wanttaja@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ronald J Wanttaja) (01/31/85)
Come on, you guys. A lot of you are voting for Plan Nine from Outer
Space when you watched it SPECIFICALLY because it is well known as
a bad movie. What about those movies you watched WITHOUT knowing
what you were getting into?
I have two candidates:
THE SWARM (good 'ol Irwin Allen's version of the killer bees). This
is especially putrid, since some some (nominally) hi-grade actors were
in it, like, Henry Fonda, Richard Chamberlain, and Richard Widmark. My
favorite part is where Michael Caine and another actor are facing each
other, talking, and the camera goes into orbit around them...does a
complete 360, keeping them on the center of the screen as the background
whizzes by. You can tell that Caine and the other guy are desperately
trying not to glance at the camera. No need to describe anything else,
as THE SWARM is listed in the "Golden Turkey Awards." I am generally
uncritical when I go to movies, just planning on killing a little time.
But this movie does it by the nanosecond...
The second movie isn't SF, but did feature the star of one of the best
SF movies (A Clockwork Orange), Malcom McDowell. This stinker was
called, "The Passage," an abysmal WWII escape film, also starring
Anthony Quinn and Patricia Neal. McDowell essentially plays
Alex Lefarge in a Gestapo uniform. I only mention this movie, as it
is the only film the theater tried to talk me out of seeing... When
I asked for tickets, the manager came over and said, "I have to warn
you, this movie is very bloody." I said that was OK, but he said
again, "It is REALLY bloody and gross." We saw it anyway. What
was the bloody part? See net.cooking for details...
Ron Wanttaja
(ssc-vax!wanttaja)
"Captain Dallas, it's time to feed the alien..."