Watchin' Trailerz with Doug (Week of June 20)

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F This Movie! - Green Lantern

Patrick is joined again by Mike and Adam to discuss just how the makers of Green Lantern got Adam's favorite superhero ever all wrong.

Sh!#ting on the Classics: The Ten Commandments

Today we're excited to launch a new feature on F This Movie!: "Shitting on the Classics," in which J.B. takes a movie that's beloved or has achieved some kind of widespread respectability and then explains why that's wrong. He's not doing it because he's a bastard; he's doing it to right the wrongs perpetrated by years of cinema. Also, he's kind of a bastard. Enjoy!

F These F'ing Awesome Movies 3

It's been a while since we talked about f'ing awesome movies (which we did here and here), so in lieu of a better idea let's f some more f'ing awesome movies. They just made your list of things to do today.

Happy Father's Day from F This Movie!

Watchin' Trailerz with Doug (Week of June 13)

Remember when every movie you watched was good? That's because you were a kid, and didn't know the difference between quality and crap. It's also probably why I still think there wasn't a bad episode of Duck Tales (and I haven't watched one since sprouting pubes, hence the reason this statement remains SCIENCE FACT). Then you grow up, and, if you're like me, you start to hate everything. Wait ... hate's a strong word, but you're definitely on the other side of the spectrum. Instead of being entertained by almost anything, you challenge every movie to entertain you, because you've seen it all. The turning point for me was a dumb movie called The Efficiency Expert. My family watched it together, and, for the first time, I was like, "Whatthefuckisthis?" In retrospect, it probably wasn't even that "bad" (although, yes, it was), but just boring and unnecessary. Still, that's when my innocence was lost. Well, that, and the time my friends and I saw that dead body in the woods. ANYWHO, I'm sure these movies (trailers below) will amuse starry-eyed children around the world, and infuriate the rest of us.

Take Two: Howard the Duck

by Patrick Bromley

 

There are a whole bunch of high-profile failures that came out in the 1980s that, once removed from the excesses of the decade and the cultural climate under which they were released, have since been rediscovered and recovered from their initial bomb status. Movies like Robert Altman's Popeye and Elaine May's Ishtar, once lamented as giant, expensive disasters that had no business playing in movie theaters have since been reevaluated and gained a following as transgressive examples of their genres. It may have taken two decades, but the stink of failure has finally worn off and audiences can now appreciate these movies as misunderstood and, dare I say, ahead of their time.

Howard the Duck is not one of those movies.