(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)
So kids, the time has come to choose: what is the greatest really bad movie of all time? Number one seeds: Xanadu, Starship Troopers, Urban Cowboy and Point Break.
The floor is also open for nominations.
One movie I’ve had nominated, but haven’t had the chance to see yet: Congo.
Have your voice heard by voting in the comment section.
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I’ll be redeeming myself in Harold and Kumar. I don’t know about you two.
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)
Last week, we had the number one seed in the East for the greatest so-bad-its-good movie: Xanadu.
This week, the number one seed in the North: Starship Troopers.
Starship Troopers was actually an interesting book, written by a libertarian but denounced as totalitarian. The book raises a number of interesting questions about the obligation of the individual to the state and whether citizenship should be earned rather than automatically granted.
Forget all of that in the movie though, this movie should have been called 90210 Pretty Kids vs. The Giant Space Roaches from Hell.
You get it all in this one folks: violence galore, hearbreak and drama, arms and legs chopped off by cgi bug-monsters, casual use of tactical nuclear weapons, Doogie Hauser MD as a pyschic kid who dresses like a Gestapo agent, and more. Did I mention violence?
So the basic plot is that humanity fights a war against a race of killer bugs from outer space. It’s kill or be killed pretty kids, so wipe them all out! The movie is moved along by a series of faux war propaganda pieces. In this one, you more or less get the beginning of the film:
Hollywood cheese galore is worked into the plot, including a romantic triangle or two and a high-school teacher turned psychopath alien killer. Life is too short not to watch movies like this, that is if you like movies about Dawson’s Creek trying to wipe out an entire species with machine guns and nukes.
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