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Six String Samurai
Troll 2 - you can't piss on hospitality!
Yeah, Cool World is the one where a comic artist gets sucked into his own world, luckily one with a cartoon Kim Basinger in it. Nice to see Death Race 2000 has so many fans. If you like Arnold Schwarzenegger try out Hercules in New York (title tells you all you need to know) or even better The Villain, A comedy western with Kirk Douglas and Ann-Margret. Big Laughs ahoy! The Stuff is great, Mazes and Monsters is dire. Shame on you Tom Hanks. Any of you seen Super yet? I loved it.
The Stuff - This certainly has the biggest budget of any of the movies I've mentioned but it is a true turkey nonetheless. Word to the wise; should you ever discover something that looks like marshmallow fluff bubbling from the ground like crude oil, do not - repeat - DO NOT stick your finger into the stuff and take a taste. It is a quasi-sentient mass that will control your mind and use your talents to create a new line of snack products bent on world domination.
Immortalized by my friend's band, Spiders & Fingers, in their immortal jam "The Stuff": "I ate the The Stuff/But The Stuff, ate me!"
Put me down for "Surf II." Eric Stolz as the surfer hero, and Eddie Deezen as the super-villain? Can you relate?
When A movie is called "Surf II: the end of a trilogy", you know you're up to something...
I agree with Cartigan's vote for most Schwartzenegger movies in his heydays, with Commando at the top of my list.
Scrawny guy -" You said you liked me, you said you'd kill me last!"
Arny -[german accent] "I lied!" [/german accent]
priceless!
But then again, our kids will be saying the same about 95% of all movies we consider really good at the moment. In most cases, its a matter of the movie not aging well...
'findel
In all fairness Death Race (remake with Statham) was fun. But then again Jason Statham has become that guy, you know the one who's movie isn't going to be very good, but still fun to watch? Yea that's him now. Not like the Guy Richie days...
Acutally, I did enjoy the remake, but I don't think it qualifies for this sort of list. It's not one of those cheesy, awful movies that you just sit back and enjoy. Plus, in the remake, you don't get to see Frankenstein take on the French air force.
Oh, and I forgot:
Starship Troopers (or, the Hollywood School of Infantry). If the real army had been anything like this, I would have never left.
Surf Nazis Must Die
Rock-N-Roll High School
Nemesis, the very bad 80's cyberpunk shoot'em up not the terrible ST:NG movie that killed the franchise.
Hudson Hawk
Buckaroo Banzai
Hudson HawkBuckaroo Banzai
Yes, and yes.
"It's not my g&@++&ned planet! Understand, monkeyboy?!"
Mean Guns. After watching that movie for the first time, I re-played the whole thing with my GI Joes.
Mom and Dad Save the World
Howard the Duck
Attack of the Killer Tomato's
Black Scorpion
The Crawling Eye
Eight Legged Freaks
Infestation
My Science Project
House II
Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, Gamera, etc, etc
Valley of the Gwangi
Showdown in Little Tokyo
Alien in LA
Evil Dead Trilogy
The Last Dragon
The list just goes on and on...
Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter.
Meet the Feebles
Dead Alive
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Argh! I came in here to add in The Room and Troll 2, only to find them both already mentioned.
I am fed up with this woruld!
Meet the Feebles
Oh, Sarenrae, anything but that. Peter Jackson, wtf is wrong with you?!
I do, however, concur with most mentions in this thread. Just not this. I can't stand this movie, and I'm not entirely sure why. I just don't want to contemplate it anymore.
Meet the Feebles
Oh, Sarenrae, anything but that. Peter Jackson, wtf is wrong with you?!
I do, however, concur with most mentions in this thread. Just not this. I can't stand this movie, and I'm not entirely sure why. I just don't want to contemplate it anymore.
Actually I was just about to post that it is one of my favorites.
I don't know if anyone has mentioned it;
Killer Klowns From Outer Space.
