Our fearless – and quite possibly senseless – movie janitor is watching every movie on the IMDb Bottom 100 list. Join us now for another installment of Unwatchable.
What fresh hell of pre-teen pop culture is this? Oh, capricious Bottom 100 list, you have topped yourself this time, flinging me directly from the Power Rangers movie to yet another disposable kiddie cash-in of years gone by. I know even less about Yu-Gi-Oh than I do about the Power Rangers; I’m vaguely aware it was a collectible card game played in the back of the comic book shop, ala Magic: The Gathering. I only know this because my nephew was briefly obsessed with it a few years back, before discovering the more important things in life like girls and baseball. One brief Wikipedia refresher course later, I am armed with the knowledge that Yu-Gi-Oh began as Japanese manga before spawning several anime series, the aforementioned card game and this abomination, easily the least watchable of the Unwatchables so far.
I mean this. After twenty minutes, I was in agony. Each ensuing minute stretched into eternity. I couldn’t go on. I must go on. The integrity of the Unwatchable project was at stake. I pressed on and stuck with it to the bitter end, but at what cost? AT WHAT COST?
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