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Being movie lovers of open minded and varied tastes, means we often get looked at weird for liking movies that most people either just don't get or to B-movieish for most people to like.

I always get made fun of for liking Legend. Mostly when people see that movie they see the unicorns and the hear the Tangerine dream sound track and think the movie is super gay. I don't watch the movie because of unicorns or tangerine dream (actually I watch the directors cut with out the theatrical releases crappy Tangerine Dream soundtrack) I watch it because its got some of the coolest monsters and evil villains I've ever seen. Tim Currys portrayal of the devil is one of the most awesome depictions of the prince of darkness that I've ever seen.

Another is Monsturd. Monsturd is one of those movies you have to be a true lover of B-movies to love.The movie is low budget and indeed bad, but its meant to be like that and uses its low budget and ridiculous story to great effect. It also has the greatest pick up line of all time.

I don't usually get funny looks, because most people haven't seen the movies I like. But I'll go ahead and throw out that I really enjoyed Mom and Dad Save the World, and when I found that Wal-Mart was selling them for $4, I bought a couple of copies to force on people. Now people kind of just won't much talk to me about it.  :bouncegiggle:

I've got one friend who will watch all the weird stuff I tell him about, and he likes a lot of it. Of course, he's not very discerning: he thought that Meet the Spartans was absolutely hilarious. So I have to be careful when watching the movies he gives me. Is that movie snobbery or what?

The only part in that film that I found funny was the Yo Mama fight with Sean Maguire saying "Yo Mama so hairy, the only language she understands is Wookie!"  :bouncegiggle:

A few years ago we used to have "Cinema Lunch" at my office.  Someone would bring in a DVD and we'd play it on a laptop and project the movie onto a white board in the conference room.  Everyone would bring in their lunch and we would watch half the movie one day and the other half the next day.  Of course, I would bring in most of the movies . . .

One day I brought in BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA.  My co-workers could not believe it was a real movie . . . and could not believe I owned it.

Others that left everyone in disbelief were TEENAGE CAVEMAN with Robert Vaughn and THE VIKING WOMEN AND THE SEA SERPENT.

Hudson Hawk. That's the most mainstream movie that most of the people I know have heard of although admitting to liking Shoot-em Up has gotten not just weird looks but a couple of angry ones.
   
  I actually like Bela Lugosi meets a Brooklyn Gorilla. I don't try and figure out why, I'm probably better off not knowing,  I just go with it.

Some people've found it strange that Babe: Pig in the City is one of my favorite films.  I think it's brilliant!

Not a huge favorite of mine, but I certainly can appreciate it's weird setting and dreamlike quality. It has more in common with the films of Jeunet and Caro than the original Babe. Very enjoyable.

When I picked up the following, I received kind of strange looks from the female cashier:

This Island Earth - I think it was the back cover featuring the Metaluna Mutant trying to make off with Faith Domergue. :bouncegiggle:

(http://www.covershut.com/covers/This-Island-Earth-1955-Front-Cover-8117.jpg)

"Paint your wagon."

"Electric Grandmother" has given me a few odd looks..

"Bubba Ho-Tep." I think the weird looks come mostly from my attempts to both explain the plot and the fact that there actually is some depth and touching moments in that movie.

That's my answer, though I'll add they haven't even heard of the movies I like.

Mean Girls (2004).

People always groan when spotting the DVD in my collection. I think it's a fun, entertaining movie  :smile:

All of them... But the ones that live on, so far, in infamy is Galactic Gigolo and The Forbidden Zone, both of which may cause my friend's brains to implode...

I got alot of good reactions with Howling 2.  Especially during the werewolf threesome/orgy scenes and the knife throwing dwarf.  I get good reactions with any Reb Brown movie actually.

But the movies that get the biggest reactions are Cool as Ice, Invasion From Inner Earth, Troll 2, Ghoulies and that 1986 van damme karate movie "No Retreat, No Surrender".  I gave everybody a copy of NRNS for Christmas one year and they just shook their heads when I handed it to them.   :teddyr:

I'm sometimes ridiculed on the internet even by B-movie lovers for liking Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS.

