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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Starting Next Monday Night at Central Cinema...

Posted by David Schmader on Wed, Dec 3 at 2:50 PM

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...I will be hosting From Bad to Worse: A Six-Week Study in Cinematic Terribleness, in which every Monday night from December 8 through January 15 will bring a new horrible movie to the screen of the Central Cinema, where food and booze is brought directly to your seat, which is great because these movies are horrible and we will be watching them all the way through.

The schedule of films:

MON DEC 8: Battlefield Earth
MON DEC 15: Leonard Part 6
MON DEC 22: Can't Stop the Music
MON DEC 29: Road House
MON JAN 5: Rhinestone
MON JAN 12: Gigli

All screenings begin at 7pm, and feature introductory mini-lectures and running commentary from me. For full info on the films, the nature and purpose of the series, and tickets, see the Central Cinema website.

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This is so awesome! I can't decide which one I want to go to! Probably Roadhouse.

Posted by Aislinn on December 3, 2008 at 2:55 PM
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It's turkey time! Gobble gobble!

Posted by Fnarf on December 3, 2008 at 2:57 PM
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WTF? Roadhouse isn't bad.

Posted by Wolverines!!! on December 3, 2008 at 2:58 PM
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I'm counting down the days to "Can't Stop The Music" and "Road House"!

Posted by madamecrow on December 3, 2008 at 2:58 PM
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What's wrong with Road House!?

Posted by heywhatsit on December 3, 2008 at 2:59 PM
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Seriously, Road House is awesome.

Posted by dwight moody on December 3, 2008 at 3:03 PM
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Where's Remo Williams?

Posted by Mike in Renton on December 3, 2008 at 3:05 PM
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I dare you all to play the Road House drinking game. Dare you. I'm bringing my steely gaze.

Posted by jackie treehorn on December 3, 2008 at 3:06 PM
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A Man Animal Using the Learning Machine!? Preposterous!

Posted by Hosono on December 3, 2008 at 3:08 PM
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oh, I hadn't heard of "Can't Stop the Music," that one sounds right up my alley.

Posted by boxofbirds on December 3, 2008 at 3:11 PM
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Roadhouse? Really? But... Swayze!

Wake me up when you feature that fucking terrible Miranda July movie.
No. Can. Watch.

Posted by The Bailiff on December 3, 2008 at 3:12 PM
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This sounds amazing. I am so there.

Posted by Abby on December 3, 2008 at 3:16 PM
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Found Footage is tomorrow night there. I can't wait

Posted by bobcat on December 3, 2008 at 3:19 PM
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Roadhouse is the cat's ass, my friends. Ida Lupino is so hardboiled you want to slice her up on a Cobb Salad. And Richard Widmark looks a bit like a boiled rabbit. But hot.

Posted by itsmarkmitchell on December 3, 2008 at 3:19 PM
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If I recall correctly, there's a scene in Battle field earth when you hear the director yell "cut". Anyone back me up on this?

Posted by chocolate cinephile on December 3, 2008 at 3:20 PM
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Oh shit. I had not remembered the Patrick Swayze Roadhouse. I apologize for being old.

Posted by itsmarkmitchell on December 3, 2008 at 3:21 PM
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Dave - I love your shows and your sense of humour, but even you aren't going to get me to sit through Battlefield Earth unless you get me high first.

Posted by Bauhaus on December 3, 2008 at 3:23 PM
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"Ass kickers hair cut" must be played loud and repeatedly prior to watching Roadhouse.

Posted by he's a sexy man on December 3, 2008 at 3:33 PM
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polar bear fell on me.

Posted by chops on December 3, 2008 at 3:36 PM
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Well you've certainly pissed of a community of Road House lovers, Schmader.

Posted by heywhatsit on December 3, 2008 at 3:41 PM
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WTF? No Pluto Nash?

Posted by Graham on December 3, 2008 at 3:41 PM
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Mark Mitchell, you NEVER apologize for remembering Ida Lupino while forgetting Patrick Swayze.

Posted by Fnarf on December 3, 2008 at 3:44 PM
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A Schmaderized Can't Stop The Music sounds like early Xmas to me.

Posted by mackro mackro on December 3, 2008 at 3:48 PM
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Road House is a god damn classic!

"You're too stupid to have a good time!" and "I used to fuck guys like you in prison!" and the less well know, "Thats some goooold plastic."

Its Swayze at his most Tight Assedness!

Posted by Josh Wittner on December 3, 2008 at 3:50 PM
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where is Miss Pia Zadora in Lonely Lady . . . tops all your picks . . .

Posted by dalebob on December 3, 2008 at 3:51 PM
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Not a single Uwe Boll movie!?

Posted by TheMisanthrope on December 3, 2008 at 3:56 PM
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Plan 9 from outer space?

