Shakesville - Latest Comments in Question of the Day

Re: Question of the Day

napalmnacey — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:57:18 -0000

Enomis - I hate hate HATE that such a wonderful story was put in the hands of someone who let Tom Cruise get involved. I was a huge HG Wells fangirl as a kid, (it's probably the reason why I'm so sympathetic to socialism) and it killed me to see the book so heartlessly ripped of its meaning.

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Enomis — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:40:31 -0000

War of the Worlds. Mostly just the very end where they go into this deus ex machina explanation about how water killed the alien bacteria. My brother and I laughed hysterically, in a full theatre. Everyone else seemed to be pondering the science(tology) quite seriously.

Re: Question of the Day

TheDeviantE — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:37:12 -0000

OOOh, Ghostrider is totally seconded... That thing is hilarious. Oh Nicholas Cage.....

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Zaphod65 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:16:58 -0000

The best part of this question is seeing a lot of movies that were tackled by Rifftrax. "The Wicker Man," "Independence Day," and even gods-help-me "The Room."

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.

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Gargunza — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:03:26 -0000

...Oh ye gods, how could I forget Yor, the Hunter from the Future?! It's gold!

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maatnofret — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:33:07 -0000

I'd have to say that title falls to a movie I saw over the weekend. It's called "The Apple." It came out in 1980, and it supposed to take place in the far flung future...of 1994. Of course, it's the late 70's/early 80's version of "the future," which means lots of improbable shoulder pads, satin, metallic fabric, glitter, and crimped hair.

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.

Re: Question of the Day

Lemur — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:52:50 -0000

Ah hah! I knew I saw it somewhere. Thank you CaitieCat- I'm totes already a fan of Sady's. I would do her taxes anytime.
Nic Cage, bees. It's all good.

Re: Question of the Day

RachelB — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:33:53 -0000

It would have to be First Knight, with Sean Connery as an extremely hammy King Arthur. Or maybe Highlander, with Sean Connery as an extremely hammy Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez. (Really, folks? You're going to write a film about a Scotsman and cast Connery as a Spaniard?)

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willow329 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:32:32 -0000

Oops. HTML fail. Those were supposed to be italicized, not bolded.

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willow329 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:31:39 -0000

@daveotr: Gotta add Roadhouse to that list of (possibly) unintentionally homoerotic movies.

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.

Re: Question of the Day

CaitieCat — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:30:27 -0000

That review would probably have been in a blogaround, Lemur, because it was done by Sady of Tiger Beatdown, who is an absolutely AMAZINGLY!!!! funny Reviewer Of Really Crappy Misogyfestive Movies!!! (you'll get the exclamation thing when you get there, promise).

Re: Question of the Day

brinylon — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:16:25 -0000

Blind Fury, I laughed and laughed.

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.

Re: Question of the Day

Lemur — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:11:07 -0000

Wasn't there a review of The Wicker Man on Shakesville somewhere? Was wanting to reread it but couldn't find it.
Also the most unintentionally hilarious movie I can think of? I'd have to say anything directed by Uwe Boll. Yikes.

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Gargunza — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:47:33 -0000

I think I have to disagree on Battlefield Earth being funny...I've seen the whole thing, and it just didn't register on any level other than boring. I mean (spoilers, ooo) they even managed to make the obligatory Blowing Up The Enemy's Homeworld the most boring special effect in the movie. That takes real talent.

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).

Re: Question of the Day

slythwolf — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:29:44 -0000

The Chronicles of Riddick.
"I am a Necromonger Warlord!"

Although I'm not 100% convinced the hilarity is all unintentional.

It has to be intentional. The hats alone.

Re: Question of the Day

treebee72 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:19:11 -0000

More love for Hudson Hawk. It is great silly fun!

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Zen — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:04:50 -0000

Ahhh, I love Hudson Hawk so very, very much.

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LaDivina — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:54:04 -0000

Ghost Rider. Ugh.

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Arkades — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:51:21 -0000

I've been told by my father that this movie wasn't supposed to be hilarious, and also that my sister and I have horrible taste for liking it:

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.

Re: Question of the Day

daveotr — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:43:47 -0000

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.

i can't believe no one has said top gun yet! i laffz and laffz EVERY TIME. the music! the airplanes! the EMOTION!!!!

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.

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.

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TheDeviantE — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:38:35 -0000

I've been told by my father that this movie wasn't supposed to be hilarious, and also that my sister and I have horrible taste for liking it:

Hudson Hawk.

Re: Question of the Day

Miss_Led — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:37:21 -0000

The Happening had me rolling in the aisles holding my sides. OMFG it's airborne suicide desire, so a breeze concentrates it? Really? Wouldn't a breeze, um... DISPERSE it?

Best review of it here: http://bit.ly/ldJk9

Re: Question of the Day

Deadra — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:44:57 -0000

rumblelizard - omg, yes. I had a great time with that one. There was one scene where the baddie said something like "I am what I am", and my friend actually got up and started to sing the song. I laughed so hard I fell off my seat.

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.

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$165396 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:15:18 -0000

I thought Phone Booth (another Joel Schumacher masterpiece) was hilarious. I almost laughed out loud at the teary confession scene, which would have been embarrassing since I was presenting the sneak preview of it to a film group.

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.

Re: Question of the Day

the2ndjay — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:12:32 -0000

Troy. I don't know how there was any scenery left by the end of the movie.