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Wed 18 Dec, 2002 06:34 am
I was posting to the Movie Quotes Quiz, when I picked a quote from the original "Out of Towners", with Sandy Dennis and Jack Lemmon. As I was posting the quote, I realized that I am crazy about that movie. I have watched it a number of times, and could watch it again. There is something about it that strikes an emotional chord with me.
It is NOT a good movie. It is acted well, but it is a silly film that may well be forgotten in the annals of filmdom. The fact that there was a remake of it a few years ago attests to the pandering to the lowbrow level of culture that we are experiencing now.
Thus said, I LOVE that movie. What are YOUR favorite awful movie?
Without doubt it is "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls" by Russ Meyer.
An awful film that is somehow totally captivating and irresistable.
"attack of the giant killer tomatos"
Actually "Beyond" is listed in most movie guides as a better than average movie. As far as those with really bad ratings, I don't have many guilty pleasures. "Summer Lovers" is probably one of them -- it's and idealistic vacation on a Greek island I think a lot of us wish they had when younger.
BTW, Roger Ebert is one of the writers on "Beyond"
LW,you say "average movie".Wow..it´s light years from average in every single aspect but I´m happy that most movie guides actually rate it at all.
Aaah you said "a better than average movie".I´m with you now.
Depends on your standards of awful, I suppose, but I can watch "Wild Things" over and over again.
Some reviewers give "Beyond" three stars! They give it kudos for its satire -- in other words, many people take it too seriously and I figure it's Ebert's clever side swipe of Hollywood melodramas.
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
You´re in for muchos flak Heeven!!
The Planet of the Apes films. No, not the newer one, with Marky Mark - that's just awful. I mean the five which were started with C. Heston.
"Getcher stinkin' paws offa me, you damn dirty ape!" etc.
Aww Jes.The original was a cracking film.It was the others that sucked.
Come on, guys, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and the original Planet of the Apes are actually good movies.
My favorite "awful" movies are Mira Nair's Kama Sutra: a Tale of Love and Robbe Grillet's Succesive Slidings of Pleasure. Some aesthetics just beat me. Er... actually I think they're good films, but almost everybody else dislikes them.
I also liked American Gigolo and The Cell.
I loved the bad Jean Claude Van Dam movies for a few years. Haven't seen one recently, so I dunno if I'd call them a favorite.
AMERICAN GIGOLO!!!Good grief that is one limping dog of a film and you really LIKE it!!
Wow.
fbaezer is right -- you're not admitting which truly awful turkeys you like! "Seven Brides" gets no less than three stars and more often four stars in critic's reviews. Ditto the first "Planet of the Apes," so you'd have to like the new version as a guilty pleasure.
Well, unless you're basing it on what your friends and relatives think is a bad movie.
"The Wizard Of Gore" and "Color Me Blood Red" by H.G.Lewis.
Actually I was basing it on movies I am embarrassed to admit liking. Like that and Calamity Jane. My friends/family torture me over that and I could watch Doris Day til the cows come home!
What is rated as an awful movie?
One star?
Two stars?
Rated by who? Roger Ebert? NY Times?
Okay, a two star movie that I absolutely LOVE - have watched it dozens of times (I kid you not) is ..... Miss Congeniality (Sandra Bullock).
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