9212osd@houxa.UUCP (Orlando Sotomayor-Diaz) (09/29/83)
How about "The Blob" as one of the all-time bad films?
Nobody has mentioned it yet. Remember, it starred(?) a
very young Steve McQueen. The plot was stupid, another
horrrorr film with a cheap budget, and the acting was
amateur, to be polite. I wonder how Steve got to be
such a big star after that one. It was so bad that it was
funny. I saw "The Blob" in a 24-hour SF marathon at MIT,
together with such jewels as "Barbarella" (sp?), etc., until I went
to bed, tired of laughing.
By the way, why don't we change the subject to good films.
One of my favorites is "The Seventh Seal" by Bergman. I've
seen it several times, but once I saw it as one of the LSC's
classics. At the beginning they showed a classic short (has to be)
parody of Bergman's films called (I think) "The Duve" (Dove?).
In this one you can see Death playing badminton (not chess),
and other goodies. But the funniest gimmick it right at the
beginning of the short. I'm not going to spoil it, but it took
almost a minute for the audience to realize what was going on, then
everybody broke out in laughter (not simultaneously). Anybody
knows what short I'm talking about and who was responsible for it?
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#R:houxa:-25800:uicsl:7600023:000:829 uicsl!twt Oct 1 00:59:00 1983 Maybe nobody mentioned "The Blob" because it's not a BAD film. In some circles it's considered a 'classic' of that era. There were many films in the 50's where 'menace from outer space, inner space or wherever, terrorizes mid-america and teenagers save mid-america. I not sure (and I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong) but I believe that "The Blob" was one of the first of these films. I believe (but don't quote me) that Stephen King wrote something along the effect that teens in that time period were insecure about their futures (the Russians about to hit us with the A-Bomb) and it was good for them to see films were they where the heros. If you want to see a REALLY BAD film from that era try "I was a Teen-age Were- wolf" w/Michael Landon (before his Little Joe days), now that's a BAD film. Mary