Unlike last year we didn't see a lot of movies this year that also came out this year. As far as I have the patience to look it up, we may have only seen one. Corman's World, a lowly bonus third movie.
That must mean there are plenty of options for Best of 2012 (that fit into the BMN paradigm).
Not so fast poor quality practitioner of reason. The year 2012 was a bad year for movies. But it's like what they say about bad pizza. It's still a good year when they put chicken strips in the crust.
And the chicken-strips-in-crust of movies is Modus Operandi. Somehow knowledge of this movie was important in a recent Wisconsin's Hardest Trivia game. All you needed to know is that Danny Trejo is in it but soon you'll know that Mark Borchardt stars, the only Bad Movie Night actor I have touched, and Sasha Grey "presents" the movie.
Given the movie's incongruousness, Modus Operandi was seemingly filmed over decades with several script revisions. Yet it received a relatively good review from Roger Ebert that began,
You need to have paid your dues to appreciate "Modus Operandi." Have you marinated in exploitation films? The cheap kind from the 60s and 70s, made by fly-by-night filmmakers on starvation budgets? Where you can almost sense them gasping as they try to accumulate enough footage to qualify as a feature? And where the female characters are wearing bikinis even in business offices?
It's not enough to like such films because they're "so bad they're good." You need to specialize, and like the films because they're so good about being so bad they're good. "Modus Operandi," a film by Frankie Latina that has won praise on the midnight movie festival circuit, is such a film.
So Ebert is questioning your ability to enjoy a bad movie. See if you measure up.
The Cabin in the Woods also tests your knowledge of exploitation films. It'll be like you're back in school!
Here's what happened last week:
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