In a past episode Dan promised to watch Kung Fury. This is important. Dan needs to watch Kung Fury.

@azraeldagda

Жыл бұрын

Oh 1000% Kung Fury. I was trying to think of one and this is it. Also kinda in that same ball park: Kung Fu Hustle. Definitely more earnest but still goofy and great.

@davidwright8094

Жыл бұрын

Kung fury is a ridiculous masterpiece

@TSTait

Жыл бұрын

I was also thinking the same thing.

@reginaldforthright805

Жыл бұрын

No he needs to watch every episode of one piece

@TSTait

Жыл бұрын

@@reginaldforthright805 oh gosh no. That would take up too much writing time or too my family time. Either way, it breaks Brandon.

I feel like Ben is like Stu from What we do in the Shadows. The non-vampire who just is flat mates with all of the vampires and just kind of hangs out with them.

@benolsen3904

Жыл бұрын

This is an entirely appropriate comparison.

My favorite bad movie of all time has to be the live action Sorcerer’s Apprentice (the one with Nick Cage). It is insanely quotable, and it has one un-ironically great scene.

@ryanb3665

Жыл бұрын

I unironically love that movie. I see that it’s not good, but I always have a fun time watching it, and I love that guy who voices Hiccup in the show to Train Your Dragon movies as well.

@mathewstormblessed4706

Жыл бұрын

The magic in that movie was great, and I loved the scene with the song. Honestly underatted actor too.

@guiarca

Жыл бұрын

Talking about Nick Cage and bad movies, I thought his "Jiu Jitsu" movie was fun for how bad it was.

@haldalas

Жыл бұрын

I’m curious which scene you liked the most, from that description

31:30 Ok, Hear me Out. Here are 10 things you could hire Ben (and maybe a webdev too, I dont know Bens skillset) to do 1. Blaseball (this is spelled correctly, look it up), BUT its Wayne Rules Noseball, maybe toss in occasional other invested persons like a Radient 2. A new Wiki backend that allows for users to pick a selection of books and filterers the content on the wiki to only contain spoilers for those books (I have a full spec, but its too large for the comments) 3. Manage an academia journal about the cosmere that people can send papers too. 4. You mentioned Dragonsteal doesnt yet have the Infrastructure to distribute audio books directly. Sounds like a job for Ben 5. Design the spec for the Awakened, Dor, Harmonium, and Fabrial computers down to the "transistor" level. 6. Build a Cosmere E-reader app where you can buy each premium E-book, and the app contains footnotes and links between the books where there are crossovers (IE, zihel says something about colors, and there is a footnote that colors is a common Nalthian swear), or nightblood has a bio page. maybe add a tree of questions, so you can select zihel and ask "is he vasher" and that will then link both names to the same bio page. 7. The Rithmatist Battle Arena VR/Tablet game 8. Death Stranding, Cosmere Edition (ie, post apocalyptic package carrier running across the shattered planes) 9. The Cosmere Battle Royal game, find beads of Lerasium and say the words to bond the spren. 10. The Whitesand interactive E graphic novel app

@guillermorelobalopez7553

Жыл бұрын

Oi, rithmatist battle arena is an awesome idea.

@fantasymagic97

Жыл бұрын

You, my friend, have some very good ideas.

Watching equilibrium as a teenager IN the theater was transforming. Especially the action scene in the dark. He used the sound of their voices to pick up their location. It wasn’t dumb it was awesome!

On no, I want Brandon to guest star on RLM's Best of the Worst now

I love how brandon wants ben to become dragonsteel's wit.

God's of Egypt is easily my favourite bad movie, I've never laughed so hard in a cinema. Once you read up on some of the behind the scenes stuff it gets even better. Highly recommend.

@jean-francoisroux7064

Жыл бұрын

Same, God's of Egypt has so many amazing inconsistencies and terrible acting that it is delicious to watch :D !

@phoenixking62

Жыл бұрын

I'm gonna second that. There are few things that get a kick out of me like transformers gods. Though I will put the caveat that part of my enjoyment is due to my familiarity with actual Egyptian mythology and seeing them mess it up, so If you don't know that actual myths behind it, it might be less enjoyable.

