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Awake (2007)
Jessica Alba and Hayden Christensen star in this pretentious medical thriller about the rare occurrence of being awake or mentally conscious yet paralyzed by anesthesia during surgery.
The acting is pretty gruesome to say the least.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211933/combined
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUiGaoqjq0o26 votes -
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Island Claws
One my favorite MST3K episodes was "The Giant Spider Invasion", it had a home made, sincere feel to it. "Island Claws" has that same feel, a similar story theme, and best of all, like "The Giant Spider Invasion" they built a giant life-size mechanical monster used in the big horrific finale. Robert Lansing as always, is so serious and intense, he could make watching the grass grow seem like an imminent threat to all mankind. No CGI here! Nope! None!
47 votes -
The Gaul (2001) AKA Druids
Highlander's Christopher Lambert in a lowlander movie. Sorry. Don't think that makes any sense.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199481/combined
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQpBNImMF1E20 votes -
Rising Above
Jamie kennedy as the world worst history teacher and cyber bullying wet dream.
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A Christmas Story 2 (2012)
The 1983 classic A Christmas Story wasn't the first adaptation of Jean Shepherd's writings--PBS did some adaptations in the late seventies/early eighties. (In fact, if you do a YouTube search for "Phantom of the Open Hearth" you'll see the very first version of the leg lamp!) Nor was it the last--PBS did another adaptation in 1988 (Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss) and in 1994, there was a (very limited) theatrical release of It Runs In The Family (renamed My Summer Story for video), which was actually billed as the sequel to ACS. Whatever you may think of these two follow-ups/sequels (and many do enjoy them), they're worthy to be called sequels because they both come directly from Jean Shepherd's writings and feature his narration.
Not so with the so-called "official" sequel--2012's direct-to-DVD A Christmas Story 2. This has nothing to do with anything Shepherd wrote and is merely an exploitative cash grab that fans saw through in a heartbeat.
The movie takes place in 1946, with Ralphie now fifteen years old and his brother Randy around eleven. In a blatant re-tread of the original movie's plot, Ralphie's heart's desire this Christmas is his first car (that, and the love of the prettiest girl in school). What's more, the movie re-hashes story beats and jokes from the first one--some of them lifted clean! (For example: Flick sticking his tongue into a mail tube for no apparent reason than to call back to the flagpole, a re-tread of "Oh, fudge!", Ralphie dropping hints about his gift at the breakfast table...sometimes it seems this movie is jumping up and down, waving its arms, and yelling, "Look! Look! We're calling back to the first movie! See?! SEE?!?!?!")
The acting talent among most of the cast is all right but nothing to shout about. Daniel Stern and Beverly D'Angelo play Ralphie's folks, which could have been good, but Stern especially simply tries to copy Darren McGavin's performance without putting his own stamp on it. (And does it WAY too exaggeratedly.)
That's one of the main failings of ACS2--it just TRIES too hard. Instead of the wry, gentle humor that characterizes Jean Shepherd's work, it goes for cartoony, slapstick, and farcical. (And the slapstick sequences seem more along the lines of The Three Stooges on steroids rather than the subtler humor of the first movie.) Even when ACS touched on the cartoony and over-the-top, the characters were grounded in reality--they just seemed real and relatable. This movie seems like nothing more than a live-action Hanna-Barbera cartoon (to the point where they actually dub in Hanna-Barbera-ish cartoon sound effects over certain slapstick sequences!).
There's still narration by adult Ralphie...but since Shepherd had passed away long ago (and I can't see him giving his stamp of approval to this if he HAD been alive), there's a different voice actor. He's trying desperately to sound like Shep, but sounds more like Adam West after too much coffee.
In short, this would be a Rifftrax field day for the holidays...perhaps for a Rifftrax Live. (Ironically, the same year, another adaptation of ACS came out...the stage musical. But with wit, genuineness and a great score, it served the source material much better.)
The 1983 classic A Christmas Story wasn't the first adaptation of Jean Shepherd's writings--PBS did some adaptations in the late seventies/early eighties. (In fact, if you do a YouTube search for "Phantom of the Open Hearth" you'll see the very first version of the leg lamp!) Nor was it the last--PBS did another adaptation in 1988 (Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss) and in 1994, there was a (very limited) theatrical release of It Runs In The Family (renamed My Summer Story for video), which was actually billed as the sequel to ACS. Whatever you may think of these two follow-ups/sequels…
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3 headed shark attack
okay so ive never watched it but it has a 2.5 rating on IMDB and it looks terrible. only reason id even watch it is because danny trejo is in it.
