The corniest film you inexplicably love
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"Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I now to my work."And (in the director's cut) playing a Chapman Stick.
I remember my mom renting Lifeforce for us for family movie night. She just thought it was a space movie. Thanks, Mom.
When that film first came out I was assembling my annual awards, with ten--yes, TEN----male nominees for Best Actor that year. I found nine decent chances, then added Guy Pearce for the tenth ''no-chance-in-hell'' suicide slot (previously filled by Steve Oedenkirk for KUNG POW: ENTER THE FIST.) And why the hell not? If the Oscars can trot out Jeff Bridges for STARMAN.....
I ended up liking LIFEFORCE less than I expected so. Having Henry Mancini score a sci-fi horror is pretty demented on its face. Still, I always maintain a fondness while watching Patrick Stewart play......that guy in LIFEFORCE.
I remember reading somewhere that Patrick Stewart said his first onscreen kiss was with Steve Railsback.
Speaking of appalling movies... that ranks right up there with "Spirit Folk" for "Best Appalling But Strangely Hilarious Use of a Cow". The movie "Twister" gets an honorable mention.
"Moooooooooo!"Twister!!!
“Cow”!!!
"Another cow."
"Actually, I think that was the same one."
There was a very apprehensive-looking one in SILVER STREAK when Wilder wanked its wonkas.
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It depends on how you define "corny". As we just passed The Season, I watched one of my favorite holiday movies, which is corny in an old-fashioned sense, Miracle on 34th St (the original 1947 one).
Quite so. And just mentioned in Stewart's bio MAKE IT SO.
Ed Lauter's first screen kiss was the corpse of Burgess Meredith a few years before that. My first human kiss was Natalie Trundy in 1970something.
"Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I now to my work."
I keep reading that as "wise ass in the desert".
That's the first Green Goblin film appearance I'm aware of. You can find Thor's debut in THE PARALLAX VIEW and Henry Pym in DIE HARD 4.
That reminds me - Vincent D'Onofrio in 'Adventures in Babysitting'.
Probably popularized by Tony Levin with his work in King Crimson and Peter Gabriel.
Thanks to Bill Bruford's autobiography, I found out that this version of King Crimson opened for Roxy Music on their tour in 1982. What a 'one-two punch' that would have been.