Movies Vs. Humans 5 - Whom The Gods Destroy is June 30!
Did you miss us? We missed you!
After a long winter’s nap, Nate and I are back with another installment of Movies Vs. Humans!
Check back for more details later this month, but for now, we are excited to announce…
OUR FEATURE SELECTION: Filmmaker Andy Sidaris loved 3 things - guns, boobs, and remote controlled helicopters. He used all 3 to spectacularly baffling effect in his 1987 cinematic tour-de-WHA?, and the focus of our next show:
Hard Ticket To Hawaii!
Check out the trailer below, and check back for us to announce our special guests for this show!
Because EVERY lady cop keeps throwing stars in her sexyworkboots, Matt
We are T-minus one day until showtime, and we thought we’d tide you over by showing you something from the sequel to Bronx Warriors, entitled Escape From the Bronx. You can bet that we’ll be taking a good hard look at this movie as well for a future show.
Here’s two different instances of large vehicles being exploded by inappropriately small amounts of firepower. A huge van taken down by a single shotgun blast:
And a high-flying helicopter taken down by a revolver fired from the ground:
Anyway, we’ll see you tomorrow, Wednesday 1/27 at 10 PM at The Creek: 10-93 Jackson Ave, accessible by the E, G, or V. This show is free and takes place in a theatre inside a cool bar with some good burritos!
Joining us are special guests:
Sketch comedy veteran and real-life Bronx Warriors superfan Chris O’ Connor
and Jeremy Bent, one of the best improvisers going.
See you then!
Announcing the guests for Movies vs. Humans 4!
We’re happy to announce the two terrific guests who are going to be joining us onstage on January 27th to help us deconstruct 1990: The Bronx Warriors.
We will be joined on that evening by veteran sketch comedian and fellow bad movie buff Chris O’ Connor (Fearsome, The Burg, Trophy Dad), as well as exemplary improviser and bassist Jeremy Bent (Thank You Robot, Daddy.)
That show gets going on Wednesday night, January 27th at 10 PM, at the Creek: 10-93 Jackson Ave in Queens, easily accessible by the E, G, and V.
We leave you now with a taste of 1990: The Bronx Warriors.
Yeah, that’s right, we had to cancel Movies vs. Humans 3 because of a problem. (the problem was that we had an issue. (the issue was that we had a difficulty.))
But we’re ready to kick off the new year with a new MvH!
This month’s movie comes from 1982, and combines three of our favorite ingredients:
English language movies made by a director and crew who didn’t know English.
Movies that are set in the 1990’s because the 1990’s are the future.
And movies that are cynical cash-in ripoffs made on the coattails of another similar movie that was popular in the time period, in this case 1979’s themed-ganged gang-themed The Warriors.
I guess what we’re saying is….”Bronx Waaaaaaaarrrriors…….Bronx come out to Bronx Plaaaayaaaaaaaay!”
We will be joined by Chris O’Connor (Fearsome, The ‘Burg) and another guest to be announced.
That show is free, and it’s Wednesday, January 27th, at 10 PM,
At the Creek: 10-93 Jackson Ave, accessible by the 7, G, or E. (It’s easy to get to, we swear to god.), a really cool bar with some real tasty food.
Hope you guys are still planning to come to our next Movies vs. Humans show!
This is going to be a very special show in honor of the season, but in light of what happened last time we did an MvH show, we thought we’d try being a little bit more cryptic about what movie we’ll be showing.
Anyway, that show is going to be Tuesday, December 8th, at 9:30, and the movie in question will be a very special holiday treat. A supremely unworthy sequel to a Best Picture Oscar nominee that you have almost definitely seen, this motion picture broke the hearts of hundreds of thousands of small children.
This is the Movies vs. Humans that you have to see if you ever wanted to know what Bruce Vilanch, Art Carney, and Jefferson Starship have in common.
We hope to see you there in person so we can wish you a happy Life Day!
Turns out we were kidding and playing.
Well, many thanks to everybody who came to the second Movies vs. Humans show! It wasn’t the show we planned, but it was a terrific and intimate time!
See, for those of you who don’t know, we found out Thursday afternoon, to our dismay, that our plans to screen Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Hausu was in direct conflict with the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s plans to screen Hausu a number of times over the Halloween weekend.
Well, we lost that argument, and were unable to show the film we’d planned, and with hours to go before showtime, we did as much damage control as possible to let as many people as possible know that the plans were changing. Changing to what, we didn’t quite know yet.
We considered doing any of the dozen notorious movies we had on our laptops for future MvH consideration. These are movies that we’d heard about but not had the chance to watch yet. We thought that maybe it might be fun to have that communal experience with a movie that would be fresh to everyone in the room.
