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

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Pseudolus
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 12:55 PM

I'm with Devilmaster, "Top Secret" is awesome. Unfortunately most of the people I've suggested it to haven't really liked it!! I also LOVED Galaxy Quest with Tim Allen.....very, very, very funny movie that many of my friends didn't like...probably Trekkies!!

And Spaw, I totally agree with the cuts made to Blazing Saddles. A local station ran the movie and when they did the fart scene around the camp fire, they dubbed in belches over the fart sounds. I laughed until I cried!!!

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: CapriUni
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 12:55 PM

Clinton --

Buckaroo Bonzai was Not moronic! ;-P

Silly, yes. A spoof, possibly. A farce, definitely. But since those things were its goal, I don't think you can call it moronic for aiming at a target and hitting a bull's eye. ... unless (and this is entirely possible), you have a different definition of "moronic" than I do.

Unfortunately, I think the VHS is out of print. So for those of you who missed it, you missed one whacky classic.

Favorite scenes: John Lithgow as Doctor Lizardo possessed by the mind of Lord John Worfin in his room in the mental hospital, the brain surgery scene, and the scene where the President signs the declaration of war (short form).

(I did warn you ;-))

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 01:23 PM

Come to think of it, I've always had a yen for Godzilla movies...I love seeing old 'Zilla smashing up Japanese cities and demolishing military hardware. Even better, I love seeing him take on other monsters, like King Kong, Gidrah the three-headed dragon, Rodan, etc...(Rodan is particularly amusing...looks like an aggrieved chicken, crossed with a bat and a watermelon...or something like that.)

I think the Japanese should make a movie set in 1945-46, where the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs wake up (and seriously annoy) Godzilla, and he comes forth to save the honour of Japan at the eleventh hour!

Picture the scene! It's the spring of 1946, the Japanese have still not surrendered despite the A-bombs, and the Allies are invading the very beaches of Japan herself...Operation Olympic has begun. Thousands of ships support an invasion force of half a million men, as an uncountable swarm of landing craft makes for the beaches. Above, a pitiful scattering of airborne kamikazes try to fight their way through an impenetrable screen of several thousand Hellcats and Corsairs...when SUDDENLY...

A familiar reptilian head breaks the surface of the water, and that SCREEEEEEEEECH we all know so well rips through the din of battle. Godzilla ATTACKS!

A burst of radioactive breath, and 300 landing craft are swept away like leaves in a blast furnace! Marines die like flies! Forward comes Godzilla, harried by buzzing fighter planes, shrugging off 16-inch shells from the American battleships. KATOOM!!! The battleship Missouri goes up in a massive explosion as Godzilla targets her ammo magazines! Now he's through the destroyer screen, sinking the smaller ships with mighty blows of his forepaws, seizing the DD Fletcher in his jaws and crushing it into unrecognizable fragments. The battleline cannot stand against him! Even pointblank rounds from the Washington and the South Dakota fail to pierce his body armour.

Godzilla is seriously ticked off at these gaijin heathens who dare to wake him up from his thousand-year nap with their puny A-bombs and their Louis Armstrong records. He wreaks unbelievable havoc on the disintegrating battleline, leaving burning and drifting hulks in his wake. On to the aircraft carriers!

And so on...Well, you can see what a great movie this would make...it would call for the biggest special effects extravaganza of all time, and would probably cost more than Titanic, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all rolled into one.

I'm surprised the Japanese haven't done it yet. :-)

BTW, the most peculiar and totally hokey of all those monster movies from Japan, IMO, was Mothra. Has to be seen in all its idiotic glory to be fully appreciated. Who else but the Japanese would make a movie about a giant larva that turns into a giant moth?

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Pseudolus
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 01:34 PM

Little Hawk,
Did you ever see the show, "Ultra Man"??? I believe it was a Japanese import (I assume that because the dialog was VERY poorly dubbed) and every show Ultra Man transformed himself to a taller than the buildings superhero and fought a new monster to save the city!! Anyone else see that one? It's only a vague memory but I'm pretty sure it was called Ultra Man......phew, the mind is the first thing to, uh, hmmmm, what was I saying?

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: CapriUni
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 01:37 PM

LH--

I think in the mythos of Godzilla, that it was the atom bombs that woke the ol' boy up from his millenia-lengthed slumber and got him so mad... And yes, I like them too.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 01:59 PM

Right on! But the problem is, he didn't go after the actual perpetrators...the US military. So actually, the movie I am suggesting makes a whole lot of sense. I bet it would be hugely popular in Japan, but less so in the USA...in the sequel, he could take the war to the US West Coast, after demolishing Pearl Harbour of course. In Part III, he could march on Washington!!! Man, what a series!

