Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Futuresport (1998) and Much More


I’ve heard many times that older people will be wiser than those who grew up after them. That doesn’t necessarily mean that they are smarter. The idea that someone is wiser because they are older is based on the fact that they have been around longer. They’ve lived a longer life, which has allowed them to witness more things. Does it mean that they learned from any of it? Not at all. When people say that older means wiser, it means that they’re more life experienced.

The thing about life experiences is that they can change your perspective. Something that you saw a certain way at a young age may be seen differently as you grow up. You might have thought vegetables were yucky as a kid, before finding them delicious as an adult. Things change. You experience more, push yourself to do more, and you grow. You’re not necessarily smarter in the traditional sense. Your morals might be out of whack, and you might still hold onto things from when you were younger without adapting to the modern world. But your perspective has changed, and you might think of those same things a little differently.


That wisdom and perspective shift could also be seen in movies. Culture changes. What may have been popular at one time could be offensive in another. Think of all the classic films that have a dash of racism here, a pinch of sexism there, and a heap of homophobia and transphobia covering the whole thing. Those aren’t acceptable anymore. The cultural perspective shifted. The change in perspective changed movies, and television, for the better. There’s an effort to tell jokes that aren’t at the expense of an entire demographic. Did the movies get smarter? Not always. But they wised up.

Now, it’s not just movies themselves that find wisdom and perspective shifts with age. Movies aren’t sentient, so they aren’t what is wising up. The people behind the movies wised up. They realized that [most of] the audience didn’t want casual bigotry in their entertainment anymore. The filmmakers had their perspectives shift because the perspective of the audience had changed. Sure, there have been exceptions. There are exceptions to anything. For the most part, audiences have grown with the times and there has been a change in movies because of it.

With the rise of the twenty-four-hour news cycle, and the internet after it, people have discovered more about celebrities and filmmakers than they ever knew before. It has led to a lot of negativity coming to light and a lot of perspective changes for audiences. Discovering the deep, dirty secrets of people whose work they had been watching made them change how they thought of said work. I can’t really speak for everyone on some of these things. I’m a straight white man and clearly wouldn’t be able to understand what women, LGBTQ2+ people, and other races have had to reconcile with as they learned more about the artists they liked. I can only speak from my perspective. So take anything I say with a grain of salt.

I want to go through a few of the things I watched growing up and how my perspective changed as I aged and discovered more about the people behind the stuff. I should note that this is not a definitive list of problematic work or people. These are just going to be a few of the people that come to mind and how finding out more about them shifted my perspective of their work. I’m going through my own personal perspective shifts, which might not be the same as yours.


This week’s movie seems like the perfect place to start. Futuresport was a 1998 television movie about Tre Ramzey (Dean Cain), one of the biggest stars in Futuresport, a full-contact rollerblading basketball sort of sport. I know, it sounds familiar. Tre got caught up in a political battle between mainland USA and Hawaii. The tensions grew to the point that it could only be solved with a Futuresport match between USA and the Pacific Islands. There was a little bit of kidnapping sprinkled in there, as well.

The star of Futuresport is where I want to begin. Though the movie also featured Wesley Snipes and Vanessa Williams, it was Dean Cain who was out front and centre. He was the cocky all-star who only cared about his own stats. Through the movie, he would learn about teamwork and what it meant to be a real leader, but he was mostly just the hotshot star of the team. He was also a romantic lead, since the movie included a love story between his character and Vanessa Williams’s.

Prior to Futuresport, Dean Cain was the star of a television show called Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. It was based on the Superman comics and was a huge success. It may have been even more successful than the comics at that time, especially since I think it forced the comics to marry Superman to Lois Lane. Could you blame them? If the characters were going to get married in the show, it was perfect synergy. And the high ratings of the show might translate to better sales for the comics. Everybody wins.

I watched Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman a bunch as a kid. It was one of the shows my mom watched regularly, alongside Star Trek: The Next Generation, Nash Bridges, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and reruns of the 60s Batman show. Dean Cain was a regular presence on the television in our house. He also had a bit role in Rat Race, a movie that always found it’s way on when we got into the new millennium.


His specific roles didn’t matter too much. Dean Cain has always been an alright actor. He had the presence of a star, but didn’t quite have the chops to be the bonafide draw that you might have thought from his television days. Futuresport was another one of his alright performances in an alright project. It was good fun, but wasn’t anything more than that. It wasn’t a spectacle. It was just a movie.

