Oh 1000% Kung Fury. I was trying to think of one and this is it. Also kinda in that same ball park: Kung Fu Hustle. Definitely more earnest but still goofy and great.
I feel like Ben is like Stu from What we do in the Shadows. The non-vampire who just is flat mates with all of the vampires and just kind of hangs out with them.
My favorite bad movie of all time has to be the live action Sorcerer’s Apprentice (the one with Nick Cage). It is insanely quotable, and it has one un-ironically great scene.
I unironically love that movie. I see that it’s not good, but I always have a fun time watching it, and I love that guy who voices Hiccup in the show to Train Your Dragon movies as well.
31:30 Ok, Hear me Out. Here are 10 things you could hire Ben (and maybe a webdev too, I dont know Bens skillset) to do 1. Blaseball (this is spelled correctly, look it up), BUT its Wayne Rules Noseball, maybe toss in occasional other invested persons like a Radient 2. A new Wiki backend that allows for users to pick a selection of books and filterers the content on the wiki to only contain spoilers for those books (I have a full spec, but its too large for the comments) 3. Manage an academia journal about the cosmere that people can send papers too. 4. You mentioned Dragonsteal doesnt yet have the Infrastructure to distribute audio books directly. Sounds like a job for Ben 5. Design the spec for the Awakened, Dor, Harmonium, and Fabrial computers down to the "transistor" level. 6. Build a Cosmere E-reader app where you can buy each premium E-book, and the app contains footnotes and links between the books where there are crossovers (IE, zihel says something about colors, and there is a footnote that colors is a common Nalthian swear), or nightblood has a bio page. maybe add a tree of questions, so you can select zihel and ask "is he vasher" and that will then link both names to the same bio page. 7. The Rithmatist Battle Arena VR/Tablet game 8. Death Stranding, Cosmere Edition (ie, post apocalyptic package carrier running across the shattered planes) 9. The Cosmere Battle Royal game, find beads of Lerasium and say the words to bond the spren. 10. The Whitesand interactive E graphic novel app
Watching equilibrium as a teenager IN the theater was transforming. Especially the action scene in the dark. He used the sound of their voices to pick up their location. It wasn’t dumb it was awesome!
God's of Egypt is easily my favourite bad movie, I've never laughed so hard in a cinema. Once you read up on some of the behind the scenes stuff it gets even better. Highly recommend.
I'm gonna second that. There are few things that get a kick out of me like transformers gods. Though I will put the caveat that part of my enjoyment is due to my familiarity with actual Egyptian mythology and seeing them mess it up, so If you don't know that actual myths behind it, it might be less enjoyable.
Eyes on Breen! What a time to be alive having Brandon evangelizing Neil Been movies. Oh, also, go watch Miami Connection. Though our enjoyment of it may be somewhat colored by living in Central Florida, where some of our audience were old enough to remember commercials for YK Kim's martial arts schools, and everyone else just had fun spotting all the Central Florida locations.
#EyesOnBreen And oh my god when he puts the powder in the lake (or any other crazy stuff), it's amazing the man hasn't gotten a visit from Honeland Security or something.
Priest gets my recommendation. There's so much goodness in it between the world building, the effects, and the action scenes, and it manages to be a campy monstrosity of a movie anyway. Not sure how violent / gory it is, though -- my personal threshold is high enough that I don't register these kinds of things unless they're particularly severe.
Hey Brandon and Dan, if Equilibrium is Brandon's choices but Dan wants to watch more Japanese movies I would recommend "Returner" as a great fun movie. It's similar to Equilibrium as a movie trying to be the next Matrix but also has bizarre yet fun Japanese sensibilities. The Villain of the movie and the ending has been a favorite of mine since College.
I recommend "Tarzan and the Green Goddess," 1938. My Dad and me had such a good time cracking jokes at it, while Mom was out of the house! It's part of an old serial, all stuck together to sell as movies. Bizarre "comedic" moments that go all the way around to being funny again, strange acting, African animals in the jungles of Guatemala, an ineffectual Tarzan, with a strong woman constantly sweeping in to rescue him. A bad movie classic!
Troll 3: quest for the mighty sword is phenomenal. There are botched lines that made it into the final cut, hilarious action scenes, a guy who is cast both as his father and son and costuming that is just the chefs kiss of dumb.
You guys have to watch "The VelociPastor" Its about a catholic priest that turns into a Velociraptor. It is working a bit hard at sometimes but it is golden!
when the world yoyo contest was held in Orlando every year, they used to screen Yoyo Girl Cop the night before the contest. I still need to watch it one of these days
I loved all the old Ray Harryhausen model-animated movies like Jason and the Argonauts and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. I haven't seen them recently. I wonder if I can track down copies.
My favorite bad movie is Zoom: Academy for Superheroes. It's Tim Allen and some kids genuinely thinking they'll really start a franchise. It's PG so it'll definitely be appropriate for anyone to watch.
Love on a Leash should not be missed. Also, James Nguyen, that Vietnamese genius who did Birdemic: Shock and Terror also did Julie and Jack, a modern take on Hitchcock's Vertigo, complete with all the computer jargon that the Nguyen loves.
