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From: 9018767a@levels.unisa.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Just For the Hell Of It
Date: 31 Aug 92 05:10:21 GMT
Organization: University of South Australia

In article <1992Aug27.183701.20385@news2.cis.umn.edu>, donnell@manowar.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous) writes:
>>"Just For The Hell Of It" is an absolute classic.  The worst I've ever seen.
>>It's produced by Hershell Gordon-Lewis (Blood Feast, 10000 Maniacs, 
>>B-O-I-N-G).  This movie is so amateurish, it looks like it was shot a cheap
>>video camerea with the camera microphone.  None of the "stars" can act to 
>>save themselves.  The movie is so cheap.
>>
>>If anyone else has seen any of these movies I'd love to hear your opinions.
>>
>>Scotti Carrisma
 
> I loved Just For the Hell Of It. The opening scene with the kids just
> trashing the house, is great. Leave it to H.G. Lewis to realize that
> Near-Random Deastruction was as bankable a commodity as Gore. 
> Man, they smash everything! Great theme song too: "Destruction Inc.".
> But as for its amateurishness, I think it comes a distant 3rd to 
> Lewis's "Wizard Of Gore" and "She Devils on Wheels". "Blood Feast" looks
> like a professional film after "WOG"!
> 
> 					--Judex--

Is this the same Judex who argued that Enter Sandman and Unholy are the same
riff?  If so, send me your tab.s.  (I sent mine into alt.rnr.metal).

Anyway, that aside, I remembered my favourite part of the movie.  It's where
there is a fight in the cafe (and suprise, suprise, they completely trash the
place).  During these scenes, we see shots of the cafe owner obviously in a
completely different room to the rioting with completely different walls and
different lighting to the other scenes.  The cafe owner moves his mouth and has
the words "Stop it, stop it" dubbed over.  These scenes are hilarious.

Also there is a scene in the cafe where a girl has her shirt ripped.  She looks
to the side and waits for her prompt, then stares straight down the barrel of
the camera and delivers her lines.

I also agree that the theme song is a classic.  I can't believe it was never a
hit.  It has sort of John Denver style verses, and an early-70's thrash
chorus.  It was so good that I taped it.  I think one of the lines is ".. as
angry as a cat..".  

Just thinking about the movie makes me laugh.  I'd love to see the Wizard of
Gore, but I doubt it's available in Australia.  I'm suprised that "JFTHOI" is
out here.

Scotti Pharlap Carrisma
   
Organization: Freshman, H&SS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Date: Thu,  3 Sep 1992 19:50:38 -0400 
From: "Carey D. Clevenger" <cc79+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: pig latin in Top Secret! (?)
	<1992Sep3.182754.11966@tamsun.tamu.edu>

The CLASSIC foreign language mockery is by the same people (the
AIRPLANE! brothers), in "Hot Shots!" The words for AA Batteries are the
names of about six Jackson kids (Marlon, Tito, LaToya, Jermaine).

Carey
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
From: AZ.EPC@forsythe.stanford.edu 
Subject: JCS
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 10:31:37 GMT


  I think Norman Jewison's screen adaptation of the stage play
"Jesus Christ Superstar" is unbeatable as a cult flick.  I am not
the only one.  Have you seen it?  If not, why not?  Please do, if
you haven't already.  Judas (Carl Anderson) kicks ass, and Christ
(Ted Neeley) has some shit to say.  Great musical.

