* Movies that are set in New York, but were very obviously filmed in Toronto?
* Movies that are set in a jungle, but were obviously filmed in a forest in Connecticut?
* Movies that are set in a "vast wasteland," but were filmed in Bronson Canyon?
* Movies where people use futuristic weapons, but ride horses and carry torches?
* Movies that were filmed in Italy in the 1980s, but they Americanized the names of the actors and film crew to make people think that they are new American films?
* Movies that say "Starring [insert actor's name here]," but the actor is only in it for about 5 minutes?
How about movies that are supposed to be filmed in a large lake or ocean but end up being filmed in a very obvious POOL!!
Or with films with Americanized names from foreign countries and you can tell they are dubbed.
Or even movies when they show an old time frame and you know they had no electricity but you can tell.
* Movies that dont do what the box says
*Movies that are too dark to see anything (mostly horror films durring the early 80's)
*Remakes that has nothing to do with the movie that they remade (ROLLERBALL!!!)
*Movies that are based off of TV shows that has nothing to do with the orginal (LOST IN SPACE AND WILD, WILD WEST)
*Movies that are over hyped (1000 CORPES)
*Any Star Wars movie that was made after Empire Strikes Back...
*Sequels that f*cked the last one up... (ALIEN 3)
*Big budget films that could be done better with lesser money (RAMBO 3, WATERWORLD)
I've heard that Rumble in the Bronx was filmed in Canada!
Certain movie that has one actor as the main title, but has a different actor after the second (or so) movie.
Mortal Kombat: Abomination
G-rated movies
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Bulls**t, I still can't hear you sound off like you got a pair
Movies where a director decides to put his own 'touch' on a movie rather than being faithful to the source material.
All this stuff is fodder for B-Movie lovers. It's what makes the movie we love what they are :)
The Burgomaster wrote:
> * Movies that were filmed in Italy in the 1980s, but they
> Americanized the names of the actors and film crew to make
> people think that they are new American films?
They used to do it back in the 1960s to market "Spaghetti Western" movies in the US: Giuliano Gemma was renamed "Montgomery Wood", Gian Maria Volonté was renamed "John Wells"and so on...
The music to some movies made in Italy are headache inducing. I like the Morricone (forgive me if I spelled that wrong) Western music and the art rock group Goblins music for horror films, but that music in Tenth Victim is stupid (Doopy-doo-doopy-doo-doopy-doy-doy).
There was another film from that time (a sex comedy, I believe) used a song that went "Ma-na-na-dee-dee-dee, Ma-na-na-dee-dee-dee-dee." It was issued on a record. Most people recognize it as either background music on the Benny Hill Show or the fact that the Muppets sang it on their show.
Everything? Yes, I do.
Hey! No true bad movie fan would EVER say a disparaging word about Bronson Canyon!
...Old topics that are dug up....
Yeah! Old topics that are dug up . . . Who's going back & resurrecting these, anyway, & how come?
I don't generally bother to read the dates on these posts -- which I should.
Ain't there enough new scheiss to talk about?
Anyway, Freep nails it when he says that most of this "hated" stuff is the sort of thing we pervs on the site here SEEK OUT in films. We dig it, daddyo! Crazy, man!
Someday I will make a hajj to Bronson Canyon . . .
That "Benny Hill/Muppet" music predates both shows by about 20 years -- it was a novelty hit of the '40's/'50's -- name escapes me -- bet Vermin can name it without breaking a sweat. The gag is is that the player keeps trying to break away from the annoying theme by playing jazz riffs, etc., but the demands of the tune & the female chorus keep pulling him back to that inane riff. How these things become popular is beyond me . . .
peter johnson/denny crane
There are these four little depressions around the circumference of a DVD when it's in its case. They'd be a great place to stick your fingers to pry the disc loose from the death grip the center tab has on the thing. But they're blocked by little plastic tabs.
I hate whoever came up with the idea of blocking those with the little plastic tabs.
Same with the guy who came up with the idea of a security seal on the DVD box. Like, I'm going to rip all the shrinkwrap off the thing, and then have my attempted theft foiled by a piece of tape. Hell, I'll probably have to stand in the store for five minutes trying to pry the disc loose from the center tab since I can't get my fingers around the damned thing due to the little plastic tabs...
I think the song from Ozzymandias' post is the lounge music classic "The Manamana Song" which I think is by Esquivel. I'm trying to check, but All Music Guide hates my computer since they relaunched the site.