There is an awesomly terrible movie called the man who killed Hitler and then Yetti. Interestingly enough the first 10 minutes ish are legitimately good 8/10 and then it is so bad. I love it.
My Favourite bad movie is Upside Down. It presents itself as this dramatic science fiction love story in this fictional world with unique world building rules, and it fails at every step, completely unintentionally.
Neil breen is amazing! My friends and I used to have bad movie night once a week. We would all bring a bad movie and then watch them all day. Its so good that you do the same thing 😁
The funny thing about Salt is that although all the double-agent-conspiracy stuff seems unrealistic, only weeks after the movie was released the CIA caught an actual ring of Russian spies with a setup almost identical to the movie's plot
I could suggest several hilariously bad movies, most of which are 80s action movies (shout out to Roadhouse, the first bad movie I watched on purpose). But today I will focus on one recommendation: Love on a Leash. Love on a Leash is a romantic comedy about a woman who adopts a stray dog with a secret- every night, the dog transforms into a man. Without spoiling too much, here are some features of the movie: - Easy Access. It can be watched, in its entirety, on RUclips. Or Prime Video, if you prefer. - No score. There is no music, no background sound, just recorded dialogue. When the movie starts playing, you may experience a brief moment of panic and wonder if your speakers are broken. They're not (probably). The movie begins in complete silence. - Speaking of the dialogue, it's awful. - Inexplicable direction. Shots where the focal character(s) are not fully in the frame or are in complete darkness, bizarre camera angles, and plenty of other things that would probably get you expelled from film school. - A lot of green. Specifically, pale lime green. - An unpredictable ending.
On bad movies, Abraham Lincoln Vs. Zombies is great. It is the B horror vs of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. However I feel Abraham Lincoln vs Zombies is better, it is also fun seeing a 150,000 dollar movie better then a 70 million dollar movie.
I remember watching Gods of Egypt. It had very good actors, and it felt like a better Clash of the Titans remake than the actual remake. But I don’t really remember more than that.
Listening to this I kept thinking you all need to see "Six String Samurai". Great in so many ways and terrible in so many more. I dont know how to sell beyond the title so just a little: premise is USSR nuked the US in the 50s and Elvis became king of the remains, he has died and now hopeful musicians and traveling for tournament to become new king. Music is really genuinely great. Quotable lines: Lines of dialogue is the highest I ever seen. The lead actor's every other actoring rolls are Thug #3 or similar in Hong Kong action movies.
one of the greatest wtf movies I know is "hectic knife". not sure if it's ok to watch with the company though. there's not much gore but it is a bit overly surreal at times.
Priest (with Paul Bettany, Karl Urban, Maggie Q, Christopher Plummer) is my favorite "bad movie". Lots of quality names in the actors, and the movie takes itself very seriously, but it is a hoot to watch. There is an anime-style intro to the movie where there is some gore, but other than that it has a standard amount of violence/blood for a PG-13 movie. My favorite thing about the movie is that the script, the actors, the dialogue is all serious and supposed to be grimdark, but they just don't quite pull it off, and it cracks me up to no end. Highly recommend.
I spent the entire podcast thinking that Brandon’s favorite bad move was the animated movie Trolls 2: World Tour and then a few days later I remember there was another Troll movie and he was referring to Troll 2 instead 😂.
Funny thing is I have many times traveled both a suitcase full of Elk meat. Once my flight left and our bag made the flight but due to maintenance issues our bag made it to the destination and we did not. So our family had to go to the airport and get the meat bag off the baggage claim.
I cherished that movie as a kid. My family still quotes it to this day. That said, it's been a very, very long time since I watched it. "Mordwit, you can be anyfing you wike but you mustn't be wude." Helena Bonham Carter
The best example of a media that's deliberately bad yet completely hilarious and doesn't feel like it's trying too hard is "Garth Marenghis Darkplace". Absolutely hilarious English comedy and I wish there was a way I could get Dan and Brandon to watch it
Equilibrium reminds me a lot of the Giver, but intended as an action movie instead of having the movie adaptation of a book force in some out-of-place action.
Not a movie, but the TV show Danger 5 fits in the category, "We know it's terrible but also genuinely funny." Sometimes I wish I shared Brandon's taste for movies that are sincere but wrong in every way, it seems like an enjoyable way to look at the world.
One of my recent excellent bad movie experiences was Ad Astra. I'm not going to spoil (much, I hope), but the things that movie is blessed with and the formidable way it squanders all of it is nothing short of amazing.
Dan, you're thinking of The Machine Girl! Another fantastic pick, that I'm pretty sure is made by the same company, is Tokyo Gore Police. Samurai Cop is also a legendary bad movie!
@@wingracer1614 I really liked a lot. In fact I think it's the best movie I saw last year. It's very funny and tense. I couldn't stop thinking about it after seeing it.
