Something I had backlogged, a post with my "worst" movies list.
https://trendytroodon.blogspot.com/2022/04/movie-mania-my-worst-movies-list.html
Here's the bottom 10 in countdown order.
10. Hard Rock Zombies
9. Sleepwalkers
8. The Nest
7. Santa Claus The Movie
6. Space Mutiny
5. Z.P.G.
4. Man-Thing
3. Inseminoid
2. War of the Planets
1. Ingagi

David N. Brown
Mesa Arizona

On 01/05/2022 14.58, David Brown wrote:
> Something I had backlogged, a post with my "worst" movies list.
> https://trendytroodon.blogspot.com/2022/04/movie-mania-my-worst-movies-list.html
> Here's the bottom 10 in countdown order.
> 10. Hard Rock Zombies
> 9. Sleepwalkers
> 8. The Nest
> 7. Santa Claus The Movie
> 6. Space Mutiny
> 5. Z.P.G.
> 4. Man-Thing
> 3. Inseminoid
> 2. War of the Planets
> 1. Ingagi

I am happy to say that I have never even heard of any of these.
Thank you for watching them so that we don't have to.

--
Michael F. Stemper
Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding;
Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.

In article <t4mpe8$ilr$1@dont-email.me>,
Michael F. Stemper <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 01/05/2022 14.58, David Brown wrote:
>> Something I had backlogged, a post with my "worst" movies list.
>>
>https://trendytroodon.blogspot.com/2022/04/movie-mania-my-worst-movies-list.html
>> Here's the bottom 10 in countdown order.
>> 10. Hard Rock Zombies
>> 9. Sleepwalkers
>> 8. The Nest
>> 7. Santa Claus The Movie
>> 6. Space Mutiny
>> 5. Z.P.G.
>> 4. Man-Thing
>> 3. Inseminoid
>> 2. War of the Planets
>> 1. Ingagi
>
>I am happy to say that I have never even heard of any of these.
>Thank you for watching them so that we don't have to.

Ditto; ditto.

--
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
Www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

On 5/1/2022 8:38 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article <t4mpe8$ilr$1@dont-email.me>,
> Michael F. Stemper <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 01/05/2022 14.58, David Brown wrote:
>>> Something I had backlogged, a post with my "worst" movies list.
>>>
>> https://trendytroodon.blogspot.com/2022/04/movie-mania-my-worst-movies-list.html
>>> Here's the bottom 10 in countdown order.
>>> 10. Hard Rock Zombies
>>> 9. Sleepwalkers
>>> 8. The Nest
>>> 7. Santa Claus The Movie
>>> 6. Space Mutiny
>>> 5. Z.P.G.
>>> 4. Man-Thing
>>> 3. Inseminoid
>>> 2. War of the Planets
>>> 1. Ingagi
>>
>> I am happy to say that I have never even heard of any of these.
>> Thank you for watching them so that we don't have to.
>
> Ditto; ditto.
>
I've seen Z.P.G. Not great but I've seen plenty that are much worse.

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

In article <t4nl1g$5j1$1@dont-email.me>,
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>On 5/1/2022 8:38 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>> In article <t4mpe8$ilr$1@dont-email.me>,
>> Michael F. Stemper <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 01/05/2022 14.58, David Brown wrote:
>>>> Something I had backlogged, a post with my "worst" movies list.
>>>>
>>>
>https://trendytroodon.blogspot.com/2022/04/movie-mania-my-worst-movies-list.html
>>>> Here's the bottom 10 in countdown order.
>>>> 10. Hard Rock Zombies
>>>> 9. Sleepwalkers
>>>> 8. The Nest
>>>> 7. Santa Claus The Movie
>>>> 6. Space Mutiny
>>>> 5. Z.P.G.
>>>> 4. Man-Thing
>>>> 3. Inseminoid
>>>> 2. War of the Planets
>>>> 1. Ingagi
>>>
>>> I am happy to say that I have never even heard of any of these.
>>> Thank you for watching them so that we don't have to.
>>
>> Ditto; ditto.
>>
>I've seen Z.P.G. Not great but I've seen plenty that are much worse.
>
I'm so sorry. I suggest you go to bed and get a good night's
rest; you're almost certain to feel better in the morning.