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From: cpshelle@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca (cameron shelley)
Subject: Re: Tannhauser, the minnesinger
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:22:36 GMT

primeaux@wham-o.cs.utk.edu (David Primeaux) writes:
> In article <78844@ut-emx.uucp>, guccione@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Steve Guccione) writes:
> |> 
> |> After months (years?) of hearing questions and speculation about
> |> "Tannhauser Gate" from "Blade Runner", I decided to take a stab and
> |> look it up in my trusty Deluxe Color Edition Webster's New Twentieth
> |> Century Unabridged Dictionary (Second Edition).
> |> 
> |> Here's what I found:
> |> 
> |> Tannhauser n. 1. a German knight and minnesinger of the 13th century,
> |>    identified with a legendary knight who seeks absolution after
> |>    giving himself up to revelry in Venusberg.
> |>       2. an opera by Wagner (1845) based on this legend.
> |> 
> |> 
> |> Now for the start of another thread:  anyone know what a minnesinger
> |> is? :^)
> 
> A very, very small singer?  A pocket sewing machine?

A minnesinger is a lyric poet who composes in the style of `courtly
love' (Fr.  `amour courtois', Ger.  `hoeffliche liebe') popular in the
high middle ages.   The "minne" is cognate with English "mind" and
means `love' in Middle High German (love being a state of mind?). 
Medieval legend had Tannhaeuser spending quite a while in the
Venusberg (Mountain of Venus) before realizing his error and seeking
absolution.  The entrance to the mountain is the only candidate for
the Tannhauser Gate I can think of.

Since courtly love was regarded with suspicion by the Church, I've
often wondered if the end of Tannhaeuser's legend we have now is the
original one.

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From: ken@batman.austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Top Gun
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:03:54 GMT
Reply-To: ken@batman.austin.ibm.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: IBM, Austin


What about names from "Hot Shots" if you run out?

;-)


THIS POSTING DOES NOT REPRESENT THE OPINIONS OF MY EMPLOYERS.
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From: dlm4731@zeus.tamu.edu (MAREK, DAVID LESLIE)
Subject: Re: Caddyshack trivia
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:01:00 GMT

In article <Bu238w.H4B@news.larc.nasa.gov>, bandwen@eagle.larc (bando) writes...
>Ill start-- Al Chervick (R. Dangerfield) was a guest of whom at Bushwood 
>country club?


I believe that he was "a guest of the Scotts". 

Dave
From: dcgreen@pro-harold.cts.com (David Green)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Date: 2 Sep 92 13:10:31 GMT
Organization: The Harold Network -- An Alliance For Creative Communication

In <1992Sep2.031648.2718@news.columbia.edu>
egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) writes:

>_Backtrack_.  I had great hope for this film, considering the cast:
>	Jodie Foster, whom I worship.
>	Denis Hopper
>	John Tutturo
>	a few other famous people I don't remember, including Al
>	 from Quantum Leap.
>
>Lots of acting talent wasted in arguably the lamest screenplay on earth.
>Luckily, I saw this at home, on tape.

Hey! I just watched that a few hours ago on Showtime. I was disappointed
also. I kept sitting there thinking, "Why is Jodie in this movie? Did she
really need money, or what?" Obviously some films look much better on paper
than they do once they reach the screen.

David


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From: gunnarh@dhhalden.no (GUNNAR HORRIGMO)
Subject: Re: Monster Vision this Saturday!
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:31:26 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.134455.9022@bsu-ucs.uucp> 00njhavert@bsu-ucs.uucp writes:


>       TNT will be having another Monster Vision this Saturday of 
>end of the world movies. They're calling it the Summer Bummer. You 
>all probably knew this, but I thought I'd post it anyway.


No, we didn't all know that, but since it's now monday night and we are in 
Norway, you didn't have to post it anyway.
Appreciate the concern though.

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From: caruso@socrates.umd.edu (John Caruso)
Subject: Re: pig latin in Top Secret! (?)
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 22:57:13 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.182754.11966@tamsun.tamu.edu> jeff@jeckle.tamu.edu (Jeff Raymond) writes:
>In article <185jurINNgo6@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> tgolobic@indiana.edu writes:
>>
>>so i saw Top Secret! again last night, but didn't have the patience to try
>>to decode what the priest is saying in pig latin while he is leading
>>Nick Rivers to the electric chair.
>
>It's been awhile since I've seen this one, but what the priest is saying
>is NOT pig latin but actual latin.