This is an intereting first experience with this podcast. Was thinking, ooooo Brandon Sanderson, what are gonna talk about? An inspiration for an old novel, the pencil or pen.he used to write in his notepad on his first book. Nope. Yoyo Girl Cop. I now know thats a thing. On the plus side, I have a new movie to watch with my wife that will make her question why she married me, so that will be fun
Any early 2000s spy movie like The Pacifier and The Spy Next Door are cringey but I loved them as a kid and I love them now cuz I can see how bad they are.
For whatever reason, I actually had a great time with God’s of Egypt 😂 Gerald Butler was a surprisingly fun villain, and it was great to see Nikolaj Coster-Waldau outside of GoT.
"Bad" movie recs: Firstly "The Guyver" and its weird semi-sequel "Black Mask 2: City of Masks". Then of course, the very best of the Full Moon Pictures flicks: "Meridian".
In the Sword & Sorcery genre, I would recommend Hawk the Slayer. In addition to its hilarious badness, it has the feel of a homebrewed Dungeon & Dragons campaign run by an uninspired Dungeon Master. Another film that might be a bit too graphic in terms of violence and nudity for your company, but is still a funny-bad film, is The Sword and the Sorcerer, starring Lee Horsley. It obviously had a higher budget than Hawk the Slayer, but is still entertainingly inept.
Official request: Dan analyzing a bad movie at DS Con 2023. Watching him analyze a 2 hour movie (Crazy Rich Asians) for 4 hours was one of the highlights of DS Con 2022 for me. I can only imagine how much fun a bad movie would be.
Five months late, but I liked The Munchies from 1987. It's about these small-gnome sized aliens that come to take over earth. I remember laughing so hard when I saw it as a kid.
There's a movie called The Drawer (at least I think) it's been a long time, but it was bad and bizarre but wonderful and weird. A man appears inside a morgue drawer and it let's him go back in time, and he keeps ending up there and doesn't know why. I only saw it once and have never found it again. If you do manage to find it, you must watch it.
wow - making me remember all those 80's movies - favorite "bad" movies - Critters - Toxic Avenger - Red Sonia - Adventures in Babysitting - Attack of the Killer Tomatoes - Last Starfighters - Earth Girls are Easy - They Live ... miss this time period of just wacky movies.
I don't think Adventures in Babysitting really belongs in this list. It's not at all speculative fictiony like the others in the list. It's just a good wacky comedy, like Better Off Dead. It is a really fun movie, though.
If you love a movie how can it possibly be bad? I absolutley love Equalibrium. I mean it is 1984, Farenheit 451, and Matrix combined, what more distopian vision could a person with for. I tried to think of a bad movie that I have enjoyed, but if I enjoyed a movie I find that I can't view it as bad. Maybe the Trinity series with Terance Hill? Best lighthearted westerns I have ever seen, but definitely a low brow spaggetti western.
“Unicorn City” is a bad movie that is so bad it’s good. I would love to hear Brandon and Dan talk about this one, would make my Wednesday! The other movie I thought of immediately when they talk about bad movies we love is the one Dan already has plans for, “Mom and Dad Save the World.” John Lovitz for the win.
My recommendation is a movie called 100% Wolf. It's an animated kids movie about werewolves with one of the wildest premises I've ever seen that takes itself completely seriously despite every second being completely ridiculous.
I watched any of those 80s movies whenever they were on. We were not spoiled for choice and I took any fantasy movie they would give me. I can't believe we've gotten to the point where there are so many choices in fantasy that I don't watch many shows with a decent budget. Can't believe in a good way.
I am going to recommend the 1989 sci-fi film Arena, rated PG-13. Its Wikipedia entry has a good synopsis, if you're interested. It has that so-bad-it's-good feel, and it's one of my favorites.
Oh I love bad movies, I’ve been doing a bad move club for some time now and I would have to say my top three are: After the Ball, Blood and Chocolate, and Red Snow.
Okay, bad movie suggestion: Battleship with Taylor Kitsch. It is astonishingly bad but in a “can’t turn your eyes away from it” kinda way. The thing is, it’s terribly earnest and you can tell everyone thought they were making that year’s big blockbuster action movie. By the end they’re really trying to skate on WWII nostalgia. It’s so big and dumb and I love it so much. It’s rather long, but I still adore it. I think about the burrito scene from the beginning far too frequently. I find it genuinely hilarious. Also, this movie somehow has Liam Neeson and Rihanna in it. And yes, they DO play a game of Battleship.
Stay Tuned! I forgot about that movie. I need to rewatch it. It's more in the vein of Airplane than Sharknado, so I don't think it's really a bad movie, but it's a lot of fun.
The Salute of the Jugger with Rutger Hauer is my favorite bad movie. Its a mix of Rise of the Titans and Gladiator set in a Mad Max world, I highly recommend it.
