I have to add Shaolin Soccer to the FTYWYCSOYB list. I don't know which movie was campier, Shaolin Soccer or Kung Fu Hustle. Actually I'd like the time back I spent watching both of these movies.
Presented at the auditorium in the EE Building at Georgia Tech
Atlanta, Georgia
1978.
I was there with a girl (in the dark days of 1978, before the nursing school set up shop next to Ma Tech, that accomplishment was enough to earn the envy of nearly the entire campus).
We and the rest of the audience watched it for about 30 minutes. We waited for the plot to form, ...for something to happen, ...for the characters to do something.... My eyes were bleeing. I looked at my date and she was going into boredom convulsions. I got up and pulled/guided her out of there.
Our motion jogged the rest of the audience out of their stupor and the place erupted in angry cat-calls. As my date and I made it to the lobby doors, I turned to look back at the scene.
Silhouetted against the screen, the student body was changing into a mob howling in fury, rising from their seats and shaking their fists at the blue-skinned, brain-numbing aliens.
My date and I walked across campus to Pippin's Pizza for beer and awesome, thick-crust pizza that I have not, in all the years since, seen surpassed. Pippin's is gone now, so it's too late for you.
I have to add Shaolin Soccer to the FTYWYCSOYB list. I don't know which movie was campier, Shaolin Soccer or Kung Fu Hustle. Actually I'd like the time back I spent watching both of these movies.
If you didn't like Kung Fu Hustle, talk to your doctor.
read through some comments on that one, and it reminds me.. cabin fever. i swear to god i do not see what people saw in that movie. some of the dopiest uses of slow-mo ever, and it's like it tried to ape everything we find campy about 80's horror movies, but instead of trying to parody them (scary movie... the original, we will not speak of the sequels) edit: or treat the cliche's with a serious angle, a la the original scream, it just acts like it's serious the whole way through, edit: despite inane scenes like the slo-mo karate child, and the deer on the truck and... oh hell, there are just too many to mention, so you're never sure if you're supposed to laugh or be grossed out or shocked or scared or what.
I'm not really into that genre, but I have to mix four commentaries for Hostel. Four!
Usually there is only one or two.
I guess that they're going to pack this DVD full of extras.
BTW people - Magnolia was fantastic (love PTA). Haven't seen Shaolin Soccer, but Kung Fu Hustle was one of the most original films that I've seen and now one of my favorites.
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Even reading reviews of this movie is a waste of time, 4 November 2005
Author: EyeSzONLy from Netherlands
Just don't watch it. That is what I say. I have nothing to say more. This is all the information you get, because it is the information you need Do not even think about watching it. This movie will eat your brain and puke it on your face. If you want to know how it is when your brain get's eaten, watch Hannibal There. Everything sucks in this movie except the Asian scientist, he seems to be the only one who has a little bit of brain capacity.
I give this movie a '2', cus you know: they still achieved to make a movie, although I don't know what's the message of it. I think porn has a better message.
Presented at the auditorium in the EE Building at Georgia Tech
Atlanta, Georgia
1978.
I liked that movie. Watched as a kid on TV and thought it was one step above all those B&W horror/scifi movies. It has that typcial Scifi theme of warning us of our own hubris.
Probably the lack of scary creatures causing your date to jump in your arms was the real cause of your dislike for the movie
This thread reminded me of the best worst-movie I ever saw: 'Amazon women in the avocado jungle of death".
We rented it because the name was a crack-up and we were in the mood to just watch and mock something completely horrible...but we actually had fun with it.
The most embarrassing "documentary" must be that made-for-TV abortion "DC 9-11: Time of Crisis", "directed" (!) by one Lionel Chetwynd. If anyone was unfortunate to see it, and sit through it... it's so bad as to qualify as a(n unintentional) farce.
I liked that movie. Watched as a kid on TV and thought it was one step above all those B&W horror/scifi movies. It has that typcial Scifi theme of warning us of our own hubris.
Probably the lack of scary creatures causing your date to jump in your arms was the real cause of your dislike for the movie
Well, a gentleman never tells...
Seriously, if it had been Northeastern, the students, bless 'em, would have burned the theater down.
Are you kidding? That movie was great because the characters were allowed to display humor, the lack of which typically causes most sci-fi movies to lose their appeal in their self-seriousness. I loved Serenity. In fact, I'd call it near-perfect. However, I didn't see Firefly, so I don't have much to compare Serenity to. By itself though, I thought it was exceptional.
Man if you haven't seen Firefly rent the series at once and you'll understand what he's saying. Of course you'll get to know the characters more and I think you'll like it better than the movie.
I loved it too. You had to ignore the "is it a solar system or is it a galaxy?" thing - how could they lose Miranda when it was obviously in the same solar system as the radio guy?
Or maybe not, since they seem to have FTL radio and travel.
Also, the "broadcast to the universe" button was stupid in the backup transmitting station. How often would you use that? - it was the only button there.
But that was fleeting, and the movie was just as good as the series for me.
It is one solar system -- they don't have any faster then light technology.
