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Jackson County Jail (1976)
Possibly the worst film ever made
The best thing this movie has to offer is checking out Yvette Mimieux bare-chested. I cannot believe anyone could otherwise like this film. Shallow, predictable plot, VERY poorly acted bad-ole-good-ole-boys film that never misses a cliché. I would never have viewed it but for some stills from the jail scene of Mimieux. She really lowers herself from the pedestal I'd put her on in "The Time Machine." Weena, where have you gone? ;- (
And how did they get so many otherwise worthy actors? I hardly recognized Tommy Lee Jones and Carradine. As for Howard Hesseman and Betty White, where have their standards gone? I could understand it if it was a first film for these guys - it's as if a director put a gun to the actors' heads, threw up the script and gave them one reading and on to the next scene.
And is it possible to get a worse soundtrack? This movie has cheap written all over it. I'm going to do vidcaps of Yvette in the jail scene and toss this thing before it festers and affects others.
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Sheer Genius
It's a rare moment that a movie brings me to breaking down and letting it flow. This is not one of them. It is, however, a worthy entry of parody and parity into the veritable plethora of satirical satire-based movies that pulls together so many unworthy, yet somehow worthy, genre movies. It begs the burning question: "Who IS Kaiser Sose?"
That said, I give myself bonus points for finding Tom Cruise before the credits. When a movie has this many big names (Nick Nolte!), you know there must be something to it. There isn't, but somehow you want there to be.
The true beauty of this movie is you have to be intelligent, insightful, fluent in current, recent and historical events, and a movie-goer who's seen all the movies (and actors) this movie references. It doesn't hurt to know a bit about cocaine and "The Jeffersons" either.
The burning question: Is that Ben Stillers very fugly sister, or Ben Stiller in drag?
P.S. I loved this movie. It's a check-your-brain-at-the-door, sit back and enjoy type movie, with no concern of there ever being a sequel.
The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)
What were they thinking?
Whatever the producer was going for, he missed entirely. The Lone Ranger is not camp, but "the" icon for good-doers all over the world. And it's a total violation of the spirit of the character that the only real Lone Ranger, Mr. Clayton Moore, was forbidden to wear his mask in public appearances when this movie was released.
Whelp, long story short, the single saving grace of this gross (and poorly done) distortion was that in that year, I had the honor of meeting Mr. Clayton Moore in Columbus Ohio, as part of a tour resulting from the bad press over Mr. Moore's treatment. Needless to say, Mr. Moore's character, integrity and presence far outshined the movie.
Some things cannot be done better. There is only one Lone Ranger.