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Subject: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: catspaw49 Date: 22 Apr 02 - 08:04 PM Yeah, it's a moronic thread too, but what the hell........Everyone here has got some skeleton in the video closet. You know, one of those completely inane, dumbass, and completely moronic movies that you can't bring yourself to admit in public that you really like. Now as to what's moronic, that's up to you. Whether it's "Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo" or perhaps any of the "Star Trek" series.....maybe anything....your choice. The other day I stumbled into what I think may be the absolutely pinnacle of moronic movies and damned if I didn't keep laughing. It's a complete embarassment to admit that I even saw this, let alone like it........BUT, currently #1 on my Hit Parade of Moronic Movies I Like" is...........Joe Dirt, a David Spade and SNL friends vehicle that is the abyss of bad taste and bad jokes....but somehow because of my penchant for bad taste and bad jokes, it cracked me up for the most part. Drags at the end, but........ Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 22 Apr 02 - 08:10 PM Well, Spaw, you may have trouble getting bites on this one. That's a tough combination... a movie that you think is moronic, which you like, which kinda makes you a.. But, I'll give you a couple of not particularly good movies that I enjoy watching every once in a while... two horror movies come to mind... Carnival of Souls and Horror Hotel (which are on the same DVD for about seven bucks.) Of course, there are many cheesy science fiction movies... enough to provide Mystery Science Theater with a livelihood for the next century. I also liked The Man From Planet X, or we could go back to Superman and the Mole Men. Somehow, I don't think that's what you're looking for. They probably have enough saving grace to disqualify them as being moronic. Guess I'll have to think about this some more. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Midchuck Date: 22 Apr 02 - 08:18 PM Obviously, neither of you have seen "Orgazmo" yet. Peter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: catspaw49 Date: 22 Apr 02 - 08:18 PM Oh sure Jerry...They qualify.....Kinda' like that ultimate turkey which is soooo bad, it's great---"Plan Nine from Outer Space." What makes Plan 9 so wonderful is that he wasn't going for laughs....it's just awful! And moronic! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: catspaw49 Date: 22 Apr 02 - 08:20 PM No Peter, I haven't, but do you like it? That's the catch!!! Now 'fess up! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 22 Apr 02 - 08:23 PM Ah yes, Plan 9 From Outer Space... a favorite of mine... honest. Another favorite of mine, less well known, was Night of the Lepus. That's right... Lepus is the generic name for rabbits. I taped it off the tv for my son many years ago. Nothing more terrifying than an invasion of 30 foot tall bunnies. And it didn't even take place at Easter. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Jeri Date: 22 Apr 02 - 08:34 PM I saw "Little Nicky" (I think that's what it's called) a couple of weeks ago, and it wasn't quite as stupid as I thought it would be. I actually liked it. I liked Water World, too. Things we talk about at work: We came up with the cast first - Adam Sandler and the guy from Little Nicky whose name I have completely blocked. I threw in William Shatner. Somebody else said Carrot Top ought to be in it. Now we almost had a cast. (We still needed a couple of women. I suggested all sorts of names - Brittney Spears, Sally Struthers, Roseanne - but nobody liked my ideas.) We needed a plot. More or less. Rather than write a whole new story, I thought it might be a good idea to use a tried-and-true idea, much like The Flintstones, The Brady Bunch, etc. I thought a modernised Gilligan's Island might be very popular. Why has a movie never been made of this?! Shatner as Skipper, Whatshisname from Little Nicky as Gilligan, and maybe Carrot Top could play Ginger, and Adam Sandler as The Professor. Don't have a clue about the Howells (maybe Kevin Costner and Madonna?) or Mary-Ann. If you're looking for actual bad movies instead of bad movie ideas, never mind. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Celtic Soul Date: 22 Apr 02 - 08:53 PM I think I am one of only 2 people in the whole of humankind who actually liked the 1st Star Trek film. Other than that, all my movie faves are absolutely top notch. Not a stinker in the bunch (coughcough).
