The corniest film you inexplicably love
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Also The Fifth Element.
I love the fact that Luc Besson intentionally made the film to take place (mostly) in broad daylight because he was tired of dark, gloomy stuff. "The future is very funny."
And I believe that's Vin Diesel as the voice of Finger (Korben's friend).
I love the fact that Luc Besson intentionally made the film to take place (mostly) in broad daylight because he was tired of dark, gloomy stuff. "The future is very funny."
And I believe that's Vin Diesel as the voice of Finger (Korben's friend).
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
Highlander.
It's very corny and the strangest scene ever committed to film is the one where Christophe Lambert, who's as Scottish as a croissant, explains haggis to Sean Connery, but I can't help but love it.
It's very corny and the strangest scene ever committed to film is the one where Christophe Lambert, who's as Scottish as a croissant, explains haggis to Sean Connery, but I can't help but love it.
Army of Darkness, easy.
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
This movie is just so inexplicably off the wall and so schizophrenic. The film is pretty faithful to the original pulp novels on which it's based, including Doc Savage's code, some of the gadgets he and the Fabulous Five use, and some of their favorite expressions. And Ron Ely certainly plays it as straight as Adam West did on Batman a decade earlier. On the other hand, it's campy as fuck — the animated twinkle in Doc's eye; Frank De Vol's theme song based on John Phillip Sousa's "The Thunderer" (and just in case you didn't catch how patriotic this film is, both times Sousa's name shows up in the credits, the 'USA' is rendered in red, white, and blue!); the hokey animated green snakes used to represent the "Green Death"; and perhaps the biggest offender, Don Rubio Gorro (played by Bob Corso) – the bad guy's greedy, bumbling Latino flunky who sleeps in an adult-sized cradle and has "Beautiful Dreamer" played on a music box as his character's leitmotif. The film is noteworthy for being the screen debut of character actor Michael Berryman (Doc Savage came out five months before One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the earliest film most folks remember Berryman for), and also an early appearance of Paul Gleason (as Long Tom Roberts).
You can tell that Warner Bros. expected great things from it — they go so far as to tease a sequel, Doc Savage: The Arch Enemy of Evil in the end credits — but the film flopped hard, so it was never made. This could have been a franchise before the Salkinds' Superman films took the world by storm, and decades before the MCU came to dominate movie theaters, but it just never happened. It doesn't gel with the films that were being successful at the time (mainstream hits like Jaws, "New Hollywood" films like Dog Day Afternoon, and underground cult hits like Rocky Horror), nor does it have the "aw, shucks" earnestness of Star Wars and Superman. Since then, there have been various attempts to get a new film going, first with Arnold Schwarzenegger, then with Dwayne Johnson, but it seems to be destined to stay in Development Hell.
This movie is just so inexplicably off the wall and so schizophrenic. The film is pretty faithful to the original pulp novels on which it's based, including Doc Savage's code, some of the gadgets he and the Fabulous Five use, and some of their favorite expressions. And Ron Ely certainly plays it as straight as Adam West did on Batman a decade earlier. On the other hand, it's campy as fuck — the animated twinkle in Doc's eye; Frank De Vol's theme song based on John Phillip Sousa's "The Thunderer" (and just in case you didn't catch how patriotic this film is, both times Sousa's name shows up in the credits, the 'USA' is rendered in red, white, and blue!); the hokey animated green snakes used to represent the "Green Death"; and perhaps the biggest offender, Don Rubio Gorro (played by Bob Corso) – the bad guy's greedy, bumbling Latino flunky who sleeps in an adult-sized cradle and has "Beautiful Dreamer" played on a music box as his character's leitmotif. The film is noteworthy for being the screen debut of character actor Michael Berryman (Doc Savage came out five months before One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the earliest film most folks remember Berryman for), and also an early appearance of Paul Gleason (as Long Tom Roberts).
