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Really Awful Movies: Ep 89 – Captain America 2: Death too Soon

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No, not The Winter Soldier. The other Captain America 2!

There’s a sinister plot against the United States. And it’s being perpetrated by a guy named Miguel (Christopher Lee). It involves manipulative gerontology – administering drugs to prematurely age the populace unless the evil guy gets his way.

Luckily, Captain America is there to fight against this nefarious force and stand up for all that is good. Unfortunately, this ain’t so good at all.

This is a very silly 1979 made-for-TV production starring genre standout, the blonde-maned muscle-bound Reb Brown. He’s a favorite of ours (Strike Commando, Howling 2, Robowar, Yor: Hunter from the Future, Cage etc).

Currently sitting at 1-star on Rotten Tomatoes, after this laughable debacle of a sequel someone had the idea to recreate the magic of a Lee / Brown pairing by casting them both in the also equally bone-headed Howling 2.

Celebrate Rebruary with us with Captain America 2: Death too soon.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 88 – Fateful Findings

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Fateful Findings is mystical. It’s paranormal. It’s espionage. It’s drama. The only thing it isn’t is good. But it’s pretty darn entertaining.

Director Neil Breen makes mystifying, bizarre films that frequently make little sense. In this year’s US presidential race, people on the Left have been feeling the Bern. We’re feeling the Breen.

As beguiling as The Room, what Fateful Findings has in common with Tommy Wiseau’s infamous flick is a) a budget and b) an auteur vision. Both films (occasionally) look like real movies. But both barely make any sense.

The plot? Dylan (Neil Breen) has a near-death experience. He makes a miraculous recovery, and begins to focus on the important things in life: hacking into government computers. Or something. Beyond this, it’s really difficult to know what in hell is happening. There are plot turns and exposition not from left field, but from far beyond the left field bullpen, into the stands, out in the parking lot and into a neighboring area code.

Tempt fate and watch Fateful Findings. You’ll be glad you did.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 82 – Glen or Glenda

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glen_or_glendaThe strange case of a “man” who changed his sex!

Glen or Glenda is a tepid but ahead of its time oddball docudrama, written and directed by Ed Wood, who also stars.

The 1953 flick features the one and only Bela Lugosi, as well as Ed Wood’s then-girlfriend Dolores Fuller and Lyle Talbot (best known for his lengthy stint on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet)

Author/critic Leonard Maltin said this was “possibly the worst movie ever made” and yes, it’s plenty ridiculous and didactic, and there are bizarre fantasy sequences, the cliche of a newspaper headline as exposition, some pretty bad performances – but to broach transvestism as topic in the height of the Father Knows Best era shows how incredibly brave Mr. Wood was. And this is something often forgotten when the man’s thrown under the bus as the worst director of all time (he’s up there, but on the medal podium).

Alternately released as I Changed My Sex and I Led Two Lives, Glen or Glenda follows the structure of a 50s educational film as Ed Wood (Glen) struggles with his sexual identity while Lugosi (The Scientist) narrates. John Waters introduced Johnny Depp to the work of Ed Wood, including this film, Glen or Glenda, undoubtedly a key factor when the actor chose to accept Tim Burton’s offer to star in the Wood biopic.

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