The holiday season is here, which means we as a culture get to repeat itself again without a hint of irony. I don’t mean to sound like a scrooge. I…
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Daniel Suddes lives in Atlanta and is a panelist on the "Myopia: Defend Your Childhood" podcast (myopia.dudeletter.com).
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No director may be as simultaneously beloved and underappreciated than John Carpenter. The average moviegoer knows about Halloween. His version of The Thing is thankfully now considered one of the…
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Sequels that fail to live up to their predecessor are automatically setting themselves up to be hated. But sequels that are truly loathed by everyone are an increasing rarity. Thanks…
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One of the easiest ways to find a “worst film” today is by searching for a spoof film. That’s a tragedy. Mel Brooks and the Zucker/Abrams/Zucker team showed it was…
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There was a time when the first Human Centipede film managed to get a cult audience based on its reputation alone. But unlike other transgressive cult films, like Pink Flamingos…
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There are two kinds of bad movies. One kind is incredibly endearing. The filmmakers were in way over their heads or were limited by their budgets and still tried the…
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I enjoy exploring the extreme opposite end of quality. I do “The Worst of the Best” to examine that divide. How can films nominated for Best Picture have such a…
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Driving Miss Daisy always falls in the bottom percentile of any Best Picture winners ranking. USA Today ranked it at number 88 of 93, and Rotten Tomatoes more generous ranking…
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I’ve looked at some films in this series that are truly bad. But when it comes to writing about the ”worst Best Pictures,” it’s less to do with the quality…
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Welcome to Elder Vs. Scion, where we take a look at two versions of a famous movie and see which one is better. This month, we’re looking at the 2016…
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”Never reference a good movie in the middle of your crappy movie.” — Tom Servo, Experiment 822: Overdrawn at the Memory Bank Space Jam: A New Legacy was released this…
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This month on ”The Worst of the Best,” I’m taking a slightly different route than I usually take. 1941’s Best Picture winner How Green Was My Valley doesn’t have a…
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I recently had the same discussion everyone feels like they’ve had with disillusioned 30-somethings. It was a conversation about how everything Tyler Durden said in Fight Club was right and…
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The 2021 Oscars have come and gone. The Best Picture of 2020 is apparently Nomadland. There are probably a lot of people who disagree with this decision. There are even…
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Once again, the movie seemingly everyone’s talking about isn’t something that was released in theaters. Zack Snyder’s Justice League, a four-hour recut of a film that had been initially greeted…
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Watching the movie for this article demonstrated the best and worst of streaming culture for me. On the one hand, I believe it’s safe to say original TV shows on…
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As you’re reading this, Donald Trump is no longer occupying the Oval Office. And, if you are sane, that news is being greeted with a sigh of relief. But you…
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One of the reasons I launched this series was to try to understand the thought process AMPAS members go through to pick the Best Picture winner of any year. It’s…
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Jon Favreau may not be a household name yet but he is responsible for some of the most famous pop culture icons of the two decades. He started as an…
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It’s a common refrain with any audience: ”The book was better.” And most of the time, they’re right. That’s not to say there have been zero adaptations that have improved…
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David Cronenberg’s filmography is among the strangest in horror cinema. He started in Canada making an unofficial adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s High Rise — with parasites thrown in for good…
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There are plenty of films that win Best Picture but are turned on by the public and retroactively labelled as terrible messes. There are other Best Picture winners that are…
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At the start of 2020, many people (myself included) were openly wondering how long the movie theater business model could last. Now, the situation has become far more dire. AMC…
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Joel Schumacher passed away earlier this month after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 80. And his obituaries have been some of the weirdest things I’ve read. Schumacher, throughout…
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Like many cinephiles, I am obsessed with lost/alternate cuts of films. It presents an alternate version of history and, for me, was one of the main draws to a film’s…
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The Worst of the Best re-examines the most unpopular Best Picture winners to see if they have any merit and determine why they won the top prize. It’s difficult…
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I’ve covered two types of debuts on (Not-So) Famous Firsts. The first is the type of debut that, while embarrassing, allows the director in question to point to his roots…
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Recently, Sonic the Hedgehog was released after being delayed four months to fix its CGI after its first trailer became the laughingstock of the internet. Everyone expected it to be…
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The 2019 Oscar ceremony is upon us and already people are expressing their dissatisfaction with AMPAS. After years, if not decades, of being a white boy’s club, AMPAS finally started…
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For more than sixty years now, Woody Allen has been an icon in the comedy world. Lately, though, it’s obvious that he’ll likely be remembered just as much for his…
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