I have never seen "Ultra-Man", I regret to say. It sounds bloody awful.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: CarolC
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 03:58 PM

Brother From Another Planet was not moronic! It was brilliant! (Sheesh. I sound like a broken record.)

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: CapriUni
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 03:58 PM

Anybody here familiar with the children's series Power Rangers (actually, several series)? It's adapted from a Japanese original, I believe (with the non-battle scenes remade with American actors to avoid dubbing goofs). The whole lot are written with the same philosophy of the Godzilla movies, only in farout technicolor, and being basically an infomercial for action-figure dolls. But every episode builds up to a battle between a giant monstor and a giant robot towering over a city....

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Peter T.
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 04:23 PM

Mothra was a great terrible movie (those two weird singer twins). Mothra Vs. Godzilla was a terrible terrible movie. yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 04:45 PM

Oh gawd yes Peter!!! Mothra was great!!! The singing twins to lure and control Mothra.........Those high pitched, awful, edgy, voices were the ultimate....man I tell ya' they shattered the cup on my jock!

And Hawk........I think you have a futeure in bad movies if you decide to go that way.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: RangerSteve
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 04:51 PM

Clash of the Titans was great. So was Jason and the Argonauts, an earlier movie done by the same people, with the same type of special effects.

for a movie that everyone either loves or hates, how about The Fifth Element? It's like a Lost in Space episode written by Salvadore Dali. I love it. I own a copy and I've seen it at least six times.

Count me in as one of the few who liked the Kevin Costner Robin Hood. I also liked the B.Frazier Mummy, and the Mummy Returns. I don't know if I can bring myself to see The Scorpion King, though.

Any movie directed by Tim (I just forgot his last name - the guy that did Ed Wood, Mars Attacks, - you know who I'm talking about). Even the bad ones have a certain amount of charm. (Mars Attacks was a bad one, Ed Wood and Edward Scissorhands are two of the best movies ever made).

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 05:13 PM

Hey Spaw! "MOOOOOTHRAAAAAAAAA!"
Anyone have the misfortune to sit through "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"? Still haven't figured out why the rat was being tortured on the fence - I fee asleep through part of it.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 07:45 PM

Carol C... You're absolutely right, Brother From Another Planet is a great movie. I bought it cheap on video, and now have it (cheap) on DVD. it shows what you can do with essentially no special effects, no explosions, no prosthetic ears... just an intelligent, humorous script with the main character mute. Brilliant is right!

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 08:12 PM

Don't worry, Carol, I don't think you're moronic either. [insert stupid smiley face here] And I agree with you about "Harold and Maude", and with CapriUni about "Buckaroo Banzai". I think Jeff Goldblum's showing up in full cowboy regalia, and nobody commenting about it, is one of the best bits in that movie.

Bardford, I remember thinking "The Jerk" was really really funny when I first saw it, and fully expected to like it the second time around. Maybe it's just that I'm 20 years older, but the jokes all seemed to fall flat this time. Now, there are two Steve Martin movies that never fall flat for me, though I'm not sure if they would fall into the "moronic" category: "The Man With Two Brains" (yes, I guess that would, but I love it), and "All of Me", which is still one of my all-time favorites. The courtroom scene is priceless.

Aloha,
Mark

P.S. Thanks for starting this, 'Spaw. You picked a winner!

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 09:02 PM

Since this thread seems to be going on forever, I might as well add several more of my candidates for the waste basket- all of the Woody Allen movies.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: GUEST,MAG at work
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 09:47 PM

I third y'all that Brother from Another Planet is great. In fact, anything by John Sayles tends to be worth watching, even that hack bit about radiation turning the critters into giants he did for Hollywood. A genuinely intelligent script in a hack movie.

Having read the story, I gag at Boy and his Dog. (movie unseen.)

I second The Tim Allen Star Trek takeoff. But then I'll go see Alan Rickamn in anything. Even January Man. (Now THERE was a clunker.)

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: CarolC
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 09:53 PM

Ooohhh... MAG, me too! I even watched that awful shoot-em-up, blow-em-up, high-rise movie with Bruce Willis (can't remember the name righ now) twice just to see Alan Rickman for the few minutes they have him onscreen.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: GUEST,Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 09:53 PM

Hey, how come I showed up as Guest? I see that suddenly I have to sign in with my full name... wassup? What if I signed in as William Shatner? As far as crummy movies goes, perhaps John Wayne holds the record. I think he made pretty close to 200 movies, and the last 100 of them, he just walked around being John Wayne.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: CarolC
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 09:59 PM

Jerry, you need to reset your cookie. Go to the quick links at the top of the page, click on the dropdown menu, select "reset cookie", hit "go" and follow the instructions.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 09:59 PM

Sorry about that... I was told that my cookie expired. I know I didn't eat it. I can't figure this computer stuff out. But, it looks like I got another cookie. For being a good boy?

