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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Gareth Date: 23 Apr 02 - 05:00 PM Nahh!! Must be Robin Hood Prince of Thieves - Yes I know it was't meant to be funny but every time I watch the video tears run down my trouser legs. Gareth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Steve-o Date: 23 Apr 02 - 04:45 PM For non-stop laughs, it's "The Phantom Empire", a B Western that combines the genre with Sci-Fi! Gene Autry rides into a cave after some bad guy, and follows him down in a supersonic elevator to an underground world of aliens. You can tell the aliens, because they look like people dressed up in tin foil suits wearing buckets on their heads. An all-time classic, and I love it. Oh, and by the way, Gene sings a few tunes, and plays the D-45, too!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: CarolC Date: 23 Apr 02 - 04:37 PM Harold and Maud is not moronic. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: MMario Date: 23 Apr 02 - 04:29 PM 'Love at Stake' - set in witch-trial times and Salem; starring Sarah Lee, the town baker- who is accused of witchcraft. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: kendall Date: 23 Apr 02 - 04:21 PM THEM with James Whitmore |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: SINSULL Date: 23 Apr 02 - 04:16 PM And did you know: BeBe Buell, the real life Penny Lane of "Almost Famous", wrote "Shark Bite" which was changed to "Claw Bite", the theme song for "Lobsteroids"? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Amergin Date: 23 Apr 02 - 04:10 PM not that kind of banana, Liz.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Liz the Squeak Date: 23 Apr 02 - 04:08 PM I've seen a banananana tree in Tahiti, it had crabs, rather than flowers but I know the general effect. How about the Tall Guy? Worth it just for the line at the end about the vaccuum cleaner.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Mark Cohen Date: 23 Apr 02 - 04:03 PM I just watched some of "The Jerk" on TV last night, thinking it might be another one to add to the list, but....aaaaauuuugh! I couldn't stand it! And Liz, if you ever come to Hawaii and see a banana tree, you will understand where Audrey II's creator got his/her inspiration. I keep waiting for these banana flowers (which hang straight down) to get up and start singing! I'll try to find a picture to link to. Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Bobert Date: 23 Apr 02 - 03:52 PM "IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD", hands down... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Liz the Squeak Date: 23 Apr 02 - 03:38 PM Them. Just love that rubber ant. And a watch over and over has to be Little Shop of Horrors..... every time I'm bored or just a little down, slap it in the vid, whack up the volume and lust after that dentist and his bike!!! Singing along with Audrey makes life a bit better. Any one of the Police Squad videos, Naked Gun etc.... practically worn out 'the smell of fear'.... Regretably, it was slagged by the critics, but I can't stop watching Men in Tights. That dance routine is something else.... and all the little 'in-jokes' (Bagelle and Locksley.... 12 Century Fox.... meshugganehs?) It's my all time favourite slap it in and watch it.... LTS
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: catspaw49 Date: 23 Apr 02 - 03:29 PM JE, your post reminds me that there is another category here altogehter which is movies that have been rendered ridiculous because of the censored cuts! Blazing Saddles really takes a hit in some of it's cut versions and some of the cuts make no sense at all! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: JenEllen Date: 23 Apr 02 - 03:25 PM Night of the Lepus? Oh yes. It ranks right up there with The Fog and Ghost Story as one of the yearly must-sees. Someone invariably blurts out: "Dammit, Jim, I'm not a wabbit hunter!" I also have a pirated copy of Tremors that was taped off of the USA channel. It is a perennial favourite because of the dubbing. "Gol-dang worms!" Strangebrew. "Come over to the dark side, you knob." Granted, it is supposed to be silly, but I can't help loving it all the same. The bit where Hosehead's cape unfurls? It sends me to the floor. I can't believe no one has mentioned Army of Darkness. Painful. