ewa@sdcc3.UUCP (Eric Anderson) (09/29/85)
In article <327@cylixd.UUCP> dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby) writes: >"The Big Bus" and "Plan 9 from Outer Space" have been added to the >list of all-time totally bad movies. These will stay on the list unless >someone can mention something about them (direction, cinematography, >wit, humour, plot, etc.) that is above mediocre in some way. > I saw The Big Bus several years ago and loved it! I felt it was like an early, more down to earth, version of Airplane. The total casualness with which some of the characters regarded their situations (like the truck in the Piano bar) as well as the concepts (a nuclear-rocket powered bus) and the ludicrous solutions ("Raise flags of all nations!") all contribute to this movie. Not to mention (but of course I will) the "James book of Bombs" Eric Anderson, UC San Diego {elsewhere}!ihnp4!ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcc3!ewa
kayuucee@cvl.UUCP (Kenneth W. Crist Jr.) (10/01/85)
> In article <327@cylixd.UUCP> dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby) writes: > >"The Big Bus" and "Plan 9 from Outer Space" have been added to the > >list of all-time totally bad movies. These will stay on the list unless > >someone can mention something about them (direction, cinematography, > >wit, humour, plot, etc.) that is above mediocre in some way. > > > > I saw The Big Bus several years ago and loved it! I felt it was like an > early, more down to earth, version of Airplane. The total casualness with > which some of the characters regarded their situations (like the truck in the > Piano bar) as well as the concepts (a nuclear-rocket powered bus) and the > ludicrous solutions ("Raise flags of all nations!") all contribute to this > movie. Not to mention (but of course I will) the "James book of Bombs" > > > Eric Anderson, UC San Diego {elsewhere}!ihnp4!ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcc3!ewa I agree. This was a good movie that was a little ahead of it's time. America was not right through with the disaster movie and so a parody of it would not do too good, even on tv. The parts I liked best were: 1) Ned Beatty coming into the room where the plutonium (or other such radioactive fuel) was being placed into a protective container. The waldos were stuck and so the fuel could not not be loaded properly. So, Beatty walked in without any kind of shielding, walked over and finished loading the fuel with his bare hands. 2) Harold Gould is lying on the ground outside the bus hanger after and accident. Some medal he was wearing got imbedded into his chest and he can't (or won't) be moved. That night it begins to rain and he is still lying out there under some kind of tarp while everyone else is inside the hanger, dry. The next day when he is needed for something, Gould pulls the medal out, gets up and goes and does whatever needs to be done. Of course, he experiences no after effects. Ken Crist
okie@ihuxi.UUCP (Cobb) (10/02/85)
> I believe `The Big Bus' was a TV film, which makes it ineligible under > the original rules. It was a pilot for a series that never made it (and > they say there is no God...). > > Mike Esco Believe it or not, Mike (Say! Is that Jack Palance in the corner?), "The Big Bus" really *was* a theatrical release. It was one of those summer films that disappeared almost as fast as it was shown. I saw it with some friends; we left in the middle (we had *some* taste, even for college freshmen!)... So put that baby back on the "Totally Bad Movies" list!!! B. K. Cobb ihnp4!ihuxi!okie
mls@husky.uucp (Mark Stevans) (10/09/85)
I vote to remove "The Big Bus" from the list of bad movies. When a movie is humorous, whether intentional or not, it is not "totally bad". At the time of its release, it was an effective parody of the disaster films that were springing up after the Posedion Adventure made money. Look at it this way: given a few six-packs and some popcorn, which would you rather see: "The Towering Inferno", or "The Big Bus"? I think that "Silent Night, Deadly Night" belongs at the top of the list of totally bad movies. It is my reference "0" on my movie scale. However, I think it is possibly interesting from one standpoint: whoever wrote the screenplay views the depicted flavor of strict Catholic upbringing as being extremely disgusting, destructive, insane, and hateful. He then projects this quite skillfully into a disgusting, destructive, insane, and hateful movie. Oh, I just remembered something: there was a scene in "SNDN" where this girl, after making out on a pool table (of all things), walks to the front door of her house, opens it wide, and stands there, casually exposing herself topless to a entire suburban street, just to let the cat in. That scene is so irreal and ridiculous that it makes it difficult to view the makers of SNDN as other than 1. A bunch of guys fooling around, trying to make history's most terrible movie, or 2. totally out of touch with reality. Mark Stevans ritcv!husky!mls
mgh@mtunh.UUCP (Marcus Hand) (10/12/85)
No, no, NOOOOO! "Big Bus" was one of the great movies of the 60s. It was far better as a send-up than the Airplane series and really revealed the disaster genre for what it was, complete with ghoulish voyeurism. -- Marcus Hand (mtunh!mgh)