I have a bad movie recommendation. But first I just want to say thank you to this podcast. I am a stay at home mom to a 3 year old girl and you guys are sometimes the best adult interaction I get in a day. 😂 no further comment needed on that. My movie recommendation that you could definitely show your company is called a Borrowed Christmas. It doesn’t have any fancy special effects or anything like that. It is just a movie full of terrible story, script, and acting. Basic storyline premise is a middle-aged single and very wealthy man decides he wants to live out his G-rated fetish/fantasy of the man of the house during Christmas. A real “Charles Dickens” kind of Christmas. Seeing he has no family he decides to rent all of the things needed for this christmas- including a wife and children. It truly is the WORST movie I have ever watched and I almost turned it off so many times but I just kept hoping there would be a redemptive point. There wasn’t. There is no bad movie payoff here- except getting to the end and sitting there realizing that was a truly terrible movie. PS- wait til you learn about the borrowed orphans.
Dragon Wars. I don't know if this one will hold up now. My friends enjoyed panning it when we saw it in the theater. I don't think any of us have watched it since then though.
The Lost skeleton of Cadavra, I didn't check spelling but this was a major part of my youth and we all learned the rock dance and the importance of sharing atmosphere-ium so people don't have to marry skeletons
Velocipastor is my favorite bad movie! you guys should check it out! Llamageddon, Samurai Cop, Suburban Sasquatch, and Alien vs Hunter are a few others that are absolutely awesome
Troll Hunter - the Norwegian film, not the animated series. I use this movie as a litmus test for potential friends. On the gorier side, the zombie comedy One Cut of the Dead is 100% my favorite.
The best part about Googling "suitcase full of meat" is that you will learn of not one, but *two* cases in which the term is applicable. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
A bad movie I like is Nuigulumar Z. It is incredibly strange. It's both a magical girl movie and a zombie movie, but it's not very gory. It also has a lovely wholesome theme about following your dreams coupled with the most questionable combat strategies I've seen in a movie. Also, sentient teddy bears. I recommend it if you're in the mood to have your brain melted a bit.
In a past episode Dan promised to watch Kung Fury. This is important. Dan needs to watch Kung Fury.
Oh 1000% Kung Fury. I was trying to think of one and this is it.
Also kinda in that same ball park: Kung Fu Hustle. Definitely more earnest but still goofy and great.
Kung fury is a ridiculous masterpiece
I was also thinking the same thing.
No he needs to watch every episode of one piece
@@reginaldforthright805 oh gosh no. That would take up too much writing time or too my family time. Either way, it breaks Brandon.
I feel like Ben is like Stu from What we do in the Shadows. The non-vampire who just is flat mates with all of the vampires and just kind of hangs out with them.
This is an entirely appropriate comparison.
My favorite bad movie of all time has to be the live action Sorcerer’s Apprentice (the one with Nick Cage). It is insanely quotable, and it has one un-ironically great scene.
I unironically love that movie. I see that it’s not good, but I always have a fun time watching it, and I love that guy who voices Hiccup in the show to Train Your Dragon movies as well.
The magic in that movie was great, and I loved the scene with the song. Honestly underatted actor too.
Talking about Nick Cage and bad movies, I thought his "Jiu Jitsu" movie was fun for how bad it was.
I’m curious which scene you liked the most, from that description
31:30 Ok, Hear me Out. Here are 10 things you could hire Ben (and maybe a webdev too, I dont know Bens skillset) to do
1. Blaseball (this is spelled correctly, look it up), BUT its Wayne Rules Noseball, maybe toss in occasional other invested persons like a Radient
2. A new Wiki backend that allows for users to pick a selection of books and filterers the content on the wiki to only contain spoilers for those books (I have a full spec, but its too large for the comments)
3. Manage an academia journal about the cosmere that people can send papers too.
4. You mentioned Dragonsteal doesnt yet have the Infrastructure to distribute audio books directly. Sounds like a job for Ben
5. Design the spec for the Awakened, Dor, Harmonium, and Fabrial computers down to the "transistor" level.
6. Build a Cosmere E-reader app where you can buy each premium E-book, and the app contains footnotes and links between the books where there are crossovers (IE, zihel says something about colors, and there is a footnote that colors is a common Nalthian swear), or nightblood has a bio page. maybe add a tree of questions, so you can select zihel and ask "is he vasher" and that will then link both names to the same bio page.
7. The Rithmatist Battle Arena VR/Tablet game
8. Death Stranding, Cosmere Edition (ie, post apocalyptic package carrier running across the shattered planes)
9. The Cosmere Battle Royal game, find beads of Lerasium and say the words to bond the spren.
10. The Whitesand interactive E graphic novel app
Oi, rithmatist battle arena is an awesome idea.
You, my friend, have some very good ideas.
Watching equilibrium as a teenager IN the theater was transforming. Especially the action scene in the dark. He used the sound of their voices to pick up their location. It wasn’t dumb it was awesome!
God's of Egypt is easily my favourite bad movie, I've never laughed so hard in a cinema. Once you read up on some of the behind the scenes stuff it gets even better. Highly recommend.
Same, God's of Egypt has so many amazing inconsistencies and terrible acting that it is delicious to watch :D !
I'm gonna second that. There are few things that get a kick out of me like transformers gods.
