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I have no answer.
Also? It's hard to beat a good training montage.
Angels and Demons looks like it'll be even funnier. I can't wait till it gets to the dollar theater.
MOSES! MOSES! MOSES!!
How do you like your messiah NOW?
"The BEES!"
Liss, there's this movie called "Double Team". My sister Helen was scream-laughing and weeping throughout the entire thing. It is so homoerotic, so bizarre, so incredibly weird that it's kind of awesome. It's a Jean Claude Van Damme and Dennis Rodman vehicle. There is screaming and lifting of porcelain bathtubs by the deltoids. And spies. Can't forget the spies.
And the topic of one of the most classic TBD posts! :-)
The Sound of Music meets Cold Comfort Farm, with added tapdancing zombies! And karaoke! Plus, it's directed by Takashi Miike, whose other works include the creepy horror movies Audition, Visitor Q and One Missed Call. I like to say that HotK is when he had the GOOD drugs.
The original movie is pretty funny (Christopher Lee in bad wigs! Yay!) but also actually kind of a decent movie. Kind of. XD
I get the sense Flesh for Frankenstein doesn't count? I can't imagine it was made without full awareness of what it was. It's just, I am not sure that I was supposed to be laughing hysterically through the entire thing, rather than just occasionally laughing in an "OMGWTF!?" kind of way? I guess mostly I am just worried there is something wrong with me there. Heh.
no one told demi it was a comedy.
see also showgirls
Hedy Lamar should have been more highly regarded as a scientist, but no, the movies became her legacy. Victor Mature's shiny skin, greasy hair and hairless armpits made my sisters and me giggle as kids. It is such Hollywood nonsense.
That, and Malice, an old Nicole Kidman movie. Early on she gets in a car accident and her child (in this case, a plastic baby doll that looks like it was bought at the dollar store) goes flying in slow motion through the windshield. I really need to make a drinking game out of that movie.
though about to be bested by new moon, i do not doubt it.
Best line of the entire movie? "Beautiful? This is the skin of a killer!!"
Also, yes, everyone who mentioned The Wicker Man, the ending in particular is maybe not as horrific as they meant it to be, and certainly much funnier.
Showgirls is definitely up there. The Jacuzzi scene with Kyle MacLachlan is the most unintentionally funny sex scene ever committed to celluloid.
Honorable mentions go to The Lonely Lady (Pia Zadora's tour de force), The Ten Commandments (watch it while stoned, trust me), and the Thief in the Night</> films (fundie Christian, proto-Left Behind the-Rapture-is-here series from the 1970s).
And pretty much anything directed by Ed Wood.
Fabulous movie to watch at 3am while drinking with friends.
I had that experience with A Walk in the Clouds, a Keanu Reeves crapfest that's supposed to be romantic but actually makes no fucking sense at all on any level. I saw it with a group and afterwards a bunch of use were accused of being soulless brutes by the one person who liked it.
@Dr Loveless - "Showgirls" was stoopid. I remember seeing it and even the horny teenaged boys in the theatre were laughing - the sight of boobies wasn't even enough to keep their interest!
Also, anything with Sylvester Stallone. I've only seen - what movie is it with Sandra Bullock where he is some sort of cop and goes to the future and they have those weird sex VR goggle thingies? - all the way through, but the bits and pieces I've seen of other movies also moved me to giggles.
But I think I'll vote for The Happening. I really wanted to like it, and somewhere in there is a good message, but 10 minutes into the film when the people who were being evacuated out of New York City after an apparent terrorist attack were walking calmly around the train station HOLDING TICKETS, they pretty much lost me. The dialogue was pretty stilted and sucky; I swear Mark Walburg was playing it for the camp factor.
Anybody with me on this one?
Meanwhile, the guy is white, male, and reasonably well off, while he's walking through bad parts of Los Angeles, confronting stereotypical gangbangers (Latino and black), running afoul of a neo-Nazi who runs a gun store, and so forth. He's much more educated, more wealthy, and more privileged than any of the people he runs into (except the Nazi, and he kills that guy), and yet somehow he's the put-upon, downtrodden one.
I thought this was a wonderful send-up of the genre, until I saw the credits. "Directed by Joel Schumacher."
Suddenly, I realized my error. Schumacher being who he is, he was obviously trying to make a serious "everyman hero" movie, and wound up with parody through sheer incompetence.
I didn't know that at the time, being fourteen. But I did know that you could write a book on directorial incompetence using Joel Schumacher movies as the examples, so...
Also, anything with John Wayne. Or West Side Story. I mean, that dancing! Really!
TONIGHT! WE DINE! IN HELL!
