Tuesday, May 17, 2016

When Bad Can Be Just The Opposite

Sometimes you just want a silly movie.  Other times, a thoughtful one.   

But this entry will focus on the fun we have with just plain ol' bad movies.  

On my gift list for last Christmas was the 1973 flick "Lost Horizon."  I always wanted to see the proverbial last straw which broke the creative camel's back that was the team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David.  "LH" wasn't even available on DVD until recently and it wasn't a musical that showed up on rerun TV.  

I removed the shrink wrap and enjoyed (yes, enjoyed) the movie a few days after X-mas.  A few weeks later the Geofamily headed to the Mayo Clinic and since we stayed at a familiar hotel, with in-room DVD player, I included LH together with a few other disks.  

Geoana and I got a kick out of seeing, then criticizing the final product.  

High points?  "Question Me An Answer," "The Things I Will Not Miss."

Low points?  Just about everything else.  

But with low expectations and some time to kill LH can be quite fun.  The child and I had a good guffaw over "The World Is A Circle" and "Living Together, Growing Together" (complete with fertility dance interlude!).  Not to mention making Austin Powers comments overtime we saw Michael York appear.  Hey, who says we can't do our own Mystery Science Theater 3000 at the appropriate times?  

The flick made an otherwise boring and dreary evening very entertaining.  

How about a sample for the readers?  Unfortunately the fertility dance segment isn't on YouTube (too bad, you really have to see it to believe it).  However some fine folks have shared other segments, including this one with audience response.  


Next post I'll share what it's like to enjoy a bad flick on basic cable, then a slightly worse one on a free HBO weekend.  

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