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* AnAesop: Jim posits that a running theme in the Aliens Franchise is that the Xenomorphs cannot be controlled, they are a force of nature and ''they'' '''''will''''' ''win out in the end.''
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* VideoGameMoviesSuck: An {{Invoked|Trope}} talking point, as he argues ''against'' this for both ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'' and ''Film/SuperMarioBros''.
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* VideoGameMoviesSuck: An {{Invoked|Trope}} talking point, as he argues ''against'' this for both ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'' and ''Film/SuperMarioBros''.''Film/SuperMarioBros1993''.
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* VideoGameMoviesSuck: An {{Invoked|Trope}} talking point, as he argues ''against'' this for both Film/MortalKombat ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'' and Film/SuperMarioBros.''Film/SuperMarioBros''.
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* WaxingLyrical: His final words in ''Wild Wild West'' is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zXKtfKnfT8 Jim quoting the song lyrics.]]
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* WaxingLyrical: His final words in ''Wild Wild West'' is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zXKtfKnfT8 Jim quoting the song lyrics.]]]]
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* ConspicuousCGI: An {{Invoked|Trope}} talking point in multiple episodes, or at least referenced. Jim admits the CGI being bad in a given film, and doesn't shy away from bashing a film because of that failing. Though they point out that just because it has bad CGI, does not mean the film is bad, there are other aspects of the film to enjoy.
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* Film/ThePerfectHost
* Film/FridayThe13th2009
* Film/{{Showgirls}}
* [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Star Wars: The Phantom Menace]]
* Film/StreetFighter
* Film/HellraiserIIIHellOnEarth
* Film/AlienResurrection
* Film/{{Transformers}}
* Film/{{Brainscan}}
* Film/Godzilla2014
* Film/{{Daredevil}}
* Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera
* Film/JasonX
* Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare
* Film/ParanormalActivity
* Film/BatmanAndRobin
* Film/{{Hook}}
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* TheStoic: Jim points out that he doesn't scare easily when it comes to horror films, and gives priase for Film/EventHorizon for actually scaring him.
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* Slapstick: As well as finding Jar Jar Binks not that annoying in ''The Phantom Menace'', he found his shenanigans and tomfoolery genuinely amusing to watch, even praising him when he destroys battle droids through their own stupidity.
* SoBadItsGood: In-Universe, these are a few of of the movies Jim reviews. The videos explain what gave the film a "bad" standing among the film community, and then Jim explains why they believe the film in question is "good".
* SoBadItsGood: In-Universe, these are a few of of the movies Jim reviews. The videos explain what gave the film a "bad" standing among the film community, and then Jim explains why they believe the film in question is "good".
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* Slapstick: {{Slapstick}}: As well as finding Jar Jar Binks not that annoying in ''The Phantom Menace'', he found his shenanigans and tomfoolery genuinely amusing to watch, even praising him when he destroys battle droids through their own stupidity.
* SoBadItsGood: In-Universe, these are a few of of the movies Jim reviews. The videos explain what gave the film a "bad" standing among the film community, and thenJim Jim explains why they believe the film in question is is "good".
* SoBadItsGood: In-Universe, these are a few of of the movies Jim reviews. The videos explain what gave the film a "bad" standing among the film community, and then
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* SoBadItsGood: {{In-Universe|Trope}}, In-Universe, these are a few of of the movies Jim reviews. The videos explain what gave the film a "bad" standing among the film community, and then Jim Jim explains why they believe the film in question is is "good".
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* ThemeTune: The song used in the opening is written by Joachim Sandberg specifically for the show.
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The series ran for 25 episodes, from 10th January, 2013 to 27th February 2014, making it one of the more obscure series The Escapist hosted on their channel[[note]]even this very wiki didn't list it on the Escapist page until this very page got created[[/note]]. And while Jim has expressed interest in picking the series back up, nothing has come of it (largely due to rights issues with the name, as it still belongs to the escapist).
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The series ran for 25 26 episodes, from 10th January, 2013 to 27th February 2014, making it one of the more obscure series The Escapist hosted on their channel[[note]]even this very wiki didn't list it on the Escapist page until this very page got created[[/note]]. And while Jim has expressed interest in picking the series back up, nothing has come of it (largely due to rights issues with the name, as it still belongs to the escapist).