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: michaelr Date: 22 Apr 02 - 09:06 PM Glad you asked, Spaw... My all-time favorite moronic movie has to be "Yellowbeard" - an absolutely hilarious pirate/treasure island type story starring most of the Monty Python crew AND Cheech & Chong AND James Mason AND Marty Feldman AND Bernadette Peters... AND it's been UNAVAILABLE on video for ages. So if anyone out there can hook me up with a copy, I'll... I'll... well, I would do something! Sample quote: "I may be blind but I've got acute `earing." -- "I'm not interested in your jewelry!" Cheers, Michael |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: RangerSteve Date: 22 Apr 02 - 09:14 PM If I recall Night of the Lepus correctly, the rabbits also mooed like cattle. I also hate to say that I liked "Waterworld". |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Sorcha Date: 22 Apr 02 - 09:29 PM Killer Tomatoes?? Swamp Thing?? If not that, then perhaps "Princess Bride"? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Giac Date: 22 Apr 02 - 09:31 PM Day Of The Triffids. Loved the book first, then fell in love with the movie because it stuck so closely to the book. How can one not love plant-creatures who communicate by clacking stick-like appendages (no, no, these were like hands)? Haven't seen it for ages. Used to have the video but some ex-friend made off with it and all of my John Wyndham novels. The meteor shower's green glow leaves everyone blind, nearly everyone, that is. Fortunately, a few people, like our hero (William something) can still see (his eyes were bound after surgery). Maybe they can save mankind ... . Mary |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: kendall Date: 22 Apr 02 - 09:36 PM Mars Attacks! or The Man from planet X.or, Valley of Gwangi |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Stephen L. Rich Date: 22 Apr 02 - 09:42 PM That's easy. "The Thing With Two Heads" with Ray Milland and Rosie Grier in the title role. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 22 Apr 02 - 09:45 PM Valley of the Gwangi... another favorite... the old Sinbad movies with Kerwin Matthews (who was from my home town) Lousy movies but great stop-motion special effects. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Lepus Rex Date: 22 Apr 02 - 09:51 PM The only thing I can think of is "Modern Problems," starring Chevy Chase. I liked it when I was a kid, mostly because my uncle co-wrote it, and I still have a soft spot for it. But it's really, really dumb. ;) ---Lepus Rex |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: SINSULL Date: 22 Apr 02 - 10:08 PM Giac, Are you single? I have two copies of "Day Of The Triffids". My all time favorite! Yeah...the whole world is blinded by a meteor shower except our hero who was undergoing eye surgery. (His doctor commits suicide by jumping out a window.) A little girl, running away from boarding school misses the shower by hiding in the baggage compartment of a train, as does an alcoholic scientist tucked away in a lighthouse with his ever enduring wife. They find the secret to killing off the killer plants who sound like a cross between crickets and a cow stuck in the mud.Triffids are attracted to sound - hence a heart-stopping chase of an ice cream truck playing the most annoying music. And the tacky ending - All the blind people of earth stumbling up the steps to Sunday morning service celebrating man's ability to survive and God's mercy. Can't ask for better. Crashing trains and planes, rampant escaped convicts, an orgy consisting of ladies in high heels dancing on tables. Great stuff. I have seen it more than once and also have the book. Thanks, Spaw. I needed that! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: MAG Date: 22 Apr 02 - 10:18 PM Another vote for the first Terk movie -- I never understood why it got such savage reviews -- good premise. Haven't seen Triffids, but now I know where that scene in Mars Attack came from. Zappa's 1000 Motels gets a weird love/hate response outta me. The last scene on Lassir come home gets me every time. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Amergin Date: 22 Apr 02 - 10:26 PM oh boy....love bad movies....ice pirates....time bandits.....flash gordon (with timothy dalton and max von sydow)....and tremors with kevin bacon just to name a few.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Melani Date: 22 Apr 02 - 10:29 PM "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves". At one point, when the horse was carrying the old blind guy to Robin Hood's camp, someone inquired, "Is the horse's name Lassie?" And yes, I have my own copy of it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Celtic Soul Date: 22 Apr 02 - 10:32 PM So mag'? *you're* the other one??? I always wondered who it was. ;D |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Sorcha Date: 22 Apr 02 - 10:34 PM Ahh, Melani, Prince of Thieves was NOT a bad movie, it was a GREAT camp piece a la Monty Python.......great lines all the way through it. GREAT movie!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Stephen L. Rich Date: 22 Apr 02 - 10:36 PM "...Triffids.." is a dopey classic. I saw in a theater as a kid. It needs to be seen on a wide screen. Video doesn't do it proper (in)justice. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Justa Picker Date: 22 Apr 02 - 10:56 PM Eraserhead. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Lonesome EJ Date: 22 Apr 02 - 11:08 PM The Party with Peter Sellers. Very dated 60s tomfoolery with Sellers as an Indian Actor nobody who is accidentally invited to a Hollywood Director's party. An absolutely terrible musical interlude by Claudine Longet. Somehow it captures the zaniness of the era, and Sellers is a loveable numbskull who does everything wrong. What's Up Tiger Lily? Woody Allen bought the rights to a Japanese spy movie and dubbed in his own dialogue. The plot involves a secret recipe for egg salad. Flesh Gordon Pornographic version of the archaic sci-fi films. Earth is disabled by the effects of the "sex-ray" which causes uncontollable orgiastic behavior. Flesh, Dale Ardor, and the Professor must travel to Orgasmia aboard a schlong-shaped rocket ship, where Flesh dons the power-pasties to do battle with the dreaded penisaurus. Ace Ventura Pet Detective. "Look kids! The Mother Rhino is giving birth!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: michaelr Date: 22 Apr 02 - 11:21 PM Correction: The leading lady in "Yellowbeard" was not Bernadette Peters, but the late, lamented comedic genius, Madeline Kahn. Michael |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: DonMeixner Date: 22 Apr 02 - 11:21 PM Are you all talking of Prince of Thieves or Men in Tights? I liked Waterworld and admit it out loud. I also liked The Postman. I don't know which Day of the Triffids (The Howard Keel film?) you are all talking about but it barely resembles John Wyndham/s book by more than the title. I did like the movie but real is real. How about Cherry 2000 with Melanie Griffith. Soldier with Kurt Russell. The Quartermass movies. Doctor Who. We seem to have drifted into SciFi. I admit to liking The Little Princess ( "Mafeking is relieved! Oh Jenny, Mafeking is relieved!")and Wee Willie Winkie. Don |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Lin in Kansas Date: 22 Apr 02 - 11:25 PM "Spaceballs," definitely. Also "The Villain" with Kirk Douglas playing The Coyote and Arnold Schwartzenegger as The Roadrunner--hilarious, and totally moronic, and I've watched it I don't know how many times. Lin |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: CarolC Date: 22 Apr 02 - 11:38 PM Oohhh... Eraserhead. Yeah that one's pretty... whatever (drip..... drip..... drip..... drip..... drip)
...but I can't really say I liked it. I love Drop Dead Fred but, although I know a lot of people think it's moronic, I really don't at all. I think it's actually quite deep. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: sophocleese Date: 22 Apr 02 - 11:43 PM The Mummy, With Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weiss and Arnold Vosloo. Very silly but quite fun. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Lyrical Lady Date: 22 Apr 02 - 11:44 PM Rocket Man ...LMFHO..... LL |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Phil Cooper Date: 22 Apr 02 - 11:45 PM I'd say a couple of my favorite moronic movies (Margaret, Kate, and I sometimes have "bad movie" festivals) would be Deathstalker II and Cannibal Women of the Avacado Jungle of Death. I'm wondering if the newly released Scorpion King will ultimately have "bad movie" potential. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: GUEST Date: 22 Apr 02 - 11:57 PM
Insipid attempt as "classical" which failed miserably.
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Lepus Rex Date: 23 Apr 02 - 12:03 AM Ooh, Deathstalker 2! Nice choice, PC. My favourite movie, when I was 12. Avoid the original, of course, as it's crap. Hey, and it's on DVD... for like $10. Heh. GUEST, that comment really wasn't controversial enough for you to drop your cookie. And, no, it's not an "Insipid attempt as 'classical.'" (Not really sure what that means, anyway) But if you don't get it, you probably never will. :) ---Lepus Rex |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: catspaw49 Date: 23 Apr 02 - 12:50 AM Ever see "Gunga Din" with Cary Grant (worst performance ever) and Sam Jaffe as Gunga? If I see it's on, I try to tune in for the last 15 minutes. The excitement and pathos builds as the garrison is under attack and a wounded and dying Gunga Din valiantly blows one last alert on his little bugle. bbllatt.....phirp....poit.... Man, I am on the floor every time!!! Jaffe giving this little toot is a riot. I know it's supposed to be "touching" or whatever, but you have to see it! It's hilarious!!! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: CapriUni Date: 23 Apr 02 - 01:14 AM Spy Kids with Allen Cumming as the master mind -- or so he seemed. An action flick for the under ten's. The plot was contrived, the resolution was a rushed "Just be nice to each other" ending that stopped making sense the moment you thought about it... but... The relationship between older sister and younger brother was neat, and for the entire film, the whole thing was like a hybrid between an Escher print and a Salvador Dali painting that had been brought to life -- 88 minutes of pure dreamscape. Sometimes that's all you need. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Amergin Date: 23 Apr 02 - 01:22 AM oh another one I love is Under The Rainbow..