Though I will put the caveat that part of my enjoyment is due to my familiarity with actual Egyptian mythology and seeing them mess it up, so If you don't know that actual myths behind it, it might be less enjoyable.
This is my favorite podcast by far. I get excited whenever a new episode is up.
On no, I want Brandon to guest star on RLM's Best of the Worst now
Eyes on Breen! What a time to be alive having Brandon evangelizing Neil Been movies.
Oh, also, go watch Miami Connection. Though our enjoyment of it may be somewhat colored by living in Central Florida, where some of our audience were old enough to remember commercials for YK Kim's martial arts schools, and everyone else just had fun spotting all the Central Florida locations.
#EyesOnBreen
And oh my god when he puts the powder in the lake (or any other crazy stuff), it's amazing the man hasn't gotten a visit from Honeland Security or something.
I just bought the rifftrax live show if Miami Connection! I can't wait to watch it!
I've never lived in Florida and I still think Miami Connection is great.
Equilibrium is "I want to make Fahrenheit 451 but I don't want to get the right or have to follow it exactly"
Priest gets my recommendation. There's so much goodness in it between the world building, the effects, and the action scenes, and it manages to be a campy monstrosity of a movie anyway. Not sure how violent / gory it is, though -- my personal threshold is high enough that I don't register these kinds of things unless they're particularly severe.
Could you guys do an episode on StarCraft, and/or other games you enjoyed while you were in college?
I love how brandon wants ben to become dragonsteel's wit.
Hey Brandon and Dan, if Equilibrium is Brandon's choices but Dan wants to watch more Japanese movies I would recommend "Returner" as a great fun movie. It's similar to Equilibrium as a movie trying to be the next Matrix but also has bizarre yet fun Japanese sensibilities. The Villain of the movie and the ending has been a favorite of mine since College.
+ for Returner, great underrated movie for its time
I recommend "Tarzan and the Green Goddess," 1938. My Dad and me had such a good time cracking jokes at it, while Mom was out of the house! It's part of an old serial, all stuck together to sell as movies. Bizarre "comedic" moments that go all the way around to being funny again, strange acting, African animals in the jungles of Guatemala, an ineffectual Tarzan, with a strong woman constantly sweeping in to rescue him. A bad movie classic!
Troll 3: quest for the mighty sword is phenomenal. There are botched lines that made it into the final cut, hilarious action scenes, a guy who is cast both as his father and son and costuming that is just the chefs kiss of dumb.
You guys have to watch "The VelociPastor" Its about a catholic priest that turns into a Velociraptor. It is working a bit hard at sometimes but it is golden!
when the world yoyo contest was held in Orlando every year, they used to screen Yoyo Girl Cop the night before the contest. I still need to watch it one of these days
“The man who killed Hitler, and Bigfoot” is the funniest bad movie that takes itself so seriously… love it
I loved all the old Ray Harryhausen model-animated movies like Jason and the Argonauts and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. I haven't seen them recently. I wonder if I can track down copies.
Dear Adam,
It makes me happy that you also love RLM. Have a good day dude.
My favorite bad movie is Zoom: Academy for Superheroes. It's Tim Allen and some kids genuinely thinking they'll really start a franchise. It's PG so it'll definitely be appropriate for anyone to watch.
Gotta go with the tremors series, so self aware it gets more bad movie good in each part of the franchise.
Love on a Leash should not be missed. Also, James Nguyen, that Vietnamese genius who did Birdemic: Shock and Terror also did Julie and Jack, a modern take on Hitchcock's Vertigo, complete with all the computer jargon that the Nguyen loves.
There is an awesomly terrible movie called the man who killed Hitler and then Yetti. Interestingly enough the first 10 minutes ish are legitimately good 8/10 and then it is so bad. I love it.
I’m still waiting on a Best of the Worst crossover episode!
My Favourite bad movie is Upside Down. It presents itself as this dramatic science fiction love story in this fictional world with unique world building rules, and it fails at every step, completely unintentionally.
Neil breen is amazing!
My friends and I used to have bad movie night once a week. We would all bring a bad movie and then watch them all day. Its so good that you do the same thing 😁
The funny thing about Salt is that although all the double-agent-conspiracy stuff seems unrealistic, only weeks after the movie was released the CIA caught an actual ring of Russian spies with a setup almost identical to the movie's plot
I haven’t seen it in years but I remember laughing so hard at the absurdity of the 1968 movie Barbarella 😂
I could suggest several hilariously bad movies, most of which are 80s action movies (shout out to Roadhouse, the first bad movie I watched on purpose). But today I will focus on one recommendation: Love on a Leash.
Love on a Leash is a romantic comedy about a woman who adopts a stray dog with a secret- every night, the dog transforms into a man.
Without spoiling too much, here are some features of the movie:
- Easy Access. It can be watched, in its entirety, on RUclips. Or Prime Video, if you prefer.
- No score. There is no music, no background sound, just recorded dialogue. When the movie starts playing, you may experience a brief moment of panic and wonder if your speakers are broken. They're not (probably). The movie begins in complete silence.
- Speaking of the dialogue, it's awful.
