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From: donnell@squid.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous)
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Organization: none
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 04:58:27 GMT

In article <Btx7Es.5I9@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> gfritz@sage.cc.purdue.edu ("Happy Fun Ball") writes:
>In article <1992Aug31.215528.29891@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> mlh@eddy.austin.ibm.com (Mike Haskell) writes:
>>
>> What is the most embarassing movie you have ever seen?  (What I mean by
>> embarassing, is that you feel absolutely miniscule when the lights come
>> up and you HAVE to walk out of the theater with every other bonehead
>> who bought a ticket to this turkey).  Movies on video don't count as
>> your stupidity is hidden by the walls of your house. :-)
>
>I have to say that the only movie that I truly bowed my head in shame after
>paying money to watch was "Robot Jox".  TERRIBLE!!!  I have a feeling that
>"Hook" would've been worse, but I refused to go see it.
>
>(I mean, truly an awful movie)
>
>My opinion,
>Geoff
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I liked "Robot Jox" in a cheesy, sick puppy kind o way. But I am a sucker for 
Giant robots and Stop motion animation. RJ had not enough of either, but 
it wasn't THAT bad...

						--Judex--

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From: donald@dvinci.USask.Ca (David Donald)
Subject: Re: Best gun shotsThe scene from Shane is a great choice. Here's one of my personal
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:36:52 GMT

<JW83HISW@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:

>favorites, from *Robocop*:The old man says "your fired!" to the bad guy.  Murphy says "Thank
> you" and blasts Ronny Coleman right out the boardroom window.

Minor nitpick, but that would have been Ronny COX, of _Beverly Hills Cop_
fame, I believe...it's been a while since I saw _Robocop_.

Dave
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From: charlie@uk.tele.nokia.fi (Charlie Brown)
Subject: Film with the fe/malest cast
Organization: Nokia Telecommunications, Cambridge, UK
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 13:50:49 GMT

A (doubtless nonPC) tangent to the `film with the fewest actors'
question, is which films have the most predominantly male or female
casts. Obviously any one wo/man films are kinda unbeatable, but what
about films with reasonably large casts ? There are probably some
prison dramas and war pics, but even they normally seem to have at
least one sexual counterbalance. I recently saw Reservoir Dogs, which
has a fair size cast, and uses quite a few different locations, but I
don't think there's a single speaking female role (although there is a
very brief female shooting role).

Cheers,
Charlie
fcqv

Anything approximating an opinion is my own
and is not necessarily shared by my company
From: poy@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Stephen Poy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: great voices
Date: 28 Aug 92 12:44:42 GMT
Reply-To: poy@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Stephen Poy)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

Don't forget Eli Wallach (like in the toyata commercials)
or Burgess Meredith (like in the honda commercials).

Great Voices.
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From: le01167@portal.lasc.lockheed.com (Ron Nadel (x2025))
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:20:51 GMT
Distribution: usa
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So far no one has come close to _Plan 9 from Outer Space_ for
dumbidity.

The movie that probably really did embarass the most people I've
seen was _Liquid Sky_, although I really liked the movie I know
many people who were taken by surprise by the eruptive affect of
the scene where the girl performs fellatio on the gay boy (both 
played by the same actress!!), and then takes part in gyrating
crotch-to-crotch saddle position lesbian sex with her lesbian
roomate resulting in one of the more realistic screen orgasms
I've seen; all before a room full of cheering jeering strangers
who are part of a photo-ad crew.  And done totally without
any nudity.

As I looked around, I could sense that most people were very
embarassed by the frank nature of the performances - it seemed
like you were really watching these desperately unhappy people 
having sex, the scene really conveyed a feeling of intimacy
uncovered - and we had witnessed it.

It's a bizarre sci-fi vision from a Russian film _artiste_.  I
know some of you will now run out and rent it for its filmic
qualitites, of course.

Ron
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From: peter@cs.vu.nl (Grunwald PD)
Subject: Re: Least men in movie!
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 12:15:06 GMT

hafner@ifi.unizh.ch (Michel Hafner) writes:

>Which movie has the least men in the cast?
>
>"The Women" by George Cukor: Zero! 
>								M.H.

Another 'good' one is `The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'

There are only two women that actually have lines in this movie:

one of them has just one line - 'all these crooks seem to have a guardian angel'
(on which Lee Van Cleef gives the superb answer: 'this one even got a blond one')

the other gets, after saying a few words, completely beaten up (again by Lee
Van Cleef) (this scene has been entirely cut out in many versions, e.g. the
German version)

Then there is of course the woman in the beginning. As soon as we see her
running to her just-killed son and husband, Lee Van Cleef shoots her, too.

