Hey, I don’t think this is very fair. Armageddon had 31 aspects that made it one of the worst movies ever. Being clichéd, over the top, and lousy vis à vis science were just three of them.
Hey, this movies did get mentioned in the latest Scientific American.
Now now, it’s no less weird than giant mutant ants, and Them! is one of my favorite childhood films. Can you imagine the reviews that must’ve gotten from literal-minded sci-yon-tists?
It could be big, old-fashioned, good, dumb fun. I’m ready to see it, at least at a matinee, just for that killer cast alone. I’ll wait for some reviews and then make up my mind.
Hmmm, mention of Them! makes me think of the even more well-known Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. I think few movies can really aspire to that level of … of … of … words fail me.
Interestingly enough, last night Armaggedon was on ABC. I had forgotten how truly silly it was, until the russian cosmonaut started talking… the only thing good in that movie was Aerosmith’s love ballad.
Hmm, let’s see, what rhymes with “joey”?
Has anyone seen the trailer for it? The only place I have was at Best Buy, and it looks fantastic! At first I thought they were going to make a comedy out of it and I wanted to see it for that. But it appears they decided to take Barris’ (possibly) insane autobiography as straight fact. It looks great and Rockwell does Barris spot on, which I’d have never thought possible.
I’ll be there with gongs on.
All right now!,
That will be quite enough bashing on the pinnacle of cinematic excellence that is “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes” (now part 2 WAS HORRIBLE!), but the original was so bad it was WONDERFUL! (it transcended badness to achieve a new level of cheesy greatness).
And as far as the Chuck Barris movie, I’m there dude!, Chuck is my hero! (aside from being nuttier than a fruitcake).
unclviny
(puberty, puberty love, there’s nothing wrong with puberty love, it’s so neat, it’s so cool, we always …)
Also, to be fair, I think the producers of Attack of the Killer Tomatos knew they were making a ridiculous movie and did it as a parody of all the bad '50s monster attack movies.
Confessions is going to be AMAZING. I ga-ron-tee. I just know. The chemistry between Rockwell and Clooney, as director and actor (and, briefly, as two actors) will make for one hell of a film.
As for this centre of the Earth thing- I’ll only go see it if NSYNC tunnels down there on the back of a huge worm.
David Bowie?
Perhaps you haven’t noticed but every single studio has doing the exact same thing for the past twenty years. That limitted release in New York and LA for two weeks before the end of the years with a wide release later for every one else is a popular method of doing films that studios considder Oscar material. It’s not even a secret.
As for the Core, it could have been worse. As I understand it the original screenplay had the core stop spinning because of nuclear waste dumped into it.
Which is total hogwash, because everyone knows that dumping nuclear waste would create Godzilla!
Argh! I was a HUGE Aerosmith fan until that song came out. It made me hate that movie even more. 
Same here. Remember back when Aerosmith was a rock group, instead of the world’s oldest boy band?
This movie looks like its not even worth the hour or two it would take to DL it.
Actually, that might have actually improved it.
Oh, only about 7 times every night on Cartoon Network (shut up, I die if I’m not regularly exposed to GI Joe reruns). I’m not sure what makes me want to gouge my eyes out more, the premise of the cool hip-hop marching band that no doubt causes the black protagonist to escape the ghetto (one billion dollars says a gang is involved at some point), or the fact that I know it’ll be even worse than I think it is.
Corey…story…allegory…
I just felt like saying that.
Hey, but don’t forget that not only was Rick Rockwell from ‘Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire’ fame in Return of the Killer Tomatoes (the sequel you mentioned), but so was George Clooney!!!
And on that, we’ve come full circle.
Shy Guy said
(Lisa Simpson Voice) Did he just tell us to shut up? (/Lisa Simpson Voice)
Drum Line looks much worse than the Core. Marching bands can be fun to listen to but a movie about the “drama” of marching bands sounds awful. Let’s go watch grass grow instead.
I’d like to see a movie where the Band of Plucky Heroes fails and the earth actually gets destroyed.
Special Effects Oscar!
I’m sure the science in The Core will at least as accurate as the science in the old 1960s Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea film. The one about using a nuclear weapon to put out the aurora borealis when it catches on fire, IIRC.