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ORIGINAL: fairerthanshe

Greetings Master Hup,

my goodness, i do so love your cultural literacy...You are an amazing man...i thought i was the only one who knew Duran Duran...

muchly winks,
fairer

• Darkness.  Italian horror flick that came out a few years back.  Now, I'm a very good horror movie attendee.  I have excellent suspension of disbelief.  That is, I'm incredibly gullible.  I jump at cat scares that actually involve a cat.  Eventually, I just sat there with my arms crossed thinking, "And this is just going to keep going, isn't it?"  I'll save you the rental:  ovals have occult significance, we're all gonna die horribly, and evil really likes collored pencils.

• Prospero's Books.  Why on earth people kept saying that this was one of the best films of the 20th century is beyond me.  Raul Julia and Richard Dreyfuss starred in a better version of The Tempest than this crap.  Okay, yes -- the sets were beautiful, the costumes were amazing, the books themselves were astounding.  I have to even give kudos to Sir John Guielgud for being willing to do a nude scene, and manage it with his usual dignity.  But ... having the actors just stand there like dress dummies while other people did the voiceovers for their lines?  ugh.  We couldn't even finish this one on video.  Peter Greenaway movies are about 50/50 for me anyway, and this was definitely in the lower 50%.  I've read that someone produced a TV special that was just about the books.  Thank goodness -- something worth watching came out of this little project.
  

• Russ Meyer's Vixen.  It was playing at a rep theater, which was promoting the films "Famous Trout Dance!"  Having no idea what a trout dance was, my boyfriend at the time and I went in to get an education.  The film, which was 60's softcore porn, was slightly painful but we held on because we were determined to see this amazing dance.  Of course, the trout dance itself was disgusting.  After the dance was over, we glanced at each other and left the theater.

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worst big-budget movies:  Forrest Gump; Speed II; Capote

I thought Forest Gump was pretty good
 
some other bad ones....The Village,...boy, what a disappointment that one was
The Grudge...another PoS; AI...absolutly horrible

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Now see, I actually enjoyed League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

• casting Sean Connery as Quartermain.  Um, why cast an actor who has no chance of properly portraying a recovering opium addict who acts scared of his own shadow.
• changing Mina Harker.  Since they gave her job as leader to Conner- er, Quartermain, I guess they had to have her as a badass some other way.  oofah.
• making the Invisible Man a lovable goof.  Okay, granted -- it'd be hard to take kids to a movie that showed the Invisible Man's origins Moore style, but ... yeesh.  They basically changed the tone of the entire story that way.
• Adding in Huck Finn as a major character.  Um ... the hell?  I guess they'd screwed up the original characters so badly that it made sense to bring in someone else, but he felt so tacked on that it was a rather sad attempt.
  

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Darkness, Boogeyman,

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ORIGINAL: StellaByStarlite

Hello. =)

Wow, a lot of these mentioned previously as horrid have a ton of campy value for me. Barbarella, Starship Troopers, etc. Definitely in the " So Bad It's Funny" categories.

Um, let's see. JFK ranks high in the "Coma- Inducing Boring" list. Constantine and Van Helsing.. bad bad bad. Troy just pissed me off because they took all the wonderful myth out of it. There's probably more on my list, but I can't think of them right now.

Cheers,
Stella