HeyJaredMo's Movie Malpractice
Cult chaos, mainstream favorites, and beautiful disasters — all under the scalpel.
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Murder by Popular Demand — Case File 023: Death Race 2000 (1975) (opens the original)
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Initial ReportRuntime: 1 hour 20 minutesDirector: Paul BartelWriters: Robert Thom, Charles B. Griffith, Ib MelchiorCast: David Carradine — FrankensteinSylvester Stallone — Machine Gun Joe ViterboSimone Griffeth — AnnieMary Woronov — Calamity JaneRoberta Collins — Matilda the HunMartin Kove —
8 of the Worst Line Deliveries in Movie History (opens the original)
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I don’t think calling a performance “bad” tells you a whole lot about whether you’ll enjoy watching it or not. Much of the acting we’re discussing today is so unbelievably strange that I’d be genuinely disappointed if anyone tried to improve it., who writes Hare-brained History had the brilliant idea for this collaboration. He makes a distinction between capital-B Bad movies, which embrace their ridiculousness, and lowercase-b bad movies, which had every intention of being decent. It’s a useful
Movies Don’t Owe You Likable Characters (opens the original)
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A two-star Letterboxd review of Uncut Gems I saw recently got me thinking about this. It was one brief sentence calling Sandler something along the lines of insufferable. Whether they meant the performance or the character isn’t clear, because cogency is not abundant on that platform.I do agree that Howard Ratner can be insufferable. He’s selfish, dishonest, insanely exhausting, and he constantly makes his situation worse. A lot of what makes the story work, though, comes from watching him do th
8 Things Movies Have to Fake Because Reality Looks Wrong on Camera (opens the original)
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Movies spend quite a bit of time chasing “realism,” which is pretty funny once you learn how often reality itself refuses to cooperate with the camera. Rain disappears. Eyes can go flat and dead. A real explosion may look less like an explosion than the enormous orange fireball Hollywood has spent decades drilling into our brains.So filmmakers have to cheat.Some tricks just need a hose or a light. Others require some surprisingly elaborate solutions.1. Make It Rain Harder<a class="image-link ima
Love in Pieces — Case File 022: Frankenhooker (1990) (opens the original)
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Initial ReportRuntime: 1 hour 25 minutesDirector: Frank HenenlotterWriters: Robert Martin, Frank HenenlotterCast: James Lorinz — Jeffrey FrankenPatty Mullen — ElizabethJoseph Gonzalez — ZorroCharlotte Helmkamp — HoneyLouise Lasser — Jeffrey’s MotherJoanne Ritchie — Mrs. Shelley</li
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