Limited Run IT Chapter 1 Poster

I love finding some of the limited run posters that are made to promote movies, and recently I discovered that this one had been made....

This is an awesome limited run poster!!!

The sad part?  This is a limited run of 10.

Quest for the Worst Movie Part 5 - Super Mario Bros.

Well, it was inevitable that this "gem" was going to turn up at one stage...and low and behold my eldest stepson suggested this one...so here goes and let's get this out the way...oh, and thanks, Ben!

Now, most people know about Nintendos Super Mario franchise...it has pretty much been everywhere and done everything.  Mario Mario has been the poster boy for Nintendo for years (oh how things have changed for little Jumpman!) and so I guess it was logical that Mario and his lanky goofy brother would feature in a movie at some stage.

But, instead of an incredibly awesome movie....we get....THIS

I asked my wife what was the best part of this movie....without hesitation, she said "That it ended!"

So, Mario Mario and his brother Luigi Mario attempt to help Daisy when they accidentally go to another dimension where dinosaurs have become a superior species and evil dictator Koopa wants to merge the dimensions and take over the World, making dinosaurs the dominant species.  So, Mario Bros to the rescue!!  But can they save the day?

This was the first movie made that was based on a video game....and in some ways, it shows.  This movie is awful, but when you look into what is happening behind the scenes it's not really surprising.  The script was rewritten so many times that actors started ignoring the rewrites...there were so many different coloured pages in the script it was called "The Rainbow Script".  This movie could have been really good, but the directors wanted a more adult-orientated movie where the studio wanted a more child orientated film.

This movie is not anywhere near faithful to the source material....I mean, Koopa evolved from a T-Rex?  Koopas are pinheaded reptiles that are the product of forced devolution?  The King of the dimension was devolved into slime and mushrooms?  And what was with Mario and Luigi not wearing something that looked similar to their trademark garb until over an hour into the movie?

This movie is so bad that Bob Hoskins said that this was the worst movie he ever worked on...apparently everyone knew this was going to be really bad and Hoskins and co-star Leguizamo went out drinking every night to get through it....and they also had Lance Henriksen in it too?  Madness.

This was not a good start for video game movies...and really so far there has not been much success in making a video game movie since.

This....this is currently the second worst movie I have ever watched....this was VERY close to a Birdemic beater, so very close.


If you really must watch this awful movie, Super Mario Bros. is rated PG and available in various formats.

Was it worth releasing Terminator 2: Judgement Day in 3D?

This year was the 20th anniversary of Judgement Day...August 29th 1997...the day that Skynet fired nuclear missiles at Russia, starting the nuclear fire that wiped out 3 billion human lives in the Terminator storyline.

So what better way is there to celebrate this than re-watch Terminator 2: Judgement Day?  Well, maybe watch it in 3D and also given the 4k remaster treatment?

Well, if you've not seen this movie, it picks up 10 years after The Terminator.  Sarah Connor has been institutionalized, John Connor is in foster care and the world goes peacefully on....however this time 2 Terminators have been sent back through time.....one is there to kill John, the other is there to protect him...

But....was it worth going to watch it in 3D?  Well.....no.

Don't get me wrong, the movie is amazing, and the 4k treatment made it look crisper and clearer than ever, and reminded me of the first time I went to see it in 1991 (I loved it so much I saw it 3 times in a week). There were some pieces that had also been digitally touched up although James Cameron hasn't been very forthcoming as to what exactly he'd done.   It was a good spit and polish that it deserved...however the 3D didn't really do anything for this movie at all.  It wasn't filmed in 3D or for 3D so it wasn't the greatest of ideas....it looks almost like people had just added additional layers so it almost felt like layered moving paper.  This is the thing about making movies that are not 3D into 3D...for the most part it will not work.  It just felt like it was another way of getting money out of the fans.  Incidentally, the movie was supposed to be a one night only showing, but it was so well received that there were showings for the rest of the week.

....oh and for fans of Robert Patrick, now you cannot see his penis!

