This Movie Sucks!

This was a fun way to watch bad old movies. Usually they had old science fiction alien invasion type movies or monster horror movies from the fifties or whatever that were supposed to be scary but really these movies are just stupid. The movies were the low budget type of movies that would be forgotten and just laughed at when you watch them today. The hosts would watch the movie and make comments about them. Sometimes they talked too much which could get annoying but most of the time the show was better when they were talking than when they were not. It is hit or miss depending on the comments they were saying and how funny the particular movie they were watching was. This show was not as good as MST3k but that show is gone so it's nice to see this genre live on. The article says this show is coming back but I think it is dead because it would have come back by now.

For a small town that is made fun of a lot by Toronto and the Toronto area Hamilton's small but proud TV network CHCH TV has made a lot of great shows over the years. It reminds me a lot of what CITY TV in Toronto used to do and be very good at which was making very funny television shows on a very small budget by just doing simple stuff that people liked.

Hamilton's CHCH has come up with a lot of these. Smith & Smith is not on in reruns any more but Red Green came from that and lasted for decades. Big Top Talent was so good they made a new version of it now. This Movie Sucks was hilarious and looked like it cost about twenty bucks to make it and it's all because of the talent and natural funniness of the people on the show. Ron Sparks made me shoot beer out my nose twice in the same show. Who also can forget Hilarious House of Frightenstein and Billy Van?

CHCH made a big mistake by stopping this show, like I said it could not have cost much and was beloved by the local TV community. Not sure why they did it but it is gone and won't come back. Ed the Sock is never on TV at all any more. I hope this channel gets back to what it did well because I hear it is in financial trouble and the new shows they are doing just are not very good, like the stupid game show they have with the wheel. The new Big Top Talent just does not have the magic either. Both of those shows have bad hosts.

You have to be kidding me. This is the old racket where you air an old movie then have inserts that make fun of the show. It started with horror shows in the 1950's with Zacharley and the like. Back in the 80's Lorraine Newman did the Canned Film Festival. Then the MST3K garbage. This is suppose to be funny I think. But Ed the Sock is not funny. I remember first seeing him on late night TV. His audience is young drunk males. But he isn't funny, he's rude. The movies are all public domain and available in the discount bin or on youtube for free. So why watch this mess? I stood in for about 30 minutes because I was interested in the movie. Evidently, some people think Ed is funny. Fair enough. But this is rated at 8.2 currently. That means it is TV gold! Up there with the best shows of all time. Really.... I guess if you're drunk or smoking of weed this rates a 9 or 10, I wasn't drunk and give it a lofty 3, only because of the movie.

This is a very good show!

As a Hamilton born and bred girl I grew up watching the classic shows on CHCH like Smith and Smith Comedy Mill and then Red Green and I still remember all those great campy Hilarious House of Frightenstein episodes that I am lucky to have found DVDs of in a pawn shop this summer.

This Movie Sucks is in the same tradition of great Canadian comedy shows that are great even though they have a small budget and are not in a very big city. In fact they are throwing the small budget right back in our face and reference it all the time with Ed saying how they don't have money to do things.

I love this show especially compared to how bigger budget Canadian shows try too hard to be American style with more money and just fail miserably (I can't begin to describe how much I don't like a lot of Canadian TV) so this show is a breath of fresh air.

I won't give it full marks cuz it is walking in the footsteps of one of my other fave low budget shows Mystery Science Theater but it is unique in its own way. I see others say this show got better since it started, not sure how many episodes I missed but I have seen four weeks straight and the quality seemed consistently good to me, maybe I missed some bad ones to start.

I was just on another board writing about how Dan For Mayor and Hiccups are not very good. It is nice to now be balancing out that with a little positive since I don't want to become someone who just gets bitter talking about all the shows I hate. This Movie Sucks was a great surprise for me. I avoided watching it for a few weeks because I have always been a huge fan of Ed the Socks from his old show and of Ron Sparks who was always my favorite on Much Music and Video on Trial (also he is my Facebook friend which is how I heard about this show, ha). It is so good to see them back on TV, Liana is still pretty hot too (is it cliché to say hubba hubba nowadays?) I avoided watching at first because I was sure it would be terrible. The comments I read on Ed's home page for episode one were terrible and I wanted to remember him in a good way. Also I am possibly the biggest fan of MST3000 in the world and nothing can compare to that. The truth is this show doesn't compare to that but as I said nothing could do the bashing-a-bad-movie-thing better than MST3000, but it is still very funny and not so much like MST as I feared/assumed it would be. They still watch bad movies, including two so far that I know MST3000 already did, but they have different jokes and they talk a lot in the studio, have guests, other differences. This is totally worth checking out, the bashes of the movies are really very good.