- Inexplicable direction. Shots where the focal character(s) are not fully in the frame or are in complete darkness, bizarre camera angles, and plenty of other things that would probably get you expelled from film school.
- A lot of green. Specifically, pale lime green.
- An unpredictable ending.
Best bad movie Bubba-Hotep.
An elderly Elvis Pressly and an elderly Black JFK team up and fight a mummy that is plaguing an elderly home.
The Last Unicorn is a perfect fantasy, childhood, animated horrible awesome movie with twists and non twists for Dragon Steel
On bad movies, Abraham Lincoln Vs. Zombies is great. It is the B horror vs of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. However I feel Abraham Lincoln vs Zombies is better, it is also fun seeing a 150,000 dollar movie better then a 70 million dollar movie.
I remember watching Gods of Egypt. It had very good actors, and it felt like a better Clash of the Titans remake than the actual remake. But I don’t really remember more than that.
Listening to this I kept thinking you all need to see "Six String Samurai". Great in so many ways and terrible in so many more. I dont know how to sell beyond the title so just a little: premise is USSR nuked the US in the 50s and Elvis became king of the remains, he has died and now hopeful musicians and traveling for tournament to become new king. Music is really genuinely great. Quotable lines: Lines of dialogue is the highest I ever seen. The lead actor's every other actoring rolls are Thug #3 or similar in Hong Kong action movies.
I second Six-string Samurai.
Equilibrium has been my favorite (bad) movie of all time for a long time, it eclipsed Tremor for me when I saw it.
one of the greatest wtf movies I know is "hectic knife". not sure if it's ok to watch with the company though. there's not much gore but it is a bit overly surreal at times.
I know these are recorded and released on a pretty long delay, but I hope Brandon and Dan get to discussing the WotC and OGL debacle.
Priest (with Paul Bettany, Karl Urban, Maggie Q, Christopher Plummer) is my favorite "bad movie". Lots of quality names in the actors, and the movie takes itself very seriously, but it is a hoot to watch. There is an anime-style intro to the movie where there is some gore, but other than that it has a standard amount of violence/blood for a PG-13 movie.
My favorite thing about the movie is that the script, the actors, the dialogue is all serious and supposed to be grimdark, but they just don't quite pull it off, and it cracks me up to no end. Highly recommend.
Equlibruim is one of my favorite movies despite its flaws. Used to teach it in one of my first-year composition courses.
I love the old school dungeons and dragons movie. That was actually my introduction to D&D as a concept, and I am absolutely okay with it.
I remember watching that movie with rule -savvy friends who completely lost it at "red and gold dragons fighting each other with fireballs."
I spent the entire podcast thinking that Brandon’s favorite bad move was the animated movie Trolls 2: World Tour and then a few days later I remember there was another Troll movie and he was referring to Troll 2 instead 😂.
Funny thing is I have many times traveled both a suitcase full of Elk meat. Once my flight left and our bag made the flight but due to maintenance issues our bag made it to the destination and we did not. So our family had to go to the airport and get the meat bag off the baggage claim.
Gods of Egypt is the best bad movie experience I ever had, its incredible
Funny unknown movie is HIGH STRUNG (1991) with Steve Odekerk, Fred Willard, Thomas Wilson and an uncredited Jim Carry. I owned the VHS in high school.
We have made "bad movie watching" a New Years tradition and I can honestly say there is no better way to celebrate a new year.
I searched "Yo Yo Girl Cop" on RUclips and this was the third video in the results
I don't know if it qualifies as a bad movie, but I love the movie Merlin starring Sam Neill - if you haven't seen it I think you'll love it!
I cherished that movie as a kid. My family still quotes it to this day. That said, it's been a very, very long time since I watched it.
"Mordwit, you can be anyfing you wike but you mustn't be wude." Helena Bonham Carter
The best example of a media that's deliberately bad yet completely hilarious and doesn't feel like it's trying too hard is "Garth Marenghis Darkplace". Absolutely hilarious English comedy and I wish there was a way I could get Dan and Brandon to watch it
Funny you mention this as 1. Garth kinda looks like brandon. 2. Has a line where he says he's wrote more books than he's read, which seems apt lol
If you haven't seen it I would recommend "Split Second" With Rutger Hauer. It's on Amazon Prime. Loved this movie growing up.
I really got a kick out of rewatching the live-action Super Mario Bros. movie after finding it in the Wal-Mart bargain DVD bin
Equilibrium reminds me a lot of the Giver, but intended as an action movie instead of having the movie adaptation of a book force in some out-of-place action.
The idea actually reminded me a lot of Fahrenheit 451. Just with bullets instead of flamethrowers
Not a movie, but the TV show Danger 5 fits in the category, "We know it's terrible but also genuinely funny."
Sometimes I wish I shared Brandon's taste for movies that are sincere but wrong in every way, it seems like an enjoyable way to look at the world.
One of my recent excellent bad movie experiences was Ad Astra. I'm not going to spoil (much, I hope), but the things that movie is blessed with and the formidable way it squanders all of it is nothing short of amazing.
