whm (07/26/82)
This week's TV Guide has a moderately interesting article on the "Bad Movie" trend in home video offerings.
danny@itm.UUCP (09/21/83)
Concerning "Bad movies", there would seem to be at least
two types. Those meant to be "Bad", and those meant to be serious.
My nominations for the former are 1) Bambi Meets Godzilla;
and 2) Hardware Wars. I would submit another short, but I can't
seem to remember it's name. It was a Flash Gordon takeoff, with
a paper cutout on a bent coathanger for the ship, and two guys
who ran alongside one another (avoiding boulders, cactus, etc.).
This, in the immortal words of Opus, the Bloom County
Christmas Cow, "...has brought new meaning to the word 'bad'.
(heisition) well, maybe not that bad, but Lord, it wasn't good."
"There are those who call me..."
Danny
(msdc | gatech | akgua)!itm!dannydiy@sb1.UUCP (09/23/83)
My nominee for Really Bad Movie of Any Year::: Student Bodies. What posseses people to make movies that bad!!! Is it the water? Weirdest-looking Human Award goes to "Stick" of the same movie. Talk about double-jointed...
leimkuhl@uiuccsb.UUCP (09/23/83)
#N:uiuccsb:10000009:000:558 uiuccsb!leimkuhl Sep 22 11:30:00 1983 I nominate "Waitress." I saw this one on cable a while ago (I can't believe anyone would pay to see it). Just one dreadful slapstick routine after another. Almost as bad was "Young Doctors in Love." Made me want to puke. Actually, I only watched about 15 minutes of it before I left the room. The reason these are so much worse than, say, "Polyester" is that someone somewhere must have thought they were funny, while "Polyester" is sort of an experiment in disgusting trash--at least it showed imagination. Ben Leimkuhler (uiucdcs!uiuccsb!leimkuhl)
lipman@decwrl.UUCP (09/24/83)
From: Ed Featherston HL01-1/P06 225-5241 <roll::featherston>
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One of my favorite bad movie titles:
Matango, Fungus of Terror
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#R:itm:-103800:hp-pcd:6500011:000:338 hp-pcd!bill Sep 23 10:51:00 1983 "Bambi Meets Godzilla" is a classic. Saw it and "Thank You, Masked Man" as shorts just before "King of Hearts" a few years ago. Personally, I liked all of them (they were so bad that they were good). I think my all-time favorite classic, though, is "Harold and Maude". bill frolik hp-pcd!bill (no, I don't think H&M was a bad film)
mem@sii.UUCP (Mark Mallett) (09/26/83)
b The only movie I've ever walked out on is "The Trial of Billy Jack". This was a hateful, propogandist, and above all POOR movie of the highest order (heh heh); and I got my money back from the theater manager to boot! "The Lord of the Rings" wasn't offensive, but it took so long to end and was so awfully boring that I almost walked out on that. Fortunately it ended (right in the middle of nowhere) so I was saved that. Mark E. Mallett decvax!sii!mem
pking@denelcor.UUCP (09/28/83)
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brat@gatech.UUCP (09/30/83)
You want a bad movie? Try "Hercules" with Lou Ferrigno. That's an
absolutely pitiful movie. I went in expecting a relatively believable
account of the mythological marvel, but instead got a totally twisted
and exaggerated version of the original story. Did you know, for
example, that Zeus lived on the Moon? I was sure it was some mountain...
I guess the producers couldn't remember its name, so they went with the
next best thing.
And who the hell ever hear of Pandora's JAR, for God's sake?? I thought
it was a box... Anyway, that's one you definitely don't want to see if
you are looking for a significant picture.
--
Steven L. Goldberg
CSNet: Brat @ GaTech ARPA: Brat.GaTech @ UDel-Relay
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...!duke!mcnc!msdc!gatech!Bratrba-dx@allegra.UUCP (10/01/83)
By the way, Hercules II has finished shooting (also
starring Lou Ferrigno.engels@ihuxs.UUCP (10/03/83)
Prince of the CITY ---BORING!!!!!! left in the middle. GARP ---BORING!!!!!! Loved the book. 2001 ---BORING!!!!!! left in the middle.
CSvax:Pucc-H:ab3@pur-ee.UUCP (10/03/83)
To ihuxs!engels, who spoke thusly:
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2001 ---BORING!!!!!! left in the middle.
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Good grief, where is your {art-appreciating} soul? This film
is a masterpiece, ranking right up there with "Citizen Kane" and
"Gone With the Wind" and "Casablanca".
Leaving you to SW, TESB, and ROTJ,
Darth Wombatwjb@burl.UUCP (Bill Buie) (10/04/83)
WWWWWHHHHHOOOOAAAAAAA there! Don't call 2001: A Space Odyssey a bad film: you just missed it, that's all. Reading the novel by Arthur Clarke should have been made a prerequisite to admission. The novel and the book were developed in parallel with each other and should be appreciated as a matched set. The novel carries detail that would be impractical to put in the movie; the movie carries a visual impact that cannot be put into words. Neither the book nor the movie tries to do the other job. The final product was THE masterwork of true art in science fiction. --Bill -- --Bill
kline@uiucuxc.UUCP (10/05/83)
#R:gatech:-129200:uiucuxc:4000052:000:156 uiucuxc!kline Oct 4 09:39:00 1983 2001 a BORING movie?!?!? Unquestionably the MOST CONSISTENT AND VISUALLY IMPACTING SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE EVER MADE <<<BORRING>>>?!?!?! Shame on you.
davies@uiuccsb.UUCP (10/15/83)
#R:gatech:-129200:uiuccsb:10000016:000:269 uiuccsb!davies Oct 14 10:24:00 1983 I personally could have done without the last twenty minutes (or was it an hour?) I suppose the flashing colors might have been exciting if the proper drugs were being used, but to me they were incredibly tedious. Jim Davies pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiuccsb!davies
sm@ariel.UUCP (10/17/83)
2001 BORING????? 2001 BORING????? 2001 BORING????? Ain't that sumpthin'
gregs@uo-vax1.UUCP (11/05/83)
#R:gatech:-129200:uo-vax1:5800002:000:132 uo-vax1!gregs Nov 1 15:06:00 1983 I might as well join in.... 2001 BORING?????????? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Where is your sense of taste?
kayuucee@cvl.UUCP (Kenneth W. Crist Jr.) (10/15/85)
I saw a really BAD movie, but I can't remember the name. It had Lou Gossett, Jr. in it and even he could not save it. I think it was called "Treasure Train", as I said, I don't remember. I don't remember much of the movie either. It ended with a fight between the star(not Lou) and the bad guy in a house that was hoisted up on wheels so that it could be moved by a truck. The train which most people were on through most of the story ended up running through one half of the house. Lou was playing a con man, I think. Does anyone know the name of this movie? Was anyone else unfor- tunate enough to have paid to see it? If anyone knows the name of this movie, I would like to add it to the list of totally bad movie. This had no redeeming values at all. Kenneth Crist kayuucee@cvl