Shit Cinema

Now if there's anything the 90's film industry loved to do, it was to mismatch people with monkeys for a hilarity-filled series of mishaps. This film does that and more. Just when you think its on the verge of being the shittest movie you've ever sat through, BAM, the hits just keep coming. All I knew about this film going into it was that it had a chimpanzee playing baseball. That was enough for me! Sign me up. And lo and behold, here we are. The film starts with what felt like too many instances of Friends' "Joey" Matt LeBlanc showing the audience he could pitch a baseball really fast. Then he went and tried out for a baseball team, and about 10 mins in he was collecting the new team mascot from the bus depot, cue chimpanzee. No explanation whatsoever is given for the fact there is now a chimp in the film, but plausible plot elements are not really this films forte. Now the storyline really lacks, he's on a team, there's a chimp, for some rea...

1988's 'Mac And Me' fullfilled the promise of being one of the "worst films ever made", as well as being a complete rip-off of E.T The Extra Terrestrial, and apparently a thinly veiled advertisement for McDonalds restaurant and Coca-Cola. Going in, I was anticipating cheesy dialogue, and lots of product placements. What I wasn't ready for was terrifying gross mute alien puppet things that were just nightmare material, even as a fully grown adult watching in 2016. Case in point, the opening scene:               Progeria meets E.T The Extra Testicle Once the aliens have been introduced for what feels like far too long, we then have an opening sequence about the human protagonist and his family moving to a new town, blah blah, wholesome American basis. So far there has already been a few product placements for Coca-Cola and not a lot of anything grabbing my interest. At this point I decided that it was too ugly and too boring and started ...