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Just because you can't respect a movie doesn't mean you can't enjoy it. THE GOLDEN AGE OF CRAP serves up a sampling of junk-food flicks that gained their audiences on videocassette rental shelves during the '80s and '90s, a time when one couldn't visit the video rental store without being... read more

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  • Godzilla: Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a statue erected in his honor in Japan, thanking him for all he's done
  • Michael Berryman: Seemingly appears in half the movies reviewed in this book
  • Ghidora: Has been defeated by Godzilla more than once
  • Roger Corman: He made a hundred movies in Hollywood and never lost a dime
  • Karen Black: The author of this book is not the president of this actress's fan club, to say the least
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  • “Gosh, honey, if you can't trust an anonymous pirate signal bursting into primetime, who can you trust?”
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  • “When a professional basketball player in your cast doesn't stand out as a worse actor than the rest, you know you're in trouble.”
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  • “Randy Gleave's Porter Rockwell mostly stares straight ahead, speaks in short sentences, and lets his hair do the acting.”
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  • “DEADLY REACTOR has, mercifully, never been inflicted on the American DVD-viewing public.”
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WHY ARE YOU LISTENING TO WHAT I SAY?

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This book is in Movies: Le Bad. (community list)

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  1. Nathan Shumate (Author)

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Reading Level: Young Adults

Fine for teens or adults.

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  • BEYOND THE DARKNESS: Cult, Horror, and Extreme Cinema
  • Shoot the Director: one man's guide to the good, the bad, and the cheesy
  • The Gospel According to Science Fiction

Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
  • Terror on Tape: A Complete Guide to over 2,000 Horror Movies on Video (Billboard Books' Entertaining and Informative)
  • From Betamax to Blockbuster: Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video (Inside Technology)
  • Music, Thrills, Mystery, Comedy & Suspense on Video & DVD (A Classic Movie Fan's Guide)
  • Step Right Up!!
  • How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime

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