Quasar Sniffer
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
Quasar Sniffer replied to Carter Lee's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
http://youtu.be/TH6bgJEEr34 Not a sequel to 'Valley of the Dolls,' but a similar kind of thing and an excuse to show breasts and piggyback off of a catchy title? This movie is an example of exploitation insanity, and a perfect time capsule of something that could only happen in the late 1960s and into 1970 (when the film was released). There's little bits of madness all over the place, interspersed with HUGE BITS of madness, nudity, and musical numbers. Plus, it would be the first time Russ Meyer would be discussed on HDTGM, and if we're willing to discuss the feminist implications of 'Spice World,' then holy crap, that guy is a whole warehouse full of cans of worms. "I got a wading pool full of mayonnaise!" "Mayonnaise!?!?" "Am I interrupting something?" "Only a little make-out session between Count Dracula and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley here." I think 'North' is a great choice for an Ebert tribute as well, since that might be his most famous review, I'm just putting this one forward as a possibility since he wrote the screenplay. -
The Ninth Gate (1999)
Quasar Sniffer replied to choochoo_the_wonder_slut's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
I think my favorite part about this movie is that Corso finds these extraordinarily rare, valuable, and/or magical books and handles them with all the delicacy of a college freshmen with a Biology 101 textbook. He drinks, eats, and smokes while reading it and turns the pages with all the care he might take with a phone book. This guy is a rare book collector? I mean, I know he's a douchey con man, but I still found it hilarious. -
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Quasar Sniffer replied to roswellxavier's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
Actually, with its depiction of Earth-based destruction (with the arrival of the space probe) actually manifesting itself via the weather, coupled with humanity's inability to deal with such circumstances due to its own actions (the extinction of the whales), I'd say the analogues to Global Warming are pretty strong and pretty well done, making this movie all the more relevant today. So fuck it, this movie is awesome and smart! -
I dunno, it sounds like "Jurasskick." Maybe the character is a fan of dinosaur puns? I have to admit, I hardly ever played as Cammy when I played the games, so I'm not familiar with the character or her catchphrases. Also, I do find it sort of hilarious that Guile's heroic moment comes from usurping the UN-analog's (AN, in the movie) authority and, after being fired, taking its armed forces for his own personal use, turning him into basically a paramilitary warlord. And of course, the person giving the orders to the Officious Bureaucrat to bring Guile in is only referred to as MADAME Secretary, never to be seen on screen. Oh blatant sexism in action movies, what fun you are.
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What I don't understand about this movie is how hard it tries to invent a plot for an adaptation of a video game called "Street Fighter." I mean, you could have basically made a Bloodsport sequel, just with different character names and designs and you would have a perfectly serviceable adaptation of that game. Instead, you have a movie that attempts to create a dozen main characters and nothing makes any sense. The Mario Brothers movie suffers from this as well, what with all its added "story." At least the first Mortal Kombat movie is basically about a tournament of people fighting, which is what the game was. I mean, this movie even casts JCVD in a role and, as pointed out earlier in this thread, the "best" JCVD movies follow a certain formula and that formula would probably have made for a less moronic movie. Still, Raul Julia is fun as all hell to watch in this thing. His monologues are all great and especially that "for me, it was Tuesday" bit is fucking classic. RIP, good sir.
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Quasar Sniffer replied to roswellxavier's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
This movie is silly and naive; in it's politics, it's social stance, and in its own narrative; but I fucking love it. Love it. Sure, I am a trekkie and a proud lover of sci-fi, but with all the great suggestions of terrible movies in this forum, I can't get behind this recommendation. -
This is how Roger Ebert got his rocks off. I support this fully. http://youtu.be/982R2eAhL54?t=1m
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Bad Movie Recommendations Tournament of Gold
Quasar Sniffer replied to therealjayknox's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
I thought there was going to be some kind of polling system set up. Did that ever happen, either here or on IMDB? -
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Quasar Sniffer replied to stusaucier's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
I think this movie has a lot of things going for it that make a good HDTGM episode: -It's fucking crazy, so there are a lot of possible talking points. Also, hilarious in both unironic and ludicrous ways. -The movie is at least competently made, so it won't be a chore to watch like an Uwe Boll movie. -George Romero fucking hates it, so you have something outside the film itself to talk about, especially since the versions of zombies on screen are very different from the zombies Romero put on screen for his movies. -One-liners everywhere. -I love the shit out of this movie, so you'd be pleasing me -
Agreed. Perhaps we can commence a Twitter Onslaught of FRIENDLY requests for him to be a guest?
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Al Pacino as Phil Spector
Quasar Sniffer replied to choochoo_the_wonder_slut's topic in How Did This Get Made?
The best filmmaking of all is jowl-based filmmaking. -
Episode 29 — LIVE from SXSW
Quasar Sniffer replied to admin's topic in The Fogelnest Files with Jake Fogelnest
I was fortunate enough to come across "Dog Police" some time ago and, since I first saw it, always wondered why it never became an internet... thing or a meme or something. I mean, why "Rickrolling" and not "Dogrolling"? Oh, the the mysteries of The Intertubes. -
Do you watch more bad movies since you started listening to HDTGM
Quasar Sniffer replied to Lando's topic in How Did This Get Made?
