# What's the most recent cheesy movie you've watched?
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**Created:** [September 9, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-cheesy-movie-youve-watched/634148 "2012-09-09T00:28:10Z")
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-cheesy-movie-youve-watched/634148/1 "2012-09-09T00:28:10Z")
You didn’t have to know how cheesy it was going to be before watching it to count. Though I was pretty sure that _Nazis at the Center of the Earth_ was going to be 100% pure nazilicious cheese. 😛[The Wiki page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazis_at_the_Center_of_the_Earth) says it was just released (direct to DVD) in April, and has some pretty amusing comments on it.
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### Author:  [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-cheesy-movie-youve-watched/634148/2 "2012-09-09T00:34:55Z")
Direct to DVD means cheesy!
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2012, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-cheesy-movie-youve-watched/634148/3 "2012-09-09T01:16:10Z")
I watched _Hit Man_ a couple of weeks ago. Not the 2007 one with Timothy Olyphant. This was the 1972 blaxploitation remake of _Get Carter_ with Bernie Casey.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-cheesy-movie-youve-watched/634148/4 "2012-09-09T01:28:46Z")
del duplicate post.
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### Author:  [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-cheesy-movie-youve-watched/634148/5 "2012-09-09T01:47:41Z")
Tonight on Syfy. Sand Shark!!
It’s a cross between Jaws and Tremors. It was so horribly entertaining. I did have to turn off Two Headed Shark though. (I’d already seen it, of course!)
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2012, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-cheesy-movie-youve-watched/634148/6 "2012-09-09T01:53:08Z")
[MST3K/Mitchell](http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Mitchell_%28episode%29)
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### Author:  [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2012, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-cheesy-movie-youve-watched/634148/7 "2012-09-09T02:48:03Z")
Rock of Ages.
Way cheesy.
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### Author:  [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2012, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-cheesy-movie-youve-watched/634148/8 "2012-09-09T02:57:02Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> I watched _Hit Man_ a couple of weeks ago. Not the 2007 one with Timothy Olyphant. This was the 1972 blaxploitation remake of _Get Carter_ with Bernie Casey.
2007 one wasn’t cheesy per se, but it sure was pungent…forever soured the video game franchise.
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### Author:  [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2012, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-cheesy-movie-youve-watched/634148/9 "2012-09-09T08:24:42Z")
I actually watched a chick flick, because I lust after Jennifer Anniston.
I can’t remember the name but it had her as a high flying advertising person who gets a lowly video cameraman to pretend to be her b/f, and of course the inevitable happened.
It was pretty dreadful.
No I take that back, it was probably the worst film I’ve ever seen , even including a Serbian Zombie movie I once saw.
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2012, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-cheesy-movie-youve-watched/634148/10 "2012-09-09T10:22:03Z")
Birdemic. Picture The Birds by Hitchcock, only horrible in every conceivable way. Birds randomly attack people because of global warming, and they explode on impact. Actually contains the line, “Why can’t we all give peace a chance?” which is delivered in complete earnestness from an Iraq war veteran.
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### Author:  [@Rubixcube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubixcube)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2012, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-cheesy-movie-youve-watched/634148/11 "2012-09-09T12:33:40Z")
I’ve got a few of those 50 movie packs that I’ve been slowly working my way through. I watched _Ninja Champion_ and _The Spirits of Bruce Lee_ as a double feature a couple of days ago. The former is a Godfrey Ho cut-and-paste job. It was quite strange since this time he used a rape/revenge film as the source of the footage. Unfortunately there’s only 10 or 15 minutes of the classic Godfrey Ho white ninja fights to liven things up. As is typical for these Godfrey Ho films the entire thing was a confusing but mostly entertaining mess.
_Spirits_ is one of those in-name-only Bruceploitation films. Bruce Lee isn’t mentioned, none of the actors are Lee imitators, and I didn’t catch any references to the films or characters of Bruce Lee. So not only wasn’t the film shot as a Bruceploitation film, it wasn’t even localized with the intention of making it one. Otherwise it was a half decent chop-socky flick. Fairly good fights held down by the slow pacing of most of the film and really atrocious dubbing.
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-cheesy-movie-youve-watched/634148/12 "2012-09-09T14:01:37Z")
> [@BrassyPhrase](#):
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> Tonight on Syfy. Sand Shark!!
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> It’s a cross between Jaws and Tremors. It was so horribly entertaining. I did have to turn off Two Headed Shark though. (I’d already seen it, of course!)
I think it might have been meant to be a satire/comedy. When the shark lept up to catch the supersonic attack/fighter, I was filled with glee.
