This may get me flames, but I recently bought “This is Spinal Tap” on DVD because I remember being high and seeing it in the theater when it first came out and laughing my ass off. This time, I fell asleep.
It is actually a good sleep aid. It has various uses-vegetable strainer, driveway reflector, cocaine mirror, frisbee, etc… You name it, it Spinal Tap DVD can do it!
Now that’s a quality DVD.
“Now taking of on Runway #3…”
The four Seasons, with Alan Alda and others. One of my mom’s fav. movies. I watched it with my friend and we stopped the tape partway through. UGH!
The Neverending Story.
Five Easy Pieces.
I have no excuse for why I liked these things, I can’t even claim drug use.
Remo Williams? The Neverending Story? Aw c’mon, they weren’t that bad!
Let’s see here… oh, yeah…
[sub]The entire Mighty Ducks series[/sub]
Well, you can flame me in her place, because I agree with Biggirl 100%. I remember thinking smugly to myself that the reason my parents thought it was a piece of garbage was just because they didn’t understand how profoundly deep it was. :rolleyes:
Mind you, I don’t think it’s garbage; the music is still quite good. It’s just that the imagery is about as subtle as a joint PETA/Christian Coalition rally.
-sublight.
Journey to the Center of the Earth, the one with James Mason and (urp) Pat Boone. When I was five to eight years old I don’t know how many times I saw this movie and worshipped it.
Reptilicus, a horribly dubbed Danish or Swedish monster movie. The laughable special effects are now often used on TV as THE ultimate schlock. I loved it at the time.
I think it was called, Dinosaurus, a Mexican production (why couldn’t I go for some good ol’ American dreck?). A T-Rex, a triceratops and a caveman are all dug up in mud/coal/buried_ice/don’t_ask and revived. They wreak all kinds of havoc on a tiny town. The T-Rex was the Bad Dinosaur, the Trike was the Good Dinosaur, and the caveman was the Comedy Relief. The confrontation between an old woman slathered in cold cream and the caveman poking about her house (they simultaneously terrified each other out of their wits) had us laughing for weeks, maybe months. I saw a glimpse of the movie later as a teenager and wanted to just punch myself in the goddamned face.
And ::ducking for cover:: as a kid, I thought Frankenstein Versus King Kong (Japanese production, guys in rubber suits smashing miniature buildings) was awesome.
Thought Casino Royale was hilarious and profoundly intricate.
Robinson Crusoe on Mars… in the mid-1960’s this was foisted onto the public as [barely] scientifically plausible. I thought it was gritty and realistic. It’s just painful now.
DAMN, what a stewpeed boy I used to be. (Hmmmm. Let’s see what’s on Cinemax…)
Smokey and the Bandit.
Loved it as a kid, fancied Sally Fields something rotten (distinctly remembered the scene where she changes in the car and dances against the windscreen), thought the hounddog was funny, even thought the father and son duo in blue suits were funny. And so I hunted it down and bought an ex-rental copy… this is a bad film. This is NOT a funny film.
You want funny? Shame on you xizor! Try watching This Is Spinal Tap with the commentary track engaged on DVD. I defy anyone not to piss themselves at least twice.
OrcaChow:
Dinosaurus WAS American Dreck. It may have been filmed in Mexico (though I’m not sure) but Jack Harris produced it and Wah Chang did some of the FX. Your memory plays you false – it wasn’t a triceratops, but a brontosaurus (apatosaurus to compulsive types) who was the “good” dinosaur. The animated scenes showed up later on TV shows like “It’s About Time”. Animation being expensive, Dinosaurus skimped where they could – if you look close, a lot of the dinosaur scenes are really using puppets. I LOVED this as a kid, but it’s one of those that don’t stand up well, I agree.
I STILL like “Robinson Crusoe on Mars”. Yeah, there’s a lot of laughable stuff in it (why in God’s name would the first expedition to Mars carry guns? They did the same thing in “It! The Terror from Beyond Space”, too), but on the whole it was better than most of the sf films to that point. A lot of it does still stand up well. A lot of us feel that the film “Enemy Mine” ripped off much of its material from RCOM, which it resembles a lot more than the Barry Longyear novelette it’s based on.
“Casino Royale” profoundly intricate?! The movie was awful, with a troubled history of overlapping writers and directors. It looks like a mess because it IS a mess.
“Are you Richard Burton?”
“No, I’m Peter O’Toole.”
“Then you’re the greatest man who ever BREATHED!”
I dunno…I haven’t seen CASINO ROYALE since I was a kid, but I’m not sure I wouldn’t enjoy it today AS a mishmosh. You got to admit, that Burt Bacharach score is pretty immense.
(humming) “Seven James Bonds at Casino Royale…he won a lotta money and a gal at Casino Royallllllle…”
Definately Karate Kid.
St. Elmo’s Fire :rolleyes:
Every time I saw Judd Nelson on Suddenly Susan I used to wonder what happened to that super cool guy? Mystery solved, he never existed
Divemaster - joining the army completely ruined most military movies for me.
I remember seeing Private Benjamin before and thinking it was an amusing movie. Now I just hate it.
Well, most Mel Brooks movies are only funny when you’re twelve. Then again, I only thought they were mildly funny then.
Young Frankenstein holds up OK, but Blazing Saddles, [bSilent Movie** and Space Balls, to name a few, are dreck.
Feh.
Blazing Saddles is great. You can’t deny it, it’s twu, it’s twu. Also you obviously have forgotten The Producers.
betenoir wrote:
I hereby deny it. The emperor has no clothes. The jokes are juvenile, corny and obvious, with all the subtlety of your uncle’s “pull my finger” routine.
You won’t think it’s funny when you turn 13, betenoir… 
I recently saw Buckaroo Banzai on cable. I saw it the first time when I was 13-14 or so and thought that it was very funny and that Peter Weller was one of the coolest actors around.
Now, it put me to sleep and I see why Mr. Weller now has no career to speak of. Although, a couple of John Lithgow’s lines are still funny.
Thanks for the clarifications re:Dinosaurus, Cal.
I deny your denial.
Yeah they were corny and obvious. But they worked. I will grant you that similar Mel Brooks humour did not work so well in his later films.
And…as much as it pains me to admit it…I think you should know…I will never see 13 again.
Frankenstein was good. Blazing Saddles was… odd, when I saw it the first time.
So, nowadays. Frankenstein is still good. Everyone is having fun, you can tell. Blazing Saddles. It’s bloody painful to watch. It’s the beginning of the end for Mel, same jokes, ect ect.
I saw Men in Tights recently. Oh Dear God… please erase the memory of that garbage from my head. SAME DAMN JOKES. 20+ years of moviemaking and he’s still making jokes about dicks! Come on! We know they exist. It’s NOT FUNNY Mel.
Okay… the pill is kicking. Sorry… Continue on… 