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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Nov 16, 2023 15:54:02 GMT
Personally my own choice for worst movie (based on if it is possible to sit through it) of all time isn't Plan 9 from Outer Space...
It isn't Maniac...
It isn't Manos: The Hands of Fate...
It's Independence Day.
or any Adam Sandler film and Sex Lives of the Potato Men (or, obscure joke, potatoe if you are an American politician).
So after the above and correcting myself, the worst movie of all time is...
Indepencence Day. The poor Munchkin.
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Post by dem on Nov 16, 2023 17:23:40 GMT
Have you watched Eegah? You might like that one. Also, if you've not yet had the ... pleasure, The Wild Women of Wongo and Woman-Eater. Should you fancy a musical, there's Gonks Go Beat ...
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Post by sadako on Nov 16, 2023 17:24:10 GMT
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1958) A Roger Corman effort. A group of Viking women set off to find there menfolk, who haven't returned from a voyage. Life of a Viking seems to be hard as apparently there is nobody even middle aged in this one. It's amazing the amount of stuff Corman has done. Apparently Corman almost sent some of the cast members to Valhalla or FĆ³lkvangr, as it seems they did many or all of their own stunts. It has the longest title of any movie I can remember watching. We watched that a couple of weeks ago. Amazing for a low budget. |
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Post by sadako on Nov 16, 2023 17:27:56 GMT
Personally my own choice for worst movie (based on if it is possible to sit through it) of all time isn't Plan 9 from Outer Space... It isn't Maniac... It isn't Manos: The Hands of Fate... It's Independence Day. or any Adam Sandler film and Sex Lives of the Potato Men (or, obscure joke, potatoe if you are an American politician). So after the above and correcting myself, the worst movie of all time is... Indepencence Day. The poor Munchkin. ID4 was one of the most disappointing experiences Iāve had in the cinema. It was up against (and beat) Mars Attacks! at the box office, but MA was clearly the better, funnier, more daring aliens attack movie and we still rewatch it regularly. |
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Post by samdawson on Nov 17, 2023 13:01:55 GMT
Gonks Go Beat! A teeth-grittingly terrible film, but not without its moments (the best description of it I've heard is 'Britain's Plan 9 from Outer Space'). Having stayed up to 02:15 to watch it I found it unwatchable (twice), but eventually weakened and bought it. Awful though it is, it does have its moments: the sports car parade; the drum battle, made more interesting for me as it includes the so-called 'real fifth Beatle', Andy White, who was a friend of my Dad's and lived up the road from us with his wife, Lyn Cornel; and the reappearance of the space helmet first seen in The Earth Dies Screaming, and also The Mouse on the Moon.
Dem, are you, like me, a sort of secret enthusiast, even though most of it is actually almost genuinely painful to watch?
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Nov 17, 2023 15:52:28 GMT
Have you watched Eegah? You might like that one. Also, if you've not yet had the ... pleasure, The Wild Women of Wongo and Woman-Eater. Should you fancy a musical, there's Gonks Go Beat ... I haven't had the pleasure of any of these. However last night I almost watched Teenage Caveman. But didn't in the end. It stars a man from The Man from Uncle who was amazingly in Coronation Street as well. Not that I know anything about both of these. I wonder if he encounters dinosaurs (Teenage Caveman not Coronation Street, though it does have Ken Barlow in it (not my joke again)). After all the world is only 6000 years old and man and dinosaur lived peacefully together in the garden of Eden. I saw that in a picture book with basic text given out by Jehovah's Witnesses, so it must be right. In the old days people would pretend not to be in if they knocked, now we just tell them to get lost, which kind of proves that evolution works. Being a Viking woman I'm allowed to say these things, as we are tough and speak our mind, coming as we do from the edge of the world (which as we know, is flat). |
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Post by dem on Nov 19, 2023 15:42:51 GMT
Gonks Go Beat! A teeth-grittingly terrible film, but not without its moments (the best description of it I've heard is 'Britain's Plan 9 from Outer Space'). Having stayed up to 02:15 to watch it I found it unwatchable (twice), but eventually weakened and bought it. Awful though it is, it does have its moments: the sports car parade; the drum battle, made more interesting for me as it includes the so-called 'real fifth Beatle', Andy White, who was a friend of my Dad's and lived up the road from us with his wife, Lyn Cornel; and the reappearance of the space helmet first seen in The Earth Dies Screaming, and also The Mouse on the Moon. Dem, are you, like me, a sort of secret enthusiast, even though most of it is actually almost genuinely painful to watch? I've only seen it twice (think the second viewing was for reassurance I'd not hallucinated the first), seem to have .... enjoyed ... some of it Gonks Go Beat. Having read so much about Graham Bond's darker side (which, if his biographer is to be believed, is putting it diplomatically), I'd been curious to watch him in action. Was Andy White one of the Beats or one of the folkie Flower Children? |
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Post by helrunar on Nov 19, 2023 17:27:20 GMT
Lengthy bio of Graham Bond here: www.grahambond.org/biography.htmlHe worked a lot with Ginger Baker who initially seemed rather seductive and then I started to read the stories. Yikes. May have to track down a copy of Gonks Go Beat! one of these years. Hel. |
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Post by samdawson on Nov 20, 2023 16:37:32 GMT
