You have never seen Metalstorm. Trust me it is right up there with those two. I think it might be the only bad movie I have never seen broadcast on cable TV.
Gymkata while bad did have some comic value.
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Gymkata while bad did have some comic value.
+1. These people were a generation ahead of me (boomers) so I'm not sure that I totally relate, but still think it's a chill movie. They could have been friends from RU instead of Michigan. Oh, btw, did I ever tell you what happened to me during the war......
Y'all probably know this, but the pre-cursor to The Big Chill, was "The Return of the Secaucus 7," directed by John Sayles, who went on to direct a bunch of other, great movies.
All I could think about watching that ridiculous Gymkata trailer was this scene from "Rick and Morty"
I would also add another bad, bad movie.....one that it would be interesting to see the reaction to if it was released today.....
The Ladies' Man
The Ladies' Man
Jaws 4 the revenge. I think the sharks that died cousin found out and followed Mrs. Brody to the Caribbean to get her family, somehow the shark had feelings and knew where she was going, and when the shark came out of the water it roared like a lion and its head grew. Michael Caine was in it.
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agree with The In-Laws..... if you're going to remake a movie, make it better.... the original was way
better
a major fault with it, IMO, is that in the original, you did not know if Peter Falk was really in the CIA, or just some nut...... in the remake they have Michael Douglass flying in a jet plane, involved with the
CIA stuff, early on....ruined it..... Alan Arkin and Falk were pure gold.
You could have a whole thread just on bad Adam Sandler movies.
The Fate of the Furious. When Vin Diesel attacks a base full of of Russian separatists who are armed with Tanks, APC's, and an attack helicopter just with his car.
I know the rule about movies like that is not to think but just enjoy the action, but seriously....
I know the rule about movies like that is not to think but just enjoy the action, but seriously....
A River Runs Through It was an OK, not great movie. The book, however, is a masterpiece. The writing in it is unbelievably good, especially if you happen to be a fly fisher, or just appreciate beautiful writing.
The author, Norman Maclean, who is the older brother in the movie, gets on a train for Dartmouth to teach at the end of the movie. In real life, he only stayed there a year, after which he went to the University of Chicago, where he became an absolutely legendary English prof for 40 years. He lectured once in a grad class I took. One of my classmates asked him, "Mr. Maclean, you've been teaching for 40 years and we are all just starting out. Do you have any advice for us?" (All U of C faculty are called Mr., Mrs., Miss, or Ms. No doctor or professor. Don't know why.) Maclean thought for a second and then said, "Well two things I think. One is that unless you have an absolute passion that what you have to teach is critical for your students to know in order to have a good life, then you maybe will do better selling life insurance. The second thing is to try to wear a different tie every week, because the students tend to notice."
OK, my other Norman Maclean story. I bought a copy of A River Runs Through It not too long after he lectured in our class. I was about half way through it and I lost it (I was destined to become a prof). It got republished years later and I bought a copy. I was so happy to find it! Read it all the way through in no time. Finished it on a Sunday morning. Then went to the NYTimes to discover his obit. On the same morning as me finishing reading the book. I always kind of thought that if I hadn't finished the book, he wouldn't have died.
And that, young scholars, is your desultory thought of the day from the antipodes.
Maybe hoquat didn't like it because he brings a can of worms to a trout stream.
They're all commies and calling each other "comrade" was a bit too much "on the nose"?
Chernobyl Diaries. Once the tour guide got killed the plot went downhill. Wasn’t bad up to that point
Haven't gone to many movies the last twenty years or so,but the worst I ever went to was Viva Knievel. Almost walked out,but I am far too cheap .lol
Ever heard of the Chicago School of Economics? U of C has had 12 Nobel laureates on their faculty (including RU grad Milton Friedman), twice as many as the school in second place (MIT). It is known for its conservative approach to economics. It has had a total of 29 Nobel laureates in economics who were either on the faculty or got their degrees at Chicago. It is also the home of the highly left wing first nuclear reaction ever.
It is either #3 or #4 in most Nobel Laureates overall. But what about recently? Since 2000, it is #3 in the world, behind Princeton and Stanford.
It was also the alma mater for Enrico Fermi, Albert Michelson, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Milliken, Michelson, Bellow, Carl Sagan, Mike Nichols, Kurt Vonnegut, Phillip Glass, Gary Becker, Paul Samuelson, James Watson, Celeste Holm, John Dewey, Edwin Hubble, Studs Terkel, Seymour Hersh, Nate Silver, Bernie Sanders, Elliot Ness, Robert Bork, David Rockefeller, John T. Scopes, Henry Morgan, Allan Bloom, Chuck Percy, Thomas Sowell, John Aschroft, and of course, Saul Alinsky.
You'll notice a number of arch conservatives along with arch liberals in that group. It's what happens when you have a great university dedicated to the open exchange of ideas.
Oh come on Skillet.. you know full well that U of C (and Chicago in-general) has a commie flavor to it. Maybe that's a good thing. I was just making a joke based on the "Mr." thing.. the seeming avoidance of titles that might elevate one over another.
You don't understand the University of Chicago. It has a long and proud history of very divergent points of view in it. The Chicago School of Economics has long been the leading conservative viewpoint in economics. Now, is U of C more liberal overall than conservative. Absolutely. That pretty much comes with being a great university. There really aren't any that aren't. Sorry about that.
