To 'B' Or Not To 'B'

In the film industry there are two types of movies; the standard theater blockbuster and the straight to DVD or TV movie. It's the latter that we focus on here.

These straight to DVD or TV movies are normally referred to as 'B' movies. These are movies that were made on a low budget, usually with actors just beginning or ending their careers, and involve a theme or story that nine out of ten times is mediocre at best.

The Science Fiction genre makes a very good living on these types of movies. In fact three to four of these such films can be seen on the Sci-Fi channel on any given day. These movies have ranged from good to bad, to what where they smoking when this seemed like a good idea.

Here is a very tiny list of some of our most memorable 'B' movies.

Equilibrium - released shorty after The Matrix, Equilibrium was one of the better films to start using the same type of choreography.


Starship Troopers 3: Marauder - Did somebody say "Franchise Savior." Casper Van Dien returns with Paul Verhoeven to save a stumbling franchise. Read our full review HERE

Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation - Minus everyone from the original movie, add a decent storyline with some terrible acting and what we have here is a disappointment.

Recon 2022: The Mezzo Incident - remember this list is memorable movies, memorable does not mean good, or in this case, anywhere even close to decent. Full review available HERE

There are hundreds of others and we want to hear some of your most memorable, so drop us a comment and express yourself. - GJ

Worst Movie EVER!!

RECON 2022: The Mezzo Incident

First let's begin by saying "DO NOT WASTE MONEY ON THIS MOVIE." This movie will take away 96 minutes, that's its run time, of your life that you could have wasted playing Gears Of War and eating Cheetos.

The story, set not too far into the future, puts mankind at war with an alien race known as the Ma'har, whom man has never laid eyes on; apparently all of our fighting has been against cyborgs. A team of soldiers is sent to an ice planet called Mezzo, where they are to locate and destroy a facility that is believed to be run by the Ma'har, but turns out to be an underground cyborg facility.

This movie offers nothing but terrible acting by a bunch of no names, who will remain that way doing crap like this, hundreds of bad sex jokes, and a soft porn soundtrack that simply doesn't belong.

For a group of so called top notch marines, you wonder how they ever survived basic training.



Examples:
1. They fire at an aircraft for about ten minutes using their standard automatic weapons when they have a rocket launcher.
2. When they prepare to snipe three cyborgs they don't just shoot them but decide to have two of the four remaining team members run in the open to draw their fire. WHY?
3. They pretty much repeat number two here except they use a different weapon to take out the cyborgs. (Side Note: They also used the exact same scene of the two marines running in the open.)
4. When there is cover, they never use it. In fact most gun fights involve everyone standing in the open shooting and shooting and shooting, and no results. Two minutes later a cyborg will fall.

Here's the really bad news. This is movie number two of at least three. Someone has way too much money and free time on their hands if they actually think people want three of these terrible movies.

We have no true rating system here at junkyard, but let us just say this;

No stars, 0 / 5, and we couldn't even bring ourselves to give this to our worst enemy. - GJ