Quite a few men of a certain age will fondly recall the subject of this week’s edition of Eric’s Bad Movies at Film.com: “The Beastmaster,” a goofy sword-and-sorcery tale from 1982 that was thereafter shown endlessly on cable. I say men because this seems like the kind of movie that guys like and girls ignore, but perhaps there is some crossover.
This will disappoint about five of you, but I’m not going to do the thing anymore where I give clues about what next week’s movie is and you make guesses. One of my New Year’s resolutions is to not give clues about things so that people can guess, and that falls under that category, alas. Just enjoy the delightful surprise each Thursday of finding out for yourself what that week’s movie is!
I guess “Click” with Adam Sandler!
It has to be “Plan 9 from Outer Space.”
I know I’m new to your website, but I think a “read more here” link would be helpful. (At first I thought the Beastmaster link would go to imdb.com or something.)
I grew up as one of 4 girls (no brothers) and we all LOVED to hate this movie! I’m sorely disappointed that you discount the cheezeball taste of women. tsk, tsk!
Can we know the reasoning of your New Year’s resolution, Eric, or do we have to guess that too?:)
Oh, please let it be “Sextette”…
Man, I loved that movie as a kid. How cool with it be to be able to see through an eagle’s eyes???
You can’t fool us… you have no idea what next week’s is yet, do you?
Hopefully sometime you review Troll 2 in all its insane glory.
I met Marc Singer at ComicCon one year. He told me about how the tiger in the movie looked into his soul. Pretty awesome in a “you’re mental, and that is totally what I expected” sort of way.
My mom is a little bit retarded, and she watches this movie EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. it’s on TV. I don’t understand her sometimes.
Growing up, I adored this movie and Red Sonja for perfect, cheesy, late-night insomniac entertainment. . . And I am female. Sorry to skew your demographics.
And I vote for “The Boy Who Could Fly” for the next one. 🙂 Partially because we watched it tonight for 80s movie night.
I guess I could go the easy route and say “Maniac Cop”, but undeniably the worst movie I’ve seen is “Low Down Dirty Shame” with Keenan Ivory Wayans. It’s remarkable to me how the Wayans’ have continued to FOR DECADES to still work, produce films and television, and be extremely UNFUNNY, all while resting on the laurels of “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka”. I SO wanted my 100 minutes (and hard-earned moolah) back.
I am a female and loved this movie when it came out and watched it everytime it was one. I was a tomboy way back when; however. And, just to correct, it was a falcon, not an eagle.
KJ: The movie calls it an eagle, and it looks enough like an eagle for a layperson such as myself not to question it.
Oops! I always thought it was a falcon. When I looked up the movie in IMDb to recall the plot and the rediculous names of the characters, a funny thing: “People viewing this page may also be interested in these sponsored links: Are You Stupid?”
maybe someone who’s seen this movie can tell me,
at the end of the first youtube clip, where [the hell] does he put those ferrets?
“So Dar spends a lot of time master-beasting.” *groan*
you were trying to make that sound dirty weren’t you?
I really hope to see “Cool World” on the list of terrible movies at some point.
I think there is a hidden clue in what Eric said. He was just messing with our heads with the New Years Resolution. In the second paragraph, in the word dissapoint you can get the word “don’t”. In the word going, you can get the word “go”. In the word thing, you ccan get the word “in”. In the word the, you can get the word “the”. The take the first letter of what, the first letter of one twice, the first letter of delightful, and the first letter of surprise. That spells woods. So it’s obvious that next weeks movie is “Don’t Go In the Woods” That was tricky Eric.
I grew up watching Beastmaster, Eric. I LOVED it. I wonder what that says about me…
Carrie:
Maybe your Mom thinks Marc Singer is cute.