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 25 Apr 02 - 09:10 AM

While we're talking Japanese giant monster movies, the worst of the worst was "King Kong vs./Mecha-Godzilla", and yes, I like watching it much the same as many of you like watching "Plan 9" (for the humour value).

But my favorite was "Gamera".

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Apr 02 - 11:58 AM

Peter T. - Well,you've got a point there...Mothra had some memorable peculiarities, while Mothra vs Godzilla was just plain awful!

I just saw The Scorpion King, and it's actually quite a good movie of that general type...sword and sorcery...I'd consider it superior to the Conan films, and I'm a Schwarzenneger fan. I was surprised how good it was. Really surprised. It's fine light entertainment in the swashbuckling, head-lopping tradition, and the wrestler guy makes an excellent Conan-type hero in every way. The only character that didn't ring true for me was Memnon (the main bad guy). He just didn't seem like someone from ancient times at all to me...he would have looked more at home in a $5,000 business suit than a suit of armour.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: GUEST,subligaria girl
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 12:01 PM

Hi. I saw some stuff about Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles on this thread. And it is, indisputably, a moron movie; each time I watch it, it is a little bit dopier than before. I think my favorite character is the village drunkard (not because I approve of acoholism, of course—I disapprove of it very strongly); I just love that part where he is in a fight and knocks his opponent down just by blowing on the guy.
Actually, I love quite a few moron movies, such as various movies by Mel Brooks, and anything and everything ever done by anyone from Monty Python. I also ADORE that movie Clueless. I could go on forever about the moron movies I love. I'm proud to "fess up" about it at any time. Moronism is cool!

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Kim C
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 12:31 PM

Ain't anyone mentioned Young Einstein, starring Yahoo Serious?

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Cluin
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 01:33 PM

No contest.... The Legend of Boggy Creek.

So bad it was great! Funniest movie ever made.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Midchuck
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 01:34 PM

As of today, Predator (the original one) is up to two governors. Might start a pool on what states the rest of the actors in it will end up as governors of....

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 01:36 PM

Howard the Duck! I love that movie, and will watch it any number of times. I don't think it's moronic, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Cluin
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 01:38 PM

I assume you're being facetious, LH. Even Lucas regrets that one.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: John Hardly
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 05:08 PM

My Best Friends Wedding.

I laughed out loud at the "Say A Little Prayer For You" scene.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 08:35 PM

"The Invasion of the Mole People" which I saw sometime in the 1960's. The Mole People lived somewhereunder the surface of the Earth and, as I recall, got pissed at something we were doing and decided to put a stop to the despoilers on the Earth's surface. One reviewer sucintly described this movie as "moving along with the speed of the digestive tract with similar results."

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Sam L
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 09:13 PM

Can't think of a movie, but there used to be a painting show with some Swedish lady who was made perpetually happy by a wipe-away shading technique. I found her morotic, somehow. I suppose there was something fetishy about a woman being so easily pleased.

And of course, as always, I deeply loved Kolchak the Night Stalker. Some early Jackie Chan like the Drunken Master is dumb, but fun. Any Steven Seagal is moronic, and some is hilarious. His mix of working class guy/eastern mysticism has been summed up as "he's the mysterious presence at the backyard barbeque". He kills me.

Country bears is pretty dumb, but I liked it. I know there are some dumber ones I like, but I can't bring them to mind.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: TIA
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 11:21 PM

Moronic yet, funny as hell = Young Frankenstein.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Forum Lurker
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 11:28 PM

"Big Trouble in Little China." Not truly moronic, but so incomprehensible that it fits into the same category.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Sam L
Date: 09 Oct 03 - 03:18 PM

Does anybody know if ther was ever a movie based on Henry James' Beast In The Jungle? I'd love it on principle. The story is enjoyable in a way for it's excruciating moronic suspense, and to make a film of it would be even stupider. All the way through you can't help thinking FALL IN LOVE YOU IDIOT! MESS UP YOUR LIFE SOMEHOW! DO SOMETHING! or, rather like Woody to Buzz in Toystory shouting YOU'RE A CHARACTER IN A STORY! The climactic resolution is a great literary Duh!

