Representative Movies: The First 50 Posts
On my Sunday “Bad” Movies Twitter account a few months ago,
I listed the ten movies out of the first fifty posts that I considered the most
representative of the Sunday “Bad” Movies as a whole. I don’t know why I never made a post to make
note of this list. I decided that I
should so I am about to go through the ten movies out of the first fifty posts
that I think completely embody the feel of the blog series. Note that these are single movies from the
fifty posts. I don’t consider an entire
series of movies to be one slot in this list of ten. Each movie in the series would be one slot.
This was the first movie I covered in the Sunday “Bad”
Movies, and it seems like it was the best movie to begin the blog series. It spawned the initial post about whether or
not movies could be so bad that they are good.
It had David Hasselhoff, the patron saint of cheese. It’s a rip-off of Star Wars with a scantily
clad woman. It has the great Christopher
Plummer in a role that doesn’t deserve his talent. Everything about the movie makes it the
perfect choice for the Sunday “Bad” Movies, and makes it a worthy
representation of what this blog series is.
These choices don’t represent my favourite movies in the
Sunday “Bad” Movies and Superbabies is actually one of my least favourite
movies I’ve watched for the series. In fact,
this choice represents the pinnacle of poor filmmaking. The acting throughout the movie is
unbearable, even from decent actors such as Scott Baio, Vanessa Angel, and Jon
Voight. The story is convoluted and
boring. The action is insane to look
at. It isn’t a good sequel (which is
entirely different from being a good film).
The small amount of depth that was present in Baby Geniuses is removed
in the sequel, taking away any of the resonance that the film could have. Instead it’s a hollow shell of a movie that
will only leave nightmares in the mind of the viewer. This movie is representative of all of the
bad movies in the Sunday “Bad” Movies, and thus earns a spot in this list of
ten movies.
Well, this one had to be included in the list of ten
movies. Why? It shows how fun a movie can be when it might
not have the best writing, the biggest budget, or an experienced director. Miami Connection still kicks ass in a way you
wouldn’t expect it to. The low budget
shows. The dialogue is okay, at
best. It’s a first time director. Still, there are the catchy songs in it that
make it worth it. Then there are the
action scenes which are astonishing and enjoyable. This movie isn’t about objective quality, but
rather the feeling that you are left with after watching it. That feeling is as much a part of the Sunday
“Bad” Movie aura as the objective quality.
The potential of a movie is something I’ve written about
various times throughout the Sunday “Bad” Movie posts. I’ve written about how a movie could have an
intriguing concept that could be great if it is executed properly. I’ve written about movies where I thing the
story is good but everything surrounding it is not so good. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is one of
these movies. The story is a solid story
that, with a couple of tweaks, could be a great story. The real problem with the movie, and what
makes it a bad movie, is everything else.
The performances are weird. The
effects look bad because of when it was made.
The sets are funny looking. But
the story has the potential to be something great. Potential.
That’s why this movie made the list.
Quite often, I choose movies based on the names. This was one of them, and it was surprisingly
a really good movie. I included Hansel
and Gretel Get Baked because the Sunday “Bad” Movies can really go against my
expectations and give me a movie that is a whole lot better than I thought I
was going to get. It’s mostly the name
on this one, but there was a subversion of my expectations nonetheless. I have nothing else to add about this
movie. I would only be talking in
circles if I kept writing about this one.
This is a movie with a message. A lot of bad movies spawn out of the writers
and directors having a message to give to other people. There are movies like Birdemic that are about
the dangers of global warming. Tiptoes is
about the hardships of having dwarfism.
I included it in this list of ten movies that represent the Sunday “Bad”
Movies because the idea of crafting a movie around a specific theme can easily
lead to a poorly made movie. Tiptoes
personifies that idea by being a poorly crafted movie built around a theme.
There are a few reasons that I included The Oogieloves on my
list of ten movies from the first fifty posts that truly represent the Sunday
“Bad” Movies. One: It’s one of the worst
box office earning movies ever. Two:
There are respectable actors doing really stupid things. Three: It fits both the children’s movie
genre and the musical genre. Four: The
movie is batshit insane. And finally, it
has been covered twice for Sunday “Bad” Movies.
Sure, one was post 53, but still, it’s a first fifty posts movie that
was covered a second time. That’s how
much it is a Sunday “Bad” Movie.
There’s not much to say about why this one is in here. It has good effects work, and it is a hell of
a lot of fun to watch. It’s the feeling of
this movie that gets it onto this list above many of the other movies that I
could have included. I couldn’t bring
myself to take this one off the list because of the feel of it.
If you were looking for something completely unique in this
list, Attack of the Super Monsters is that.
It’s a compilation of four episodes of the Japanese show Dinosaur War
Izenborg. It is a combination of
animation, miniatures, and Godzilla style monster fights. I’ve never seen a movie quite like it before
in my twenty-three years of watching movies.
It’s definitely something special, and shows how out there that the
movies in the Sunday “Bad” Movies can get.
This movie is practically the hub or cornerstone of the
first fifty films in the Sunday “Bad” Movies.
There was a point where I was only writing reviews for the blog posts,
and that felt wrong. Rise of the Zombies
was where I decided I would write different kind of posts. There could be reviews, thematic posts, posts
about my history with the movies, or posts about bad movies in general. There were three actors in Rise of the
Zombies who had appeared in previous movies in the Sunday “Bad” Movies. It was a movie from The Asylum, a studio that
has been featured a few times throughout the many posts I’ve written. There’s so much about this movie that helped
to make the Sunday “Bad” Movies what it is.
Those are the ten movies from the first fifty posts that I
think truly represent the Sunday “Bad” Movies.
They each have different things that have helped to make them a part of
the list. If you wanted to get a true
feeling of what the Sunday “Bad” Movies are without watching all of the movies
I’ve watched, those ten should give you a relatively good idea. I will do this again come the 100th
post with ten movies from the 51st to 100th posts that I
think symbolize what the Sunday “Bad” Movies are. Until then, you will have a lot more movies
being added to the Sunday “Bad” Movies back catalogue. Watch them if you want. Or don’t.
I’ll be watching them anyway.
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