I truly loved the Firefly series, but there are many things that I didn't like about Serenity:
1)Horrible plot points:
a) Loosing/hiding a planet that everyone can see with a telescope and millions of people had immigrated to. Yeah right...
b) Airborne tranquilizers that calm down 90% of the recipients, and turns the other 10% in to hyper-aggressive monsters. Sounds more like a miss-cast magic spell than a product of science (and they somehow missed a disastrous 10% side effect in the laboratory trials.)
c) Ok, even if you accept the ridiculous plot points so far, they become terribly inconsistent: They show that 90% of the population dies peacefully from apathy, but if 10% of the population turned to vicious monsters as they stated, the tranquil members of the population would have been mutilated, raped, and killed by the hyper-aggressive.
The Revers were well done on Firefly. They were the Indians roaming on the edge of the western-based solar system that terrified the settlers. In the Movie they were changed into monsters from a grad C horror flick. (The movie was supposed to be based on Firefly, not Buffy the Vampier Slayer.)
2) The Combat:
a) Turning River into a totally unrealistic killing machine was just bad. The sharp shooting she did in one of the Firefly episode was one thing, having her becoming an unbeatable hand to hand killing machine moves the film out of science fiction and into the realms of Wutan magic Kung fu movies and Buffiy the vampire slayer shows.
b)Speaking of ridiculous mystical fighting techniques: The Alliance Operative's nerve hits that paralyze the victims and stiffen them like a board so he can make a speech before killing them -- how cheesy and unrealistic can you get? Totally impossible magical attacks have no place in a science fiction setting (they were annoying enough on shows like Xena Warrior Princess).
3) The Killings
Killing off characters, especially when rapping up a series, has become a Joss Whedon trademark, and the character deaths in Serenity did not help drive the plot, but had a feeling of "look at me -- I'm Joss Whedon and I have the balls to kill main characters!"
There was also some history revisions and character modifications that I did not like, but it will only bother people who watched and enjoyed Firefly.
Firefly was one the best Science Fiction series ever done, and I really wish that its memory was not tarnished by the abomination of a movie called Serenity.
Humm, can you tell that I was somewhat disappointed by this movie...
Ooo, I just remembered: "Dead Heat" with Treat Williams and Joe Piscopo, (post SNL and starting into his body builder phase) as, um, zombie cops.
Yes, they get killed and are reanimated but stay on the case. Piscopo acts like he wants us to know he's better than the material (!) and Williams just appears to be suffering. The kind of movie that stops for a slapstick bit involving the reanimating trick and a butcher's shop, so that the poultry and pork can cha-cha and shimmy while the leads mug and bug their eyes out at each other. Just horrific.
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Presented at the auditorium in the EE Building at Georgia Tech
Atlanta, Georgia
1978.
I was there with a girl (in the dark days of 1978, before the nursing school set up shop next to Ma Tech, that accomplishment was enough to earn the envy of nearly the entire campus).
We and the rest of the audience watched it for about 30 minutes. We waited for the plot to form, ...for something to happen, ...for the characters to do something.... My eyes were bleeing. I looked at my date and she was going into boredom convulsions. I got up and pulled/guided her out of there.
Our motion jogged the rest of the audience out of their stupor and the place erupted in angry cat-calls. As my date and I made it to the lobby doors, I turned to look back at the scene.
Silhouetted against the screen, the student body was changing into a mob howling in fury, rising from their seats and shaking their fists at the blue-skinned, brain-numbing aliens.
My date and I walked across campus to Pippin's Pizza for beer and awesome, thick-crust pizza that I have not, in all the years since, seen surpassed. Pippin's is gone now, so it's too late for you.
V/R,
Aries 1B
Originally posted by PBG4 Dude
I have to add Shaolin Soccer to the FTYWYCSOYB list. I don't know which movie was campier, Shaolin Soccer or Kung Fu Hustle. Actually I'd like the time back I spent watching both of these movies.
If you didn't like Kung Fu Hustle, talk to your doctor.
Originally posted by Cake
Wait until you see the QT produced Hostel.
Some crazy violence in this one.
read through some comments on that one, and it reminds me.. cabin fever. i swear to god i do not see what people saw in that movie. some of the dopiest uses of slow-mo ever, and it's like it tried to ape everything we find campy about 80's horror movies, but instead of trying to parody them (scary movie... the original, we will not speak of the sequels) edit: or treat the cliche's with a serious angle, a la the original scream, it just acts like it's serious the whole way through, edit: despite inane scenes like the slo-mo karate child, and the deer on the truck and... oh hell, there are just too many to mention, so you're never sure if you're supposed to laugh or be grossed out or shocked or scared or what.
I'm not really into that genre, but I have to mix four commentaries for Hostel. Four!
Usually there is only one or two.
I guess that they're going to pack this DVD full of extras.
BTW people - Magnolia was fantastic (love PTA). Haven't seen Shaolin Soccer, but Kung Fu Hustle was one of the most original films that I've seen and now one of my favorites.
Originally posted by tacojohn
Hostel.
Dude tell me about it, that movie just shouldn't have been made. I can only imagine though that places like that exist.
