All the awful movies, where did they all come from?
My friend Chris came up yesterday, since we hadn't seen each other in way too long, and we spent most of the day doing what we do best: sitting on the couch, petting the cats, and watching fuck-awful SyFy Channel Original Movies that had been clogging up my DVR waiting for our next watch-a-thon. Movies watched over the course of the party included Shark Week, Boogeyman, Two-Headed Shark Attack, and Haunted High (note that for purposes of "watching," we "watched" it if we stared aghast at the screen for ten minutes before skipping to the next film because OH GOD LIFE IS TOO SHORT FOR THIS CRAP). We finished the night with Notting Hill, because we needed our faith in cinema restored.
I feel good about my life choices.
There's something incredibly pure about a terrible horror movie. When I was in high school, one of my favorite pick-up RPGs was called It Came From the Late, Late, Late Show, in which you played, yes, the lead in a terrible genre movie. I "invented" combat cheerleading (which would show up from my PCs for years to follow) during a session titled "Teenage Zombie High School." I learned about setting tarantulas on fire in "Leeeeeeeegs!!!! The Crawling Terror." And I always had a wonderful time.
Authors have this tendency to write "deconstructive works" about the genres and media that they love. Scalzi's Redshirts, Stephen King's The Dark Half, and so on. I am deeply afraid that one day, I am going to write my deconstructive work, and it's going to be like Night Vale meets the Care Bear Cousins.
I second this entirely. And if you want to see where bad movies come from, check out "Popatopolis" on Netflix. It's a documentary on the man who made "Chopping Mall" and "976-EVIL II" as he tried to make the film "The Witches of Breastwick" in three days.
Having the dubious badge of honor of having watched Two-Headed Shark Attack all the way through, I now desperately want to know how far you made it into that movie, and what you thought.
(Please tell me you got to the tidal wave with the shark in it. It's the best shot of the movie!)
Oh, I love The Late Show RPG. I have the original, the "cowboys and dinosaurs" expansion, and the "martial arts" expansions. Sadly, finding people willing to play the games anymore is pretty difficult.
But if you liked Late Show, you should check out the Shadowfist RPG (not shadowrun -- though it's fun too). Shadowfist is based around cheesy hong-kong action scifi movies. :)
Our favorite bad horror movie: Motel Hell. Something about planting people in the ground, like screaming vegetables, etc. Weirdly, wonderfully awful. Also hysterically funny under the right circumstances, mindset.Re Care Bears et al., our variant (coined, as it were, when I was pregnant and veery cranky) was the Seven Dwarves of the Apocalypse ... So there was Cranky, Clumsy, Bloaty, Farty, Jittery, Groggy, and (of course, right?) Doc.
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And sometimes you can see the seeds of...not genius, but beautiful stupidity in them.
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All the awful movies, where do they all belong~.
Probably for the best you can't hear me singing...
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You are a bad, bad Seanan.
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That day is coming.
I'm sure we're all looking forwards to it. I know I am.
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And I will want to buy and read it.
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I remember playing It Came From... Delightfully daft.
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I love you just a little, right now. No hetero.
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And I love you for making that joke.
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I also fondly remember She Creature, because I feel that killer mermaid films are in short supply.
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(Please tell me you got to the tidal wave with the shark in it. It's the best shot of the movie!)
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It's unpleasant.
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But if you liked Late Show, you should check out the Shadowfist RPG (not shadowrun -- though it's fun too). Shadowfist is based around cheesy hong-kong action scifi movies. :)
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Yes, you do.
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I'll start setting aside money to buy it, effective immediately. And I really, seriously loathe the Care Bears.
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I look forward to it.
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I'm jus' sayin'.
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