More recently, Dean Cain has become outspoken about his political leanings, which has given me a new, more negative opinion on the guy. I’m not saying I looked up to him before. Well, maybe I did a little bit. He was Superman during my childhood, after all. In recent years, the guy has talked about his support of Donald Trump. He voted for Trump in 2016 and in 2020. I could forgive someone for voting for Trump in 2016. It was clearly the worst choice, but everyone makes mistakes sometimes. However, after all the bad that Trump did during his four years in office, it’s hard to forgive someone who continued to support him. Dean Cain still supported him. My perception changed. Instead of seeing Dean Cain as one of the Supermen, I now see him as that guy who, sadly, played Superman in the 90s. Maybe it’s not enough to keep me from seeing the stuff he has been in, but it’s enough to keep me from watching things because he’s in them. I’m never going to be like “Dean Cain is in this? I should check it out.” This blog aside, of course. Exceptions.


I’m going to quickly go through a few other people that fit into this problematic-outlooks category for me, then get into some bigger ones for the rest of the post. I grew up in a house where my dad would watch any Mel Gibson movie he could. Mel Gibson was basically a part of my life. Well, now I know he’s a racist, misogynistic piece of shit. Kevin Sorbo was the star of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. Guess what? He’s overly religious to the point of bigotry, including antisemitism. Then there are Tim Allen and Clint Eastwood who sometimes go a little far in their siding with Republican views.

One of the more recent examples of my perception changing on filmmakers in a big way has to do with something in the news right now. There are a couple major court cases going on that people are glued to. One of them is the political one, looking into the January 6th stuff and trying to find who is to blame. It’s obvious who is to blame, but they need to go about it this way. The other major trial is a defamation suit between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.

Johnny Depp is an actor who has been around since before I was born. He rose to fame in the 1980s and remained one of the biggest stars through the 2010s. I’ve seen a bunch of his movies and thought he was good in many of them. Mainly the 80s and 90s ones. I kind of checked out of his work sometime during the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels. Amber Heard, on the other hand, became semi-famous in the late 2000s and early 2010s, mostly through horror work. I can’t say I thought she was a great actor. She was fine. But she was hot, and I was a teen going into my university years when she found fame. Of course I was going to watch her stuff simply because I found her attractive.

Anyway, this whole lawsuit has to do with Amber Heard and Johnny Depp having an abusive relationship. Amber Heard said she was a victim to Johnny Depp’s physical abuse. Johnny Depp said he was a victim to Amber Heard’s physical abuse. Neither of them wanted to take the blame. It’s possible they both abused each other. It doesn’t matter to me, at this point. I think they were both abusers and I’m tired of hearing about them at all. This whole thing has turned me off wanting to see anything they do from this point on.


Now we’re getting into the really bad ones. Two more. With a few other quick mentions thrown in. People constantly bring up this next one, mostly because the filmmaker is still semi-relevant in modern Hollywood. One of his movies was nominated for an Academy Award only a few years ago. If you know, you know who I’m about to write about. Here comes the section on Bryan Singer.

Superhero movies are huge. Marvel, DC, and all the other superhero movies rule the box office. For the most part. The build up to the success of superhero movies can be partially attributed to Bryan Singer’s work with the X-Men franchise. The first flick came out in 2000, a year before the first Spider-Man flick. Yeah, Batman and Superman hit the big screen in the decades before, but X-Men was the start of the superhero boom. That’s not what I want to talk about, though.

I’ve been a Stephen King fan since my childhood. You might already know where I’m going with this. I worked at a hotel during my teenage years and spent a lot of time working in their parking lot. During that time, I would read books when nothing was going on. One of the books was Different Seasons, a collection of four Stephen King novellas. Three of those novellas have been adapted into movies. You might know two of the movies: The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me. The other one was Apt Pupil. I didn’t love Apt Pupil as a novella or a movie. It was about an unhinged teenager who became obsessed with his neighbour, a former Nazi. When I saw it, I was really into Stephen King and I appreciated Bryan Singer’s work on movies like X-Men, X2, and The Usual Suspects. So, I was looking forward to it. It was alright.

