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Really Awful Movies: Ep 15 – Crap Movies of the Week

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In this week’s podcast, the theme is good actors slumming it.

We look at Gor, which stars an “all-American professor” played by a poorly dubbed Italian actor, Urbano Barberini (best known for Demons). He’s transported via a magical ring to planet Gor, where he must help overthrow an evil king and his barbarian warriors, all clad in thongs. This is definite bad movie sword and sandal territory. Co-star Rebecca Ferratti a stunner and Oliver Reed (poor guy) is slumming it big-time, along with Jack Palance.

Gary Busey (The Buddy Holly Story) and Yaphet Kotto (Aliens) star in Eye of the Tiger. Crazy Busey used to be a capable thespian before he became a joke on The Apprentice. Here he plays a construction worker who just gets out of jail and with the help of a Cubano drug lord he met in the joint, he helps battle nasty well-armed bikers in a dusty Texas town.

Lastly, we look at flat-top Afro hairstyles and Exterminator 2 (Mario Van Peebles). The flick features a Warriors-type gang who fights some Vietnam vigilante vets in the Bronx. Combat Shock and The Warriors discussed.

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 12b – 50 Shades of Grey

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Stepping outside our comfort zone, we look at a movie with a really really high budget by our standards (we’re accustomed to things made for under 1 million on our site, ReallyAwfulMovies.com).

A telecom billionaire (we know he’s evil as he’s a successful business man) woos an English lit grad (we know she’s virtuous as screenwriters always write what they know and they consider themselves virtuous).

They’re both better-looking than oh, the majority of the human population but she’s meant to be dowdy (by Hollywood standards; we’re surprised she’s not wearing glasses to tip people off).

He’s harboring a bedroom secret though. Can this unlikely pair survive and will the latter accept the former’s sexual peccadillos?

This movie is based on a hugely successful series of novels, none of which we’ve read (nor will ever read) but we thought we’d wade into the shallow end of the pool where this movie is doggy paddling and see what all the fuss is about.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 12 – Get Even

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The Google search engine confounding Geteven (they made a mistake on the DVD cover) is also known as Road to Revenge and Champagne and Bullets. It’s also known colloquially by native English speakers who know how to use a space bar on their keyboards, as Get Even.

One of the all-time great good-bad movies this one is a vanity piece that stars a California trial lawyer-cum action superhero and martial artist John de Hart, who looks like a grinder from the 1984 Philadelphia Flyers.

He plays a cop, Rick, who along with a buddy, are dismissed from the force by a corrupt higher-up. His buddy “Huck,” founded a religion based on Huckleberry Finn and does an unintelligible soliloquy about it, while standing waist-deep in a swimming pool (which doesn’t even crack the Top 5 weirdest moments).

There’s also a subplot about a devil-worshiping cult as our heroes seek revenge and go after their boss, who suddenly goes from chief to judge!