Nope.  He starts out doing actual from-the-bible Latin, then starts
throwing in Latin phrases ("caveat emptor, e pluribus unum, quid pro
quo").  And -then- the last thing he says is in pig Latin:  "Ooyay areay
oingay ootay etgay iedfray in the airchay", or for non-pigtish types,
"You are going to get fried in the chair."

How can anyone not love this movie?  :-)

>This struck us as incredibly funny and we burst out laughing.  The strange
>bit was that the rest of the audience followed our lead.
>
>As if they had any IDEA why we were laughing.

Yeah, this scene was far beyond the comprehension of the great unwashed
masses.  Give me a break.

- John
From: michael@paul.bu.edu (Michael Chaplin)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Rutger Hauer's quote at the end of Bladerunner
Date: 28 Aug 92 00:50:58 GMT
Organization: Boston University
In-reply-to: buccb@after.math.uiuc.edu's message of 26 Aug 92 08:15:44 GMT

In article <BtL0A9.BJ6@news.cso.uiuc.edu> buccb@after.math.uiuc.edu (Carlos Dragonslayer Butler) writes:
 =In article <1992Aug25.184422.19713@daimi.aau.dk> jpsdiry@daimi.aau.dk (J|rn  
   Poulsen) writes:
  => brehonyt@ul.ie writes:
   > 
  => >Also what is the Tanhauser Gate ?. Is it real or is poetic license being
  => >used ?.
  => Tannhauser-gate ? Never heard it elsewhere... Except - hmm -
  => isn't there an opera by Richard Wagner called Tannhauser ?

  =I have found a reference to Wagner's Tannhauser. There is
  =also something called The Tannhauser Ballad. There is an article 
  =about it in March, 1992 issue of Mystics Quarterly.


There's another reference to Tannhauser (Tannhaeuser, in this
instance) in the anime series _Gunbuster:Aim_for_the_Top_.

It seems to be popular for describing super-C travel.
Perhaps there is something in Wagner's Tannhauser which alludes
to teleportation, or alternate dimensions (though not in so many
words)?

Chaplin.
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From: mitchell@Software.Mitel.COM (Robert Mitchell)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies,rec.arts.movies
Subject: Suo Gan - Empire of the Sun song
Date: 1 Sep 92 13:04:31 GMT
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.



Hello,

  The Steven Spielberg movie "Empire of the Sun" opens with a song
called "Suo Gan".  It is a Mandarin Chinese song that was sung by 
English speaking children. Can anyone tell me what the song title 
means, and what the song is about ?

Thanks.

/Rob
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
From: donnell@manowar.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous)
Subject: Re: KISS..Phantom of the Park, Just For the Hell Of It
Organization: none
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:37:01 GMT

In article <18462.2a9cd752@levels.unisa.edu.au> 9018767a@levels.unisa.edu.au writes:
>KISS meets the phantom of the park, now there's a great movie.
>
>Sure, KISS act really bad in it, but the movie is stolen by the security
>guard called Sneed in the scene where the KISS imposters are walking down
>a flight of stairs like a bunch of zombies and the main actress says something
>like
>  "Sneed that's not the real KISS!!"
>Then you see Sneed's emotionless face because *shock horror* he has been
>replaced by a cyborg as well.  The expression on Sneed's face is one of the
>most hilarious scenes I've ever seen.
>
>Some other real dud movies which I've enjoyed are:
>  
>   Land of Doom
>   Chrome and Hot Leather
>   Just For The Hell Of It 
>
>"Just For The Hell Of It" is an absolute classic.  The worst I've ever seen.
>It's produced by Hershell Gordon-Lewis (Blood Feast, 10000 Maniacs, 
>B-O-I-N-G).  This movie is so amateurish, it looks like it was shot a cheap
>video camerea with the camera microphone.  None of the "stars" can act to 
>save themselves.  The movie is so cheap.
>
>If anyone else has seen any of these movies I'd love to hear your opinions.
>
>Scotti Carrisma

I was in the audience for the filming of "Kiss Meets the Phantom Of The Park"
so I have always had a soft spot for the movie. It is quite terrible, but
I always enjoyed the fingerpicked rendition of "Beth". I hear the 
European version is VERY different, and was a smash hit, but it is 
not available in the States. 