My opinion on the movie has greatly changed because of a shift in perspective over the past few years. Things about Bryan Singer surfaced. Some of them were directly associated with that movie. There have been numerous sexual assault allegations against Bryan Singer. Because of the sheer number of allegations, it is extremely likely that he had non-consensual sex with underaged boys. The allegation associated with Apt Pupil was that Singer told some of the young boys performing in the movie that they would have to get naked for a shower scene set at the school. That was a big no-no. You can’t do that. All this statutory rape and predatory behaviour stuff changed how I’ve viewed Singer’s work since it came to light.


For many people, Joss Whedon, Woody Allen, Louis C.K., Rob Lowe, Kevin Spacey, Harvey Weinstein, and Roman Polanski would fall into the same area. They’ve done some horrible sexual stuff that it’s hard to overlook. Sexual coercion and harassment, statutory rape, trapping people in hotel rooms and masturbating at them. The work that audiences appreciated from some people who were seen as great artists now has baggage attached to it. It’s tough to see it the same way when you’ve grown wise to what happened with the artists involved.


The final one I want to touch upon is the one that most affected me. The stuff that happened was before I ever got into this guy’s work. I just didn’t know. There were a few horror movies I would watch a bunch when I was a teenager. The first two Final Destination movies were favourites of mine, as was Joy Ride. Then there were the two Jeepers Creepers movies. There’s a third now, but I’ve never seen it. I also haven’t gone back to the first two movies for years. Why? I found out about Victor Salva’s history.

Before I get to exactly what he did, let me explain what the movies were. There’s a connection that makes the movies hurt on a whole different level. The first Jeepers Creepers involved a demonic being chasing after a brother and sister because it wanted the young man’s body to help regenerate a body part. The second Jeepers Creepers involved the same demonic being targeting a bus full of teenage basketball players, trying to get their bodies for regeneration, and licking bus windows as a form of psychological terror.

Anyway, when I was around twenty years old, I found out that Victor Salva had gone to jail in the 1980s. It wasn’t for petty theft or drugs. He was convicted of child pornography. He had some, and he made some. Ew. In fact, he had sex with a twelve-year-old boy who had been in his movie Clownhouse. He went to jail because of statutory rape that happened on one of his sets. Statutory rape that he committed. And he WAS ALLOWED TO MAKE MORE MOVIES. And those movies were about a monster targeting boys for their bodies WHILE SEXUALIZING THE BOYS! The Jeepers Creepers movies felt so connected to Salva as a predator that I can’t bring myself to watch them anymore. As much as I enjoyed them as a teen, I don’t think I’ll ever revisit them because the thought disgusts me.


The more you discover about the people who make the movies you enjoy, the more you’ll find some disturbing stuff. Nobody is perfect. Many people are far from perfect. The people I’ve mentioned through this post are some of the people who aren’t anywhere near perfect. They are very much bad people and that has influenced how I see their movies. That has changed my perspective. I have grown wiser when it comes to the people I choose to watch in movies and on television.

When people say that older people are wiser, the implication is that they are smarter. That’s not necessarily true. It just means that their eyes have been opened to more things. They’ve experienced more. Their perspective changed over time. Because someone has experienced something, it doesn’t mean they’ve learned from it. They still make mistakes. They still do the wrong thing sometimes. The thing about wisdom is that it doesn’t mean you know more. It simply means you’ve gained a new outlook. Knowing that is real wisdom.


Maybe these notes will make you wiser:

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Sunday, April 17, 2022

Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011), Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012), and Atlas Shrugged: Part III (2014)


People say that money can’t buy happiness, but in a world where capitalism is the key to survival, that happiness can’t come without a monetary price. Even if you’re trying to do something for free, some monetary investment went into it. Gas money to go from one place to another. Clothing bought so you aren’t naked all the time. Board games cost money, music costs money, movies cost money, video games cost money, going to the gym costs money, sports cost money… I could keep going, but you understand me. It costs money to do everything.

That’s all because of the capitalism that became the default form of government in most countries. People can say, as much as they want, that certain countries are democracies. They can call other countries socialists or communists. Everything comes down to money, though. The rich rule. They buy their way into government positions by spending on elaborate election campaigns. When they get into power, they enact laws that will feed the rich and bury the poor. Big corporations can do almost anything they want to make more money. If they run into financial problems, a bailout could be on the way. The government is all about money, whether you choose to believe it or not.

