And it’s true: In a landscape where fans are more likely to congregate over something good, an HDTGM live show will be the first and only time thousands of people have gathered to marvel at how a movie like Drop Dead Fred ever got made. (The chosen movie for the sold-out Berkeley show, by the way: 1986’s Friday the 13th Part VI. “My dream,” Scheer says, “would be to come out to that audience that night and see everybody in hockey masks.”)
HDTGM began by warmly skewering legitimately atrocious movies (Jennifer Lopez’s Gigli, Nic Cage’s Wicker Man remake), but soon transitioned to encompass enjoyably overblown blockbusters like The Meg. Scheer’s reasoning for this is that genuinely bad movies are often no actual fun to watch. As franchises like the Fast and the Furious strain for increasingly crazy heights in an effort to outdo themselves with each passing year, ridiculously enjoyable blockbusters can start to feel like ridiculously bad movies in how they elicit…
