I really like The Chase, but I can’t argue against it being a filmmaking atrocity. The scene where they get busy in the car, at 70 miles per hour, surrounded by cop cars with sirens wailing is one of the dumbest, most ridiculous, yet awesome scenes ever. I have no business liking it as much as I do.
Similarly, Welcome To the Jungle was mostly crap, but saved by Walken as an evil mine boss. It’s worth the rental price just to hear Walken say “You stu-pid fuck-ing Oom-pa Loom-pas.”
StarShip Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation has two awesome scenes towards the end. The movie had a horror film plot about the Xenoarachnids developing a type of bug that would crawl inside a person’s mouth and take over their body. It also threw in some sexploitation to pepper the pot a bit.
The first awesome scene: The badass tough chick platoon sergeant is infected with a parasite, but before it can take over her body, she pumps herself full of amphetamines, grabs a frying pan, and goes on a rampage against the infected soldiers. Along the way she uses the frying pan, a kitchen knife, a rifle, and a microwave oven(!) to deal with the parasites and their hosts.
The other awesome scene, just before the General, infected with a parasite, can get onto a recovery boat to spread the bug infection to the rest of the Federation, the hero steps out in front of him with two assault rifles and proceeds to unload them into the General until he falls off the building and onto the swarm of Arachnids. This one begins with a rather cool zoom shot (the cinematographer for the movie did seem to start having fun towards the end of the movie)
I’ll be honest, there is another cool scene in this movie, with one of the possessed soldiers, previously the “little sister” type character in the movie who the main characters helped out and looked after, standing facing away from the two main characters singing “Itsy Bitsy Spider.” When she concludes the song, she turns around, releasing the pins on two grenades she’s holding and promptly exploding (the heros, being quick on their feet and having first billing in the movie, manage to avoid the explosion without injury)
The scene in Roadhouse when he rips the guy’s throat out is pretty cool.
I enjoyed the topless Vitamin C scene too, but… yeah. Great opening, then it does fall apart, and the whole “Virgin Records”/virgin “symbolism” made me roll my eyes throughout.
(I own it on DVD after seeing it in a theater. The movie does fall apart, and doesn’t bear repeated viewings. But there’s Vitamin C kissing a girl in the extras, and the topless scene in the movie, so it’s okay.)
Go to Youtube & put “S. Reborn” in the Search for a great musical re-interpretation of “Dracula 2000”.
The aristocrat terrorist talking on the other end of the phone had made an elliptical racial slur (called Snipes a boy, IIRC), so the brash reference to his own color scratched an itch very satisfyingly. The movie was atrocious, but several friends of mine who saw the movie when it came out all liked that exchange. YMMV.
For me that movie was saved with the Henry Rollins quote, “I don’t like to think of us as cops. I like to think of us as standard issue street soldiers.”
And this shows how much of an easy-to-please nerd I am, but I loved the movie just because Cary Elwes was in it (he played an anchorman reporting on the chase). At the time the only movies of his I’d seen were Robin Hood: Men In Tights and Hot Shots (where he co-starred opposite Charlie Sheen).
I’m the sort of guy who loves a movie to death if I recognize a b-list actor I like from another role. Sadly, this means I am somewhat enamored towards StarShip Troopers 2 if only because it has the bad cop from the Firefly episode “The Message” (He was arguably the highest quality actor in the entire movie).
Wasn’t that The Rundown? I rather like that movie. How can you go wrong with a movie that’s essentially The Rock beating the crap out of Stifler for ninety minutes?
Titan A.E.: Not a horrible movie, but no classic in its field. Except for . . .
[spoiler]“An intelligent guard! Didn’t see that one coming!”
See this tvtropes entry for more.[/spoiler]
Word.
I wouldn’t count the Mario Bros movie as horrible, but I’ll nominate the Bob-omb scene anyway. Mario winds up a little tiny walking bomb and everyone freaks out. And then it blows up a city block (basically).
Nathan Stark from Eureka is in it as well (the intelligent one that got infected).
“Captain, I’m a dangerously minded man on a ship loaded with hurt now why you got me chatin’ wit your peons?”
Best part of that episode too
Jason X, which involves Jason from Friday the 13th in space. There’s a scene where Jason stumbles into a holodeck playing cheerleader porn. The scene where he tries unsuccessfully to kill the holographic cheerleaders is hilarious, and well worth the price of the rental.
Watch Congo again, but this time take Roger Ebert’s advice and expect not a drama but a comedy. The movie becomes great.
Evidently “Welcome to the Jungle” was the UK release title.
Hey, do you want a beer?
Or do you wanna smoke some pot?
Or we can have premarital sex?
We love premarital sex!
I mean, how could he pass that up? It’s like a steak in front of a starving dog.