Gotta go with the tremors series, so self aware it gets more bad movie good in each part of the franchise.

This is my favorite podcast by far. I get excited whenever a new episode is up.

Equilibrium is "I want to make Fahrenheit 451 but I don't want to get the right or have to follow it exactly"

You guys have to watch "The VelociPastor" Its about a catholic priest that turns into a Velociraptor. It is working a bit hard at sometimes but it is golden!

Could you guys do an episode on StarCraft, and/or other games you enjoyed while you were in college?

“The man who killed Hitler, and Bigfoot” is the funniest bad movie that takes itself so seriously… love it

Priest gets my recommendation. There's so much goodness in it between the world building, the effects, and the action scenes, and it manages to be a campy monstrosity of a movie anyway. Not sure how violent / gory it is, though -- my personal threshold is high enough that I don't register these kinds of things unless they're particularly severe.

I’m still waiting on a Best of the Worst crossover episode!

Eyes on Breen! What a time to be alive having Brandon evangelizing Neil Been movies. Oh, also, go watch Miami Connection. Though our enjoyment of it may be somewhat colored by living in Central Florida, where some of our audience were old enough to remember commercials for YK Kim's martial arts schools, and everyone else just had fun spotting all the Central Florida locations.

@Xtrodinary20

Жыл бұрын

#EyesOnBreen And oh my god when he puts the powder in the lake (or any other crazy stuff), it's amazing the man hasn't gotten a visit from Honeland Security or something.

@cbpd89

Жыл бұрын

I just bought the rifftrax live show if Miami Connection! I can't wait to watch it!

@Thespianification

Жыл бұрын

I've never lived in Florida and I still think Miami Connection is great.

Love on a Leash should not be missed. Also, James Nguyen, that Vietnamese genius who did Birdemic: Shock and Terror also did Julie and Jack, a modern take on Hitchcock's Vertigo, complete with all the computer jargon that the Nguyen loves.

when the world yoyo contest was held in Orlando every year, they used to screen Yoyo Girl Cop the night before the contest. I still need to watch it one of these days

Troll 3: quest for the mighty sword is phenomenal. There are botched lines that made it into the final cut, hilarious action scenes, a guy who is cast both as his father and son and costuming that is just the chefs kiss of dumb.

The Last Unicorn is a perfect fantasy, childhood, animated horrible awesome movie with twists and non twists for Dragon Steel

Neil breen is amazing! My friends and I used to have bad movie night once a week. We would all bring a bad movie and then watch them all day. Its so good that you do the same thing 😁

I recommend "Tarzan and the Green Goddess," 1938. My Dad and me had such a good time cracking jokes at it, while Mom was out of the house! It's part of an old serial, all stuck together to sell as movies. Bizarre "comedic" moments that go all the way around to being funny again, strange acting, African animals in the jungles of Guatemala, an ineffectual Tarzan, with a strong woman constantly sweeping in to rescue him. A bad movie classic!

Dear Adam, It makes me happy that you also love RLM. Have a good day dude.

I haven’t seen it in years but I remember laughing so hard at the absurdity of the 1968 movie Barbarella 😂

On bad movies, Abraham Lincoln Vs. Zombies is great. It is the B horror vs of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. However I feel Abraham Lincoln vs Zombies is better, it is also fun seeing a 150,000 dollar movie better then a 70 million dollar movie.

I loved all the old Ray Harryhausen model-animated movies like Jason and the Argonauts and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. I haven't seen them recently. I wonder if I can track down copies.

Best bad movie Bubba-Hotep. An elderly Elvis Pressly and an elderly Black JFK team up and fight a mummy that is plaguing an elderly home.

My Favourite bad movie is Upside Down. It presents itself as this dramatic science fiction love story in this fictional world with unique world building rules, and it fails at every step, completely unintentionally.

