Thursday, July 10, 2008

50 Movie Pack: SciFi Classics!!!

So, I got a lot of free time on my hands since I'm not taking any classes right now and I don't have a job. It'd be a shame to waste all this time in some petty manner so I decided that I better do something good for the community, but i wasn't quite sure what. Then one fateful day I was at my uncle's house and I stumbled across this DVD box set of 50 terrible SciFi movies and I thought to myself "what kind of idiot would waste his time watching all those terrible movies?" Yet at the same time I felt sad . . . it seems that people today are so caught up in unimportant affairs like politics, working, or spending time with their families that they completely neglect to pay proper respect to the works of art which essentially laid the foundation for our whole society--I'm talking about SciFi flicks, really old ones. At that moment I knew what I had to do with my time. It was time for me to step up and take on the responsibility of my heedless society and watch all 50 of these god-awful films. Just so everyone is able to reap the benefits of my sacrifice, I'll write a brief summary of each of these films as I struggle my way through them. Should anyone chose to follow my courageous example and watch some of these things, I'll also give the films a score ranging 1 through 5.

The scoring corresponds to the following:

1 = terrible movie, almost impossible to watch in entirety, had to force myself to watch it, almost annoyed that I wasted my time watching it

2 = pretty bad, it's possible to watch once without having to exert my attention too much, I'll probably never watch it again

3 = it held my attention, I didn't have too hard of a time watching it once, probably won't watch it again

4 = decent movie, has enough redeeming qualities to make me think it might be worth watching again

5 = entertaining movie (although entertaining doesn't necessarily mean good), will probably watch it again at some point and would recommend that you watch it too!

I notice that each pf these films has a short description on their DVD sleeves. However, I don't plan on reading the descriptions until after I view them because I'm assuming the descriptions will only deter me from watching them in the first place. I might reference these descriptions in my summary's though because I have a feeling that several of them won't accurately represent the films they supposedly describe. We'll see. Also, I plan on viewing these films in the order they're arranged in the box set. Maybe there's some logic to the order (though I highly doubt it). All assign a number to each film I watch in the order I view them. (for example, the first film I watch is umber 1 . . .)

May the force be with you!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You can also get tons of those movies by typing in keywords "Public Domain" to Google Video.