Now, in a world where capitalism is king, people are starting to fight back against it. There’s no reason that prices should inflate on a whim without minimum wage rising with it. College and university costs have skyrocketed, leaving many people in debt. Why not avoid college and just enter the work force? Well, you see, many places won’t hire unless a person has some higher education. It means they have to go into debt to earn any form of money. Housing costs have soared, as has technology and the associated devices.


In 1957, Ayn Rand released her ode to capitalism, Atlas Shrugged. I don’t know too much about the novel. I haven’t read it. What I do know is that it became her most well-known work. It was her final novel. It was her longest novel. Rand thought of it as her masterpiece. Looking at the Wikipedia page for the novel, Atlas Shrugged “has been cited as an influence on a variety of libertarian and conservative thinkers and politicians.” So, yeah, a capitalist government liked a capitalist book. Who knew?

Atlas Shrugged: Part I was the first film in a trilogy of films based on Ayn Rand’s novel. It covered, I’m assuming, the first third or so of the book’s story. The movie took place in a dystopian world where capitalism was pushed aside for a communism sort of world. Independent businesses were under pressure from the government to fairly distribute their products to everyone, regardless of how much money they would lose, rather than choosing which commissions would create the most profit. Dagny Taggart (Taylor Schilling) ran the Taggart Transcontinental Railroad with her brother James (Matthew Marsden). After a bunch of politics and an accident in Colorado, she teamed up with Henry Rearden (Grant Bowler) to create The John Galt Line, named after a mysterious figure that independent capitalists kept mentioning before disappearing. The John Galt Line ran on a rail of Rearden metal, a new metal Henry Rearden discovered. The government did whatever they could to stop the success of the rail and to tarnish Rearden’s name.


The first movie in the Atlas Shrugged trilogy didn’t feel quite as capitalist as I thought it would, going in. There were capitalist moments, for sure, but they weren’t as overwhelming as I expected. It was mostly just some railroad politics. Dagny tried to run a railroad. Everyone was working against her. She pushed her way through with The John Galt Line and proved them wrong. The big moment came when a bullet train crossed a wide canyon on a bridge built with Rearden metal. There were hints at mysteries that would be solved later, as well. Things like the static electricity engine, John Galt, and the missing industry leaders were a big source of vague intrigue throughout the movie. Those things would be expanded upon in the sequels.

Capitalism reared its ugly head during scenes where the industrialists were being given restrictions by the government. Atlas Shrugged was a trilogy that was built around the government being bad and capitalism being heroic. We know that, in reality, the government and the capitalists are the same people. This movie pitted the two against each other, however. One of the laws that was thrown at the industrial leaders was that they could only own one business. Capitalism peaked in the movie when Henry Rearden was told about his reputation as someone whose “only goal is to make money” by one of his confidantes, Paul Larkin (Patrick Fischler). Henry replied by saying “My only goal is to make money.” He was a capitalist, through and through. Where Dagny had a secondary motive of keeping a family business afloat, Henry was only in it for the money.


Atlas Shrugged: Part II came out the next year and brought the capitalist ideals to the forefront. Dagny Taggart (Samantha Mathis) and Henry Rearden (Jason Beghe) were two of the only remaining industrialists to fight against the government’s control on the economy. Dagny was looking for the inventor of an engine that could help her rail company flourish, while Henry was went to trial over new laws. Some of the laws included fulfilling government orders first, not being able to fire anyone, and fixed incomes. They were also trying to uncover the most important question. Who is John Galt?

The train stuff wasn’t as big a part of Atlas Shrugged: Part II as it was of Atlas Shrugged: Part I. It still played a semi-important role, what with The John Galt Line being dismantled and some train accidents. Dagny was no longer focused on her position in charge of Taggart Transcontinental Railroad. She, instead, chose to chase after John Galt and the static electricity engine she discovered he was behind. She hired Quentin Daniels (Diedrich Bader) to recreate the engine, though he came to believe the same things as John Galt and ran off to join the people who disappeared.


Much of the focus was put onto the government’s attempts to crush capitalism. That’s what Henry Rearden was experiencing as the government came after his company and his metal. Henry had a deal with Ken Danagger (Arye Gross) and his coal mining company. Any orders that Ken put in would be given priority because of this deal. Henry also chose not to sell to the government, which they didn’t like. They enacted a fair share law that forced companies to sell to everyone. Henry defied that order and was brought to court.

