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A New Kind of Movie Thread

Over the last year, I have become an avid NetFlix user. In many cases I've just been using it to catch up on movies that I meant to see in theaters but didn't end up doing (earlier this year, for example, I went through a block where I watched Spiderman 3, X-3, Pirates 3, and Rocky 5000). I have plenty of friends who do, but I don't tend to use it to find those hidden indie gems. Mostly I just want to watch the movies I missed, or the movies I was too young for, or the movies I never knew about with that actor I love. I don't need no crazy Koyanasqaatsi style masterpieces.

BUT!

(Big but there) I do want to stretch myself out every now and then. To watch something that I wouldn't normally watch, something under the radar, something artsy and weird, something painfully cerebral, cerebrally painful, or just plain aesthetically nutty. And sometimes it brings you some really, really good stuff, like Rhinoceros. Rarely, it brings you a total piece of crap. Unfortunately, that's why I'm pissed.

This week I got in the mail a movie called Woodenhead. It was supposed to be a quirky, Grimm inspired, black and white fairy tale with endearing, naive, sort of whimsical characters. It ended up being a steaming pile of suck. I would, without hesitation, go so far as to say that it was the worst movie I have ever seen. Ever. Locations: ugly. Camerawork: amateurish. Dialogue: idiotic. Premise: worthless. Characters: violently unlikeable. Pacing: unsteady at best.

Top put things in context, the preivious top two "worst evar" on my list were "Saw III" and "Fear Dot Com."

So that's where this becomes a different kind of movie thread. Usually we talk about movies we like, but this time I want to hear about movies you don't like. What's the worst movie you've ever seen? You can take this in two directions: There's the "it's so bad it's good" direction that comes with movies like The Goonies (I guess I'm probably getting banned for that...) or the "so bad it completely sucks and made an hour and a half feel like the length of a day" direction that comes with movies like "Meet the Spartans."

Have at it. Comment starter: Total crap movies.

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I agree..

Meet The Spartans. Worst movie ever.

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by WalrusMan on Mar 20, 2008 7:02 PM PDT   0 recs

I didn't actually see it (minus the trailers)

Because I was afraid that if I did see it, then my brain would do like the house at the end of Poltergeist and I'd permanently forget how to eat or use the bathroom on my own.

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by howtheyscored on Mar 20, 2008 7:17 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Yea I went to see it...

The only part I thought was funny no one else in the theatre laughed at. Phil Morris (who played Jackie Chiles in Seinfeld) has a part in the movie and says the famous line, "Not that there's anything wrong with that." I laughed out loud in the theatre. No one else did. Then I sunk into my chair.

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by WalrusMan on Mar 20, 2008 7:22 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

To be fair, though

Nobody else in the theater had probably ever even seen Seinfeld

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by howtheyscored on Mar 20, 2008 7:24 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

What's Seinfeld?

I looked up Steve Kline in the dictionary. He wasn't there. If he was, it would have said "pretty okay"

by groug on Mar 21, 2008 12:11 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

"The Messenger"

That's the worst movie I've ever seen. Joan of Arc is a very interesting historical character. And that movie was really really stupid and ugly. So it gets top honors for making a horrible movie about one of the most interesting characters in history.

Other horrible movies I've seen: "Ultra-Violet "(another Mila Jovovich movie, has she been in any good movies besides "The Fifth Element?") and "The Enforcer" (I'm a mild fan of kung-fu movies and we thought we'd try this old Jackie Chan movie. Well it was his first American movie and it was absolute phlegm and mucus. That's to say it was bad.)

I'm sure there's others but I tend to avoid movies that I don't think will be good, which means I usually don't see bad movies.

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by thehavenot on Mar 20, 2008 7:14 PM PDT   0 recs

Milla was great in Dazed and Confused.

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by hairball on Mar 20, 2008 9:26 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Milla was good in the first Resident Evil

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by Goofus on Mar 20, 2008 10:00 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Yeah

That movie actually did a lot of things right. It's underrated by a lot of people. It's not a great movie, not at all, but it's capably scripted and acceptably made.

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by howtheyscored on Mar 20, 2008 10:07 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

RE2, on the other hand

Was exceptionally bad.

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by howtheyscored on Mar 20, 2008 10:08 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Milla However...

Is always good.


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by nvsfg on Mar 21, 2008 7:40 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

yuck

There aren't many movies that I hate enough to write something about it, but RE2 was one of them.

