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Here's my list of the 10 best movies to torture Victor with:Independence Day
Terminator2
Men In Black
Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones
E.T. (2002 director's cut)
Armageddon
Demolition Man
Judge Dread
Sphere
The Fifth ElementAny others?
Follow Ups:
Armageddon
Demolition Man
Judge Dread
Sphere
Oh, my head is spinning, just thinking how terrible those four were (and does anyone understadn WTF was the Sphere was about?).
My favoritesThe Thing (the original)
The Thing (John Carpenter's)
The Day the Earth Stood Still
X The Unknown
The Fifth Element
The Matrix
K-Pax
12 Monkeys
Alien (1+2)
ET
AI (strangely disturbing)
THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME10 I enjoyed despite the fact they are terrible
Battlefield Earth
Star Wars (all - fit for children)
2001 (dead in its heart)
2010 (boring, cute premise)
All Star Trek Movies
Life Force
Starship Troopers (Nazis in Space Meet the Bugs)
Dune and Dune redux
Buckaroo Banzai
Mars Attacks! (neep neep)Other Classics
The Magnetic Monster
The Crawling Eye
Gog
The Time Machine-Dream Works effort, great soundtrack + sound effectsMy favorite of all time, don't know the name, but a handful of surviving humans pursued by a single alien, in a gorilla suit, with a helmet with rabbit ears antennae poking out. Gorilla named Ro-Man lives in a cave blowing little bubbles. If you know the name of this movie, please let me know.
over 190 of them! I recommend some more for your consideration:
The Man From Planet X, When Worlds Collide, War of the Worlds,
This Island Earth, The Angry Red Planet, Invasion of the Body
Snatchers, Forbidden Planet, The Creeping Unknown, The Black Scorpion,
Them!, 20 Million Miles From Earth, Superman And The Mole Men,
Earth Vs The Flying Saucers and one that would rival Robot Monster,
The Giant Claw! The Mole People and The Brain From Planet Arous are
two more bad ones. Will add some more later that I can't think of at
the moment, especially the one where flying brains attach themselves
to the backs of people's necks and suck out their brains/spinal
cords! - AH
The Man From Planet X - saw it.
When Worlds Collide - saw it.
War of the Worlds - saw it and loved it.
This Island Earth - saw it.
The Angry Red Planet - don't remember.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers - saw it.
Forbidden Planet - oh yeah!
The Creeping Unknown - don't think I saw it
The Black Scorpion - nope (was that a jungle tank?)
Them! - oh yeah! classic.
20 Million Miles From Earth - yup.
Superman And The Mole Men - missed it.
Earth Vs The Flying Saucers - classic.
The Giant Claw! Missed it.
The Mole People - missed it.
The Brain From Planet Arous - did it live in a cave also?Thanks for the blasts from the past.
The Angry Red Planet: worth seeing for the red color filter and the
giant rat-bat-spider-crab creature and the giant ameoba with one
rotating eyeball!
The Creeping Unknown: First in the QuaterMass Trilogy based on the
award winning British TV series.
The Black Scorpion: Set in Mexico; giant scorpions live in underground caverns. Great effects by Willis O'Brien, mentor of
Ray Harryhausen. The scene where a scorpion strikes a telephone
pole lineman is an alltime classic!
The Giant Claw: a must see for the near zero-grade effects!
Fiend Without A Face: the film with the flying brains.
Others Recommended: The Incredible Shrinking Man; I Married A Monster
From Outer Space; Quatermass II(Enemy From Space); Kronos; The 4-D Man; The Beast of
Hollow Mountain (also set in Mexico with O'Brien effects, creature
is not a T-Rex, rather an Allosaurus; The Brain Eaters: The Original
PuppetMasters, shunned by Heinlen, featuring Leonard Nimoy!; The
Blob-with Steve McQueen,The H-Man (Japanese);Invaders From Mars;
Not Of This Earth; Rocketship X-M; 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.
Of course, you've probably seen Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space.
BTW, I've seen one you like, The Crawling Eye with Forrest Tucker,
decent with suspense, only falters at the end with Z-Grade effects.
- AH
The Angry Red Planet: worth seeing for the red color filter and the
giant rat-bat-spider-crab creature and the giant ameoba with one
rotating eyeball! - Missed it.The Creeping Unknown: First in the QuaterMass Trilogy based on the
award winning British TV series. - Missed it, darn!The Black Scorpion: Set in Mexico; giant scorpions live in underground caverns. Great effects by Willis O'Brien, mentor of
Ray Harryhausen. The scene where a scorpion strikes a telephone
pole lineman is an alltime classic! I remember that one. O'Brien effects were a bit jerky.The Giant Claw: a must see for the near zero-grade effects! never saw it. Did it come with butter and lemon?