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Lonesome EJ Date: 23 Apr 02 - 01:25 AM John Wayne IS Attila the Hun. "The Russian Steppes are vast and beautiful, my lady, but they pale in the shadow of your loveliness. Truly you are above all other Princesses in the realm!" This one is worth the price of admission just to see John non-chalantly mouthing lines like that one. The asian eye makeup and pointy moustache is also amazingly bad. Makes you regret that the Duke was never asked to play Othello. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Mark Cohen Date: 23 Apr 02 - 01:26 AM I freely admit that I really liked "The Never-Ending Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: khandu Date: 23 Apr 02 - 01:30 AM "The Big Lebowski"! I have watched it over and over and will watch it over again. I love it. John Goodman excels, Steve Buscemi takes verbal abuse marvelously, and Jeff Bridges is a clone of my bestest friend, David A. Wonderful inanity. I recommend it to everyone. khandu |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Mark Cohen Date: 23 Apr 02 - 01:32 AM Oh, and the winner in the "new-dumb-movie-that-I-thought-I'd-hate-when-my-7-year-old-daughter-insisted-on-seeing-it-but-surprisingly-found-I-enjoyed-it" category was..."Big Fat Liar". Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: GUEST,T-boy Date: 23 Apr 02 - 08:16 AM "Kiss Me Stupid". Dean Martin at his most outrageous. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: GUEST,jonesey Date: 23 Apr 02 - 08:40 AM Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Wayne's World. For some reason these two movies slay me. I laugh to the point of being clinical. Also, an old 'made for TV' farce named 'Evil Roy Slade' has got to be one of the funniest American movies ever made. Been years since I've seen it. Ok, but the secret one I liked was 'The Wedding Planner'...there, I said it...so, sue me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: sledge Date: 23 Apr 02 - 08:57 AM This Island Earth does it for me, especially the monsters with can opners for hands. Sledge |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: catspaw49 Date: 23 Apr 02 - 09:28 AM Evil Roy Slade has come up around here several times in the past and I have to agree that it is absolutely hilarious! But in the case of ERS, I tell a lot of people that I love it, as opposed to Joe Dirt which to me is funnier than hell, but I hate to tell anyone I like it! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: alanabit Date: 23 Apr 02 - 09:32 AM I should have dropped my cookie before writing this, but how come nobody has mentioned "Harold and Maude"? That was bad taste on a new scale. I found it irresistable. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: MAG Date: 23 Apr 02 - 09:40 AM awww, now Harold and Maude is inspired. Vivian Pickles as the child-devouring mother. Harold being metaphorically reborn as he climbs through Maude's sculpture. Yeah, it's got some treacly moments. There ARE people like Harold who could use some saving. -- MA |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Liz the Squeak Date: 23 Apr 02 - 09:41 AM Make that 3 for the Star Trek movie.... 'Princess Bride' is fantastic. Did Madeleine Kahn die then?? When was that?? 'Men in Tights' was a hoot, especially the line 'ah, but I can do an English accent!' 'Killer Tomatoes', love the titles. 'Yellowbeard' was great too. 'Night of the Lepus' was the best ever all time worst horror movie, such a shame I can't get a hold of it. 'Day of the Triffids' sticks to the book????? You mean the film with Howard Keel???? I trust you were reading a 'book of the film' because in the original John Wyndham novel, there is a) no lighthouse, b) no ice-cream truck, c)no girls boarding school (only previously blind pupils from a special school)and d) triffids didn't die when exposed to sea water. The best version that I know of is the 6 part adaptation by the BBC about 20 years ago (a very young John Duttine as Bill Masen), which I've got a scratchy copy of but would love them to issue on DVD. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Kim C Date: 23 Apr 02 - 10:00 AM I have fessed up to this many times before, but I'll do it again: ISHTAR Yes, Ishtar. Should be required viewing for anyone who has ever had to endure Songwriters Night at the local joint. I still maintain that if the lead roles had been played by, say, Chevy Chase and Martin Short, the critics wouldn't have been so unkind. Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty aren't exactly known for their comic genius, after all. But do see it once, and keep an open mind. It's so bad it's actually funny. I wouldn't call Princess Bride moronic at all. I think it's a very nicely done fairy tale. Same with the Mummy. And Shrek. I just love Shrek. And I have to say, The Scorpion King was fantastic. If you liked The Mummy, go see it. It's Conan and Indiana Jones and any good Western all rolled up in one. Sure, it's a little predictable, as most movies like that are. But it's very entertaining, and isn't that why we go to the movies in the first place? Also, it's PG-13, and quite clean enough for anyone over about 9-10. I also have a collection of about 25 or so Disney animated movies. Lady and the Tramp is my favorite, followed by the Aristocats. The two dogs in that one, voiced by Pat Buttram and George Lindsay, are just plain hilarious. And last but not least, I love Jackie Chan.
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: irishajo Date: 23 Apr 02 - 10:13 AM Kingpin |