:o)
Was in serious need of something mind-numbing this winter, and WOW did I get it! A friend and I spent the entire moving laughing. By halfway through we were starting to do the pee-pee-shimmy, it was so funny.
@molliecat - 'hooky-spooks' is the best word I've heard in weeks! I'm totally stealing it. (And you're totes right about Travolta - I won't see Battlefield Earth either.)
in truth, i only saw the last 20 minutes of this. but it was hilariously terrible in every single way. ^_^
AGREEING WITH EVERYONE ELSE ABOUT THE WICKERMAN REMAKE. I... wow.
"Send in the ninjas!"
and i second everyone who's said twilight. oh dear. i spent the whole movie wondering why everyone likes bella so much- she doesn't really do much of anything and we never really see her talk to anyone, and yet suddenly she's everyone's bff and all the boys just lurve her. i like to think that she's some sort of evil succubus or something, come to conspire with the vampires in supernatural villainy, and the _real_ hero was that kid who tried to take her out with the van. it's better that way than realizing someone actually wrote out her creepy rape/abuse fantasy (vamp dreamboat is a stalker, an abusive bf, AND 'almost loses control' every twenty seconds! MAJOR TRIGGER WARNING for twilight) in such a way and is marketing it to preteen girls.
Oh, and Men in Black two. My parents actually kicked me out of the room for laughing too much.
Birthday Girl with Nicole Kidman would be my vote. I think it was supposed to have comic elements...but they never really seemed to happen when they were supposed to. It took me months to get the "Are you a giraffe" exchange out of my head.
A plot culled from bad romance novel cliches (she has to lie naked with him to prevent hypothermia), costuming from ... who knows (he, leather pants, she tweedy knits and sequins), insanely stupid inaccuracies (the Cornish are Picts? really? and everyone's literate). I laughed until I couldn't breathe.
"I am a Necromonger Warlord!"
Although I'm not 100% convinced the hilarity is all unintentional.
also, yes. twilight is ridiculous (never read the books, REFUSE to do so, and went to the movie purely for the joy of mocking it). and showgirls is - well, yeah.
Scott - I love that thing. I included it as part of my pitch when I was campaigning for my friends to come see the screening.
"What's in my hand?"
"Chapstick."
I almost soiled myself laughing at this movie.
Virus, starring Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, and Donald Sutherland was uproariously funny for all the wrong reasons. It's supposed to be a suspense-horror kind of deal, but it dealt in all the worst cliches to the point where I and the friends watching with me began to burst into gales of laughter every time they'd hit the mark for standard horror misadventure tropes.
Motley crew of 'lovable' misfits, including a couple of token nods to diversity? Check. Not getting sufficiently suspicious quickly enough when mysterious 'accidental' deaths start happening? Check. When they finally decide to investigate, someone suggests splitting up to search more effectively? Check. Plucky comic relief character bites it? Check.
Betrayal? Villainous character with murky motivations and sinister hidden agendas revealed? Heroine and Hero have to pull off some frankly unlikely pyrotechnics and combat maneuvers in order to confront the mysterious enemy? Check, check, check.
Boredom at the by-the-numbers plot relieved only by how unintentionally hilarious it was that no matter how low our expectations sank, it repeatedly managed to surprise us by getting that much crappier? Checkissimo. I think we laughed until some of us cried.
In a completely different vein, Steven Seagal's On Deadly Ground seemed (to me, at least) to have a lot of unintentionally homoerotic elements, which was funny only inasmuch as how Totally Straight and Super-Manly that film's publicity and marketing tended to be.
@Molliecat, I absolutely agree about THE HAPPENING. Me, my friends, and the entire theater were laughing harder than I think any theater for any comedy I've ever been to. I also felt Marky Mark was very aware of how bad it was and was playing it up. "Does anyone even know where that is?"
"Send in the ninjas!"
YES! So funny.
Reign of Fire Matthew McConaughay as the super macho American soldier guy who comes in and claims your base are belong to him so he can fight the dwagon...with an axe...despite having a tank. Sorta seemed like they couldn't decide which era they wanted this movie set in.
Alien vs Predator (which I gave the subtitle of "A Predator Love Story"). The interactions between the Predator and the human woman are just too hilarious for words. You can almost hear the Predator saying, "I give you this spear I just made from the tail of an alien as a token of my love."
Should the snake decide to try its luck at people-eating, one would presume in a plane full of passengers, SOMEONE would have the idea to pull the snake off the person after the initial surprised panic.
Yeah, not very movie-worthy, if you ask me.
