Attack of Killer Tomatoes is intentionally bad,so that kinda disqualifies it.
Trying to trying to decide if I agree on that....
Funny enough, the only movie I've ever watched with friends to riff on was Jurassic World, and that movie was at least partially satire about itself, so technically that's disqualified.
Interesting stuff. I was recently thinking about how dedicated I am to watching just about every film and television adaptation DC and Marvel put out, but I never bothered with Catwoman and I'm not exactly planning to.
I didn't hate GL either. I've always agreed with you that if a DC cinematic universe spun out of that movie it could been a lot more fun. I'm looking forward to DC giving the IP another shot in the future (the return of John
Stewart Diggle can't come soon enough!)
Will you and your group be like the Red Letter Media guys and give your thoughts on which one was "Best of the Worst"?
So which ones of those have you actually seen already, if any?
Getting back to Jurassic World. My brother was the one was pushing for it but the other two in the group weren't particularly into it and in more recent years one of them outright refused to watch its sequel JW: Fallen Kingdom because he didn't like the first one. Which is a shame because Fallen Kingdom is a far,
far dumber movie and could be a lot of fun to riff on in the right group.
Funny thing is, I think Tenet WOULD be a good movie to riff on with my old viewing group, unfortunately I'll probably never have that opportunity because me and the other members of that group have gone our separate ways in the last two years.
Star Wars Christmas Special (the real one, not the lego one)
Ah, that one WAS featured on Best of the Worst, and that made me crystal clear I don't ever want to take the plunge because it's apparently really bad, but apparently dreadfully dull as well. I've heard online that the Lego one is really bad but I have to admit I'm mildly curious what I'd think of it. I probably wouldn't dislike it as much as some others did.
Dragonball Evolution
Oh boy, you enjoy that. I've never seen that, but I did see a pretty epic Nostalia Critic-esque riff on it (I seem to recall it was specifically inspired by NC) years ago from a Youtuber I watch, that was on Blip and, I think, is gone forever now (and likely couldn't have put on Youtube anyway because it used a LOT of footage). The guy was a huge fan of Dragon Ball (he once said it was his favorite anime) and he wasn't kind to it (few were). Probably my favorite two parts of it that I can recall were him playing the Bulk and Skull music from Power Rangers over the parts with the high school bullies, and his utter disbelief that a minor supporting character (who I always assumed was based on Mr. Popo) was played by Ernie Hudson ("WINSTON?")
Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama himself bashed the film,
and the always delightful Sonny Straight (the voice of Krillin in the Funimation dub) bashed it with aplomb at a convention when asked about it. (Starts at 1:28). Pretty great that someone in the audience called it the "worst movie I've ever seen in my life." And as an added bonus, Sonny's comments about the power of Hollywood CGI circa 2010 and his comments on Iron Man 1 and 2 are even more amusing with the benefit of hindsight than they were 10 or so years ago.
Sonny saying "Funimation had nothing to do with it" is a bit funnier considering Christopher Sabat voiced the titular dragon, Shenron, in the film itself, while Yamcha's voice and performance were quite obviously based on Sabot's surfer-dude esque take on the character.
Misguided as the thing was, the fact that a few of the major actors went on to be in much better stuff is nice. If that movie played any role in Jamie Chung playing Go-Go, Blink or Death or the Endless, than I can thank DBE for that. I can
definitely thank DBE for James Marsters' being cast as Zamazu in Dragon Ball Super, because he made what was already what I consider the first legitimately good Super-exclusive arc even more awesome.
Super Mario Bros...an "anti-classic" for sure. I saw that as a kid, during that time in my childhood before Nintendo became absolutely terrified of letting anyone make Western made cartoons or movies based on their work. I've heard he hated working on it, but I always thought Bob Hoskins was perfectly cast as Mario. And I think John Leguizamo is fine if you pretend you've never hear of Luigi (I still call him Luigi to this day).
Ah, Street Fighter
.....I saw it on tv around the time I got out of high school or so and I thought it was stupid, but because of the internet, I've come to accept it because of Raul Julia of course. Even then I thought the casting of Kylie Minogue was terrible (which resulted in Cammy having an Austrailan accent in the 90's Street Fighter cartoon despite being British), there's a whole lot of meta humor springing from the fact that Ming-Na Wen was Chun-Li. For example, in Marvel Versus Capcom 3 Chun-Li was depicted as having a crush on Thor. And of course, the single most beloved scene in the movie is the scene with her character talking to Bison. Realizing that Dee Jay was played by the same actor as a character on a tv then-current tv show I was watching right around the time I saw the film) was amusing. While Zangief wasn't exactly faithful, he did give us one of the most fondly remembered jokes in the movie. The film also had a pretty solid influence on the 90's U.S. cartoon, which I watched a few years ago and really enjoyed, cheesy as it was. Seeing that show develop the movie version of Dhalsim into the video game version of the character was rather impressive.
I imagine most people can agree it's better for not being The Legend of Chun-Li (I wonder if that would be good for a bad movie night?)
The release of Street Fighter IV and V as well as other, more recent, much better adaptations (the Udon comics are SOOO good!) has made me a huge Street Fighter fan in recent years, so I'll always appreciate that seemingly every incarnation of Bison is an absolute beast.
For me, the biggest disappointment in that movie, from a hindsight point of view, is that being based on SFII means that a lot of my favorite characters in the franchise aren't in it.
I'd love to see what Hollywood could do with other video properties after having learned to make effort. Because if Hollywood could nail some of the more creative and nutty characters from that franchise that I've grown to love, that'd be something to see. While games based around fighting tournaments (see also: Mortal Kombat) are notoriously tricky to properly adapt into stand alone films, I'd really like to see more tv and movie adaptations of the series lore.
