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Bad Movies

Date: Mar 22 2001

Intro

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Sometimes it’s fun to talk about the worst of all time. In this case Tanis is talking about the movie, “On Deadly Ground” with Zach and Migs. It stars Stephen Seagal and is a martial arts movie about a raging environmentalist who 60 to stop an evil oil company from destroying the Alaska wilderness.

Dialog

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Zach

Migs

Tanis

Zach: How about worst movie of all time?

Migs: OK.

Zach: OK, so you’ve got to think about that. What’s the worst, worst, worst, worst…

Tanis: 60 The one where he’s fighting for nature. And 60 against the 60. And he retaliates by 60 the oil refinery to save nature.

Zach: They’re all…they’re all, like three-word titles like, “Marked for Death,” “Out for Justice” and they’re all sort of 60.

Migs: That’s not very nice. I think he’s a talented actor.

Tanis: Are you serious?

Migs: No, not at all.

Zach: My favorite part in all of those movies is when there’s really cool scenes when he, like, breaks people’s 60 and stuff.

Tanis: Right. And it’s always, like, some shopkeeper or some, like, nice person that disagrees with him and it…

Migs: He always has some kind of alternative weapon too. Like, he’s real good with a 60, y’know? He just always happens to be somewhere where he can show his tricks with, like, y’know…some…or a pot or pan, like a frying pan or a…

Zach: Some, some. Yeah. Frying pan? Well, I saw one where he took a pool ball and wrapped it up in a towel and was 60 it around like a 60 and just 60 people in the head. And my friend Matt and I were just, like, 60 each other’s arms just going, “Aaaaarrgghh” every time there was some really painful scene.

Tanis: The other thing that seems to be always happening in his movies is, um, he’s always sort of, this, y’know, 60 figure outside of society that lives in, y’know..up in the hill.

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Discussion

I’m sure if we thought about it we could come up with a worse movie than those of Stephen Seagal’s. But, these movies are typically full of violent martial arts action where Seagal uses the techniques of Aikido to cripple his opponents.
Usually the story lines in these movies are pretty cheesy, but most people go to see the action anyway. His latest movies, “Exit Wound” will be released in 2001.
Do you like Stephen Seagal movies? What do you think? Come to the “Movie Madness” message board and ask them!
From the front row,
Zach