Stinker Madness - The Podcast for Bad Movie Lovers
TV & Film:Film Reviews
Elvis and JFK team up to take down a butt-sucking undead SOB in a nursing home. OR Elvis ends up in a horrible nursing home and struggles to find a reason to keep living. Pick one. You can't have both without muddying up the other.
While Bubba Ho-Tep should absolutely be praised for accomplishing what it does on only $500,000, it must also be dissed for its non-budget related flaws. Chiefly its duality but also in its production. If you read the back story on this movie, you'll learn that they had a mismatch with the cameras and the level of knowledge on how to run them. So what should have taken 15 days to shoot took 30. That made a lot of stuff in the screenplay that needed to be in film, end up on the floor and a lot of stretching of what was available (which isn't much). This is one of the lowest on content movies we've ever reviewed.
Sadly, this is exceptional work by Bruce Campbell. He is putting everything he's got in the role and is clearly attached to the part, but the horrendous production (lighting, cinematography, makeup, script and plot) get completely in his way and drag everything he does down. Ozzie Davis is great (of course) but he suffers from the same tragedy. It's a shame that both have to lose their skills to a mountain of problems not related to them.
Frankly, at the end of the day, the film is just ruined by it's lack of focus on what it's trying to do. Halfway through, it loses the themes and look it tried to establish in the first half, and the isn't setup to have the second plot work in anyway and thus becomes a lackluster conclusion to something you can't be attached to.
Some will disagree with us (this is beloved - but likely because people are trying to will it to be good) but this is a straight-up do not from us.
Volcano: Fire on the Moutain - Cortano!
Moving NOT Movies Episode 8 - The last duel
Moving not Movies Episode 7 - Black Bolt should shut up
Moving NOT Movies Episode 6 - The best of the last 10 years
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent - Broke my brain
Moving NOT Movies Episode 5 - We inch closer
Moving NOT Movies Episode 4 - Its Showtime, Dammit
Moving NOT Movies Episode 3 - Tyler Durden is a flight risk
Moving Not Movies Episode 2 - Sam hates Wheels of Time
Moving NOT Movies Episode 1 - Don’t Go to Wyoming
Lifeguard - Not Baywatch
Rage and Honor 2: Koi’rate
Rage and Honor - Sister Justice?
Gator - Ballad of Bones and Smiley
White Lightning - Drunk Vengeance
Moonfall - So where’s Adele and James Bond?
51st State - POS 51 is right
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects - Rolex Ala’ Mode
Alien Resurrection - Horny science....in space!
Home Sweet Home Alone - Barbara Streisand‘s House
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