In real life I am constantly looked at as a weirdo for being a fanatic of The X-Files.

Just a few:

Cabin Boy - wouldja like to buy a monkey?
Pootie Tang - wa da tah.  Tasty Heavy Pork Chunk Cereal.  It's a great product!
Videodrome - my wife might not have married me if I had revealed my love of this movie before our wedding..."weird look" doesn't come close to the level of hatred she has for it.   :teddyr:
Jekyll and Hyde the Musical - don't hassel the Hoff.

Why does she hate Videodrome so much?

Had a girlfriend end the relationship after being introduced to Videodrome.  True story.  The film is fantastic, but I guess to the more "normal" people out there, its terrifying!

She doesn't have the stomach for Cronenberg in general, but I think the "Gun in the Stomachgina" scene is where I lost her specifically on this one.

There's always at least one of "those" scenes in a Cronenberg movie, and anybody who has seen them will know immediately just from the movie title.  (Quick, someone who has seen THE BROOD - name that scene!  :teddyr: )

I think there might be some Family Guy crossover hatred though.  James Woods is in several Family Guy episodes, which drive my wife insane because Peter is so stupid.  So she hates James Woods by proxy, and hence Videodrome.  That's my theory, anyway.

She likes to watch the overly funny / silly bad movies with me (usually anything from MST3K is a winner with her), but the ones that are really gross, or are funny because they are trying to be deep, those are the ones I lose her on.

try watching the old Gamera films, or any of the Godzilla films with his son, and see how long can you watch without laughing.

I freaking LOVED Shoot 'em Up. And it looks incredible on Blu-ray. No, I'm not joking. Where else will you find a near-pornographic sex scene with non-stop gunfire AND the lovers never skip a beat. THAT is awesome!

The one that ALWAYS gets strange looks is BLOOD FREAK, which most people just ignore until I tell them it is the only Christian all-gore, anti-drug horror movie with a turkey monster that drinks the blood of hippies.  Oddly enough, even though I get strange looks, most people find that compelling and will often bring it up again, usually around Thanksgiving.

I'm Always Getting F**ked Up Stares For Liking A Lot Of Movies

Just A Few For Example



DIE YOU ZOMBIE B****RDS
TINKERBELL AND THE LOST TREASURE
MONSTURD
BACKWOODS
VAMPIRE'S KISS
MARIPOSA

I've got many such movies, but most of the time, the funny look is because the movie is old, obscure and completely outside the person's experience. Of the mainstream movies that people have actually seen, I'd have to say The Last Action Hero. Yes, it was kind of a flop, and yes, the kid was annoying, and yes, the whole magic ticket thing was dumb. But for the most part, it was a pretty spot-on parody of 80s action movies with some very clever gags.

The reaction that baffles me the most is my brother, Dave, who saw The Last Action Hero with me in 1993 and laughed as much as anyone. Today, I could start an argument with him by calling it a good movie. Weird.

Wow. I also gave out NRNS to a few friends as a gag for Christmas one year. Made a DVD with the chapters being some of the most hilarious parts. Some got it, some didn't. Cool as Ice was another stocking stuffer. It got a much warmer reception.

I tell all my mates about my Italian Cannibal Films and they look at me like I'm a sicko! Come on man Italian cannibal films are the holy grail of gore films and they almost are all adventure films too. Best of both worlds in my opinion!

It funny because I own heaps of slasher DVD's and in my opinion slasher movies have a meaner spirit about them because a slasher movie scenario can happen anywhere anytime in any country. These Italian cannibal films are more like doco studies on ancient tribes and stuff in my opinion. Bit of a history lesson!

That movie's awesome, but definitely hard to sell people on.

"King Arthur" and "Hot Rod" are the the ones my friends give me grief for.  Oh, and Cronenberg's "Crash" - Cronenberg in general, really.

Try selling them Dreamcatcher if they don't like the sound of Bubba Ho-Tep!!!