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Peter T. Date: 23 Apr 02 - 02:18 PM I think we need category distinctions, between campy bad movies, and movies that are supposed to be good, and are mesmerizingly poor, that one has to admit liking or at least watching with grim fascination as one's critical skills are left pounding at the door saying, "stop," "stop". In the campy camp, "Glen or Glenda" is my favourite. And certainly, "The Maze" is one of the best of all the worst movies ever, I saw it at age 10. I especially liked the sound of the frog slurping down the hallways late at night. The final scene in the Maze is totally ridiculous. I seem to remember that it had another name though. I think CP's original idea is for films that one ends up watching again even though you hate yourself for it. "Pretty Woman" is probably that film for me. It is such a dreadful film, so contrived, I hate its disgusting politics, its message is that rich people can do anything they want, shopping is liberating, prostitutes have hearts of gold, Richard Gere is creepy, everything about it makes me want to throw up. But I am sorry to say that when Julia Roberts takes off her blond fright wig, and lets down her hair (hey, scriptwriters, don't you recognise your own myth, you idiots!)and walks around that hotel room in her bathrobe and bare feet, I am (dare I say it) hooked. She really is so incandescently beautiful (like the young Elizabeth Taylor in Ivanhoe, or Kelly McGillis in Reuben, Reuben). But I can't watch the last scene -- it is so vomity that even I have limits. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: GUEST,MAG at work Date: 23 Apr 02 - 12:24 PM This one is too much fun to quit on, even tho' my preschool group is due in 10 minutes. Ishtar deserved better than it got. The lampoon of Middle East politics is, I would say, right on. Hoffman and Beatty were too contemptuous of their characters. If they had had more affection for these losers the movie would have had a lot more life. Still, all in all, the auction scene is a standout. It alone was worth the price of admission. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: catspaw49 Date: 23 Apr 02 - 12:10 PM Oh gawd........I'm with Leej........What a memory Sinsull!!! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Lonesome EJ Date: 23 Apr 02 - 12:06 PM Sinsull! What a blast from the past! I did see The Maze when I was a kid, although I remember very little about it other than frog-boy hopping down the hallways. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Devilmaster Date: 23 Apr 02 - 12:05 PM Hey all.... Probably any of the ZAZ films. My favorite being 'Top Secret!'. Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: GUEST,Cigilteach Date: 23 Apr 02 - 12:01 PM I had one of those cookies things but I guess it went away. The Inlaws I actually wore out the video. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: SINSULL Date: 23 Apr 02 - 11:07 AM Anyone ever see "The Maze"? One of those "so bad it's good" horror flicks. A newly wed takes his bride to his ancestral castle where he has just been named the new Lord. On their first night, he meets with the family lawyer and returns from the meeting with a white streak in his hair. The family secret is that horrible. After an hour and a half of routine horror scenes, the truth comes out. The true Lord still lives...he is a giant frog who lives in the tower. Seems something went wrong in his mother's pregnancy and as we all know a foetus goes through all the stages of evolution before reaching "MAN". Uncle Harry stopped at frog. And frogs live forever...unless they jump from towers and get squashed on the ground. "Triffids" book and movie are very different. I love both. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Morticia Date: 23 Apr 02 - 10:59 AM Betelguese..(sp?) absolutely loved it.....and any slushy old hollywood black and white you care to mention....Little Women, every incarnation thereof, in fact the more unfeasibly sappy and soppy the plot line, the more I love it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: Mrrzy Date: 23 Apr 02 - 10:33 AM The version of Triffids I saw stuck quite close to the book. I just saw Village of the Damned, which stuck pretty close to the Midwich Cuckoos, too... love Wyndham. But how about Little Shop of Horrors? And kendall, whom did you play? A lobster or a rocker? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: kendall Date: 23 Apr 02 - 10:22 AM Frogs with Ray Milland, Edward Scissorhands, 1 million b.c. I've heard people say they like those pieces of crap! There was a local movie producer here who made a film titled LOBSTEROIDS. It is the all time worst movie I ever saw. It is about some evil scientist who creates giant lobsters that attack anyone playing rock music.(I like that in a lobster) But, the worst part was, I had a role in it! Gawd, you cannot imagine how bad it was. (the movie) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up From: irishajo Date: 23 Apr 02 - 10:13 AM Kingpin |
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 01:26 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Justa Picker Date: 22 Apr 02 - 10:56 PM Eraserhead. |