[EDIT: need to thank you skillet.. because of your objections to my joke I had to look up why I associated Chicago and U of Chicago with socialists and commies.. that eventually lead me to Upton Sinclair and the Jungle.. and his utopian experiment in NJ.. Helicon Home Colony.. and it was a good read.]
So.. apart from my "question" being a joke about your comment that the Profs and Docs are called Mr. or Mz... since you want to take it seriously.. what would be your guess as to why that is the custom there?
BTW.. you left out Jay Berwanger earlier.. the first Heisman Trophy winner (before it was the Heisman)
Remember.. this thread is not about liberal vs conservative.. its about bad movies. My comment was nothing more than a joke about U of Chicago's Saul Alinsky types. And sometime during the last Presidential campaign.. some outsider commie agitator was actually booted off U of C's campus. But if you look around the net.. you'll see people discussing U of C and communism.
Here's a story about Bernie Sanders talking about his time at U o C and socialism.
I honestly do not understand what your objection is to my joke.
The avoidance of titles would seem to make sense with communism.
The U of C has earned same rep regarding being friendly toward socialism/communism (and as you say, all ideas).
Bernie Sanders says he joined the Young People's Socialist League there.
It was a reasonable joke to make. What are you arguing about?
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ones he makes some really bad ones too.
I agree with A River Runs Through It, Brad is another one that although he has made some good
ones he makes some really bad ones too.
Brad Pitt is a likable actor.. but until I see him try Shakespeare.. or some role that stretches him.. he just plays himself over and over. Like Robin Williams trying to NOT be funny.
Don't forget taking on a Russian submarine!
Remember him in this?
heheh just watched the whole thing. Pitt wasn't bad. But take, for example, Fight Club.. can you imagine Pitt and Norton trading roles? I don't think so.
I can think of no better example than "The Blues Brothers"
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Touche. You win that round. That said a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then. Coneheads was average, It's Pat and The Ladies Man were utter dreck.
Oh yes.... many awful movies based on SNL skits. Funny you mentioned the Coneheads movie (made many years after the SNL skits of the 1970s). This movie usually gets thrown into the "bad SNL movies" category but I liked it. Probably because I had seen all the skits on SNL and was more familiar with humor behind it. Thought they blended the skits with a movie plot version well..... ("Astronauts to the moon..... ha-ha-ha-ha-ha." And who could complain about Mr. Conehead's fireworks show at Paramus High School). Too bad when the ship returrns to Remulak they didn't fly by Conehead statues of Belushi and Radner. That would have been a nice touch.
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I thought that A River Runs Through It was a great book and a beautiful movie. I also enjoyed SkilletHead2's story about Norman Maclean. The movie's ending is incredibly poignant . . "I'm haunted by waters . . "
Wild in the Streets.
1968 psychedelic laced political thriller.
Spoiler alert: don't read this if you can stomach watching this badly scripted period piece:
Everyone over 30 is placed in internment camps as a rock band front man trys to get the vote for teens (14 or 15?). In the camps the water is laced with LSD to keep the population stoned / controllable. Interestingly there are a number of well known / good actors: Hal Holbrook, Richard Pryor, Shelley Winters & Ed Begley Sr. ...but the writing is crap, as is the story, so they actors are sort of limited to acting liked their stoned...most of the time.
The best part of the movie is one of the last lines...when the rock leader of the youth movement (in his mid - late 20's) tells a small group of much younger kids ( 6-9 ) after killing their pet (lobster?) " what are you going to do about it...beat me up? You're not big enough".
One of the kids (around aged 9) looks into the camera and says " we're going to put everyone over 10 out of business".
And so it goes....
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No - I bring a couple of sticks of dynamite, light, toss in and scoop up what floats to the top.
Actually have been fishing since I was about 10 and caught a bass or two in my uncles pond
If our exchange led you to reading Upton Sinclair, then it is really worthwhile! I did realize you were just razzing me with the Chicago/commie jab, and I originally responded in kind with a short rejoinder, but then changed my mind and wrote a longer response as there are folks out there who read this board who probably believe that Chicago is a commie enclave, and that isn't true. But I should have made it more of a volley, because I know you appreciate tit for tat. Sorry about that.
For sure Chicago is a place that would harbor fellow travellers, but it is also a place where Milton Friedman would be comfortable teaching and which, just recently, issued the "Chicago principles" which basically said, "if you want trigger warnings and safe spaces, you best pick a different school to go to."
U of C is kind of a unique place. Coming from Princeton (admittedly at a young age), I was struck by the differences between the two institutions. Whereas Princeton is kind of a "we're great, we know it, and we are dedicated to making the world a better place, just watch us," Chicago is more, "I'm sorry, did you have an appointment? Well, come on in anyway and let's have a listen to what you have to say." I will NEVER forget when one of my advisors said to me once, "That's sloppy thinking. Don't do that again." Chicago is a place to think great thoughts, even about trivial issues. Most folks I meet are more impressed that I went to Princeton than Chicago, except for the real academics, where it is the other way around. I think, to a degree, Obama's time there made him less doctrinaire liberal, and more of "an issue at a time" sort of guy, to our benefit.
Yeah, and Jay Berwanger. Of course, also during that era, Robert Hutchins eliminated football from U of C, and tried to do the same with fraternities. He once said, "Football and fraternities are two things that attract students to universities who have no business being there." He was successful with football, but not fraternities.