* Film/ThePerfectHost
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* AccentuateTheNegative: Averted. The whole point of Movie Defense Force is to evaluate unpopular movies and explain why they are better than their reputation from fans or critics suggest.
* AuthorAppeal: A lot of films on the list are personal favorites of Jims, with almost half the episodes being from the horror genre. The pilot episode is even ''Film/Alien3'', a film from a franchise that Jim has made quite clear that he''adores''.''adores'' in other shows he's hosted.
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* Film/HellraiserIIIHellOnEarth
* Film/AlienResurrection
* Film/{{Transformers}}
* Film/{{Brainscan}}
* Film/Godzilla2014
* Film/{{Daredevil}}
* Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera
* Film/JasonX
* Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare
* Film/ParanormalActivity
* Film/BatmanAndRobin
* Film/{{Hook}}
* Film/SuperMarioBros
* Film/AlienResurrection
* Film/{{Transformers}}
* Film/{{Brainscan}}
* Film/Godzilla2014
* Film/{{Daredevil}}
* Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera
* Film/JasonX
* Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare
* Film/ParanormalActivity
* Film/BatmanAndRobin
* Film/{{Hook}}
* Film/SuperMarioBros
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* StuffBlowingUp: Criticizes Creator/MichaelBay for leaning into this too much, but says that it's pointless to complain about it, because that's what he does.
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* [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Star Wars: The Phantom Menace]]
* Film/StreetFighter
* Film/StreetFighter
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Mentions the TropeNamer in ''Street Fighter'' as an example of an iconic speech.
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* ChewingTheScenery: How Jim describes the performances of everyone in ''Wild Wild West'', much to his delight, even attempting to define a so-called "Rule of Ham":
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** He uses the "Rule of Ham" again in ''Street Fighter'' to praise Raul Julia's LargeHam performance in said film.
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* RuleOfCool: Jim uses this as the reason they love Film/WildWildWest so much. The inventions in the film don't make much sense, but they look cool.
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** Jim uses this as the reason they love Film/WildWildWest so much. The inventions in the film don't make much sense, but they lookcool.cool.
** One of the few things he likes about ''The Phantom Menace'' is that the robots looks cool, as well as the podracing.
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** One of the few things he likes about ''The Phantom Menace'' is that the robots looks cool, as well as the podracing.
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* TakeThat: Creator/UweBoll gets blasted in more than one episode, but in ''Mortal Kombat'' Jim dislikes his tendancy for turning videogame licenses into original films, while serving as an advert for that franchise. {{Inverted|Trope}} The following episode, ''Rampage'' ''praises him'' for making a serious and compelling film about a person going on a mass shooting.
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** Creator/UweBoll gets blasted inmore than one episode, but in ''Mortal Kombat'' Kombat'', as Jim dislikes his tendancy for turning videogame licenses into original films, while serving as an advert for that franchise. franchise, disregarding anything about the games. {{Inverted|Trope}} The following episode, ''Rampage'' which covers ''Rampage'', actually ''praises him'' for making a serious and compelling film about a person going on a mass shooting.shooting.
** Jim insults Creator/GeorgeLucas at the start of ''The Phantom Menace'', [[GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion for obvious reasons.]]
** Creator/UweBoll gets blasted in
** Jim insults Creator/GeorgeLucas at the start of ''The Phantom Menace'', [[GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion for obvious reasons.]]
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* Film/FridayThe13th2009
* Film/{{Showgirls}}
* Film/{{Showgirls}}
* CanonWelding: Part of the reason Jim defends Film/FreddyVsJason is down to the fact the movie uses the lore of both franchises to its advantage to make a plot, without the use of Retcons.
* ChewingTheScenery: How Jim describes the performances of everyone in ''Wild Wild West'', much to his delight, even attempting to define a so-called "Rule of Ham":
--> '''Jim:''' ''"I offer the Rule of Ham; where a bad film can be save by at least one entertaining exuberant actor putting in the effort regardless of script, and making magic out of madness''
* ChewingTheScenery: How Jim describes the performances of everyone in ''Wild Wild West'', much to his delight, even attempting to define a so-called "Rule of Ham":
--> '''Jim:''' ''"I offer the Rule of Ham; where a bad film can be save by at least one entertaining exuberant actor putting in the effort regardless of script, and making magic out of madness''
* ContinuityReboot: Jim makes the point that while there are certainly bad reboots of films, they find the Film/FridayThe13th2009 film perfectly fine, and hating a film because it's a reboot is, while sometimes justified on principle, does not mean a film can be bad.
