Terrible films are 10 a penny, but making something as magnificently, joyously awful as Showgirls or The Snowman? That takes real skill. Here are the rules of the Truly Bad Movie
Few things in life can rival the joy of watching a truly bad movie. Those of us who savour inept, high-profile, well-funded bombs can only look with pity on our forebears who had the misfortune to be born before motion pictures were invented. Unlike modern film buffs, who can conjure up literally thousands of bad films with just a few keystrokes (thanks to the cultural abyss that is Netflix), our luckless ancestors were forced to make do with bad plays, bad operas, bad circuses, bad auto-da-fés. How they got through their culturally barren lives without bad motion pictures is one of the great mysteries in human history. I know I couldn’t do it. Luckily we have had two films...
Few things in life can rival the joy of watching a truly bad movie. Those of us who savour inept, high-profile, well-funded bombs can only look with pity on our forebears who had the misfortune to be born before motion pictures were invented. Unlike modern film buffs, who can conjure up literally thousands of bad films with just a few keystrokes (thanks to the cultural abyss that is Netflix), our luckless ancestors were forced to make do with bad plays, bad operas, bad circuses, bad auto-da-fés. How they got through their culturally barren lives without bad motion pictures is one of the great mysteries in human history. I know I couldn’t do it. Luckily we have had two films...
- 11/10/2017
- by Joe Queenan
- The Guardian - Film News
Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture: Reworked Movie of the Day: Remember when Deadpool had Oscar buzz for a second? Here's a reworking of the movie so it's more of an awards-bait drama: Video Essay of the Day: With Alien: Covenant out this week, Frame by Frame explores what makes the original Alien such a classic: Vintage Image of the Day: Bill Paxton, who should have turned 62 today, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen and Carrie Henn celebrate someone's birthday(?) on the set of Aliens: @lazygamereviews Love these behind the scenes pics ?? pic.twitter.com/0AUtw74I9Z — Kaarlo Moran (@Padawanmage) February 26, 2017 Bad Film Analysis of...
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- 5/18/2017
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture: Casting Rendition of the Day: Cable creator Rob Liefeld drew Josh Brolin as the character, whom the actor be playing in Deadpool 2: Cable. #robliefeld #marvel #xforce #robliefeldcreations #cable #deadpool A post shared by RobertLiefeld (@robliefeld) on Apr 17, 2017 at 3:24pm Pdt Craftwork of the Day: Watch Dennis McCarthy explain every vehicle that he built for the Fast and the Furious movies in this video for Wired: Movie Takedown of the Day: With Split out on video today, Honest Trailers put it all together that M. Night Shyamalan still isn't completely great again: Bad Film...
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- 4/19/2017
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture: Hollywood Satire of the Day: In Saturday Night Live's parody of Hollywood Reporter round table discussions, Margot Robbie impersonates Keira Knightley, Cecily Strong does Marion Cotillard, Sasheer Zamata plays Lupita Nyong'o and Kate McKinnon plays a fake old Hollywood actress: Movie Re-creations of the Day: In honor of Mean Girls Day, Entertainment Weekly recreated parts of the movie with dogs. See more here. Fake TV Spinoff of the Day: Fans want Dredd to continue as a TV series on Netflix, so one of them made this fake opening credits sequence as a pitch (via Geek Tyrant): Bad Film Analysis of the Day: Here's the...
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- 10/4/2016
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture: Mashup of the Day: Darth Vader and Kylo Ren get together to fight Kirk and Spock in ScreenRant's fan trailer for Star Wars vs. Star Trek: Bad Film Analysis of the Day: See what an alien from the future thinks of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in the latest Earthling Cinema: Movie Parody of the Day: Bobby Canavale, Rose Byrne and Jason Sudeikis star in Stoplight, Last Week Tonight's fake trailer for a Spotlight parody about the death of journalism (via Screen Crush) Cosplay of the Day: A group cosplaying as the Suicide Squad characters maybe looking at some reviews of the movie and getting ideas for their next...
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- 8/9/2016
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture: Movie Takedown of the Day: Would anyone dare criticize the very popular, very cute Disney animated hit Zootopia? Of course Honest Trailers does: Cosplay of the Day: Jamie Lee Curtis continued to be the queen of celebrity cosplayers with this Orc get-up worn to the premiere of Warcraft (via The Playlist): Celebrity Impersonation of the Day: You could probably label this performance as cosplay, too, but it was worth doubling up to share Meryl Streep's impersonation of Donald Trump at the annual Shakespeare in the Park Public Theater Gala (via BuzzFeed): Bad Film Analysis of the Day: Watch an alien from the future give a bad reading of...
