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reequeen - Jan 20, 2005 8:13:27 am PST #8086 of 10001
"It's got to be the hair, Cotton. It's beautiful! Feathered and lethal. You just don't see it nowadays." Pepper Brooks - Dodgeball

Nutty:

I don't know. I find that unintentional badness is often less entertaining than its reputation leads me to expect. I saw The Evil Dead with a bunch of friends, and although I laughed, I laughed because of the friends, not really because of the movie. Whereas, The Evil Dead 2 had me in that laugh-so-hard-you-become-inaudible kind of place. The former was unintentionally bad, but the latter intentional.

Most of the time, if I find myself in vast cognitive dissonance with the director's intentions, I cannot enjoy the film, even to mock. I have to be won over in good faith before I can enjoy a bad movie.

Oh, it's a conundrum. I agree with you about the Evil Dead stuff, and Army of Darkness took it all a step further. Of course, Bruce Campbell in anything he does is constantly wink-wink, nudge-nudge, although much less so in Bubbahotep (which was actually rather sweet, I thought).

As for the second bit, I couldn't agree with you more.

I've walked out of two movies in my life - the first one was the dreck committed by Rick Springfield (the name of which escapes me), and I'd paid for it; the second was Cool World, and I'd got in for free, which somehow made walking out that much harder. And I wish I'd walked out of Gladiator, but I really liked Joaquin Phoenix, and bitching to my husband through the entire movie helped me pass the time. ;-D


Frankenbuddha - Jan 20, 2005 8:21:08 am PST #8087 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Oh, it's a conundrum. I agree with you about the Evil Dead stuff, and Army of Darkness took it all a step further. Of course, Bruce Campbell in anything he does is constantly wink-wink, nudge-nudge, although much less so in Bubbahotep (which was actually rather sweet, I thought).

Although I think EVIL DEAD II is still the funniest of the lot because Raimi was still trying to satisfy the hardcore gore crowd, but in his own, inimitable way.

Speaking of Bruce Campbell, I'm working up the courage to see This someday.

From the imdb description: At the the Killington ski resort something has gone awry. Evil terrorists led by the sinister Greig (Bruce Campbell) have taken the resort hostage with a stolen nuclear device. It's up to Ski Patrol bum Matt Foster (Sean Astin) to save the day...and his fiance


tommyrot - Jan 20, 2005 8:23:56 am PST #8088 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Hasn't that movie ( Extreme Ops ) already been made?


Frankenbuddha - Jan 20, 2005 8:25:08 am PST #8089 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Hasn't that movie ( Extreme Ops ) already been made?

Well, this is from 1999, so maybe that was a remake?


Kathy A - Jan 20, 2005 8:25:45 am PST #8090 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Clash of the Titans was a good cheesy movie, no worse than your standard Harryhausen mythic flick. Well, except for the R2D2 ripoff mechanical owl, that was pretty bad.

And Star Trek IV had the fun of Scotty at the plastics factory, trying to talk to the computer.


reequeen - Jan 20, 2005 8:28:31 am PST #8091 of 10001
"It's got to be the hair, Cotton. It's beautiful! Feathered and lethal. You just don't see it nowadays." Pepper Brooks - Dodgeball

Speaking of Bruce Campbell, I'm working up the courage to see This someday.

Oh my.


Frankenbuddha - Jan 20, 2005 8:30:06 am PST #8092 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Clash of the Titans was a good cheesy movie, no worse than your standard Harryhausen mythic flick.

Better cast though, which may be why it feels cheesier. All that ACTING upstages the creatures.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 20, 2005 8:32:14 am PST #8093 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

If nothing else, it gave us that great Joan plowright comment on Laurence Olivier's career in The Last Action hero.


Ash - Jan 20, 2005 8:33:42 am PST #8094 of 10001

Also for consideration - the Conan movies, and Beastmaster.

I can't stop watching a bad sword and sorcery film. In earlier years I would seek them out (saw all four Deathstalker movies for completeness sake), but even now if I see one while surfing I have to stop.

I'll stay and watch almost any of the Star Trek movies if I happen upon one, but V is one that nothing will make me ever watch again. I don't need my pain.


Frankenbuddha - Jan 20, 2005 8:33:44 am PST #8095 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Oh my.

You don't know the half. Entertainment weekly had a great article on Campbell where he went over the high-lights and low-lights of his career. Some of the choicer details for ICEBREAKER were (white-fonted for the hell of it):

1) Bruce Campbell playing an Eastern Europeon with absolutely no attempt at an accent

2) Sean Astin on skis pelting Campbell with snowballs

3) Stacey Keach saves the day by blowing up Bruce Campbell.

Filmed on location in Vermont, no less, so it's probably pretty.