Just One of the many rather cynical traits of this movie!

Ciao,


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From: cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Date: 3 Sep 1992 15:52:21 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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>From: mlh@eddy.austin.ibm.com (Mike Haskell)
> What is the most embarassing movie you have ever seen?  (What I mean by
> embarassing, is that you feel absolutely miniscule when the lights come
> up and you HAVE to walk out of the theater with every other bonehead
> who bought a ticket to this turkey).  Movies on video don't count as   
> your stupidity is hidden by the walls of your house. :-)

When I was a child our family went to see the movie _F.M._
with Martin Mull. Even for a kid who loved movies, it was
a very long 90 minutes. 

I'll also second the person who mentioned _Message from Space_.
I saw that when I was around nine years old. What a bow-wow!
Bad story+bad effects+bad actors.              

Also, there was another one I saw probably in the late-seventies.
I think it was called _Arabian Adventure_ and included an awful
performance by Mickey Rooney. Anybody else see it?


Mark B. Bendiksen
cb366@freenet.cwru.edu
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 We'll just be bogus, too."-- Dr. Jeff Spicolli
From: rcbi27@muvms3.bitnet (DBRUM)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarrassing Movie(s)
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:22:25 GMT
Organization: Marshall University

*One* most embarrassing movie? ...Impossible!

ENEMY MINE
                 }   elstinkoroonie! iiiioooohhhh!
OUT OF AFRICA

--danny
-- 
	"Were his solid black square paintings really,
	as the artist claimed, simply neutral, abstract
	compositions devoid of external references and
	meanings?" ***********************************
From: mjo@ef2007.efhd.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
Subject: Dune glossary handout, anyone?
X-Disclaimer: Not an official spokesperson for Ford OPEO
Reply-To: Mike O'Connor <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
Organization: International Affairs, Overseas Engineering, "Fordz"
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:21:04 GMT

In article <smith.83@panther.adelphi.edu> smith@panther.adelphi.edu
(Jim Smith) writes:

:Its either _Dune_.  My friend had read the book.  She dragged me to the 
:opening day:  "It's ganna be GREAT!", she said.  And we sat there going: 
:"What the?" during the Ride the Giant Sandworm scene.  We were the only 
:people in the theater, even the ushers had stayed outside.  So that must 
:have made us bone(alone)heads.

I ended up seeing this movie with my mom -- told her the book was
complex and hoped that the movie'd be relatively straightforward
without being stupid.  Then before the movie, we got handed this sheet
of paper that defined all the hard words (like "Muad'dib").  I knew
we'd be in trouble from there.



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From: hist1261@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Least women in movie!
Date: 1 Sep 92 11:38:58 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <Btv6pE.I28@fc.hp.com>, munir@fc.hp.com (Munir Mallal) writes:
> JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH (jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu) wrote:
> : hafner@ifi.unizh.ch (Michel Hafner) writes:
> : >Which movie has the least women in its cast?
> : >
> 
> Star Wars?

Just because young Carrie had to strap her breasts down (on Mr Lucas' orders)
when first playing the good Princess Leia, I don't think her femininity was
negated.  Certainly it was reasserted with a vengence in "Return of the Jedi".

No, the answer to the question is fairly clear: "Platoon".  Unless you count
the unseen ear of Chris' "Grandmaw" there are no women at all in this film.

Richard.
From: roby@chopin.udel.edu (Scott W Roby)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Best shots wanted
Date: 27 Aug 92 04:44:43 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

Best shots/scenes:

CARRIE - scene at end when bringing flowers to grave

SOMEWHERE IN TIME - When Jane Seymour is having her portrait taken.
(Nice, subtle special effect used here)  and when Chris Reeves decides 
to check his pockets

PLANET OF THE APES - classic beach scene at end.
(I can't believe noone mentioned this (maybe at the beginning of the 
thread before I started reading?))

PINNOCHIO (Disney) - opening multi-matte shot zooming from hillside in through 
window

NIGHT OF THE HUNTER - the children's moonlight boat ride down the river. 
The music and cinematography are outstanding.

THE FLY (80's remake) - opening credit shot looking like a beehive out-of-
focus slowly focusses into crowd shot at cocktail party

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (original 50's) - body on pool table 
sequence, Becky's last kiss, and the traffic scene near the end.