You can tell that Warner Bros. expected great things from it — they go so far as to tease a sequel, Doc Savage: The Arch Enemy of Evil in the end credits — but the film flopped hard, so it was never made. This could have been a franchise before the Salkinds' Superman films took the world by storm, and decades before the MCU came to dominate movie theaters, but it just never happened. It doesn't gel with the films that were being successful at the time (mainstream hits like Jaws, "New Hollywood" films like Dog Day Afternoon, and underground cult hits like Rocky Horror), nor does it have the "aw, shucks" earnestness of Star Wars and Superman. Since then, there have been various attempts to get a new film going, first with Arnold Schwarzenegger, then with Dwayne Johnson, but it seems to be destined to stay in Development Hell.
I saw that one when I was 15 in 1975, and didn't see it again until this summer (that's 48 years later if you're scoring at home).
First time, greatest flick ever made. Second time, not so much.
Doc Savage was before my time, so I first saw it in the late '80s; my dad taped it off of one of the local independent TV stations that was airing it as their late movie one night. This was probably around the same time that I first saw '60s Batman, so my mind connected the hokeyness of the two, and I loved it in an unintentionally comedic sense. It wasn't until much later that I discovered George Pal's high hopes for the film, and how they went absolutely nowhere.I saw that one when I was 15 in 1975, and didn't see it again until this summer (that's 48 years later if you're scoring at home).
First time, greatest flick ever made. Second time, not so much.
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George Pal was supposed to be at a local con that year, but canceled at the last minute.
But I did get to meet Bret Morrison (radio's The Shadow), and I got to hear all of George Takei's Trek stories.
Presumably before they got embellished too much.
When Lenina mentions The Earthquake I assumed his wife and daughter were both killed so I forget about them for the rest of the film. It's a great film but even then when it was released it felt a bit daft in places like a museum full of weapons and ammo and the code 187 for MurderDeathKill. In places it feels unintentionally comic book but that's part of the appeal.
The person who I think would fit the role of Doc best is Chris Hemsworth. He has the build and the look. Say what you will about the movie, but they got the casting of Doc and the Fabulous Five pretty spot on, with a young Paul Gleason as "Long" Tom.
I think the only one who was "off" was Michael Miller as Monk; in the books, Monk is described as being apelike, but in the film he just looks fat. But the interplay between him and Ham was excellent, so I try to overlook it.
Depends on the definition. If we're talking films that are objectively awful that I love then Lifeforce and Street Fighter the Movie are the ones.
If it's films that are enjoyable/well made/fun but people can get sniffy about them I'd go with Highlander or Bridget Jones Diary
If it's films that are enjoyable/well made/fun but people can get sniffy about them I'd go with Highlander or Bridget Jones Diary
Mrs. White: "Wadsworth... one day, when we're alone together..."
Wadsworth: "Mrs. White, no man in his right mind would be alone together with you."
1 + 2 + 1 + ...“Clue” is in my Top Ten Ever…
How many scenes did I wonder if they did it in one take, or did it take 39!
BANG!
One of my fanfics-in-progress is a BBC Merlin/Clue crossover.
The murder victim is Uther Pendragon. The suspects... holy crap, the suspect list includes nearly everyone who was ever on the show as a regular or prominent guest character in the first 4 seasons. It's fun coming up with potential places and murder weapons (trying for a few unusual ones, in addition to the obvious ones).
Patrick Stewart, toting a pug around for half the movie! And the pug is still alive by the end of the movie, that takes 4 in-universe years to play out!
Okay, I love dogs, and pugs are adorable. But there is no way that dog should have been able to survive without a specially-made stillsuit for dogs, and there's especially no way the Fremen would have tolerated keeping it alive when it served no useful purpose for the tribe. They would have taken its water from the get-go.
On the Dune forum I ran years ago, someone started a thread about the pug. Next thing we knew, the Google ads suddenly started showing ads for pug breeders and kennels.