--
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
Www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

On 01 May 2022, David Brown wrote
(in article<2793cdf4-43b1-4aa2-9cc4-657987b7c7ccn@googlegroups.com>):

> Something I had backlogged, a post with my "worst" movies list.
> https://trendytroodon.blogspot.com/2022/04/movie-mania-my-worst-movies-list.ht
> ml
> Here's the bottom 10 in countdown order.
> 10. Hard Rock Zombies
> 9. Sleepwalkers
> 8. The Nest
> 7. Santa Claus The Movie
> 6. Space Mutiny
> 5. Z.P.G.
> 4. Man-Thing
> 3. Inseminoid
> 2. War of the Planets
> 1. Ingagi
>
> David N. Brown
> Mesa Arizona

Hmm. I’d have Nightfall (both of them) and Iron Sky on that list somewhere.
The second Nightfall was worse than the first, and the first was sufficiently
bad that Asimov tried to have his name removed from it. It has a 2.6 rating
at IMDB. Iron Sky was a Nazis on the Moon movie, complete with BMW motorbikes
rolling across Lunar maria. Yes, motorbikes in a vacuum...

Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article <t4mpe8$ilr$1...@dont-email.me>,
> Michael F. Stemper <michael...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On 01/05/2022 14.58, David Brown wrote:
> >> Something I had backlogged, a post with my "worst" movies list.
> >>
> >https://trendytroodon.blogspot.com/2022/04/movie-mania-my-worst-movies-list.html
> >> Here's the bottom 10 in countdown order.
> >> 10. Hard Rock Zombies
> >> 9. Sleepwalkers
> >> 8. The Nest
> >> 7. Santa Claus The Movie
> >> 6. Space Mutiny
> >> 5. Z.P.G.
> >> 4. Man-Thing
> >> 3. Inseminoid
> >> 2. War of the Planets
> >> 1. Ingagi
> >
> >I am happy to say that I have never even heard of any of these.
> >Thank you for watching them so that we don't have to.
> Ditto; ditto.

I have to admit to having seen "Space Mutiny" and "War of the Planets"
and having heard of five others.

--
-Jack

On 5/2/2022 6:30 AM, Wolffan wrote:
> On 01 May 2022, David Brown wrote
> (in article<2793cdf4-43b1-4aa2-9cc4-657987b7c7ccn@googlegroups.com>):
>
>> Something I had backlogged, a post with my "worst" movies list.
>> https://trendytroodon.blogspot.com/2022/04/movie-mania-my-worst-movies-list.ht
>> ml
>> Here's the bottom 10 in countdown order.
>> 10. Hard Rock Zombies
>> 9. Sleepwalkers
>> 8. The Nest
>> 7. Santa Claus The Movie
>> 6. Space Mutiny
>> 5. Z.P.G.
>> 4. Man-Thing
>> 3. Inseminoid
>> 2. War of the Planets
>> 1. Ingagi
>>
>> David N. Brown
>> Mesa Arizona
>
> Hmm. I’d have Nightfall (both of them) and Iron Sky on that list somewhere.
> The second Nightfall was worse than the first, and the first was sufficiently
> bad that Asimov tried to have his name removed from it. It has a 2.6 rating
> at IMDB. Iron Sky was a Nazis on the Moon movie, complete with BMW motorbikes
> rolling across Lunar maria. Yes, motorbikes in a vacuum...
>

Well damn, now you've made me want to watch it just for the motorbikes
on the moon.

Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
>
> Iron Sky was a Nazis on the Moon movie, complete with BMW motorbikes
> rolling across Lunar maria. Yes, motorbikes in a vacuum...
>

It also has Space Zeppelins. It should perhaps not be taken entirely serious.