The funny thing about Salt is that although all the double-agent-conspiracy stuff seems unrealistic, only weeks after the movie was released the CIA caught an actual ring of Russian spies with a setup almost identical to the movie's plot

Hey Brandon and Dan, if Equilibrium is Brandon's choices but Dan wants to watch more Japanese movies I would recommend "Returner" as a great fun movie. It's similar to Equilibrium as a movie trying to be the next Matrix but also has bizarre yet fun Japanese sensibilities. The Villain of the movie and the ending has been a favorite of mine since College.

@JohnnyDustwalker

Жыл бұрын

+ for Returner, great underrated movie for its time

Equlibruim is one of my favorite movies despite its flaws. Used to teach it in one of my first-year composition courses.

One of my recent excellent bad movie experiences was Ad Astra. I'm not going to spoil (much, I hope), but the things that movie is blessed with and the formidable way it squanders all of it is nothing short of amazing.

Funny thing is I have many times traveled both a suitcase full of Elk meat. Once my flight left and our bag made the flight but due to maintenance issues our bag made it to the destination and we did not. So our family had to go to the airport and get the meat bag off the baggage claim.

My favorite bad movie is Zoom: Academy for Superheroes. It's Tim Allen and some kids genuinely thinking they'll really start a franchise. It's PG so it'll definitely be appropriate for anyone to watch.

Time Bandits? Not sure if that one got mentioned as I am JUST discovering this podcast..,which is fantastic btw!

Equilibrium has been my favorite (bad) movie of all time for a long time, it eclipsed Tremor for me when I saw it.

Listening to this I kept thinking you all need to see "Six String Samurai". Great in so many ways and terrible in so many more. I dont know how to sell beyond the title so just a little: premise is USSR nuked the US in the 50s and Elvis became king of the remains, he has died and now hopeful musicians and traveling for tournament to become new king. Music is really genuinely great. Quotable lines: Lines of dialogue is the highest I ever seen. The lead actor's every other actoring rolls are Thug #3 or similar in Hong Kong action movies.

@georgebush6002

Жыл бұрын

I second Six-string Samurai.

I could suggest several hilariously bad movies, most of which are 80s action movies (shout out to Roadhouse, the first bad movie I watched on purpose). But today I will focus on one recommendation: Love on a Leash. Love on a Leash is a romantic comedy about a woman who adopts a stray dog with a secret- every night, the dog transforms into a man. Without spoiling too much, here are some features of the movie: - Easy Access. It can be watched, in its entirety, on KZread. Or Prime Video, if you prefer. - No score. There is no music, no background sound, just recorded dialogue. When the movie starts playing, you may experience a brief moment of panic and wonder if your speakers are broken. They're not (probably). The movie begins in complete silence. - Speaking of the dialogue, it's awful. - Inexplicable direction. Shots where the focal character(s) are not fully in the frame or are in complete darkness, bizarre camera angles, and plenty of other things that would probably get you expelled from film school. - A lot of green. Specifically, pale lime green. - An unpredictable ending.

We have made "bad movie watching" a New Years tradition and I can honestly say there is no better way to celebrate a new year.

Y'all should release shorts with just the details of the food heists.

I remember watching Gods of Egypt. It had very good actors, and it felt like a better Clash of the Titans remake than the actual remake. But I don’t really remember more than that.

There is an awesomly terrible movie called the man who killed Hitler and then Yetti. Interestingly enough the first 10 minutes ish are legitimately good 8/10 and then it is so bad. I love it.

I spent the entire podcast thinking that Brandon’s favorite bad move was the animated movie Trolls 2: World Tour and then a few days later I remember there was another Troll movie and he was referring to Troll 2 instead 😂.

If you haven't seen it I would recommend "Split Second" With Rutger Hauer. It's on Amazon Prime. Loved this movie growing up.

