BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Oct 03 - 12:25 PM

Yes! I saw that one on late night TV once in the 70's. It was truly bizarre. All these rubbery, jelly-like, boneless bodies lying around...they were a sad sight.

Exactly how the bones were removed was quite mysterious, since the bodies bore no marks or incisions. The bones simply ceased to exist somehow, leaving the rest of the body lying there. Talk about becoming "spineless"! The bodies were, as O'Meara has suggested, very difficult to pick up and move, because they tended to flop around all over the place, like a garbage bag full of jello.

Yuck.

Talk about a bone-headed idea for a movie! No, wait...

Never mind.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 14 Oct 03 - 12:25 AM

I just watched "Galaxy Quest" and "Kingpin"! ...mighty fine moronic fiascos! I am left wondering what 'Little' thinks of "Galaxy Quest"... I was still chuckling the morning after! ttr

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Oct 03 - 07:48 PM

I absolutely love Galaxy Quest, and would be happy to watch it many more times. It's a brilliant send-up of Star Trek in its sillier moments, both public and private.

Shatner likes it too. Kind of a shame they couldn't have given him a cameo role in it as a janitor or something.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Muttley
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 07:02 PM

How about "Vampire Circus" with the Tom-Baker's-Dr.Who-assistant as the sister half of a brother and sister vampire pair of (I think) trapeze artists (or something glamorously similar attached to a circus). Basically it's a whole circus troupe that are, in reality, vampires. Just to see Dave Prowse (Darth Vader in a later life)as the typecast 'strongman' (and vampire) is worth it.

Then again "John Carpenter's Vampires" was REALLY cheesy - but good.

The sequel was rubbish but a really corny one that just suddenly changes genres halfway through is Quentin Tarantino's "Dusk 'til Dawn": This classic goes from a psychopathic shoot-everything-that- moves-and-swear-the-air-purple-while-doing-it flick to a swear-the-air-blue-while-being-attacked-by-and-vanquishing-vampires movie. It has GOT to be the wierdest "vamp" flick EVER !!!!! Just to see Cheech Marin in about a hundred different roles and the guy who plays the biker / trucker with the pistol at his crotch and slowly turning into a vampire while trying to conceal it is bloody hilarious.

To be honest, just about ANY vampire flick where they overdo the corny lines or over dramatise the roles is gonna be a worthy contender - i.e. almost ANY of the 60's and 70's Hammer Horror Vampire / Dracula / Frankenstein flicks will sit comfortably here especially "Vampire Lovers" with Carmilla Karnstein as the "head Vampiress".

"Them" is a worthy contender as are most of those great B-grade Sci-Fi flicks: It, The Beast from (however many) Fathoms, etc.

However, I have to proffer two Aussie flicks here for consideration.

Firstly "The Cars That Ate Paris" (Paris being NOT the French capital, but a small outback Queensland town - or is it NSW) - a truly awful film.

and the winner is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Wait for it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

UNDEAD! A UFO / Sci-Fi / Zombie combo-genre film that is so truly bad it's hilarious. Of course it was deliberately done this way but the dead-pan lines and expression of the film's hero (who carries a home-created triple-barrelled shotgun) are just classics.

I also own copies of Men In Tights and Prince of Thieves and love them both (the attraction of seeing Carcassonne which serves as the town of Nottingham helps since we visited it recently - Carcassonne, not Nottingham)

I am truly amazed NO-ONE mentioned the one film which wins the "Worst Film Of All Time" category hands down, consistently, year-in / year-out.

"Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes" absolute cornball BRILLIANCE - has me rolling around the floor crying with laughter EVERY time.

Finally how could anyone admit to a love of Jane Fonda? Cannot act. Cannot sing and was personally and directly responsible for the deaths of several American Servicemen during the Vietnam War when she visited prisons and passed notes passed to her by prisoners DIRECTLY to their Nth Vietnamese captors who promptly executed them.
The woman should be shunned and ostrscised for all time.

Anyway, that's my (lengthy) offering on the topic - sorry about the quasi-political diatribe at the end.

Muttley

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: GUEST,Sleepless Dad
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 08:26 PM

"Red Dawn" I have to watch it whenever it comes on the TV. It's a sickness.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: robomatic
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 08:45 PM

"Taras Bulba" with Yul Brynner leading his men in a drinking song and Tony Curtis playing his son with full Brooklyn accent: "They HATe me becawz I'm a Caw-sack!"

Gremlins

Killer Klownz From Outer Space

What A Way To Go (Shirley McClaine as a bride who 'tis death to marry).

Under The Yum Yum Tree

Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 11:08 PM

I will once again declare the glories of "Howard the Duck", a delightful little movie that got totally trashed by critics and public alike in 1986. I loved it. Of course, I loved Howard long before he was in the movies...and that made all the difference. I would probably have not gone to see it at all, had I not been familiar already with the comic.

I gather that only 0.05 per cent of the public had ever read the comic? No wonder the movie was a flop.

