On a holiday weekend, a man goes to spend time with his uncle. As things get tense, an earthquake traps this man under a car while unleashing something from the ground.
BAD MOVIE MONDAY: MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (1986)
Hello Friends! Welcome back to BAD MOVIE MONDAY! Today’s absurd automotive atrocity was one of my picks from last May when I wanted to provide a little extra torture my friends during movie night. MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE is the legendary 1986 train wreck directed by Stephen King.
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The Bootleg Files: King of the Jungle
BOOTLEG FILES 815: “King of the Jungle” (1933 adventure film starring Buster Crabbe).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: It fell through the cracks.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Not likely.
In 1932, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer scored a commercial hit by casting former Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in the title role of “Tarzan the Ape Man.” Paramount Pictures thought it could replicate the rival studio’s success, but rather than acquire the rights to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan character it opted to make a quasi-Tarzan film based on Charles Turley Stoneham’s “The Lion’s Way” – in which a Tarzan-type character was raised in the African jungle by lions rather than apes.
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BAD MOVIE MONDAY: EXORCIST II THE HERETIC (1977)
With the passing of Louise Fletcher I am reminded of just how immensely wonderful she was in Exorcist II, because if nothing else it’s a movie that really showcased her skills as an actress. Anyone can be good in a good movie but it takes real talent to be good in a BAD movie.
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The Broad, Disappointing Strokes of “Avatar”
Reposted from December 31st, 2009
There’s something about shooting fish in a barrel, and if any modern equivalent of a movie which lent itself to post-modern bashing more than Avatar does, you might only have truly smug equivalents of Stepin Fetchit, and those examples are self-aware.
Example: The gold toothed robots in Transformers 2. Clearly, they either knew what they were doing and did it anyway, or they simple didn’t know and it was perceived that way, but there’s no way a rational and cognizant person can not watch those robots and think, ghetto stereotype. But then, that opens me to my own criticism from the straw man who says, “I didn’t see that, you did, you f___ing racist!” Well, I asked my friends, so bite me. I hadn’t actually seen the flick until recently, where my thoughts were confirmed. Too busy watching shit that matters, I suppose.
The Bootleg Files: The Lauren Bacall High Point Coffee Commercials
BOOTLEG FILES 814: “The Lauren Bacall High Point Coffee Commercials” (a series of television advertisements from the early 1980s).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: No commercial reissue value.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Not likely.
Forty years ago, American television viewers were bombarded with a series of commercials for the High Point brand of instant decaffeinated coffee starring Lauren Bacall. While it was hardly unusual to have recognizable stars pitching coffee in 30- and 60-second spots – Bacall and her then-husband Jason Robards co-starred in a Maxwell House ad during the mid-1960s – the High Point commercials represent a somewhat bizarre realm where marketing and camp overlap. These commercials generated giggles back in the day, and today they are treasured by many as small gems of unintentional humor.
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Section 8 (2022)
A man’s family is killed sending him into a vengeful rage. Once his revenge done, he ends up in jail where a mysterious agency recruits him, gets him out, and then sets him on a mission.