Meet the Feebles
Oh, Sarenrae, anything but that. Peter Jackson, wtf is wrong with you?!
I do, however, concur with most mentions in this thread. Just not this. I can't stand this movie, and I'm not entirely sure why. I just don't want to contemplate it anymore.
Actually I was just about to post that it is one of my favorites.
I don't know if anyone has mentioned it;
Killer Klowns From Outer Space.
omg, how could I forget that? That was horribawesome.
Dead Alive
Stand back, son. This calls for divine intervention!
Lunatics: A Love Story
Stone Cold.
Stone freaking Cold. Treat yourself.
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The Incredible Melting Man - and while this movie is just plain bad it does have a redeeming quality*
*(skip to 5:30 and and enjoy the dream like quality of the chase)
Also the Undertaker and His Pals
I have to say that as horrible as these movies are they make me laugh - very, very, hard. That's more I can say about any recent Hollywood "comedy" I've seen in the last few years.
kinda hard to find but Adventures of Captain Zoom in outer space
also i 2nd the Last Dragon because i got the glow
Since someone already mentioned Meet the Feebles, I have to put another Jackson movie in here:
Bad Taste!
Low budget, over the top violent and... well, it has to be seen. :-)
Also:
Braindead.
Zombies! Also by Peter Jackson.
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I almost forgot.
King Kung Fu
The Monster Master of the Martial Arts!
I got to watch them film the last little bit of this movie.
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King Kung Fu tells the story of a good-humored, hat-loving Chinese talking gorilla originally named Jungle Jumper who has been taught karate. After beating up his Kung Fu Master owner Alfunku when the latter dared him to snatch a banana from his hand, he is shipped off to the U.S. as a "goodwill gift" by his battered and embarrassed teacher where he is renamed King Kung Fu for publicity purposes. On the way to the New York Zoo, the "Monster Master of the Martial Arts" is put on display in Wichita, Kansas where two out-of-work reporters set him free with plans to "capture" him and get jobs.
Police Captain J.W. Duke (who resembles a certain Western Movie star) and his patriotic-helmeted little assistant Officer Pilgrim get involved in the city-wide chase along with the phony-looking ape's love interest Rae Fey (a beautiful blond Pizza Hut waitress/model), Rae Fey is the only one who understands that Fu just wants to see the sights like any other tourist. Her conniving TV journalist boyfriend Bo Burgess (not Beau Bridges as has been listed in some sources, a reference no doubt to the actor's brother Jeff who starred in the first remake of King Kong) and his hapless sidekick Herman, a pair of prudish protesters from "OLD HAGS" ("Outraged Ladies Dedicated to Hiding Animals Great Shame"), and a host of others including cops, cowboys and baseball players partake in a wild chase in order to catch the ape.
The gorilla and the girl end up on top of the tallest building in Wichita, [a Holiday Inn, which had a total remodel from the first bit of footage and the final shots years later] an homage to the original King Kong film, where the hairy hero makes a final stand involving instances of stop motion animation.
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King Kung Fu tells the story of a good-humored, hat-loving Chinese talking gorilla originally named Jungle Jumper who has been taught karate.That's all you need to know this film will be awesome.
Production began on King Kung Fu in 1974. Due to financial constraints, it was not finished until 1987
I saw the last bit of it being filmed live.
Or maybe "The Killer Shrews" with a very young Roscoe P Coltrane and Festus Haggen?
Sounds like 'Killer Shrews' to me.
Title monsters 'played' by large dogs wearing fur rugs and fake fangs. The hero and the heroine escape by building protective tanks out of barrels and suffling across the island to his boat.
And I just love 'Night of the Lepus'.
I kinda see the Street Fighter movie as almost so bad it's good. The film is almost saved by Raul Julia going over the top like nothing ever before in his last film role. If there is ever a version that cuts out everything but Julia as M. Bison, I would buy it in a heartbeat.
House of the Dead
Hands down. I went from hating the movie, to laughing my azz off, to cheering when the heroes died. Whoohoooo!!!