This is an intereting first experience with this podcast. Was thinking, ooooo Brandon Sanderson, what are gonna talk about? An inspiration for an old novel, the pencil or pen.he used to write in his notepad on his first book. Nope. Yoyo Girl Cop. I now know thats a thing. On the plus side, I have a new movie to watch with my wife that will make her question why she married me, so that will be fun

Priest (with Paul Bettany, Karl Urban, Maggie Q, Christopher Plummer) is my favorite "bad movie". Lots of quality names in the actors, and the movie takes itself very seriously, but it is a hoot to watch. There is an anime-style intro to the movie where there is some gore, but other than that it has a standard amount of violence/blood for a PG-13 movie. My favorite thing about the movie is that the script, the actors, the dialogue is all serious and supposed to be grimdark, but they just don't quite pull it off, and it cracks me up to no end. Highly recommend.

I know these are recorded and released on a pretty long delay, but I hope Brandon and Dan get to discussing the WotC and OGL debacle.

Funny unknown movie is HIGH STRUNG (1991) with Steve Odekerk, Fred Willard, Thomas Wilson and an uncredited Jim Carry. I owned the VHS in high school.

I watched any of those 80s movies whenever they were on. We were not spoiled for choice and I took any fantasy movie they would give me. I can't believe we've gotten to the point where there are so many choices in fantasy that I don't watch many shows with a decent budget. Can't believe in a good way.

Looking forward to the suitcase full of meat.

Are we going to get Brandon's lectures this year?

Official request: Dan analyzing a bad movie at DS Con 2023. Watching him analyze a 2 hour movie (Crazy Rich Asians) for 4 hours was one of the highlights of DS Con 2022 for me. I can only imagine how much fun a bad movie would be.

For whatever reason, I actually had a great time with God’s of Egypt 😂 Gerald Butler was a surprisingly fun villain, and it was great to see Nikolaj Coster-Waldau outside of GoT.

The legend of Ron Burgundy is trying to be bad but is actually a masterpiece

The best example of a media that's deliberately bad yet completely hilarious and doesn't feel like it's trying too hard is "Garth Marenghis Darkplace". Absolutely hilarious English comedy and I wish there was a way I could get Dan and Brandon to watch it

@Lezzyboy87

Жыл бұрын

Funny you mention this as 1. Garth kinda looks like brandon. 2. Has a line where he says he's wrote more books than he's read, which seems apt lol

In the Sword & Sorcery genre, I would recommend Hawk the Slayer. In addition to its hilarious badness, it has the feel of a homebrewed Dungeon & Dragons campaign run by an uninspired Dungeon Master. Another film that might be a bit too graphic in terms of violence and nudity for your company, but is still a funny-bad film, is The Sword and the Sorcerer, starring Lee Horsley. It obviously had a higher budget than Hawk the Slayer, but is still entertainingly inept.

The Salute of the Jugger with Rutger Hauer is my favorite bad movie. Its a mix of Rise of the Titans and Gladiator set in a Mad Max world, I highly recommend it.

The Velocipastor was intentionally bad and very, very successful. I recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen it.

@aerynmusick4548

Жыл бұрын

There is a lot of violence but it is VERY low budget and doesnt shock or get gory. It’s all for fun. Maybe still not the thing for a company.

@austinbraswell189

Жыл бұрын

Came to the comments to suggest this movie. My favorite good “bad” movie.

Five months late, but I liked The Munchies from 1987. It's about these small-gnome sized aliens that come to take over earth. I remember laughing so hard when I saw it as a kid.

Velocipastor is my favorite bad movie! you guys should check it out! Llamageddon, Samurai Cop, Suburban Sasquatch, and Alien vs Hunter are a few others that are absolutely awesome

wow - making me remember all those 80's movies - favorite "bad" movies - Critters - Toxic Avenger - Red Sonia - Adventures in Babysitting - Attack of the Killer Tomatoes - Last Starfighters - Earth Girls are Easy - They Live ... miss this time period of just wacky movies.

@hkpew

Жыл бұрын

I don't think Adventures in Babysitting really belongs in this list. It's not at all speculative fictiony like the others in the list. It's just a good wacky comedy, like Better Off Dead. It is a really fun movie, though.

@Cyahlaytar

Жыл бұрын

@@hkpew sure - I was just listing all the wacky movies I remembered and enjoyed even though they weren't "good" movies.

