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The <25% Film Club 
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Patrick wrote:
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I head that Will Smith turned down the part of Neo in the Matrix to do Wild Wild West.

Any regrets, Will?


Yes, several. Sure Will says he wouldn't be good enough to do The Matrix but I'm sure he still cries himself to sleep every night.


I think Will turned out just fine regardless. How many summer tentpoles did he hoist on his own in the 2000's year in and year out? I'm sure when he cries he dries his eyes with fistfulls of hundred dollar bills.


Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:52 am
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Here's a few more:

Turn It Up
All About The Benjamins
Next Friday
Friday After Next
Money Talks
Shadow Conspiracy
Car 54 Where Are You?
Knock Off
Double Team
Glimmer Man
Judge Dredd
Fire Down Below
Cradle 2 Tha Grave(just barely over at 26%)
Sudden Death
Collateral Damage
End Of Days
Torque
Abduction
Stealth
Sahara
Doom
Dangerous Ground (1997)
Stealing Harvard


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Fri Apr 27, 2012 11:12 pm
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Judge Dredd
Sudden Death
End Of Days


They were reviewed that bad.....those movies were awesome!


Fri Apr 27, 2012 11:23 pm
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Patrick wrote:
Vexer wrote:
Judge Dredd
Sudden Death
End Of Days


They were reviewed that bad.....those movies were awesome!


Judge Dredd is so, so bad...but I can't stop quoting it.

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Vexer wrote:
Here's a few more:

Turn It Up
All About The Benjamins
Next Friday
Friday After Next
Money Talks
Shadow Conspiracy
Car 54 Where Are You?
Knock Off
Double Team
Glimmer Man
Judge Dredd
Fire Down Below
Cradle 2 Tha Grave(just barely over at 26%)
Sudden Death
Collateral Damage
End Of Days
Torque
Stealth
Sahara
Doom


Sahara I have a guilty pleasure liking of. It's not a great movie (or even a very good one) by any stretch of the imagination. But it's fun and entertaining, way more so than those National Treasure movies.

I liked the original Friday enough that I bought it on DVD a while back when I came across it on sale. The sequels were a lot less enjoyable.

Money Talks was fun. Not something I'll watch more than once.. But when I watched it originally I didn't find myself wanting the time I'd spent watching it back. Sudden Death was somewhat entertaining as far as Die Hard knock offs go. Double Team and Shadow Conspiracy I've erased most of my memory of since I saw them back in 1997. Fire Down Below was one of the more tolerable S Seagal movies.

Most fo the reast I either never saw (Car 54, Stealth) or found to be pretty bad even awful in some cases (Judge Dredd, Collateral Damage).

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End of Days is great guilty fun. Gabriel Byrne is the shiznit as the devil.

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Stealing Home 23% RT. ***

Touching Drama with Foster and Harmon in top form.


Sun Apr 29, 2012 10:21 am
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End Of Days

This reminds me--Hercules in New York, 20%. Oh it's bad--at one point an escaped bear is played by a man in a bear suit who seems to have been told he's playing a gorilla--but man is it fun. From the opening voice-over: "Far in the dim past, when myth and history merged into mystery, and the Gods of fable dwelled on ancient Mount Olympus in antique Greece, a legendary hero walked godlike upon the Earth . . . sometimes." I suppose so-bad-it's-good movies under 25% is a whole other list--but this one is bad in enough of the ways that, say, the 1966 Batman movie is good, that I legitimately enjoy it.


Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:51 am
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This reminds me--Hercules in New York, 20%.


That high?! The only thing of use Hercules in NY provides is waves upon waves of unintentional hilarity. Hell, before The Marine it was my favorite So Bad it's Good movie.


Sun Apr 29, 2012 12:01 pm
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The 1989 Batman movie is just as cheesy as the 1966 one. The difference is that the 1966 one is doing it on purpose.


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The 1989 Batman movie is just as cheesy as the 1966 one. The difference is that the 1966 one is doing it on purpose.


The 1989 Batman film works very well in some respects and very poorly in others and I've never been able to fully conclude as to why.

Perhaps best represented by the otherworldliness of Burton' Gotham, which is simultaneously stunning and atmospheric, yet also claustrophobic and ridiculous.

At least the film had some charms, unlike it's sequel which I found unwatchable for a number of reasons.

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Vexer wrote:
Here's a few more:

Turn It Up
All About The Benjamins
Next Friday
Friday After Next
Money Talks
Shadow Conspiracy
Car 54 Where Are You?
Knock Off
Double Team
Glimmer Man
Judge Dredd
Fire Down Below
Cradle 2 Tha Grave(just barely over at 26%)
Sudden Death
Collateral Damage
End Of Days
Torque
Abduction
Stealth
Sahara
Doom
Dangerous Ground (1997)
Stealing Harvard


I can watch Double Team, Next Friday and Collateral Damage.

Judge Dredd however was fully deserving of its scorn. I can't think off the top of my head of a more joyless viewing experience.

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The 1989 Batman film works very well in some respects and very poorly in others and I've never been able to fully conclude as to why.

The one problem that towers over all the others is the writing. It's stupid and childish.


Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:54 pm
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Another one is Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (24%). It is easily the best of the franchise (for what it's worth).

A bunch of its lame sequels have some solid, entertaining camp value as well. See: Jason Takes Manhattan and Jason X.


Fri May 04, 2012 7:31 pm
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Another example: The remake of The Women I was stunned to learn this film had only a 13% RT rating(though I was relieved that Ebert at least liked it).


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Blood: The Last Vampire (2009 live action film, at 22%). Not a diamond in the rough, but mediocre acting, ludicrous special effects, a plot that manages to be both overcomplicated and nonsensicle, and lots of blood showers, decapitations, disembowelments and chase scenes. In short, the definition of a <25% film.

The 2000 animated film is apparently quite a bit better, and inspired the anime series, Blood+, which is very good.

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