okie@ihuxs.UUCP (09/20/83)
Hey, speaking of films for badfilm fans, anybody ever see "I Dismember Mama?"
Or "Catwomen of the Moon (in 3-D)?" Or even "Canadian Mounties Vs. Atomic
Monsters?" Ah, those were the days.
Anybody out there got a favorite that could fit in the badfilm catrgory?
(sorry, that's "category" -- I learned grammar on net.flame!)
B.K. ("Killer tomatoes, attack!") Cobberic@washu.UUCP (09/20/83)
Well, the Varsity Theatre in St. Louis (University City) has a habit of showing the following double feature on a regular basis: "Pink Flamingoes" "Eraserhead" Some of the more serious loons at the local university make it a point to get sideways before attending that marathon on the same regular basis. Some show, lemme tellya. eric uucp: ..!ihnp4!washu!eric Coordinet: Washington University in St. Louis
burris@ihopa.UUCP (David Burris) (09/21/83)
How about "Attack of the Giant Leaches"? This is a classic BAD movie. Along with most of the Godzilla movies. How about "Equinox" for a really bad movie? Dave Burris ihopa!burris BTL - Naperville
bdot@hogpd.UUCP (J.BARRETT) (09/21/83)
Let us not forget "Fire Maidens From Outer Space"!
edward@utcsrgv.UUCP (Edward Hsing) (09/21/83)
Don`t forget: "THEY SAVED HILTER`S BRAIN"
tgd@clyde.UUCP (Thomas G. Dennehy) (09/21/83)
Even more bad films:
8. Dracula - John Badham (Saturday Night Fever, War Games) took everything
good from the play and chucked it out the window. Frank Langella
seducing women in front of a backdrop of solar flares, Lawrence
Olivier looking confused a lot. Interiors using ALL the candles
left over from Barry Lyndon. Slow and methodical.
9. The Competition - Amy Irving and Richard Dreyfus making cow eyes at each
other. Will she let him win the piano competition? Will he resolve
his guilt over the financial burden his mediocre career has placed
on his parents? Who cares?
10. Young Doctors in Love - A miserable exercise to drag General Hospital
stars past us. What is Sean Young doing here? She was so damn
appealing in Blade Runner you'd figure she'd get some decent offers.
Only good line: "How should I know - I'm a lawyer?"
11. National Lampoon's Reunion - even Candide wouldn't find anything nice
to say about this turkey.
12. New York, New York - When Scorsese misses, he misses big. If someone
could explain the last 15 minutes to me, I'll be eternally
grateful. Almost redeemed by its lucid moments, but a titanic
failure.
13. Annie - what a hoot! Anne Reinking should have done this one under an
assumed name. Does the FBI have a relocation program for musical
performers?
14. The Pirates of Penzance - good thing this was never released. In a dead
heat with "The Pirate Movie" for worst swashbuckling musical.
Linda Ronstadt and Kevin Kline ought to know better. Rex Smith
deserved to be in it.
Why can't anyone make a good movie musical anymore?? Oliver worked, Cabaret
worked, All That Jazz worked us over :-), so it IS possible. Musicals are
natural film vehicles. They are intensely visual, have very little dialogue
to rework, and usually have enough holes in the book for a good scriptwriter
to work miracles. I zimply don't understand.
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Tom Dennehy BTL Whippany {clyde!tgd}tgd@clyde.UUCP (Thomas G. Dennehy) (09/22/83)
HOLD ON A MINUTE!!
"Hardware Wars" is a 16mm cheapie depicting the coming attractions
trailer for a of a sci-fi adventure. Its cast of characters includes
a cannister vacuum, the Tin Man, a woman wearing cinammon rolls
on the side of her head, the Cookie Monster, and an unintelligible
man wearing a welding mask. Sound like anything which made a
couple hunderd million dollars?
It's devastatingly funny, and full of "special" effects like flying
irons and toasters. It's shoestring, but it is not BAD. A director
who can coax this much delirium out of nothing should be entrusted
with 10 or 15 million to make a feature.
Closing line: "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss three bucks
goodbye". Could be the ad copy for a lot of films I've seen.
