Haven't seen Manos, but Plan 9 is sooooo remarkably bad that one's jaw just drops and one remains transfixed, wondering what on earth they can do next. It's by Ed Wood, whose cinematic output was so, ah, unique that they made a movie about it. Entitled, creatively enough, Ed Wood.

Plan 9 is goofy good fun. Manos is only painful.

It's the difference between something so bad it's good, and something that's just bad.

My triple feature of so-bad-they're-good movies would be Plan 9, Zardoz, and The Apple. But with a hefty amount of fast-forwarding through Zardoz, 'cause it's really long.

A rep theatre near me shows Rocky Horror every Saturday night -- except just once, a month or so ago, when it showed The Apple. Even if I hadn't heard about it here, I'd have known it was pretty special just from that.

There was an amazing tiny movie theatre (which also served snacks and beer so it was like watching in someone's living room) in Cambridge called Off the Wall, which showed mostly short subjects. They had a GREAT programmer so the nights might be "Hygiene Films" or "Cartoons about Movies" or some evening devoted to a modern animator. They also showed longer films once in a while and did an entire Ed Wood retrospective. SO terrible, but so fun to watch.

"All those cars, all full of people, all...going somewhere."

Plan 9 from Outer Space or Manos, the Hands of Fate ?

The beauty salon near my house is named "MANOS Hair-Beauty-Art." I have never once called it that.

I know a story where losing memory was a good thing! One of Fred Saberhagen's Berserker stories.

I really liked Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

It was beautifully Burtonesque, with everything that implies. I also like Depp's Wonka, because he was so incredibly weird. The only problem I had with the movie, really, was that the pacing seemed off in places, long scenes in which very little happened, but that sort of thing often added to the dreaminess of the scene.

I'm not sure it holds together as a film quite as well as Willy Wonka, but it's definitely a bit creepier on the whole (though it doesn't have any moments as heartwrenchingly scary as that movie's boat ride) with some moments of absolutely brilliant, off-the-wall humor that come out of nowhere and surprise you. It's a fun ride.

And this description is really bad, for which I apologize, but the movie was very different from what I expected, so I'm having a hard time explaining it. I suggest trying it if you like the pretty, though.

My triple feature of so-bad-they're-good movies would be Plan 9, Zardoz, and The Apple.

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes just gets no respect any more, does it?

Obviously, it's getting too much.

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes just gets no respect any more, does it?

If I were doing a marathon instead of a triple-feature, both Attack and Return of the Killer Tomatoes would get their fare share of screen time, fear not.

I finally saw Sin City last night, and I gotta say -- Frank Miller has got ISSUES, baby. (Though this is, perhaps, not a revelation about him.)

When your audience gets inured to castration scenes, maybe you need to dial them back, yo. And here's the weird thing -- I found the graphic novels to be utterly disturbing in their level of violence, and that's part of why I had decided not to see the movie -- I figured that seeing all that violence in live-action would just be too, too much for me. However, seeing those same scenes in live-action just took them right over the top into utter, utter absurdity. I ended up snickering/giggling/donkey laughing through most of it.