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I have very fond memories of Igor and the Lunatics from my childhood, and tonight, for the first time, I finally watched it. 

You're probably confused at this point, so let me tell you a story.

Growing up, there was a HUGE videostore near my home.  There was a rather large horror section at the back of the store that as a kid, I usually avoided, although curiosity would sometimes get the better of me and I'd go take a peak in the section and see all those wonderful 80s style box covers perfect for traumatizing young kids like I was. 

One of the movie that caught my attention and stuck with me was this one. This particular cover in fact. 
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Something about that cover, that insane expression, the chef's outfit, and the name just disturbed me, and my over active imagination tried to filled in the gaps as to what the movie actually was.  Probably something about a maniac and his group of followers that terrorized suburbia, killed, grilled, and ate people. ... Something like that anyway. 

So tonight, I found it on netflix for instant viewing and finally got a chance to see the movie that disturbed me so much ... Sadly, my imagination gave me a much more frightening movie than the film was. 

See, there are two types of movies released by Troma, over-the-top blood, gore, and boobs, and movies that nobody else wants to release.  This is the second kind. 

Tonight, I learned one of the movies that most captured my imagination and frightened me wouldn't have even been able to hold my attention if I had actually watched it. 

Worst part of it all?  Igor isn't even the leader of the lunatics in the movie.  The whole thing is more of a Z-grade Manson cult. 

Can't Buy Me Love definitely. I like the synopsis, but not the way it was executed. Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a lot better. It's not only because I prefer the look and feel of the early 80's, but by the late part of the decade most of the typical 80's trends were exaggerated to a great extend. Besides, I find some of the characters to be too flat and there are many undeveloped subplots and story lines. In the second part of the 80's movies where the nerdy guy gets the hot chick were in vogue. In comparison, most movies of the early 80's were more about enjoying life and nerds were not so big of an issue there. If only the late 80's were more like the early-to-mid 80's.

Ahhhh, Video Treasures. Probably my least favorite budget Video Company back in the day. They re-released all the movies I had previously seen many years before, usually with (bad) new cover art and most of the time in bad quality LP or EP tape speed mode. Yow.

Funny enough, one of my worst movie disappointments was Troma's I Was A Teenage TV Terrorist. Always loved the odd cover art from the original Lightning Video release, and I always thought the title was kind of cool. But the actual film wasn't.

My worst movie disapointment was watching both of the Dukes of Hazzard remakes that came out over the last few years. It's hard to explain, but to me they just don't have the energy and feeling of the original series. The remakes are are good,I just didn't care for them.

There are TWO Dukes of Hazzard remakes now?  Oh good god...

I can't even pick out a single biggest disappointment for me.  I've seen so much garbage it's gone well beyond the point where I can keep track of it all.  Maybe Anacondas Hunt for the Blood Orchid.  I thought the first move was okay and had at least moderate hopes for the second one.  It was just pure sh!t.  The characters were horrible, the plot was more clichéd than I could imagine, and there was a horrible comic relief character.  I guess I'll go with that one.

  I was pretty disappointed with The Spirit. It still boggles my mind that with all that great source material to draw on they screwed it up so badly. They should have just filmed Samuel Jackson turning the pages of any Spirit comic, slowly, so that the audience could folllow along.

Probably Terminator 2.  It cost $100 million to make!  It used technology no one had ever seen the likes of before!  Liquid metal!  We get to meet John Connor!  Etc, etc.

Then I watched it and I thought, "Wait, that's it?"

There was a cool truck chase and ... not much else!  The T800 was pussified, the T1000 was cool but incompetent (there's literally no excuse for his failure in the elevator) and wasn't even on screen for the entire middle of the movie, Sarah was unlikable, John Connor was a Bart Simpson wannabe.

An almost total disappointment, which even extended to the soundtrack CD.  The music from the Galleria and truck chase wasn't on it!  The "escape from the mental hospital" music is not quite the same.

* THE GODFATHER, PART III
* EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC
* The Rhino Video 3-D VHS versions of CAT WOMEN OF THE MOON and ROBOT MONSTER.  The 3-D effects didn't work.  Not even a little.   

YES!!! finally somebody agrees with me on this one!!!

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I'd agree so strongly that Godfather, part 3 is on my "hate list!"

Still waiting for Godfather 2.5 (Mr. Al Pacino... you know what happens after you find out your wife killed your unborn son... not this Oh, I forgot about this abortion thing crap! ~ talk about total crap, the guy kills is brother for the attempt of murder and does nothing to the woman that killed his unborn child. Makes the explosive final scene in Godfather 2 meaningless)


But my worst is... Phantom Manace.

