Writer's Block: Rotten tomatoes
Jan. 19th, 2010 08:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I'm sure I've seen quite a few 'worst' movies in my day, but the first one that comes to mind is 'A Night In Heaven' starring the blond kid from Blue Lagoon.*
It was, I think, cashing in on both the success of Blue Lagoon (in and of itself a 'bad' movie, but more of the 'so bad its good' variety, and it did make a gazillion dollars because Brooke Shields was artfully naked in it) and the sex comedy craze that was, at the time, making its mark. Unfortunately for the movie (and those of us who saw it) it didn't have any money or, you know, talent, to actually make it any good.
The plot, as I remember it, was this guy who was a male stripper has an affair with a married woman. I can't remember much else except at the end the husband forces the Blond Kid From Blue Lagoon** at gunpoint to strip naked. And then leaves him there. And that's how the movie ended.
Not sure, now that I think on it, if it meant to be a comedy, but I'm pretty sure it was advertised as such.
We didn't walk out of it, but I do recall sitting there at the end realising, possibly for the first time, that Hollywood doesn't always hit it out of the park.
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*Eariler in life I saw a slasher movie; again, a low budget thing cashing in on the new slasher craze started by Halloween and/or Friday the 13th, both of which I'd never seen. It was bad, but probably not by the standards of low budget slasher films, so I don't really count that one.
**Yes, I know I could IMDB the thing, I just don't feel like it right now.
I'm sure I've seen quite a few 'worst' movies in my day, but the first one that comes to mind is 'A Night In Heaven' starring the blond kid from Blue Lagoon.*
It was, I think, cashing in on both the success of Blue Lagoon (in and of itself a 'bad' movie, but more of the 'so bad its good' variety, and it did make a gazillion dollars because Brooke Shields was artfully naked in it) and the sex comedy craze that was, at the time, making its mark. Unfortunately for the movie (and those of us who saw it) it didn't have any money or, you know, talent, to actually make it any good.
The plot, as I remember it, was this guy who was a male stripper has an affair with a married woman. I can't remember much else except at the end the husband forces the Blond Kid From Blue Lagoon** at gunpoint to strip naked. And then leaves him there. And that's how the movie ended.
Not sure, now that I think on it, if it meant to be a comedy, but I'm pretty sure it was advertised as such.
We didn't walk out of it, but I do recall sitting there at the end realising, possibly for the first time, that Hollywood doesn't always hit it out of the park.
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*Eariler in life I saw a slasher movie; again, a low budget thing cashing in on the new slasher craze started by Halloween and/or Friday the 13th, both of which I'd never seen. It was bad, but probably not by the standards of low budget slasher films, so I don't really count that one.
**Yes, I know I could IMDB the thing, I just don't feel like it right now.