My friend Tim is spending the evening home alone tonight as his wife is out and so he’s decided to watch a film, specifically the sort of film that his wife won’t normally let him watch. Searching through the Virgin on-demand service he discovered a made-for-TV movie by the name of “Hammer of Gods” and immediately decided this was the film for him, despite the fact that:
(a) It stars no-one you’ve ever heard of.
(b) It’s directed by a guy whose only previous work is “Copperhead”, another TV movie about cowboys being attacked by snakes.
(c) It’s got a rating 3.5/10 on IMBD.
So, why has he decided to watch it? Simple, because the tagline is “Vikings vs. Werewolves”. As the man himself said, “All they’d need to do would be to add in some ninjas and it would be the best film ever!”.
So this got me thinking, is there a film concept that would intrigue you so much that you’d pay to see it even if even everyone else in the world told you it was absolute crap? The most recent example I can think of was when I got a DVD from Lovefilm because it was a horror film where the killer was a Mexican wrestler called “Wrestlemaniac”. It was truly awful.
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22/07/2009 at 6:02 pm
djmousefarm
I don’t think there are many vs films that i would be interested in seeing. Most of them have been done. In fact i’ve watched a few on the Sci-fi channel by “accident” – when it actually shows proper sci-fi movies, it was showing “The Fast and the Furious” the other day!
I once watched Komodo vs Anaconda, watch was pretty awful. I would like to see a film with some other absurdly supersized animals fighting it out with some hapless people running around. Hamster vs Bumblebees or Guineasaurus Rex (http://www.southparkstudios.com/fans/characters/174) vs Mechamole.
I reckon there are a few superhero square off’s i would happily see. Batman vs Superman is a pretty obvious one, but if i was to be really obscure and specific i would go with the X-men (from X-men : The Last Stand) vs The Authority (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Authority), just so i can have the satisfaction of seeing them destroyed.
Edit : Ha ha, there’s a film on Sci-fi at the moment that’s basically Ants on a plane!
23/07/2009 at 8:48 am
Si
It doesn’t specifically have to be a “vs.” film, although there are plenty of those to choose from, but anything that comes under the banner of High Concept like “Snakes on a plane” or “Ants on a plane” or “Zombies on a plane” (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780583/) that would make you think “Wow, I’ve just gotta watch that!”.
Incindentally, Tim said the film was “Dreadful” but that he “thoroughly enjoyed it.”