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by oldjacket on Mar 21, 2008 10:33 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Just Something for me

about badass chicks with guns !

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by nvsfg on Mar 21, 2008 10:40 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

really?

I have that on my "worse editing" list, probably at the top. There was some serious stuff left on the cutting room floor and not much attention paid to see if what was left made sense. I wouldn't put it on a worst movie ever list because Milla is hot and there's some badass action, but wow the editing sucked.

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by Poe on Mar 21, 2008 5:14 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I don't remember being bothered by the editing in that one, but I haven't seen it in quite a while. Certainly nothing about the movie made me go "hey, that was really good," but there are a number of things that happen that make think "hey, they're actually trying to make a movie here."

I guess that's not exactly a ringing endorsement, but as Video Game movies go, the visible attempt to make something that wasn't total crap for cash was pretty revolutionary to me at the time and I can respect it for that.

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by howtheyscored on Mar 21, 2008 6:27 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

My friends and I actively seek out total crap movies. We MST3K the hell out of them usually on DVD. Bad horror B-movies are usually the best ones for that. In fact on Sunday I'm going to a zombie movie marathon hosted at a friend's house.

In the last year I've been seeking out the foreign and art house stuff more than ever. I can't recall a flat out terrible unenjoyable movie I've seen in the last 365 days. Even if the movie is retarded like the Tenacious D movie it's good for dumb laughs.

Most of the remakes of Asian horror flicks are just plain lousy, but most of us know that. Though after a while the Japanese Ju-On movies got completely ridiculous. It was the same thing over and over.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Mar 20, 2008 7:36 PM PDT   0 recs

I found

I found the original Ju-On to be pretty comical in its own right. Then again, I also thought The Exorcist was the greatest comedy of the '70s.

The Tenacious D movie wasn't anywhere as good as it could have beem, but it was very easy to sit through and enjoy for all of its flaws (also, knowing that he actually DOES deactivate lasers with his dick is totally worth the price of admission).

Speaking of bad foreign movies, coming up soon on my NetFlix I have the Korean movie Dragon Wars. It's going to be absolutely terrible, but I don't think there will be a minute that I won't enjoy.

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by howtheyscored on Mar 20, 2008 7:59 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Oh man, D-War was a spectacular crapfest. The dragon action was amazing. And Darryl from The Office is in it. You can't go wrong with that!

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by Natto on Mar 20, 2008 8:02 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

My brother saw it during its short theatrical run. I was jealous.

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by howtheyscored on Mar 20, 2008 8:03 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Goonies?

You mean the way the Goonies was so great it was frickin awesome! Right?

Don't think, it could only hurt the ballclub.

by ResDog on Mar 20, 2008 7:40 PM PDT   0 recs

Ummm...

Yeah, sure... that's kind of what I meant, you know, if you squint.

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by howtheyscored on Mar 20, 2008 8:04 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

thank you

An all time great. I've heard rumors they're going to make a sequel with the same actors as adults trying to save their kids from something. Most of 'em still appear in movies so it makes sense to do.

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by Poe on Mar 21, 2008 5:16 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Pathfinder

Wannabe "300," falls short by a wide, wide margin.

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by Anticon23 on Mar 20, 2008 7:57 PM PDT   0 recs

Was that the movie about the Vikings coming and murdering all the barbaric evil Native Americans?

If it was the movie I'm thinking of, then I didn't see it because the trailers made it look like it was really racist.

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by howtheyscored on Mar 20, 2008 8:02 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Oh that movie looked so godawfully terrible.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Mar 20, 2008 8:12 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I usually try to avoid any movie that has any remote possibility of being terrible. I did have the misfortune of seeing Elektra though. I don't know why I watched that. I don't even like Jennifer Garner.

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by Natto on Mar 20, 2008 8:00 PM PDT   0 recs

Because she's not much of an actress

And she's not even that good looking. I'm with you.

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by howtheyscored on Mar 20, 2008 8:00 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I just realized I watched a "so bad, it's good" movie last night: Kung Fu Dunk. It's weird. It has all these great actors in it, but unfortunately, the main character is played by Jay Chou, who is a fantastic singer/songwriter, but a terrible actor. His expression throught the movie is pretty much this: :| The basketball action consisted of nothing but alley-oops and three pointers from the other side of the court. It was much more entertaining than Semi-Pro though.

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by Natto on Mar 20, 2008 8:06 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Also, adding to the list, the new Rambo and Alien Vs Predator 2 were fun and mindless to watch. I tend to like stupid action movies.