@shannoncornaby9795

Жыл бұрын

The Last Starfighter!!! Haha 😂

The best part about Googling "suitcase full of meat" is that you will learn of not one, but *two* cases in which the term is applicable. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

@danwells9305

Жыл бұрын

I SAID DON’T DO IT

I really got a kick out of rewatching the live-action Super Mario Bros. movie after finding it in the Wal-Mart bargain DVD bin

I love the old school dungeons and dragons movie. That was actually my introduction to D&D as a concept, and I am absolutely okay with it.

@piergiuseppedonghia846

Жыл бұрын

I remember watching that movie with rule -savvy friends who completely lost it at "red and gold dragons fighting each other with fireballs."

Not a movie, but the TV show Danger 5 fits in the category, "We know it's terrible but also genuinely funny." Sometimes I wish I shared Brandon's taste for movies that are sincere but wrong in every way, it seems like an enjoyable way to look at the world.

Gods of Egypt is the best bad movie experience I ever had, its incredible

Dan, you're thinking of The Machine Girl! Another fantastic pick, that I'm pretty sure is made by the same company, is Tokyo Gore Police. Samurai Cop is also a legendary bad movie!

@DAGDRUM53

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for reminding me of Tokyo Gore Police, will watch it again after watching this.

@danwells9305

Жыл бұрын

That’s it!

I submit for your bad movie consideration: ---Hudson Hawk. It is a truly bizarre heist movie and one of Bruce Willis's worst-review movies ever. Like your Ninja 3 experience, it was my introduction to the idea of movie-so-amazingly-bad-it's enjoyable. It did help that I watched it in a hotel room in Paris across the street from Louvre and it was dubbed in German (which I do not understand) and subtitled in French (of which I only understand the basics). It was a wild and wonderful ride.

The best part about Yo-yo Girl Cop is the fact that it’s an ongoing series in Japan based on a manga with movies and tv shows, which I guess inspired or created a mini genre about high school girls fighting crime in Japanese media for a while. Good stuff.

@Lezzyboy87

Жыл бұрын

Good stuff? If you say so

@Slater2113

Жыл бұрын

@@Lezzyboy87 Weird stuff is at times better than outright good stuff at this point. I’ve already seen good movies. Do something new.

Equilibrium reminds me a lot of the Giver, but intended as an action movie instead of having the movie adaptation of a book force in some out-of-place action.

@kaimcdragonfist4803

Жыл бұрын

The idea actually reminded me a lot of Fahrenheit 451. Just with bullets instead of flamethrowers

The old mortal combat movie is a classic!

Dan should watch Garzey's Wing. Let's put this gem on his radar

I am going to recommend the 1989 sci-fi film Arena, rated PG-13. Its Wikipedia entry has a good synopsis, if you're interested. It has that so-bad-it's-good feel, and it's one of my favorites.

I have not seen this since I was a child but Surf Ninjas had a special place in the bad movie realm for me.

"Bad" movie recs: Firstly "The Guyver" and its weird semi-sequel "Black Mask 2: City of Masks". Then of course, the very best of the Full Moon Pictures flicks: "Meridian".

I wonder how many signatures Brandon has signed over the years... Also, Equilibrium was great! How about Freejack, with Mick Jagger?

Drgonball Evolution, The Last Airbender, and Leprechaun: In Da Hood have to be my votes for bad movies you need to see at least once.

I don't know if it qualifies as a bad movie, but I love the movie Merlin starring Sam Neill - if you haven't seen it I think you'll love it!

@davidsabotta6528

Жыл бұрын

I cherished that movie as a kid. My family still quotes it to this day. That said, it's been a very, very long time since I watched it. "Mordwit, you can be anyfing you wike but you mustn't be wude." Helena Bonham Carter

The Japanese movie with chainsaw girl you are looking for is The Machine Girl from 2008

My recommendation is a movie called 100% Wolf. It's an animated kids movie about werewolves with one of the wildest premises I've ever seen that takes itself completely seriously despite every second being completely ridiculous.

