Movie Notes: Gas-s-s
January 12th, 2009
Synopsis
The military accidentally releases gas that kills everyone on earth over the age of 25. Hippies and youth culture take over.
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January 12th, 2009
Synopsis
The military accidentally releases gas that kills everyone on earth over the age of 25. Hippies and youth culture take over.
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January 9th, 2009
Synopsis
Dr. Tsu (Nancy Kwan) leads a deadly team of female martial artists that harvest athlete’s brains for elderly millionaires. Insurance man Mike Harber (Ross Hagen) is sent to the Philippines to this travesty. Also titled Wonder Women, Chinese Puzzle, or Women Of Transplant Island.
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October 24th, 2008
Synopsis
Father Lamont (Richard Burton) is asked to investigate the death of Father Merrin (Max Von Sydow) which leads him to the older Regan (Linda Blair) who was possessed by the demon Pazuzu in the first film. This trip takes Father Lamont (Richard Burton) to Ethiopia and beyond.
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September 15th, 2008
Synopsis
Darla Carter (Guinevere Turner) and her two young children live in rural America with a morose sister-in-law (Dot-Marie Jones), and an alcoholic, absent husband (Bill Sage). Hilarity ensues. Well, unintentional hilarity.
Darla Carter (Guinevere Turner) lives in the rural south with two young children, a morose sister-in-lay (Dot-Marie Jones), and an alcoholic, absent husband (Bill Sage).
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September 14th, 2008
Synopsis
Amir is the dying leader of the nation Kalid. His body is flown to America where Dr. Trenton (Kent Taylor) tries to save his life by transplanting his brain into another body. Naturally, everything goes horribly wrong, not the least of which is the plot, which not unlike the dying leader, soon collapses and must be put on life support.
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July 6th, 2008
Synopsis
In the year 3000, humans have been enslaved by the Psychlos, an alien race, for a 1,000 years. Jonnie Goodboy Tyler (Barry Pepper) rises as a human leader who will lead a rebellion to overthrow the alien tyranny.
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April 23rd, 2008
Synopsis
After lodging his posterior in an airline toilet, Nashwan Wade (Kevin Hart) is awarded a hefty settlement. He uses the cash to open NWA airlines, featuring a huge purple jet catering to the African American demographic. Hilarity ensues.
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December 12th, 2007
The fourth installment of the Superman franchise nearly made me cry (and would have been a good entry in the So Bad They’re Good movie contest). This is despite solving one problem of Superman III: Gene Hackman and Margot Kidder are back as Lex Luthor as Lois Lane - but unfortunately, everything else is a complete and utter disaster.
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November 15th, 2007
I watched this cosmic travesty via Joost’s “The Really Terrible Film Channel”. Warning signs to waste my time elsewhere began with the very first frame, stating: “In the competition for new materials and advanced manufacturing techniques, two multi-national corporations have invested heavily in space,” read by a super-hokey narrator. We’re soon aboard the Shenandoah, a spacecraft populated by D-list actors that all look sort of familiar, having guest-starred on ER or Knight Rider. Sadly, this flick is a step down.
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October 7th, 2007
Joost has one channel, custom-made for my occasional desire for cinematic self-abuse: The Really Bad Movie Channel. There, I found the burn-out comedy Tunnel Vision, in the same vein as Amazon Women On The Moon or The Kentucky Fried Movie - a stream of semi-funny, slightly ribald SNL-esque skits. The goal of Tunnel Vision is to lampoon terrible television, but I couldn’t quite shake the feeling that it’s too easy of a target and genuine, unintentionally bad television is often funny enough and in large supply on YouTube today.
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