[scifinoir2] Re: Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made
I think Cloverfield is an entertaining and very well done monster movie. I liked much more than the American made Godzilla movie. The shakey cam bothers some folks and one scene a bit vertigo inducing. The acting was good and realistic and special effects were well done. No cheese in sight. One complaint I hear is that people didn't like the characters and I just didn't get that. There seems to be some animus towards people considered hipsters and folks didn't bond with the characters because of that. I've heard the same things leveled at Scott Pilgrim which actually pokes a lot of fun at the hipster stereotypes. The central story about Rob and Beth resonated with me. When I was that age I probably would have had the same feelings about the one that got away. Probably not strong enough to wade into a fight between the military and a monster but that's just me. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Agree on the last two, which is why I questioned the more modern films on here. Was Cloverfield a good movie in your opinion? I avoided it at the theatre because I knew the jerky camera would have had me reeling and retching in my seat. - Original Message - From: B Smith daikaij...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 8:56:11 PM Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made Cloverfield doesn't even belong on this list. There's nothing remotely cheesy about it. Tremors and Slither are campy, horror comedies but no cheese was in sight. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ wrote: Dude, I remember Lepus from when I was a kid, and even then it didn't scare me, but boy was it fun! I mean, you see these bunnies running (hopping?) in slow motion to make them appear more menacing, and obvious bad FX are used to make them appear to be giants. But at least sometimes those bunnies are *real*. When the giant dummy rabbits attack people and slash them with the teeth, it is camp heaven! Let's not forget other animals gone wild movies from back in the day, such as Frogs, Bugs, and Kingdom of the Spiders starring The Shat himself. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxter7@ To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:36:56 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made As I said in the forum where I first found this link, it's another case of the kids being left alone in the room with Internet access again. No true research done, just names off the tops of their widdle heads. And I laughed just *reading* that synopsis of the scene from Night of the Lepus, Keith. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ wrote: I can't *believe* they added relatively new movies like Clash of the Titans and Cloverfield, while leaving off some true, time tested classics! To wit, my additions below. And I beg you, please go to the included links and watch the brief trailers. You will *not* be disappointed!: * Night of the Lepus - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xulXFB3-A3cfeature=related - You have ** to check out the carnivorous, giant bunny rabbits menacing veteran actors Janet Leigh, Stuart Whitman, Rory Calhoun, and DeForest Kelley! If you don't laugh when the rabbit punches through the lady's kitchen window and then slashes her throat, leaving its giant teeth covered in blood, you don't have a pulse! * The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myvltniwzxI Anyone over 40 has to remember this really awful movie about an experiment in which a psycho killer's head is grafted onto the giant body of a gentle simpleton. The killer gets off on murder, while the big gentle giants sobs No, No! all the time. Like all such classic horror movies, it manages to mix murder and mayhem with nubile women in various stages of undress. It is priceless! Check out the trailer, please: Runner up: the copycat The Thing with Two Heads ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWHNA_j7h5Afeature=related ), starring football great Rosie Grier, Don Mission Impossible Martin, and veteran actor Ray Milland! In this one, the head of a white bigot is grafted onto the body of a black convict. Again, the trailer's a scream! * The Food of the Gods - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuSwwZ1n6KU - people are trapped on an island where the animals have grown to ginormous size thanks to eating some kind of special food. I'm not sure if the giant menacing chickens, the killer big wasps or the crazy giant rats surrounding a house is the funniest thing, but man what a hoot! And it's so sad to see veteran actors' having to do films like
[scifinoir2] Re: Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made
Cloverfield doesn't even belong on this list. There's nothing remotely cheesy about it. Tremors and Slither are campy, horror comedies but no cheese was in sight. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Dude, I remember Lepus from when I was a kid, and even then it didn't scare me, but boy was it fun! I mean, you see these bunnies running (hopping?) in slow motion to make them appear more menacing, and obvious bad FX are used to make them appear to be giants. But at least sometimes those bunnies are *real*. When the giant dummy rabbits attack people and slash them with the teeth, it is camp heaven! Let's not forget other animals gone wild movies from back in the day, such as Frogs, Bugs, and Kingdom of the Spiders starring The Shat himself. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:36:56 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made As I said in the forum where I first found this link, it's another case of the kids being left alone in the room with Internet access again. No true research done, just names off the tops of their widdle heads. And I laughed just *reading* that synopsis of the scene from Night of the Lepus, Keith. