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― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Blind Fury

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

the birds 2

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Number One

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0087822/combined

― pisces (piscesx), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Well, now I remember Blind Fury. Thanks a lot, Ned.

Ah Cinemax in the early 90s...

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

"He don't need no dog."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

How long until Pluto Nash is completely forgotten?

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

When you STOP MENTIONING IT.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

I think I may have a Rutger Hauer movie even more completely forgotten than Blind Fury, though. The name is slipping away from me at the moment, but he played a Mad-Max style post-apocalypse rat exterminator. I actually saw in theaters with a girlfriend who was crazy about Rutger in an almost empty house (it was just us) in Eagle River, AK.

imdb....HOOOO!

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Not the Hitcher, no??

Anybody ever see CRASH AND BURN? It's like Robot Jox Redux.

― paizuri-san (davidcorp), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Nope, it was Split Second.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hail Caesar

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, this game is too easy. Just do an imdb search on, say, Judge Reinhold.

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Alone in the Dark, i never even saw it advertised.

The Fog, remake.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

I remember seeing the trailer for Robot Jox when I was little and wanting to see it more than any other film ever, and not being allowed to because it was a fifteen.

They really should make more films about hundred foot high robots fighting each other.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

gymkata

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

That Mel Gibson movie where he's rich and his son gets kidnapped - uh, Ransom?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

The trailer for Strike Commando is the most awesome thing I ever saw.

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Man, when I was a little kid I saw the TV ads for Gymkata (I'm thinking this was around 6th grade) and wanted to see it so badly, cause I thought it would be the greatest thing ever. Never did, though. As a consolation prize, I did get to watch Kill or Be Killed and it's sequel Kill and Kill Again on vhs a few years back.

edit - oh SHIT! Gymkata is much later than I remembered. I would've been 16 when it came out.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

I kind of liked Gymkata! An excellent movie title, anyway.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Judge Reinhold movies otm. "Off Beat" to thread.

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

20 new answers and no pedant to say "but if you remember about them they can't be completely forgotten, lol, amirite?" yet?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Mac and Me

A total E.T. rip-off whose only merit might've been that the main character was in a wheel chair, yet no fuss was made out of it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

"Nomads" starring Adam Ant and Pierce Brosnan.I saw it. In a theatre.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Not making a fuss out of a character using a wheelchair is more meritorious, surely?

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Er, that's what I said.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

90% of comedies

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Er, no it's not (xpost)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

I'm confused.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

McBain. Walken's version of Rambo. Best movie ever.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Right, to non-confuse Tuomas as I see it. You said "A total E.T. rip-off whose only merit might've been that the main character was in a wheel chair"

It was suggested that *not* having the wheelchair as a selling point is perhaps of more merit.

You said you said that.

You didn't. You said it would have been a point of merit for the movie to be all "whoo look, dude in a wheelchair, please watch my shit movie, it's better than ET because the dude's in a wheelchair" (please note, I'm paraphrasing a bit)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

That film with whatshisface

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

The Cell? With J-Lo.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still confused. What I was trying to say that the main character was in a wheel chair, but it *wasn't* a selling poin for the film, nor did it make a big thing out of it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

and "SCENE"

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Remove comma from Tuomas' original post and confusion is gone.

― ONIMO's fish might turn into lizards (GerryNemo), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Ah. We use commas a bit differently in Finnish.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

The Finnish word for "yet" always requires a comma before it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

I got his meaning. It's Tuomas, he's not gonna be un-PC!

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks. :)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry Tuomas, I got your meaning when I re-read the sentence.

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

OSMOSIS JONES

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

There is a REAL McBain!?!? OMG did it come out before or after the Simpsons' first McBain!?!?

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

OSMOSIS JONES

Oh god, thanks for nothing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

That one when Sylvester Stallone was an arm-wrestling truck-driver.

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091584/

― the Adversary (but, still, a friend of yours) (Uri Frendimein), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Corvette Summer (although I kind of like that movie)

― the Adversary (but, still, a friend of yours) (Uri Frendimein), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

(that link was My Little Pony, 1986)

― the Adversary (but, still, a friend of yours) (Uri Frendimein), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

I got Tuomas's meaning, but then my sentences are like slave labour camps for commas anyway.

Three million UK films of the eighties/nineties to thread. Basically anything before Shallow Grave.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

And after Local Hero?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

It's Billy Crystal and HE'S PREGGERS LOLOLOLOL!!!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

Winona Ryder and some Keanu Reeves looking guy battle the devil! Everybody else went to see Blair Witch 2, I think. Also, in the Osmosis Jones category, Monkey Bone.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

That one when Sylvester Stallone was an arm-wrestling truck-driver.

DENIED

Over the Top was the shit.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

However, Hard Rain:

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0120696/

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

i wish i could say Lost In Space, which is practically a feature-length argument against the use of CGI in film, but i keep seeing that damned space monkey with Lacey Chabert whenever i turn onto TBS.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Monkey Bone was great fun!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

'the opposite of sex'

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe not forgotten, but not given the mad props it deserves: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105466/

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

oh god I remember that (now).

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

i watched that movie like ten times in a row when it came on video.

haven't seen it since.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

So was Lost in Space! And fantastically grim Wonderful Life bit - without A Bit Of Heart, the kid eventually kills everyone!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://komap.net.ru/media/images/cast_t.jpg

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I LIKED PLUTO NASH

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Jean-Claude Van Damme's The Quest, a film that is only about an hour and a half long but feels as if it was going on forever. in fact, i think i'm still watching it right now.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117420/

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

and Roger Moore's wandering around in it, for no apparent reason. i think they wrote his character in because he just happened to be on the set hitting on production assistants or something

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

"Treasure Of The Four Crowns". An Indiana Jones ripoff from b-grade action factory Cannon Films, released during the mercifully brief 3-D revival of the early 80s. (Hands up if you remember Metalstorm or Jaws 3-D.) It occasionally shows up on TV sans the 3-D effects, which were bad even for their time.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

its impossible to forget Jaws 3-D

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

The 1997 made-for-TV remake of Vanishing Point with two ex-husbands of Exene, and two members of the 90210 cast.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

(We all know that "Osmosis Jones" was turned into a reasonably successful kid's show called "Ozzy & Drix", right?)

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

Jaws: The Revenge

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

"Solidly maintains laughs with eclectic casting and genuine PG-rated fun."

Dear god.

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

The Island. No, not that one, this one.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Stay Tuned is fun!

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Michael Caine turns up in a lot of these... Case in point, The Hand (directed by Oliver Stone!)

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Michael Caine again... Beyond The Poseidon Adventure

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know if "rightfully so" applies, but...

Roadside Prophets

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

xxxpost

I ignored the "rightfully so" bit of the thread title.

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Roadside Prophets

I saw that in the theater! It's alright... I still like John Cusak's "FREE FOOD FOR THE MASSES!" freakout.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I remember being totally creeped out by The Hand as a kid! Wasn't it about a comic book artist who loses his hand in a car accident, and later on the dismembered hand tries to kill him?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Secret Agent Bill Cosby in... Leonard Part Six!