Wild Zero
Ace, a wannabe rock star, is on his way to a concert of the band Guitar Wolf when space aliens invade the Earth. As a result the dead rise to their feet in the countryside setting of Asahi, Japan, with an appetite for flesh. Enlisting the help of his rock 'n roll blood brother Guitar Wolf, Ace and the members of the band get entangled in many misadventures with crazy rock managers in very tight shorts, transsexuals, naked women shooting guns in the shower, and bloodthirsty zombies ready to tear them apart. Leather jackets, loud over-modulated music, laser guitar picks, motorcycles, guns, muscle cars, and fire abound.
Guitar Wolf, a Japanese trio signed to Matador Records in the US—and self-proclaimed coolest rock band in the world—star as the well-coiffed heroes.
Oh how it pains me to see people complaining that Starship Troopers was so unrealistic.
...IT'S MEANT TO BE! =P
It's based off an old book and is a satire with some interesting parallels to even modern reality.
Back on topic, let's see. Hrm...
To the person who mentioned Troma...YES! Troma rules. =)
Pod People. SOOOO terrible.
Battlefield Earth. Come on, you just can't get tired of hearing Travolta sneer on about mananimals.
Hackers. I remember when half of Yahoo Chat was named Zero_Cool and Cereal_Killer. WHY GOD WHY! All those leet kiddies with Cheetachat...
Hardware. No flesh shall be spared...including your eyelids.
The entire Tremors series. Kevin Bacon at his finest...erm...with that guy from Family Ties.
And Slugs. A creature feature that features some creepy creatures. And squishes them. Grossly.
Big Trouble in Little China. Lo Pan will steal your soul for not having mentioned it already...
It's based off an old book
In the same way blade Runner is based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
Ha! Lots of good choices on here. Though I disagree with putting Big Trouble in Little China on this list. That movie is just awesome in every single way, it's just too good for this list.
I have a couple more to throw into the mix:
1. Kung-Fu Rascals: Awesome parody buddy kung-fu movie, which introduces the awesome "Chicken Style Kung Fu"!
2. Mission to Mars: With Jerry O'Connell and Gary Sinise, made in the mid-nineties sometime. This movie was so bad that even though it was supposed to be completely serious and dramatic, the entire audience laughed throughout the movie when I saw it. It also features Jerry O'Connell solving a billions of years old intergalactic mystery with a bag of skittles. Pure awesome in a terrible way.
Oh how it pains me to see people complaining that Starship Troopers was so unrealistic.
...IT'S MEANT TO BE! =P
It's based off an old book and is a satire with some interesting parallels to even modern reality.
Back on topic, let's see. Hrm...
To the person who mentioned Troma...YES! Troma rules. =)
Pod People. SOOOO terrible.
Battlefield Earth. Come on, you just can't get tired of hearing Travolta sneer on about mananimals.
Hackers. I remember when half of Yahoo Chat was named Zero_Cool and Cereal_Killer. WHY GOD WHY! All those leet kiddies with Cheetachat...
Hardware. No flesh shall be spared...including your eyelids.
The entire Tremors series. Kevin Bacon at his finest...erm...with that guy from Family Ties.And Slugs. A creature feature that features some creepy creatures. And squishes them. Grossly.
Alot of people (me included) despise the Starship Troopers movie because we love the book. It's a severe stretch to say that the movie was based on the book, when there was almost nothing of the book in that movie.
That being said, I'd love to see a REAL adaptation of the book. That would be sweet.
Oh how it pains me to see people complaining that Starship Troopers was so unrealistic.
...IT'S MEANT TO BE! =P
It's based off an old book and is a satire with some interesting parallels to even modern reality.
Back on topic, let's see. Hrm...
To the person who mentioned Troma...YES! Troma rules. =)
Pod People. SOOOO terrible.
Battlefield Earth. Come on, you just can't get tired of hearing Travolta sneer on about mananimals.
