Monster of the Day #1709

Updated on March 19, 2018 By Ken Begg 29 Comments

Top men (and robots) determined it, so who am I to argue?

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  • Gamera977

    Was looking at this over breakfast and I am shocked, I tell you shocked that he has not been MotD before this! (Or I don’t remember if he has been).

    This is my candidate vying with ‘Starship Troopers’ as worst movie ever made. ‘Plan Nine From Outer Space’ is at least entertaining throughout.

  • Toby Clark

    For me it’s somewhere in the bottom 10 (out of 2300+). The bottom 2 will always be The Last Airbender and The Legend of the Titanic.

  • maggie smith

    Gamera977 I enjoyed watching idiots get horribly killed by giant space bugs, so I thought Starship Troopers was pretty good.

  • kgb_san_diego

    Sorry, I am with Maggie. I actually really LIKE “Starship Troopers”. You have to get past the surface, though, because the surface is really dumb… :-)

  • bgbear_rnh

    I used to say that the worst big budget film had to be “The Conqueror” with John Wayne as Genghis Khan. There are many competing for that honor today.

    For low budget, I have to go with either “Manos” or “Beast of Yucca Flats” if forced to name a worst.

  • bgbear_rnh

    My wife loves the film.

  • Have you seen “Exorcist II: The Heretic”? I haven’t, but it came in second – by a mere 9 votes – to “Plan 9…” as the Worst Movie of All Time in Michael and Harry Medved’s “Golden Turkey Awards”.

  • Gamera977

    Lol, and to be honest as a movie it’s not that bad. But as a guy who really likes Heinlein’s novel it kinda honks me off. If they’d stayed with the ‘Bug Hunt’ title it wouldn’t bother me.

  • bgbear_rnh

    I would agree on that. It was Verhoven’s film, not Heinlein’s.

  • Gamera977

    I kinda have to divide them by boring bad films and so batguano crazy it’s entertaining films which the ‘Exocist II’ sorta fits into. Where else can you see James Earl Jones dressed as a giant grasshopper!?!

  • Toby Clark

    I have. Right now it’s around my bottom 25-30. I’d probably rank it lower if I liked the original Exorcist more.

  • Flangepart

    Re-read the novel after seeing the flick…Robert H. could have sued.

  • Flangepart

    Yeah, Plan 9 is funny stupid (Well one thing is certain. Inspector Clay is dead…murdered…and someone is responsible!)…versus boring stupid…and my brain blanks out on those…it’s a brain survival tactic.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I’d say ‘Troopers’ is worse. Not just for taking a dump all over Heinlein’s book and the ideas behind it, but for being a horribly done sermon from the bully pulpit.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Several people here have mentioned the Medveds’ books.I am curious if anyone else has noticed how many people seem to despise their books today. I see a lot of sniffing and sneering online of the ‘How dare they?!?’ stripe towards the Medveds.

  • Their politics are “wrong” therefor their previous well-researched work in any other field must be also declared double-plus ungood.

  • zombiewhacker

    “Wait, Torgo is supposed to be a monster? Oh, now I really hate this movie!”

  • marsden

    To me it seems like it’s all surface, I really didn’t see any depth to it.

    I have to admit, I saw it in the movies and thought it was cool. Then the first mistake was I read the book, second mistake was I watched it again.

    There were things that bothered me first time around but I just put up with them, like the fleet sitting absolutely still while the all got shot down or why everyone was more concerned with killing their own people than rescuing any of them. After repeat viewing all of that was all I could see, the cool action didn’t really do much to change all of the stupid.

  • Marsden

    This must be before he took TV’s Frank up to Second Banana Heaven.

  • SteveWD

    Got to deliver the pizza.

  • The Rev.

    Huh. I hadn’t realized that was the case; I’ve not seen this attitude towards them.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I’ve seen it on several social media sites. There are some people out there with an utter mad on at the Medveds.

  • It’s fairly rampant the last few years. Hell, even one of the B-Masters was having a real go at Michael Medved as a movie reviewer last week. He seems to be the sibling that comes in for the bulk of the abuse, I suspect as a result of eventually becoming better known as a (shocked gasp!) conservative political commentator.

    But the original books he did with his brother on B-flicks also seem to be attracting a lot of flack these days. Weirdly it’s often in a “How dare they take the piss about people’s hard work in the industry” way despite the fact that many making that criticism are doing the same in their own work.

  • Yep.

  • maggie smith

    Ah, Togo ! A performance of true strangeness !

  • maggie smith

    The characters are pretty much what you would expect from having grown up in a fascist utopia: healthy, usually good looking – I’m looking at you, Jake Busey- and dumb as rocks. It takes them until their mid-20s to graduate from high school, after all. And every ex-soldier we see is middle-aged and horribly mutilated. Clearly, the war has been going on for decades.

  • The Rev.

    I must not have read that review/blog post yet. I’ll have to keep an eye out (although based on past posting history I can really only think of one likely candidate, and one possible dark horse).

  • It’s possible (actually likely looking at what is up now and what I know that I read) that it was an older review that I went back and reread this week based on something I had been watching recently. I do that a lot, then can’t remember which is older and which is newer. Middle aged mom brain is a bitch!

  • David Fullam

    True story, I dated on and off a young lady who was once friends with the daughter of the man who did the music for Manos. Met her once and she spoke to me about her dad. He was good friends with the fellow who played Torgo and I learned the actor was a troubled man who ultimately took his own life.