The comic may have been the most unique idea Marvel Comics ever came up with. It was mostly social satire.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Peter T.
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 05:44 AM

New Favourite: War of the Worlds. I sat through it amazed at how anyone could spend $100 million dollars on the most exquisite special effects, and 3 dollars on the script. It is the same film as "The Day After Tomorrow" -- the entire world is being blown up, iced, whatever, and all that matters is that a father bonds with his children. I especially liked the parts where Tom Cruise is the only person with a working car in America, so that he and his kids can bond as they drive around all day.

America at its most moronic.

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: SINSULL
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 09:02 AM

I love Gremlins. Even bough a Stripe stuffed toy while the rest of the world grabbed up those insipidly nice Gizmos.

Thanks to this thread, I visited Ebay and now have a copy of The Maze arriving in time for Christmas. Another Mudcat moment.

The alternate title is "My Uncle, The Frog". I think.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: robomatic
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 12:14 PM

Peter T: Your estimate of "War Of The Worlds" actually gives more credit to the script than it deserves. Yet it was slightly better than "Independence Day"

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Peace
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 12:15 PM

Armageddon with Willis and others.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: GUEST,JTS
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 12:20 PM

New Favourite: War of the Worlds. I sat through it amazed at how anyone could spend $100 million dollars on the most exquisite special effects, and 3 dollars on the script. It is the same film as "The Day After Tomorrow" -- the entire world is being blown up, iced, whatever, and all that matters is that a father bonds with his children. I especially liked the parts where Tom Cruise is the only person with a working car in America, so that he and his kids can bond as they drive around all day.

Peter T.



I agree with all of that and would ad that Cruise's portrayal of a New Jersey dock worker actually, literally should negate his Oscar nominations. They should be removed from the record retroactively.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Wesley S
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 12:21 PM

My favorite part of the new War Of The Worlds is at the ferry when in a fleeing crowd of several hundred people only TWO people pull out guns. IN NEW JERSEY ? ONLY TWO GUNS ? Now THAT'S a figment of someone's imagination.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: MMario
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 12:58 PM

'Joe's Apartment"

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 01:55 PM

Beautiful summation of "War of the Worlds", Peter. LOL! You see, Hollywood figures it's impossible to get good attendance at a movie without putting some "family values" in the story. Just the kind of stuff you are objecting to.

Remember the idiotic love story in "Titanic"? Same deal. God, how I suffered through that...ARGHHH! But it sold tickets, didn't it?

The original H.G. Wells story has no "family values" stuff in it...it is a story fueled by much grander and more encompassing human issues than whether one daddy can bond with his kids. Sheesh! What do you want to bet that if they did the War of the Worlds faithfully to the original story it would bomb at the box office nowadays?

The old Titanic film "A Night To Remember" back in the 50's (quite a good movie) did NOT concoct some goofy love story to drive the plot. No. They figured that a plot about something as tragic and enormous as what happened on that night in 1912 didn't NEED some special "human interest" manipulations to make it work. They were so right. The main focus in the old movie was what happened to the SHIP itself...and the effect on everyone collectively.

Such a movie nowadays would, I suppose, be judged as a boring flop. Too dry. Too factual. Nothing in it for 20-somethings to relate to! (ha ha)

I think we are living in a decaying society that has lost touch with reality. Our "art" is like something that you would expect to buy in the action figure department at WalMart.

That said, the new King Kong movie has a lot of heart...I'll say that. Pretty good.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: alison
Date: 22 Dec 05 - 12:49 AM

Jack the Giant Killer - I showed it to the kids - they rolled about the floor at the really bad clay type monsters

little shop of horrors, princess bride, & young frankenstein always cheer me up

and Orgasmo (Spaw if you haven't seen it yet... seeing as this thread is really old..... you'll love it)

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 22 Dec 05 - 01:22 AM

i dont have time to read all this before i try to get some sleep..

but no doubt i'd find some favourite movies here..


a quick "Ctrl / F" later.. and i see "valley of Gwangi" is already included..



but not Patrick Swayze's classic bonehead action movies;

"Roadhouse"

[you gotta see it in widescreen DVD.. cool bar-room blues rock soundtrack]


&


"Back Dog"


one of the finest double bills ever
to inflict on the mrs
if she wants a quiet quality time night in together watching movies

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Dec 05 - 01:26 AM

errr.. Black Dog

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: GUEST,bbc at work
Date: 22 Dec 05 - 11:32 AM

To watch w/ my sons--Surf Ninjas. Quote--"You can't buy knives with money."

bbc

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Metchosin
Date: 22 Dec 05 - 11:49 AM

Tremors

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Dec 05 - 12:24 PM

Tremors has some pretty funny moments. I love the scene where the survivalist couple finally get to use their entire inventory of deadly weaponry...the justification of a lifetime's work!

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Metchosin
Date: 22 Dec 05 - 12:32 PM

They were the whole ball of wax to me Little Hawk. Loved it!

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Justa Picker
Date: 22 Dec 05 - 01:24 PM

The Big Lebowski.