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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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47 replies on “Starting Next Monday Night at Central Cinema…”

  14. 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.

  15. 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?

  17. 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.

  24. 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!

  29. 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.

  32. 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.

  36. 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.”

  38. 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.

  39. 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.

  40. 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!!

  44. 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.

  46. 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.

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