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

but that's like, legendarily bad, doesn't fit the thread. Ghost Dad is getting warmer.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

Ghost Dad was the first movie i ever saw by myself. my mom was in the other theater watching the Jungle Book with my little brother and sister, and she perodically came back to check on me and bring me cookies.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Return to Me

I'd totally forgotten I ever saw this one, even though it was only six years ago.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Right, I get the comma-induced misconception now. Apologies all round. (about 3 million xposts)

The Opposite of Sex was good!

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Atlas Shrugged

― time-traveling nickalicious back from the future (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

strangers in good company
hot to trot
who's harry crumb?
super fuzz
making mr. right
a night in the life of jimmy reardon
alive
speaking of ethan hawke, mystery date
8 heads in a duffel bag
betsy's wedding

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of ethan hawke, mystery date

I would so want that to be the real title.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

my demon lover

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

the golden child

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Stop or My Mom Will Shoot

― a regal trolley (aaron a), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Too many of these have some sort of shitty kitsch value and will never be forgotten. In my house, at least.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

I was just thinking about The Golden Child, but then I was like, surely everyone remembers that one?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

I think Eddie Murphy's every eighties movie has been permanently imprinted into my mind, he was me and my friends' favourite actor when we were kids.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

'housesitter', starring steve martin and goldie hawn
'ghostbusters 2' is forgotten, right?
'short circuit 2'
'beverly hills cop 3'

― gear (gear), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

'can't buy me love'

― gear (gear), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

'my science project'

― gear (gear), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

'lawnmower man 2'

― gear (gear), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, I have fond childhood memories of all those films, Gear, except the first one and Lawnmover Man.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

Blind Fury was great. Memories of hbo in the early 90s. Rutger hauer was in a lot of those made-for-HBO movies, too, like Deadlock/Wedlock, which I think got remade for fox tv.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, I was just reminiscing over bad films I watched when I was in my teens and just remembered "Soul Man" and I looked it up on imdb.com and OMG Julia Louis-Dreyfus was in it!

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

and "My Science Project" i always associate with "Real Genius", for the "mid-80s kids doing wonky science projects that go awry" category.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

super fuzz

love this movie.

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

sup-ah sup-ah sup-ah! Swedish beat cops in american! frozen Ernest Borgnine flying around on a huge balloon of bubble gum!

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

in fact, i blame the fact that my family had HBO for the majority of the 80s for remembering all these.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

'my science project' was the first movie i ever hated

― gear (gear), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.dumbdistraction.com/Images/superfuzz.jpg

xpost boooo

which was more forgettable? The He-Man or the Garbage Pail Kids movies?

or what about "House 2: The Second Story"?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Condorman.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

I rented Condorman not to long ago, because I had these crazy fond nostalgic feelings for it. It should have stayed in my past.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

C'mon, you don't want to see Michael Crawford do wacky gunshots with a crutch? (Why do I remember this?)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Those early Disney videos always used to have this montage of footage from other flicks, and I would never have any idea where any of it was from, except for Condorman.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

The Onion's "Films that Time Forgot" is filled with these.

Oh yeah, and they finally covered _Electric Dreams_, one of my dad's fave flicks ever, which has the sweet Moroder/Lynne soundtrack.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Critical Condition

We only watched this cos Joe Dallesandro was in it. I can't remember anything about it.

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Final Approach, which I only remember from the SR71 usage in the logo.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

There's a late 80s Buddy-Cop movie where one of the partners is dead, or something, and hilarity ensues. Anybody remember what it was?

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Apart from the "late 80s" part, you are describing this thing, but it's a TV show:

http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/64/221564_thumb.jpg

― everything (everything), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

No, I know it's not that. And I'm pretty sure it's not the Bob Hoskins/Denzel Washington flick, Heart Condition (though that film probly belongs in this list, I can't remember nothing about it).

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

The Last Chase - I actually saw this in a movie theatre. Lee Majors, Burgess Meredith, it played for a week and disappeared.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

my wife owned a copy of "Can't Buy Me Love" up until about 3 months ago when I convinced her to purge it from our collection along with a bunch of other old VHS crap, many of which could be included on this list ("Truly Madly Deeply" anyone...?)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Roadside Prophets provided many 90s-era ROFLZ! (I think my copy is long gone though)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

I still own that! love it. How about:
hahahahahaha Atlas Shrugged is being made into a movie! with Angelina Jolie!

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

i love 'Can't Buy Me Love". The Heavenly Kid is awesome too, too awesome for this thread.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

i remember being psyched because Nia Peebles=hottness and I was a Seinfeld freak already and felt like the only one which was confirmed when this tanked.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

"nothing but trouble" or "valkenvania" or whatever the fuck that dan ackroyd movie was.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

AIRBORNE

I remember watching it and every 10 minutes being like "oh, so is THIS why it's called airborne?".

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

> There's a late 80s Buddy-Cop movie where one of the partners is dead, or something, and hilarity ensues. Anybody remember what it was?

Treat Williams and Joe Piscopo in Dead Heat

you might also have forgotten Red Heat, with Jim Belushi and Der Gropenator.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

none of these are THAT forgotten to me, mostly because of the HBO factor mentioned above.

Also I JUST watched House 2: The Second Story like, a month ago... BORRRRRRR-RING. But I sure thought the CATERPILLAR DOG was SWEET when I was a kid.

One of my OTHER movies starring Bill Maher when I was a kid was "Amazon Women of the Avocado Jungle of Death" which also starred Shannon Tweed. GREAT FLICK.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

Too high profile to be completely forgotted:

Kenneth Branaugh's Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

time will forget Kenneth Branuagh in general.
also, Matt Damon.

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

Transylvania 6-5000..?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

""nothing but trouble" or "valkenvania" or whatever the fuck that dan ackroyd movie was."

oh shit Digital Underground did a great tune for this sdtk what the fuck was this movie... argggh

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

I really liked Corvette Summer. I was 13 and Annie Potts was HOTTT.

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

oh my god 'nothing but trouble' is the greatest movie, kinda. one year i made 'nothing but trouble' valentines. it was like, 3 years ago sadly. anyway the best part is the GIANT BABIES that appear 3/4ths of the day through the film!!

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of babies:

http://www.kingroom.com/BabyGeniuses.jpg

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

Forgetting Matt Damon = Forgetting Team America = the baby jesus crying.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing But Trouble...Digital Underground were the only good thing about that movie.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 19 October 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

what about this guy, who has played a snooty liquor store clerk in like 5 movies?

http://www.rockline.com/acsands/taylor99.gif

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 19 October 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

actually i see 'the stoned age' isnt listed in taylor negron's repertoire

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 19 October 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

nor as the liquor clerk in 'the river's edge'

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 19 October 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

taylor negron. who is really funny in "The Aristrocrats"

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

'the couch trip'
'legal eagles'
'wilder napalm'

― gear (gear), Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

I saw this movie in the theater. I was probably the only one too...

http://www.nostalgia.com/large/67054.JPG

Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton, and the car that can jump from one skyscraper to another.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

(I saw it because of the John Carpenter connection)

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

Memoirs Of an Invisible Man

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

Taylor Negron is a genius. There's already been huge discussions about him on other threads.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

Clockstoppers

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

90% of comedies
yeah, seriously - i'm going to go to a non-blockbuster video store that still has videos (better do it soon...) and take some pictures of the comedy section b/c really, so many movies that've been there forever and that i've probably looked at hundreds of times but have never seen and forget about as soon as out of field of vision.

