Sometimes I wish I’d had a silly online outlet for tapping out my impressions of visual entertainment back in the days when my household regularly hosted small, snarky crowds for double features of cinematic misfortune. Sadly, I have no old … Continue reading From the Archive — Primeval and Bats
There are, of course, a multitude of ways to commemorate the ending of a calendar year, from earnest list-making to drunken revelry in the frigid public square. In our household, we decided to revive a beloved practice to finish off … Continue reading Bad Movie Night — Geostorm/The Snowman
As is usually the case with Bad Movie Night posts, I had a lot of fun writing this — it originally appeared at my former online home — but, being honest, the only true necessity on this page is the hyperlink found within the sentence “No amount of typing can describe it adequately.” Last night we found ourselves we a quick-witted guest, a hearty supply of good beer and a few spare hours. In our household, that’s an irresistible invitation to wallow in some choice cinematic ineptitude. After steeling ourselves with a dinner of lamb steaks, Guinness-battered onion rings, and … Continue reading From the Archive — In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale and Jumper
We’re taking advantage of the weekend’s gloomy weather to stage a little in-house film festival. The DVR needs clearing, you understand. That got me to thinking about multiple feature nights over the years that have, deliberately, been a little more … Continue reading From the Archive: The Shadow and I Know Who Killed Me
As I noted recently, it’s been a long time since our household made the proper commitment to a good ol’ fashioned Bad Movie Night. Our tradition is long and honored: a double feature, preferably with some sort of link and … Continue reading Bad Movie Night — Battleship/John Carter
It makes me a little sad that it’s now been well over two years since the last time I had cause to offer a Bad Movie Night post. This used to be one of our proudest household traditions. Well, wait. … Continue reading From the Archive: Ghost Rider and The Wicker Man
One of the many household goals during the holiday season involved clearly material off of our heavily burdened DVR, a task with which, I must admit, we only had limited success (we seriously have about twenty hours of Boardwalk Empire … Continue reading Bad Movie Night — Predators/Season of the Witch
We had a long holiday weekend and a pronounced need to purge our overloaded DVR with some of the uglier offerings taking up space. Under those circumstances, our household holds the belief that there’s one clear avenue to follow. We … Continue reading Bad Movie Night — The Sorcerer’s Apprentice/Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
At some point, I’m sure it will happen. We’ll assemble one of our Bad Movie Night double features with a film that doesn’t really deserve such a condemnation. It’ll be one of those proudly lurid thrillers that are appealing in their embrace of their own raunchy ridiculousness, or maybe an action movie that laces in political satire in a deceptively clever manner. I’ll feel guilty for prejudging the film, and maybe even a little bitter about not sitting down to watch it the right way, giving it my proper attention. When we staged these sorts of nights for a devoted … Continue reading Bad Movie Night — The Box/Surrogates
My recent absence from our humble home for about a week necessitated a certain amount of ceremony in my last weekend, a weekend also notable for an uncommon lack of work. There were several enticing options, but few with as storied and revered a history within our household as that mildly masochistic endurance test that is given the simple moniker “Bad Movie Night.” Beyond the normal enticements linked to such an evening, there was the very recent DVD release of a film that practically cried out for inclusion in a revelry in rottenness, a film so patently ludicrous on the … Continue reading Bad Movie Night — 2012/Knowing
