I disagree, assuming they’re unintentionally funny, as I think both of these are. I swear I almost fainted from laughter serveral times during The Wicker Man.
Yes, but The Ref is a genuinely good movie. 
The two best actresses in Swamp Thing is what I usually say. 
Did you mean Randy Quaid?
I think Dennis would prefer to edit Randy out of … the headlines about crazy celebrities, at the least.
All of these posts and no one has listed the immortal classic Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death? It has Adrienne Barbeau and Shannon Tweed in it. Plus a pre-talk-show Bill Maher in an acting role. What’s not to love?
I love several of the movies previously listed, but I have to say my other favorite in the “disaster” genre is Volcano. Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche save LA (mostly), and there’s lava. Far superior to the other movie released at almost the same time, Dante’s Peak, IMHO.
Yeah, I think that must have been what I meant. Breakfast seems to be wearing off, and the world is returning to its usual color scheme, and the potted plants aren’t talking any more…
Exactly! I mean, a guy in a bear suit assaulting a woman and stealing her bicycle sounds like a mildly amusing Benny Hill comedy skit. But playing it absolutely straight in a horror movie is freaking hilarious.
Here, I’ll send you right back down the rabbit hole. Randy Quaid is now publishing selfie porn on the internet. The story is about the most recent. Apparently there was an earlier one where he fucked his wife while she wore a Rupert Murdoch mask.
I’m thinking a bio-pic on Randy Quaid starring Nick Cage would actually kill me.
Well the thing about the book as well as the movie was the idea of a tropical island BDSM resort. Which is a great idea. And I think that’s about the only thing Garry Marshall (Penny Marshall’s husband, who made the film) was interested in from the book. Which is fine, I didn’t really like the book and I found the idea of taking the BDSM resort and playing it for laughs fairly agreeable. There’s a lot of humor potential in kinky sex. Done well, it coulda been a laff riot. But Marshall kinda failed on every front. He couldn’t handle the kinky sex, milding it down until it was almost entirely absent, the humor fell flat at every turn, probably because he didn’t have any sharp observational humor going because he couldn’t handle the kinky sex.
Frankly, it felt like “Laverne and Shirley go to a kinky resort” only without Laverne and Shirley, and very little kink.
So, yeah … bad movie. But not in my opinion endearingly so. Just kind of a mess.
I’d heard about this book/movie combination. I’ve neither read the book nor seen the movie, but I suspect the difference between the book asnd movie, measured all ways, is still greater for Heinlein’s starship Troopers. I can’t tell without further research, but I’m really not interested.
Interesting thing – I heard Rosi O’Donnell talking about this film, and she says that they brought her and Dan Ayckroyd back months later to film more scenes, because they felt what they had wasn’t funny enough*. Unfortunately, as she tells it, she’d put on some weight between the original scenes and the re-shoot. “So skinny me walks out of one room and fat me walks in another.” Just another measure of how good the film was.
*I suspect it didn’t help at all, though.
a) French Kiss. I find it cute
b) Stephen King’s remake of his own The Shining which I like so much better than Stanley Kubrick’s version.
c) speaking of whom, The Langoliers, a made-for-TV movie I like rewatching
d) Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death. It may help if you were once a women’s studies major.
I’m going to cast another vote for Sharknado. Absolutely everything about the film is implausible, cliche, and “B” movie- and I LOVE it!
I’m also going to add City of Angels because of the only scene I can remember. Meg Ryan’s character is riding a bike, goes off into the road, and suddenly the screen is filled with the grill of a Mack truck. It couldn’t have been more over the top if they’d simply filled the screen with a big yellow comic book star with the word “POW!” in a cartoony font.
A really hideous movie, if you know anything about history or know anyone who does Living History (re-enacting), is Revolution with Al Pacino. Its a hard toss-up who sucks most in the movie - him and Donald Sutherland or everyone else. It’s become a running joke at Old Fort Niagara “ya want some eats boy?”
Amazon Women on the Moon. It’s trying so hard to be “Kentucky Fried Movie.”
Beaten to the correction, but, man, just imagine that movie with Dennis Quaid as the President – possibly with Randy Quaid as not-Roger-Clinton-or-Billy-Carter.
FTR, he is Pennys brother.
She married her brother?:eek: