Shitty movies

[calfzilla]

I don't think so. I seem to remember quite a few explosions in the first 15 minutes or so. I always managed to start watching 5 minutes in and then I would see something on the TV guide and change the channel in the exact same spot every time.

[Kacey Y]

I don't think so. I seem to remember quite a few explosions in the first 15 minutes or so. I always managed to start watching 5 minutes in and then I would see something on the TV guide and change the channel in the exact same spot every time.

Do you remember anything about the plot and/or characters?

[calfzilla]

not a damn thing. just that is used to play on Sci-Fi pretty regularly in the late 90s

[Kacey Y]

It's hard to wrap my mind around just how many movies that COULD be lol.

I am reminded vaguely of the movie Space Raiders. Of which I can only remember that a kid keeps a weird space potato bug looking thing in a plastic cup and there are space pirates.

[$harkToootth]

Corey Y, you might like the 'Good Bad or Bad Bad' youtube channel. I appreciate their enthusiasm and take on things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iOCmQP6Ow4

[Kacey Y]

I'll have to check it out later. I like movie podcasts and youtube channels. Not just the "good bad" kind, but definitely those too.

[$harkToootth]

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[Kacey Y]

The fact of Neil Breen makes me angry about my life.

[$harkToootth]

His shit is life changing. My buddy recommended another game changer. AFTER LAST SEASON.

[Kacey Y]

The lesson of so many weird middle aged independent filmmakers outside the hollywood system is: All you need to succeed is be independently wealthy and psychotic.

I'd probably be in a band right now, if only I had been wildly successful in some white collar profession by now and had unwaivering confidence in every bad impulse or decision lol.

[$harkToootth]

@Corey Y - NO JOKE! That's exactly what a film professor said to me in 2010.
"I thought my friends were all doing great in their careers because they kept getting funding for their movies. Then I realized, they were all independently wealthy.

[Kacey Y]

Occasionally I will watch a really terrible horror movie (it's almost always a horror movie) and it's really clear to me that it was shot in Los Angeles and that the person making the movie is at least somewhat technically competent (meaning it looks at least as good as a sitcom), but that they reworked the story based around whatever locations they had available to shoot (the mad scientists lair is clearly the storage area of a gas station, all the exposition scenes take place in a vacant strip mall location that's decorated from Goodwill) and the actors are a mix of people who are probably friends of the director or they got one person who used to be on a prime time soap 20 years ago to play a detective or villain or something. It's not good, it's barely coherent, but it's impressive this person actually made a movie, so they must be really motivated. Then I look it up on IMDB and it's the director/writer/producer/dp/editor's 39th movie! If this had been their first feature film, it would be embarrassing, but still...they made a movie...but shit. Fuck. What?? I have to assume people like this are rich or laundering money for some cartel, because I just can't figure how there are people who are skilled, talented, personable and responsible who can't break into a creative field of their choice in a significant way...but there are people who can make dozens of horrendously terrible films that actually get released and go to festivals and even win awards (at budget indie horror festivals, but still).

I am thinking of a specific movie and filmmaker too and I doubt anyone would know either by name.

[Kacey Y]

Oh, if you ever google the name of a director you've never heard of and can't figure out how they could get a movie financed...you almost always find them listed as a licensed realtor in L.A. too.

[$harkToootth]

No joke, I kind of want that life.

[Kacey Y]

The key to making your dreams come through is unlimited resource and unearned self confidence.