Worse than *Kiss Her Goodbye*!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Mr. Rilch and I were channel surfing earlier this evening, and came across a movie, also on AMC, like KHG, called Winter a Go Go. It was one of those Beach Party era films, with no plot to speak of, and no acting, period: just a bunch of Young People hanging around together and finding eight different reasons to spontaneously do the Frug.

Well, I delight in watching films of that genre, and MSTing them, and getting up to do the Frug, Watusi, and so on during the musical numbers. Mr. Rilch also likes to rip on cheesy movies, and he likes to watch me do the Watusi.

We tuned in about a half hour into it, so we missed whatever exposition there might have been. It was set in a ski lodge, and we gathered that two of the characters were trying to disrupt business at the behest of some guy with sidewalls and an office. There were a lot of fistfights, in which no one sustained a bruise and no property was damaged, despite the raucous foley sounds. There were a few shots of stunt doubles skiing in obviously fake snow, and dance scenes with a bunch of extras who couldn’t dance.

These films are always bad, but this was so bad, we were floored. I mean, I thought The Horror of Party Beach was as bad as it could get, and The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini was a close second. But this…I’ve been more compelled when my friend’s kids used to put on plays, when they were in elementary.

Sample: Everyone has retired for the night. One guy, in a blue nightshirt and fuzzy pink slippers (I kid you not) tiptoes exaggeratedly, lifting his knees to the level of his ribcage, along the hall to another room. Two other guys are watching him from around the corner. When he flings open the door of this other room, an alarm goes off, set by the two watching him. He immediately closes his eyes and sticks his arms out like he’s sleepwalking. Everyone piles out into the hall and laughs at him. Finally he joins in, good-naturedly, and says, “Well, as long as we’re all dressed for it, why don’t we go downstairs and do the Hip Square Dance?” The whole gang, in their pajamas, and their demure but frilly nightgowns, goes downstairs and does the Hip Square Dance. To a record, I think, unless it was utterly surreal and the band was able to set up and perform at a moment’s notice in the middle of the night. The Hip Square Dance consists of flailing around, and, when the lyrics order it, each guy lifting his female partner and turning 90 degrees with her.

You get the idea. It ended with a wedding, for crimeny sake. Big “Woooo!” from the crowd when the bride took off her garter. Oh, and there was also a Chinese cook whose only function was to allow the females to tantalize him and then spill something as they walk away, leaving him in a haze of lust. He also came out of the kitchen during one of the dance numbers, juked around a bit, unnoticed by anyone, then went back in.

How do I research to find out when it will be on again? In case some people want to have a communal retch, as we did with Kiss Her Goodbye?

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I’ve tried going to AMC’s website for this sort of thing, but I found it horribly clunky and badly organized and I never did find out what I was looking for. You might have more luck.

I caught another incredibly bad movie on AMC just a few weeks ago. It starred Herb from “WKRP in Cincinnati.” The director tried to use every possible film technique he could think of, from weird camera angles to claymation - and did them all badly. The story made no sense, the acting was non-existent and the special effects were laughable - I can’t wait to see it again!

It was called Equinox - and it’s just astonishingly bad. Don’t miss it if you see it in the line up. I’ll keep an eye out for Winter a Go Go.

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judging by the popularity of Scooby Doo in another thread, I’d say this movie could be a great hit :smiley:

-Andrew

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Hey Rilch! You’ve stumbled across the pure joy that is AMC’s “American Pop.” They show cheesy movies like that every Saturday night. It’s great!

My favorite part of that movie ws all the chicks in the red & white snow-bunny outfits doing “The Ski.” Now there was some precision dancing!

Another little gem you might want to keep an eye out for is also on AMC, and it’s called “AMC’s EFX.” It’s a half-hour show about how they do some really cool stuff in the movies, followed by a “great special effects” film. The neat thing is, the film is usually something hideously cheesy, with kick-ass stop-motion effects by Ray Harryhausen. If you like that kind of thing, watch this show. Friday nights. It’s great!

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Hey, cool! I caught the first ten minutes of this (it ran right after THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, which I tend to watch every time it comes around on teevee).

The opening shots were of three young women from the rear, waist down…or at least I ASSUMED they were young women, even though they were wearing astoundingly frumpy below-the-knee thick wooly dresses and Grandma Shoes (ah, 1965!)…walking down a street, into a building, onto an elevator, into an office. One green dress, one red, one yellow. My wife allowed that they had “pretty good legs for women with butts that big.”

Once they hit the receptionist we were allowed full frontals. The red-dress one, a blonde with a bubble hairdo, was allowed into an office with two young guys in suits in it, who openly gawped at her as if she were stark naked. Even though she was still in the thick woolly below-the-knee dress, with, like, NOTHING of her figure visible.

At this point I turned to my wife and said “Really makes you miss MST3K, don’t it?” and she said “You mean we just have to WATCH this, with no commentary?”

At this point we had to shut it off to put the kids to bed. Continuing discussion from the child-free would be welcome.

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OMG, Persephone! (Hey, that rhymes!) We’ve flipped past “American Pop” a time or two, but foolishly thought it was an occasional thing! Now, when Friend and SO of Friend visit on Saturday nights, we won’t have to ask, “What we gonna watch?”!

And thank you for the compliment in the marriage thread! (about the egg timer)