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Must have been a typo. One of those was supposed to be Reefer Madness.

McDuffies wrote:Here's an interesting book.
http://books.google.com/books?id=yoXc02 ... &q&f=false
It's interesting because it's a rare example of "movies you've never heard of" book where I actually haven't heard of most of the list.
Here's the list:

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai in the 8th Dimension - Kinda strange... It's apparently a cult film tho I can't see anything particularly remarkable about it.... It's not even a bad film.

I love that one. I own it on VHS, and is one of John Lithgow's funniest movies. Jeff Goldblum's charcter has the best line ever in a movie: "Why is there a watermelon there?"

Bubba Ho-Tep - Ah, everyone knows this film.

Own it, although I'll admit I would never have watched it if it weren't for Bruce Campbell.

Carnival of Souls

Seen it.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space - This is crap really. I'm not even sure what they tried to make. It's a comedy that's not funny and a horror that's not scary. I think they basically had one joke and tried to stretch it over hour and a half.

I think the last time I saw that was in the 80s.

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians - I remember hearing somewhere about this.

I tried watching it, but couldn't. I got up the part with the robot bear or whatever it was and had to shut it off.

The Toxic Avenger - This is also well known. Troma and stuff. Wasn't great, wasn't the worst either.

Saw it. Didn't like it.

RobertBlake wrote:

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians - I remember hearing somewhere about this.

I tried watching it, but couldn't. I got up the part with the robot bear or whatever it was and had to shut it off.

It was that bad?

I happened to see Bubba Ho Tep at JUST the wrong time. It was right after my grandfather died. But I normally love Bruce Campbell movies. By the way, for those into B movies I recommend Six String Samurai. It's about a sword wielding, guitar slinging Buddy Holly and his quest to become the king of post-apocalyptic Las Vegas. His adversary? Death.

Er...anyway. I just saw Daybreakers. I don't normally dig vampire movies, but this had a very clever concept. And Willem Dafoe.

McDuffies wrote:

RobertBlake wrote:

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians - I remember hearing somewhere about this.

I tried watching it, but couldn't. I got up the part with the robot bear or whatever it was and had to shut it off.

It was that bad?

Yeah, as awesome as robot bears and martians sound, it was just so boring.

Six String Samurai was great. Or at least it was twelve years ago (christ I'm old).

Yeahduff wrote:
Six String Samurai was great. Or at least it was twelve years ago (christ I'm old).

It's still great.

six string samurai is pretty awesome, and I'm sure its not less than so even though its been years since I've watched it.

McDuffies wrote:

RobertBlake wrote:

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians - I remember hearing somewhere about this.

I tried watching it, but couldn't. I got up the part with the robot bear or whatever it was and had to shut it off.

It was that bad?

It wasn't just bad. It was very bad. Worse than "Santa With Muscles". Horrible as that one was, I somehow managed to sit all the way through it.

The only props I can give this boring, poorly acted, poorly written mess is someone had the balls to actually make it.

MixedMyth wrote:And Willem Dafoe.

He seems to make it into a couple bad movies every now and then. Which is a pity, because I love the guy.

I actually enjoyed Daybreakers, though. I don't know that it's a legitimately good movie, but I liked it. Certainly it's a nice twist on the whole vampire thing. It's hard to come up with a new perspective on something like that, so I give it mad props for doing so.

MixedMyth wrote:I actually enjoyed Daybreakers, though. I don't know that it's a legitimately good movie, but I liked it. Certainly it's a nice twist on the whole vampire thing. It's hard to come up with a new perspective on something like that, so I give it mad props for doing so.

I was thinking more of Speed II and Triple X: State of the Union, there.

Ooooh. Yeah. Well, work is work, I guess.

I saw on youtube a "documentary" on which that 50 worst movies list was based... incredibly uninformative. After watching it, I decided that I hate that list. It's filled with B-list horror movies with a few examples of different kind of bad cinema (like Ishtar or Howard the Duck) sparsely thrown it. Bah, it would be easy to make top 1000 list filled with cheap horrors, but where's the fun in that? Plus, I don't think one can really compare the extent of failure of one Howard the Duck, considering it's budget and production values, with failure of some shoestring budget film where sets were sheap because filmmakers couldn't afford better.

Am I the only person who liked Howard the Duck?

Because I did.

I saw it like fifty times as a kid.

Never noticed the duck tits though. Thanks, Nostalgia Critic.

Or the hot tub scene.

Tellurider wrote:Am I the only person who liked Howard the Duck?

Because I did.

I saw it like fifty times as a kid.

Never noticed the duck tits though. Thanks, Nostalgia Critic.

Howard the duck was as brilliant as it was stupid, I think I saw it in the theaters way back when, I had forgotten about him till he showed up in a couple issues of GenerationX not so way back when.

Eeh, knowing myself I'd probably love Howard the Duck if I watched it as a kid. But I loved He Man and the Masters of Universe too so that doesn't mean anything. To be frank, it's not worse than dozens and dozent of films that are now considered 80ies classics; many plots didn't make no sence, and cheap and unconvincing-animatronics were the norm. It's not worse than Police Academy series.
I think that it's often targeted as the worst movie for a simple fact that it flopped, whereas if it was a hit less people would target it so readily and it wouldn't make bottom 50 lists. And popularity of the film is arbitrary, Howard might have easily come at the peak of a certain trend, when audiences were already fed up with it. (Come to think, all lists on that 50ies list are plops. It takes a bit more guts to declare some cash cow a bad movie.)
Well there's also those unfortunate bestiality implications. And frankly, it costed a lot of money... you've seen more expensive looking films with less budget, and if Howard the Duck costed ten or twenty times less, it would have been less viable target.

I didn't need Nostalgia Critic to point me to duck tits. I think he even showed one appearance, but missed another. Awfully WTF moment, there. Specially since you never see any human nudity; you just can't stop thinking "what were they thinking"?
Regarding Nostalgia Critic's reviews, I think that that Garbage Kids movie is worse than anything on this list.

I just Netflixed "(500) Days of Summer". It was actually very good.

*recommends*

Warren wrote:I just Netflixed "(500) Days of Summer". It was actually very good.

*recommends*

saw that a while back, I agree.