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

Miami Vice

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing But Trouble...Digital Underground were the only good thing about that movie.

I was gonna say, the only reference I have for NBT is the video for "Same Song", I wasn't even sure the movie was ever released. Is DU actually in it?

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

yeah...Chevy Chase and Demi Moore and some folks are driving through a weird part of NJ when they get a summons or ticket and have to go to some weird local court, where DU is on trial before them, who decide to perform Same Song for some reason. Then Chevy and Demi and co. get stuck there where there are these giant weird baby monsters and Dan Ackroyd takes off his nose and it just goes downhill from there. Someone, maybe even on this very message board, tried to convince me that it was some kind of dada genius, but I call bullshit on that. It's one of those criminal wastes of money where like, it wouldn't even have made a good low-budget film, but you know it costs 30 million to make, and you think of all those starving children and it just eats you up in side. But really, some of that imagery really sticks with you. Terrible movie.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

you hate fun, dan :(

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

movies with 'trouble' in the title haven't been so good....big trouble, nothing but trouble, i love trouble, trouble every day

― gear (gear), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

'housesitter', starring steve martin and goldie hawn

No way! Along with Bird on a fricking Wire, this is shown on TV all the damn time in non-ratings.

Anyone remember The Craft? I seem to recall it is what Charmed was spawned from (but could be wrong).

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

i see taylor negron everywhere i think he's stalking me or something

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

The Craft was a big deal w/goths in the late 90s. It was their Repo Man.

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of teenage witch movies -- Teen Witch!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

Gas, Food, Lodging
All Over Me

forgotten indie films might give the thread some focus.

― a regal trolley (aaron a), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

Singles! God that film sucked.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

Americathon, Midnight Madness, and Moving Violations.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

i have seen so many of the movies on this thread.

saturday the 14th
squirm
bats
polish wedding
passenger 57

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Friday, 20 October 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

hero, that really dull movie i saw in the theatre starring geena davis, andy garcia and dustin hoffman, and i dont remember a single thing about it, besides the stars.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Friday, 20 October 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

dick tracy

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Friday, 20 October 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

i remember Hero! oh, and Wag the Dog!
oh, and Angel Eyes!

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Friday, 20 October 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

Wag the Dog is dredged up all the time in re: politics though, with undeserved nods to how "clever" and prescient it was. at least in the states.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 20 October 2006 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Black Moon Rising in the theatre - I think I reviewed for my high school newspaper... the most notable part of that film: LEE VING.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 20 October 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

not so much here. but then, i could list many cdn movies, some made not even a few years ago, that were forgotten mere moments after their release, some rightfully so, some not.
xpost

i've seen dick tracy more than once! i always thought it wouldn't be forgotten b/c it hitched onto the roger rabbit fame bandwagon.

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Friday, 20 October 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

I think no-one but me remembers seminal '80s aussie 'killer bush pig' schlockfest RAZORBACK, sadly.

― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Friday, 20 October 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

I do! That were directed by Russell Mulcahy, the guy who did the Wild Boys clip, innit.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 20 October 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

Car 54, where are you?
Who's Da Man?
B.A.P.S.
Freejack
Cool World
The Rocketeer
Career Opportunities
Wagons East
Numbers
Swordfish
Rookie of the Year
Only the Lonely
Speed Zone!
North
Loose Cannons
Exit to Eden
My Fellow Americans
Maverick
Mad Dog Glory
Analyze That
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
The Fan

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

ZOMBIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE
(Leonard Nimoy's finest hour...I'm watching it right now.)

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Friday, 20 October 2006 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

career opportunities is one of my favorite movies

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Friday, 20 October 2006 03:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/81/208881_thumb.jpg

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 20 October 2006 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

Too high profile to be completely forgotted:

Kenneth Branaugh's Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

Donut and I saw that *in the theater* -- this was a mistake.

ZOMBIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE
(Leonard Nimoy's finest hour...I'm watching it right now.)

Taped that off TV one night! Great pulp stuff.

Too many trash classics being mentioned here on this thread -- it's the dullard middlebrow BS that needs mentioning. Like The American President. (But yeah, Dick Tracy...)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 October 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

What was that dreadful thing Madonna did with her hubby? So bad I cant even remember its name now.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 20 October 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

Swept Away or something like that. Which just makes me think of the Diana Ross song.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 October 2006 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

Did anyone ever even *see* that?

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 20 October 2006 03:41 (nineteen years ago)

I originally intended for the thread to be about stuff that sank without a trace in theatrical release and never got a cult following (hence Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles - at least I assume there's not cult around it.) I guess the era of home video has made this a much more difficult proposition, although I suppose the sheer increase in volume may make it easier for stuff to slip through the cracks. The era of the afternoon/weekend/late night "Million Dollar Movie" on tv is pretty much over thanks to blockbuster, netflix etc.. Still, there are a ton of badly dated mediocrities that nobody cares about. Shit, I guess some might even slip into public domain if the studios that made 'em don't care or figure they can make a profit from 'em.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Friday, 20 October 2006 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

'billy bathgate'

― gear (gear), Friday, 20 October 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

xpost x 1000

Dead Heat! Thanx Austin! That film was so cool, I wanna see it again.

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Friday, 20 October 2006 06:01 (nineteen years ago)

The Dream Team:

Cuckoo's Nest played for laughs, anybody?

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Friday, 20 October 2006 06:09 (nineteen years ago)

Austin maybe the problem is that the truly forgettable films are well, forgotten - no one will think to mention them here! And when someone does its often as "once I saw this mental/crap/strange film where this guy flew off a roof and then ate bears for lunch OMG someone must know this, I'm going mad here".

Like this film I saw as a kid - it was an animated Jack and the Beanstalk that I vividly recall a scene in, which involved a witch making paper-cutout people, populating a church or hall of some kind with them and then they came to life and they were all... singing or something. WTF. After a lot of searching it turned out to be some very obscure Japanese anime version. Which led me to wonder why the hell I saw it in a small local cinema in Australia as a kid!?

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 20 October 2006 06:15 (nineteen years ago)

Cop and a Half
Radio Flyer

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 20 October 2006 06:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://sillimancollege.org/downloads/SilliflicksMovieList/images/1277f.jpg

"erotic" "thriller."

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

For some reason "erotic thriller" seems to have existed as a genre only during the eighties. Are they still being made?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:13 (nineteen years ago)

on cinemax, late at night

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

color of night's the one where you see Bruce's Willis, isn't it?

i remember it not having much of a point.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:16 (nineteen years ago)

(the MOVIE, perv)

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:16 (nineteen years ago)

they went into the mid-90s (that's a '94 entry there, definitely the tail end of the genre). i'm not sure where the start point is. klute, maybe. i'm sure it's all to do with feminism or something. fertile ground for somebody's master's thesis.

xpost: true, they've become pretty much the sole domain of softcore. ok, maybe somebody's doctoral thesis.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:17 (nineteen years ago)

yeah there's nudity in there, i think. all i remember about the plot is that there's one character who is very obviously also another character, but you're supposed to be SHOCKED at the revelation. i don't remember what the actual revelation is. it is not a good movie.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:19 (nineteen years ago)

yeah there were a bunch of erotic thrillers for a few years, the peak of of visibility/popularity being Basic Instinct.

wasn't there even one with Madonna and Willem DaFoe? if ever there was a movie for this thread...