--
Leif Roar Moldskred

On Mon, 2 May 2022 10:35:52 -0500, "Jay E. Morris"
<morrisj@epsilon3.comcon> wrote:

>On 5/2/2022 6:30 AM, Wolffan wrote:
>> On 01 May 2022, David Brown wrote
>> (in article<2793cdf4-43b1-4aa2-9cc4-657987b7c7ccn@googlegroups.com>):
>>
>>> Something I had backlogged, a post with my "worst" movies list.
>>> https://trendytroodon.blogspot.com/2022/04/movie-mania-my-worst-movies-list.ht
>>> ml
>>> Here's the bottom 10 in countdown order.
>>> 10. Hard Rock Zombies
>>> 9. Sleepwalkers
>>> 8. The Nest
>>> 7. Santa Claus The Movie
>>> 6. Space Mutiny
>>> 5. Z.P.G.
>>> 4. Man-Thing
>>> 3. Inseminoid
>>> 2. War of the Planets
>>> 1. Ingagi
>>>
>>> David N. Brown
>>> Mesa Arizona
>>
>> Hmm. I’d have Nightfall (both of them) and Iron Sky on that list somewhere.
>> The second Nightfall was worse than the first, and the first was sufficiently
>> bad that Asimov tried to have his name removed from it. It has a 2.6 rating
>> at IMDB. Iron Sky was a Nazis on the Moon movie, complete with BMW motorbikes
>> rolling across Lunar maria. Yes, motorbikes in a vacuum...
>>
>
>Well damn, now you've made me want to watch it just for the motorbikes
>on the moon.

I saw both it and it's sequel.

If you're in the right mood, and grok satire, they are a fun watch.

The second hints at a third, involving Mars, the Red Planet.
--
"I begin to envy Petronius."
"I have envied him long since."

On Monday, May 2, 2022 at 12:17:17 PM UTC-4, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Mon, 2 May 2022 10:35:52 -0500, "Jay E. Morris"
> <mor...@epsilon3.comcon> wrote:
>
> >On 5/2/2022 6:30 AM, Wolffan wrote:
> >> On 01 May 2022, David Brown wrote
> >> (in article<2793cdf4-43b1-4aa2...@googlegroups.com>):
> >>
> >>> Something I had backlogged, a post with my "worst" movies list.
> >>> https://trendytroodon.blogspot.com/2022/04/movie-mania-my-worst-movies-list.ht
> >>> ml
> >>> Here's the bottom 10 in countdown order.
> >>> 10. Hard Rock Zombies
> >>> 9. Sleepwalkers
> >>> 8. The Nest
> >>> 7. Santa Claus The Movie
> >>> 6. Space Mutiny
> >>> 5. Z.P.G.
> >>> 4. Man-Thing
> >>> 3. Inseminoid
> >>> 2. War of the Planets
> >>> 1. Ingagi
> >>>
> >>> David N. Brown
> >>> Mesa Arizona
> >>
> >> Hmm. I’d have Nightfall (both of them) and Iron Sky on that list somewhere.
> >> The second Nightfall was worse than the first, and the first was sufficiently
> >> bad that Asimov tried to have his name removed from it. It has a 2.6 rating
> >> at IMDB. Iron Sky was a Nazis on the Moon movie, complete with BMW motorbikes
> >> rolling across Lunar maria. Yes, motorbikes in a vacuum...
> >>
> >
> >Well damn, now you've made me want to watch it just for the motorbikes
> >on the moon.
> I saw both it and it's sequel.
>
> If you're in the right mood, and grok satire, they are a fun watch.
>
> The second hints at a third, involving Mars, the Red Planet.

I saw the first. It was fun as satire.

Your last line reminds me of a long-lost underground comic series:
"Commies from Mars: The RED planet". Often NSFW, many of
the artists developed quite elaborate stories on the theme.

pt

On 5/1/22 12:58 PM, David Brown wrote:

> Something I had backlogged, a post with my "worst" movies list.
> https://trendytroodon.blogspot.com/2022/04/movie-mania-my-worst-movies-list.html
> Here's the bottom 10 in countdown order.
> 10. Hard Rock Zombies
> 9. Sleepwalkers
> 8. The Nest
> 7. Santa Claus The Movie
> 6. Space Mutiny
> 5. Z.P.G.
> 4. Man-Thing
> 3. Inseminoid
> 2. War of the Planets
> 1. Ingagi
>
> David N. Brown
> Mesa Arizona

There's Nudists on the Moon. Besides all the topless women lounging on
a Moon which has air and looks like the Florida nudist resort where it
was filmed, the three scenes which I especially remember are one when
the scientist and his young assistant are making the rocket ... by
pouring steaming liquids into test tubes; one when the scientist has to
look for his assistant lounging on the beach ... to remind him that
they're going to be taking off in the rocket in 15 minutes; and one
where they are admiring how beautiful the rocket is just before they
board it ... by looking offscreen to the right at some object which we
never see.