The Japanese movie with chainsaw girl you are looking for is The Machine Girl from 2008
Dan, you're thinking of The Machine Girl! Another fantastic pick, that I'm pretty sure is made by the same company, is Tokyo Gore Police. Samurai Cop is also a legendary bad movie!
Thanks for reminding me of Tokyo Gore Police, will watch it again after watching this.
That’s it!
I know sanderson tends to steer away from the darker fiction, but I would love to hear what he amd Dan Wells think about the movie The Menu
Is it as good as the hype? I want to check that one out.
@@wingracer1614 I really liked a lot. In fact I think it's the best movie I saw last year. It's very funny and tense. I couldn't stop thinking about it after seeing it.
@@wingracer1614it’s enjoyable. 3/5 for me
@@metumortis6323 I don't know, going to be hard to top EEAAO for best movie of last year but I can always watch Anya Taylor Joy so I'll give it a shot
@@wingracer1614 I loved that movie too but for me at least, the menu topped it
This is an intereting first experience with this podcast. Was thinking, ooooo Brandon Sanderson, what are gonna talk about? An inspiration for an old novel, the pencil or pen.he used to write in his notepad on his first book. Nope. Yoyo Girl Cop. I now know thats a thing.
On the plus side, I have a new movie to watch with my wife that will make her question why she married me, so that will be fun
Any early 2000s spy movie like The Pacifier and The Spy Next Door are cringey but I loved them as a kid and I love them now cuz I can see how bad they are.
The thing is, they were self aware about what type of movie they were and just embraced the silly. Which is why they are fun.
For whatever reason, I actually had a great time with God’s of Egypt 😂 Gerald Butler was a surprisingly fun villain, and it was great to see Nikolaj Coster-Waldau outside of GoT.
"Bad" movie recs: Firstly "The Guyver" and its weird semi-sequel "Black Mask 2: City of Masks". Then of course, the very best of the Full Moon Pictures flicks: "Meridian".
In the Sword & Sorcery genre, I would recommend Hawk the Slayer. In addition to its hilarious badness, it has the feel of a homebrewed Dungeon & Dragons campaign run by an uninspired Dungeon Master.
Another film that might be a bit too graphic in terms of violence and nudity for your company, but is still a funny-bad film, is The Sword and the Sorcerer, starring Lee Horsley. It obviously had a higher budget than Hawk the Slayer, but is still entertainingly inept.
Official request: Dan analyzing a bad movie at DS Con 2023.
Watching him analyze a 2 hour movie (Crazy Rich Asians) for 4 hours was one of the highlights of DS Con 2022 for me. I can only imagine how much fun a bad movie would be.
Five months late, but I liked The Munchies from 1987. It's about these small-gnome sized aliens that come to take over earth. I remember laughing so hard when I saw it as a kid.
Time Bandits? Not sure if that one got mentioned as I am JUST discovering this podcast..,which is fantastic btw!
There's a movie called The Drawer (at least I think) it's been a long time, but it was bad and bizarre but wonderful and weird. A man appears inside a morgue drawer and it let's him go back in time, and he keeps ending up there and doesn't know why. I only saw it once and have never found it again. If you do manage to find it, you must watch it.
wow - making me remember all those 80's movies - favorite "bad" movies - Critters - Toxic Avenger - Red Sonia - Adventures in Babysitting - Attack of the Killer Tomatoes - Last Starfighters - Earth Girls are Easy - They Live ... miss this time period of just wacky movies.
I don't think Adventures in Babysitting really belongs in this list. It's not at all speculative fictiony like the others in the list. It's just a good wacky comedy, like Better Off Dead. It is a really fun movie, though.
@@hkpew sure - I was just listing all the wacky movies I remembered and enjoyed even though they weren't "good" movies.
The Last Starfighter!!! Haha 😂
Looking forward to the suitcase full of meat.
If you love a movie how can it possibly be bad?
I absolutley love Equalibrium. I mean it is 1984, Farenheit 451, and Matrix combined, what more distopian vision could a person with for.
I tried to think of a bad movie that I have enjoyed, but if I enjoyed a movie I find that I can't view it as bad. Maybe the Trinity series with Terance Hill? Best lighthearted westerns I have ever seen, but definitely a low brow spaggetti western.
“Unicorn City” is a bad movie that is so bad it’s good. I would love to hear Brandon and Dan talk about this one, would make my Wednesday!
The other movie I thought of immediately when they talk about bad movies we love is the one Dan already has plans for, “Mom and Dad Save the World.” John Lovitz for the win.
But guns and marksmanship ARE already a martial art, and the most effective martial art in history.
My recommendation is a movie called 100% Wolf. It's an animated kids movie about werewolves with one of the wildest premises I've ever seen that takes itself completely seriously despite every second being completely ridiculous.
Dan should watch Garzey's Wing. Let's put this gem on his radar
I watched any of those 80s movies whenever they were on. We were not spoiled for choice and I took any fantasy movie they would give me. I can't believe we've gotten to the point where there are so many choices in fantasy that I don't watch many shows with a decent budget. Can't believe in a good way.