I've only seen it twice (think the second viewing was for reassurance I'd not hallucinated the first), seem to have .... enjoyed ... some of it Gonks Go Beat. Having read so much about Graham Bond's darker side (which, if his biographer is to be believed, is putting it diplomatically), I'd been curious to watch him in action. Was Andy White one of the Beats or one of the folkie Flower Children? Neither. He's one of the drummers in the drum battle (along with Ginger Baker - who is, a drummer friend explains, still using a rather old fashioned technique at that point) looking just how he did when I last saw him as a boy in about 1969, which makes one rather wistful. |
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Post by samdawson on Nov 20, 2023 16:39:34 GMT
Lengthy bio of Graham Bond here: www.grahambond.org/biography.htmlHe worked a lot with Ginger Baker who initially seemed rather seductive and then I started to read the stories. Yikes. May have to track down a copy of Gonks Go Beat! one of these years. Hel. I think it's currently unavailable. If you're in the UK and want to PM me an address I can lend it by post. Might be better than buying it at a high price; it is a truly awful film |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Nov 20, 2023 16:55:16 GMT
Lengthy bio of Graham Bond here: www.grahambond.org/biography.htmlHe worked a lot with Ginger Baker who initially seemed rather seductive and then I started to read the stories. Yikes. May have to track down a copy of Gonks Go Beat! one of these years. Hel. I think it's currently unavailable. If you're in the UK and want to PM me an address I can lend it by post. Might be better than buying it at a high price; it is a truly awful film
The trailer. I recognise some of the actors from old Carry On films and TV. But only Lulu from the music acts. One looked a bit like Bez from the Happy Mondays, but I doubt he has discovered time travel. Edited to say you never know though. Please place below any examples of Bez "Avin it Large" in the past. Perhaps you spotted him in a fresco, or in the background of a painting. Let us know about the time travel exploits of this dancing man! |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Nov 20, 2023 17:19:21 GMT
I think it's currently unavailable. If you're in the UK and want to PM me an address I can lend it by post. Might be better than buying it at a high price; it is a truly awful film
The trailer. I recognise some of the actors from old Carry On films and TV. But only Lulu from the music acts. One looked a bit like Bez from the Happy Mondays, but I doubt he has discovered time travel. Edited to say you never know though. Please place below any examples of Bez "Avin it Large" in the past. Perhaps you spotted him in a fresco, or in the background of a painting. Let us know about the time travel exploits of this dancing man!  I thought Bez might be the first figure in this painting which is about the outbreak of dancing mania in the Middle Ages, but on second thoughts the man in question seems to be trying to stop the lady dancing, so it can't be him. |
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Post by helrunar on Nov 20, 2023 19:12:31 GMT
Hi Sam, thanks for the nice offer. I live in the Metro Boston area, USA, but I appreciate your thinking of me. A friend of mine who also lives in the US pointed out to me that the Talking Pictures website--tptv or something is the URL--has, or had, a lot of material available for free viewing AND download, but I haven't availed myself of this feature. I'm way behind with stuff I have stacked up for viewing here, in any event. Latest thing has been an article I've been struggling to get on with for the past month--I seem to be experiencing either a very long gestation with it, or an unfortunate instance of writer's block.
Interesting that Ginger Baker was using an older style of drumming back in '65 (ish). I presume that the main reason why people still take an interest in the Gonks film is because of the musical numbers.
cheers, Hel.
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Post by dem on Nov 21, 2023 11:54:12 GMT
Neither. He's one of the drummers in the drum battle (along with Ginger Baker - who is, a drummer friend explains, still using a rather old fashioned technique at that point) looking just how he did when I last saw him as a boy in about 1969, which makes one rather wistful. I reckon that makes him a Beatlander as opposed to a soppy Ballad Isle straight. Harry Shapiro's Graham Bond: The Mighty Shadow is among the finest rock biogs I ever read. As with John Repsch's superb The Legendary Joe Meek, an awful lot of it reads like horror fiction. |
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Post by ripper on Nov 24, 2023 19:19:14 GMT
This months movie marathon is action movies, something I do badly on, as they don't interest me in the least. Running around, explosions and shooting I find boring. However, not having been sure of what constitutes action movies, I just realised that I could include the more historical adventure films, I know Gainsborough did some. Therefore, as I've said on multiple occasions: Get those suggestions coming! Edited to say I don't mind B-movie rubbish, in fact I'm quite partial to a bit of codswallop, as you can see from this thread. Sorry for being late to the party on your request for action films. Where to start? Well, the 80s were generally acknowledged to have produced some iconic action films...whether you consider them good is something else e entirely. So...... 80s action...... The two big boys were Sly and Arnie. Try Cobra, Rambo First Blood Part 2 by Sly, and Commando, Predator, The Terminator and The Running Man by Arnie You also have to try a few Cannon productions. Chuck Norris and Charles Bronson were their two big stars. Try Missing in Action and The Delta Force for Chuck and Death Wish 3 for Bronson. Going back to the 70s, there's the Dirty Harry trilogy, Dirty Harry, Magnum Force and The Enforcer all with Clint Eastwood. Also consider The French Connection and Serpico. If you fancy a bit of blaxploitation, there's Shaft (RIP Richard Roundtree) and Coffy with the wonderful Pam grier. Not action, but take a look at Sugar Hill from 1974. If you want something more historical, there's Zulu, Where Eagles Dare and Battle of Britain. |
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