Originally posted by gar
ice planet
I love this review of Ice Planet
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Even reading reviews of this movie is a waste of time, 4 November 2005
Author: EyeSzONLy from Netherlands
Just don't watch it. That is what I say. I have nothing to say more. This is all the information you get, because it is the information you need Do not even think about watching it. This movie will eat your brain and puke it on your face. If you want to know how it is when your brain get's eaten, watch Hannibal There. Everything sucks in this movie except the Asian scientist, he seems to be the only one who has a little bit of brain capacity.
I give this movie a '2', cus you know: they still achieved to make a movie, although I don't know what's the message of it. I think porn has a better message.
Originally posted by Aries 1B
The film: Fantastic Planet
Presented at the auditorium in the EE Building at Georgia Tech
Atlanta, Georgia
1978.
I liked that movie. Watched as a kid on TV and thought it was one step above all those B&W horror/scifi movies. It has that typcial Scifi theme of warning us of our own hubris.
Probably the lack of scary creatures causing your date to jump in your arms was the real cause of your dislike for the movie
We rented it because the name was a crack-up and we were in the mood to just watch and mock something completely horrible...but we actually had fun with it.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/630...v=glance&n=130
Just noticed Bill Maher was in it, didn't know him from Adam when I first saw the film.
Good casting != Good movie
http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/feature/.../index_np.html
Two thumbs so far down I cannot see them.
Originally posted by Carson O'Genic
I liked that movie. Watched as a kid on TV and thought it was one step above all those B&W horror/scifi movies. It has that typcial Scifi theme of warning us of our own hubris.
Probably the lack of scary creatures causing your date to jump in your arms was the real cause of your dislike for the movie
Well, a gentleman never tells...
Seriously, if it had been Northeastern, the students, bless 'em, would have burned the theater down.
V/Nostalgic,
Aries 1B
Originally posted by Placebo
Are you kidding? That movie was great because the characters were allowed to display humor, the lack of which typically causes most sci-fi movies to lose their appeal in their self-seriousness. I loved Serenity. In fact, I'd call it near-perfect. However, I didn't see Firefly, so I don't have much to compare Serenity to. By itself though, I thought it was exceptional.
Man if you haven't seen Firefly rent the series at once and you'll understand what he's saying. Of course you'll get to know the characters more and I think you'll like it better than the movie.
Originally posted by e1618978
I loved it too. You had to ignore the "is it a solar system or is it a galaxy?" thing - how could they lose Miranda when it was obviously in the same solar system as the radio guy?
Or maybe not, since they seem to have FTL radio and travel.
Also, the "broadcast to the universe" button was stupid in the backup transmitting station. How often would you use that? - it was the only button there.
But that was fleeting, and the movie was just as good as the series for me.
It is one solar system -- they don't have any faster then light technology.
I truly loved the Firefly series, but there are many things that I didn't like about Serenity:
1)Horrible plot points:
a) Loosing/hiding a planet that everyone can see with a telescope and millions of people had immigrated to. Yeah right...
b) Airborne tranquilizers that calm down 90% of the recipients, and turns the other 10% in to hyper-aggressive monsters. Sounds more like a miss-cast magic spell than a product of science (and they somehow missed a disastrous 10% side effect in the laboratory trials.)
c) Ok, even if you accept the ridiculous plot points so far, they become terribly inconsistent: They show that 90% of the population dies peacefully from apathy, but if 10% of the population turned to vicious monsters as they stated, the tranquil members of the population would have been mutilated, raped, and killed by the hyper-aggressive.
The Revers were well done on Firefly. They were the Indians roaming on the edge of the western-based solar system that terrified the settlers. In the Movie they were changed into monsters from a grad C horror flick. (The movie was supposed to be based on Firefly, not Buffy the Vampier Slayer.)
2) The Combat:
a) Turning River into a totally unrealistic killing machine was just bad. The sharp shooting she did in one of the Firefly episode was one thing, having her becoming an unbeatable hand to hand killing machine moves the film out of science fiction and into the realms of Wutan magic Kung fu movies and Buffiy the vampire slayer shows.
b)Speaking of ridiculous mystical fighting techniques: The Alliance Operative's nerve hits that paralyze the victims and stiffen them like a board so he can make a speech before killing them -- how cheesy and unrealistic can you get? Totally impossible magical attacks have no place in a science fiction setting (they were annoying enough on shows like Xena Warrior Princess).
3) The Killings
Killing off characters, especially when rapping up a series, has become a Joss Whedon trademark, and the character deaths in Serenity did not help drive the plot, but had a feeling of "look at me -- I'm Joss Whedon and I have the balls to kill main characters!"
There was also some history revisions and character modifications that I did not like, but it will only bother people who watched and enjoyed Firefly.
Firefly was one the best Science Fiction series ever done, and I really wish that its memory was not tarnished by the abomination of a movie called Serenity.
Humm, can you tell that I was somewhat disappointed by this movie...
Yes, they get killed and are reanimated but stay on the case. Piscopo acts like he wants us to know he's better than the material (!) and Williams just appears to be suffering. The kind of movie that stops for a slapstick bit involving the reanimating trick and a butcher's shop, so that the poultry and pork can cha-cha and shimmy while the leads mug and bug their eyes out at each other. Just horrific.