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:22 (nineteen years ago)

body of evidence. directed by abel ferrara. not quite the finest work of anyone involved.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

Swept Away or something like that. Which just makes me think of the Diana Ross song.
-- Ned Raggett (ned...), October 20th, 2006 5:36 AM.

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Did anyone ever even *see* that?
-- Trayce (spam...), October 20th, 2006 5:41 AM.

I watched it on a plane, to see whether it deserved the reputation it had. It wasn't any good, certainly, but it wasn't as awful as people make out.

This thread should be owned by Honest, the All Saints movie so bad it was pulled within the week of release, but everyone remembers it because of that fact.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

God, I remember reading an interview with Ferarra about that film where he said something like he'd wished a gun held to Madonna's head in some scene hadn't had blanks in it. He hated her.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone still remember the Tank Girl movie? With Ice-T as a kangaroo and Malcolm McDowell as the bad guy? I think it ran for two weeks in Finland, just the time for me to catch it. Though it shouldn't really be forgotten, it's great.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:57 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, and according to IMDb Naomi Watts played Jet Girl in it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

I watched "Tank Girl" in the theaters. We snuck in a quart of vodka for the four of us, so it was Tanked Girl by the end.

I think I can trump Aldo seeing "Swept Away" on a plane in the notorious-flop-on-commercial-transit category because I took Amtrak from Seattle to Portland once and our video entertainment was "The Avengers."

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

I think that wins, unless someone has watched Gigli on their iPod Video while taking a bus trip.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

When I flew with Air India to New york, they showed a Matthew Modine monkey movie. I've no idea what it was called, but it made Matt Le Blanc's monkey movie look reasonable.

― paizuri-san (davidcorp), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

And now, my Zippy the Pinhead imitation:

Matthew Modine monkey movie!
Matthew Modine monkey movie!
Matthew Modine monkey movie!
Matthew Modine monkey movie!

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

Meteor Man
http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/m/meteormn.jpg
http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/m/meteormn.htm

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

The trailer for Strike Commando is the most awesome thing I ever saw.

This film is grenade-down-the-throat genius.

AMERICANSKIIII!!!!

― paizuri-san (davidcorp), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Jersey Girl

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

My wife has this habit of picking up DVDs of "proper" films that have tanked when she sees them super cheap, like 1.99 uk pounds. We then watch them in the (usually vain) hope of some lulz. Worst ones I can remember were the remake of the italian job and some thing where ms a. jolie is the mail-order bride of i think g. clooney? and she takes off with all his money or something? That one would have been a rip off even if they'd paid her to take it.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

highlander 2

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

shadow of the vampire

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't there actually a Highlander 3 also?

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Trial and Error, The 2nd Most Outrageous Trial of the Century!!1.

― snumbers (snumbers), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Mickey Blue Eyes

― ;_; (blueski), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

I thought "Highlander" had got up to something like 5 or 7 before heat death affected it.

I think I saw a dvd of something called "blair witch 3" in the store. Did I actually imagine that, or not.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Highlander 4, or whatever they named it

Mortal Kombat 2

Wayne's World 2

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

"hero, that really dull movie i saw in the theatre starring geena davis, andy garcia and dustin hoffman, and i dont remember a single thing about it, besides the stars."

wtf this was on Comedy Central last night!!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

times sqare: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081635/

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

I fell asleep watching Hero awhile ago because I changed the channel hoping it was Hero starring Jet Li, realized it wasn't that movie, and passed out. Fin.

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Just Like Heaven

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

'hot chili'
'last american virgin'

same plot for both films i should say, starring the same dude as 'fat horny guy'

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

'times square' has suddenly become a cool movie to like

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

"Vamp"
"Once Bitten"

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

The Last American Virgin does have a cult following - something to do with its unexpected downer ending?

Times Square, while a bit of a dud overall, has positive things going for it - good soundtrack, notable performance by Robin Johnson. I actually own this on DVD, and the commentary from the director is really interesting - there was major meddling from a producer who wanted it to be the next Saturday Night Fever. He was forced to excise the lesbian aspects of the script, and to tack on a feel-good ending. He also points out how it captures a Times Square that is gone gone gone now.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Modern Problems (with Chevy Chase)
Flowers in the Attic (out of which any references to incest were cut, so what was the fucking point again?)

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Water logged turkeys:

Raise The Titanic
Grey Lady Down
Hurricane

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

70s disaster films are a rich mine of badness:

The Concorde: Airport '79
The Medusa Touch
Meteor
The Swarm

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

dudes, c'mon...

http://img285.imageshack.us/img285/8448/gtcfz9.jpg

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Or Kuffs, whatever.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Still remember that one, to the point of posting pics from it for Roxy's thrasher dude thread some weeks ago.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

I am a veritable jukebox of Hollywood bombs.

The Manitou - the lump on her back is a 400 year old medicine man! the horror!
Nightwing - bats bats bats!
The Awakening - like The Omen, but really really bad
Sphinx - this was a bestselling crap book, turned into a crap film nobody saw (except me, in the theatres)

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000053V0C.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

MONKEY SHINES

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

Laurie Patridge and the dude from Clash of the Titans visit an abandoned mining town and defend their children from the mutated, subterrestrial offspring of atomic bomb blast victims. Amazing!

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

im pretty sure im the only person in the world that remembers this because it always seemed to be playing at 3am when I stayed over at friends houses c1984-86:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082497/

http://img285.imageshack.us/img285/1397/handut7.gif

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

THE FIRST POWER
UNDER THE BOARDWALK
TOY SOLDIERS
THE MONSTER SQUAD

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/2069/satisfactionks1.jpg

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

i always wanted to see that movie ruhl bad.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Toy Soldiers will never be forgotten!

The 'Burbs, on the other hand.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

x-post -- I remember there were promo ads for it in our high school newspaper when it came out -- full on glossy promo inserts, actually. The litter on campus that day was indescribable.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

Satisfaction I always remember 'coz it had post-Jem/pre-Luna Britta Phillips in it

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

what about this guy, who has played a snooty liquor store clerk in like 5 movies?

He delivered the pizza in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." He'll be around forever.

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

im pretty sure im the only person in the world that remembers this because it always seemed to be playing at 3am when I stayed over at friends houses c1984-86:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082497/

Not on this thread! I once owned the novelization...

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

Not to mention that it was directed by Oliver Stone...

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Heavenly Dog (Chevy Chase and Benji)
Midnight Madness (Michael J. Fox, that fat guy, and the nerd guy)
The Private Eyes (Don Knotts and Tim Conoway)
Nightwing (David Warner battles vampire bats!)

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Birdy (Matthew Modine & Nicholas Cage, directed by Alan Parker, Peter Gabriel soundtrack.)

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Nightwing (David Warner battles vampire bats!)

Already mentioned above...

