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.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
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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"
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.
Steph L. - Jan 20, 2005 8:39:53 am PST #8099 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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.
Like Waterworld?
Dana - Jan 20, 2005 8:40:59 am PST #8100 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I can't stop watching a bad sword and sorcery film.
Oh! Oh! Red Sonja. Now there's a mesmerizingly bad movie.
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.
God, I regret watching that movie. My husband swore to me that it was funny, but I think he'd changed his mind by the time it was over.
reequeen - Jan 20, 2005 8:46:49 am PST #8101 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
ICEBREAKER
And yet I recall no mention of it in Campbell's book (the name of which also escapes me at the moment, but has something to do with his chin). I feel cheated.
What I find sad and disappointing is watching a movie I can't stand with an actor/director/producer/whathaveyou I absolutely adore, and yet the movie is so tortured that I can't stand to watch the entire thing, despite my love for the abovementioned. Fortunately, with cable and DVDs, one can avoid watching in the theater if one is at all concerned about the previously mentioned sadness and disappointment.
Still.
Gandalfe and I brought home the tv series (not the miniseries) of V home from the library a coupla weeks ago, and didn't get through the first episode before giving up in disgust. I remember loving the miniseries, but I was also a teenage Reaganite when it came out, so my judgement was not all it perhaps should have been.
And speaking of loving egregiously bad stuff, I was a total fangirl for Gil Gerard and the Buck Rogers series. Even unto the point of doing a spoof skit of it at girls' camp. *cringe*