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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*

bon bon - Jan 20, 2005 8:47:32 am PST #8102 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I watched Charlie's Angels 2 last night in some kind of prescient anticipation of this topic. Also Club Dread, although I think that is more defensible.

Kathy A - Jan 20, 2005 8:49:29 am PST #8103 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Not only did I see Road to Wellville in the theaters, but I treated my mom as well, and it was the full-price tickets, and I was only making $20K a year at the time, which made the whole experience even worse for me. I walked out of the theater apologizing to my mom, telling her that I thought it was supposed to be a better film that that.

Sheryl - Jan 20, 2005 8:52:25 am PST #8104 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Bruce Campbell's book is called "If Chins could Kill". Yes, I own it, though I'm not so much a fan that I've seen the film discussed above.(Bubba HoTep is on its way to me from Netflix, though)

Ginger - Jan 20, 2005 8:52:34 am PST #8105 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Man, O.C. and Stiggs was proof that Altman needed to lay off the demon weed occasionally.

Hadn't QUINTET already proved that?

I liked Quintet.

Hayden - Jan 20, 2005 8:56:47 am PST #8106 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

I liked Quintet.

(making bong gurgle noises at Ginger)

DavidS - Jan 20, 2005 8:57:02 am PST #8107 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I love Popeye too. Though Frank and I tend to agree in taste.

I think Scola's point is apt, but also points out the virtues of the movie. Namely it's deeply affectionate and reflective of its source material - it's just pulled in odd directions by the differing visions of Feiffer and Altman. Still the casting was perfect, the music is fun, the world they created is detailed and beautifully other. Also, provides "He Needs Me" for later use in Punch Drunk Love.

On topic: Cherry 2000, Ice Pirates...

Atropa - Jan 20, 2005 8:59:37 am PST #8108 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

What movies can you absolutely make zero case for as good movies, but are absolutely enthralled with?

Phantom of the Opera.

Once again, Betsy is me. Except I'm betting she wouldn't put Queen of the Damned on her list.

Betsy HP - Jan 20, 2005 9:00:10 am PST #8109 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

'Fraid not. Nor Van Helsing.

Atropa - Jan 20, 2005 9:01:34 am PST #8110 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

'Fraid not. Nor Van Helsing.

I still haven't been able to bring myself to watch Van Helsing. Or League of Extraordinary Gentleman.

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