Guilty Pleasures
- 1. THE BLUES BROTHERS [80]
- 2. FROM NOON TILL THREE [76]
- 3. LAND OF THE PHARAOHS [55]
- 4. LIFEFORCE [85]
- 5. THE LONG, LONG TRAILER [54]
- 6. MIRANDA [48]
- 7. OH DAD, POOR DAD, MAMMA'S HUNG YOU IN THE CLOSET AND I'M FEELING SO SAD [67]
- 8. THE OMEGA MAN [71]
- 9. PRIME CUT [72]
- 10. SLITHER [73]
- 11. WAY, WAY OUT [66]
- 12. VANISHING POINT [71]
- 13. Any Norman Wisdom comedy
- 14. THE GETAWAY [72]
- 15. THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT [96]
- 16. ARMAGEDDON [98]
- 17. CON AIR [97]
Mostly selected from a list I haven't kept up to date.
2. A very unusual western. A very unusual Charles Bronson movie. Final scene in lunatic asylum is classic.
3. A fantasy of Ancient Egypt. The baddies are entombed alive inside a pyramid. Sandraulic engineering.
4. An alien drops by and wanders around causing mayhem. Thing is, it looks just like a beautiful naked woman.
5. Lucy and Desi go on vacation towing a gi-normous trailer. Very twee, but very funny.
6. Something fishy about Glynis Johns.
7. See it if you think your mother has emasculated your father.
8. Charlton Heston remains macho as he wanders an empty city by day and fights off vengeful victims of an apocalypic plague by night. You'll love it, even the ludicrous stunt-double work.
9. Gangsterism, Midwest style. Enemies turned into sausage meat. White slaves auctioned off at cattle markets.
10. The bad guys are in the black RVs.
11. Jerry Lewis joins the space program.
12. Way cool road movie. Just drive, man. Rest stop: commune chick riding motorcycle naked. Hit road again, but come to sudden stop.
13. Norman Wisdom was Britain's answer to Jerry Lewis, and very much an acquired taste. If you can so acquire, he's funnier even than he tries to be. I only hate the sentimental bits. [Hi, pike!]
14. Much better than the recent remake. And the final scene has Slim Pickens!
15. Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson make a very odd - and funny - couple in this over-the-top actioner [hate that word, but it fits]. Geena kicks much sit-upon, and Samuel is splendidly surly.
16. Confession: I love this movie and watch it often. It reminds me how entertaining a truly bad movie can be. This movie takes 'over the top' to new heights. And I love the dialog: "I want to name it after my wife, Dottie. She's a vicious, life-sucking bitch from which there is no escape." - "Can I, like, get a hug from you when this is over?" - "That's why I told you, 'touch nothing', but you are bunch of cowboys." - "Okay, what have we missed?" - "Here's how we do things where I come from." - "I don't know what all you are doing down there, but we've got a hole to drill [followed by loud cheers]." What a classic!
17. "Why couln't he put the bunny back in the box?" Unfailingly entertaining - and look at that cast!
I can see some points to the Blues Brothers as being guilty-pleasure-ish (love that car chase!) but keep in mind, too, that it does have some great blues music, including some big names making appearances. (Blues Brothers 2 did an even better job of showcasing both the legends of blues as well as the new prodigies.) And I still want one of those RV's they had in Slither.
Yes, you know where I'm coming from on TBBs.
Wow...I've never known anyone who had seen Prime Cut before. That's a strange movie...
Lifeforce: I've seen people give it props but I've never actually been able to ask. WHY? :?|
T'ho
:?)
Sorry stook, I'm not familiar with the idiom "give it props". Anyhow, I'm pretty near certain the answer to your question is the naked chick ;-D
Yeah, she is fairly naked. But it's so much less than that: Space Vampires, Tobe Hooper, Steve Railsback (the poor man's Michael Biehn), a smidge of Patrick Stewart, the apocalyptic destruction of London. If they had taken the Alien franchise to Earth this is the movie that it would've been.
Four lines instead of a page and a half. Only an outrageously exploitative flick like Lifeforce could inspire such restraint.
I've long hoped they would bring the Alien franchise to Earth, a possibility they left open at the end of Alien Resurrection. Ripley should get to save the homeworld (and bring down The Company while she's at it).
Did you know Ridley Scott wanted Sigourney Weaver to do the final sequence of Alien naked? - which she was apparently prepared to do at that stage of her career, but the execs vetoed the idea. Which is why she is wearing those utterly silly micro-briefs when the alien shows itself in the lifeboat.
I think you translated it correctly. It basically means "praise it" or "give it recognition." Mad props to you, bertie.
-- AJ (who often feels the need to butt into questions directed at other people just because he wants to say something; forgive me!)
P.S. If any of us Westerners give you trouble with weird slang or idioms, try www.urbandictionary.com.
Your butt-ins are always welcome, AJ. And thanks for the link.
I've just had a look at the home page and was amused to see 'wardrobe malfunction' on offer.