Today's Movies

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that Crazylegs is the pilot in Zero Hour!. As in the guy they named the Crazylegs Classic after.



Which is happening tomorrow. Yeah, I totally planned that.

Say, is that why Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is in the Airplane! version? They're both Wisconsin-related athletes who are most well-known for playing on Los Angeles teams.

Lesser Version Movie Night

It must be depressing to have someone come along and make a superior version of your movie. Zodiac (2007) and Airplane! improved upon these movies just like any episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 is better than watching the movie itself.

Which is a double whammy for Tom Hanson, director of The Zodiac Killer and one of the stars of The Hellcats:



He played Mongoose. Come to think of it The Zodiac Killer came out the same year as Dirty Harry, a movie about a serial killer in San Francisco named the "Scorpio Killer". Poor The Zodiac Killer. At least Bleeding Skull liked it:

Last week, I watched The Zodiac Killer. Twice. It still wasn't enough. This is a tier of tabloid-horror that, once discovered, takes an instantaneous position as "one of the good ones".

This is also the second movie in a row we're watching that was put out by Something Weird Video. Previous movies from them include Basket Case, Blood Freak and Godmonster of Indian Flats. They're always great about putting plenty of extras on their discs so maybe we'll see something similar to this thing we watched last week:



Zero Hour! has an exclamation point. I love movies with exclamation points. I'll add this one to my list:

Airplane!
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Top Secret!
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!
¡Three Amigos!
Mars Attacks!
That Thing You Do!
Baadasssss!
Saved!
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
The Informant!
SLC Punk!
Viva Knievel!
Zero Hour!

Machete Maidens Unleashed!, you're next!

Here's what happened last week:

Happy Easter

From the guy driving past my house yesterday with the Easter Bunny in the passenger seat.



And he waved.

Today's Movies

More Black Sheep:

Killer Sheep Movie Night

Lambs are second only to bunnies in Easter iconography.



Sure, you could argue that the chick is up there



but the lamb gets points for having the only connection to the religious side of Easter.

Godmonster of Indian Flats may be the original killer sheep movie. I compared it to Westworld because both take place in a Wild West theme park.



Imagine if the Godmonster turns out to be a robotic killer sheep. That would be amazing. Plus androids would dream of them.



It's not a robot though.

Again, Black Sheep is not the 1996 comedy but rather the 2006 comedy. It does remind me of the deer scene in Tommy Boy, though. To confuse matters.



Student animation is kind of awesome.



Black Sheep's most famous credit is probably Weta Workshop, who did the special effects for The Lord of the Rings, Avatar and The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn

Here's what happened last week:

Last Week's Movies

Unrelated to:

From Bad Movie Night

We had Chinese. This was Marissa's fortune.