I'm Not Working On: The Crater Lake Monster (Patreon)

About one in ten of the movies I watch for DC don't make the cut - a ratio that reflects my reluctance to admit that I wasted my time, I should probably be more stringent. Generally if a movie isn't working then I quit early, but sometimes it's a fine line thing and I've got to watch to the end just in case it goes someplace interesting. This can pay off - The Black Sleep is pretty limp until the last 15 minutes when it goes nuts - but in the case of The Crater Lake Monster, it didn't. Very close thing; some good lines and some terrible day for night shooting that sees two characters staring at a bright blue sky admiring the stars; and a man who gets killed in the water apparently crawled back into his boat to bleed for a bit before returning to the water. But the monster generally looks too good to mock - aside from a few shots -  and we've done a few reviews recently where we admire the stop motion in a bad movie. Plus, the big problem is the lack of lead characters, something that, again, we've done before and which isn't particularly funny. So a few years ago we might have done this, and if someone really, REALLY, wanted us to, then I guess we could go back to it. But as it stands, I wasted an hour and a half. Damn.