Terminator 2: Judgement Day is rated 15 and available on DVD and Blu-Ray now
Terminator 2: Judgement Day 3D is released on Blu-Ray 30th October in UK

Quest for Worst Movie Part 4 - A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

Yes, I know...it's been a while since I've done anything on my quest to find a movie WORSE than Birdemic, I've been recovering from surgery and I'm finally back!!  Hopefully I'll get the quest back on track as well as doing various reviews.....and so without further delay here's the fourth part of the quest, which has me watching the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street released in 2010

I've been a fan of horror as far as I can remember, the first movie I saw was Eyes of a Broken Doll, but the first movie I willingly saw with friends was the original A Nightmare on Elm Street.  The movie is an absolute classic, and got me hooked on horror.  Now, the franchise, like so many others, got sillier as it went along, but is still has a place in my heart and means a lot to me.

When it was announced that a remake was being made, I was dubious, I mean....this was a Freddy movie WITHOUT Rober Englund after all, and immediately this felt like a bad thing. I saw the trailer and then thought I'd give it a go...so here's the trailer:

So, the teenagers of Springwood are finding they are having a problem with waking up dead, they are being plagued nightmares that feature a scarred man wearing a striped jumper, fedora and has sharp fingers on one hand. As they get picked off one by one they have to figure out how to stop this Freddy, the man of their dreams from wiping them all out.

The story is almost all the same apart from a few bits and bobs (or it pretty much feels that way) which isn't too bad apart from the main reason that they hunt down and kill Freddy (I won't give that away here, no spoilers in this blog if I can help it).  I have to admit that the bedroom and bathroom scenes were nice homages to the original movies in my opinion....however, as much as I enjoyed the movie when I saw it in the in the cinema, but it is nowhere near as good as the original despite the great makeup job on Jackie Earl Haley (truly looked like Mr Crispy!!) but it just didn't work, there was something missing and I honestly think it was Robert Englund...his charisma was what made it, after all the original is what kept New Line Cinema afloat (it made the company "The House That Freddy Built").

The film is ok I guess, but as a Freddy fan I'm really not impressed....I wonder if the planned upcoming Nightmare on Elm Street reboot will be better, but if I'm honest I seriously doubt it.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) is rated 18 and available in various formats now.

IT

When you hear about Stephen King's IT, what do you usually think of?  Tim Curry?  Clowns?  Balloons?  Fear?
Maybe this?

The 1986 book IT gave people a fear of clowns, as did the 1990 TV series...and now the first movie in this set is about to do it all over again.

Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you'll know that the remake of IT has been in the works for several years and it was a real rollercoaster of a ride...but finally, 27 years after the TV series was released....IT has returned.

I love horror, and I have been hyped for this movie ever since the announcement the remake was out of pre-production (I wanted to see a scarier movie...don't get me wrong the TV miniseries is great, but still I felt it needed something more) and there have been some great things to promote the movie, including an 8-bit game and a minisite dedicated to The Loser's Club.  Something else that caught my eye was a social media account by Pennywise, a fan who really knows her stuff when it comes to this franchise and is well worth a look and follow....I honestly thought that she was official PR it comes over that good!

The movie is about a group of bullied outcasts called The Losers Club. They notice that the children of Derry are disappearing and discover there is an evil under Derry in the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Pennywise preys on their fears.

This movie is brilliant, but you will be disappointed if you were expecting anything similar to the miniseries as there are more things faithful to the book.  The kids gave an awesome performance, as did the few adults you see too....but Bill Skarsgård's performance as Pennywise truly steals the show.  Pennywise the clown this time around is cuter, more child-like...and because of this, IT is even creepier.  This movie is not the scariest that I've seen, but the creepiness of Pennywise makes the movie so much better and gives it the edge that it needs.

The one thing I did wonder about the movie was if it was originally going to be shot in 3D or going to be made into 3D as the title sequence and quite a few of the shots in the movie looked like they were made for 3D so maybe this will be made into a 3D movie sometime in the future.

I watched this movie 3 times on release day (including the Midnight screening) and I loved the movie more with each viewng.  I was also able to get this awesome poster at the Midnight screening:

You'll float too!!  You'll float too!!  YOU'LL FLOAT TOO!!

This movie is so good, I honestly think this is the movie of the year for me.  If you love horror, go see this and have a blast...but if you have coulrophobia then perhaps you should be wary....roll on Chapter 2!!

