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Bad Movie Night table

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For the past, I don’t know?  Maybe half dozen years? We’ve been trying to have a Bad Movie Night Table at the annual Lincoln Lutheran Dinner & Auction. For various reasons, which we have never understood, we would always get a table together, but our name would never appear on the table. This year we finally got the recognition that we deserve.

A Good Time was had by all

Speaking of deserving recognition, he’ll hate me for mentioning it, but Samith paid for all of the seats at the table this year. He asked that we spend the money that we would have spent on the seats on other things at the auction instead. I don’t have an official number or anything, but I believe our table spent at least $3500. So nice job, Samith, and nice job rest of the bad movie night table as well.

Freeze! Put your hands on your head!

Next year we’re going to have two bad movie night tables. Make your reservations now!

Bad Movie Night. Fail!

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Well, it happens every once in a while. You get a few of guys together to go see a Bad MovieTM, and instead you see a really well done movie.

I mean, how could we go right with a movie called ZombieLand? Doesn’t that just scream bad movie? Well, it was all around well done. The acting, the dialog, the zombies, they were all top notch. There was even a really funny extended cameo in the middle of the flick.

Three out of five actors in this movie have won academy awards. This clown is not one of them.

If you only see one zombie movie this year, this is the one you want. Oh, and stay until the end of the credits too.

Bad Movie Night

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For the past few years, Samith and various other guys that we know have been going to see a movie once a month. Originally these were “Any Movie Our Wives Wouldn’t See With Us”, but as that almost universally means that it’s a bad movie, the vernacular became “Bad Movie Night”. Now we actively search out movies for which the theatre will be nearly empty. You and pretty much guarrantee that we’ll be at any movie that is (a) based on a comic book graphic novel, (b) based on a video game or (c) features lots of things blowing up.

Hot babes...check, cool cars...check, neat gadgets...mostly not.

This month’s movie was Casino Royale. It was actually a good movie, and so we had to fall back on the original Bad Movie Night charter to justify seeing it. It also happens to be one of maybe three James Bond books that I read when I was maybe 14 years old. As this isn’t actually a review of the movie as much as a review of Bad Movie Night, I won’t say more about it except that they new Bond didn’t look much like Bond at the start, but did at the end.

The theatre was pretty full this time, but usually we’re about half of the audience and thrice we’ve been the only people in the theatre. Once they held the movie for us because Samith (or maybe it was me) was running late. After the movie we go out to eat and talk about the movie and other manly things that our women folk wouldn’t understand –and by that I mean, “wouldn’t be remotely interested in”.

Pride & Prejudice & Zombies

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Everyone’s second choice for Bad Movie Night was Pride & Prejudice and Zombies.

Don’t tell anyone, but I’m as big a Jane Austin fan as the next guy.  Okay, I’m probably a little bigger Jane Austin fan than the next guy. I think all of us agreed that if you haven’t seen Pride and Prejudice, you shouldn’t see this movie. And if you don’t particularly like Pride and Prejudice, you’d better be (a) a big fan of zombies and (b) fairly open minded about your zombies.

I actually really enjoyed it. It was amazing to me how closely all of the major plot elements of Pride & Prejudice were incorporated. I don’t know if I was more impressed when the dialog was exactly the same or when it was changed cleverly to reflect the, um, new circumstances.

Samith was surprised at how long the movie was. Curt, who had no prior Pride and Prejudice experience, thought it was a very bad movie indeed.

Alive another day.

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We are in buckle-down meal mode after vacation, which makes it sound like I’m being frugal and noble, but it’s all a ruse. I was too lazy to buy groceries this weekend, so we’re finishing up the weird stuff in the fridge.

Last night I made a ‘casserole’ from the leftover half of Lloyd’s Bad Movie Night burger. Tonight we finished it off with the bacon he forgot to eat for breakfast (I left it in the microwave), a tiny bit of spaghetti sauce and pieces of a ‘pretzel’ I made with the preschoolers.

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As always, the words accompanying dinner are ‘alive another day’.

Samuel L. Jackson comes through again

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We had another successful Bad Movie Night on Tuesday, and Lauren is finally letting me write about it. We didn’t go into it thinking it would be anything out of the ordinary. Samith investigated the movies this time around and presented us with two choices: Jupiter Rising or Kingsmen.

Samith characterized Jupiter Rising as, “potentially having some love story element involved.” And he characterized Kingsmen as, “Has Samuel L. Jackson ever disappointed us?” Or, in the case of Bad Movie Night, maybe that should be, “Has Samuel L. Jackson ever not disappointed us?” Or maybe, “Has Samuel L. Jackson ever appointed us?”

They* say that good movies are all good in the same way, but bad movies are all bad differently. I think it’s fairly safe to say that Kingsmen was bad in the Oh-Sh*t-We-Ran-Out-Of-Money-And-The-Film-Isn’t-Done sort of way. Which is sort of, but not quite the same as Dusk Til Dawn’s I-Bet-You-Didn’t-Know-This-Was-A-Vampire-Movie sort of way. Oh, and belated spoiler alert for Dusk Til Dawn.

Afterwards we ate a Five Guys and reminisced about other spectacular Bad Movie Night Movies. What are some great bad movies that you’ve seen?

deathrace D-War-1187 snakes-on-a-plane*No one says that, I just make things up.