That was where Atlas Shrugged: Part II really hit home on how the capitalists were supposed to be heroes. The problem was that the movie did it in such a way that it felt like the heeliest heel turn I’ve witnessed since Veck Simms revealed that he was the leader of the criminals in Paul Blart: Mall Cop. Henry Rearden was in court and the judge questioned him about his capitalist ways. Henry said that he wanted it understood that he only worked for profit. He didn’t care about the good of others or their worth. All he cared about was making money. It was much the same rant he gave in the first film, though now in court in a much blunter way.


The other bit of dialogue I want to bring up was where the title of the movies and book was alluded to. Henry was talking to the owner of a mine, Francisco d’Anconia (Esai Morales), about the government trying to shut down any form of capitalism. Francisco went into a diatribe about meeting Atlas, and what they would say to him. Henry didn’t know what he would say and asked Francisco for his answer. Francisco said he’d tell Atlas “to shrug.” Basically, neither of them liked the way the government was controlling the economy, though they were having trouble finding a way to do something about it, other than defying mandates. Things needed to be burned down to start fresh with a successful capitalist world.

Atlas Shrugged: Part II ended on a crucial moment for the trilogy. Quentin Daniels flew off to wherever the other industrial minds had fled to. Dagny pursued in her plane. I’m not sure where she got the skills to fly the plane, since she was simply a railroad magnate, but that’s beside the point. That doesn’t matter. What mattered was that, while in pursuit, she crashed through some invisible barrier in the sky and her plane hit the ground hard. She was in and out of consciousness among a plane wreck when John Galt showed up and offered help. The movie ended on her first face-to-face meeting with the man whose name had been on so many tongues.


Atlas Shrugged: Part III picked up right where the previous installment ended. John Galt (Kristoffer Polaha) rescued Dagny Taggart (Laura Regan) from the wreck of her plane. He brought her into his community where the brightest capitalist minds were hiding out. They had created their own place, separate from America, where they were free to think how they wanted. There were no government restrictions. They wanted Dagny to join, but she chose to go back into the world where the fight was most important. John Galt also went back into the world to… I don’t know. Get captured and become a martyr, maybe?

It was fairly easy to follow the first two Atlas Shrugged movies. Atlas Shrugged: Part I was all about railroad politics and the government putting restrictions on capitalist activities. It was a straight-forward narrative. Atlas Shrugged: Part II was much more focused on the government restrictions and the few people who remained to fight against it. Again, that was a straight-forward premise.

Atlas Shrugged: Part III, however, was a mess. I don’t know what to make of the movie. There were more government restrictions, obviously. They demanded that all patents be public. Anyone could access and recreate whatever was under patent. Nobody could keep their intellectual property any longer, meaning there was no way to make money off it. The government was ending capitalism. John Galt left his community to do some domestic terrorism sort of stuff. He took control of a television channel to broadcast his manifesto. That’s really it, I guess. Then he got captured and his followers broke him out of torture. I don’t know how else to describe the movie. I could barely follow it.


Let’s talk about the capitalist messaging of Atlas Shrugged: Part III. As I’ve already said, the government was trying to end capitalism. They had put in the ultimate restrictions through the three films. People couldn’t leave their jobs, change their wages, or monetize their intellectual property. Nobody could make any more money than they were already making. They weren’t allowed to spend more than their typical spending. The economy would essentially be shut down. In Galt’s Gulch, the community where all the industrialists were, the mentality was much different. It made sense. The community was founded on John Galt leaving his job at 20th Century Motor Company because they had decided to pay people based on financial need, rather than based on capitalist mentality. He was going to “stop the motor of the world,” and so were the people hiding in his Gulch.

One other thing that should be mentioned about the Atlas Shrugged movies before I move on is the casting. Each movie utilized a different cast. As you could see from my descriptions, Dagny Taggart was recast for each movie. The other characters were, as well. Maybe that added to the confusion of the story in each movie. Perhaps it was intentional, to better illustrate how the characters changed throughout the three-movie arc. Whatever the case, it just made things a bigger mess, as it was hard to connect with someone who looked completely different every time you saw them. Especially characters like Midas Mulligan, who was played by the recognizable Geoff Pierson for about thirty seconds of the first film before disappearing and reappearing in the third film as an entirely different looking Mark Moses. The disappearances probably could have been more effective had they kept the same cast through three movies.