Hackers. I remember when half of Yahoo Chat was named Zero_Cool and Cereal_Killer. WHY GOD WHY! All those leet kiddies with Cheetachat...
Hardware. No flesh shall be spared...including your eyelids.
The entire Tremors series. Kevin Bacon at his finest...erm...with that guy from Family Ties.And Slugs. A creature feature that features some creepy creatures. And squishes them. Grossly.
Alot of people (me included) despise the Starship Troopers movie because we love the book. It's a severe stretch to say that the movie was based on the book, when there was almost nothing of the book in that movie.
That being said, I'd love to see a REAL adaptation of the book. That would be sweet.
I frakking love the Starship Troopers movie. It is an unfortunate casualty of the book vs. movie crowd, however, and created a schism because I have yet to run into someone who loved the book but hated the movie and was actually something approaching civil about their problems with the movie. If you want to watch a Starship Troopers that's closer to the book, there was an excellent(if old) anime put out about it.
Ravenous. Oh god, that movie, the characters were... garbage, but I could literally watch that movie every week and love it to death.
Slither. Same vein. Probably still have it kickin' around here.
C.H.U.D. Must be watched with the actor's/producer commentary on at least once in your life.
Basketcase. I grew up watching that movie, actually, which is probably why I have an irrational fear of parasitic twins.
The Re-Animator. Yes, I know, it is a classic Lovecraft film starring my personal favorite, Jeffery Combs, but that scene in the morgue still bothers me. Another one of those movies I probably shouldn't have watched before the age of 8.
Star Trek II, the Wrath of Khan...
OOOh, but my personal favorite, and I cannot figure why to this very day-
The Quick and the Dead. Sharon Stone, Russel Crowe before he was Maximus, Lance Henrikksen and Gene Hackman. I don't know what it is about that movie, maybe the direction by Sam Raimi, but I have to watch it every time it's on.
Notable reruns on sci-fi channel include Candyman, The Wishmaster, Hollowman (the original with Kevin Bacon, not with that Christian Slater feminine hygeine product).
Honorable mention goes to They Live, Prince of Darkness, and John Carpenter's Vampires for various reasons.
I frakking love the Starship Troopers movie. It is an unfortunate casualty of the book vs. movie crowd, however, and created a schism because I have yet to run into someone who loved the book but hated the movie and was actually something approaching civil about their problems with the movie. If you want to watch a Starship Troopers that's closer to the book, there was an excellent(if old) anime put out about it.
I love both the book and the movie, and I realise the movie is meant to be unrealistic. Paul Verhoeven (sp?) is known for being over the top.
That's why I love it. Having served in the military and being shot at in anger, I know just how unrealistic it is (so does my dad, the Vietnam vet). The movie is corny, cheesy, and absolute, pure fun. I just sit back and watch the pretty explosions.
Another guilty pleasure: Under Siege.
I don't care for Steven Segal as a general rule, but I love the shots of U.S.S. Missouri. Sadly, the ship is better looking and a better actor than he is.
Night of the Creeps
Detective Cameron: I got good news and bad news, girls. The good news is your dates are here.
Sorority Sister: What's the bad news?
Detective Cameron: They're dead.
Nooo. Night of the Creeps is just good. *laughs*
"What do you think happened then, Spanky?"
Night of the Creeps
Detective Cameron: I got good news and bad news, girls. The good news is your dates are here.
Sorority Sister: What's the bad news?
Detective Cameron: They're dead.
One of my all time favorite movie quotes.
I have to plug Snakes on a Plane here. Watch that movie with a huge group of friends, each with about 10 rubber snakes to throw at opportune moments, and you will not be disappointed. Don't forget to shout out the ridiculous lines when they crop up!
I agree. I attended the opening night's premiere EDIT: (for free, I should say in the interest of full disclosure) with a packed house of rowdy movie-goers armed with plastic snakes and no intention of taking the film seriously. It was probably the most fun I've ever had in a movie theater--except for maybe the day I saw The Big Lebowski.