--
Dudley Brooks, Artistic Director
Run For Your Life! ... it's a dance company!
San Francisco

Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
>
> There's Nudists on the Moon.

There's a 1987 sketch-based movie, 'Amazon Women on the Moon', where
one of the running themes are scenes from a purported "sci-fi classic"
with the same name. Carrie Fisher has a small part as part of a spoof
PSA. It also has the best suggestion for who Jack the Ripper _really_
was in movie history.

--
Leif Roar Moldskred

On Monday, May 2, 2022 at 10:02:29 AM UTC-6, Leif Roar Moldskred wrote:
> Wolffan <akwo...@zoho.com> wrote:
> >
> > Iron Sky was a Nazis on the Moon movie, complete with BMW motorbikes
> > rolling across Lunar maria. Yes, motorbikes in a vacuum...

> It also has Space Zeppelins. It should perhaps not be taken entirely serious.

But Earth has been invaded by Nazis from an even more unlikely place:
Russia!

John Savard

In article <dpicnZoctLIKqO3_nZ2dnZeNn_vNnZ2d@giganews.com>,
Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@huldreheim.Home> wrote:
>Dudley Brooks <dbrooks@runforyourlife.org> wrote:
>>
>> There's Nudists on the Moon.
>
>There's a 1987 sketch-based movie, 'Amazon Women on the Moon', where
>one of the running themes are scenes from a purported "sci-fi classic"
>with the same name. Carrie Fisher has a small part as part of a spoof
>PSA. It also has the best suggestion for who Jack the Ripper _really_
>was in movie history.

Wikipedia gives me more information on that flick than I care to
have, but neglects to identify Jack. Care to tell us?

--
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
Www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
>
> Wikipedia gives me more information on that flick than I care to
> have, but neglects to identify Jack. Care to tell us?
>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-9J2P4XZUo

"Jack the Ripper. Was he a prosperous London surgeon? Perhaps a member of
British royalty? Well, our Bullshit team has unearthed spectacular new
evidence which suggests that Jack the Ripper was in fact... The Loch Ness
monster."

--
Leif Roar Moldskred
"Eg vil ikke virke som ein idiot, men kven faen er Check Dripper?"

In article <0rWcneKvvuwM8O3_nZ2dnZeNn_XNnZ2d@giganews.com>,
Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@huldreheim.Home> wrote:
>Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
>>
>> Wikipedia gives me more information on that flick than I care to
>> have, but neglects to identify Jack. Care to tell us?
>>
>
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-9J2P4XZUo
>
>"Jack the Ripper. Was he a prosperous London surgeon? Perhaps a member of
>British royalty? Well, our Bullshit team has unearthed spectacular new
>evidence which suggests that Jack the Ripper was in fact... The Loch Ness
>monster."
>

Thabk you. That was nice and short.

--
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
Www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

In article <rBABFu.1pJ5@kithrup.com>,
Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
>In article <0rWcneKvvuwM8O3_nZ2dnZeNn_XNnZ2d@giganews.com>,
>Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@huldreheim.Home> wrote:
>>Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Wikipedia gives me more information on that flick than I care to
>>> have, but neglects to identify Jack. Care to tell us?
>>>
>>
>>
>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-9J2P4XZUo
>>
>>"Jack the Ripper. Was he a prosperous London surgeon? Perhaps a member of
>>British royalty? Well, our Bullshit team has unearthed spectacular new
>>evidence which suggests that Jack the Ripper was in fact... The Loch Ness
>>monster."
>>
>
>Thabk you. That was nice and short.

I saw (long enough ago to have forgotten the source) a speculation that
in fact there was no Jack the Ripper, but five unrelated murders of
a frequently targeted demographic in a stabby part of London. The
belief that they were related may have been pareidolia.