George Lukas really kicked me in the balls when baby vader said he made C3-PO. Outch!

Blade Runner.

I had high hopes for this movies, but unfortunately I wasn't able to enjoy this movie, I tried numerous times.  :bluesad:
I really don't know why, but I just didn't like it.

Yes sir...yes indeed.  My experience with this hunk of sh*t of a film went like this.  I had bought pretty much all the toys from the film just assuming the first one would be epic.  I went to Taco Bell to get the collector cups.  I had the grand illusion that this film could not suck in any way.  

Opening day I think I cut class in college to go see the first morning showing.  The place was packed with nerds like myself and we were all excited.  The theater went dark, the scroll came and I literally teared up.  This was what I had waited since ROTJ to get.  After a somewhat decent opening, who the f*ck comes bouncing through the forest...this A-Hole...
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At first I smiled at his goofy antics.  By the first 10 minutes of his introduction I was done.  Then they bring in "Little Annie" who pushed the limits of horrible child acting.  Aside Darth Maul, I took nothing from that film...nothing.  The b!tch of it all was I fell even harder when they released AOTC which I think was the far worse movie.  F-YOU Lucas...

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I'd have to say almost every remake that they've made in the last 5 years, but the most recent one was Clash of the Titans. yeah, the original is cheesy, the hero is kinda mimbo, but gosh durn it my heart sank when they took my favorite cheesy character out and replaced him with....stick-y. i don't want to put spoilery things in here but if you know what i mean you were probably expecting stick-y to give a thumbs up and utter a catchphrase or something.

oh Vik- as for blade runner, theres like a billion different versions of it, did you see "final cut" version? its practically a different movie.

Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie.

Need I say more?

-Jimmybob

I agree completely on Blade Runner.  Terminator 2 would have been better if you could care about anyone in the film. 

I remember being kinda stoked to see "Hook".  Wow, it was awful.  Could have, should have been much better.  And the fact I don't like Robin Williams didn't help.

Hard to beat The Phantom Menace (1999) in terms of disappointment. Have to agree with that. But it wasn't the first that's for certain, there was also Godzilla (1998). I think the shift away from story and plot to FX spectacles is what has  lead to us getting so much disappointing crud these days. Stuff like Independence Day and indeed Terminator 2 (which I actually do like as an action-fest but I do consider it inferior to The Terminator (1984)), both very popularly received, helped contribute to this trend. Thing is at heart most of these films are fancied up crud.

Another huge disappointment was Titanic which turned a tragic historical event into an FX laden romance flick with cardboard cutout characters for the romantic leads (of course that's nothing new for Cameron). Only Billy Zane makes the film sometimes a bit better for me.

lol... I think I was one of those nerds... :)

I remember not really liking Jar Jar and I was thinking of the silly rapper in the Scooby Doo cartoons with Vincent Price... although he was annoying I didnt really cared much about him, I'd assume it was a corporpate placement character (like the Ewoks) although the story kept getting silly the longer I was watching it and I was wondering why did it take them a long ass time to make this movie.

Sure the special effects is great and maybe I could enjoy it with the "Dark Side of the Moon" playing (refering to Oz ~ those that dont know)

from all the silly things that happen in Phantom Menace... the most silly is the ending... for all the crap that baby vader did HIS MOTHER WAS STILL A SLAVE! (You would think a queen could of did something about that... which made me think she was "dark side"... sadly Lukas failed again)

Clerks 2 was kind of a letdown for me.

I can list quite a few, but in recent memory, nothing caused quite as much disappointment as "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen." I actually like the first "Transformers" movie; it's not intelligent, but it is far better than it has any right to be. The sequel was a friggin' mess! I was going through a rough time at that point in my life (relationship woes) and this movie was supposed to be my salvation. Instead it f*@king depressed me even more.

Thank God Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy gave it the Rifftrax treatment, as it is nearly unwatchable otherwise.

Well Mr. Lucas needed a spring board for the whiny teenager Anakin in AOTC.  Theres just so much wrong with the prequels from dialog to Lucas revising history of the franchise to really fake CGI in AOTC...the list goes on and on.

Thank you, that just about sums up my feelings on that silly film.

Next one for me, The Dark Knight.  I honestly tried watching this again the other night and ended up turning it off...again.

