# bad Movie recaps: The Agony Booth and others **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 4, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-recaps-the-agony-booth-and-others/505290 "2009-08-04T14:34:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-recaps-the-agony-booth-and-others/505290/1 "2009-08-04T14:34:56Z")
I was going through and reading some of the [Agony Booth’s](http://www.agonybooth.com/) bad movie reviews. [Jabootu](http://jabootu.net/) is also an old friend . Anyone else enjoy this? Sometime it’s just fun, and takes less time and les pain than watching the movies. One caveat about the Agony Booth: they’re not nearly as smart as they think they are, and some of the movies they mock are actually pretty good, just cheap. Night of the Lepus, for example, is actually a pretty good B-movie. It didn’t have much budget, and it inspires giggles (giant killer… rabbits) instead of shrieks of terror. Still, it gets going, has an entertaining script, both the military and the main characters are actually pretty competent, and is well-acted overall. I’ve also tended to notice that several reviewers have no idea what they’re talking about in some sections, and frequently criticize aspects that the movie got perfectly right. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-recaps-the-agony-booth-and-others/505290/2 "2009-08-04T15:06:17Z")
I love these sites–they frequently take up my lunchtime reading. Have you been to the [B-Masters Cabal site](http://www.b-masters.com/)? Serving all your bad-movie needs (except for the Agony Booth). ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-recaps-the-agony-booth-and-others/505290/3 "2009-08-04T15:18:14Z")
Jabootu’s reviews of **Battlefield Earth** are classic, as are their analysis of the **Jaws** films (showing how they deteriorated and speculated why sequels keep getting worse and worse). I’m sorry they’re inactive now (last review was February 2009). But they tended to avoid the know-it-all snarkiness that you sometimes find on these sites. I don’t read them too much any more, and [my blog](http://greatbutforgotten.blogspot.com) is about good movies, not bad ones. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-recaps-the-agony-booth-and-others/505290/4 "2009-08-04T15:30:56Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Jabootu’s reviews of **Battlefield Earth** are classic, as are their analysis of the **Jaws** films (showing how they deteriorated and speculated why sequels keep getting worse and worse). I’m sorry they’re inactive now (last review was February 2009). But they tended to avoid the know-it-all snarkiness that you sometimes find on these sites. Jabootu is still active; it’s now at [http://jabootu.net/](http://jabootu.net/) If you check the site I linked to above, you’ll see Ken Begg has just reviewed Zero Hour!–the 1950s film Airplane! was a spoof of. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-recaps-the-agony-booth-and-others/505290/5 "2009-08-06T02:41:33Z")
Sites like these are a mixed bag – some of the pieces are hilarious dissections of richly deserving targets; some… not so much. YMMV. It’s a pity that Ken Begg hasn’t been doing as much lately with Jabootu; the _Challenge of the Superfriends_ recaps are some of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-recaps-the-agony-booth-and-others/505290/6 "2009-08-06T14:49:06Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Jabootu’s reviews of **Battlefield Earth** are classic, as are their analysis of the **Jaws** films (showing how they deteriorated and speculated why sequels keep getting worse and worse). I’m sorry they’re inactive now (last review was February 2009). But they tended to avoid the know-it-all snarkiness that you sometimes find on these sites. I read through the whole play-by-play summery of Battlefield Earth. I want those brain cells back. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-recaps-the-agony-booth-and-others/505290/7 "2009-08-06T15:12:42Z")
I want to see Agony Booth review Pain Locker. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-recaps-the-agony-booth-and-others/505290/8 "2009-08-06T15:19:11Z")
The master of the bad movies is Joe Bob Briggs. [http://www.joebobbriggs.com/review.asp](http://www.joebobbriggs.com/review.asp) His magnum opus is perhaps his review of _Frankenhooker_: [http://www.joebobbriggs.com/drivein/1990/frankenhooker.htm](http://www.joebobbriggs.com/drivein/1990/frankenhooker.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-recaps-the-agony-booth-and-others/505290/9 "2009-08-06T15:41:21Z")
> [@smiling\_bandit](#): > > [Jabootu](http://jabootu.net/) is also an old friend . Well I’ll be damned. For years now, every couple of months I’d hit my [Jabootu bookmark](http://jabootu.com/reviews.htm), never really expecting to see another update. After all, the most recent one on there is from 2005 – I’d just assumed they’d all given up and moved on with their lives. Turns out I’d just bookmarked the wrong spot on their site. Go figure… ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-recaps-the-agony-booth-and-others/505290/10 "2009-08-06T16:06:58Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > I want to see Agony Booth review Pain Locker. Ah yeah, that would be _Hurt_ Locker :smack: ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-recaps-the-agony-booth-and-others/505290/11 "2009-08-06T17:06:06Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Well I’ll be damned. > > For years now, every couple of months I’d hit my [Jabootu bookmark](http://jabootu.com/reviews.htm), never really expecting to see another update. After all, the most recent one on there is from 2005 – I’d just assumed they’d all given up and moved on with their lives. > > Turns out I’d just bookmarked the wrong spot on their site. Go figure… On the whole Jabootu thing - for whatever reason, that guy makes god-awful websites. I don’t want hate on him, but he can’t put a website together, period. It makes looking for what you want a huge pain. It was months before I realized he had moved to a new site, for instance, and once there the functiond don’t work as advertised. Still, hilarious reviews, so who’s complaining?