It gives me an excuse to post this.
With the advent of the VCR, there were a slew of "Cars in the desert" movies that were straight to video. I'm not sure if atomic fears drove it as much as it was just cheap to make apocalyptic scifi in abandoned locations.
"Batman Returns is basically a two-hour Edward Gorey cartoon in which Batman occasionally shows up to beat up some circus folk."
And even more laughable is a porn parody of Quicksilver looks cooler.
Tumblr had a field day dropping him into Xtreme 90s cartoons and such. All and all I chalk it up to FOX being notorious for hiring dodgy photoshoppers... he may not be so bad live action. Still, yeesh.
Likewise.
Actually Raw Head Rex isn't a bad choice either.
*Ventura Bodyslam*
Yeah parody is a fine line, and he knew how to walk it.
Yeah with the Flukeman, the hallucinogenic mushroom field, the ecoterrorists vs the glowing bug vampires, and the cockroachs one... too many to choose from. All of Darin Morgan's scripts were aces though. Just checking IMDB I didn't realize Gilligan wrote Pusher, another all time favorite. Cerulean blue.
I'd vote Humbug for best MOTW episode of X-files, with the parasitic twin, the dwarf from Twin Peaks, the Jim Rose Circus and the Fiji Mermaid mythology. Although I personally think Jose Chung is the best overall episode, not really a MOTW one. I agree though, they did it the best.
NEVER FORGET
I disagree on the first point and agree on the second. I'm sorry it was such a horrid experience for you, hopefully you didn't get PTDS from it. Personally I thought it was fun, but it's not especially re-watchable, for the record. I simply don't understand why some people hate it with passion, it's a fairly…
Why acknowledge your embarrassing low attention span, your brilliant concept that special edition disks are released in theaters, that a regular garage is somehow "improbable", or your pathetic need to use lame insults to fend off your little crybaby rager hard-on for a fricken movie? That you didn't even watch. But…
"Zoning out". Right. You fast-forwarded through a crappy low rez download. Troll FAIL.
Did you even watch the movie? The kid didn't fix the armor. So, so wrong.