That one at least has the benefit of being a Stephen King story with Morgan Freeman. As long as people haven't seen it or had the plot described to them, you might escape the funny looks. Mention aliens shooting out people's butts, and all is lost. :teddyr:

Haven't been on in awhile, sorry to those on the the rare chance that you missed me.

Anyway, some of you may know that my most favorite movie of all time is "The Cable Guy" starring Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick.

I've loved it ever since I was 7 and I am now 20 and I simply never tire of it.

Somewhere along my early teenage years I learned that a lot of people/critics didn't like it. Even now people ask me, "You're ALL TIME FAVE really?".

And yes it is, it just speaks to me, and in my humble opinion is a perfect black comedy.

When SAMANTHA EGGAR eats the amniotic sac off of one of her tumor babies...  :lookingup:  Yee-eeuh-uuhckk!!   :tongueout:

Now I've had many people roll their eyes at me when I showed em my copy of The Quartermass Xperiment. But what I really don't get was my friends reaction when I told him I had copies of Where Eagles Dare, The Dirty Dozen and Kellys Heroes. He goes,"How can you like that old @#$@!?!?, it sucks!" I almost backhanded him then and there! Those are some of the most manly movies ever made! Of course this is also they guy who me and my friends pretty much had to force to see all the old Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies... his response to all of them was, "their okay.. I guess, they could have used better visuals though." I really don't get that guy's movie tastes.

Movies don't measure up to video games, perhaps?

After trying to explain The Human Centipede to my wife, and having her practically run away with her hands over her ears, I know better than to tell anyone outside this board that I liked that movie. :teddyr:

Imagine my surprise when I saw that one listed as part of the closing night of the Toronto After Dark Film Festival!  I bet it raised a few comments, even with that crowd.

I don't think so, hes not a big video game guy, I think he doesn't like any movie thats older than he is, not sure why.

Alot of people are like that. For reasons I don't know  :hatred:

It would have been a harder movie to watch if it hadn't been made with a sense of humour, and if Dieter Laser hadn't played Dr. Heiter as such an over-the-top mad scientist.

I'm usually excluded from picking movies when I'm with a movie watching group. Ah well more for me to enjoy.  :cheers:

I Spit On Your Grave
I Eat Your Skin

Manos, the Hands of Fate. I just give the poor guy credit.

Strangely enough, "Dune" is what gets me criticized.  So much so, that I now use it as a threat.  :)  Most of my friends do not let me pick movies anymore....

You've got to keep that pimp hand strong. You shouldn't have let him go like that.

We would have also accepted "licks the afterbirth off of her newborn stomach-sac fetus thing".   :cheers:

What must have gone on in Cronenberg's head back in the 70s and 80s?!?!?  If these are the images that escaped, what did he keep to himself?

I seem to recall her tearing at it with her teeth... and then licking it...  :teddyr:  :bluesad:  :buggedout: Couldn't find the clip and it's been 30 years, but I won't ever forget that the scene is way gross...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzM-gn9nHEw&feature=related 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8IfVx86rXM&feature=related

The Brady Bunch Movie  :smile:

Pocket Ninjas. :twirl:

I remember chatting with a friend of mine about movies,
normal movies you know,
then she start to ask me about b movies
she know I love b movies but she don't exactly know what is that

I tell her the plot of Gymkata see if she is interested,
then I can start to torture her brain with my movies,
but after she hear the plot
she have nothing to say,
a dead silence between us for seconds,
then she said "woah, it's sounds really non-sense"

My sister refused to take any recommendations from me after I convinced her to watch Bubble Boy. It was years before she stopped saying" Alright I'll look at it, but it's not like that BUBBLE BOY is it?"