I loved Just For the Hell Of It. The opening scene with the kids just
trashing the house, is great. Leave it to H.G. Lewis to realize that
Near-Random Deastruction was as bankable a commodity as Gore. 
Man, they smash everything! Great theme song too: "Destruction Inc.".
But as for its amateurishness, I think it comes a distant 3rd to 
Lewis's "Wizard Of Gore" and "She Devils on Wheels". "Blood Feast" looks
like a professional film after "WOG"!

					--Judex--
From: wildman@athena.mit.edu (Timothy Worsley)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Martial art movies
Keywords: martial arts, kung fu
Date: 27 Aug 92 04:08:02 GMT
Reply-To: eprice@sql.sybase.com
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In article <torresce.714833593@craft.camp.clarkson.edu>
torresce@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Carlos E. Torres) writes:
>	I posted a note a couple of weeks ago, but got no responses.  I
>am trying again, in case I did not post right.  I am looking for places
>selling martial art movies (the incredibly lame, phony types).

I think I forgot to give the address & phone of NYUE in the last
article I posted ("Asian Trash Cinema & NYUE").  Here it is:

NYUE Enterprises, Inc.
61-A Walker St
New York, NY 10013

(212) 619-0800
(212) 226-3544 FAX

Let me know if you would like their title listing (as of 6/16/92) by
email.

-Ed (not Tim), eprice@sql.sybase.com (not wildman@...)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
From: donnell@shark.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous)
Subject: Re: Romero-Crazies
Organization: none
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 19:12:31 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.161108.14174@sei.cmu.edu> kh@sei.cmu.edu (Kurt Haverstock) writes:
>
>
>Speaking of Romero, has anyone seen The Crazies?
>Another local production (Evans City), this one
>deals some with moral/social decay, but deals a
>stronger blow to the military and its place in
>modern society.
>It's typically Romero...somewhat reminiscent
>of Night of the Living Dead.
>It also has several continuity glitches and
>camera staging violations, but no matter.
>
>Opinions?
>I haven't seen Martin yet, but plan to...spoilers or no:-)
>
>
>Kurt
>

It's a good time. Shows up on TV from time to time, under "The Crazies" or 
the alternate title "Code Name: Trixie". The scene with the little old
lady on the porch knitting, is classic Romero! Anyone know if this one
is out on video? How about Romero's attempt at an occult thriller, "Jack's
Wife"?

					--Judex--

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From: daniel@csgi62.dcs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow)
Subject: Re: Buffy
Organization: School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 14:18:31 GMT
X-Posted-From: csgi62.leeds.ac.uk
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <iroderic.715115860@cunews>, iroderic@alfred.carleton.ca (Ian Roderick) writes:
> In <1992Aug29.152908.13261@ctr.columbia.edu> daniel@csgi62.dcs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow) writes:
> 
> >In article <iroderic.715024724@cunews>, iroderic@alfred.carleton.ca (Ian Roderick) writes:
> 
> [some of my own gunk deleted]
> 
> >> the most of the fact that they can't play their own instruments.  The
> >> most obvious example is, of course, _The_Sex_Pistols_ but with the
> >> failure of _Sigue_Sigue_Sputnik_ it would seem it is no easy task to
> >> manufacture cult status.  Anyway, time will tell...
> >> 
> 
> >Zooming off on a slight tangent, I know, but the Sex Pistols were *not*
> >a 'rip-off band'. They played their own instruments (by the end, they were,
> >with the dishonourable exception of Sid Vicious, actually good). They "hype"
> >that surrounded them was manufactured by Malcolm McLaren, most of it after
> >the group had split up (cf his film The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle). The
> >mid-/late- 70's punk movement in the UK was a genuine grassroots thing and
> >definately not something that Talcy Malcy controlled, invented or defined.
>
> "BY THE END" are the key words here.  By the end they were playing
> their instruments with some ability.  I side with Greil Marcus, Dick
> Hebdige, and Iain Chambers on this one...particularly in the face of
> claims to some sort of organic credibility to punk.
> 
> Ian (old enough to have been one).