* HateSink: Jim points out that in Freddy vs Jason, Freddy is completely detestable because of his past actions, as well the current actions in the movie.
* MovieSuperheroesWearBlack: Jim notes the aversion to Mortal Kombat that see's Scorpion don his yellow outfit, and praises the film for doing so.
* RuleOfCool: Jim uses this as the reason they love Film/WildWildWest so much. The inventions in the film don't make much sense, but they look cool.
* RuleOfCool: Jim uses this as the reason they love Film/WildWildWest so much. The inventions in the film don't make much sense, but they look cool.
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* StealthInsult:
** Jim notes that the Mortal Kombat film doesn't have much of a plot to ruin, the games have one, but it isn't the focus. Jim then says that means any plot the film had would immediately be better than the BMovie storytelling of the games. They wholeheartedly state that it's the best videogame film because it kept to the tone of series in the film.
** To ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'' as he admits "the film deserves every criticism it ever got", but the series being what it is, he tries to find good things about it: Jim finds it SoBadItsGood that it's a must watch on that alone.
* TakeThat: Creator/UweBoll gets blasted in more than one episode, but in ''Mortal Kombat'' Jim dislikes his tendancy for turning videogame licenses into original films, while serving as an advert for that franchise. {{Inverted|Trope}} The following episode, ''Rampage'' ''praises him'' for making a serious and compelling film about a person going on a mass shooting.
* ThemeTune: The song used in the opening is written by JoachimSandberg.Sandberg specifically for the show.
* UnpleasableFanbase: {{Invoked|Trope}} as a talking point in Freddy vs Jason, as Jim points out that the idea of a fans' respective iteration of a Crossover would be different to the film, and therefore, it can't ''ever'' please anyone on both sides.
* VideoGameMoviesSuck: An {{Invoked|Trope}} talking point, as he argues ''against'' this for both Film/MortalKombat and Film/SuperMarioBros.
* WaxingLyrical: His final words in ''Wild Wild West'' is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zXKtfKnfT8 Jim quoting the song lyrics.]]
** Jim notes that the Mortal Kombat film doesn't have much of a plot to ruin, the games have one, but it isn't the focus. Jim then says that means any plot the film had would immediately be better than the BMovie storytelling of the games. They wholeheartedly state that it's the best videogame film because it kept to the tone of series in the film.
** To ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'' as he admits "the film deserves every criticism it ever got", but the series being what it is, he tries to find good things about it: Jim finds it SoBadItsGood that it's a must watch on that alone.
* TakeThat: Creator/UweBoll gets blasted in more than one episode, but in ''Mortal Kombat'' Jim dislikes his tendancy for turning videogame licenses into original films, while serving as an advert for that franchise. {{Inverted|Trope}} The following episode, ''Rampage'' ''praises him'' for making a serious and compelling film about a person going on a mass shooting.
* ThemeTune: The song used in the opening is written by Joachim
* UnpleasableFanbase: {{Invoked|Trope}} as a talking point in Freddy vs Jason, as Jim points out that the idea of a fans' respective iteration of a Crossover would be different to the film, and therefore, it can't ''ever'' please anyone on both sides.
* VideoGameMoviesSuck: An {{Invoked|Trope}} talking point, as he argues ''against'' this for both Film/MortalKombat and Film/SuperMarioBros.
* WaxingLyrical: His final words in ''Wild Wild West'' is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zXKtfKnfT8 Jim quoting the song lyrics.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350: Seeing good in movies that society thinks up.]]
'''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHbBvuo4Yak&list=PLAbMhAYRuCUhPFvsZ1Y2NOYxW57Igll4f&index=25 Movie Defense Force]]''''' was a web series on Website/TheEscapist where Jim Sterling of ''WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}}'' fame tries to argue in favor of films which have been critically panned, those that fandoms that dislike it for varying reasons and see it as bad film, or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs just universally shunned by both.]] In the show, Jim defends one film per episode by talking about the good points, its history of production that may have tainted said film, among other things.