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Baywatch: Forbidden Paradise
Photographer Carlton Edwards jinxes everybody around him, including TV's sexiest lifeguards, with his spectacularly bad luck. (Paging Lindsay Lohan.) The curse spreads behind the camera to boot, resulting in the sappy and sloppy storytelling we've come to expect from this long-running series.
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Tsunambee
Religious allegory using the Sharknado model of storytelling?
Features zombees. Yep. Zombies created by bee stings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_wbLgqIpBI
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4586136/reference10 votes -
Heidi 4 Paws (2009)
Terrifying live-action re-telling of Johanna Spyri's 1880 children's classic, "Heidi", but with dog awful CGIed speaking dogs in all of the roles.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1156448/reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p9WZ_U9fRE8 votes -
Barbie: Starlight Adventure
I honestly don't know how to describe it, this is pure .W.T.F. riff material on several levels, eg: bad animation, bad characterisation, weird and or out of date references, blatant ripoffs, nonsensicable concepts, and horrible implied connations/implications throughout.
I'm not even kidding, take pieces of: Mass Effect, Star Wars, Ferngully, .B.T.T.F., The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, that Doctor Who episode in which the stars are prematurely going, and slap on the usual Barbie stuff as the glue.731 votes -
Lord of the Flies
This 1963 "Classic" based off of William Golding's novel of the same name is filled to the brim with awkward pauses, bizarre line delivery, and horrid child acting. Despite it being known as a classic, it is a hilariously bad movie that should be riffed as soon as possible.
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Scream Blacula Scream!
This movie screams RiffTrax!
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Savior of the Earth (1983)
Animated South Korean ripoff of Disney's Tron.
Seemingly there is only one actor covering all voices in the English dub.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454628/combined
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtAygS1epnk16 votes -
Evolver
A "horror" movie about a killer Toy Robot with military grade equipment inexplicably installed within it.
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"Swingin' Six" ZIP Code Video
4 good reasons (because I'm an overachiever) to riff this short from the 1960's about using ZIP codes, found at https://youtu.be/QIChoMEQ4Cs:
1.This is an actual US government short. If you don't riff it, the terrorists win.
Cavemen. Not sure what it has to do with the postal service, but cavemen. Occasionally in very short skirts (yes, still the men).
To find out why not using ZIP codes will make your true love desert you.
They rhyme 'question' and 'indigestion' in a song. Oh, did I mention it's a musical?
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The Love-Ins (1967)
A Timothy Leary type, ex University professor quits his job and joins 'The Beautiful People' in their quest for spiritual enlightenment. He soon becomes their psychedelic guru, but since he's an old guy, we see that he's really like a phony guru, and just like tries to exploit the kids worship of him, for his own like personal, greedy gain.This is a terrible poorly written movie that looks like it was written by some clueless old farts, and filmed in and around the studio lot. The generic hippie music is awful and all the hippies look like they are well over 30. The studio was probably hoping that this movie would be interesting to both young people and old, but comes off as a desperate attempt to be a groovy version of one of the successful, at-the-time, beach movies. They have a hilarious sequence where the hippies are getting loaded and partying. The studio shows us their version of what it's like to experience an LSD trip via some cheap lighting effects. When the lead actress decides to take some LSD, she experiences a cheaply staged musical dance version of an 'Alice in Wonderland' adventure in which she becomes Alice. I bet the studio thought that this movie really told it like it is MAN!
TURN-ON TUNE-IN RIFF-OUT
A Timothy Leary type, ex University professor quits his job and joins 'The Beautiful People' in their quest for spiritual enlightenment. He soon becomes their psychedelic guru, but since he's an old guy, we see that he's really like a phony guru, and just like tries to exploit the kids worship of him, for his own like personal, greedy gain.This is a terrible poorly written movie that looks like it was written by some clueless old farts, and filmed in and around the studio lot. The generic hippie music is awful and all the hippies look like they are well…
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The PumaMan (RiffTrax Live!)
Puma Man is the most pathetic superhero ever - worse than Captain America when he was skinny. The MST is good, (who doesn't like Vidinyo or Vadanyo or Videnoyo, or whatever his name is) so a RiffTrax Live would be awesome!
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Playing for Keeps (1984)
Dishonorable mention for Harvey Weinstein's terrible movie. I don't expect it to get any riffing treatment but Mr. Weinstein does at least need to be further embarrassed for he is a bloody monster.
This placemarker is to indicate that he is a terrible individual as well as a terrible director (alongside his brother Bob who maybe a better human than his sibling).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKCgE49z3D0
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091767/combined15 votes