We also considered showing one of the movies that we’re already intimately familiar with, but for which we had not yet done the research and writing that usually goes into MvHifying a movie.
With time a-wastin’, and two fun but less-than-ideal options before us, we ultimately went with a more familiar and recently-made favorite of ours, and had a terrific time sharing it with our guests Mike Still and Adam Bozarth, and with the lovely but sparse crowd that heroically came out to take a chance.
What did we show?
The 2005 made for TV classic in which, to put it in Tropic Thunder terms, Rosie O’Donnell goes full retard, winning exactly zero hearts along the way, because in addition to being one of the most retarded characters ever put to film, she is also one of the worst, most manipulative, and most malicious as well. It’s a “movie” called Riding the Bus with My Sister
This very brave, very special film was made for the Hallmark channel, and also features Andie Macdowell as Rosie’s sister, an amazing photographer, who has to put her amazing photography career on amazing hold to take care of her challenged sister after their father dies.
Anjelica Huston is the director for some reason, and you can really tell that she’s a consummate actor’s director (in that she seems to be incapable of telling an actor, “No, don’t do that, that is offensive and insensitive, and horrible!”).
Riding also features a title sequence that prominently features the font Comic Sans, and a dynamic score, composed on a Casio keyboard by one of the great drummers of all time, Stewart Copeland of the Police.
So that was Movies vs. Humans 2! Keep it tuned to this website for more information about Mvh3, in November!
Tonight is going to be a different kind of House party than the kind of House Party that was in the movies House Party, House Party 2, House Party 3, and House Party 4.
This is the kind of House Party only found in the movie Hausu, and we need your attendance if we’re going to make this party as big as the parties that were in the houses that were in those other movies.
Seriously, though, we could not be happier that we’re getting a chance to show the world this amazing piece of batshit crazy film, with the amazing guests we’ve got (Mike Still and Adam Bozarth, two of the funniest dudes at any given house party, even house parties that Kid and Play are at.)
I guess what we’re saying is we’ll see you at the Creek at 9:30!
10-93 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, accesible by the E, G, or V.
To Comedy Nerds Listeners: Greetings to everyone who may have come here after hearing the latest episode of The Comedy Nerds!
This is a bad movie blog/show information blog for the bad-movie screening series Movies vs. Humans, curated by Nate Kushner and Matt Little.
Each month we guide you through a screening of something from our joint library of the worst films you’ve never heard of. Click around on the site for more info about what we do, and come see our upcoming show on Thursday, where the featured film is Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Hausu.
To Movies vs. Humans readers: The Comedy Nerds is one of our favorite podcasts. Every week, our friends Dustin D’Addato and Dan McInerney and often a special guest lead a rousing, analytical discussion on some topic involving comedy theory, or trends in comedy, or the history of comedy.
Code of Conduct for this Thursday’s Movies vs. Humans Show.
Ladies and gentlemen, the next Movies vs. Humans show is coming up really soon. Hausu is a very fantastical and trippy movie, so I want to make one thing plain and ambiguous about how you folks should act when you come to see it:
Don’t not not not not come in an altered state, because that would be SO MUCH FUN IT WOULD BE ILLEGAL, and I am not allowed to encourage such behavior. So let me make it perfectly clear: CONSUMING CANNABIS WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA to not do.
That show, again, is Thursday the 29th, at 9:30, at the Creek: 10-93 Jackson Avenue, Queens. It’s free, and we’ll be showing Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Hausu.
We are super psyched to announce the special guests for Movies vs. Humans, show 2!
Just to remind, that show will be Thursday, October 29th, at 9:30, at the Creek.
Joining us to get mindboggled by the movie Hausu will be two of the funniest people we know, who should be well-known to anybody who follows New York’s improv scene.
It’s Mike Still (Badman, A Week of Kindness), and Adam Bozarth (The Bishop, The Onion News Network)!
Let’s celebrate these two men’s men with another cologne commercial, directed by Hausu director Nobuhiko Obayashi.
You smack that kid, Bronson! Don’t let him give you any sassmouth!
Movies vs. Humans celebrates all the weirdest, oddest, and so-bad-it's-good-est that cinema has to offer!
Join Matt Little and Nate Kushner as they guide you towards these oddball gems that you may have missed, or want to experience again! Live commentary and incredulity is provided by Little, Kushner, and their rotating panel of guests.
NOTE: films are lightly edited for time so the entire show runs from 75-90 minutes.
Movies vs. Humans happens at Long Island City's hottest comedy spot, The Creek, accessible by taking the E to 44th Drive, the 7 to Vernon-Jackson, or the G to 21st Street.