--
My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/
My tor pieces at https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/
My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/
My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll

On Mon, 2 May 2022 13:30:30 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca>
wrote:

>On Monday, May 2, 2022 at 10:02:29 AM UTC-6, Leif Roar Moldskred wrote:
>> Wolffan <akwo...@zoho.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Iron Sky was a Nazis on the Moon movie, complete with BMW motorbikes
>> > rolling across Lunar maria. Yes, motorbikes in a vacuum...
>
>> It also has Space Zeppelins. It should perhaps not be taken entirely serious.
>
>But Earth has been invaded by Nazis from an even more unlikely place:
>Russia!

The Russians seem bound and determined to piss off _everybody_. The
Israelis recently lambasted them for claiming that Hitler was Jewish.

On Tue, 3 May 2022 02:51:43 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
Nicoll) wrote:

>In article <rBABFu.1pJ5@kithrup.com>,
>Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
>>In article <0rWcneKvvuwM8O3_nZ2dnZeNn_XNnZ2d@giganews.com>,
>>Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@huldreheim.Home> wrote:
>>>Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Wikipedia gives me more information on that flick than I care to
>>>> have, but neglects to identify Jack. Care to tell us?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-9J2P4XZUo
>>>
>>>"Jack the Ripper. Was he a prosperous London surgeon? Perhaps a member of
>>>British royalty? Well, our Bullshit team has unearthed spectacular new
>>>evidence which suggests that Jack the Ripper was in fact... The Loch Ness
>>>monster."
>>>
>>
>>Thabk you. That was nice and short.
>
>I saw (long enough ago to have forgotten the source) a speculation that
>in fact there was no Jack the Ripper, but five unrelated murders of
>a frequently targeted demographic in a stabby part of London. The
>belief that they were related may have been pareidolia.

FWIW, Jack puts in an appearance in "BeForeigners", a Nordic Noir
series on HBO. It's not bad as long as you understand that it is
Scandinavian television which means that there is no nudity taboo
(note, very little explicit sex but there's one character who comes
from the distant past who just plain can't see the point of this
newfangled "clothes" stuff).

On 02 May 2022, Jay E. Morris wrote
(in article <t4otoq$rv7$1@dont-email.me>):

> On 5/2/2022 6:30 AM, Wolffan wrote:
> > On 01 May 2022, David Brown wrote
> > (in article<2793cdf4-43b1-4aa2-9cc4-657987b7c7ccn@googlegroups.com>):
> >
> > > Something I had backlogged, a post with my "worst" movies list.
> > > https://trendytroodon.blogspot.com/2022/04/movie-mania-my-worst-movies-list
> > > .ht
> > > ml
> > > Here's the bottom 10 in countdown order.
> > > 10. Hard Rock Zombies
> > > 9. Sleepwalkers
> > > 8. The Nest
> > > 7. Santa Claus The Movie
> > > 6. Space Mutiny
> > > 5. Z.P.G.
> > > 4. Man-Thing
> > > 3. Inseminoid
> > > 2. War of the Planets
> > > 1. Ingagi
> > >
> > > David N. Brown
> > > Mesa Arizona
> >
> > Hmm. I’d have Nightfall (both of them) and Iron Sky on that list
> > somewhere.
> > The second Nightfall was worse than the first, and the first was
> > sufficiently
> > bad that Asimov tried to have his name removed from it. It has a 2.6 rating
> > at IMDB. Iron Sky was a Nazis on the Moon movie, complete with BMW
> > motorbikes
> > rolling across Lunar maria. Yes, motorbikes in a vacuum...
>
> Well damn, now you've made me want to watch it just for the motorbikes
> on the moon.

It’s way over the top. They tried for ’so bad that it’s good’ and
missed.

A _good_ Nazis on the Moon story would be David Drake’s “The Last
Battalion”. Der Führer und umpteen thousand of his most dedicated
followers escaped Germany in April 1945, using hundreds of Type XXI u-boots
and a prototype flying saucer, and went to Antartica. From there they went to
the Moon, using more saucers built from Antarctic aluminum. Along the way
they encountered other flying saucers, which they presumed to be Soviets.
Mayhem ensued. Spoiler: the others weren’t Soviets, weren’t even human,
in fact, and it took them 30 years, but they worked out how to kill the Nazi
saucers and then they nuked the Nazi moonbase and the Antarctic base. Story
ends with the Nazis leaving a copy of the maintenance manual for their
saucers with an American before the last saucer lifts to continue to fight...
for they are SS, and will not surrender.