Knew that would get 'em going... the first (Glen Matlock) lineup *were* good.
Listen to some of their bootleg/demo stuff in particular. I'm not claiming
that they were the greatest players of guitars and drums ever, but the idea
that they couldn't play their instruments is ludicrous. There was even a
court case in the UK where they sued a British newspaper for claiming they
had to get session musicians to play on their records. The Sex Pistols won.

Of course it *could* all have been a vast conspiracy, dreamt up by Mr. McLaren.
All those hundreds of bands which suddenly started playing "punk" rock around
75/76/77. Sure they could all have been inspired by the Pistols, despite the
fact that most of them were playing before the Pistols were heard of. I'm
sure that bands like The Clash, The Damned, Ultravox, The Buzzcocks were
all manufactured. Yes indeed. No doubt about it at all.

It just isn't possible that so many bands could have started up right across
the UK in so short a time unless the whole thing was tapping into something
real at grassroots level (IMHO, of course). Which isn't to say that by the end
of '77, the whole thing hadn't become a sleezy, exploited, hyped-up media
circus. The entire Sid Vicious episode (for a good example) or the Ronnie
Biggs/Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle (for another) were pitiful, and largely
products of McLaren's sad schoolboy mentality.

-- 
Dan Crow
daniel@scs.leeds.ac.uk
From: dsimon@informix.com (Don Simon)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Date: 2 Sep 92 13:38:26 GMT
Reply-To: dsimon@informix.com
Organization: Informix Software

>
>Legend, with Tom Cruise, was pretty bad, too.  Tim Curry was good, but 
>everything else about the movie sucked eggs.
>
>
>
>Eric

WHAT!!!  I love Legend, I happen to like the standard fairy-tale type storyline.  My only regret is that the VHS version has some of the best scenes cut from it.  Oh sure, the special effects (excepting Tim Curry at the very begining) are nothing special, but the soundtrack was great.


Don

There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering KABOOM! Where's my Earth-shattering KABOOM??  - Marvin
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
From: twod@socrates.demon.co.uk (Ian Parkin)
Subject: EUROPEAN TRASH CINEMA 
Distribution: world
Organization: Twod's Software Factory
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 22:34:17 +0000

--
Ian Parkin, twod@socrates.demon.co.uk

Fans of HK Vs US Action Movies read on ...
 
Below is a quote from Eastern Heroes Magazine Vol 2 #1 :

"Double Impact failed to make any impact in Hong Kong. It was taken off the
circuit after only five days and replaced by the box office smash Silence
Of The Lambs. Maybe Van Damme should change his name to Van Lee !"

O ye who doubts the power of HK films repent at leisure. 

Any comments on the quality of big budget action movies versus the new 
wave of cult HK films - Is it Van Damme Vs Yun-Fat ?

I shall see you in A Better Tomorrow

IAP
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From: stocker@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (William Stocker)
Subject: Movie by makers of Re-Animator?
Originator: stocker@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:54:20 GMT

I saw a horror movie the other day that was billed as "by the
makers of Re-Animator", and from what I could surmise it seemed
to be in the same vein (if you'll forgive the pun).

Anyone know the title of this movie?  Is it any good?  (I liked
Re-Animator a lot, but Bride of the Re-Animator wasn't as good.)

Also, my "uncut" laserdisc of Re-Animator doesn't have the
severed head doing cunnilingus scene.  Bummer!

--Will

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