A bad movie I like is Nuigulumar Z. It is incredibly strange. It's both a magical girl movie and a zombie movie, but it's not very gory. It also has a lovely wholesome theme about following your dreams coupled with the most questionable combat strategies I've seen in a movie. Also, sentient teddy bears. I recommend it if you're in the mood to have your brain melted a bit.

Dragon Wars. I don't know if this one will hold up now. My friends enjoyed panning it when we saw it in the theater. I don't think any of us have watched it since then though.

There's a movie called The Drawer (at least I think) it's been a long time, but it was bad and bizarre but wonderful and weird. A man appears inside a morgue drawer and it let's him go back in time, and he keeps ending up there and doesn't know why. I only saw it once and have never found it again. If you do manage to find it, you must watch it.

One of my favorite bad movies is JSA: World War II. It’s the epitome of goofy, tropey super hero animated movies and it’s wonderful.

one of the greatest wtf movies I know is "hectic knife". not sure if it's ok to watch with the company though. there's not much gore but it is a bit overly surreal at times.

Gods of Egypt would have been a great movie if only it was any good. For other bad movies, Jupiter Ascending is a must, a true master piece of bad movies. Bright is another one, the live action G.I. Joe movies, and the Kingsman series which might not count as bad but certainly make very interesting choices.

In the vein of 80’s B movies, I’d recommend “Hawk the Slayer”

@jaywillis5801

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree. Hawk the Slayer with Jack Palance as the villain is the best of the 80s Fantasy movies.

I searched "Yo Yo Girl Cop" on KZread and this was the third video in the results

I know sanderson tends to steer away from the darker fiction, but I would love to hear what he amd Dan Wells think about the movie The Menu

@wingracer1614

Жыл бұрын

Is it as good as the hype? I want to check that one out.

@metumortis6323

Жыл бұрын

@@wingracer1614 I really liked a lot. In fact I think it's the best movie I saw last year. It's very funny and tense. I couldn't stop thinking about it after seeing it.

@reflexjat3822

Жыл бұрын

@@wingracer1614it’s enjoyable. 3/5 for me

@wingracer1614

Жыл бұрын

@@metumortis6323 I don't know, going to be hard to top EEAAO for best movie of last year but I can always watch Anya Taylor Joy so I'll give it a shot

@metumortis6323

Жыл бұрын

@@wingracer1614 I loved that movie too but for me at least, the menu topped it

I wanna have a movie night with Sando and watch Velocipastor!

Tucker & Dale vs Evil is a spoof of slasher movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, not sure if too graphic for your audience? But it is amazing!!!!

I love Equilibrium so much.

I *love* that Brandon loves Neil Breen movies! I found out about them from Kurtis Conner's channel, and they really are something else 😭💀

My favorite dumb movie is Better Off Dead. It is old enough that a lot of people haven’t seen it or if they have they don’t remember how funny it is.

Any of the Tremors movies!!! I love the first one.

I never expected brandon to mention chainsaw man lol...

i love the battlefield earth book. Only movie i went to see, where i left the theater angry.

Not a film, but a series of short episodes: Danger 5!

I have a bad movie recommendation. But first I just want to say thank you to this podcast. I am a stay at home mom to a 3 year old girl and you guys are sometimes the best adult interaction I get in a day. 😂 no further comment needed on that. My movie recommendation that you could definitely show your company is called a Borrowed Christmas. It doesn’t have any fancy special effects or anything like that. It is just a movie full of terrible story, script, and acting. Basic storyline premise is a middle-aged single and very wealthy man decides he wants to live out his G-rated fetish/fantasy of the man of the house during Christmas. A real “Charles Dickens” kind of Christmas. Seeing he has no family he decides to rent all of the things needed for this christmas- including a wife and children. It truly is the WORST movie I have ever watched and I almost turned it off so many times but I just kept hoping there would be a redemptive point. There wasn’t. There is no bad movie payoff here- except getting to the end and sitting there realizing that was a truly terrible movie. PS- wait til you learn about the borrowed orphans.