I wonder how Hollywood could have made the concept more action-marketable. I'm picturing ninja snakes coiling their bodies like springs to leap at the throats of innocent passengers, while other snakes whip out penknives and start taking people out at the ankles. THE CARNAGE! D:
The part where my sister and I died laughing and had to turn it off was when Liam Neeson said, "I once fought for two days with an arrow through my testicle."
Dude, it could not have been worse than watching this godawful film.
I've seen the Thief in the Night film, at least the first one. It was part of the activities at a sleepover at a junior high school friend's house. She was a born-again, so it was shown in all seriousness. I had to bite a blanket at one point to keep from laughing, because that would have been rude and possibly initiated some conversion tactics. But seriously, the part where the husband character gets taken up to heaven during the rapture, leaving his razor still running in the bathroom for his shocked wife to discover was priceless.
But then I also have to mention Alexander. That one would make a great drinking game - one shot for every manly shoulder squeeze, doubles for gratuitous crotch-shots - but that would mean watching it again, so...no.
Best review of it here: http://bit.ly/ldJk9
Hudson Hawk.
I think a list of unintentionally homoerotic movie scenes is in order. To that list and this one, I'll add Rocky III. I think Stallone hired Mr T so there'd finally be a Rocky film where the star wasn't the worst actor. The slow-motion scene with Carl Weathers and Stallone frolicking in the surf looks like something that would happen right before the foreplay in a soft-core gay porn flick. Even the names of the two characters--Apollo and Rocky--sound like names from a gay porn flick.
Hudson Hawk.
You were misled. That movie is pure comedy, and I'm certain it was intentional.
Which is why I was so miffed that the critics panned it as being too goofy to be a proper action movie. Kind of like taking Airplane! to task for not treating the topic of airline disasters seriously: true, but also completely beside the point.
Hudson Hawk is more properly viewed as a comedic send-up of an action movie. It's freakin' hilarious (or at least I thought so). It's also a personal fave.
My theory on why it was so reviled by critics is that Willis was fresh off his success in Die Hard and they were totally expecting boilerplate action movie stuff... and were perplexed when they got comedy instead. It's as if they'd all completely forgotten that Willis was a comic actor for years on Moonlighting before suddenly getting recast in the action hero mold. He didn't fit cleanly into the box they were trying to stuff him in, and in their annoyance, they dumped on what it actually a pretty good (albeit deeply, intensely silly) film.
It has to be intentional. The hats alone.
I'm somewhat of a connoisseur of bad movies, since long before MST3K (which I often consider to be the best TV show of all time), so I've got too many candidates to list; but one of my favorites is the Chuck Norris vehicle Delta Force 2--which features Billy Drago, fresh off his career-making stint as Frank Nitti in The Untouchables. Every single actor in this movie overacts like their lives depend on it. Also, the climax involves Norris, Drago, and only one parachute.
For fans of lower-budget goofery, I recommend Lou Ferrigno's two mid-80's Hercules movies from Italian schlockmeister Luigi Cozzi (who also directed StarCrash, featuring Marjoe Gortner, Caroline Munro, Christopher Plummer, and a very young David Hasselhoff).
Also the most unintentionally hilarious movie I can think of? I'd have to say anything directed by Uwe Boll. Yikes.
And I am aslo the kind of person who thinks everything is dead creepy and can't laugh at the Shining or films like that. I remeber watching Return of the Living Dead which is supposed to be a spoof on Night of the Living Dead. OMG, it still gives me the shivers.
My answer to the actual QotD depends on whether anyone thought Chucky was actually supposed to be scary or not. Me n my friends cracked each other up with "It hurt! It hurt like a sonovabitch! It even bled!" for _years_ afterward.
Nic Cage, bees. It's all good.
The storyline is a flimsy, clumsy one about two wide eyed folkies who enter a music contest. They get offered a deal by the Evil Record Company. The girl signs, the boy doesn't. She gets sucked into the evil world of money, drugs, and disco, while the hapless boy tries to rescue her. About a quarter of the way though, I realized that it was a clumsy Christian allegory and laughed even harder. This movie has the most literal Deus Ex Machina ending I have ever seen.
Given the politics at the time, the movie, of course, features evil Black people, evil homosexuals (with a subset of evil drag queens), and evil Jews (lawyers, of course!). If they had only added the Crazy Lesbian who Dies at the End, their list of negative stereotypes would have been complete.
And best of all? It's a musical. It's comparable to Xanadu and Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, except that the music is worse, and it's even more over the top than the other two.
I have to put my money on "Red Dawn." Seeing midwest storefronts with big Lenin posters on them... priceless. Maybe even more so than C. Thomas Howell as the group's badass. I was giggling all the way through.