In the vein of 80’s B movies, I’d recommend “Hawk the Slayer”
Totally agree. Hawk the Slayer with Jack Palance as the villain is the best of the 80s Fantasy movies.
I am going to recommend the 1989 sci-fi film Arena, rated PG-13. Its Wikipedia entry has a good synopsis, if you're interested. It has that so-bad-it's-good feel, and it's one of my favorites.
Oh I love bad movies, I’ve been doing a bad move club for some time now and I would have to say my top three are: After the Ball, Blood and Chocolate, and Red Snow.
I like Thora Birch in the original old D&D movie. As well as the lead actress (but I do not know her name; she played the student mage)
Okay, bad movie suggestion: Battleship with Taylor Kitsch. It is astonishingly bad but in a “can’t turn your eyes away from it” kinda way. The thing is, it’s terribly earnest and you can tell everyone thought they were making that year’s big blockbuster action movie. By the end they’re really trying to skate on WWII nostalgia. It’s so big and dumb and I love it so much.
It’s rather long, but I still adore it. I think about the burrito scene from the beginning far too frequently. I find it genuinely hilarious. Also, this movie somehow has Liam Neeson and Rihanna in it. And yes, they DO play a game of Battleship.
One of my favorite bad movies is JSA: World War II. It’s the epitome of goofy, tropey super hero animated movies and it’s wonderful.
Bad movies I love.
Barbarians - Same feeling as Conan
Stay Tuned - Like Mom & Dad Save the World
Stay Tuned! I forgot about that movie. I need to rewatch it. It's more in the vein of Airplane than Sharknado, so I don't think it's really a bad movie, but it's a lot of fun.
The Salute of the Jugger with Rutger Hauer is my favorite bad movie. Its a mix of Rise of the Titans and Gladiator set in a Mad Max world, I highly recommend it.
I have not seen this since I was a child but Surf Ninjas had a special place in the bad movie realm for me.
13:35 It looks like Brandon accidentally picked up two pages and only signed one
I wanna have a movie night with Sando and watch Velocipastor!
I have a bad movie recommendation. But first I just want to say thank you to this podcast. I am a stay at home mom to a 3 year old girl and you guys are sometimes the best adult interaction I get in a day. 😂 no further comment needed on that.
My movie recommendation that you could definitely show your company is called a Borrowed Christmas. It doesn’t have any fancy special effects or anything like that. It is just a movie full of terrible story, script, and acting. Basic storyline premise is a middle-aged single and very wealthy man decides he wants to live out his G-rated fetish/fantasy of the man of the house during Christmas. A real “Charles Dickens” kind of Christmas. Seeing he has no family he decides to rent all of the things needed for this christmas- including a wife and children. It truly is the WORST movie I have ever watched and I almost turned it off so many times but I just kept hoping there would be a redemptive point. There wasn’t. There is no bad movie payoff here- except getting to the end and sitting there realizing that was a truly terrible movie. PS- wait til you learn about the borrowed orphans.
Y'all should release shorts with just the details of the food heists.
Dragon Wars. I don't know if this one will hold up now. My friends enjoyed panning it when we saw it in the theater. I don't think any of us have watched it since then though.
The Lost skeleton of Cadavra, I didn't check spelling but this was a major part of my youth and we all learned the rock dance and the importance of sharing atmosphere-ium so people don't have to marry skeletons
Velocipastor is my favorite bad movie! you guys should check it out!
Llamageddon, Samurai Cop, Suburban Sasquatch, and Alien vs Hunter are a few others that are absolutely awesome
My favorite dumb movie is Better Off Dead. It is old enough that a lot of people haven’t seen it or if they have they don’t remember how funny it is.
Troll Hunter - the Norwegian film, not the animated series. I use this movie as a litmus test for potential friends. On the gorier side, the zombie comedy One Cut of the Dead is 100% my favorite.
Oh man! This!! Yes. I loved every second of this masterpiece.
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter is absolutely amazing!
I'm pretty sure I heard the term "suitcase full of meat" in college from some guys... I'm **afraid** to look it up for this reason
Drgonball Evolution, The Last Airbender, and Leprechaun: In Da Hood have to be my votes for bad movies you need to see at least once.
The best part about Googling "suitcase full of meat" is that you will learn of not one, but *two* cases in which the term is applicable. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
I SAID DON’T DO IT
A bad movie I like is Nuigulumar Z. It is incredibly strange. It's both a magical girl movie and a zombie movie, but it's not very gory. It also has a lovely wholesome theme about following your dreams coupled with the most questionable combat strategies I've seen in a movie. Also, sentient teddy bears. I recommend it if you're in the mood to have your brain melted a bit.
The old mortal combat movie is a classic!
Beast Master is the “What movie from your childhood traumatized you?” Movie for me. To this day I can’t sit through the entire movie.
😮 this is the movie that made me fall in love with Ferrets!
@@TSTait I just think of child sacrifice and bat-like klansman hahaha