Chances are you’ll be spending some time with video games tonight as you ring in the New Year. We’re guessing that amidst the periodic peek at what’s happening in New York and the occasional snack and beverage, there will be a whole lot of video gaming going on. What better way to bid farewell to 2008 and welcome in 2009? The obvious contenders will be party games like Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Lips, Dance Dance (insert version here), and anything on the Wii.
Xbox Live folks can dress up for the occasion, with a variety of new clothes for their avatar. The fellas may sport:
Believe it or not, there was a time when Hulk Hogan was poised to transition to the big screen in a way only the Rock (Dwayne Johnson) has managed to pull off “successfully”. He had a good run with Mr. Nanny and Suburban Commando, but hit a serious, career-tanking snag that no amount of Hulkamania gesticulation could save:Santa with Muscles, which just so happens to be the #1 So-Bad-It’s-Good Christmas movie.
Happy Holidays from all of us here at TopTenREVIEWS. Maybe you’re like us and you haven’t yet felt the real spirit of Christmas. We don’t know why. Maybe it was because Thanksgiving was so late in the year. Maybe it’s the recession, who knows? But we’ve decided that it’s time to feel the holiday spirit.
So from one company that has recently become full of the elusive holiday cheer, our gift to you is employees giving Oscar-winning performances in the soon-to-be famous Twelve Tech Days of Christmas song.
If you’re too panicked to think about holiday spirit because you haven’t completed your Christmas shopping yet, we recommend you read these other blog posts:
The family melodrama to family comedy ratio in Christmas films leaves few other options for what Christmas movies can or can’t be. There are plenty of exceptions to this, of course, but few films dare sever the yoke that binds them to the holiday-profitable “family” label without risking being utterly unprofitable.
So, what happens when a comedy comes along and brazenly puts the bird in the cutesy, over-sized eye of “family” while still maintaining its status as a Christmas movie? Well, Bad Santa happens. And, though it is a really, really, really off-color film about an alcoholic, safe-cracking mall Santa Claus and, incidentally a really great comedy, it is also a So-Bad-It’s-Good Christmas movie, and incidentally, #2.
What do you get when you combine dated kitschy animation with a terrible, terrible plot that both a.) strains the ubiquitous/everlasting SW forum topic of “continuity” and b.) converges around a really, really lame holiday called “Life Day,” which is essentially the Wookie version of Christmas but, you know, really, really lame? Well, apparently you get a TV film so bad that David Hofstede, author of What Were They Thinking?: The 100 Dumbest Events in Television History ranked it number one. I’m guessing it was a very lonely race.
Long before Star Wars fans watched in open-mouth horror the green screen blasphemy and lame-ification of the Star Wars series by way of an unnecessary Special Edition-ization of the hermetically-sealed, already-perfect, canonical Episodes IV-VI and the release of Episodes I-III, there was a tragic misstep that (could/should have) served as preparation/indication for said blasphemy and lame-ification: The Star Wars Holiday Special; which, incidentally, ranks #3 on my Top Ten So-Bad-It’s-Good Christmas movies.
The weeks that house Christmas and New Years are generally two of the slowest weeks in the music industry, with only a handful of albums taking up additional shelf space. But, for those looking for a last-minute gift, or simply need yet another musical antacid to help stymie the holiday music-induced acid-reflux you are feeling, here are some albums that could do the trick:
It is coming down to the wire, which is euphemism for “the present is now narrowly separated from a future event by the magical, ethereal substance called time.” If you haven’t bought presents for your hipster friends, family members, loved ones or—cough, cough—yourself, you are not alone.
So, without further commotion and pointless, semi-autobiographical tomfoolery: the latest installment of my Gift Guide for the Musically Hip.
It’s easy to confuse Santa Claus: The Movie with the much, much more successful, similarly named Christmas movie, Santa Claus. But, while both have their respective bits of bad and good, only one can be hyphenated to read “so-bad-it’s-good” without, you know, being patently untrue. Santa Claus is just plain bad.
So, in 500 words or more (probably more), what is it about this Christmas flick that makes it so bad to the point of becoming, um, good again?
For starters, Santa Claus and the grim realities of Reaganomics.
Despite the names associated with the film and, even more so, its blinding success ($153, 083, 102 domestic gross), Gremlins is a terrible, terrible movie that is transcendent, i.e. good, only by the sheer intensity of its terriblicity. Though the film isn’t technically a Christmas flick, it’s Christmastime setting makes it an arguable—nay, patent— #5 selection for my Top Ten So-Bad-It’s-Good Christmas Movies.
So, what is it that is so bad about this movie that it goes full circle to become good, despite, you know, being wildly popular, profitable and even questionably warranting a sequel?
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Chances are you’ll be spending some time with video games tonight as you ring in the New Year. We’re guessing that amidst the periodic peek at what’s happening in New York and the occasional snack and beverage, there will be a whole lot of video gaming going on. What better way to bid farewell to 2008 and welcome in 2009? The obvious contenders will be party games like Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Lips, Dance Dance (insert version here), and anything on the Wii.
