Spinoff: Bad movie you Love - Page 3

David · #31 01-11-2005, 07:20 PM

It's hard to explain why some bad movies are entertaining while others just suck. I love all these movies.

Robot Monster (The worst movie ever made, as far as I can tell -- the "Mime of Love" scene is one I will take to my grave)

Voyage Into Space (a CLASSIC piece of **** -- do you remember little schoolboy Johnny Sokko, in his shorts & suspenders, who commands Giant Robot to beat up the bad guys by speaking into his watch?)

The Incredible Mr. Limpet (Loved it as a child & still do -- it's perfect for newfangled postmodern interpretations)

Babes in Toyland (Disney junk but I love it)

Million Dollar Legs (Probably the worst movie W.C. Fields ever made, but still a hoot -- although you laugh at it as often as you laugh with it)

It's Pat (One of the damnedest things I've ever seen)

Another Man's Poison (Bette Davis & Co. on the English moors)

Slightly Scarlet (Noir with plenty of howlers)

The Poseidon Adventure/The Towering Inferno/Earthquake (Watching people die in large numbers is very amusing in a typical Irwin Allen production)

War of the Gargantua (My personal pick of the men-in-rubber-suits-attack-Tokyo genre. This one features a camp classic moment: Sophisticated lounge singer aboard a cruise ship singing "The Words Get Stuck in My Throat," only to be gobbled up seconds later by the sea monster, which spits out her clothes after consuming her flesh)

Detour (A noir classic, & a damned fun movie to watch; but it's baaad . . . it's like a spoof of a parody of a pastiche of noir conventions)

All Fall Down (More post-Freudian stuff from William Inge)

Valley of the Dolls (Vapid & hysterical, this mess has something to do with pill-popping young women who claw their way to the top of the entertainment profession, only to plummet back to Earth in a fireball. There are scenes of supreme, howlingly painful badness that will live forever)

National Lampoon's Senior Trip (unfortunately, less fun than a lot of the other stupendously bad movies, but Rob Moore shines)

Splendor in the Grass (Freudian camp about adolescents who don't get enough sex & who subsequently go insane -- as one critic said, "the old corn, fermented in a new way")

Naked Gun, etc.

Plan 9 from Outer Space (nicely representative of Ed Wood's oeuvre)

The Thief of Baghdad (Steve Reeves version)

Balalaika (Nelson Eddy in a flop operetta -- best howler number is "Ride, Cossack, Ride")

The Star (Great Bette Davis tantrum -- Sterling Hayden gets it this time)

Beyond the Forest (Bette Davis, sweating from pent-up sexuality, swings her hips around & growls "What a dump!")

Naughty Marietta (Entertaining atrocity with Jeanette Macdonald & Nelson Eddy -- when those two profiles come together singing "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life," it's peerless)

Isle of the Dead (Val Lewton at low -- very low -- ebb)

amber · #32 01-11-2005, 07:25 PM

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Beyond the Forest (Bette Davis, sweating from pent-up sexuality, swings her hips around & growls "What a dump!")

Thank you!!!!

gldstwmn · #33 01-11-2005, 07:26 PM

I've said this before. Showgirls

GypsySorcerer · #34 01-11-2005, 07:32 PM

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Splendor in the Grass (Freudian camp about adolescents who don't get enough sex & who subsequently go insane -- as one critic said, "the old corn, fermented in a new way")

I LOVE Splendor! "I'm a good little, good little, good little girl!"

amber · #35 01-11-2005, 07:33 PM

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I LOVE Splendor! "I'm a good little, good little, good little girl!"

I liked Splendor, too, but it was irritating, of course. I just really love Natalie Wood...

dissention · #36 01-11-2005, 07:34 PM

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Voyage Into Space (a CLASSIC piece of **** -- do you remember little schoolboy Johnny Sokko, in his shorts & suspenders, who commands Giant Robot to beat up the bad guys by speaking into his watch?)

Valley of the Dolls (Vapid & hysterical, this mess has something to do with pill-popping young women who claw their way to the top of the entertainment profession, only to plummet back to Earth in a fireball. There are scenes of supreme, howlingly painful badness that will live forever)

Naughty Marietta (Entertaining atrocity with Jeanette Macdonald & Nelson Eddy -- when those two profiles come together singing "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life," it's peerless)

Isle of the Dead (Val Lewton at low -- very low -- ebb)

Voyage Into Space is just a few episodes of the TV series stitched together. The actual episodes were even worse than the "movie." Lord, was that bad.

