Defend their honour!

If you are a member of The Fortress Of Solitude, I'd like to think you have a way of thinking differently from the common herd among us. The latest reality pop star to shoot to number one in the charts may have the lolly-gaggers hooting and hollering, but it leaves you cold and angry. The likes of, say, Pearl Harbour and Armageddon may have knuckle draggers the world over uniting in cinematic ecstasy, but to you, cynical and hardened, it leaves you desperate to find the off button.

So it goes then, that whatever the majority have panned over the years, you've learned to love. Movies that tanked or are universally thought of as awful are some of your most treasured DVD's. Well, this is the part of The Fortress where YOU get to defend their honour and try and spread the good word.

So, maybe you thought Speed 2 was a masterpiece. Maybe you thought Critters 3: Critters In Space was a Star Wars beater. This is where you get your say.

I'll start the ball rolling with this slice of Japanese nonsense: Godzilla vs Megalon. Now, for those not in the know, GvM is probably the most hated of the Godzilla movies, with the obvious exception of the US Remake (or GINO - Godzilla In Name Only, as the fans would call it). It's certainly the most cartoonish, childish imagining of the Big G, and it's more like watching Monster Wrestling at times, as Godzilla teams up with the giant Ultraman clone, Jet Jaguar, to square off against two supershit monsters, Megalon and Gigan. As someone from the IMDB said, it's "probably the best worst movie ever made." Godzilla himself is totally different from previous movies. He punches his fists together when he gets ready to fight, he throws his arms up to cheer and he's basically a giant, goofy, loveable hero. Hell, even his face is cute. And then of course, the infamous "flying dropkick", where Godzilla would sail across the ground on his tail and kick Megalon. Hell, words don't do it justice. Check THIS out..

http://gojistomp.org/quicktime/gojikick.mov

If that doesn't save a movie, nothing will. The human storyline is stupid but more interesting than some other Big G movies, and it's basically a beyond dumb slice of hokum that really needs to be seen to be believed. Awful and brilliant all at the same time.

I have some more candidates, but I'll give the floor to someone else in the meantime. This is your chance to praise the unpraised...