Oh, I agree.
But did you not read the post I was replying to? Dosipede was implying that Curry’s resume was otherwise “untarnished.” I was simply pointing out that Congo is pretty much par for the course for Mr. Curry.
I wasn’t judging him for being in shitty movies. I was just pointing out that he’s in a lot of shitty movies. 
Reality Chuck writes:
Are you aware that it did make an excellent movie? the 1981 BBC TV version is amazingly faithful to the book, and well worth seeing. I taped my copy from American PBS: It now seems to be available on DVD
Maybe I was a bit hasty referring to Curry’s reputation as untarnished. I prefer to remember him for his good roles.
In the Seagal stinker “On Deadly Ground” there’s a scene where a security guard/mercenary played by Billy Boy Thornton (!) is debating whether or not to extend the stock on his submachine gun.
“It’d be easier to shoot if I extend the stock, but it looks mean if I leave it folded” or something of the sort. Gave me a nice laugh WITH the movie, rather than the other laughs AT it.
I also wanted to add my contribution to this{ The Angry Red Planet. A not-very-good cheap SF movie produced by Moe Howard’s son-in-law. Its big claim to fame was its use of a heavily solarized processing of the film to make the sequences on Mars look weird.
But what’s always impressed me (as i’ve said many times on this Board) is the ending – Our intrepide heros have escaped back to Earth, but the handsome hero’s arm is covered with alien space amoeba, which is still alive and slowly eating him. They have to get rid of it. Instead of coming up with some magical wonder cure as some lesser movie would do, or cutting off his arm , or having the space amorba eat him completely, as a shocker movie might, they came up with an actual solution – a realistic and believable way out of the situation.
They placed a piece of tissue near the arm. Then they attached electrodes to the man’s arm and gave it a series of electric shocks – too small to cause harm, but enough to make it an annoying environment. The Space Amoeba slinks off the arm and onto the lectrodeless, more inviting tissue.
It’s the essence of Good Science Fiction – finding a scientific and realistic solution to an as-yet-unreal situation, and one that’s believable, based on extrapolation. I suspect they found a report like this in Scientific American or Science News or something, and built this scene around it. But that’s Okay – that’s how Science Fiction Writers work.
such wonderful scene doesn’t belong in a two-bit movie like this. But it’s there, and I’m glad.
No, not quite. When the girl’s ghost shows what really happened to everyone else on the boat is an even better scene than the opening one IMHO. The rest, though, yeah, it’s pretty bad.
The original Kung Fu movie where David Carradine’s character orders milk at a saloon and the locals start giving him grief. While still holding the milk he knocks one of them senseless with his elbow. His arm pivots on the glass of milk and he doesn’t spill any of it. I like it because it’s within the realm of possibility versus today’s movies where they do all kinds of impossible crap in slow motion.
You go grasshopper.
The opening scene in 28 weeks later with all the people in the house. Scary as hell. Rest of the movie was complete crap though, it was very dissapointing.
In Friday the 13th: Part 2 Jason is chasing after a girl who then hits him in the nuts with a rake, by far the best part of that movie.
The Matrix Reloaded was pretty much crap, but the scene with Trinity driving against highway traffic was a massive pile of awesome.
I had heard of the BBC version, but haven’t seen it.
Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace was the the most interesting part of the movie. A true sith baddie who not only looked evil but had the lightsaber and moves to match. His scenes were great stuff and exactly what the fanboys had waited 15 years to see.
Alas even he couldn’t keep this dreck of a movie watchable.
And what does Lucas do to him? Kills him off prematurely.
Forget Daredevil. The first, oh, ten minutes of Elektra are superb. Jen Garner’s in a red costume, doing ninja assassin stuff like Elektra should, and then… it all goes to crap.
Aliens Vs. Predator is worth seeing only for what has to be the all-time greatest “OMIGOD are they gonna make out?!” moment in movie history, where for a fraction of a second you’re sure Sanaa Lathan is about to get Kirk’d by her Predator costar, Scar.
Death Race’s last five minutes are the fantastic gay cherring topping the cars-guns-tits extravaganza of a twenty-years-too-late grindhouse movie.
A couple of Christopher Walken moments. I was not a fan of True Romance (though it doesn’t quite meet the “horrible” criteria of the OP) but the eggplant scene is one of the best ever.
*A View to a Kill * is probably the worst Bond movie but I loved the scene when Walken is flooding the mine (I think it was a mine) killing all the workers. That wasn’t good enough. He picks up a machine gun and starts mowing them down. The laugh of joy he gives is priceless. This is an evil genius that loves his work.
There’s an awful Charlie Sheen movie called The Chase, where he plays a man wrongly convicted of bank robbery, who escapes from prison and tries to get to Mexico ('cause we don’t have any sort of extradition policy with Mexico :rolleyes: ) Along the way he ends up kidnapping Kirsty Swanson. The movie’s pretty dumb all around, but there’s a moment at the end I love. The cops finally catch up with Sheen when he’s just a few yards from the Mexican border. He’s surrounded by cops. Helicopters are circling him over head. They’re yelling at him on bullhorns to get out of the car with his hands up. Determined not to go back to prison, he lights a cigarette, and get out of the car with one hand held behind his back. He takes a drag from his ciagrette, flicks it away, and whips his other hand from behind him and points at one of the helicopters. The cops think it’s a gun, and they mow him down in a slo-mo hail of led. The scene cuts back to Charlie still sitting in the car. His eyes snap open and he says, “Fuck that!” He opens the door, sticks his hands out first to show they’re empty, and slooowly gets out of the car.
The Core. Stanley Tucci’s cockpit freakout. You know what I mean.
Speaking of Sheens, in the first five minutes of The Believers, Martin Sheen’s wife is making breakfast in the kitchen. A gallon of milk spills out on the floor. Just then, the toast pops up. The wife reaches over to pull the toast out of the toaster, but she’s standing in a puddle of milk. She is electrocuted and fries in front of Martin Sheen and their son, who stand there, horrified and helpless.
Best opening to a movie ever. 
But yeah, the rest of it sucks.
Wesley Snipes: “Ever play roulette?”
Terrorist: “Occasionally.”
Wesley Snipes: “Here’s a tip: ALWAYS bet on black.”
The first 15 minutes of “Dracula 2000” were awesome - the high tech thieves breaking into Van Helsing’s vault, the traps, the leeches, etc. The movie started falling apart not long after they got on the plane, and when 7 of 9 showed up it was in “really bad made for SciFi channel movie” territory. What a let-down.
Really? I’ve always thought that’s one of the stupidest lines in any movie ever.
The end was good. “Yes, I BELIEVE!” and the stab…