If it wasn't for "Sweet Mysteries of Life, " Naughty Marietta would be unwatchable. And Frank Morgan is at his most obnoxious in every one of his scenes.

Jason Robards alone made Isle of the Dead unwatchable, but it's worth watching at least once for the ridiculous dialogue. Hilariously bad but incredibly entertaining. No wonder horror films get bad raps, though.

If you thought Valley of the Dolls was a hoot, you should check out Russ Meyer's "sequel," Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. That hack Roger Ebert even co-wrote it. Valley of the Dolls still wasn't anywhere near as campy, trashy, or hilariously bad as the book. But it is only rated PG, after all.

dissention · #37 01-11-2005, 07:37 PM

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I LOVE Splendor! "I'm a good little, good little, good little girl!"

Wood was good, but my god, Kazan certainly hit a new low with that one. Loved when Wood exclaimed that she wasn't "spoiled."

ryan8472 · #38 01-11-2005, 07:37 PM

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I loooovvveeee Romy & Michelle.

But my biggest guilty pleasure?

Spice World. I have no shame.

OH.MY.GOD. I love Spice World!!!!!!!

"When the rabbit of chaos is pursued by the ferret of disorder through the fields of anarchy, it is time to hang your pants on the line of darkness. Whether they are clean or not."

GypsySorcerer · #39 01-11-2005, 07:51 PM

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Wood was good, but my god, Kazan certainly hit a new low with that one. Loved when Wood exclaimed that she wasn't "spoiled."

"I'm a lovely, virginal creature who wouldn't think of being spoiled." I can quote that movie almost in its entirety.

dissention · #40 01-11-2005, 07:58 PM

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"I'm a lovely, virginal creature who wouldn't think of being spoiled." I can quote that movie almost in its entirety.

She obviously didn't read the script before signing on the dotted line. That movie is so awful it's good.

amber · #41 01-11-2005, 08:01 PM

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She obviously didn't read the script before signing on the dotted line. That movie is so awful it's good.

I don't think it was as awful for back then...
I think she was thinking..."good part!"

GypsySorcerer · #42 01-11-2005, 08:02 PM

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She obviously didn't read the script before signing on the dotted line. That movie is so awful it's good.

From what I've read, it was easy for her to play the daughter of an evil bitch.

Did you see that TV movie that was based on her sister's biography of her? It aired last spring....talk about campy trash. She was gorgeous, though.

dissention · #43 01-11-2005, 08:06 PM

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I don't think it was as awful for back then...
I think she was thinking..."good part!"

Well, that's what Patty Duke thought about the Neely O'Hara part in "Valley of the Dolls."

DeadliestPoison · #44 01-11-2005, 08:06 PM

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OH.MY.GOD. I love Spice World!!!!!!!

"When the rabbit of chaos is pursued by the ferret of disorder through the fields of anarchy, it is time to hang your pants on the line of darkness. Whether they are clean or not."

Bitch, plz.

The Chess Scene totally beats that one.

Geri: Check!
Melanie: What d'you mean "check"?
Geri: I mean, check; my bishop's got your king.
Melanie: Where?
Geri: There! You've either got to move it in front, or move it out of the way.
Melanie: Well I'll move that fairground horse to there. Sort that out!
Geri: You can't *do* that!
Melanie: Sez who?
Geri: Says Mr. Chess! It's been in the rules for thousands of years!
Melanie: Well I'm gonna break the rules and set this little fairground horse free amonst all these little square fields, like that. There!
Geri: I'm gonna slap you in a minute!
Melanie: [makes I AINT SKEERD face]

I miss those girls. That movie's so over the top and campy it's great. Seriously. I need to buy that movie, yo.

And yes, I did see it in theaters. :P

EDIT - And I have honestly said this in conversation:
Okay, girls, that was absolutely perfect without... really being any good at all.

Hee. <3

dissention · #45 01-11-2005, 08:07 PM

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From what I've read, it was easy for her to play the daughter of an evil bitch.

Did you see that TV movie that was based on her sister's biography of her? It aired last spring....talk about campy trash. She was gorgeous, though.

No, I didn't. I saw the True Hollywood Story about her death and it smells fishy to me.