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Bobby-G
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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 Posted - 05/12/2008 : 11:31:41 AM
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FINALLY -- after years and years of hearing about how THE OSCAR is a must see Bad Movie (it's the first review I read at Jabootu), I've at last seen it! It's been sort of my Holy Grail of bad movies since I've read the Jabootu review, and I must say, It completely lives up to my expectations (actually even more so -- little things that don't make it into reviews had me in stitches).
I'd first become aware of THE OSCAR back in the early '70s when WGN would play it quite often; I'd see the commercials for it, but never watch it, thinking it was some boring boring soap opera thing. Eventually it disappeared from teh airwaves and I didn't hear about it for years, not until I came across the Jabootu review -- Then I was sorry I'd never watched it! Ever since then I'd been dying to see this thing -- and now I have!
Anybody else out there have some movie that they just HAD to see, but it took them YEARS to finally track down, and it turns out to be everything you'd hoped?
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1126 Posts |
Posted - 05/12/2008 : 6:42:12 PM
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Hmmm, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band for one. I didn't see it until it hit DVD a couple years back. Part of me wishes I still hadn't seen it. *g* It's is excruciatingly awful, more so because I grew up listening to The Beatles and worship them as gawds *lol* SPLHCB is truly a blasphemy against music, cinema and art in general.
But I had great fun hating on it.
"Meeting you makes me want to be a real noodle cook"
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Dr.Dunkenstein
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 05/13/2008 : 9:55:24 PM
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Congratulations Bobby G. on tracking that down. I finally came across R.O.T.O.R. a couple years back after having read about it here. It certainly does life up to its billing as a terrible movie, but lots of dumb fun. The scene where Coldyron fights the convenience store robbers makes it worth watching just by itself. Cheesy fun.
You have concern for foreign beings over our mission to find grazing lands for our gargon herds?!
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TimLehnerer
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 05/15/2008 : 08:15:32 AM
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| I had never seen ROBOT MONSTER until it was at B Fest (2005?); it was everything I dreamed it could have been and infinitely more. And less, at the same time. Odd, that. |
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RossM
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 05/16/2008 : 04:37:37 AM
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| I finally saw the origional Wicker Man. Its everything one could want in a terrible movie. Pretentious, over done, some nudity, completely confusing, in other words just great. I havent seen the even worse remake. Cant wait. |
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BradH812
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 05/16/2008 : 05:53:26 AM
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Actually, I liked the original Wicker Man. Yeah, it got weird, the nudity wasn't needed (though nice), and I guessed the BIG TWIST long before it hit. But it was what happened after the big twist that creeped me out. And it also did a nice job of doing a switcheroo on the audience. Make them think the hero is a stuffy, stuck-up snob (which he kinda is), then reveal at the end that he is, at heart, a decent guy whose only real mistake was underestimating how psychotic the people he was up against really were.
Hmmmmmmm, maybe I should hurl some cheap insults toward Ross and start a flame war.
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Naaaaaaaahhh. |
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 05/16/2008 : 09:24:51 AM
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I like Wicker Man too. The original of course. It has a cool idea, good acting and generally maintains a wonderfully creepy, off kilter mood. Not too mention plenty of vintage no silicone pagan hippie nudity. The thing that makes it almost too painful to watch is the gawd-awful folk music. And there is a LOT of it.
"Meeting you makes me want to be a real noodle cook"
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The Rev. D.D.
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
203 Posts |
Posted - 05/18/2008 : 9:15:00 PM
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Having finally seen Robot Monster, I have to admit that, at first, I was a little disappointed. It was bad, but it was kind of...boring.
After the "space station" blew up, though, the insanity grew, and I ended up having a ball by the end.
Plan Nine from Outer Space and Manos: The Hands of Fate were both everything I could have hoped for.
I have to say, Blood Freak pretty much surpassed what I was expecting. I'd say, so far, it's the one bad movie I waited for years to see and went beyond my expectations.
I think I'd heard too much hype for PNfOS and Manos. I expected the worst, and got what I expected.
This one, meanwhile, I didn't know much about, so I expected badness...but this! Everything--the acting, the special effects, the dubbing--was so much worse than I expected. And that papier-mache head...oh, my heart!! Nothing I imagined matched up to that monstrosity.
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Tork_110
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 06/16/2008 : 6:24:49 PM
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Originally posted by Sardu
The thing that makes it almost too painful to watch is the gawd-awful folk music. And there is a LOT of it.
Quite seriously, I thought some of the folk music was pretty good (specically the Maypole dance number).
I'd never seen a nihilistic-pagan-worshipper-erotic-mystery-whodunnit-horror-Mardi Gras-musical with Christopher Lee before. And now I can proudly say I have. |
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New Hinda
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Israel
469 Posts |
Posted - 06/17/2008 : 08:00:24 AM
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Originally posted by zombiewhacker
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Originally posted by Sardu
The thing that makes it almost too painful to watch is the gawd-awful folk music. And there is a LOT of it.
Quite seriously, I thought some of the folk music was pretty good (specically the Maypole dance number).
I also enjoyed the original version of THE WICKER MAN,including the music. I read the reviews of the remake and decided not to go. Did anyone besides me, either reading the reviews of the remake or actually watching it, catch that the original film stars Edward WOODWARD, and in the remake, the protagonist's fiance is Willow WOODWARD? |
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New Hinda
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Israel
469 Posts |
Posted - 06/17/2008 : 08:02:05 AM
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Originally posted by RossM
I finally saw the origional Wicker Man. Its everything one could want in a terrible movie. Pretentious, over done, some nudity, completely confusing, in other words just great. I havent seen the even worse remake. Cant wait.
I didn't find THE WICKER MAN confusing. What version did you see? Some versions, shown on TV, are badly hacked up. |
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New Hinda
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Israel
469 Posts |
Posted - 06/17/2008 : 08:04:11 AM
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Originally posted by The Rev. D.D.
Plan Nine from Outer Space and Manos: The Hands of Fate were both everything I could have hoped for.
As I think I've said before, PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE is so bad its good. |
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kennyblankenchip
Altar Boy of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 06/17/2008 : 6:31:28 PM
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| Hmmm.. Invasion of the Neptune Men. That's the sort of film that sould be banned by the Geneva Convention. |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
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Posted - 06/18/2008 : 07:24:35 AM
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Originally posted by New Hinda
Did anyone besides me, either reading the reviews of the remake or actually watching it, catch that the original film stars Edward WOODWARD, and in the remake, the protagonist's fiance is Willow WOODWARD?
To be honest, I didn't. My mind at the time was trying all kinds of new age stuff to escape the images on the TV screen.
The IMDB also lists under the trivia section that Edward Woodward was offered a role but declined, although he though the script was great. Call me crazy, but I think the script is not that bad, blatant misoginy apart, and that a good director and a better lead actor than Cage could have made it work. |
Edited by - Neville on 06/30/2008 08:28:02 AM |
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New Hinda
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Israel
469 Posts |
Posted - 06/29/2008 : 04:41:59 AM
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Most versions of (the original) THE WICKER MAN end with the sacrifice of Sergeant Howie. I read somewhere that there's a longer version, one in which the crops CONTINUE to be poor and the people of Summerisle demand-and get- the sacrifice of LORD SUMMERISLE. Has anyone seen this version? |
Edited by - New Hinda on 06/30/2008 04:19:54 AM |
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