On 02 May 2022, J. Clarke wrote
(in article<n0717hdnuc7f36flth0uhcp700qc6psnmh@4ax.com>):

> On Tue, 3 May 2022 02:51:43 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
> Nicoll) wrote:
>
> > In article<rBABFu.1pJ5@kithrup.com>,
> > Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
> > > In article<0rWcneKvvuwM8O3_nZ2dnZeNn_XNnZ2d@giganews.com>,
> > > Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@huldreheim.Home> wrote:
> > > > Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Wikipedia gives me more information on that flick than I care to
> > > > > have, but neglects to identify Jack. Care to tell us?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-9J2P4XZUo
> > > >
> > > > "Jack the Ripper. Was he a prosperous London surgeon? Perhaps a member of
> > > > British royalty? Well, our Bullshit team has unearthed spectacular new
> > > > evidence which suggests that Jack the Ripper was in fact... The Loch Ness
> > > > monster."
> > >
> > > Thabk you. That was nice and short.
> >
> > I saw (long enough ago to have forgotten the source) a speculation that
> > in fact there was no Jack the Ripper, but five unrelated murders of
> > a frequently targeted demographic in a stabby part of London. The
> > belief that they were related may have been pareidolia.
>
> FWIW, Jack puts in an appearance in "BeForeigners", a Nordic Noir
> series on HBO. It's not bad as long as you understand that it is
> Scandinavian television which means that there is no nudity taboo
> (note, very little explicit sex but there's one character who comes
> from the distant past who just plain can't see the point of this
> newfangled "clothes" stuff).

ah... it’s _Nordic_, right? Doesn’t it get just a bit chilly up there?

On Mon, 2 May 2022 10:37:26 -0700 (PDT), "pete...@gmail.com"
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Monday, May 2, 2022 at 12:17:17 PM UTC-4, Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Mon, 2 May 2022 10:35:52 -0500, "Jay E. Morris"
>> <mor...@epsilon3.comcon> wrote:
>>
>> >On 5/2/2022 6:30 AM, Wolffan wrote:
>> >> On 01 May 2022, David Brown wrote
>> >> (in article<2793cdf4-43b1-4aa2...@googlegroups.com>):
>> >>
>> >>> Something I had backlogged, a post with my "worst" movies list.
>> >>> https://trendytroodon.blogspot.com/2022/04/movie-mania-my-worst-movies-list.ht
>> >>> ml
>> >>> Here's the bottom 10 in countdown order.
>> >>> 10. Hard Rock Zombies
>> >>> 9. Sleepwalkers
>> >>> 8. The Nest
>> >>> 7. Santa Claus The Movie
>> >>> 6. Space Mutiny
>> >>> 5. Z.P.G.
>> >>> 4. Man-Thing
>> >>> 3. Inseminoid
>> >>> 2. War of the Planets
>> >>> 1. Ingagi
>> >>>
>> >>> David N. Brown
>> >>> Mesa Arizona
>> >>
>> >> Hmm. I’d have Nightfall (both of them) and Iron Sky on that list somewhere.
>> >> The second Nightfall was worse than the first, and the first was sufficiently
>> >> bad that Asimov tried to have his name removed from it. It has a 2.6 rating
>> >> at IMDB. Iron Sky was a Nazis on the Moon movie, complete with BMW motorbikes
>> >> rolling across Lunar maria. Yes, motorbikes in a vacuum...
>> >>
>> >
>> >Well damn, now you've made me want to watch it just for the motorbikes
>> >on the moon.
>> I saw both it and it's sequel.
>>
>> If you're in the right mood, and grok satire, they are a fun watch.
>>
>> The second hints at a third, involving Mars, the Red Planet.
>
>I saw the first. It was fun as satire.
>
>Your last line reminds me of a long-lost underground comic series:
>"Commies from Mars: The RED planet". Often NSFW, many of
>the artists developed quite elaborate stories on the theme.

