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Roadie (1980)
Worst ever?
Where to begin? How best to describe just how awful this movie is???
Let's start with the campy hick humor. It isn't very funny. Add a bunch of musicians impersonating actors - Meat Loaf is horrible and Deborah Harry is even worse. Pity poor Art Carney, who should have known better than to do this movie.
And then there is the plot. A roadie whose life goal is to work an Alice Cooper show meets a girl whose life goal is to be a groupie for Alice Cooper. At least they get what they want...
And then, just when the movie should end, they can't come up with a more plausible last scene than a - well, I won't ruin it for you if you really want to see the movie.
There are certain actors that let you know that this is going to be a "B" movie or perhaps worse. Gailard Sartain is one of them for me - and he has a more prominent role. That's a sure sign that the movie probably won't be very good. If nothing else, the movie lives up to the low expectations - even exceeds them by being worse than poor.
Let's just say this. This is the movie against which all bad movies are compared. And none are worse than Roadie.
Bad Santa (2003)
I must have missed it...
Okay - I decided to rent it first, rather than pay the bigger bucks to see it in the theatre. Thank my lucky stars I did that - it only cost $4.50 rather than $13.50 to give up on it.
Ordinarily, I don't mind dark humor. However, you are so bombarded by the profanity that you miss the point. (A previous IMDb reviewer suggested there were 243 profane statements in the 91 minute running time, which means one every 20 - 25 seconds; it sure seemed like more than that. And, it's higher if you don't count scenes with no dialog.) Forget unnecessary - the Santa character could have been equally low brow having removed 90% of the foul language. Frankly, I was surprised that the credits didn't include profanity.
So, no - your kids can't watch this. I can hardly imagine what the unrated version must sound like. My intelligence was insulted, and eventually it was grossed out. Hearing Lauren Graham talk dirty to the "bad santa" during their quickie finished it for me. I want to see the irony, but even that was overplayed. The characters are pathetic - but I mean it in the worst sense of the word.
Anyway... I couldn't make it past the half hour mark. I SAT through all of Roadie (Meat Loaf, Deborah Harry, circa 1979), which I swear is the worst movie ever made - but now I'm not so sure. At least by returning it early, I'll save a buck on my next rental.
Do you ever wonder if actors watch the movie and then think to themselves "what was I thinking - this will ruin my career..." - I know I would. And to think someone spent between $10 and $20 million to make and distribute this bad boy. Surely there are better scripts and ideas out there than this one.
How this movie AVERAGED 7.2 or more with IMDb viewers is beyond me.