Fiend Without A Face: the film with the flying brains. Nope.
Others Recommended:
The Incredible Shrinking Man; Classic
I Married A Monster From Outer Space - missed it
Quatermass II(Enemy From Space) - missed it, darn!
Kronos - good one!!
The 4-D Man - where was I?
The Beast of Hollow Mountain (also set in Mexico with O'Brien effects, creature is not a T-Rex, rather an Allosaurus; Big meat eater.
The Brain Eaters: The Original PuppetMasters, shunned by Heinlen, featuring Leonard Nimoy! - terrific!
The Blob-with Steve McQueen - Big hit with the Dairy Queen Crowd
The H-Man (Japanese) - intentionally avoided all Japanese SciFi after Godzilla which was great (except for Rodan, which I liked).
Invaders From Mars - oh yeah!
Not Of This Earth - don't remember it
Rocketship X-M - good looking rocket ship
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - great images! Loved the Nautilus.
Of course, you've probably seen Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space - yes, unfortunately.
BTW, I've seen one you like, The Crawling Eye with Forrest Tucker,
decent with suspense, only falters at the end with Z-Grade effects.
Yes, but the sleek Canberras were beautiful warplanes which closed those darn eyes.Others
Mission to Mars was great.
Rodan.
Here's a link.
For the love of God,
NT!
I gave at the office!
Yes!! Robot Monster! But you can't make fun of me for my taste, because you knew the name of this classic gem, and what does that say about you??!!Thanks!!
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nt
The old Soviet version: snoozzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!The Lightstorm version: 8^)
AuPh (from the road)
...I knew you would not let me hanging!But paaleesee, don't call it Soviet! I can assure you you have not seen incredibly bad films until you saw some Soviet ones. We stared watching one last night, about the Komsomol members doing collectivization, being murdered by the kulaks...
THAT was science fiction, man!
I can assure you further that then Solaris hits the free channels I WILL give it a chance. But not on my hard-earned dollar.
and we can add the remake of "Solaris" to that list.2001 - a Space Oddysey (make him watch it right after "Barry Lyndon").
Am I too cruel?
I gave at the office!
No, I am not talking about the rather pale 2010, with a bunch of bad Russian actors - Kramarov being the only marginal exception.Give us something tremendous, unforgettable! Something with Al Pacino!
OT, but this is a complete piece of crap that just happens to not look too bad. Totally brain dead and suited for afternoon TV. I perversely kinda enjoy it...I'm not sure it has any redeeming features, and doubt it'll become a cult classic like some other not-so-good SF movies, unless it's in the category of "movies so bad you just have to see them to believe it".[Sorry for picking this one out, but it is the stupidest movie of any genre that I can recall seeing. This makes it very special for me.]
doesn't make it "bad". Besides, this one has a sound track that still has people paying over $100 for the DTS LaserDisc!My "Bad" movies are the ones that fail totally in what they try to do. That list is well populated with the pretentious claptrap of the late 60's and early 70's as well as the films that wanted to be "mindless entertainment" and couldn't even succeed at that!
However, "Independence Day" has its moments. In fact it is a fairly decent (but not great) "Saturday Night Nachos and Marguerita" movie. Some of John Carpenter's films fit the same bill, tho' in a different way.
Saturday night "Nachos and Drinks" movie, I never pay attention to the plot, or the acting.It doesn't try to succeed on those terms. It tries on a far more pubescent, unsophisticated level. en fin, it is not trying to be a good (not to mention "great") movie. It is trying to be "mindless entertainment". And after the third drink, the explosions are even more fun and the acting matters even less.
It does bother me that most of the box office successes fall into this class, but this movie bothers me far less than films that are trying to be "good" or "great" movies, whose plots are just as bad and acting more pretentious and which skate by because they are "politically correct".
It does look and sound good, I've watched it a few times. Hell, I even bought the deluxe version. Good presentaion does not make a good movie, some acting and a script helps. Pay attention to the plot, such as it is. It has so many holes, doesn't even stand up within its own context, tries so hard to pull all the right emotional strings. This is a formula movie, totally pathetic even in the popcorn genre, there are so many better. I won't even get into the politics of it, which together with all the rest makes this what I call a really bad movie. In fact, watching this movie makes me angry, and its success in a certain market makes me very worried.
