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gang ah jee

Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper
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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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SPINOZA wrote: |
I am an outstanding horror movie commentator |
This is one of the more egregious claims I've seen recently - your film vocabulary doesn't seem to extend beyond 'crap' and 'cool'.
But perhaps I'm mistaken here. What's the 'best' horror film, and why? |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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Never saw it, but you know it's gotta suck if it's based on that cracker's writing... |
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JongnoGuru

Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep
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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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From the earliest age and for the longest time afterward, I constantly confused the names of Yul Brynner and Omar Sharif. Someone would mention Yul Brynner and I'd get a mental image of Omar Sharif, and vice versa. I can't imagine two actors who look less alike, but there you have it.
Oops. This should go in Post Nothing of Interest. Sorry. |
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happeningthang

Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 12:14 am Post subject: |
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Woland wrote: |
happeningthang wrote: |
Starship Troopers was one of the best sci fi movies I've seen in a long time. A sweet valley high story in the facist future, at war with giant bugs! Who wouldn't love that?? It's B movie gold! Plus we got Denice Williams. |
No, No, No! Mars Attacks is B movie gold; Starship Troopers is a cliche ridden piece of crap not at all enlivened by Denise Richards' silicon war-fighting projectiles. |
Ummm... Mars Attacks attempted B movie schlock appeal, but got weighed down by the all star cast, and CGI marvin martians. It avoided cliches/ original storyline, by using yodelling instead of germs though. |
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Greekfreak

Joined: 25 May 2003
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:35 am Post subject: |
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"Francisco"--Mickey Rourke as St. Francis of Asissi... time stood still.
"Apollo 13"--the only time I've ever asked for my money back.
"The Vanishing"--the American remake, not the original, which is brilliant.
"Chain Reaction"--Morgan Freeman takes the check and runs with it.
"Bounce"--my then fiancee demanded we go see it.
Benicio--Van Damme is Jesus; we both know it... for proof, check out "Double Impact", one of the best crappy movies of all time. |
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Greekfreak

Joined: 25 May 2003
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:38 am Post subject: Re: ... |
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Nowhere Man wrote: |
Top Ten War Movies of All Time:
1.Apocalypse Now
2.Full Metal Jacket
3.Stalingrad
4.Zulu
5.84 Charlie Mopic
6.Gallipoli
7.Henry V
8.Breaker Morant
9.Patton
10.Jarhead
11.Battlefield Earth
err. No. The last goes back to the original topic. |
"Patton" tops that list as far as I'm concerned.
But you forgot
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SirFink

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:47 am Post subject: |
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Stayin' Alive -- the sequel to Saturday Night Fever. Directed by Sylvester Stalone. Soundtrack by his brother, Frank Stalone. Do I need to say anything more? |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:59 am Post subject: |
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Greekfreak wrote: |
"Bounce"--my then fiancee demanded we go see it. |
Actually had the exact same thing happen to me with that movie. Then-fiancee insisted. One of my friends found out about it and has never let me live it down.  |
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yingwenlaoshi

Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: ... location, location!
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:57 am Post subject: |
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JongnoGuru wrote: |
From the earliest age and for the longest time afterward, I constantly confused the names of Yul Brynner and Omar Sharif. Someone would mention Yul Brynner and I'd get a mental image of Omar Sharif, and vice versa. I can't imagine two actors who look less alike, but there you have it.
Oops. This should go in Post Nothing of Interest. Sorry. |
Kind of like William Hurt/Jeff Briges/Jeff Daniels, James Woods/Willem Dafoe, Gary Busey/Nick Nolte, Ed Norton and someone kind of deal.
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pest2

Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Location: Vancouver, Canada
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:07 am Post subject: |
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d war? |
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yingwenlaoshi

Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: ... location, location!
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:50 am Post subject: |
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You saw it? I'll never watch it. Not on purpose, anyway. |
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peppermint

Joined: 13 May 2003 Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:53 am Post subject: |
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If I'm hungover enough I'll sit through just about anything, so I've seen some godawful movies.
the current contenders for worst movie I've seen in recent memory are:
Rumor has it I felt queasier after watching it, it was that bad
or The Devil's Rejects I considered burying it in the back yard so everyone in the house would forget about it.
the thing is, I had very low expectations for these movies, and was still horrified |
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mistermasan
Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Location: 10+ yrs on Dave's ESL cafe
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:40 am Post subject: |
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worst movie? simple. the film that killed j-lo AND jane fonda's big screen careers: monster-in-law.
bad in every way. |
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PBEnglish
Joined: 24 Nov 2006 Location: Shanghai
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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Some of these are actual crap movies, but it seems to me that ALOT of them are just mediocre crap that shouldn't be on a worst list. In my opinion, here are the 10 worst movies I've ever seen (in no particular order)
"Last House on the Left": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068833/ . I like Wes Craven's horror flicks, but this was just gruesome to sit through. And the fact that it's somehow supposed to be an homage to "The Virgin Springs" is really beyond me.
"Freddy Got Fingered" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240515/ . Hmmm...watching Tom Green swing a baby around a room whilst still attached to the umbilical cord? Yup, my idea of top entertainment!
"No Holds Barred" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097987/. I can't even begin to describe just how bad this is... I saw it when I was 11 and a huge wrestling fan, and it was STILL shit then.
"Caligula" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080491/ . So let's see...we'll get classically trained actors like Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Helen Mirren and Malcom McDowell and make a movie about Caligula? Good idea...but then we'll seperately film hardcore porn scenes and edit them into the movie without informing the main stars...ADD ontop of that, that the producer (Bob Guiccione of "Penthouse" magazine *ahem* fame) then reedited the movie out of sequence...this movie is just impossible to watch.
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078239/. I love The Beatles. I love Aerosmith and I thought George Burns was a comic genius, but man does this movie SUCK. Not even the onscreen death of one of the BeeGee's makes this watchable!
"House of the dead" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317676/ Video game movie? Directed by Uwe Boll? Why am I not surprised this was shit?
"Jaws: The Revenge" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093300/. So, let me get this straight. The descendant of the shark from the first movie holds a grudge against Martin Brody's widow from the original "Jaws" and decides to track her from Martha's Vinyard to the Carribean? Perfectly normal behaviour for a shark.
"Hobgoblins" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089280/. Cheeeeeesy ripoff of Gremlins. Only way to watch this is to watch the MST3K version. NEVER try to watch the non spoofed version. It will hurt you.
"The Conqueror" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049092/. John Wayne playing Genghis Khan. Makes sense. Not only is this movie awful, it ended up causing 91 of the 220 actors/crew members to develop cancer (it was filmed near an old nuke testing ground).
"Batman and Robin" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118688/. So bad that George Clooney has said in interviews that he will personally refund people their money if they approach him (sure, that's hyperbole, but when the STAR of the movie says that, you know it's gotta suck) |
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Kimchi Cowboy

Joined: 17 Sep 2006
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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Anything Michael Bay. Same for Jerry Bruckheimer. |
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