Champagne and Bullets belongs on the Mount Rushmore of bad movies

<figure> <img alt="Movie poster for Champagne and Bullets." data-caption="Thankfully the movie is bonkers enough to live up to the artwork. | Image: Vinegar Syndrome" data-portal-copyright="Image: Vinegar Syndrome" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/Champagne-and-Bullets.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> Thankfully the movie is bonkers enough to live up to the artwork. | Image: Vinegar Syndrome </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">There's something about a movie like <em>The Room</em>, <em>Troll 2</em>, or<em> Fateful Findings</em> that I find irresistible. These sorts of "so bad they're good" films are marvelous curiosities where ambition far outstrips resources, ability, and self-awareness to become something much greater than the sum of their parts. <em>Champagne and Bullets</em> (also released as <em>GetEven</em> and <em>Road to Revenge</em>) is a film on par with those classics of outsider cinema. </p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">The movie is almost entirely the work of one man, John De Hart. Hart wrote, directed, and stars as Rick Bode in the film. He even performs a musical number early in the proceedings - The bizarre "<a href="https://youtu.be/zN2UuGfGr8k">Shimmy Slide</a>." During th …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/column/971103/champagne-and-bullets-bad-movies-review">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>