quinch on 15/1/2011 at 20:24
Yeah Mystery Men. "Our little chess game continues" lol.
I like to get my teeth into Dune as well. I'll be re watching this for a long time.
The 'Burbs
Saturn 3
The Black Hole Would love to see a sequel to this - lol.
I had better not be seeing Big Trouble In Little China in this thread.
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PeeperStorm on 15/1/2011 at 20:24
Blazing Saddles? Really? I thought we were talking about bad movies here.
I'll second Dune and Phantasm.
Johnny Mnemonic: It's what happens when you take a perfectly good short story, turn it into a crappy script, and then give the lead role to a very pretty guy who can't act his way out of a paper bag. What really makes it worth watching is Henry Rollins and Ice Tea. And "I WANT...ROOM SERVICE!" is just too unintentionally funny for words.
Pick any of Dark Castle's remakes of a William Castle film, then watch it with some friends and make merciless fun of it. It's like MST3K right there in your own living room.
BloodRayne: I don't know what's wrong with me. I just have to watch it every time that it's on.
Street Fighter: I'll watch it over and over. It's Bisontastic!
Prince of Darkness: Satan in a Jar! The Devil's father! Alice Cooper and Donald Pleasence!
Commando: A movie so full of cheese that it somehow becomes a cow. An angry cow with a rocket launcher.
Renzatic on 15/1/2011 at 20:41
Quote Posted by Muzman
David Lynch's Dune is one of the most bizarrely awful things I've ever seen. Just plain bad and wrong in so so many ways. Yet I've sat through various versions several times. It's the old slo-mo car crash principle I think.
That's because Dune is one of the most spectacular failures in all of cinema. The style, the soundtrack, the actors, the set pieces, the look, everything about the presentation of the movie gelled so perfectly with the books.
But then you had screenplay, the editing, the changes they made to the plot...hell, everything about the backbone of the movie. On that front, it was butchered so completely as to be totally unwatchable unless you've read the books beforehand. Even then, it's awkward at the best of times.
If Lynch could've adapted the story with the style he had going, it would've been one of the great epics of cinema. But he didn't. And we're left with one of the most horribly tragic almost was flicks ever made.
demagogue on 15/1/2011 at 21:01
I've always loved Dune. But I'd been watching it since I was very young.
It's the movie that made me think when a movie has inscrutable things you don't entirely understand and it doesn't even try to explain, it adds a mystical quality, and when it's not afraid to break the reality-barrier to try to visualize the mystical (the water-of-life scene, waking-dreams, etc)... And I remember my amazement at rumors there was this mystical *other version* somewhere out there, like a director's cut, with scenes that would bring everything together, but it was all shadowy and unconfirmed and ambiguous, and hazy memories that I think I once saw a version where we actually got to see a worm being converted into the water of life, the most mystical event of all, but then I never saw it again, and was it real or just a dream I had...
This kind of thing could never happen today in the Google-era. And now of course I can just read on the wiki page that those extra scenes were in the embarrassing tv version and there never was a director's cut, all very dry and prosaic explanations for my half-dreams and all the mysticism gets sucked out. But I can still watch the original and get caught up in those earlier feelings; so that's why it makes my list. And I'm not sure I'd want it to be changed now even if we could go back in time to remake it as intended.
Nuth on 15/1/2011 at 21:45
Hawk the Slayer
Dia on 15/1/2011 at 22:28
Mystery Men
Galaxy Quest
Star Trek (2009)
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
The Long Kiss Goodnight
American Dreamer
Tropic Thunder
Phantoms
Kate and Leopold
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... and .....
Titanic
:p :p :p
Kuuso on 15/1/2011 at 22:36
Starship Troopers
SubJeff on 15/1/2011 at 22:53
Quote Posted by Nuth
Hawk the SlayerYeeeeeesss!
Also - Big Trouble in Little China.
Kolya on 16/1/2011 at 00:13
300
st.patrick on 16/1/2011 at 00:19
Zombieland.
