My Wii has a virus

As a sweet birfday present my brother gifted me Dr. Mario online.  This seriously was the first time that I have turned on my Wii, or had a reason to, in months.  There is no secret that I have a Xbox 360 and play it a lot.  I had the Wii first, loved it alot for a long time, then got a 360, 42" 1080P LCD Samsung, a 360, and forgot all about the Wii.   It looks like shit on it.  I  could buy some component cables for it, but I have yet to get the nerve up because I rarely play the thing unless we have company. 

Until now.  Next to Call of Duty 4, which is more fun than I have ever had with a online game, Dr. Mario online is a fucking blast. Even though you need those retarded friend codes to play with ANYONE on your friend list, it is easy to get going.  Hosting and playing matches are easy, lag free, and addicting as hell.  I have a feeling that I will be playing this game quite a bit. 

A/A for classic goodness

The 'Hoff in space

This is an image gracing the back of a birthday card I received from my sister in law this weekend.  SO, in honor of the Hoff I have a primo piece of 70's Sci-Fi Trash for display.

Sometimes you come by a movie that is so atrociously bad that it transcends badness into the realm of hilarious immortality.  This is such a film.  If it had legs and big muscle bound arms it would lift itself to the heavens and scream a battle cry, then fart.  Everything about this film is half assed and half baked. From the robot that has a Louisiana accent Elle,

..to our lead Caroline Munro who, when not rapped in plasitc furniture covering, is saving the known galaxy, which consists of many different colored stars not unlike those lights you string up for christmas, in a g string. 

There are fights with HUGE robots, done in that old "Clash of the Titans" style stop motion animation, who have TITS!!!! 

"Maniac" perv Joe Spinell plays the antagonist here, looking like a cross between Ming the Merciless and Count Chocula.

All around the story is pointless because you will be taken out of the movie fairly early on because all the space ships look like obvious toys and models and the actors sling out such terrible dialogue at rapid movie rate speech that all you can do is sit back and hold on to your jewels.  

Grab on to the nearest frosty beverage, drink about 6-10 of them, have some buds over, and enjoy one of the worst movies I have ever seen next to Troll 2, Howling: New Moon Rising, and Space Mutiny.

5/5 for pure shittyness

Keeping the family together one Atomic Vulture at a time.

It's funny what a one year old will and will not watch.  Mine today watched "The Giant Claw"(1957). Here is a child that watches primarily "Baby Einstein" videos and likes to throw my DVD's all over the floor.  She doesn't have the time, nor patience, to sit and watch anything, let alone some piece of 50's schlock such as this.  Makes me smile and laugh at the same time. 

Every time the giant vulture came on the screen she raised her little hands, opened and closed them, and said "roar".  She does the same thing to pictures of bears, dinosaurs, and horses....ha ha ha.  

Anyway, this is the first post on my new blog.  I am here to get out my geek and talk about all the movies I watch because I don't usually get the opportunity.  I hope anyone that reads it enjoys and comments.  On to the first film...

 

For fans of Godzilla type monster on the loose flicks, "The Giant Claw" should be on the list of those looking for a movie to drink to with a big unbelievable monster puppet eating planes on strings.  Most of the acting is so cookie cutter and stock that it is all pretty forgettable, but any scene in which the monster is in, which the filmmaker Fred F. Sears uses most of the same shots over and over again, are priceless hilarity. 

"It's good for tha snake a bite..."

Plus the drunk French Canadian character Pierre gives the film some great mushed english for short periods of time. 

Have a urge to see some bad 50's monster flick?  This will fill the bill.  

My score: 6/10

This post is short and sweet. I am sure it will change.