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TV, Movies and Games > Is "Season of the Witch" this year's "Snakes on a Plane?"

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message 1: by Bill (last edited Jan 08, 2011 10:01AM) (new)

Bill | 116 comments Do you like bad movies? I had no interest in Nick Cage's latest movie, but an article on io9 may have convinced me otherwise.

An excerpt:

It doesn't really matter that Season of the Witch is total schlock — it doesn't even matter that the film is set in the 14th century, long after the Crusades had ended, and tries to wrap together the Crusades and the Black Plague into one Society for Creative Anachronism-fueled rampage through ahistory. None of it matters — you go to see this movie to see Nic Cage and Ron Perlman swing swords and overact, and you won't be disappointed.

By and large, there are two types of terrible B-movies: boring slow-motion cataclysms, and non-stop crazy trainwrecks. Season of the Witch, is a hundred-car train pileup at the bottom of a ravine under a broken bridge. If you enjoy watching a bad movie that's relentless and frenetic in its horribleness, this movie is a rare gem.


http://io9.com/5727816/nic-cage-pays-...

Then there's this, from a Rotten Tomatoes review:

The best line belongs to an earnest priest played by Stephen Campbell Moore. In the midst of an exorcism that’s lurid enough to approach certifiable looniness, the priest cries, ‘We’re going to need some more holy water!’


message 2: by Patrick (last edited Jan 09, 2011 11:15AM) (new)

Patrick (halfadd3r) My friends and I saw it and thought it was a quick and fun movie. Just not something to put a lot of mental energy into.


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