The trilogy of Atlas Shrugged films tried to make capitalism look good by painting the government in a bad light. For the most part, the government isn’t the greatest. You know that. I know that. Ayn Rand knew that when she wrote her most popular novel. The strange thing was that they tried to paint the government as anti-capitalist. That’s strange because of how welcoming the government has been to capitalism. In our world, the government loves money. They spend a whole lot of it on things like the military, the police, and keeping big corporations happy. Atlas Shrugged was a fictional world, so maybe I’m putting too much focus on this strange victimization of capitalists. The thing is, fictional dystopias like this are usually inspired by some sort of perceived reality. One group forcing another group down. That sort of thing. I just don’t see the government pushing down capitalism.

Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged led to the spread of objectivism, which then helped build the capitalist world in which we live. It was about people caring about their own happiness before caring about others. The best way to find this happiness was through material achievements. Money, companies, and all that sort of stuff was the best way to find happiness. Maybe the sixty-something years since the book’s release has given enough time for objectivism to reach the government, which is why it feels like the conflict in the book isn’t realistic. Many of the Conservatives in power followed objectivism, so they have become the Atlas Shrugged heroes, instead of the villains. That would explain the selfishness of their votes when it comes to health care, gun restrictions, and budgets. They don’t care about the average person. They care about their money and power.

I’m spiraling a little bit here, so it’s probably about time I wrapped things up. We live in a capitalist society where we can’t have happiness unless we’re willing to pay for it. The government has pushed for capitalism to be everything. You want fun? You have to pay for it. You want food? You have to pay for it. You want health care or a family? It’s time to pay some more. A few people find their happiness in gathering money, and they feel the need to exploit anyone else to get it. The people being exploited are forced to spend their money to have any happiness, which makes it tougher to simply survive. It’s an unfair world. That’s what capitalism and objectivism have done. That’s what Ayn Rand has done. Meh.


I’m ready to get out of here, but I have to give you some notes first:

