# Bad Movie Club **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 5, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778 "2008-12-05T00:11:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/41 "2008-12-06T17:00:25Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Zardoz ([seriously bad bad bad](http://ruthlessreviews.com/pics/zardoz1.gif)) But the music (a choral version of Beethoven’s Seventh) is outstanding. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/42 "2008-12-07T04:47:21Z")
The 25th anniversary edition of _Glen or Glenda_ was still awful. For a movie that billed itself as the most daring film of the year, it sure was boring. It has the preachy feel of 50’s educational films. Glacial pacing. 20 minutes of conversation just to build up to “Glen is a transvestite”. Not to introduce you to nor develop the characters of Glen and his Fiancee Barbara, but just to tell you that there is such a thing as cross-dressing and that Glen does it. Clunky doesn’t begin to describe the dialog either. Ed Wood drank. Ed Wood wrote this script. He did both at the same time. Bela Lugosi’s character had nothing at all to do with the rest of the film. Literally. Timothy Farrell and the strippers in the fantasy sequence from 34.42 to 44.52 were the best actors in the film. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/43 "2008-12-07T05:13:04Z")
Did you just watch this now, for this thread? ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/44 "2008-12-07T05:25:16Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Did you just watch this now, for this thread? Yeah, I volunteered for it in post #26 but I fell asleep during the film last night. I gave it another shot today and finished it in one sitting. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/45 "2008-12-07T05:30:05Z")
Cool. Yeah, pretty amazingly bad movie, but still in a pretty entertaining way. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/46 "2008-12-07T05:34:43Z")
So that’s Xanadu and Glen or Glenda down. Anyone up for any of the other ones? I’ve seen them all, but the purpose of this thread was the spread the, uh, joy. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/47 "2008-12-07T16:26:53Z")
I took the challenge and DLd **Battlefield Earth** , thinking it’d make a boring Sunday afternoon a little bit more entertaining. I mean, watching \*\*RoadHouse \*\*can certainly brighten a grey, humid, rainy afternoon. I’ve hear a lot about how craptacular this movie is, but never felt a need to confirm this by viewing it myself. Wow. At first I wondered what the big deal was. I mean, it looks like every other post apocalyptic, dystopian SciFi flick ever. Yeah, we’re in the future, mankind has no techs, we’re on the verge of extinction, here comes a hero that will save the day. Yawn. Enter the Psychlo and Travolta. His “acting” alone drags it down three full IMDb points. Adding the awful dialogue, realizing that he managed to drag Whittaker with him into the abyss (no small feat), the overblown preachyness, to make it, yes, as bad as people say. And not even in an entertaining way. There, I took a bullet. Who’s next? ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/48 "2008-12-07T16:47:15Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Drat. I thought it was going to be easy, and I would have had the added pleasure of telling my husband one of his movies was on a “really bad movie list that people are daring each other to watch!” 😃 For the record, my husband also owns the DVD of “Quigley Down Under”. Why, oh why? ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/49 "2008-12-07T19:25:12Z")
Home video is for wimps. I’ve seen three of those films **in the theater**! 1. Theodore Rex 2. Quigley \*\* 3. Howard the Duck\*\* 3. Latitude Zero 4. Glen or Glenda \*\* 6. Xanadu\*\* 5. Trog 6. Battlefield Earth \*\* 9. 10,000 B.C.\*\* 7. Leonard Part 6 ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/50 "2008-12-07T23:02:01Z")
I’ve actually seen Glen or Glenda on the big screen. And I feel a vague recollection that I might have seen Howard the Duck in its first release as well. Thankfully, that memory seems mostly to be lost in the shrouds of a bad memory. ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/51 "2008-12-07T23:46:33Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > I may be getting ahead of things. [This](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072869/) just came in, so of course I have to watch it. Any movie with William Shatner, Ida Lupino, Tom Frikkin Skerritt, and Ernest Borgnine as a goat-horned [demon](http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/attachment.php?attachmentid=39161), well you’ll understand if I feel I have no free will in the matter: there seems to be voice in my head bellowing, “We COMPEL you to watch! We COMPEL you to watch!” I don’t know _why_ I was surprised to learn that William Shatner was in two movies involving [demons](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059311/), but I was. The **Incubus** DVD was quietly passed among my friends a few years back as a horrible initiation rite. I may have found a new torture… As for the list in the OP, I’ve already seen #1 and #3. I believe I’ll attempt to tackle Xanadu, since I can watch that on Hulu right this very evening. Being rural, my video rental options are limited at best, so the rest will have to wait for Netflix. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/52 "2008-12-08T00:10:55Z")
> [@CaerieD](#): > > As for the list in the OP, I’ve already seen #1 and #3. I believe I’ll attempt to tackle Xanadu, since I can watch that on Hulu right this very evening. Being rural, my video rental options are limited at best, so the rest will have to wait for Netflix. Beware the penis-headed muse! I know I saw Howard the Duck in the theater, too. Don’t hate me, but I think I kinda liked it. ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/53 "2008-12-08T00:54:04Z")
[Teenage Caveman](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283043/). Larry Clark had a hand in it so expect the usual. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/54 "2008-12-08T07:57:56Z")
Ok I’m in, assuming **Latitude Zero** is the 1969 version and not the Brazilian one. My local indie video store went out of business, sob, so it’s the 'flix for me. **Lissener** I think you would have liked this place, organized by genre, actor or director so you could find, say, the Peckinpah’s, or **the night porter** in the section labeled fascist erotica. I was sorry to see them go. I did see **Howard the Duck** many years ago. All I remember is a Josie and the pussycat-esgue chick band motif and the scene where the technician burts out of the room with his hair still smoking and Howard deadpans, ‘this does not bode well.’ I’ve used that line many times, so the movie has some small redeeming value to me. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/55 "2008-12-08T16:50:20Z")
All of these movies sound like they’d be infinitely more enjoyable than watching _Alexander_ again. We watched it on DVD and were so bored into a stupor we couldn’t fall asleep or even reach for the remote to turn it off. It literally was mind-numbingly bad. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/56 "2008-12-08T16:58:50Z")
Speaking of Xanadu I have **Magic** on my I-pod, I feel it’s one of ONJ’s better songs. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/57 "2008-12-08T17:54:04Z")
Blasphemy. Howard was a fun movie. I liked it. Replace it with Ishtar or Reefer Madness. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/58 "2008-12-10T23:50:30Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Blasphemy. Howard was a fun movie. I liked it. Replace it with Ishtar or Reefer Madness. Have you seen _Ishtar_? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/59 "2008-12-10T23:53:46Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > Speaking of Xanadu I have **Magic** on my I-pod, I feel it’s one of ONJ’s better songs. Not a bad song. It wasn’t really featured in the film the way I was expecting. It was played but more as a background song. Strangely, I’ve found myself singing “Xanadu” a few times since I watched it, but even more strangely half of the time it’s to the music of ABBA’s “Waterloo.” “Xanadu! Couldn’t escape if I wanted to…” Kinda fitting. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Algorithm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/algorithm/32/12204_2.png) [@Algorithm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algorithm)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778/60 "2008-12-11T00:13:39Z")
I think [Old Rasputin](http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/112/412) downloaded 10,000 BC for me last time he and I got together, so I’ll give that one a watch and share my “thoughts”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-club/475778.md?page=4)