Army of Darkness is one of the greatest movies that I've ever seen. Matter of fact I just watched it again lastnight. The Director's Cut version. Loads of cheese but a great movie.. Ice Pirates was to me, just a load of cheese..
On 6/13/05, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----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 > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:160547 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