Posted by Urgutha Forka on December 3, 2008 at 3:58 PM
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How is it possible that Showgirls didn't make the list?

Posted by kitschnsync on December 3, 2008 at 3:59 PM
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what's wrong with leonard 6?

Also, are the studios receiving any compensation for this? if they are, boycott this - $cientology (who owns battlefield earth) must not get any more money.

Posted by guy on December 3, 2008 at 4:08 PM
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What, no one to defend Rhinestone! Dolly, people! DOLLY!

Posted by Christy O on December 3, 2008 at 4:20 PM
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Can't wait for Can't Stop the Music!

Is Roadhouse the one where someone tries to put Baby in the corner?

Posted by Explorer on December 3, 2008 at 4:56 PM
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Love this!! Battlefield earth is my golden standard for bad movies. I compare every horrible new movie I see to BE and re-draw the hierarchy of aesthetically evil movies as a result.

Posted by Sceptica on December 3, 2008 at 5:07 PM
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Um, Mr. Schmader, you're hosting with running commentary but Showgirls isn't on the schedule? Tragic.

Posted by nightlifejitters on December 3, 2008 at 5:22 PM
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Roadhouse goes from awful to awesome by Ben Gazarra's performance alone.

Posted by James B. on December 3, 2008 at 5:32 PM
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@34: "I see you found my trophy room, Dalton. The only thing missing is your ass."

Posted by madamecrow on December 3, 2008 at 5:47 PM
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Some friends and I already had a drunken viewing of Battlefield Earth, so there is no possible way that I would go to a second.

I second the nomination @11 for that Miranda July movie. I turned it off after "Macaroni."

Posted by exelizabeth on December 3, 2008 at 5:48 PM
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The worst movie ever made, for reasons that would require several pages to detail, is "Skidoo" from 1968. You will laugh as Jackie Gleason has an acid trip. You will scream in terror as Carrol Channing does a strip-tease.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063612/

Posted by eclexia on December 3, 2008 at 6:34 PM
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fyi.. and not that its nearly as fun as seeing it with a crowd, but they've been showing 'can't stop the music' a lot on cable ( starz xtra or something). i've seen it maybe four times in the last month ( when i do the dishes after i make grilled cheese sammiches with weed in em.. take a bowl full of weed and sautee it in a pan with some olive oil, oregano or menudo spices - you can get that at the internatinal section at red apple- and a pinch of seasoning salt.. and then grill your grill you sammich until golden brown on both sides ) sammich ) it'a wonderfully terrible and perhaps the gayest movie ever made..
hbo has also been showing 'cool as ice' which is merely terrible, but the weed lends it a few chuckles.

Posted by reverend dr dj riz on December 3, 2008 at 7:11 PM
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There isn't a movie on that list I could sit through, no matter how high I was.

Now if you showed "Prom Night 2: Hello Mary Lou" and you offered me a tab of acid, I'd be there just for old times sake.

Posted by elswinger on December 3, 2008 at 8:10 PM
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Roller Boogie with Linda Blair...classic bad movie. My favorite is that she's giving a private flute recital and literally just blowing and moving her fingers like a toddler would if you told them to play...but she's getting a scholarship to Julliard!! And gives it all up because she just wants to roller skate!!

Posted by cunei4m on December 3, 2008 at 9:04 PM
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I have a photonovel of 'Can't stop the music". I will bring it for you to covet.

Do the Milkshake...do the Shake!

Posted by Terminator Xbox on December 3, 2008 at 11:02 PM
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what! no Highlander 2?

Posted by mcloud on December 3, 2008 at 11:14 PM
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@24-props to you for the "That's some gold plastic" shout out. I thought I was the only one who notices that.

Posted by jon.e.rock on December 4, 2008 at 9:27 AM
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Cunel4m: ROLLER BOOGIE is indeed amazing--I just saw it for the first time, thanks to Turner Classic Movies. (It's a classic? It's a movie?) I'll explain why it didn't make the cut for FROM BAD TO WORSE at the screenings (there were criteria) but yes yes yes that's a terrible movie. I love all the stuff you mention, and I also love the weird sexual assault/love scene that happens on top of a Dumpster in the first five minutes.

Posted by David Schmader on December 4, 2008 at 9:29 AM
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stop suggesting an endless list of other bad movies, or my mom will shoot.

Posted by chops on December 4, 2008 at 10:10 AM
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Road House was pretty good when it came out - there weren't that many great movies then and the music was far better than in a lot of other ones.

Posted by Will in Seattle on December 4, 2008 at 10:45 AM
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It starts with Battlefield Earth? Too hardcore for my taste.

Posted by Greg on December 4, 2008 at 5:42 PM

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