I've started collecting VHS cack, and wondered if anyone else has seen any of these or got any tips ??? Admittedly, a few of these require some judicious use of the ffwd button, but I find them all to be morbidly fascinating...
― MESTEMA (davidcorp), Monday, 24 October 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)
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― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)
― MESTEMA (davidcorp), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)
Turkey Shoot http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:16018 http://imdb.com/title/tt0082338/
Soldier http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:173552 http://imdb.com/title/tt0120157/
― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)
― howell huser (chaki), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 02:52 (twenty years ago)
― My S.O.'s S.O., Wednesday, 26 October 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)
shot on video, with chintzy video toaster fx and what are essentially alien muppets as villains. highly recommended!
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)
― Hello Moto, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)
― gnarly sceptre, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)
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― chris, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:46 (nineteen years ago)
― danbunny, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)
― Abbott, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)
― gnarly sceptre, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)
"Supervan"! Good lord, almost every frame of this movie is a WTF moment. From Charles Bukowski's cameo as the wet t-shirt contest "water boy" and the solar-powered van's lasers destroying a cop car to the bizarre soundtrack and the nonstop CB-radio patter ("who's got the balls to make the long hauls?") of the announcer, the parade of 70s van art, the non-stop casual misogyny and sexual harassment via vehicular seduction... Ridin hiiiiigh in my Super-van
― Οὖτις, Friday, 19 July 2019 15:42 (six years ago)
five bags of popcorn and a tiny custom Supervan replica
― Οὖτις, Friday, 19 July 2019 15:43 (six years ago)
Oh hey, maybe this is the thread I should use to post about the garbage movies I watch that clearly don't need a thread of their own.
You've reminded me that my brother and I fell asleep five minutes into Battletruck on the 4th, should really give that another go.
― My nephew accidentally swalled five quarters and thee dimes. (Old Lunch), Friday, 19 July 2019 15:48 (six years ago)
just the idea that a vital rebellious subculture centered around fucking *vans*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jwmz2zRdCw
― Οὖτις, Friday, 19 July 2019 15:59 (six years ago)
watched Die Laughing (1980), mostly for the shots of contemporary San Francisco - a lot of very strange decisions and a nuts-o cast including a terribly miscast Bud Cort as some sort of effeminate proto-tech-bro villain (Cort *cannot* do intimidating), Peter Coyote, Charles Durning and a bunch of other instantly recognizable faces (Carel Struycken!). Also a bunch of inexplicable and awful musical performances, a nuclear bomb/radioactive monkey plot, and a terrible pseudo-Travolta in the lead that thinks shoving tons of food into his mouth and then freaking out is funny
― Οὖτις, Monday, 22 July 2019 19:43 (six years ago)
I'm fascinated by the trailer for Die Laughing precisely because of the WTFness of it all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLkGBpIPHZA
(the "pseudo-Travolta," btw, is late 70s/early 80s teen idol Robby Benson, who I know mostly for his grating performance in the otherwise surprisingly decent Ode to Billy Joe; he later went on to voice the Beast in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, as well as directing several episodes of Friends.)
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Monday, 22 July 2019 20:34 (six years ago)
Okay, I just lost it at "Pursued by everyone... for a MONKEY!"
― confusementalism (Dan Peterson), Monday, 22 July 2019 21:04 (six years ago)
I don't think it's him actually singing, but his band in this is *awful*, and also horribly out-of-date for 1980. Miraculously, his band wins some songwriting contest over two bands (a punk band and a Cameo-type funk band) that are obviously leagues better, as well as being way more in line with what music audiences were interested in in 1980.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 22 July 2019 21:04 (six years ago)
Supervan is def more fun, this one is more just inexplicable a la "what does everyone think they are doing in this movie"
― Οὖτις, Monday, 22 July 2019 21:07 (six years ago)
Thank you imdb reviewer: This is as good a movie as any of the Elvis movies, if not better !! There is just something magical about Robby Benson. I have read negative reviews about his acting in this movie and like what ?? So happy am I that a movie has caught Benson's cute gestures and big smile, perfect, just perfect. Don't discount Mr. Benson in any way or well, you yourself go try and make an epic movie !!
― confusementalism (Dan Peterson), Monday, 22 July 2019 21:57 (six years ago)
title of this film also apparently chosen at random
― Οὖτις, Monday, 22 July 2019 21:58 (six years ago)