Monster Shack Movie Reviews » Roundtables

Incompetent Invasions (May 2008)

Dennis — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:38:49 +0000

Includes reviews by Dennis, Sean, Karl, and newcomer Scot Nolan. Welcome aboard! Anyway, we decided to pick the movies with the pathetic alien ‘invasions’…and it was easier than you might think. I mean, it was easy to pick the movies…it was hard as hell to sit through them. This roundtable consists of The Galaxy Invader by yours truly , UFO:Target Earth by the infatigable Sean Ledden, Battlefield Earth by brave reviewer Karl Hoegle, and Godzilla: Final Wars by our newest contributor Scot Nolan.

Steven Seagal: A Senior Superhero (January 2008)

Dennis — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:50:35 +0000

A closer look at a super star that probably should have quit while he was ahead. Includes reviews by Dennis, Sean Ledden, and Karl Hoegle.

Don’t miss the confused On Deadly Ground (Dennis), a mindless violence-fest called Submerged (Sean), and the always charming Exit Wounds (Karl).

Enjoy, if you can.

Monstrously Miserable Musicals (June 2007)

Dennis — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:29:16 +0000

The other day I received an email from fellow bad-movie aficionado Nathan Decker (of Million Monkey Theater fame…what? Never heard of it? Then check it out!). It turns out that Nathan was interested in submitting a guest review for these purple pages, and since I’m always open to fresh material and horrible movies, I was happy to check out some of his work. I then suggested that we do a review roundtable instead because it would be an chance to pound out a shorter review and combine it with a couple other short reviews for a decent sized post. Since a roundtable consisting of 2 contributors could hardly be described as "round", I contacted Monster Shack’s long suffering proof reader Sean Ledden and inquired if he’d be interested in jumping into the fray. Sean’s response was a resounding "YES!", well, at least that’s the way I interpreted it, and the race was on.

We (ok, I, being the stubborn wanna-be tyrant who runs this site) decided on the theme of "Monstrously Miserable Musicals" namely because:

1) A bad musical can be soooooooooo bad that it just plain hurts, and that’s what this site is all about. Movies and Pain.

2) I had a musical sitting around that I’ve been meaning to review, and here was a perfect opportunity to get off my arse.

3) I couldn’t think of anything else with such an incredibly inventive, catchy theme title. Oh, I am so clever.

After much nail biting, hair pulling, and beer drinking we came up with our choice of movies as follows:

Dennis: Rock ‘n’ Roll Nightmare

Nathan: The Great Gabbo

Sean: Can’t Stop the Music

I think that this will be fun enough to try again in the future. (Well, fun to write. I hope it’s fun to read as well. )

Enjoy!