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 09 Oct 03 - 03:31 PM

probably 'Finian's Rainbow' or 'L'il Abner'

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: GUEST,Ely
Date: 09 Oct 03 - 07:31 PM

I finally let my brother have our copy of _Goonies_. I still have my copy of _The Blob_. My mother has a major addiction to chick flicks, especially those starring Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, and anything with Goldie Hawn.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Desdemona
Date: 10 Oct 03 - 05:12 PM

"Zoolander"---I confess!!

D.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Oct 03 - 06:03 PM

I, the biggest Captain Kirk promoter on Mudcat, loved "Galaxy Quest"! Best send-up I've ever seen.

And about "Howard the Duck", Cluin...I was dead serious. I love it. This may be partly because I loved the comic it was based upon. You who have never read the comic and just don't get it can languish miserably in your cultural ignorance as far as I'm concered... :-)

Why has there not yet been a movie starring Clinton Hammond?

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Desdemona
Date: 10 Oct 03 - 06:10 PM

LH--how could leave out Big Bill in 'Kingdom of the Spiders'???

D.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Oct 03 - 07:17 PM

My God, was * * * SHATNER * * * in "Kingdom of the Spiders"???

I've never seen it! Video store, here I come!

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Bobert
Date: 10 Oct 03 - 11:38 PM

Well, I ain't gonna read no 3,216 posts, 'er whatever it is, so stop me if anyone has allready mentioned "It's a Mad, Mad World"....

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Oct 03 - 01:37 PM

That movie gives me a slow headache, cos everyone in it keeps shouting at each other for 3 hours.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: GUEST,Desdemona
Date: 11 Oct 03 - 03:50 PM

Then "Kingdom of the Spiders" should be a real treat!!!

D.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 11 Oct 03 - 05:43 PM

Yes, KimC... Young Einstein is my favorite 'pre-gig" movie! I'm tragicly aflicted by a deep and unavoidable joy when I watch it...

...'Mystery Science Theatre 2000' made me laugh, and laugh... until my sides ached... ttr

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: catspaw49
Date: 11 Oct 03 - 06:00 PM

Hawkster ol' chum, should we meet sometime we will have to sit and watch Howard together. Like you, I just loved it!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Oct 03 - 07:54 PM

Great! I'll let you know when I'm coming through Ohio. I can really relate to a cigar-smoking, cynical, cantankerous duck, "trapped in a world he never made". What a marvelously appealing subject!

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 12 Oct 03 - 05:12 PM

I'm amazed that "Waterworld" got such a roastimg from the critics! I bet 20 years from now it will rated alot higher than at present.

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Gorgeous Gary
Date: 12 Oct 03 - 05:18 PM

CapriUni: "Banzai" has returned on DVD now. Something I need to see (again...).

Y'all have pretty much covered all my faves; assorted Mel Brooks movies (Blazing Saddles and History Of The World in particular), assorted Z-A-Z movies (Airplane I & II and Naked Gun), Galaxy Quest, Buckaroo (and yes, I spotted "Rocket 88" **twice** during "The Blues").

And speaking of blues, does "Blues Brothers" qualify for this category? Another fave there...

Haven't seen too many of the Godzilla films, but "Godzilla vs Megalon" is one of my favorite MST3K episodes.

-- Gary

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Oct 03 - 07:41 PM

Regarding Waterworld....the critics were just in a mood to roast Kevin Costner, because he had become too successful for a while there. There's nothing more dangerous than becoming too popular. They put you up there just to knock you down. They then established the idea in people's minds that ALL future Kevin Costner movies must necessarily be absolutely rotten, each one worse than the last, and everybody bought it. This was assisted significantly by Kevin Costner himself when he made "The Postman", which really was a rotten movie in most respects. I thought his "Wyatt Earp" was very good, but I seem to be about the only person around who did. It was far better and more accurate history than other movies about Earp (Tombstone in particular...Tombstone was great entertainment, but nonsense as history).

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Most Moronic Movie You Love**Fess-Up
From: The O'Meara
Date: 13 Oct 03 - 11:29 AM

There was a British horror movie several years ago in which a creature out in the moors killed people by removing their bones. It's truly hilarious, the local folks keep finding boneless bodies and bringing them up to the manor house.
"Roit, guv'nor, we found Tiny dead out on the moors!"
"Drat! Where's the body?"
"We got 'im 'ere in this bucket. 'e aint got no bones."
"No bones? I say! No bones?"

Can't recall the title. Truly great classic moronic entertainment.

O'Meara