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Tom Dennehy BTL Whippany {...clyde!tgd}franka@tekcad.UUCP (09/23/83)
#R:ihuxs:-38000:tekcad:10800013:000:101 tekcad!franka Sep 22 11:06:00 1983 And don't forget that Mexican classic, "The Aztec Mummy Vs. the Lady Wrestlers"! Frank Adrian
twt@uicsl.UUCP (09/23/83)
#R:ihuxs:-38000:uicsl:7600019:000:320 uicsl!twt Sep 22 21:42:00 1983 My FAVORITE bad movie of all time is NIGHT OF THE LEAPERS (or is it Leepus) with the six foot bunny rabbits. Never laughed so hard at a horror picture in my life. to Dennehy - who says they don't make good movie musicals anymore. I know its been about three years but doesn't "The Muppet Movie" deserve some credit?
jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (09/26/83)
That's "Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy." Gawd. You gotta
get these things right. And you didn't even mention "Robot vs.
the Aztec Mummy!"
--
John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas
{ihnp4,kpno,ctvax}!ut-sally!jsq, jsq@ut-sally.{ARPA,UUCP}john@hp-pcd.UUCP (09/27/83)
#R:ihuxs:-38000:hp-pcd:6500013:000:1042 hp-pcd!john Sep 26 18:06:00 1983 There is an inherent paradox in asking people to list the bad films that they have seen. If its been released then at least one person must have thought that it was good enough to make money. The ultimate bad film will be shown once in a viewing room for the producer, director and film editor. They will then go back and burn all of its copies in order to save their careers. If you must search for this ultimate disaster then quite looking in the movie houses. If a film makes it there then its too late. Look instead for the films that are shot and never heard from again. Several years ago, a film crew came to Corvallis,Or for a few weeks. They were shooting a made for TV movie called "Pigs vs Freaks". It was the story of a small town in the 1960's that had increasing problems between the local police and hippies. They decided to solve them with a football game. The film crew left and this film was never heard from again. I cant say whether or not this is the Ultimate Bad film but..... John Eaton hplabs!hp-pcd!john
mcewan@uiucdcs.UUCP (mcewan ) (09/28/83)
#R:ihuxs:-38000:uiucdcs:10700038:000:451 uiucdcs!mcewan Sep 27 18:33:00 1983 How about "Mad Max"? I was really disappointed, since I saw "The Road Warrior" first and expected somewhere near the the same quality, but there's no resemblence. I think that it's stretching things to call "The Road Warrior" a sequal to "Mad Max" - the only thing the two films have in common is Mel Gibson playing a character named Max. But the thing that amazed me about "Mad Max" is that it is an Australian movie with dubbed in American accents!
leei@princeton.UUCP (09/28/83)
I really don't know why so many people think that "Eraserhead" is a bad film.
It is a disturbing, difficult to understand, strange Strange STRANGE film, but
it is by no means bad.
David Lynch ("The Elephant Man") wrote, directed, and generally dreamed the
whole thing up on his own. It was, as far as I understand it, originally the
same kind of student project as George Lucas' "THX-1138", but both of them
expanded (swelled?) into bigger territory.
"Eraserhead" is a seemingly disjointed view of a man, a woman and a baby in
a post-apocalypse setting. (Apparently Mr. Lynch dedicated the scenery in his
film to Philadelphia. What a sense of humour that guy's got :~| ) The whole
thing takes on the feeling of a horrible, unavoidable nightmare as our
protagonist visits his girlfriend's family and then takes her back to live with
him. She has had a baby that looks about as human as a very large sperm cell
with a face and they are going to bring it up. The 'baby' is wrapped in a
white cloth that appears to be acting as a protective cover and throughout the
film we are given hints as to what might be underneath, but we don't know. And
apparently, neither does daddy, because after mommy leaves him, his curiosity
gets the better of him and he takes a pair of scissors to the cloth. The only
problem with this is that opening this cloth also opens up the baby ...
Altogether, probably the most disturbing hour and a half I've ever spent. Very
well put together, but my how a good psychiatrist would have fun with this one.
NOT A BAD FILM BY ANY MEANS.
- Lee Iverson
..!princeton!leei