Barbarella is campy fun, I wouldn't call it bad.
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Exactly. I finally watched this a couple years ago and it's so hilariously bad, it's good.
The fourth item on the list, they're referring to a film that doesn't actually exist, never has and never will exist.
The Highlander series went straight from 1 to 3 due to a historical accident.
The Highlander series ended after 1 movie. After all, there can be only one 🙂
wow. I had no idea they never made highlander 1 or 3
2012! Did they not watch Moonfall, it made 2012 look like Shakespeare.
2012 is one of my favourite movies. I don’t care what this author thinks, I love that movie. It’s fun, over the top, and enjoyable. I’m not watching it for some science-accurate portrayal of the end of the world. I’m watching it for the entertaining destruction, and this movie hits it.
Yea it's not strictly a "good" movie. But yes it's fun as hell to watch. Definitely up there near the top of my favorites in the disaster movie genre.
I don’t understand how they can say “overly sexualised voyages into space” and not include Galaxy of Terror. The worm rape scene that didn’t need to be in the movie and Corman forced back in makes it a much better contender for the slot Barbarella is in. On a script, camp, and exploitation level it is worse in every way and it’s even a ripoff of Alien to boot, arguably making it worse than Alien v Predator: Requiem which at least tries to be original.
I own it on laserdisc. The only reason I’ve seen it more than once is because people are surprised Sid Haig and Robert Englund did a movie together. It’s fucking bad and holy shit is the worm rape scene the fucking peak of Corman being a misogynistic, exploitative walnut. To be totally frank it really disgusts me that he still gets a platform (legacy) after forcing this scene into the movie and directing it himself, even if some people think it contributed to the movie’s commercial success.
even if some people think it contributed to the movie’s commercial success.
Was it a commercial success?
According to movie commentary, depends on who you talk to. Wikipedia lists the budget as 1.8mil and a box office of either 4mil or 1.3mil so it’s kinda unclear what the truth is.
Battlefield Earth is a masterpiece fight me
so we're just ignoring straight to VHS and straight to Netflix then?
let me introduce you to Alien Intruder
Mac and Me? Someone tell Paul Rudd.
Some of those are a given (Highlander 2, Battlefield Earth) but others suggest they need to watch more movies.
I'd also include:
- League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
- Cosmic Sin (2021) and Anti-Life (2020) - I understand the context but that doesn't stop them from being shit
- Alone in the Dark (2005) - screw Uwe Boll
- Monster (2008)
- Disaster Movie (2008)
- Brazilian Star Wars (1978)
- Doghouse (2008) - punchable
- Most mockbusters, especially the Atlantic Rim ones
LXG is good.
I haven't watched it, and I'm Brazilian, but I'll defend Brazilian Start Wars anyway. I'll basically defend [any nationality] Star Wars actually. [any nationality] [any popular franchise] needs to be a genre.
Here you go - it's dreadful.
[any nationality] [any popular franchise] needs to be a genre.
There are enough Italian Star Wars films to form their own genre.
I looked it up after commenting. It's a Trapalhões movie. I probably watched it as a child. I don't know how or when you watched it, but I would have to defend it for historical reasons. It's the first movie with the four comedians that formed the main group together. The special effects are awful for being filmed using videotapes and sending them to the USA for transferring to 35mm (an illegal act at the time). They are clowns, as in circus clowns making cinema, which informs a lot of the comedy.
All that to say, as before, it's good dreadful, something not everyone even believe exists.
oh god. after earth was shyamalan. I just lost a bit more respect for the man.