in praise of really stupid movies

[extemporanea]

We seem to have invented a Sunday Morning Popcorn-Movie club: the combination (early show so empty cinemas, choice of really bad movie with full knowledge of such and the manic intention of enjoying it anyway) worked really well for Apprenticed To Nic Cage's Hair last week, so we tried it with The A-Team this morning. Hee. As in, giddy giggling,

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[rumint]

My favourite bit was the container ship falling over, for all those times you've wondering what giants playing with containers like lego sounds like. A most impressive special effect that was worth the price of the movie for me.

[extemporanea]

It was a fairly epic incident, indeed, and fitted well into the movie's ethos of "when the last action sequence has gone as far as you possibly can with absurd excess, crank it up". I found myself wondering, though, who was shipping all the containers coincidentally packed with high explosive. Household contents, consumer goods and legions of Chinese plastic gadgets don't explode on impact. Usually.

[strawberryfrog]

With regards Nic Cage's hair, I direct your attention here