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Tonight, Bad is Bad, and the budget is low. What has $6,000 given us? A psychological thriller with a writer doubling as a lead actor.

And before that, we chill with Bob Ross, and laugh at a bad game, that I assume is bad.

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That ridiculous bathroom scene had me cracking up. When your hostage's ludicrously hot adult daughter arrives home unexpectedly, and is in the bathroom asking for toilet paper, how do you give her toilet paper without her suspecting anything?

Then there's the scene with the unopened pepper spray, in the original hard to remove plastic packaging, in the closet. Yeah, okay.

And the one hostage-taker trying to force the daughter to smoke pot.

And when it's revealed that the wife married the man knowing he's a rapist.

I found it to be a pretty nice little psychological thriller in the "takes place almost entirely in one location" variety. (The same kind of loose genre of film that Phone Booth and Headless Body in Topless Bar fit into.) And the corny parts made it even more fun. A movie that holds my attention while also containing entertaining WTF and stupid. I love it. The best kind of So Bad, It's Good.

One person voted 3, then left and rejoined to lower their vote to a 2. Ultimately, it was split down to ★★.

edited 22nd Mar '18 6:42:02 PM by BonsaiForest

Tautologies are tautologies.

War is God.

A tautology is actually when something is phrased two different ways in the same sentence twice. (See what I did there?)

Bad is Bad wouldn't count as an example. But maybe something like Bad is Not Good might.

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This week's Kung Fu Friday feature is all about a group of Hong Kong cops (all women) going up against a ganglord and protecting a key witness.

This is Killer Angels.

Both is correct, a tautology can also be a simple repetition of the word itself.

Fear the cinnamon sugar swirl. By the Gods, fear it, Laurence.

In logic, a tautology is a statement that remains true under any potential interpretation. Under that facet of the word, "bad is bad" is still not a tautology, because it asserts moral absolutism (i.e., one possible interpretation of morality).

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The formal logic device and the rhetoric device are two separate entities, though.

Fear the cinnamon sugar swirl. By the Gods, fear it, Laurence.

I am acutely aware, as implied by my usage of "facet of the word".

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I told a coworker today that I watched a movie with a $6,000 budget, and she said while she was having her snow day, she watched a movie on Netflix that "must have been made on a budget of like two dollars", called Bitch. It's about a woman who's so angry at her cheating husband, that she turns into a dog. Or something. She said there's a scene where he's walking her like a dog while she's in human form, behaving like a dog, and then he gets down on all fours next to her.

I looked it up, and yes, it's real.

Oh, Ho-Oh-HOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooo...

Kicking off Kung Fu Friday with another episode of Takeshi's Castle and some hokey dubbing.

Then, at the top of the coming hour, we strap in for more low-budget 80's Hong Kong action in Killer Angels.

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Alright, for real this time!

Let's watch Pieces...

As luck would have it, I finally have a day off!

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Oh man, holding off on Pieces for a couple days is working out PERFECTLY!

...actually, cancel that. I don't think I'll be able to stay up.

I'll hopefully be back some time next week (we should have enough staff at work that I'm not being left doing everything at the beginning of April).

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Alright, keep us posted! I'll have some great stuff that I'll be needing to be sharing with you.

So, first up right now, we got Gamesmaster, Jerma, and another movie review from The Onion.

Then, at the top of the coming hour, we're finally diving head-first into Pieces.

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BASS TARD!

BASS TAAAAAAARD!

War is God.

Here tonight... a movie that I must've first heard about maybe ~15 years ago or a little longer. I can remember being asked by a friend with a terrible sense of humor if I ever heard of "A movie with Tom Arnold called The Stupids (It just so happens this same individual also was the first person to ever tell me about Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th, , also starring Tom Arnold).

That's about as much as I would hear about it, and my teenage mind just pictured the movie with post-Roseanne Tom Arnold and a bunch of other terrible people being filthy trailer park trash and, well, being stupid.

It wasn't until far more recently, in the last couple of months, when I finally remembered hearing about this title, and I was a bit surprised to find out that this movie was actually directed by John Landis (albeit, after the quality of Landis's work began to slide) and feature both Christopher Lee and Mark Metcalf reprising his character from Landis's Animal House (now having reached the rank of Colonel).

And, fortunately for my sake, the plot premise isn't merely wallowing in the dank mire of a trailer park, but more outlandishly involves a dimwitted family buying into some bizarre conspiracy about mail marked "Return to Sender" ...who still somehow happen to stumble onto and thwart a REAL military conspiracy. Wow, that's definitely stupid.

Meet The Stupids.

We got a great playlist lined up (It would NEED to be great just to entice anyone to watch during Stephanie "Stormy Daniels" Clifford's interview on 60 Minutes), featuring TWENTY-SIX MINUTES OF NEIL DeGRASSE TYSON EATING HOT WINGS!!!!!

Then, at the top of the top of the coming hour, the unlikely trio of Tom Arnold, Mark Metcalf, and Christopher Lee star in John Landis's The Stupids.

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edited 25th Mar '18 4:16:37 PM by SeanMurrayI

As G-rated family drivel goes, this one, I feel, is a standout. Courtesy of our friends at PopcornFlix: A little girl's prized teddy bear goes missing, and the family dog has a strong enough understanding of the young girl's grief that he not only sympathizes with her loss but personally sets off on a runaround Homeward Bound adventure to find the missing teddy bear and return it to her.

Other lavishing details include "TV Superman-turned-Christian Film Straw Atheist" Dean Cain as the little girl's father, an Australian accent for our dog protagonist, and I don't know what any of this is, but it's the first thing I set my eyes on when scrubbing through the full movie.

Get ready for Aussie & Ted's Great Adventure...

edited 26th Mar '18 7:53:32 AM by SeanMurrayI

The sad part is that he was just looking for his button.

The possum is a potential perpetrator; he did place possum poo in the plum pot.

Ok, I'm starting this tonight.

Our feature presentation is: Aussie & Ted's Great Adventure.

It will probably suck… https://cytu.be/r/TroperCoven

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edited 26th Mar '18 4:17:54 PM by iflewaway

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i was sampling wine at the grocery store today and the guy asked me for id and all i could think of was the scene in Bad is Bad where they need to see bald guy in a backwards baseball cap's id

Someone told me about the movie Zombeavers, and lo and behold, the full thing is on You Tube. But I seem to recall it being brought up before? So I guess it's not a new discovery here.

I've suggested it, a couple of times.

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