Videogum » The Number 23 http://videogum.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:45:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: The Number 23 http://videogum.com/10760/the_hunt_for_the_worst_movie_o_11/franchises/the-hunt-for-the-worst-movie-of-all-time/ http://videogum.com/10760/the_hunt_for_the_worst_movie_o_11/franchises/the-hunt-for-the-worst-movie-of-all-time/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:06:35 +0000 Gabe It’s difficult to talk about a Joel Schumacher movie as one of the Worst Movies of All Time because as a rule it’s impossible for a single Joel Schumacher film to be worse than any other Joel Schumacher film. He has earned his Lifetime Achievement Award through a long career of unrelentingly terrible films. But if the make-believe Academy of Worst Things was dragging its non-existent feet in honoring Schumacher’s work, The Number 23 would be the film where everyone felt like enough was enough and they had to give the guy the recognition he deserved. At long last, he would get the Golden Punch in the Face that he’d worked so hard for. It is such a bad movie, you guys.

The Number 23 is a “thriller” (although I could count the thrills on Buster Bluth’s left hand) in which an unassuming dog-catcher (Jim Carrey) begins reading a used book from the book store called The Number 23. The more he gets into the book, the more parallels he finds the story has to his own life, and the more obsessed he becomes with the number 23, which he begins to see everywhere. He tries to track down the author (Topsy Kretts, because apparently Farty McDiarrhea was a little too spooky) to break the curse the number has put on him, and an old man tries to cut his head off at a Kinko’s, and then his wife wanders into an abandoned insane asylum by herself at night because that’s a totally normal thing that people do, and she finds Jim Carrey’s old saxophone in a steamer trunk which is how she knows that he’s actually the author of the book, and also a murderer, and Jim Carrey is like “Maybe I’ll just get hit by a bus and end it,” and his son is like “Dad!” so then Jim Carrey says “I’m not going to get hit by a bus because I’m tricking fate by making myself go to jail.” FACT: there’s no such thing as fate if you go to jail first. FACT: jail brings families together.

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]]> 32 The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Round One Late Additions http://videogum.com/9798/the_hunt_for_the_worst_movie_o_3/franchises/the-hunt-for-the-worst-movie-of-all-time/ http://videogum.com/9798/the_hunt_for_the_worst_movie_o_3/franchises/the-hunt-for-the-worst-movie-of-all-time/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 15:13:23 +0000 Gabe While the Hunt for the Worst Movie of All Time is only just beginning (Netflix is sending me Battlefield Earth as we speak), what has become painfully (literally) clear is just how many viable candidates there are. Yesterday, I announced the initial entrants in the competition:

  • Battlefield Earth
  • Baby Geniuses
  • Lady In The Water
  • The Fountain
  • Southland Tales

But due to the influx of suggestions, I’m now adding some additional titles to the starting bracket:

  • Crossroads
  • The Number 23
  • Alexander
  • I Am Sam
  • Johnny Mnemonic

I’m bumping my Netflix account up to 1,000,000 discs at a time, and am going to get through these as best I can. Obviously, they’re going to have to share the workday with updates on Heidi Montag’s pubic hair conditioning regimen, and new episodes of Who Farted Money?. The rules, if you do not yet know them, are simple, constantly being amended, and after the jump. And of course your suggestions in either comment or email form are always appreciated.

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