    I was explaining to my little nephew, who's just getting into Star Wars, about the "Lost" Holiday Special and his older cousins(rotten teenagers) were astonished. They couldn't believe that an "old guy" could know such things, as if Star Wars was made the year they(rotten teenagers) first discovered it on DVD. :lookingup:

Movies that get strange looks from others when the dvd's are spotted:
Redneck Zombies- I own the Special Edition dvd, as well as the Soundtrack with the wonderful songs from the film.
Hard Rock Zombies- Yes, I own it on dvd.  Found it at K-Mart in a "Triple Terror Pack", which includes this plus two others.
UHF- Most are astonished "Weird Al" Yankovic made a movie.  Let alone that I liked it enough to buy the dvd.
Nosferatu- I dunno. 
Freaks- Classic Tod Browning flick with midgets, torso's, etc.
Freaked- Keanu Reeves as a dog.
Killer Tomatoes Strike Back!-  :bouncegiggle:

Ali G Indahouse, I only know of two other people that also think this is one of the funniest comedies of all time.
Freddy Got Fingered, I still think it's a work of comedic genius.

Well of course it was. Everybody knows they didn't have CGI in the 70s. :teddyr:

I didn't think the movie was overtly great compared to the show though.

Saw that one in the theater  :buggedout:  I didn't think it was funny, but as a raised middle finger to the film industry, it's a brilliant piece of work.


Speaking of unpopular comedies, I've had no success in persuading my friends that Pootie Tang and Dirty Work are awesome. 

I have a lot of friends that refuse to watch movies I pick out. Some of the ones I get a hard time over are:

Kissed
Aftermath
Story of O
Crash
Love Object
Des Morts
Misbegotten

Wow Grace.....Aftermath is a tough sell to ANYONE.  Nacho Cerda made a seriously hard to watch little piece of cinema with that.  All of that being said, it's a masterful little film.  I have yet to show anyone else the film.  Few people I know would enjoy it

I thought Dirty Work was pretty funny. Haven't seen Pootie Tang, but I've been kind of curious ever since reading Kevin Murphy's A Year at the Movies. Sounded like it was better than he expected it to be.

Pootie Tang is wildly uneven but when it's good it's great, especially if you've seen very many blacksploitation or rappers-trying-to-act flicks.

Dirty Work is genius.  You see Artie Lange's Beer League?  Great underrated flick.

Muppets Go Medieval
Leper in the Backfield
Christmas Ape
Christmas Ape Goes to Summer Camp
The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel
Gladys the Groovy Mule

Yes, when I say I liked the following film:

Striptease.

People rarely know what I am talking about but I LOVE Tetsuo the Iron Man.  Yeah.

Tetsuo was great!!

I SECOND THAT!

Anyway, a lot of people either don't remember or now hate the Earnest P. Worrell movies. I don't like them all, but Earnest Scared Stupid, Eanest goes to Jail, and Earnest goes to Camp are three that I still love.

I LOVE Ernest!  I like all the movies!  No one looks at me weird for that because they know I'd punch them in the face and knock that weird look right off.

Okay. I'll go along with you there. Not only because you may punch me. That's part of it to be sure, but because the Ernest movies are badass. Stupid? Yes. Juvenile? Yes. But also charming in some very esoteric ways.

The earlier Ernest movies were the best, but I think that has more to do with the later ones being quick, cheap, straight-to-video fare. Ernest movies are dumb, but they never pretended to be anything else. And Jim Varney was more talented than he usually gets credit for. Along with the physical comedy, the rubber-faced mugging (the Hook Man campfire story still cracks me up), and playing some funny additional characters and/or disguises, Varney was pretty good at just plain acting.

Funniest thing in all those movies, for me, was Ernest infiltrating a movie studio by posing as a snake wrangler.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJQa8wXa27k&feature=youtube_gdata
 :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

I own most of the Ernest movies on LaserDisc!  :cheers:

I love the Ernest movies too. They're good fun! I love all the characters Ernest does....

Even Ernest Goes to Africa?

Granted I own the dvd, but still. :bluesad:

"Plan 9 from Outer Space" for sure. People think I'm crazy for finding it so funny. Its meant to be funny right?..lol

Terror Firmer.  Yeah.  I own it, like it, and watch it frequently.