I like bad movies
There are many movies that I greatly enjoy, even though I know their quality to be a bit lacking. Circle of Friends is one of them. I love it, I could watch it again and again, but I know it is not actually a good movie.
But little did I know just how bad my taste was. My sister, Emily, found a list of the 100 worst movies on IMDB. Being all kinds of fun, she declared a family contest to see who had the worst taste in movies. You got one point for every bad movie you had seen, and an extra point for any movie that you owned. I have seen a lot of bad movies (The [Girl] in the Iron Mask springs to mind), so I was excited. Unfortunately, I had only seen three of them (From Justin to Kelly, Spiceworld, and Teen Wolf Too), and I owned only one (Spice World, of course!). Fortunately, this was enough to win the competition.
My sister had promised a prize, and even alerted me of it's impending arrival. Even so, when I received a padded envelope in the mail with no return address and my name and address printed on a piece of paper, cut out, and taped to the envelope, I thought it was slightly creepy. When I opened it to find a DVD of a yucky looking movie I had never heard of, and no note or receipt or anything, I got even more creeped out. I know it's melodramatic, but friends, the idea that this was some sort of threat to my life actually crossed my mind. It was the only thing I could think of.
It took me over 24 hours to realize that rather that a dire warning, this movie was my prize. Oddly, it was both a relief and disappointment.
But little did I know just how bad my taste was. My sister, Emily, found a list of the 100 worst movies on IMDB. Being all kinds of fun, she declared a family contest to see who had the worst taste in movies. You got one point for every bad movie you had seen, and an extra point for any movie that you owned. I have seen a lot of bad movies (The [Girl] in the Iron Mask springs to mind), so I was excited. Unfortunately, I had only seen three of them (From Justin to Kelly, Spiceworld, and Teen Wolf Too), and I owned only one (Spice World, of course!). Fortunately, this was enough to win the competition.
My sister had promised a prize, and even alerted me of it's impending arrival. Even so, when I received a padded envelope in the mail with no return address and my name and address printed on a piece of paper, cut out, and taped to the envelope, I thought it was slightly creepy. When I opened it to find a DVD of a yucky looking movie I had never heard of, and no note or receipt or anything, I got even more creeped out. I know it's melodramatic, but friends, the idea that this was some sort of threat to my life actually crossed my mind. It was the only thing I could think of.
It took me over 24 hours to realize that rather that a dire warning, this movie was my prize. Oddly, it was both a relief and disappointment.
3 Comments:
I had no idea that Huey Lewis was in this movie. I hope you will watch it Mystery Science Theatre style and give us a review.
In defense of 'Spiceworld', the Spice Girls were actually surprisingly good (and Alan Cumming was pretty funny), it was just the storyline that was suprisingly bad/absent.
So I have a total of 18 points. Is that a lot?
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