Movie: Laser Mission

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Somewhere or other we acquired a boxed set of 50 "classic" sci-fi movies on DVD. We figured it was a treasure trove of really bad movies, and we were right! Laser Mission is actually one of the more recent flicks included, but oh, it's BAD. It's also fun - it's the kind of bad movie that's good with popcorn and laughter.

The hero and heroine were pretty annoying. Brandon Lee didn't get to fight enough or in enough different ways (he got to use one type of kick over and over), and Debi Monahan's character, also supposed to be a good fighter, sadly overlooked a devastating opportunity to use a stiletto heel against a bad guy. The rest of the cast were obviously having a lot of fun, especially the real bad guys and the comic-relief sorta-bad-guys. Most of the film looks very low budget, but they have some gorgeous desert scenery from somewhere and a lot of great explosions.

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I wish B shared with me the enjoyment of watching bad movies and laughing at them. Alas, he doesn't.

We watched Push, with Dakota Fanning, when it was in the theaters. It was set in Hong Kong and had lots of martial arts in the service of psionic powers. Now, I haven't said this to B, but I thought it was a good bad film. The villains made their eyeballs bulge when they were using their chi, for one example. Now B. likes that film. Anything to do with superheroes, that isn't campy, is good to him. (He wouldn't watch Kick Ass on a bet, whereas, I would.) B doesn't like the television show version Batman, either. *Harrrumph*