Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Bio-Dome [1996]

[Cross-posted on the Bad Movie Night Facebook page.]

It's funny how a movie seen through the eyes of a group of people who've watched "Bucky Larson" together can still manage to be painful but with a nice little layer of awareness that it actually could be worse.

"Bio-Dome", redubbed "Bile Dome" by Adam, is about Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin, two of the stupidest humans on the planet, getting themselves locked in a bio-dome that is supposed to be a five person year-long confined science experiment to see if humans can live off the land and maintain homeostasis. Upon discovering that they got locked in too, the billionaire backing the experiment told the press they were a part of the experiment to test chaos theory and oh boy, do they. They screw up everything about the experiment in scene after painful scene of humorless antics until eventually they realize they did a bad thing and spend a year locked inside trying to fix it. There's subplots with their activist girlfriends on the outside and one of the scientists in the bio-dome losing his marbles and trying to blow it up but ultimately that's everything. It's got plenty of faux-environmentalism and non-jokes and could have used more Rose McGowan (it's a movie meant to appeal to teens in the 90s; of course she was in it). It makes "Dude, Where's My Car?" look like "Citizen Kane" and "Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure" look like the face of God.

Keith: "I'd rather watch the poptart cat [Nyan cat] for an hour and a half than watch this again."

Summarizing Quotes:
"It's a non-stop moron-a-thon!"
"They are a symbol of everything that's wrong with the world."
"Well, that was the stupidest thing we've ever done."

Adam's Grandma's Review: "Bad movie."

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