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: I can't *believe* they added relatively new movies like Clash of the Titans and Cloverfield, while leaving off some true, time tested classics! To wit, my additions below. And I beg you, please go to the included links and watch the brief trailers. You will *not* be disappointed!: * Night of the Lepus - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xulXFB3-A3cfeature=related - You have ** to check out the carnivorous, giant bunny rabbits menacing veteran actors Janet Leigh, Stuart Whitman, Rory Calhoun, and DeForest Kelley! If you don't laugh when the rabbit punches through the lady's kitchen window and then slashes her throat, leaving its giant teeth covered in blood, you don't have a pulse! * The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myvltniwzxI Anyone over 40 has to remember this really awful movie about an experiment in which a psycho killer's head is grafted onto the giant body of a gentle simpleton. The killer gets off on murder, while the big gentle giants sobs No, No! all the time. Like all such classic horror movies, it manages to mix murder and mayhem with nubile women in various stages of undress. It is priceless! Check out the trailer, please: Runner up: the copycat The Thing with Two Heads ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWHNA_j7h5Afeature=related ), starring football great Rosie Grier, Don Mission Impossible Martin, and veteran actor Ray Milland! In this one, the head of a white bigot is grafted onto the body of a black convict. Again, the trailer's a scream! * The Food of the Gods - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuSwwZ1n6KU - people are trapped on an island where the animals have grown to ginormous size thanks to eating some kind of special food. I'm not sure if the giant menacing chickens, the killer big wasps or the crazy giant rats surrounding a house is the funniest thing, but man what a hoot! And it's so sad to see veteran actors' having to do films like this. Film great Ida Lupino is one of the stars. * The Deadly Mantis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqEccYXxaAY - freed from the ice, a giant, supersonic mantis menaces the world, attacking airplanes, overturning buses with its killer grip, and generally wreaking havoc. Lots of women grabbing their heads and screaming in mindless terror, of course, but really fun for the Italian sailor who yells Mama mia! as the killer insect sweeps in for the kill! - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 6:31:47 AM Subject: [scifinoir2] Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made Though Tremors was cheesy goodness... http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/08/cheesiest-sci-fi-films/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made
Agree on the last two, which is why I questioned the more modern films on here. Was Cloverfield a good movie in your opinion? I avoided it at the theatre because I knew the jerky camera would have had me reeling and retching in my seat. - Original Message - From: B Smith daikaij...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 8:56:11 PM Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made Cloverfield doesn't even belong on this list. There's nothing remotely cheesy about it. Tremors and Slither are campy, horror comedies but no cheese was in sight. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Dude, I remember Lepus from when I was a kid, and even then it didn't scare me, but boy was it fun! I mean, you see these bunnies running (hopping?) in slow motion to make them appear more menacing, and obvious bad FX are used to make them appear to be giants. But at least sometimes those bunnies are *real*. When the giant dummy rabbits attack people and slash them with the teeth, it is camp heaven! Let's not forget other animals gone wild movies from back in the day, such as Frogs, Bugs, and Kingdom of the Spiders starring The Shat himself. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:36:56 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made As I said in the forum where I first found this link, it's another case of the kids being left alone in the room with Internet access again. No true research done, just names off the tops of their widdle heads. And I laughed just *reading* that synopsis of the scene from Night of the Lepus, Keith. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: I can't *believe* they added relatively new movies like Clash of the Titans and Cloverfield, while leaving off some true, time tested classics! To wit, my additions below. And I beg you, please go to the included links and watch the brief trailers. You will *not* be disappointed!: * Night of the Lepus - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xulXFB3-A3cfeature=related - You have ** to check out the carnivorous, giant bunny rabbits menacing veteran actors Janet Leigh, Stuart Whitman, Rory Calhoun, and DeForest Kelley! If you don't laugh when the rabbit punches through the lady's kitchen window and then slashes her throat, leaving its giant teeth covered in blood, you don't have a pulse! * The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myvltniwzxI Anyone over 40 has to remember this really awful movie about an experiment in which a psycho killer's head is grafted onto the giant body of a gentle simpleton. The killer gets off on murder, while the big gentle giants sobs No, No! all the time. Like all such classic horror movies, it manages to mix murder and mayhem with nubile women in various stages of undress. It is priceless! Check out the trailer, please: Runner up: the copycat The Thing with Two Heads ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWHNA_j7h5Afeature=related ), starring football great Rosie Grier, Don Mission Impossible Martin, and veteran actor Ray Milland! In this one, the head of a white bigot is grafted onto the body of a black convict. Again, the trailer's a scream! * The Food of the Gods - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuSwwZ1n6KU - people are trapped on an island where the animals have grown to ginormous size thanks to eating some kind of special food. I'm not sure if the giant menacing chickens, the killer big wasps or the crazy giant rats surrounding a house is the funniest thing, but man what a hoot! And it's so sad to see veteran actors' having to do films like this. Film great Ida Lupino is one of the stars. * The Deadly Mantis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqEccYXxaAY - freed from the ice, a giant, supersonic mantis menaces the world, attacking airplanes, overturning buses with its killer grip, and generally wreaking havoc. Lots of women grabbing their heads and screaming in mindless terror, of course, but really fun for the Italian sailor who yells Mama mia! as the killer insect sweeps in for the kill! - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 6:31:47 AM Subject: [scifinoir2] Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made Though Tremors was cheesy goodness... http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/08/cheesiest-sci-fi-films/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all
