sillstaw
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Wait, how could you hold this up as a recommendation without mentioning that it's a zombie buddy-cop movie? Yes, Joe Piscopo is an intriguing proposition, but zombie buddy-cop movie.
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Having read the AV Club's review of this movie (which makes it sound like it tries to be light-hearted even as the character learns she has cancer), I endorse this.
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I'm not totally sure there's enough material in the first one, but the second should be great. When your trailers have an "Also" credit, you know you're overstuffing your movie with big(gish) names.
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Wow, a spammer! Haven't seen one of those on these forums.
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"Drag Me to Hell 2?" I sort of hope that was an intentional pun.
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Pedant alert: It's Guy Pearce, not Guy Ritchie. But yeah, it seems like Luc Besson makes so many movies that could be on this podcast.
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Please do.
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Whoa whoa whoa! Are you trying to suggest this movie get discussed on a bad-movie podcast? Because this movie is just too awesome for that. I mean, I've seen some movies I genuinely like get suggested and I can go, "Yeah, I can see that working." But no freaking way is this movie on that level. It's just too awesome. Come on, the lead gives a guy a Glasgow smile with his bare hands! How can you hate that?
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Doesn't this end with the 2nd most annoying of endings*, the "goes-back-and-undoes-everything-that-happened-making-the-whole-movie-a-complete-waste-of-time" ending? Because if so, heck yes. * The first, of course, being the identical-in-everything-but-method "all just a dream" ending.
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Lines like that are why I think people were idiots for liking "Juno" and giving Diablo Cody any kind of a career in the movies. If you have to try that hard to write dialogue, you're not a good writer.
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Hey, has anyone on here heard of a movie called "Hobo with a Shotgun?" It's crazy, it'd probably make for a great episode. (Went ahead and merged this one up front to save Shannon time.)
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
sillstaw replied to Carter Lee's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
Well, technically it wasn't his last screenplay. He wrote a screenplay for the Sex Pistols, but the money was pulled after a day and a half of shooting. He also had a hand in the screenplay of "Up!," a later Russ Meyer film. But yeah, this movie was crazy. "You're a groovy boy. I'd like to strap you on sometime." -
I aim to please.
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Ooh, yes. Topher Grace claims that the cocaine use is what kept the movie on the shelf for 4 years. I repeat: This movie was made in 2007, and it took four years for the studio to finally release it. That's twice as long as "Pluto Nash." Also, on the topic of how the song is never played in the movie, the weird thing is that it's not even the original title of the movie. Its working titles were "Young Americans" and "Kids in America..." neither one of which appears on the soundtrack, either (according to the semi-reliable IMDb).
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I read John Leguizamo's autobiography, and he related that making this film was hellish. For one thing, he and Bob Hoskins drank their way through the movie. For another, the husband-wife directing duo were insane prima donnas--one of them disliked an extra's costume so much that they poured hot coffee on the poor person--to the point where, according to Hoskins, their own agent threw them off the set. Also, Dennis Hopper (maybe that's who pbnews was thinking of when he thought someone died?) said that once, his son asked him why he made the movie. When he said he did it to buy him shoes, his son responded that he didn't need them that much.
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I participated in an in-depth recap of this movie on another site where everybody got 15 minutes of the film to talk about. The guy who got the Killers' song put it best: It's just a tired rehash of the old "I'm on drugs, let's have a musical number!" trope. The person who co-ordinated the recap also agreed that reading the comics does nothing to explain it.
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I haven't seen it, but I'd second this recommendation solely on the basis of hearing about a loud, over-edited moment where the camera revolves around a goldfish tank. Also, Richard "Southland Tales" Kelly wrote the screenplay, and according to Wikipedia he actually had the ego to call it "one of the most subversive films released by a major studio since 'Fight Club.'" Everything I learn about him makes me more and more amazed that nobody has punched him in the mouth.
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Sonar in space. Reason enough to do the movie.
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I'd say so. In fact, I should probably amend my statement about just his post-"Nutty Professor" career; after all, let's not forget "Best Defense."
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A good rule of thumb: If a movie's director has a one-name moniker, you're in trouble. Even more so if it's something completely inexplicable and made-up, like Pitof or McG. My favorite review of this movie was the Onion AV Club's, which pointed out how strange it is that nobody brings up what a creepy invasion of privacy it is to have two spies using their work equipment to monitor the girl they're dating.
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Santa Claus Defeats The Martians (1964)
sillstaw replied to dantheman87's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
You forgot to mention Droppo! And that Pia Zadora is one of the Martian children! -
YES. This has to be done. From the melodramatic music, to the horribly-shot driving scenes, to the midget* stripper who's "blessed," to R. Kelly's multiple roles... * "Midget" is a derogatory term, but if R. Kelly's going to use the term, well, I kinda have to.
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The best part is when
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The truly astonishing thing about this movie is that it wastes an potentially interesting premise. The idea of getting organs on credit and someone repossessing them could make for a good movie, maybe one commenting on health-care issues (although I understand that most people would find that boring as hell). But the organ repossessing never matters to the plot! The dad could have a different job and the company could do something different, and the plot would hardly change.
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I don't know if everyone would agree with the first two being good. I've heard from multiple people that the second movie is one of the most repulsive things ever filmed. But number 3. Isn't that the one where he uses a grenade launcher on someone within about five feet of him? I've seen that clip so many times and it's just hilarious. Especially the guy's goofy expression.
