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

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.

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!!

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

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.

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....

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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"?

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".

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

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).

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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