> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Morphis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 2:08 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: The Most Cheesy Movie > > A friend and I were in Best Buy a couple weeks back and we were > looking through the movies. He picked one up and said "Wow, this one > is great, I haven't seen it in years". He bought the movie for around > 10 bucks I think and we went back to me and my wife's apartment to > watch it. The movie was Ice Pirates. This movie was so lame and so > cheesy I could barely stand it. He and my wife liked it, but not me. I > do have to admit, the part where they are aging super fast and you get > to see the world's largest afro is one of the funniest scenes I've > ever seen. This scene, this afro saved the movie. > So I ask, what's the most cheesy movie you've watched?
Well... jeeze, don't you have to define "Cheese"? Are we talking simply bad or just campy or what? (I've got ten years of MST3K under my belt... so this is rather complicate for me.) ;^) To me, at least, "Cheese" implies, at the very least, a film that could have been better: it had a big enough budget, enough talent, etc. So (to me) something like "Plan Nine from Outer Space" would NOT be "Cheesy" - it's just bad (entertainingly so, but bad nonetheless). You can actually _like_ cheesy movies. It's clear that they're not great filmmaking, but it should be clear that they accomplished what they set out to accomplish. (A horrible movie which takes itself seriously is just plain sad, not cheesy.) A cheesy movie can't take itself seriously. Sam Raimi knows this better than anybody. "Army of Darkness" is perhaps the height of movie cheese (and one of the best films ever made). "From Dusk Till Dawn" is another great example. You have to have a sense that when people were making it they were groaning at their own temerity in committing the act to film. They HAD to have looked at one another an said "are you sure?" "Monkeybone", "Hudson Hawk" and "Buckaroo Banzai" (all of which I liked) were made by with and by intelligent, accomplished filmmakers. Lastly a cheesy movie can't provoke an apathetic response. You have to either really like it or completely loath it. ;^) But the most cheesy ever? Well... I had the "pleasure" of seeing "The Apple" at the last Boston Sci-Fi marathon. It's essentially the story of Adam and Eve told in a "future" (1994, I think) where the world has become dominated by disco! It features a scene where "God" appears in a gold car to take his hippie children to "Eden". If you've never seen it (and you probably haven't) you can't know. You just can't. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:160545 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