Birdy (Matthew Modine & Nicholas Cage, directed by Alan Parker, Peter Gabriel soundtrack.)

I haven't seen it in years, but I'm not sure it deserves a "rightfully forgotten".

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Birdy's aged badly, Parker's direction especially, and though the stars are very good, they're playing 16 year-olds and they look 28.

It's based on a wonderful Wil Wharton novel.

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Farrah Fawcett left Charlie's Angels to make these forgotten/forgettable major motion pictures:

Somebody Killed Her Husband
Sunburn

Hard to believe the guy who made The Last Picture Show is responsible for this one:
Illegally Yours

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Hot Dog (David Naughton--aka "American Werewolf"--in downhill skiing teen-boob comedy)
Goin' Coconuts (Donny & Marie)
One Trick Pony (Paul Simon)
On the Right Track (Gary Coleman as psychic kid who lives in a locker)
Saturday the 14th (Richard Benjamin in haunted house spoof)
Love at First Bite (George Hamilton as vampire)

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

I love the scene in One Trick Pony where Paul Simon is watching the B-52s play.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Love at First Bite (George Hamilton as vampire)

not forgotten! my sister and i loved this movie, it used to be on tv all the time. i saw it again a little while ago and was a little embarrassed at how not funny it is, but i think fondly of it anyway.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my god, On The Right Track. I had completely forgotten about that one.

I saw the last 3 movies you mentioned in the theatres, too.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Cloak & Dagger (E.T. kid, Dabney Coleman)
Fatso (Dom DeLouise)
Tom Horn (Steve McQueen)
Ice Castles (Robby Benson & blind figure skater love story)
Endless Love (Brooke Sheilds gets laid while her mom watches)
Heaven Help Us (Andrew McCarthy and Kevin Dillon and others are Brooklyn Catholic School kids in '65. Actually a pretty great movie, if confused about its intentions, with a perfect performance by Donald Sutherland and Brother Thaddeus, a Jesuit priest/headmaster)

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://posters.imdb.com/posters/o/ontherighttrack1981_70530n.jpg

Heaven Help Us was not bad, if only for the unforgettable scene with Wallace Shawn as a lisping Jesuit threatening high school kids with the torments of hellfire if they sleep with their dates - "Your fwesh will be ripped by thirpents!"

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Green Ice (Ryan O'Neil and Omar Sharif)

Sorry, all this crap I watched on HBO as a kid is flooding back to haunt me right now.

Heaven Help Us also has some really great Irish music in it. And Audrey from Vacation in a bra.

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Is "Pete's Dragon" forgotten?

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

THE MONSTER SQUAD

WOLFMAN'S GOT NARDS!?!?!

I love Monster Squad!

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Scavenger Hunt
Frogs

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Monster Squad was an absolute staple of my childhood

― latebloomer: now with 15 extra steamy minutes! (latebloomer), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

D.C. Cab

Ok I'll shut up now.

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Heavenly Dog (Chevy Chase and Benji)

i still remember this. not his best, but I like it as a dry-run for Fletch.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Ed with Matt LeBlanc and a guy in a horrible monkey suit

― latebloomer: now with 15 extra steamy minutes! (latebloomer), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

The 'Burbs, on the other hand.

Not forgotten! I love this movie.

On the other hand, there's Matinee and Light Of Day

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Dunston Checks In

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Nice Girl's Don't Explode -- a comedy about spontaneous combustion!

http://graphics8.nytimes.com//images/section/movies/amg/video/cov120/drv100/v127/v12734ltyow.jpg

For some unknown reason, I watched most of "Cocktail" last night which sadly, isn't forgotten. Really awful, but I couldn't stop watching it.

Cocktails and Dreams.

― molly d (mollyd), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Dammit, 3D revival edition:

Treasure of the Four Crowns
Comin' at Ya!
Parasite

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Nerd edition:

Krull
Sword and the Sorceror

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

We'll never forget the power of the glaive. (Besides, it's where Liam Neeson and Robbie Coltrane first got a taste for epic fantasy films.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Krull

u mad. krull is venerated around here, like the last starfighter.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.impawards.com/1983/posters/doctor_detroit.jpg

What a cast - Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, and Fran Drescher. Although, not the only movie to star Dan Aykroyd and James Brown.

Comin' at Ya!
Parasite
Sword and the Sorceror

Haha, saw all these at the theatres, too!

I see your Parasite and raise you Damnation Alley!

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Krull is quite possibly THE best fantasy film of the 80s.

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Dunno, I'm a Dragonslayer man myself.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Figures, you goddamn D&D nerds.

How about....Terror in the Aisles? A clip movie that got a theatrical release!

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Battle Beyond the Stars

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Galaxy of Terror, wherein a woman is raped by a giant worm. In space.

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Krull is quite possibly THE best fantasy film of the 80s.

Nah, Dark Crystal. (Also, best fantasy film English language, as I'm allowing for the fact that the Chinese and Japanese probably did ten times better with any number of choices.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

do you like Beastmaster too?

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Zapped. May be camp classic, though. Features same nerd guy as mentioned way above.
Short Circuit 2

― slugbuggy (slugbuggy), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

Beastmaster TWO

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

There's a part in Beastmaster 2 where he's riding around LA in a convertible or something and sees Beastmaster playing at a movie theater, that just BLOWS my MIND.

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Scatman Crothers gets stoned in Zapped.

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

any WWII movie made after Saving Private Ryan

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (time-traveling motorcycle)

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Terror in the Aisles
Battle Beyond the Stars
Galaxy of Terror

Apparently I saw every bad movie released between 1978 and 1985 in the theatres.

Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again - anybody remember this abomination? Mr Hyde is a coke-sniffing leisure-suited pervert.

The Incredible Shrinking Woman - Lily Tomlin, uh, vehicle.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (time-traveling motorcycle)

Not forgotten because of Michael Nesmith connection.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Dark Backward anyone?

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Leave it to ILx to not only remember every forgettable movie but own the special edition DVD.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

not liking these movies is a form of rockism

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

"Zapped!" is beyond classic!!!! Atomic weed that gives you telekinetic powers!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Megaforce!

DEEDS, NOT WORDS!

http://www.eatmybrains.com/images/dvdcovers/small/zc_megaforce.jpg

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Dark Backward anyone?

I remember the trailer.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

I remember MegaForce cuz it was advertised on the back cover of a lot of comics at the time.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

My Tutor, with Crispin Glover and some guy with a really high voice in the lead role. Pedophilia flick.

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Megaforce!

http://www.jabootu.com/images/mfguerera.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Futureworld

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

Coma

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

The Dark Backward has a cult following. Coma? Really? Megaforce, I miraculously managed to avoid. Whew.

The Legend of the Lone Ranger - 1981 remake was so bad it took down the company that made it.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

I saw the Lone Ranger film in the theater. I was an impressionable child. Klinton Spilsbury, hero.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Best IMDB entry ever.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

nothing with Crispin Glover in it can be called "rightfully forgotten". I totally remember My Tutor, back in the pre-internet porn heyday of gratuitous nudity in mainstream films.