The second continues the tradition. And explains who has been running
the planet since -- well, pretty much forever.

Let's just say a lot of famous people, some of them thought to be
dead, turn out to ... not be people at all.
--
"I begin to envy Petronius."
"I have envied him long since."

On Tue, 03 May 2022 08:24:50 -0400, Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com>
wrote:

>On 02 May 2022, Jay E. Morris wrote
>(in article <t4otoq$rv7$1@dont-email.me>):
>
>> On 5/2/2022 6:30 AM, Wolffan wrote:
>> > On 01 May 2022, David Brown wrote
>> > (in article<2793cdf4-43b1-4aa2-9cc4-657987b7c7ccn@googlegroups.com>):
>> >
>> > > Something I had backlogged, a post with my "worst" movies list.
>> > > https://trendytroodon.blogspot.com/2022/04/movie-mania-my-worst-movies-list
>> > > .ht
>> > > ml
>> > > Here's the bottom 10 in countdown order.
>> > > 10. Hard Rock Zombies
>> > > 9. Sleepwalkers
>> > > 8. The Nest
>> > > 7. Santa Claus The Movie
>> > > 6. Space Mutiny
>> > > 5. Z.P.G.
>> > > 4. Man-Thing
>> > > 3. Inseminoid
>> > > 2. War of the Planets
>> > > 1. Ingagi
>> > >
>> > > David N. Brown
>> > > Mesa Arizona
>> >
>> > Hmm. I’d have Nightfall (both of them) and Iron Sky on that list
>> > somewhere.
>> > The second Nightfall was worse than the first, and the first was
>> > sufficiently
>> > bad that Asimov tried to have his name removed from it. It has a 2.6 rating
>> > at IMDB. Iron Sky was a Nazis on the Moon movie, complete with BMW
>> > motorbikes
>> > rolling across Lunar maria. Yes, motorbikes in a vacuum...
>>
>> Well damn, now you've made me want to watch it just for the motorbikes
>> on the moon.
>
>It’s way over the top. They tried for ’so bad that it’s good’ and
>missed.

Oh, I don't know that it missed.

If it were on DVDs (or BDs) that would play in my player /and/ didn't
have reviews like "stopped playing after 5 minutes", I'd probably own
copies of them. But they didn't appear to be reasonably available the
last time I checked.
--
"I begin to envy Petronius."
"I have envied him long since."

On Mon, 02 May 2022 23:05:04 -0400, J. Clarke
<jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Mon, 2 May 2022 13:30:30 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca>
>wrote:
>
>>On Monday, May 2, 2022 at 10:02:29 AM UTC-6, Leif Roar Moldskred wrote:
>>> Wolffan <akwo...@zoho.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Iron Sky was a Nazis on the Moon movie, complete with BMW motorbikes
>>> > rolling across Lunar maria. Yes, motorbikes in a vacuum...
>>
>>> It also has Space Zeppelins. It should perhaps not be taken entirely serious.
>>
>>But Earth has been invaded by Nazis from an even more unlikely place:
>>Russia!
>
>The Russians seem bound and determined to piss off _everybody_. The
>Israelis recently lambasted them for claiming that Hitler was Jewish.

"Pissing off everybody" /would/ align with their national character.
That certainly describes their treatment of their neighbors.

As to the last, is someone riffing on the Russians claiming that
Zelenskyy, a Jew, is a Nazi? Or did Putin (for this claim would, no
doubt, have originated with Putin) actually say that?

He must be getting /very/ desperate. He /needs/ a victory for a major
date coming up, and he doesn't have one. Meanwhile, I suspect "Heroic
Mariupol" will be joining "Heroic Stalingrad" in military history.

Apparently, even the spetznatz troops aren't working out. And dead
spetznatzi take years to replace properly, unlike your standard
infantryman, who takes a few months (once drafted) at most, depending
on how much training the draftee gets.

Meanwhile, Ukraine is getting weapons more suited to tank battles as
opposed to defense followed by partisan resistance. And at least one
provider has said that, if they use the artillery to hit targets in
Russia, that's just fine.
--
"I begin to envy Petronius."
"I have envied him long since."