Really Awful Movies: Ep 42 – Battlefield Earth

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Roger Ebert said of Battlefield Earth: “it is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It’s not merely bad; it’s unpleasant in a hostile way.”

Battlefield Earth, we feel, has been uncharitably dumped into the dung heap that is: “worst films of all time.”

However, it is never dull and actually holds up quite well! We thought we’d rhapsodize about the notorious flop’s finer points, in this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast. Given the choice of revisiting this over say, Manos: The Hands of Fate, we’ll take the embarrassed Mssers Whitaker and Travolta any day.

Grilled rat on the house!

Really Awful Movies: Ep 41 – Prom Night and its 2008 remake

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“The killers are coming!”

In this special episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, we compare and contrast Prom Night (Jamie Lee Curtis, 1980) and Prom Night (Brittany Snow, 2008).

Did you go to your high school prom? Is it OK to go stag to your prom? Why are proms so popular?

Prom Night is filmed in our hometown of Toronto. Its remake, was moved to California and didn’t have the “accidental” death of a young girl as a backstory.

We talked about whether the 1980 flick holds up. And whether the 2008 version holds true to the original Prom Night (it doesn’t).

 

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 40 – The Condemned

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Condemned to see The Condemned.

Move over Running Man/Hunger Games /Battle Royale. It’s a tournament to the death (last man standing set free) involving convicts, unwittingly starring in a bad reality TV show. And this is also a bad movie.

It features twin growlers, Stone Cold Steve Austin and Vinnie Jones. That’s a lot of growling and a lot of squinting. As a bonus, there’s lots of corny stereotyping.

We picked this up in Toronto’s Koreatown and we’re glad we did. So many questions, such as, under whose authority can convicted killers be released? That of a TV producer? What kind of jurisprudence is this? Hear how we survived…The Condemned!

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