What makes a movie bad? Is it one single thing or a conglomeration of things? Can a bad performance in a well written and directed film make it a bad movie? What about terrible direction to a fantastic idea? Is that a bad movie? What really make a bad movie?
We finish our look at movies we feel need defense.
We all have movies we love that no one else does... the crew gets into it tonight in part one of our look at movies we love that no one else does.
Goddamn it, 1985 was a great year in film.
A quick little sample of the things I have to edit out of RadioDrome episodes.
With the massive flop of Legend Of Tarzan and a few years ago John Carter... why is it so damn hard to adapt the old pulp stories to the screen? Guest Buzz Dixon.
There have been marketing disasters in the past, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Star Trek Beyond and even the debacle that was David Manning... and yet 2016 will go down as the year that movie marketing went all tits up...
Why is this a franchise? Why are there 9 Madea films? How the hell are there a half dozen Step Up movies? Who the hell was asking for a 3rd Legally Blonde film? This is the question we examine... why the hell are some of these things franchises?
We all love Troma movies, from the classics like The Toxic Avenger and Class of Nuke em High to the lesser films such as Troma's War. Hell the Troma pick ups such as Screamplay or Christmas Evil are amazing too. Troma is the only Reel Independent company left out there and we should all celebrate them.
1984 was another amazing year, from Ghostbusters to Beverly Hills Cop to C.H.U.D. to Terminator, so many great films were in 1984 and we Petar puts it "1984 was the first year the 80's were comfortable being the 80's".
How accurate does a film have to be to be called a true story? If a movie is %80 made up can it still be a "true story"? What if a story has been thoroughly debunked and yet the movie that comes out years later still calls it a "true story"?
1983 is another great year in film... where do you fall on the movies of 1983?
PG-13 used to be a real rating with real weight behind it whereas now PG-13 is simply a label for a compromised film. What happened to the rating and how did it fall so hard?
1982 might just be the most awesome year in film ever. Death Wish II, Conan, Tron, Blade Runner, Star Trek II, Friday the 13th III, Poltergeist, ET and so many other amazing films came out in 1982.
We are all old... lets face it. How has the new generation of low budget filmmakers changed how films are made and is it better or worse that this is happening?
Petar is out this week so Cecil and Josh talk about some random "controversies" happening at the moment.
Another episode, another year and 1981 was a damn good year indeed. An American Werewolf in London, Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen, Escape from New York, Galaxy of Terror, Heavy Metal, Piranha II: The Spawning, Saturday the 14th and so many other key movies came out in this great year.
1980. What a perfect transitional year for film, part 70's and part of what the 80's will come to be defined by. Airplane, Cannibal Holocaust, Friday the 13th, The Shining, Humanoids From The Deep, 9 to 5 and even Xanadu. 1980 was an eclectic year in film.
1979 brought us Alien, Star Trek The Motionless Picture and many other great films... what did it do for film though?
Some actors are more than actors... they go beyond the performance.
Being a film nerd is in some ways like being a nerd in general... but it also has a strange connotation to the "outside" world.
The ending of a movie can mean success or failure... a good ending can save a bad movie and a bad ending can ruin a good movie... Planet of the Apes, Empire Strikes Back and so many others defined how much impact an ending can have... but just important is the ending?
1978 was a year of catch up in film. After Star Wars blew everyone away Hollywood was unprepared to follow it... so what happened in 1978? A lot and only some of it was good.
1977 was an amazing year in film, besides Star Wars. You also had Rolling Thunder, Wizards, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Smokey and the Bandit and a litany of other great films.
We take a break from the years and look at how nostalgia has become it's own exploitation sub-genre. Did we really need a Jem and the Holograms movie or were they simply exploiting your nostalgia? This is actually a thing they do now.
This week we take a look at 1976... there were many good films (Assault On Precinct 13, Network and Mako: The Jaws Of Death) and many bad films (King Kong, Logan's Run and The Omen). A year that attempted to eclipse it's predecessor and not really succeeding.
We look at the year 1975 in film this week... besides Jaws... what other films debuted this year? The good (A Boy and His Dog, Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold, The Devil's Rain and Monty Python and the Holy Grail among others) and the bad (Barry Lyndon, Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze, The Happy Hooker and The Stepford Wives among others). It was a turbulent year and one that marked the start of a new era in hollywood.
Brandon Tenold (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6ELOg-SELapz7QEq6N-vVKMTkw9nHTHq) stops by again to help us look at the 3 great films Tobe Hooper made for Cannon films back in the 80's, Lifeforce, Invaders From Mars and Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2.
When you adapt a book into a movie why is a literal translation impossible? What has to be changed? Does it make the product better? Or worse?
George Romero, John Carpenter, John Landis, Bob Clark, Mel Brooks and so many other great filmmakers had their heyday in the late 70's and early 80's... then the 90's brought only crap from them. Why? What happened to these guys?
