Hasn't that movie ( Extreme Ops ) already been made?
Well, this is from 1999, so maybe that was a remake?
Man, just ascend already.
Willow ,'Chosen'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
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"
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.
Kathy A - Jan 20, 2005 8:34:37 am PST #8096 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
True. I think that the writing was for that kind of cheesy effects film, so the ACTING just kind of fit in for me, especially since it was offset by the wonderfullness that was Burgess Meredith.
IMO, a movie that tries to be something more and hires ACTORS but fails to create an interesting plot is a bigger failure than the cheesy flick. I'm thinking about something as horrendously bad as The Road to Wellville, which is my reference point for Really Bad "A" Film, and one that I have no desire whatsoever to endure again.
Hayden - Jan 20, 2005 8:36:14 am PST #8097 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Hadn't QUINTET already proved that?
Yes indeed.
Jessica - Jan 20, 2005 8:37:54 am PST #8098 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm thinking about something as horrendously bad as The Road to Wellville, which is my reference point for Really Bad "A" Film, and one that I have no desire whatsoever to endure again
Oh god. I think the only reason that one doesn't usually make my Worst Five list is because I turned it off about 30 minutes in. (As opposed to Sim0ne, which I saw in theatres and stayed for the whole two hours. Which I will never, ever get back.)
But I totally agree with you -- there's something so much worse about a colossal failure with pretensions than there is about something that aspires to be mediocre and ends up just being bad.