Slow night, so nomenclature post (bad movies edition).

There should be a name for bad films that are unworthy of their cast. The movie that I’m thinking of in particular is Toys –  which was remarkably awful, given that it had Robin Williams, Joan Cusack, Robin Wright(!), LL Cool J, and Michael Gambon in it.  Or maybe the Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Band movie, which is insanely awful, only you can mercifully distract yourself by seeing all the musical talent that wanders in and out of the film. Sometimes at random*.

Anyway, there should be a word for this.  Assuming that there isn’t already.

Moe Lane

*I’m sure that I’ve said this before, but… me as a kid, seeing the Evil Band: “AUUGH! Evil Band!” Me as an adult, seeing the Evil Band: “Aerosmith! Cool! ”  …Says something, really.

14 thoughts on “Slow night, so nomenclature post (bad movies edition).”

  3. One I can think of off the top of my hat: The Avengers. No, not that one. The one with Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, and by God Sean Connery.

    Connery had a few of those.

  4. OhmiGOSH, “Wild Wild West”: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Salma Hayek, Kenneth Branagh, IN A STEAMPUNK WESTERN FOR GOODNESS’ SAKE!!!!1!!

  5. I liked Toys. Then again I also liked Death to Smoochy, a much darker Robin Williams movie.

    1. Death to Smoochy was fricking hilarious.

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      Toys was just horrible.
      Maybe it’s better on drugs. L.L. Cool J’s camouflage, especially.

  6. I watched the recent Man From UNCLE movie with my son last night (he loved it; I merely liked it). Afterwards, I suggested that another 60’s tv show that was just ripe for a movie update was I Spy. You know, completely forgetting about that 2002 production….

  7. Oh indeed. And it also *sounded* right, as well. A really great soundtrack, with moments that were downright John Barry. Great choices, too, of time-specific recordings that aren’t overly well known.

    But overall, it just felt a little loose. Scenes could consistently have been trimmed of a few seconds, Waverly should have been brought in sooner, and Solo and Kuryakin didn’t actually pull together as a team until an entire hour had passed. Solo nicknamed Kuryakin “Peril,” as in Red Peril. But wasn’t the phrase Red Menace? Yellow Peril, Red Menace. But not Red Peril. And in what alternate universe would the Russians have better tech than the US?

    Nitpicks. I did like it. Just not loved it.

    1. >And in what alternate universe would the Russians have better tech than the US?
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      One where they got their hands on more and/or better German scientists after World War II?

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