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by Natto on Mar 20, 2008 8:08 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

AVP Requiem

That movie was everything I needed it to be. Things died. Predator was a badass. Didn't totally suck.

I call that a win!

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by howtheyscored on Mar 20, 2008 8:10 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

That basketball movie

Makes me think of this: http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=68488.0

Which, I have to say, sounds like the best game that's ever been made. I haven't DL'd it yet, but boy am I going to. It looks really, really great.

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by howtheyscored on Mar 20, 2008 8:11 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

That in turns reminds me of...

SHAQ FU

So bad, that it's bad, which makes it GOOD!

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by Natto on Mar 20, 2008 8:17 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Some really obscure ones...

Well, remember, even as bad as "Saw III" is, some group of producers out there thought it was at least mediocre enough to get a theatrical release. The really awful movies are the ones that never made it that far. My family used to run a chain of video stores when I was growing up, and we had a whole basement full of the most toxic straight-to-video crap you've never heard of.

I'm having a hard time remembering any specific titles off the top of my head, but the worst one I can come up with is dinger called Rubin and Ed, featuring a young Crispin Glover as a socially-stunted pothead who spends the entire movie wandering around Utah with his used-car salesman friend, trying to find a good place to bury his beloved dead cat. I'm totally serious.

Another good (bad) one: Weather Woman, kind of a Japanese Network featuring a superhero dominatrix instead of Peter Finch. I think it's based on an anime, if that tells you anything.

I'm trying to find more on IMDB, but I imagine I've got most of the titles wrong. They're all combinations of words like "high school," "nuclear," bikini," "horror," and "Corey Feldman." I'll post more if I can remember them.

by rocketdog on Mar 20, 2008 8:05 PM PDT   0 recs

Those movies sound AWESOME!

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by howtheyscored on Mar 20, 2008 8:06 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Pink Flamingos

Good god, I just remembered this one! Has anyone else seen it?

by rocketdog on Mar 20, 2008 8:11 PM PDT   0 recs

Pink Flamingos is AWESOME. It's so bad it's good. I can't dis it.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Mar 20, 2008 8:12 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

That movie

Is officially on my NetFlix now.

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by howtheyscored on Mar 20, 2008 8:14 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Well I have a soft spot in my heart for LGBT cinema, and I just find crossdressing hilarious...

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Mar 20, 2008 8:18 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I kind of agree with you. "Pink Flamingos" is kind of like the "Citizen Kane" of horrible movies. I'd much rather be forced to watch that again instead of, like, "Crash," which is bad in a way that just annoys me (the oscar-winning one, not the David Cronenberg one). But I'd probably need to get drunk first.

by rocketdog on Mar 20, 2008 8:27 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Crash was fucking bad as bad can be

Man that movie was a stinking pile of fish poop.

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by hairball on Mar 20, 2008 9:28 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

It seriously looked like the most overrated piece of crap of our generation.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Mar 20, 2008 9:40 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I hope you all are kidding.

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by Lyle on Mar 21, 2008 8:00 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I'm not

Terrible movie. The whole gimmick is that's just a bunch of stock L.A. racial stereotypes, doing L.A. racial stereotype kind of things, but then suddenly they're all like "OH LOOK, NOW I'M DOING SOMETHING THAT'S NOT STEREOTYPICAL OF MY RACE! DIDN'T EXPECT THAT, DID YOU?! RACISM IS BAD!"

Sorry...I hate it. Maybe I'd hate it less if it hadn't won the Academy Award. But I'd still hate it.

by rocketdog on Mar 21, 2008 9:56 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I'm carrying some residual anger over it winning Best Picture over Brokeback Mountain, myself.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Mar 21, 2008 10:03 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Brokeback, while a visually nice picture, I thought was way overrated too.

It's mostly OMG GAY COWBOYS and not a touching story that everyone tried to make it out to be. That was my feeling.

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by xanthan on Mar 21, 2008 10:16 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I have no soul and a heart that barely works and I was bawling like a freaking baby at the end of BBM. It moved me. Unlike most things in this world.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Mar 21, 2008 10:41 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I was rooting for "Capote," but I think it was kind of a weird year in that any of the nominees - with ONE exception - had a legit claim to the award. I can only imagine there was some kind of four-way vote split, because when I heard "Crash" had won my jaw just about hit the floor. Ugh.

by rocketdog on Mar 21, 2008 11:32 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I 100% agree with rocketdog

Crash was an awful exercise in poor writing filled with stereotypes.