One of my biggest disapointments was Avatar, it was visualy seriously impressive but the story was just... retarded and the plot was incredibly predictable.
The movie basically is Pocahontas in space

Actually "Pocahontas in space" isnt a bad idea...

I was working (mostly daydreaming) of a The Count of Monte Cristo in space story and made a rough outline. It would of kick Star Wars in the balls!!! hehe... I also wanted to make a story like The Naked Prey (1966) in space for sometime as well.

Although, the Avatar trailers looked like Matrix... at least to me, so I havent seen it yet.

Not really a disappointment as a whole, but "Transformers" disappointed me with the predictable subplot of the geek-who-turns-hero-and-gets-laid-with-the-hot-chick thing. Boy, that nerdy guy+hot chick thing is getting old! I like "Transformers", for me it's one of the better late 00's movies (most are crappy). However, that subplot is boring. We already have late-80's and 90's romantic movies where the loser gets the girl. It's like the final girl thing in slasher/horror movies - it's not interesting anymore, it's predictable. That's why I liked a recent (2005 or so) movie about an alien, where there are two (not one!) final girls - the main character and a blond girl! At last something a bit different!

I'll put a vote in for The House Of 1000 Corpses.  I enjoy White Zombie's music so I figured based on their B-movie lyrics Rob would have a hold on the material.  He did to a point, I loved the intro and Captain Spaulding.  However, once Otis and his gang arrived the film just because a huge mess.  The editing was sloppy, the characters were unlikeable and I really didn't care what happened to anyone.  It was basially unwatchable for me.  

I didnt like it but I wasnt expecting anything super either so I wasnt disapointed.

Although I sometimes wonder what people are thinking that do say they love 1000 corpses.

funny thing I'd noticed, I have a Rob Zombie 1999 cd (names a lost) and there is no F-bombs in it... very odd when you see his films.

Kevin Smith is a god damn HACK x12! Clerks and Mallrats are his only good films (Clerks is actually in my comedy top 10, whatever happended to him after Mallrats, I'll never understand)

Clerks 2 had a few moments but was nowhere near the caliber of the first one in humor.  Thus proving bigger budgets aren't always for the best. 

I'm not a fan of most Kevin Smith films save Clerks.  I find most of them to be way too preachy.  However, I found Jersey Girl to be heartfelt and a decent change from the constant barrage of dick jokes.   Its also the one film I can tolerate and buy Ben Affleck in a role.  As a father I found it horribly tear jerking at the end.

Nice to see somebody else that doesn't like that movie.  Whenever I mention what I think of it, people look at me like I'm nuts. It's almost like you're not allowed to say that it was a bad movie.

I like The Dark Knight, but I certainly don't begrudge anyone who doesn't. The Heath Ledger component is part of the issue. People feel obligated to like the film because of his performance and that he died right after. If he were still among us, I think you would see more openness about the film. You would see more people saying that his portrayal was too much of a departure from the original joker, etc. The film was far from perfect, and people have every reason to dislike the franchise for any reason they want to. Personally, I liked it, and I like Heath Ledger's performance, and was likewise sad to see him go. If anyone else feels differently, I won't fault you for it.

I don't really have many film disappointments.  I normally research the hell out of a movie beforehand and then go see it or buy it.  Of course when I was younger, I didn't do that but still remembering that I liked a lot of the films I saw, including Star Wars 1 and 2 (Sure they had boring and annoying moments, but I wasn't a Stars Wars geek or didn't compare it with the others films and I enjoyed them).

The only film disappointment I can say I have was with Man of the Year, the Robin Williams film where he becomes president.  I remember the advertistment for it and I thought it was going to be a comedy.  I thought, cool that be fun to watch.  So I took a girl I like to it and we enjoyed it.  The debate scene was great and we thought it was going to be a fun ride the whole way through.  Man were we wrong!  How were we suppose to know that it would turn into a thriller, right out of nowhere!  It would have been fine if we knew before hand, but damn, where did that come from?

The film was still alright, but I was really hoping for a fun comedy instead of a crime thriller!

I'm like InformationGeek: I normally do a a big load of research before watching or buying a film. Generally therefore,  if I dislike or even hate a movie I did not expect it to be good or great so not much harm done.

However I was slightly disappointed by Friday the 13th (1980). I knew I would not
 be scared so that was not a problem. It's because unlike what many people have said to me, I thought it was a crappy movie.  I would not consider it a horror classic. The last quarter of the film was pretty good though.  I liked the sequels a lot more.