I have been an adoring nerd for MST3K for the longest time, so that was my first introduction to bad movies. I'm a fan of My Year of Flops and obviously this podcast; so while I do watch more bad movies than I used to before discovering How Did This Get Made, I still only watch such films when prompted from some outside source. I kind of want to have some respectable bad-movie-watcher's opinion first before purposely watching something that I know will be terrible. Will it be terrible in the kind of way that makes it worth watching? Because, you know, I COULD be watching something good. Mad Men AND Futurama start again soon, you guys, I want to know if it's worth watching some Uwe Boll movie before those things. -
Even Nicolas Cage would refuse to wear the wig Kevin Spacey sports in this movie.
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Also, I've always found the Spice Girls to be kind of... academically intriguing in the history of pop culture; coming between Grunge and the boy band/teen girl onslaught that would take place in the late 1990's. I mean, they were the BIGGEST thing on the planet for just long enough to get this movie made, then it's like the pop culture universe ran out of room for them once NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera all exploded at once. Good lord, I hated that stuff as a kid so much. Looking back on it now, at the power the music industry had to just engineer multi-platinum-selling, cultural phenomenons, I think is pretty interesting.
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Even if this movie is a piece of shit, it's also enjoyably fucking insane. I mean, there are a bunch of periphery characters making a documentary about the Spice Girls WHILE other characters are trying to write/produce a fictional movie starring the Spice Girls... all taking place inside a movie about the Spice Girls. Also, Stephen Fry and Elvis Costello make cameos within ten minutes of each other and Meat Loaf drives a bus. In England. Fuck 'Inception,' this movie goes deep into your brain. Also, I enjoy the fact that the movie absolutely refuses to take itself seriously; it knows it's not a real movie, very much modeled after 'Hard Day's Night," but without the talented musicians. It has some genuinely clever one-lines and is more self-referential than an episode of MST3K. It's the anti-'From Justin to Kelly,' which, despite the fact that it is an absolutely unbearable piece of terribly-executed marketing, tries to be an actual romantic comedy... and it is fucking awful and embarrassing to everyone involved.
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Episode 28 — VHS Nostalgia
Quasar Sniffer replied to admin's topic in The Fogelnest Files with Jake Fogelnest
I hereby submit that "The Internet is Fucking Ridiculous" become the new tagline for The Fogelnest Files. A great episode, and one that I find fascinating on a cultural level thanks to things like "The S From Hell." I mean, it's just... fucking weird that there are certain people of a certain age and demographic that have this relationship with logos and bumpers and whatnot. I think I'm just old enough where I remember watching VHS tapes and syndicated TV as a kid, seeing those logos and hearing their music, and knowing what was in store for me. -
Apparently, John Gielgud had an AMAZING time making this movie... because he loved being surrounded by all the naked young men. What self-respecting lover-of-men would not?
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I must confess, the prospect of this movie done as a podcast does make me want to jerk off. Let's do it, guys!
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Wasn't there some... thing between her and Cage? At least some tension? Maybe between her and one of the older ladies in the town? Perhaps I'm mis-remembering the movie, but forgive me, it's pretty insane.
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The Peanut Butter Solution (1985)
Quasar Sniffer replied to hguftyfdt's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
I had never heard of this movie before this, but holy crapballs, this thing looks ripe for tearing apart. Do it. -
Random Thought: What is it about Leelee Sobieski that gets her cast as a young girl involved in a weird and creepy sexual relationship with an older man? There's this (her and Liotta), 88 Minutes, The Wickerman, Eyes Wide Shut, and probably others that I haven't seen. Even if on-screen fucking (*blech*) never occurs in those movies, there's still a half-assed attempt at a gross kind of sexual tension.
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I was hoping someone would point out the music. It's like somebody took a quick pass at imitating an action movie score, left it half finished, then another person came along and recorded it, not with a full orchestra, but with a keyboard equipped with string instrument and horn effects.
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I like this movie as well; a great combination of Walken being Walken, action, and the movie not taking itself too seriously. In fact, it's goodness makes me wonder how the crappy comedies the Rock made afterwards got made instead of similar movies where people get punched in the face. Poor box office, I guess?
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'From Justin to Kelly': A movie in which, during the first 20 minutes... -The manager of a trashy motel that caters to spring-breakers personally escorts people to their rooms and admonishes them to abstain from smoking, drinking, loud music, and girls. -Typical Nerd Guy attempts to plug a rotary phone into the Internet... at least I think this is what the intention was. -That annoying 1990s record-scratch sound effect is so ubiquitous (even though this movie was made in 2003) that the lack of it in the background is almost more noticeable that when it is present. -The word "Hell" is an offensive example of profanity. "How Did This Get Made?" indeed.
