Stinker Madness - The Podcast for Bad Movie Lovers

Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever - Kick that Cat!

An Internet meme gets its own movie which is supposed to be a Christmas movie but isn't. How long will it be before Lifetime calls us for the first Stinker Madness movie?
At no point does this movie not piss you off. It's insulting to your intelligence and an offense on humor. While its not Grumpy Cat's fault, you still want to punt the stupid thing across the room. Yes this film will make you want to commit violence on innocent little critters. All of your morals will be thrown under the bus may lead some to murder. Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever may need to be confiscated by Homeland Security for the safety of us all. 
Boo this movie and boo fans of Grumpy Cat.
Individual Ratings:
Over the top action:Cheesy effects:Horrendous acting:Laugh-out-loud-ability:Ridiculous stunts:Gratuitous nudity:Memorable one-liners:
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Prelude to Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever

Jingle bells all and merry Decemberween to you. Jackie brings in a Lifetime Channel original Xmas movie starring a cat who is an Internet meme. It can't be awful right? Talking animals, the magic of Xmas and a network notorious for making awful cheese family fests?
Streaming Do's and Don'ts
Star Trek: Nemesis - Netflix
Mortdecai - EPIX
On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Hulu Plus
The Great Superpower Debate
Super Fast Wardrobe and Makeup Changing

Biggle's Adventure in Time - Don't ask questions

Some guy who is NOT named Biggle's has ONE adventure in just ONE time. So with an inaccurate title, we travel back and forth to 1917 to defeat the Nazi's secret sound weapon that makes things too hot. Don't ask too many questions.
Biggle's on paper sounds like a missed gem from our youth. The idea of a man named Biggle's traveling through time and having hijinx sounds like it would become your favorite movie when you're 12. Apparently the books are exactly that. But this movie is not. Biggle's is not the protagonist. It's a guy named Jim Ferguson who somehow gets transported back and forth from the present to 1917. So even he doesn't have "Adventures in Time" He just goes back to ONE time. So if you are looking for a sillier Bill and Ted's, you're not going to get it.
Individual Ratings:
Over the top action:Cheesy effects:Horrendous acting:Laugh-out-loud-ability:Ridiculous stunts:Gratuitous nudity:Memorable one-liners:
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Prelude to Biggles Adventures in Time

Brought to you by Timelonel, the best cure for time travel headaches and Ted Stevens, Time Gigolo
This week Sam brings in one of his favorite movies from his childhood called Biggles. It's a time travel movie that desired to combine Indiana Jones with Back to the Future. Sounds like a recipe for success to us!
Fans, we want to hear more from you and so we're giving you a task. Send us a story from back in the day of VHS tapes. Did you have an interesting story about renting one? Did you mistakenly record an episode of Transformers over your father's video presentation? What about good ol' porn mishaps. We want to hear it. Send us an email to talk@stinkermadness.com and the best stories we get we'll read on the air. 
Streaming Do's and Don'ts
The Messenger - Amazon Prime
The Masked Avengers - Netflix
Men of War - Netflix
Nemesis - Hulu Plus
The Great Superpower Debate
Thermal Spectrum Invisibility

Mac and Me - Even their home planet doesn't want them

Mac and Me is truly a turd. We didn't like it at all. Sorry about that.
There's not enough here to enjoy by anyone. There's not even very much to write up. It just stinks.
Individual Ratings:
Over the top action:Cheesy effects:Horrendous acting:Laugh-out-loud-ability:Ridiculous stunts:Gratuitous nudity:Memorable one-liners:
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Prelude to Mac and Me

Show opener - Justin has lost his ability to do anything but play Fallout 4 and Jackie is left with no choice but to go on Sammy Jesse Raphael.
It's the final film in our 3 piece "Monster Buds" series and we close with a film we've been planning on since we started the podcast. It's the tale of a film executives trying to cash in on the buzz of ET (a film no one on Stinker Madness likes) so odds are pretty low that we'll enjoy this one.
Streaming Do's and Don'ts
Five Venoms - Netflix
Gunday - Netflix
The Great Superpower Debate
It's a new game for this week. Each week we'll bring in a superpower and debate its merits for use in real life.
This week - Super Hearing

C.H.O.M.P.S. - Home burglary is the lesser of the evils

C.H.O.M.P.S. is like a slow painful death from a stab wound in the tummy while getting your head pressed in an iron maiden. It's awful. Even if you are a dog lover, you will want this annoyance to cease to exist within 30 minutes. 
There is nothing redeeming for the film. Yes it has bad acting and yes its really stupid but these two items are masked by the overly intrusive soundtrack and the unending smorgasbord of generic sound effects that C.H.O.M.P.S. makes while he gallivants around town. There is nothing good here to be had.
Steer clear of C.H.O.M.P.S. unless you want to eyeball torture Malcolm McDowell or are trying to extract intel from someone at Guantanamo. Its sucks.
Individual Ratings:
Over the top action:Cheesy effects:Horrendous acting:Laugh-out-loud-ability:Ridiculous stunts:Gratuitous nudity:Memorable one-liners:
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Prelude to CHOMPS

Part 2 of our Monster Buds series and this time its a robot dog with superpowers played by an actual dog. That can't be a recipe for disaster in any possible way!
Streaming Do's and Don'ts
Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge - Netflix
Creepshow 3 - Hulu Plus
The Colombian Connection - Amazon Prime
Senorita Justice - Amazon Prime
Good Neighbor, Bad Neighbor
Beethoven the Dog - Beethoven
Hooch - Turner & Hooch
Kujo - Kujo

Galgameth - or How to Destroy Your Own Castle

When you absolutely must rescue your vague kingdom from a usurper with unknown motivations and restore your position as the supreme ruler of the lands, reach for a Galgameth statue and squirt some tears on it. Just make sure you don't ever go near an ocean. It's the Adventure or Legend or just Galgameth and he's one family friendly Kaijū!
There's some pretty great stuff in this one though for bad movie lovers. There is some possible moral tale about cats being evil and dogs being good, some seriously cheesy special effects, a poorly shot dummy that clearly gets crushed by Galgameth, some awful swordplay, some pretty crummy costumes, and pretty dumb dialogue. It's very easy to riff and great to discuss the stupid parts.
We all enjoyed Galgameth and recommend it but its not for everyone by any means. Enter at your own risk.

Prelude to Galgameth

It may be called Galgameth or it might be called The Adventures of Galgameth or it might be called The Legend of Galgameth; who's to say? Either way, it's the start of our "Monster Bud" 3 episode series. It involves a fantasy tale about a boy who gets a dragon who grows by eating metal. So we'll see how that works out.
Sorry about the awful audio quality. Our new mixer is total crap.
Streaming Do's and Don'ts
Taken 3 - HBO Now
Man-Thing - Hulu Plus
Swamp Thing - Hulu Plus
The Demolitionist - Hulu Plus
Good Neighbor, Bad Neighbor
 ET - ET
 Sloth - The Goonies
The Alien Spaceship - Flight of the Navigator