IT Chapter 1 is in cinemas now and is rated 15

The Guardians

Ever since I saw the teaser for Russian superhero movie The Guardians (aka Zashchitniki) I have to say I've really been looking forward to seeing it.  Dubbed as "Russia's answer to The Avengers", the trailer looks pretty awesome....have a look and see:

I mean, that's pretty awesome, right?  It almost makes me think this is the movie Avengers wanted to be!!

During the times of the Cold War, a group called Patriot created a group of super-humans.  Now that the Cold War is over, these super-humans had to keep their identities a secret, until now when they were needed once more.

So...after watching the movie, was it just as awesome as the trailer tried to make it out to be?

I personally have to say that it didn't seem to be that bad a movie with great action and some good effects. The movie doesn't attempt to bog the viewer down with huge amounts of origin stories(there are brief glimpses at the start of the movie though) and basically has a group of super-humans goes against their creator who has also mutated after an accident.

Sure, I saw characters that reminded me of the likes of Magneto, Electro, Winter Soldier and more but that didn't really detract from the movie. I mean most Superhero movies have this cheesy formula and it works. 

The only downside to the version I watched was it was subtitled...I usually like subtitled movies but this was not good although it was understandable.

So, was it worthy of the nickname "Russian Avengers"?  I'd say yes, it was a fun movie with some great heroes.  Sure, it did seem a little predictable, but to be honest most movies with super heroes in are.  For a movie that cost roughly $6,400,000 to make it's really not that bad.  It's a real pity it was such a flop but it does look like there is a sequel in the works.

The Guardians is rated 12 and is available on DVD and Blu-Ray on 21st August 2017

Quest for Worst Movie Part 3 - Suicide Squad

I used to be a fan of DC Comics and the movies...the 1989 Batman was awesome and one of the greatest action movies of my teens, and the movies that followed (barring Batman & Robin, which will be part of this quest at some stage...) were great, the Superman movies starring Christopher Reeve are amazing.....but then came along the likes of Superman Returns and Man of Steel (yet more contenders for worst movie) and I went off DC movies.....and now, I'm looking at Suicide Squad.

I have to admit before seeing this movie I had a lot of concerns...Jared Leto's Joker was shown a while before the movie's cinematic release and it looked awful, and there were rumours saying that the tattoos were just done as a promotion for Batman Day which sadly turned out to be untrue.  The over sexualisation of Harley Quinn really annoyed me too..there is so much depth to this character, and such a brain too!  Here's the trailer:

After the death of Superman (see Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice), it is decided that metahumans are a serious and credible threat, and so Amanda Waller decides that a group of metahumans should be used to fight back.  The team is known as Taskforce X.

Taskforce X need to take on not only The Joker but Enchantress as well.

This movie is slow, boring and needs more action.  Since Man of Steel, the DCEU live action movies have been absolute rubbish and yet again this movie has just added to the trend.  The characters felt rather flat and uninteresting.  I still really dislike The Joker (although Leto did well with the voice) but I think the movie would have been much better if he was the main villain as it felt like he was more of a distraction which is a pity.  It was good to see how abusive Joker was toward Harley Quinn too, as so many people see the relationship between them as such a lovey-dovey thing when it is far from it (Joker is incredibly abusive and it really narks me when people say they want a relationship like Harley and Mistah J...just no!!)

As much as Killer Croc looks awesome in this movie as well as Enchantress I'm still at a loss on how this movie got awarded the Academy Award for Best Makeup!  I honestly think that Star Trek: Beyond got shafted that awards season.  For me, the best part of this movie wasn't the characters...or the story...but the soundtrack, the music was truly the star of the show and the only thing that really held my interest.

This movie does have a little snippet in the credits but it wasn't anything special.

Out of all the DCEU movies released so far (barring Wonder Woman, which I've not seen as yet), this is the best of all the movies, however, this does not mean it's a great movie, just better than Man of Steel and Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice.

Suicide Squad is rated 15 and available to buy in stores or online via digital outlets.

Quest for Worst Movie Part 2 - Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice

When I was a child I was into comic books and video games in a huge way...they were a form of escapism for me, to get away from all the bad things.  I was a huge fan of Batman and loved the movies, as well as the Superman movies, absolute classics from a great time....and then there was the Dark Knight trilogy, a great story which I thoroughly enjoyed.