Crispin's dance moves in Friday the 13th Part IV are wonderful, btw.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Megaforce, I miraculously managed to avoid

I couldn't. One of the armored dune buggies from Megaforce sits in front of an army surplus store in Newport Beach. I used to commute past it twice a day for a couple years.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

OK, here's one. TAG: The Assassination Game

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

I remember Coma because once I was at the Lincoln Center Library For The Performing Arts and a little argument broke out between two library crazies, which the security guard broke up by saying "If you wanna beef, beef outside". One had apparently been reading the other's thoughts and suddenly said "You're not going to kill me. You're not going to kill anybody." Somehow the thing that made the whole thing really weird was when I saw that the mind-reading turntable hog had been listening to the soundtrack to Coma.

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

I loved TAG.

Zorro, the Gay Blade

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

ooh Persis Khambatta!!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

(um x-post - she's in MegaForce)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/40/211740_thumb.jpg

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Klinton Spilsbury, hero.

And his only starring role was overdubbed... oh, the indignity.

Imagine a tone deaf cat with three legs jumping around on a defective Moog Synthesizer keyboard that’s set on a "disco" beat.

I never knew The Fall did the soundtrack to Megaforce.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

he makes the sdtk sound pretty great actually

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Is Zapped the movie where the foreign tourists nod and say their catchphrase "We love it, we love it!" and shake the Econoliner?

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Tantrum already mentioned this one, but left out the all-important subtitle:

Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn

We're getting very deep in the Dork Forest, lads.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?

― ▒█▄█ ▄▄▄ ▒█▄█ , Friday, 20 October 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Rock and Rule: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086203/

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

Woah, dude. Huge cult following for Rock and Rule. There was a fan petition to get it released on DVD.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

strictly a dim memory for me (came out when I was 9 or 10...?), not sure if I ever even saw it.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://youtube.com/results?search_query=rock+and+rule

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Excellent gratuitous Iggy Pop track on Rock and Rule - "Pain and Suffering".

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

this is turning into a listing of USA up all night movies...

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Johnny Be Good
Out Of Bounds

Both featuring Anthony Michael Hall trying to break out of his nerd image. The latter has a scene with Siouxsie and the Banshees playing ('Cities in Dust' I think) in a club.

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.lonerangerfanclub.com/images/horsespilsbury.jpg

haha poor Klinton Spilsbury, that is like THE most action-movie-guy name of all time.

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

hey wait, is that DEPUTY HAWK?

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

By gum it is! I might watch that movie, eventually.

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

People managed to steal Megaforce, Jeckyll & Hyde...Together Again, and Zorro The Gay Blade from me before I managed to finish writing my post! Insane. Here's more, though:

Slapstick (Of Another Kind) (early 80s Vonnegut adaptation, starring Jerry Lewis and Madeline Khan in dual roles as giant babies and those babies' parents)
Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers
Back To The Beach
Dragnet (featuring the Virgin Connie Swain)
*batteries not included

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 20 October 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

COCCOON

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Friday, 20 October 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

cocoon: the return!

― latebloomer: now with 15 extra steamy minutes! (latebloomer), Friday, 20 October 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

haha poor Klinton Spilsbury, that is like THE most action-movie-guy name of all time.

Some...well, not all hilarity:

Whether or not anyone knows about that disastrous catastrosphe that even the late, great Clayton Moore himself boycotted, one of the things it was most notorious for was the fact that its so-called "star", Klinton Spilsbury ("Klinton WHO?!?!?"), was causing any number of problems on the set, including, angeringly enough, an assault on a waitress who worked on the set.

Anyway, I recall once coming upon say, an old review from the NY Times, and while that Janet Maslin could sure be cynical(I think she insulted Moore in her review, how dare she!), what was interesting for starters there was that she said that there was more chemistry between the non-entity and the guy playing Tonto than there was when it came to who may have been the only woman in the cast(besides the LR's mother?). Indeed, that kiss between them was so groaningly clumsy and half-hearted I couldn't believe they wasted their money on such a dolt.

And to turn again to what the NY Times was mentioning, I recall once seeing someone else who'd seen it saying that he couldn't believe they'd built it around the "gay appeal" of the legend. GAH!

Then later on the thread this fellow speaks:

Klinton Spilsbury was a very sweet man, but very aggressive sexually. He would charm and try to jump just about any man or woman he found attractive and it took considerable effort to get him to take no for an answer. I was flattered by his attention, but at times I did feel like his behavior bordered on attempted rape. I would think a woman could be quite threatened by him. I hadn't heard about the waitress event, but it, sadly, would not surprise me if it were true.

Klinton never wanted to be an actor--I think he was trying to be a writer. He inherited family money and last I heard was living happily as a gazillionnaire on a ranch in Mexico somewhere. Probably terrorizing the help.

Sorry if I creeped anybody out, but I couldn't resist filling you in a bit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 October 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and because you wanted (?) it -- the complete lyrics to the endless Merle Haggard song that appears throughout the film!

* Here is The Man In The Mask, as sung by Merle Haggard, in its entirety:

(FIRST VERSE, prologue) The legend started simply, just a boy without a home; Taken in by Indians, but still pretty much alone; He had to struggle with strange customs, and his own fears from within; He learned the wisdom of the forest, he learned the ways of the wind

(FIRST CHORUS, opening credits) The legends tell of men who died to open up the West; They rode through Hell to find their Promised Land; The legends tell of One who tried to fight for all the rest; His name unknown, a stranger alone, The Man In The Mask...

...The legends tell of One Brave Man who rode to meet the test; His name unknown, a stranger alone, The Man In The Mask

(SECOND VERSE) Del Rio was a town in trouble, a town with a gun in its back; Plagued by crime that just wouldn't stop, and cursed with a Sheriff that wore Black; So you'd think they'd be suspicious, but certain folks rarely are; They're willing to trust their law to just about any man who wears a star

(THIRD VERSE) Butch Cavendish lived undisturbed, waging his private war; And men who made mistakes were simply men he could not afford; Some say he was a monster, and others called him mad; Let's just say Butch Cavendish was everything that's bad

(FOURTH VERSE, following the ambush) One thing about that Cavendish, he knew how to set a trap; And he finished off the Rangers that day in Bryant's Gap; And Collins had to check them all 'till Butch was satisfied; Dead men lying everywhere, and bloody brothers side by side

(FIFTH VERSE) And Tonto recognized John Reid by the amulet he wore; But John had once saved Tonto's life, so this evened up the score; Tonto had to hide his friend and keep him out of town; 'Cause if Butch had known that one Ranger lived, he was sure to hunt John down

(SIXTH VERSE) What is it that brings two friends together, or sends the waves to the sand? And what is it that drives a creature of nature to reach out to the world of Man? Just such a creature was this Great White Horse, as wise and as wild as a runaway; And the moment John first laid eyes on it, he swore he'd ride it someday

(SEVENTH VERSE) Now John Reid was just a memory; the Masked Man had taken his place; But that didn't mean his heart wasn't touched when he saw Amy Striker's face; Amy had stayed to do her uncle's work, and to keep his dreams alive; But unless the Masked Man could find Cavendish, true justice would never survive

