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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - September 12, 2026, 04:18:54 PMYou're right - SOMETHING WILD is a great movie. Again, when it comes to Griffith, maybe it's all about the hair!
#72
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by Dr. Whom - September 12, 2026, 03:32:41 PMWell it is dripping with 80s cool, and if my younger self had seen it at the time, I am sure I would have thought it ultra-cool
It has been a while since I've seen a movie with peak Melanie Griffith, but I saw Something Wild when it came out, and there she blew me away. I don't think Cherry 2000 would have had quite the same effect. Come to think of it, both movies have a similar premise: yuppie gets drawn into a violent adventure with a carefree woman. Something Wild does it infinitely better.
Not that there is that much wrong with Cherry 2000. In fact, I enjoyed it rather more than I thought I would, mainly because of the completely bonkers world building. It is just that it doesn't have that much going for it either. And that is my main criterium for deciding between the good movie/bad movie category: is it worth your time. Cherry 2000 is just too much by the numbers.
It has been a while since I've seen a movie with peak Melanie Griffith, but I saw Something Wild when it came out, and there she blew me away. I don't think Cherry 2000 would have had quite the same effect. Come to think of it, both movies have a similar premise: yuppie gets drawn into a violent adventure with a carefree woman. Something Wild does it infinitely better.
Not that there is that much wrong with Cherry 2000. In fact, I enjoyed it rather more than I thought I would, mainly because of the completely bonkers world building. It is just that it doesn't have that much going for it either. And that is my main criterium for deciding between the good movie/bad movie category: is it worth your time. Cherry 2000 is just too much by the numbers.
#74
Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie Doctors
Last post by Alex - September 12, 2026, 11:36:21 AM2 Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965).
#75
Good Movies / Re: IS IT PORN? (reviews and d...
Last post by Rev. Powell - September 12, 2026, 10:27:32 AMShows the importance of punctuation: MAX AND HIS DOG DICK could be a very different movie than MAX AND HIS DOG, DICK.
#76
Good Movies / Re: IS IT PORN? (reviews and d...
Last post by M.10rda - September 12, 2026, 10:24:29 AMMAX AND HIS DOG DICK (1912): 
.......Okay, I couldn't help myself.
Of course this isn't Porn - but how could I refrain from posting a title like that in this thread?! 
"Max" is director Max Linder, apparently an early French also-ran in the silent comedy star sweepstakes. He does have a dog and yes, the dog's name is Dick. Max also has a girlfriend and, to put any further confusion to rest, Dick and the girlfriend don't get along at all.
Was it worth watching this 10-ish minute movie just for the amusing title? Uhhh....... nope! This is maybe the most primitive silent film I've seen to date, almost wholly bereft of content or form.
Linder wasn't much of a filmmaker nor a comedian. Didk the Dog briefly talks on a telephone - that's something, I guess. 1/5
.......Okay, I couldn't help myself.
Of course this isn't Porn - but how could I refrain from posting a title like that in this thread?! "Max" is director Max Linder, apparently an early French also-ran in the silent comedy star sweepstakes. He does have a dog and yes, the dog's name is Dick. Max also has a girlfriend and, to put any further confusion to rest, Dick and the girlfriend don't get along at all.
Was it worth watching this 10-ish minute movie just for the amusing title? Uhhh....... nope! This is maybe the most primitive silent film I've seen to date, almost wholly bereft of content or form.
Linder wasn't much of a filmmaker nor a comedian. Didk the Dog briefly talks on a telephone - that's something, I guess. 1/5 #77
Bad Movies / 100 Movie Doctors
Last post by Rev. Powell - September 12, 2026, 10:19:30 AMRules: Name a title that has "Doctor" or "doctors" or "Dr." in it. Each Doctor may only appear once (in the case of franchises).
1. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)
1. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)
#79
Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by Rev. Powell - September 12, 2026, 10:12:11 AM
What ancient civilization do you wish you could party in?
#80
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - September 12, 2026, 10:11:02 AMQuote from: Dr. Whom on September 12, 2026, 03:41:27 AMCherry 2000 (1988)
Ah, the eighties, when anything marked '2000' had a futuristic ring to it
Melanie Griffith is supposed to play it cool, I guess, but just comes across as sleepwalking.
"In the YEEEEAR TWO THOU-saaaaaaaaand..."Pretty sure this was shelved and released a couple years after its production when Griffith made WORKING GIRL... I certainly enjoyed it enough as a, uhh, pubescent boy.
Griffith was never a good actress but she looked great here. I wish she'd kept the Milla Jovavich/FIFTH ELEMENT hairstyle instead of getting a huge 80s Big Hair perm, which somehow she retained through much of the 90s.......After watching the nightmarish 1981 film ROAR, in which Griffith was really clawed in the face by a lion and required reconstructive surgery, I've wondered if Griffith's general lack of expressiveness and blase attitude (re: playing "it cool"/"sleepwalking") was maybe due to partial facial paralysis and/or PTSD!