Rafter of Turkeys, Friends List of Geeks

[robotnik2004]

Here's a post where I don't provide any creative thought. I just point my Canadian readers to something cool that bryant posted and my American readers to something else cool that mizalaina posted. Both, as it happens, about the movies.

1. mizalaina just linked the list of the 100 lowest-rated movies on IMDb. Not new, I guess, but delightful. Was From Justin to Kelly really worse than Manos, Hands Of Fate? It's a question that borders on the philosophical. What was most surprising to me was how much real estate this rafter of turkeys is taking up in my brain. Not only have I heard of (not seen, be thankful for small mercies) almost every film on the list, I think I've probably mentioned at least a third of them in conversation over the last six months. (My poor, poor wife.)

(Bet you didn't know "rafter" was the proper collective noun for turkeys. Lay that one on the girls in the office pool, why don't ya.)

2. bryant just got back from something with the let's-not-tell-Granny title of Butt Numb-a-thon 5. It sounds like a movie at the back of the video store, I know, but in fact it was a 24-hour movie marathon in Austin, Texas, hosted by the Lord High Alpha Movie Geek of Ain't It Cool News. And I guess being the Lord High Etc. has its perks, because the event was attended by Peter Jackson and Mel Gibson among others, and the assembled butt-numbees got to see both Return Of The King and Mel's Crazy Jew-baiting Jesus Flick! (That's just the working title.) Anyway, go read what Bryant had to say. It's very cool. (No real spoilers, unless you don't know what happens to Jesus in the end.)

Comments

[head58.livejournal.com]

I really ponder whether many of those movies truly deserve to be on the list. I think if it weren't for MST3K saying Manos was that bad, it wouldn't stand a chance. I mean, it was bad, but I don't see John Cusack's Serendipity on that list and that was far, far more painful to sit through. In fact, I think MST3K is responsible for 5 or so of the bottom 20. Sure, they're cheesy but do they deserve to be in the 100 worst of all time?

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

I remember when I was a regular on ratmm (rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc) there was a grassroots effort to specifically get MSTed movies onto the bottom of the list. I was not part of this effort, thankfully. :)

[mizalaina.livejournal.com]

(No real spoilers, unless you don't know what happens to Jesus in the end.)

He falls in love with the prostitute with the heart of gold and they live happily ever after?

[head58.livejournal.com]

No, you're thinking of Leigh & Baigent's "Holy Blood, Holy Grail."

[mizalaina.livejournal.com]

I thought that was the one with the talking monkey and the cute kid who was Jesus' sidekick....

[that-cad.livejournal.com]

I thought Pilate fell in love with him and the two ran off together to, like, Egypt. Or something.

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

I'm liking these ideas.

Get Mel on the horn. I smell sequel!