The series ran for 25 episodes, from 10th January, 2013 to 27th February 2014, making it one of the more obscure series The Escapist hosted on their channel[[note]]even this very wiki didn't list it on the escapist page until this very page got created[[/note]]. And while Jim has expressed interest in picking the series back up, nothing has come of it (largely due to rights issues with the name, as it still belongs to the escapist).
Compare with ''WebVideo/GoodBadFlicks'', a former escapist show that is still ongoing that has an identical premise.
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!!Movie Defense Force provides examples of:
* AuthorAppeal: A lot of films on the list are personal favorites of Jims, with almost half the episodes being from the horror genre. The pilot episode is even ''Film/Alien3'', a franchise that Jim ''adores''.
* AnAesop: Jim posits that a running theme in the Aliens Franchise is that the Xenomorphs cannot be controlled, they are a force of nature and ''they'' '''''will''''' ''win out in the end.''
* ConspicuousCGI: An {{Invoked|Trope}} talking point in multiple episodes, or at least referenced. Jim admits the CGI being bad in a given film, and doesn't shy away from bashing a film because of that failing. Though they point out that just because it has bad CGI, does not mean the film is bad, there are other aspects of the film to enjoy.
* FoundFootageFilms: In ''Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2'', Jim praises the film for not using the trope as storytelling device, even explicitly destroying the old tapes from the previous film, despite many other people in the Blair Witch fandom disliking this change.
* {{Leitmotif}}: The background music is from the ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'' soundtrack, curiously enough. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OUP_Z3iZPs The Whistle Theme]] is used in the Aliens 3 episode, but the rest use [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfPW88vQMEQ FBI Special Agent]], which is more befitting of a "defense force".
* ThemeTune: The song used in the opening is written by Joachim Sandberg.
[[caption-width-right:350: Seeing good in movies that society thinks up.]]
'''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHbBvuo4Yak&list=PLAbMhAYRuCUhPFvsZ1Y2NOYxW57Igll4f&index=25 Movie Defense Force]]''''' was a web series on Website/TheEscapist where Jim Sterling of ''WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}}'' fame tries to argue in favor of films which have been critically panned, those that fandoms that dislike it for varying reasons and see it as bad film, or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs just universally shunned by both.]] In the show, Jim defends one film per episode by talking about the good points, its history of production that may have tainted said film, among other things.
The series ran for 25 episodes, from 10th January, 2013 to 27th February 2014, making it one of the more obscure series The Escapist hosted on their channel[[note]]even this very wiki didn't list it on the escapist page until this very page got created[[/note]]. And while Jim has expressed interest in picking the series back up, nothing has come of it (largely due to rights issues with the name, as it still belongs to the escapist).
Compare with ''WebVideo/GoodBadFlicks'', a former escapist show that is still ongoing that has an identical premise.
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!!Movie Defense Force provides examples of:
* AuthorAppeal: A lot of films on the list are personal favorites of Jims, with almost half the episodes being from the horror genre. The pilot episode is even ''Film/Alien3'', a franchise that Jim ''adores''.
* AnAesop: Jim posits that a running theme in the Aliens Franchise is that the Xenomorphs cannot be controlled, they are a force of nature and ''they'' '''''will''''' ''win out in the end.''
* ConspicuousCGI: An {{Invoked|Trope}} talking point in multiple episodes, or at least referenced. Jim admits the CGI being bad in a given film, and doesn't shy away from bashing a film because of that failing. Though they point out that just because it has bad CGI, does not mean the film is bad, there are other aspects of the film to enjoy.
* FoundFootageFilms: In ''Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2'', Jim praises the film for not using the trope as storytelling device, even explicitly destroying the old tapes from the previous film, despite many other people in the Blair Witch fandom disliking this change.
* {{Leitmotif}}: The background music is from the ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'' soundtrack, curiously enough. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OUP_Z3iZPs The Whistle Theme]] is used in the Aliens 3 episode, but the rest use [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfPW88vQMEQ FBI Special Agent]], which is more befitting of a "defense force".
* ThemeTune: The song used in the opening is written by Joachim Sandberg.