Then Man of Steel came out, and The New 52! comics came out, putting me right off DC.

Following from the events that happened in Man of Steel, Superman is a controversial figure. Bruce Wayne/Batman blames him for the mass casualties after Superman's battle with General Zod, and Clark Kent/Superman believes Batman is dangerous and vows to expose him.  Here's the trailer:

The movie is outright awful!!  The lines in the movie are damn awful, the acting is awful, and the story is just outright boring.  The one thing that the movie is supposed to be all about (you know...this fight between Batman and Superman?) was pretty uninspired and was barely any part of the movie.  To me as the watcher, it felt like both heroes basically threw tantrums and basically had a fight about it, which is damn ridiculous.

It was rather good seeing cameos of other metahumans though, but to be honest they were the only interesting parts of the movie.  The ending felt rather lame with a blink and you'll miss it moment....and my wife who attempted to watch it with me pretty much lost the plot.

So....all in all, yet another damn awful movie from DC.  I tried to like this, I really did...but...just....no.  This is a bad movie...not Birdemic bad, but it is really bad.

Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice is rated 12A and can be bought in various stores and online digitally.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge (3D)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge (aka Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man Tell No Tales) is the fifth outing of Captain Jack Sparrow and his "friends" having adventures on high seas and basically trying to stop getting Jack killed....man, Jack does seem to have done a lot of things over the years and made a fair few enemies hasn't he? Here's the official trailer...

This time, Jack is on the hunt for the Trident of Poseidon, a treasure that can break all curses of the sea, with the help of his crew, Hector Barbarossa and Will Turner's son all the while being hunted by pirate hunter Captain Salazar, who wants revenge for his death.

It's a fun movie movie with the usual stunts and crazy shenanigans you'd come to expect from a POTC movie, but I felt it had something missing from it, especially when you consider this is potentially the end of the series (there are conflicting reports with some saying it is the end, and others stating that this is the beginnning of the end). There are several things that happen during the movie that ignore the series canon too (although to be fair this does happen quite a bit in this franchise in the other movies), making it feel at times that the movie was made by people who knew nothing about the franchise, but despite this it still isn't too bad a story wrap-up, and has an interesting after-credits scene too (although a majority of the audience left the screen as the credits started to roll).

The make-up and CGI where pretty good, Salazar and his crew looked pretty good and that as always was one of the highlights of the movies in this franchise...the demons that come out seem too look more and more flamboyant and in my view quite awesome....however, there were a few occasions when watching it in 3D that Salazar looked liked he'd been cut and pasted into the action which was a bit distracting sometimes.

The movie isn't really worth watching in 3D either, it felt flat still which was a disappointment, but that does seem to happen with a lot of movies these days. 

Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge is in cinemas now, rated 12A and can be seen in 2D, 3D and D-Box.

Quest for Worst Movie Part 1 - BIRDEMIC

I must be absolutely mental....
I have decided that if I am to attempt to find a movie worse than Birdemic: Shock and Terror then I should rewatch it and refresh my memory of how it really is....perhaps I am wrong and I need to give it some slack?

People who used to read my blog way back when will know I have watched and reviewed this "amazing" movie and the review can be found HERE....I'd noticed I've been really quite dismissive and not said much about the movie at all here, so I'll do a bit of a better review this time.

Well, here's the trailer to begin with just so you can have a taste of the movie:

Right, so now that's out the way...on with the review....

Birdemic: Shock and Terror is set in Half Moon Bay, California when the hero of the piece appears to be some kind of telemarketer or something and scores a million pound contract (or something like that) and then he asks out someone he knew from school....they then go out and birds start going crazy and explode on impact (yes, really!). With everyone getting killed, will these lovers survive the Birdemic? More importantly....will my sanity survive this movie?

The acting is awful, the actors and actresses could have been replaced with cardboard cutouts with sound chips that "played" screamy death metal versions of Bible passages when motion was detected and it would have made more sense, and the dialogue was spoken so robotic all that it almost felt like people were bored and just wanted to get it over and done with. 

Whoever did the editing needs to be shot....the first 40-45 minutes were pretty much scenery shots and basically unnecessary...it just drags out a movie that's already a huge drag.