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-cheesy-movie-youve-watched/634148/13 "2012-09-09T14:03:26Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#):
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> Birdemic. Picture The Birds by Hitchcock, only horrible in every conceivable way. Birds randomly attack people because of global warming, and they explode on impact. Actually contains the line, “Why can’t we all give peace a chance?” which is delivered in complete earnestness from an Iraq war veteran.
There can be no peace while Kirk lives.
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-cheesy-movie-youve-watched/634148/14 "2012-09-09T14:10:50Z")
I just went to The Expendables 2. I liked the first one, but this one was too cheesy.
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### Author:  [@Coustralee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coustralee)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2012, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-cheesy-movie-youve-watched/634148/15 "2012-09-09T14:28:02Z")
caught the end of hot tub time machine last night… had some decent music. i really prefer a cheesy movie, they have no pretensions and aren’t trying to say anything
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### Author:  [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-cheesy-movie-youve-watched/634148/16 "2012-09-09T14:36:26Z")
Piranha 3DD. Somehow, the producers ended up making a film that didn’t have much gore (either scary or hilariously bad) nor much T&A. And what ittle gore and T&A there is doesn’t really use the 3D (though some scenes on the surface of the water are actually pretty well-shot). I mean, c’mon, blood or unclothed body parts should be flying out at the viewer in a movie like this!
The cover of the movie does remind me of the old-school cheesy videos of the 1980s, those B-to-Z movies that sat in video stores for decades where they just stuck a model on the front and didn’t even bother photographing her face.
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### Author:  [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-cheesy-movie-youve-watched/634148/17 "2012-09-09T14:58:50Z")
Magic Mike. Cheesy but a lot of man candy.🆒
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-cheesy-movie-youve-watched/634148/18 "2012-09-09T16:57:13Z")
**Dead Calling** on Netflix. I’m not sure what the title of the movie I thought it was is, but it definitely wasn’t dead calling.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-cheesy-movie-youve-watched/634148/19 "2012-09-09T20:12:31Z")
**The Flesh Eaters**
> **[The Flesh Eaters (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flesh_Eaters_(film))**
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> The Flesh Eaters is a 1964 American horror/science fiction thriller, directed on a low budget by Jack Curtis and edited by future filmmaker Radley Metzger. The film contains moments of violence much more graphic and extreme than many other movies of its time, making it one of the first ever gore films.
> Jan Letterman, the personal assistant to wealthy, over-the-hill actress Laura Winters, hires pilot Grant Murdoch to fly her from New York to Provincetown, Massachusetts, but a storm forces them t...
> **[The Flesh Eaters (1964) ⭐ 5.8 | Horror, Sci-Fi](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058101/)**
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> 1h 27m | Unrated
I’ve wanted to see this film ever since it made the cover of _Famous Monsters of Filmland_ back in 1964. But I never saw it playing in the theaters, or on TV, or on VHS. It’s finally available on DVD, so I picked it up.
It’s an early example of gory film-making. It makes pretty clever use of available FX from back then, especially the titular flesh-eating virus (or whatever it was supposed to be), hich was done by actually applying things to/scratching the actual negative. This makes the beasties flicker and glow and be generally visible, which is actually a pretty good trick.
The film is notable for being scripted and storyboarded by Arnold Drake, a comic book artist. So there are some surprisingly dramatic shots. Most natab;le is one where the hero’s face fills half the screen, with the beach seen beyond him in the other half, all of this in sharp focus. Other people come into view, running on the beach, from the portion hidden by hishead. Another is a shot over the barrel of a gun, framed by the gunsight.
Drake co-created The Doom Patrol and Deadman. his presence explains how this nothing little indie film got cover credit oIn Famous Monsters. Drake was scripting the DC _Jerry Lewis_ comic at the time, and the same issue of Famous Monsters that had the cover story on Flesh Eaters also features pages from the current issue of Jerry lewis, which has “guest appearances” by monsters\* – Dracula, Frankenstein, a dog-like wolfman. The issue also mentions the magazine _Famous Monsters of Filmland_. It’s pretty clear that Arnold offered to mention FM in his comic if FM would, in turn, feature pages from his comic and mention the cheap horror film he was involved in.
\*The “monsters” are wax museum dummies animated by a couple of aliens, it turns out. The aliens have oversized noses on the tops of their heads, so that their moustaches can double as eyebrows. Unfortunately, this stuff doesn’t feature in the movie _The Flesh Eaters_.
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### Author:  [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-recent-cheesy-movie-youve-watched/634148/20 "2012-09-09T21:58:08Z")
Do those Twilight movies count?
I find myself laughing all the way through those things.
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