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- 6/8/2016
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
When the 44th edition of the Festival du Nouveau Cinema announced their lineup two weeks ago, I wasn’t sure where to even begin when deciding what I should see. The festival which takes place in Montreal from October 7 to 18 is screening nearly 400 films and events in only 11 days. This includes 151 feature films and 203 short films from 68 countries – 49 world premieres, 38 North American premieres and 60 Canadian premieres. Because of it’s strong line-up, there is no possible way to see everything – so we decided to come up with a list of our ten most anticipated films — and trust me, it wasn’t easy. We will of course be covering the event once again this year, so be sure to revisit our site over the next few weeks. In the meantime, here is our 10 most anticipate films.
Arabian Nights
With a total running time of over six hours Arabian Nights is certainly...
Arabian Nights
With a total running time of over six hours Arabian Nights is certainly...
- 10/8/2015
- by Staff
- SoundOnSight
In the new Film Quarterly, Megan Ratner talks with Roy Andersson about what he calls his "trivialist cinema." Also in today's roundup: A new book, The Feel-Bad Film, addresses work by Lars von Trier, Michael Haneke, Gaspar Noé, Claire Denis, Lucile Hadzihalilovoc, Stan Brakhage, Gus Van Sant and Brian De Palma. Plus a fresh look at Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool and early word on forthcoming projects by Steven Soderbergh, Yorgos Lanthimos, David Simon, Jeremy Saulnier, Roger Michell and Felix van Groeningen. » - David Hudson...
- 9/25/2015
- Keyframe
In the new Film Quarterly, Megan Ratner talks with Roy Andersson about what he calls his "trivialist cinema." Also in today's roundup: A new book, The Feel-Bad Film, addresses work by Lars von Trier, Michael Haneke, Gaspar Noé, Claire Denis, Lucile Hadzihalilovoc, Stan Brakhage, Gus Van Sant and Brian De Palma. Plus a fresh look at Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool and early word on forthcoming projects by Steven Soderbergh, Yorgos Lanthimos, David Simon, Jeremy Saulnier, Roger Michell and Felix van Groeningen. » - David Hudson...
- 9/25/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
3rd Annual Bad Film Fest accepting entries until March 15, 2015.
The Bad Film Fest, created as a supportive, fun and inclusive environment for aspiring artists to present anything from a disastrous first project to their magnum opus, is accepting submissions for their 3rd annual festival. Filmmakers may submit through http://www.badtheaterfest.com/home/bad-film-fest-2015/ or through FilmFreeway at https://filmfreeway.com/festival/BadFilmFest. The Regular Deadline is Dec 31, 2014 with budget-friendly submission fees delineated by running time: … Continue reading →
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The Bad Film Fest, created as a supportive, fun and inclusive environment for aspiring artists to present anything from a disastrous first project to their magnum opus, is accepting submissions for their 3rd annual festival. Filmmakers may submit through http://www.badtheaterfest.com/home/bad-film-fest-2015/ or through FilmFreeway at https://filmfreeway.com/festival/BadFilmFest. The Regular Deadline is Dec 31, 2014 with budget-friendly submission fees delineated by running time: … Continue reading →
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- 11/18/2014
- by Horrornews.net
- Horror News
Believe it or not, it’s not easy being Tom Cruise. Over the weekend, Tom Cruise’s latest big-budget scifi-actioner Edge of Tomorrow opened. To be polite, the box office returns left this $178 million picture well over the edge of being a box-office bomb with just over $29 million domestically, coming in 3rd place. In the film his character Bill Cage fights a superior and innumerable opponent in these organic machine aliens known as Mimics. This isn’t too dissimilar from where Cruise stands right now against the immeasurable tides of sequels, reboots and franchises. It almost makes Edge of Tomorrow autobiographical on Cruise’s part as he’s one of the only movie stars at his level not churning out a franchise film every year or two. And to go along with that theory, just as Cage is connected to the network that powers the Mimics, Cruise is certainly engaged with the studio system.
- 6/9/2014
- by Dylan Griffin
- SoundOnSight
Closing off the 2013 edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival is a new film by long time Fantasia favourite Sion Sono. Sion Sono is one of the few filmmakers to completely embody the ethos of Fantasia and he has been an almost constant presence at the festival since he won the award for most ground-breaking film for Suicide Club in 2002. His newest movie, Bad Film, was edited together from over 150 hours of footage he shot in 1993 and will be making its Canadian Premiere at this year’s festival. In anticipation of this film, I am counting down Sion Sono’s five best films.
5. Noriko’s Dinner Table (2006)
A vague prequel to Suicide Club, Noriko’s Dinner Table remains somewhat on the fringes of popularity with North American audiences. Though it does not reach the breadth of Love Exposure, it is perhaps closest to that film in style, as it examines...
5. Noriko’s Dinner Table (2006)
A vague prequel to Suicide Club, Noriko’s Dinner Table remains somewhat on the fringes of popularity with North American audiences. Though it does not reach the breadth of Love Exposure, it is perhaps closest to that film in style, as it examines...
- 3/14/2014
- by Justine Smith
- SoundOnSight
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