wrestling
matches. I’ve never seen a movie built
this way. For that reason alone, this
movie is a good inclusion in helping a person understand the Sunday “Bad”
Movies.
Many bad movies are memorable for one of three reasons. 1. They are really, really bad. 2. They have some ridiculous stuff happening
in them. Or, 3. They are enjoyable. The Legend of Sorrow Creek does not fit into
any of those three things. It is one of
the most forgettable movies I have ever seen.
I’ve been trying to think about it since I decided I was going to make
this post and all I have come up with is that there was a car and a cabin in
the movie. I have no recollection of what
happened in the movie. No recollection
at all. This is the worst kind of bad
movie that there is. If you can’t
remember a single thing that happened in a movie, what is the point? Yes, I’m including this in a list of movies
that people should watch out of the Sunday “Bad” Movies. It’s because forgettable is an important
quality when it comes to bad movies.
I’ve been trying to push this bad movie on everyone since I
saw it in August. It is the perfect
Hollywood bad movie. You’ve got a solid
cast of Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt, Kevin
Corrigan, Kevin Durand, Jessica Brown Findlay, Matt Bomer, and even Will
Smith. You’ve got an insane story about
love, miracles, stars, and immortality.
You have a flying horse. There is
so much going on in this movie that it is impossible to describe it in one
paragraph. I wish everyone would see
this movie and understand why it needs to be seen.
There’s not much to say about why I included this one. It’s based on a book that is apparently a
whole lot different than the movie. It
stars an Olympic gymnast as an action hero.
There’s a game to the death in a made up country. The main character fights with a combination
of gymnastics and karate that is for some reason called gymkata. And at one point, he fights off a bunch of
enemies using a pommel horse that is in a town square. Why is it there? I don’t know.
It just is. This movie is
bonkers.
The biggest surprise of the fifty weeks, Big Ass Spider!
ended up being one of my favourite movies that I’ve covered. I chose it based on the name which just
screamed bad movie. What I got was a
well-acted movie with a ridiculous concept executed perfectly. I fell in love with the movie really quickly,
and much like Winter’s Tale, I began telling people to watch it. I wasn’t telling them to watch it because it
was bad though. This is a good movie
that many people are going to think is bad because of the idea and name. It’s really fun though and this inclusion is
just because I like the movie so damn much.
Bad movies have a history of being heavy on ripping off
ideas from other movies and television shows.
Metal Man is one that is closer to the source material than most that I
have seen. Sure, the story has major
differences. But there is still the fact
that it is a man in a metal suit fighting crime, and the helmet closely
resembles that of Iron Man. It seems to
be made on a low budget, yet it still ends up being entertaining enough. Plus you get some Reggie Bannister in there.
Look at that name.
Just look at it. What’s not to
like about this movie? It has Jesus
Christ fighting vampires. He has a
sidekick who is a Lucha Libre wrestler.
There are musical numbers. There
are ridiculous sight gags that work wonderfully. It has a low budget and has as much fun as it
possibly can on minimal funds. This
movie perfectly captures the great attitude that many people making bad movies
can have.
I feel the need to include a foreign movie on this list and
I decided to choose the one that seems more out of the normal for North
American audiences. Infra-Man is
basically a Chinese version of the Japanese television kaiju shows. Something like an Ultraman or Kamen Rider,
only in film form. It has a lot of
kung-fu, a lot of monster fights, and an appearance by Bruce Le (one of the
many Bruce Lee knock-off actors that came to prominence following Lee’s
death). It was the first superhero movie
to come out of China. Well worth
checking out.
It was hard to narrow down this category to one movie, but I
had to go with Howard the Duck. How do
you not? Throughout posts 51 to 100, I
came across some interesting adaptations of material from other media. House of the Dead came from a video game,
Bratz came from a toy, and Howard the Duck came from comics. Howard the Duck is the most important of the
three films, however. It was produced by
George Lucas and quickly became known as one of the worst comic book inspired
movies. It still is. And there is a lot of crazy stuff that
happens in the movie, including a woman almost having sex with a duck. The film was a colossal failure and along
with other movies of the 80s and 90s, helped to keep Marvel out of being a
respectable force in film until near the turn of the new millennium. It’s one of the more important bad films.
Sure, I’m cheating a little bit by including both of the
Birdemic movies in this final slot. The
thing is, both movies share a lot of similarities. They are overlong when they don’t need to
be. The acting is stiff. They both include a dance scene with music
from Damien Carter. And the bird effects
are terrible. These two movies that are
a tribute to The Birds do nothing but showcase how terrible of a filmmaker
James Nguyen is. And they’re some of the
most talked about recent bad movies.
So those are the ten… Er… Eleven movies from week fifty-one up
to week one hundred that I think should be watched if you want a good idea of
what the Sunday “Bad” Movies are. Do I
think there are more movies worth watching in those weeks? Of course I do. But I also want to make the Sunday “Bad” Movies
accessible and narrowing it down to ten movies per fifty is much easier than
the entire list, or even the smaller thirty movies I was debating on whether or
not to include. Ten (eleven) is doable
for anyone hoping to catch up and then follow along. You don’t even have to watch what I said you
should. It’s just a list I made.
That’s it for this post.
Another one will be going up shortly.
It’ll be the actual post for the week, about the movie The Hero of Color
City. Check that out when it goes up
sometime during the Super Bowl tonight.
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