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On Deadly Ground (1994)
The once and future 'Roi Du Fromage".
Forget "road House" in the cheese stakes, this hot mess of a movie beats it hands down.1994 was the year two Forrests, Gump and Taft, duked it out for box office supremacy, and the better retard won handily. but don't let that dissuade you from enjoying this supreme example of Steven Segal's monumental hubris. The man who professed to be so attuned to the plight of the Aleut cast Japanese women because actual Aleut women were deemed too ugly, at least in a romantic lead role. It gets better. Modern Aleut are depicted living in skin huts and travelling on dog sleds, until Segal arrives to save their primitive asses, whereby they reveal the Skidoo they have concealed in anticipation of the great day when a Caucasian Saviour will show up to employ this incomprehensible technology on their behalf. This is aggressively stupid and over-the-top racist even for Steven Segal, which is saying a lot. Anyone who has seen "On Deadly Ground" must have struck by the utter ludicrousness of protecting a sensitive eco-system by blowing up an oil well right in the middle of it; anyone, that is, except Steven Segal.Oh to live in a Segalian universe where no problem is so big or small that it can't be solved by beating the sh*t out of it. Strong work from Michael Caine whose unapologetic scenery-chewing constitutes an even bigger environmental threat than the aforementioned oil rig.
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)
The Absolute Worst
"Expelled" is yet another of a slew of films pandering to the ludicrous fundamentalist Christian notion that everyone who doesn't drink their Koolaid is "persecuting" them. Critical thinking and the scientific method are not welcome in the fundo world-view, instead we should accept that science is a fierce contest between God and Darwin in which both sides hold equal weight, and should be offered to students so that they can make "informed choices".
This is, of course, utter nonsense. Science is not a democracy and religion has no place in the science classroom. Ben Stein's craptacular excuse for a documentary film is an utter, shameful disgrace. He presents no evidence in support of intelligent design, shamelessly quote-mines, and so obviously edits the interviews with Dawkins and Shermer as to beggar belief.His own statement that "Science gets people killed" is testament to his aggressive ignorance and moral bankruptcy.