  • Michael Gross made his sixth Sunday “Bad” Movies appearance this week in Atlas Shrugged: Part II. He was previously seen in Cool as Ice (week 348), Tremors (week 360), Tremors II: Aftershocks (week 360), Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (week 360), and Ground Control (week 474).
  • Atlas Shrugged: Part II also saw the fifth appearance of Diedrich Bader in Sunday “Bad” Movies. He was in Space Buddies (week 270), Balls of Fury (week 349), The Search for Santa Paws (week 420), and Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups (week 420).
  • Christopher Karl Johnson is now at four Sunday “Bad” Movies appearances. He was in Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes (week 60), Nazisat the Centre of the Earth (week 73), Mega Shark vs. Kolossus (week 300), and Atlas Shrugged: Part I.
  • David Dustin Kenyon was in Atlas Shrugged: Part I. He was also in A Nanny for Christmas (week 3), Sharknado (week 190), and Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster (week 390).
  • Michael Lerner had a major role in Atlas Shrugged: Part I. He could also be seen in Godzilla (week 282), The Beautician and the Beast (week 429), and Maniac Cop 2 (week 480).
  • Ray Wise popped up in Big Ass Spider! (week 61), God’s Not Dead 2 (week 230), Brother White (week 379), and Atlas Shrugged: Part II.
  • Rex Linn was also in Atlas Shrugged: Part II. He could be seen in Drop Zone (week 132), Zombeavers (week 142), and Sniper (week 430) before that.
  • Moving onto the three-timers, let’s start with Matthew Marsden. He was in Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid (week 80), DOA: Dead or Alive (week 191), and Atlas Shrugged: Part I.
  • Then there was Marissa Welch. She was in Atlas Shrugged: Part I, as well as Jack and Jill (week 101) and A Haunted House 2 (week 274).
  • John Robert was in Nic and Tristan Go Mega Dega (week 272), All About Steve (week 409), and Atlas Shrugged: Part II.
  • Jeff Yagher was the only three-timer to appear in multiple Atlas Shrugged movies. He was in View from the Top (week 83), Atlas Shrugged: Part II, and Atlas Shrugged: Part III.
  • Larry Cedar is our first person from Atlas Shrugged: Part III. He was also in The Gingerdead Man (week 69) and Son of the Mask (week 207).
  • If you noticed Tim DeZarn in Atlas Shrugged: Part III, you may have also noticed him in Steel (week 127) and Too Young to Die? (week 441).
  • Louis Herthum appeared in Road House 2: Last Call (week 200), 12 Rounds (week 460), and Atlas Shrugged: Part III.
  • Finishing off the three-timers was Brent Briscoe. He was in Zombeavers (week 142), Say It Isn’t So (week 481), and Atlas Shrugged: Part III.
  • Mel Fair made appearances in Atlas Shrugged: Part I and Atlas Shrugged: Part II.
  • Three other people were in Atlas Shrugged: Part II and Atlas Shrugged: Part III. They were Rebecca Dunn, Sean Hannity, and Jonathan Hoenig.
  • Now we’re onto the simple two-time repeaters. Let’s start with two people from Jack and Jill (week 101) who were in Atlas Shrugged: Part I. They were Geoff Pierson and January Welsh.
  • Mercedes Connor was in Atlas Shrugged: Part I and Beverly Hills Chihuahua (week 70), while J.P. Manoux was in Atlas Shrugged: Part II and Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva La Fiesta (week 70).
  • View from the Top (week 83) featured Jon Polito from Atlas Shrugged: Part I and Stephen Tobolowsky from Atlas Shrugged: Part III.
  • Paul Johansson from Atlas Shrugged: Part I and Scott Klace from Atlas Shrugged: Part III were each in Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies (week 410).
  • Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus (week 300) featured both Robert Picardo of Atlas Shrugged: Part II and Nicola Lambo of Atlas Shrugged: Part III.
  • Armin Shimerman was in Atlas Shrugged: Part I and Delgo (week 148).
  • Paul Edney was in Balls of Fury (week 349) before showing up in Atlas Shrugged: Part I.
  • Jsu Garcia was a key part of Atlas Shrugged: Part I. He was also in Gotcha! (week 357).
  • Ron Perceval appeared in both Atlas Shrugged: Part I and Scooby-Doo: Curse of the Lake Monster (week 390).
  • Atlas Shrugged: Part I featured Janis Jones from All About Steve (week 409).
  • Daisy McCrackin had a small role in Atlas Shrugged: Part I, but had a much bigger role in Halloween: Resurrection (week 413).
  • Finishing off Atlas Shrugged: Part I was Michael O’Keefe from Too Young to Die? (week 441).
  • James Jordan and Damian Forest Light were both in Best Night Ever (week 285) and Atlas Shrugged: Part II.
  • Samantha Mathis took over the lead role in Atlas Shrugged: Part II. She played Daisy in Super Mario Bros. (week 248).
  • Kim Rhodes was a big part of Atlas Shrugged: Part II. She was also a big part of A Crush on You (week 51).
  • Bug Hall was a kid when he was in The Stupids (week 188). He was all grown up when he appeared in Atlas Shrugged: Part II.
  • Famous magician Teller was in Atlas Shrugged: Part II and Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (week 190).
  • Patricia Tallman popped up in Road House (week 200) and Atlas Shrugged: Part II.
  • Arye Gross from Soul Man (week 354) appeared in Atlas Shrugged: Part II.
  • Jordana Capra was in Atlas Shrugged: Part II and Street Corner Justice (week 391).
  • Finishing off Atlas Shrugged: Part II was Stephen Macht, the lead actor from Galaxina (week 432).
  • Now we’re onto the last movie, Atlas Shrugged: Part III, which featured Scott Levy from Metal Man (week 79).
  • Shon Lange has been featured in two Sunday “Bad” Movies. They were Atlas Shrugged: Part III and Budz House (week 198).
  • Theodore Rex (week 223) had an actor named Peter Mackenzie, who reappeared in Atlas Shrugged: Part III.
  • You might have recognized Mark Moses in Atlas Shrugged: Part III. He was in Ice Twisters (week 329).
  • Finally, Eric Allan Kramer was in The Incredible Hulk Returns (week 335) and Atlas Shrugged: Part III.
  • Have you seen the Atlas Shrugged movies? Have you read the novel? What did you think of either of them? Tell me your thoughts on Twitter or in the comments.
  • I always appreciate suggestions about what I should watch for Sunday “Bad” Movies. If you have any movies you would like to suggest, you can get a hold of me on Twitter. You can also leave suggestions in the comments.
  • Make sure to visit Instagram and check out Sunday “Bad”Movies there.
  • Next week, we’re back to just one movie. It’s going to be an interesting one. The movie I’ll be checking out is a futuristic sports movie starring a television star of the time. I’ll be checking out a little something called Futuresport. I don’t know much about it, but I’m up for some future sports. See you next week with another post.
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