Actors are still whores today. If you have enough money you can rent any actor or actress for a weekend. You ever see tabloid news stories about an actress being seen on a yacht in the south of France or Greece? Those are advertisements for the wealthy to let them know that certain actresses are available for "yachting".
I was shocked by how much I hated Midnight Mass after Mike and Jay couldn't stop singing its praises.
Presence was not a good movie. I think they only praised it because they got bamboozled by the POV gimmck and the twist. But it telegraphs it so hard and the rest of the movie is poorly acted and plotted.
You owe it to yourself to watch the MST3k treatment of Future War. It's a different format but just as hilarious. They did a great job roasting Space Mutiny too:
Is it as fun to watch bad movies in their entirety as the hack frauds of RLM make it out to be? They always seem like they're having a ball, but I have to wonder if the editing is doing a lot of heavy lifting to make it appear more fun than it really is. Like watching The Room -- it's a very different experience watching it in a packed theater at midnight with people throwing spoons at the screen than it is watching it alone at home (or even with a small group of friends).
It depends on the movie. If it's a bad movie that's boring, it's a fucking slog to get through. That's why I don't watch shitty movies made before 1980 because a lot of them are slow and boring with nothing happening until the last ten minutes of the movie since they didn't have a budget. In the case of Future War watch the MST3k episode since it cuts out a lot of the boring parts. In fact, just watch MST3k but NOT the Netflix episodes. If you were born after 1995 some of the jokes will fly over your head but it give you a reason to learn some history. If you want a higher budget shitty movie I'd suggest Flash Gordon just for the music, all of which was made by Queen and for Brian Blessed. The 1990 He-Man movie Cannon made that killed the studio is also a good bad movie staring young Courtney Cox and Lt. Tom Paris.
Most would probably better be watched with friends/family who are into that stuff, but a few are just hilarious on their face imo.
It can be. Although it's obviously a lot more fun with friends. Bad and/or low budget movies are usually about 80-87 minutes, so you can suffer through them even if they're not entertaining. You should look at other people's recommendations to get an idea what to look for. Here's some from my own list of "fun for whatever reason" movies not reviewed by RLM:
No. First of all, the reason why people make jokes at bad movies is because they're venting frustration. That irritation is greater than the jokes being told. Second, editing absolutely cuts out all the dead air in between scenes and they say this in various episodes. So it's not like stand-up where even bad jokes happen often enough to not be bored, it's a lot of dead air until someone makes a joke.
And it always bears repeating, B movies of the 50s and 60s are better than the dreck RLM watches based on production value alone. Back then, B movies weren't meant to be garbage; they were typically science fiction stories with dodgy special effects because the technology just wasn't ready for the idea being told. 80s and 90s direct to video movies were absolutely cheap shit that filled video rental shelves.
Like many others have said, it is way more fun with friends. That goes for anything, really, but for bad movies especially. A lot of them are terrible and boring to sit through by yourself. I actually tried that with Partners and it just didn't feel the same.