I like lists, (laughs evil laugh)...most of these flicks even torture *me* lol...take a deep breath Victor, with these films you'll need one:Battlefield Earth
Starship Troopers
Any movie with the prefix "Jurassic"
Lost in Space
The Hidden (I admit it, this movie is a favorite cheesy flick of mine)
Mars Attacks
Total Recall
Deep Impact (good cast, too bad)
Event Horizon
Pitch Black (this made Vin Diesel a star, hehehe)
Stargate
Final Fantasy
Robocop
Mimic
Rollerball (either version)
Virus
Mission to Mars
Hollow Man
Volcano
Tremors (it *is* funny, though)
Ghosts of Mars
Space Ballsand last...but certainly not least...this one will mess with you big time fersher: Buckaroo Bonzai
Good ones.Although I really like the Hidden, Space Balls and Rollerball.
Speaking of Rollerball, I just rented the remake. (Yeah, yeah, I know. But I'm on the 8-DVD Netflix plan, so I have to keep my queue filled with movies and I've made a conscious decision to not feel guilty about renting crap - since crappy movies are no worse than what's on TV and I can always turn it off.) Anyways, yeah, so I rented the remake . . and I knew it would be bad, but I had no idea that a movie could actually be THIS bad.
I'm a big fan of the original . . especially of the stunning 70's architecture of the buildings and the sparse, simplified vision of the future. It was a violent action flick . . but done with a lot of style and it presented a perfectly packaged futuristic fantasy.
I still can't figure out why they made this remake. My theory is that the discussion went something like this,
Producer:"Fucking writers, always thinking they know so much!"
Director:"Yeah, fucking writers - who needs 'em. We should just take an old 70's movie and remake it with Coolio and that hot chick from American Pie . . kids would eat it up."
Producer: "Yeah, something with X-treme sports in it, cause X-treme sells! I know, we should do Rollerball - but with rollerblades instead of skates, and a bunch of half pipes so we can have them doing radical tricks."
Director: "What's 'Rollerball'?"
Producer: "It was this movie where they rollerderby in the future and you get points for killing people . . oh and they had motorcycles on the track!!"
Director: "Yes, yes .. I can see it now . . hmm, does Coolio know how to rollerblade?"
Producer: "Dunno .. I think Snoop Dogg can ride a motorcycle though - just do lots of fast cuts and no one will be able to tell who can skate and who's faking it. Ok, this just in - the studio says it's a go . . you start shooting next week."
Director: "What about a script?"
Producer: "I told you - rollerderby, motorcycles, half pipe, Puff Daddy and X-TREME, what else do you need? Get Insane Clown Posse to play some heavy metal or whatever kids are into. Lots of fast cuts - this has to be X-TREME!!"
Director: "Yes, yes . . this will work. Fuck the writers. I've got ideas - I've got ideas for plots and things. Street luge! We'll have street luge! Get casting on the phone stat!"
It was so bad that it was almost fascinating . . I even went back and rewatched the first 30 minutes with the actors' commentary. They never mentioned the original movie. They seemed to have no idea what the movie was about. It was just LL Cool J saying "yeah, yeah! This is a hot movie, hot! Looky there . . . it's the big man himself . .ooh, I look a little sweaty there . . but that's sexy . . hot!" and the other actors saying things like "I actually got to ride the motorcycle in that scene . . hey did you know that guy that you're talking to in this scene is a french trapeze artist - he doesn't speak English" "Who?"
Very funny stuff.
It would have gone on my Victor torture list, but they forgot to set Rollerball II in the future . . so it's not really sci fi.
You should write film reviews, Brew-very funny stuff.Please check back in after you've watched that emminent thespian Madonna's latest opus, Swept Away!
been a while since I watched it, but Jack N.'s line about the decimated Congress "Hey, 3 out of 4 ain't bad!" cracks me up.
Randy
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
top ten
and I enjoyed it a lot too.mp
Played only for home theater demonstrations, I'm sure. The alternative is too horrible to imagine.
Ah, but I never watched it as a movie! Ditto for another marvel - The Filth Element...Now, if you would like to submit me to REAL torture, then the alien singer non stop would do just fine. It doesn't matter that she sings one of my farovite arias - during the many High End shows I had the opportunity to witness - make it 'suffer' - that scene perhaps thousand times. So at this point I am like the Pavlovian dog - the scene starts and I recoil in pain.
I was hoping he'd get killed. He kept surviving which just added unrequited drama. I wish they would add some comedy instead.
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I thought these had already been listed!Planet of the Apes
The Phantom Menace
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Place it into the "Watchable Junk" category instead.
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