The music to the movie is damn awful too....played at the wrong time, doesn't sound right for the film or is too quiet when it plays. 

But the worst thing of all when it comes to this movie is the CGI. It looks like someone has ripped the digitized graphics from a Sega Genesis 32x badly and then superimposed them over....in fact the graphics from a Sega Genesis are probably superior! 

I really do not think that there is anything positive about this movie in any way shape or form, I've really tried to find something...anything that could potentially be good about Birdemic Shock and Terror and the only thing I can find good about this is the end of the movie as I'll never EVER watch this again. 

The movie was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds....fine I understand that it's killer birds brought into the modern age (being mutated by global warming!!) but this is just so wrong.  I like to give movies a chance, and I have really tried this second time around, but I still think this is the worst movie that has ever been created

I'm not the only person who thinks that this movie is truly awful. With many places saying that this is the worst movie ever made, I am seriously wondering if there is any way to beat it....however, not everyone has the same taste as me and the movie does indeed have a cult following, so much so that there has been a second movie made and there is an Indiegogo page to attempt to raise funds for a third and apparently final movie.

And now some videos that show how bad this movie is...obviously, these are going to contain spoilers, so if you do actually intend to watch this movie then DO NOT WATCH THEM!!

JonTron calls Birdemic: Shock and Terror the worst movie ever.

CinemaSins: Everything Wrong With Birdemic

Birdemic: Shock and Terror is rated 15 and available on DVD and BluRay if you want to grab yourself a copy.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Well, as today is International Towel Day, I thought it only appropriate that I do a review on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

The movie, based on the book (based on the radio series) of the same name, chronicles the adventures of an Earth dweller called Arthur Dent, his friend Ford Prefect, Intergalactic President Zaphod Beeblebrox, his companion Trillion and an Android called Marvin, who after the Earth is demolished to make way for a Hyperspace Bypass search for the planet Magrathea.

As a fan of the Books, Comic, Radio Series, TV Series, Game and more I was really looking forward to this movie, after all this was in development hell for about 15 and sadly the legendary Douglas Adams never got to see it...and if I'm honest I wish I hadn't seen it either (I really should have taken my Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril-Sensitive Sunglasses with me to watch this!!)

For starters, Ford Prefect was played by Mos Def...and American black man!  I'm sorry, but this was wrong...Ford is a white man!!!  And the way that they had Zaphod Beeblebrox's heads was wrong too, they are supposed to be next to each other, not a bloody pop up thing!!  The story felt wrong and does not feel like it was based on the book but perhaps the writer's mind wandered somewhere outside the Galaxy too.

There are some good points to this movie though (barring the end of the movie) and that is Stephen Fry being the voice of The Book (Amazing voice from an amazing man, great choice) and the voice of Marvin was the later great Alan Rickman.

All in all, it's not too bad as a movie in itself, but to me personally I do not feel that it belongs in the H2G2 universe.

Is there a movie that's WORSE than Birdemic?

I was on Facebook recently when I saw a post asking about what the worst movie ever made is, and everyone who knows me knows that the worst movie I have ever seen is Birdemic.  The acting is awful, the script is awful and the CGI is so bad that 8 bit sprites from a Sega Master System would be better!  I have only ever seen this movie once and I never....EVER...want to see this again.  It's so bad that my wife watched the Cinema Sins for this and said that she wanted her 20 minutes back and it topped Eragon which was her worst ever movie!

However, like Qui-Gon Jinn says "There's always a bigger fish" so I am now on a quest to see if there is a movie that's worse than Birdemic....I have so far had the following suggested:

• Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Remake)
• Dragonball Evolution
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (Remake)
• Prometheus
• Screamers
• RoboCop 3
• Eragon
• Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
• Batman & Robin
• Santa Claus vs The Martians
• X-Men 3: The Last Stand
• Food Fight
• American Ultra
• Underworld series
• eXistenZ
• Iron Sky 1&2
• Nazis at the Centre of the Earth
• Fateful Findings
• Twilight
• The Final Destination
• Naked Lunch

So...what do you think has the potential to beat Birdemic and take the crown for my worst movie ever?  Give me your suggestions, I'll give them a watch and let's see if you're right!!