Brokeback Mountain was a beautiful movie that was a bit slim on the writing side of things, but still should have won due to the sheer beauty of the film-making, which they at least acknowledge with the director award.

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by hairball on Mar 21, 2008 10:42 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

agree

Plus, the end was a huge rip of PT Anderson's Magnolia. I didn't like that movie much either, although Boogie Nights is on my top 10 list.

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by Poe on Mar 21, 2008 5:19 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I always feel...

a little out of place on these movie threads. I really like movies. But I think my enthusiasm for movies is pale in comparison to you guys.

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by thehavenot on Mar 20, 2008 8:17 PM PDT   0 recs

There is a stupid, silly, ridiculous Japanese flick called Battlefield Baseball I watched last year. It has zombies, over the top cartoonish violence, and baseball. But I loved it, so I don't count it as a truly bad movie.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Mar 20, 2008 8:21 PM PDT   0 recs

Did you ever see Shaolin Soccer? It rocks.

by rocketdog on Mar 20, 2008 8:29 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Shaolin Soccer

That movie is really, really good. In that it's actually good, and by virtue of that it's enjoyable. I really like that movie. A lot.

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by howtheyscored on Mar 20, 2008 8:30 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Yeah, I didn't mean to imply it should be on a bad movie list. "Battlefield Baseball" just made me think of it. It's funny as hell.

by rocketdog on Mar 20, 2008 8:33 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Shaolin Soccer is good good, not bad good.

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by Natto on Mar 20, 2008 8:33 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Also by Stephen Chow...

Kung Fu Hustle. Worth watching. And it is good good, not bad good.

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by nvsfg on Mar 20, 2008 8:53 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

If you like those, you should see his earlier movies. They're not as polished as those two and had much smaller budgets, but they're freaking hilarious. My personal favorite is Jing Goo Jing Ga/Tricky Brains with Andy Lau.

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by Natto on Mar 20, 2008 8:55 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Make that Jing Goo Joon Ga (整蠱專家).

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by Natto on Mar 20, 2008 8:56 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I'll add it to my que...

Oh, wait ! I don't have one :-(

Just a little too impatient for Net Flix. Seriously thinking about Net Flix downloads though.

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by nvsfg on Mar 20, 2008 9:05 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

That's , ah , "queue"...which I like to pronounce "Kweewee".

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by victor frankenstein on Mar 26, 2008 1:43 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I'll have to see that

Somehow, I think I'd dig a lower-budget Chow movie even more than the big budget ones.

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by hairball on Mar 20, 2008 9:29 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

they aren't all winners

A lot of them are kinda hard to watch. Lawyer, Lawyer and the Fight Back to School series are to be avoided.

Eighties Hong Kong movies in general give me the same feeling as when I hear Shatner sing.

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by oldjacket on Mar 21, 2008 10:39 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I udnno

I liked the first Fight Back to School, even though the premise was pretty far-fetched. The other two were just meh.

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by Natto on Mar 21, 2008 10:54 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I dunno too!

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by Natto on Mar 21, 2008 10:54 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Huh huh , he said "Farfetch'd"

you know it's a slow day in Frankenland if I'm writing shit like this...

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by victor frankenstein on Mar 26, 2008 1:45 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

God of Cookery!

God of Cookery! God of Cookery!

Best Stephen Chow movie ever! Best completely batshit insane comedy ever!

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by oldjacket on Mar 21, 2008 10:37 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

intriguing title

I'll have to check that one out...

by rocketdog on Mar 21, 2008 11:34 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Shaolin Soccer is outstanding. Complete with poor subtitles.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Mar 20, 2008 8:40 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

While we're at it...

Here's one of my favorite scenes from the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xobYlxLgAU

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by Natto on Mar 20, 2008 10:39 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Damn you

I just choked laughing.

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by victor frankenstein on Mar 26, 2008 1:49 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Cheerleader Ninjas

Yes, "Cheerleader Ninjas" is a real movie. And it was absolutely terrible.

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by Anticon23 on Mar 20, 2008 8:24 PM PDT   0 recs

I should also add

I watched a movie called "Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter."

It's as bad as it sounds.

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by howtheyscored on Mar 20, 2008 8:26 PM PDT   0 recs

On another forum I used to go to, there was a guy who was apparently in that.

Not a big role or anything, but