(EIGHTH VERSE, after Tonto is arrested for Collins' murder) I don't guess anyone stopped to ask what Tonto was guilty of; That didn't stop them from wanting to see him swinging high above; But Tonto showed no sign of fear, and he held on to a fervent hope That the Masked Man wouldn't let his blood brother hang from the end of a rope

(NINTH VERSE) Those Cavendish Boys had been working real hard, going over each step of their plan; Meanwhile, ol' Butch was mighty disturbed by reports of a strange Masked Man; But he wouldn't let rumors mess up his scheme, so he set out on his final campaign; He and his Boys rode to their rendezvous with President Grant's private train

(TENTH VERSE) So Cavendish had pulled it off, vanished without firing a shot; The Masked Man and Tonto had to move fast, and ride while his trail was still hot; They didn't know what he intended to do, but the life at stake was President Grant's; Perhaps Butch would hold him, perhaps Butch would kill him...they just couldn't take that chance

(SECOND CHORUS, closing credits) A fiery horse across the plains and he was gone from sight; He changed the course of history as he rode; And folks would tell of one Lone Ranger turning wrong to right; They wondered who, but they never knew...The Man In The Mask

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 October 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

And a fun Michael Horse interview:

Horse starred as Tonto in the 1981 Legend, earning marks as one of the few bright spots in the epic flop.
“I’m glad the movie wasn’t a big success. I was afraid I’d be stuck with that image,” Horse said.

---

When filming began, Horse brought his own dignity and image to the role of Tonto. While he was stepping up the
image of Tonto, the star of the show was bringing down the character of the Lone Ranger. Klinton Spilsbury became
notorious for his lack of cooperation during the shooting.
“One night he got into a fight. Some guard called me at three in the morning to come and get him. I said, ‘whoa, that
faithful companion stuff is only in the movies,’” Horse said.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 October 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

"I said, ‘whoa, that faithful companion stuff is only in the movies,’” Horse said."

CLASSIC

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 October 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

Sword and the Sorceror rocks gigantic bells. It was the first AA film I saw at the pictures, just before they changed the rating to 15. It featured a 3-pronged sword with flying blades, and some of the goriest deaths I'd ever seen in 1982. I was a big Hawk the Slayer (WHICH DOES NOT BELONG ON THIS LIST) fan anyway, but this is the apotheosis of swords, tits and guts movies.

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Friday, 20 October 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

what about that movie where some guy is about to get married and the day before he goes to buy an economical car and ends up getting suckered into buying this crazy sports car and has all kinds of adventure's a-la After Hours? It was on HBO a lot.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 20 October 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

Jeepers Creepers. OH and apparently there's a Jeepers Creepers 2. Awaugh.

Also, Richard E Grant has graced some real quick-disappearance clangers:
Dracula
Warlock (anyone remeber that?)
Spice World FFS
I'd also say Hudson Hawk but I *know* someone gonna defend it.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 20 October 2006 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

Argh my post not an answer to Dans.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 20 October 2006 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

Warlock is great.

Jeepers Creepers is in my top 5 worst horror movies I've ever watched.

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Friday, 20 October 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

I was staggered there's a JC2 at all!

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 20 October 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

JC2 looks like a big improvement, from the trailers/clips I've seen. But Bob the Builder Goes Chainsaw Scat Crazy would be a big improvement on the first one.

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Friday, 20 October 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

I was staggered there's a JC2 at all!

Jeepers Creepers pulled in a fair amount of cash at the box office. There'd be a My Dinner With Andre II if it did 50 mil, too.

― Edward III (edward iii), Saturday, 21 October 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

> what about that movie where some guy is about to get married and the day before he goes to buy an economical car and ends up getting suckered into buying this crazy sports car and has all kinds of adventure's a-la After Hours? It was on HBO a lot.

This description makes me think of that Bruce Willis thingy "Blind Date" although it isn't the movie Dan's talking about.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 21 October 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

Is Zapped the movie where the foreign tourists nod and say their catchphrase "We love it, we love it!" and shake the Econoliner?
No, now I see it was Gotcha!

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Saturday, 21 October 2006 03:50 (nineteen years ago)

jeepers creepers 2 is one of the lamest movies i've ever been dragged to see by a friend

― latebloomer: now with 15 extra steamy minutes! (latebloomer), Saturday, 21 October 2006 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

I'd also say Hudson Hawk but I *know* someone gonna defend it.

damn right someone is.

"Bonnie, BALL-BALL!"

― latebloomer: now with 15 extra steamy minutes! (latebloomer), Saturday, 21 October 2006 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

I have to confess I havent seen all of it, so my opinion is so much arse, as usual =)

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 21 October 2006 06:33 (nineteen years ago)

oh its awful, don't worry too much about it

― latebloomer: now with 15 extra steamy minutes! (latebloomer), Saturday, 21 October 2006 06:35 (nineteen years ago)

haha!

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 21 October 2006 06:37 (nineteen years ago)

six years pass...

This thread needs a revive.

Anyone remember/seen/heard of this one? If so, you may be one of the 160 IMDB users who have rated it.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Cr5E0MMPL._SL500_SY300_.jpg

From the Reagan-era cycle of 1950s nostalgia flicks, this one about American teenagers vacationing (PG-style) in Hawaii in the last days before Hawaii became a state. The tagline, btw, advertises it as being "In the tradition of Stand By Me (well, sure) and Where The Boys Are" (um, huh?).

― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Sunday, 11 August 2013 03:27 (twelve years ago)

1960 original or "Where The Boys Are '84" remake, I wonder?

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 12 August 2013 15:45 (twelve years ago)

somehow this 80s teen-sex-comedy completely passed me by at the time and ever-afterwards until a couple weeks ago. was amazed I'd never even heard of it.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fd/Private_school.jpg/220px-Private_school.jpg

― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 August 2013 15:49 (twelve years ago)

talk about a film flopping just from the title alone...

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

― Jamie_ATP, Monday, 12 August 2013 16:16 (twelve years ago)

1960 original or "Where The Boys Are '84" remake, I wonder?

Who knows. Only seen the '84 one myself, which this is nothing like; Aloha Summer's meager ambition is to be good-for-you, not smutty. Can only assume that they drew the second title for the tagline out of a hat stuffed with movies about teenagers and beaches.

― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Monday, 12 August 2013 17:47 (twelve years ago)

ten years pass...

Actually posting about a film that's supposed to be good (seemed like a good thread)...Anyone have any idea how to stream/buy/see John Korty's The Crazy-Quilt (1966)? Not having any luck.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 January 2024 00:22 (two years ago)

In the spirit of the deservedly forgotten, Mel Gibson IS the Beaver in The Beaver.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1321860/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_23_act

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 00:52 (two years ago)

I certainly never forgot The Beaver

― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 01:00 (two years ago)

You belong to a select group.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 01:43 (two years ago)

lol wait jared leto has an oscar?

All are popcorn classics

― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 02:15 (two years ago)

Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 2 January 2024 02:19 (two years ago)

Lol a quote was still in my cache. Anyway, my favorite forgotten movie is 1994’s blatant pandering to Generation X, SFW, with Stephen Dorff’s towering performance as “Spab”.

― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 02:22 (two years ago)

Coincidentally, both were shown at TIFF in 1994!

― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 2 January 2024 02:25 (two years ago)

The Beaver is one of those things in my brain where I can't remember if it really happened or if it was like some Arrested Development or 30 Rock bit. like this is what he does after saying Third Reich shit on tape

― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 January 2024 03:13 (two years ago)

I think no-one but me remembers seminal '80s aussie 'killer bush pig' schlockfest RAZORBACK, sadly.

I'm with yer buddy. Me and my mate loved this movie, and were a bit obsessed with the performance from David Argue.

― Ste, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 15:44 (two years ago)

I own 36 of the films mentioned in this thread on Blu-ray.

― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 16:50 (two years ago)

Anyone have any idea how to stream/buy/see John Korty's The Crazy-Quilt (1966)? Not having any luck

It's available on torrent sites but I couldn't possibly point you in the direction of those, sorry...

― lord of the rongs (anagram), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 17:01 (two years ago)

In the spirit of the deservedly forgotten, Mel Gibson IS the Beaver in The Beaver.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1321860/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_23_act

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, January 1, 2024 7:52 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

"Mel Gibson: Walter Black"

Didn't realize this movie was part of the Breaking Bad multiverse

― Evan, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 17:15 (two years ago)

I own 36 of the films mentioned in this thread on Blu-ray.

Did you forget them? And rightfully so?

― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 17:42 (two years ago)

maybe I should name my Plex server "The Memory Hole"

― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 19:01 (two years ago)

o god sometimes when I’m depressed I’ll read Wikipedia entries for movies like these…. Like

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_Daze_(film)

― brimstead, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 21:55 (two years ago)

Ben affleck with a goatee and a HATE T-shirt

― brimstead, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 21:57 (two years ago)

Lol a quote was still in my cache. Anyway, my favorite forgotten movie is 1994’s blatant pandering to Generation X, SFW, with Stephen Dorff’s towering performance as “Spab”.
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland)

see i remember that film :(

you know what is absolutely a treasure trove of trailers for forgotten films? old pay tv "coming next" bumpers.

Wednesday Night on HBO: Buffalo Bill and the Indians, Or, Sitting Bull's History Lesson!

Friday Night on HBO: Checkered Flag or Crash! The first story about off-road racing! Joe-Don Baker as Walk-Away Madden! Susan Saren-den as the Reporter! All-time racing great Parnell E. Jones!

Saturday: It's high-speed action and 100 proof adventure with a trio of beautiful bootleggers in a battle with a backwoods syndicate! Susan Howard, William Conrad, and John Saxon star in Moonshine County Express! OK, look, I'm not saying they're not all three beautiful, but that's an _unlikely_-ass trio of beautiful bootleggers.

A circus lion-tamer drops his whip and chair to enter the beefcake parade of a male beauty contest as... The Last Romantic Lover! Next on HBO!

the best ones are the ones from the '70s, NGL. so much B-movie schlock in there.

― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 22:26 (two years ago)

5:00 EDT: DIE LAUGHING

He's a klutzy cabbie with a show-biz dream and a pet monkey who's memorized a military secret! Robby Benson stars.

8:00 EDT: WHOLLY MOSES

Dudley Moore is Herschel, a simple shepherd who blows his big chance when he tries to put out the burning bush! All-star silliness.

CHAPTER TWO

He's widowed, she's divorced -- and it looks like it's love the second time around! Marsha Mason and James Cann star.

― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 22:32 (two years ago)

Paris, France - used to be shown late night on Channel 4 in the 90s sometimes, really very strange film which they decided to market as an "Erotic thriller" though it's definitely not that.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107779/

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 23:27 (two years ago)

I’ve always been kind of curious about this one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Train_to_Venice

Stars Hugh Grant, Malcolm McDowell, and Kristina Soderbaum, who is best known for playing a series of doomed Aryan heroines in Nazi-era dramas.

The Wikipedia page links to an interview with grant:

HG: I've made some absolute stinkers but the greatest stinker of all  is called Night Train to Venice. It was in my Europudding phase,  directed by an insane German, with me and Raquel Welsh's daughter  starring. And it's a film that has the unique distinction of having  had no release in any medium in the world ever.   
JW: Just buried (laughing)
HG: Totally buried, yeah, no videos, nothing. And even after FWAAF  came out they kept coming to Cannes and trying to flog this thing  that I'd made years earlier and still noone will buy it, I mean they  look with interest and say, sorry that is TOO bad.
  JW: What do you play in it? 
HG: I played a sort of Scottish journalist and I never understood  what the hell was going on - we were chased by neo-Nazis on the  Orient Express and I kept having dreams about Dobermans and, it's a  shocker.

― JoeStork, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 23:36 (two years ago)

Paris, France was made in Toronto and had a certain cult success here. I didn't see it but the friend of mine who did also saw Night Train to Venice years ago at some sort of bad movie night, maybe at someone's house, and would confirm that it is terrible. If it never had any release, maybe he knew someone who had a promo video?

― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 4 January 2024 17:30 (two years ago)

I think the interview was from a while back, it must be on DVD by now.

― JoeStork, Thursday, 4 January 2024 17:34 (two years ago)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYTY1ZjgzZTEtMmQwOS00NzA4LWJlOTYtNzhjNzMzMWY5NmQ3XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTQxNzMzNDI@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg

― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 January 2024 17:38 (two years ago)

From, I think, the very next year:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Mad_city_poster.jpg

― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Thursday, 4 January 2024 17:43 (two years ago)

Wish every Travolta movie poster was composed like that. A dead-eyed Danny and Sandy scowling into the camera, etc.

― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 January 2024 18:09 (two years ago)

Night Train to Venice is, in fact, available on DVD now (Region 2 only though)

― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Thursday, 4 January 2024 18:16 (two years ago)

OK, but my friend would have told me about seeing it about 20 years ago. He had another friend who worked as a professional film editor and who was able to obtain films that weren't generally accessible.

― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 4 January 2024 18:45 (two years ago)

I mean, if anyone wants to see it (I am curious based on the wikipedia description)

― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Thursday, 4 January 2024 18:45 (two years ago)

(and obviously I like watching trash)

― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Thursday, 4 January 2024 18:46 (two years ago)

Travolta had red hair in White Man's Burden, I remember that much

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 4 January 2024 18:48 (two years ago)

I suddenly remembered the forgotten White Man's Burden only because SFW was evoked and I had a Proustian rush back to that night in '96 when I watched the two back-to-back in a vicodin haze. 0/10, would not recommend.

― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 January 2024 18:58 (two years ago)

Primer

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:22 (two years ago)

Seemingly forgotten, maybe not so rightfully.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:22 (two years ago)

I wouldn't say forgotten, but maybe kind of politely elided these days

― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:27 (two years ago)

I never forget movies based around time travel paradoxes and all that shit, even the most terrible ones.

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:30 (two years ago)

but fair to say it was no Timecrimes

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:31 (two years ago)

Nor Timecop.

― henry s, Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:32 (two years ago)

In which one could only go back in time, not ahead. Why? "Because the future hasn't happened yet."

― henry s, Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:34 (two years ago)

and that's the only one I did forget!

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:34 (two years ago)

Xxxxxp to Kate— a teacher showed my high school class Wholly Moses for some bizarre reason

― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:56 (two years ago)

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