FAILSAFE - opening and closing shots: very effective

ROBOCOP - sequence showing robocop's P.O.V. during "birth"

FANTASTIC VOYAGE - through the syringe and into the bloodstream

SECONDS - opening and closing shots 

SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD - sword fight with living skeleton


and movies that have only one good shot and that is definitely all they have:

HIGHLANDER II - opening pan around balcony of opera house 

THEY LIVE - first scenes where glasses are used for viewing


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From: donnell@manowar.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous)
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Organization: none
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:26:48 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.130023.6901@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> gckchin@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Kelvyn Chin) writes:
>sboiarsk@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sean L Boiarski) writes:
>: Either Warlock, or High Lander II. Both because of the anticipation factor 
>: involved, and because I had to drag other people to see both movies. Boy was I 
>: red. I had seen trailers for Warlock years before it came out, and asked all my
>: friends to join me for the ritualistic first showing in town. I almost lost 
>: some friends. Same with HL II, fortunately, I was only one of many shmucks in 
>: the theatre who had been led in like lambs to slaughter.
>: 
>: Sean Boiarski
>
>You can say that again! I can't imagine Sean Connery (of all people) 
>running around muttering crap like .." Warriors of the planet Zoist.."
>Can't they find a more dignified name for a planet ?!! But my ultimate
>worst movie was a cheap Z-grade piece of shit which I can't even re-
>member the name. It was about an Egyptian curse (or something) and
>the bad guy (or girl, can't recall) places a beetle on the good guys
>chest and the beetle burrows its way into the guys chest. That's all
>I remember.
>
>The one that comes pretty close is Poltergeist III.
>
>kelvyn

If you can't believe Sean Connery would do HL II, check out that John 
Boorman atrocity , "Zardoz". His dialogue in that is even worse, but
it does feature a lot of nudity and colorful, psychedelic effects.

					--Judex--
From: crisper@deeptht.armory.com (Crisper Than Thou)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: StarTrek IV mistake
Keywords: StarTrek picture
Date: 21 Aug 92 03:07:41 GMT
Organization: The Armory (crisper@armory.com)

In article <1992Aug18.150501.7700@zip.eecs.umich.edu> bailey@emunix.emich.edu (Grand Moff Tarkin) writes:
>In article <1992Aug18.015300.21354@m.cs.uiuc.edu> medanic@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Ivan Medanic) writes:
>>This might have already been discussed but have any of you noticed that when
>>Kirk looks at his sons picture on the desk that it is in black and white. I
>>find this very funny when you consider how far in the future the setting of
>>StarTrek is that they did not use a color picture, when you consider that 
>>black and white picture had probably not been produced in over 500 years.
>>
>>Ivan
>Lot's of people still photograph in black and white.  As a matter of 
>fact, many hobbyists photograph in black and white and develop the pictures
>themselves.  Given that Kirk has a fascination for the antique maybe he
>likes black and white.
>
>
>
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If you want to talk about archaic media being used, you might as well say
 something like "Imagine that-- he has a flat 2-D picture on his desk,
 instead of a fully-rendered moving hologram" or whatever. Since it's very
 hard to even conceive of the possibilities for illustration, recording,
 etc. in the future, I don't see any problem with keeping flat B&W pictures,
 any more than I would balk at the presence of paper-printed books or
 something similar. :)

        --The Elder Dan
        "Ever buy Egyptians from the snake, Taffy?"
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From: schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck)
Subject: Re: Best gun shots...... 
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:42:34 GMT

<JW83HISW@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:

> From *Robocop*:The old man says "your fired!" to the bad guy.  
> Murphy says "Thank you" 
> and blasts Ronny Coleman right out the boardroom window.

In Taxi Driver , when Travis Bickel *first* shoots the Pimp.
It's at night and theres sparks and flames everywhere and
the Pimp is left crying and moaning....


In Taxi Driver [again] when Travis Bickel shoots the mafiosos
fingers off with the .44 magnum....


In Pale Rider , when Clint Eastwood shoots the leader of the
'regulators' in the *exact* same pattern of gunshot wounds that Clint 
has on his body.
From: v118jxyk@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Live Fast, Die Young!)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Best shots wanted
Date: 26 Aug 92 02:07:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Aug25.231547.22171@rigel.econ.uga.edu>, hughes@dogwood.botany.uga.edu (Wayne Hughes) writes...
>In article <1992Aug25.033137.176068@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> dfk0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (David F. Keppel) writes:
>>I think alot of us are interested in b/w classics... and there alot of those!
>         [...]
>>   Hitchcock is "loaded" with some superb shots.
>         [...]
>    In _Frenzy_, the camera moving backwards out of the apartment,
>    down the stairs, and out of the building, all in silence, until
>    we reach the street.  We *know* what's going to happen.

	Look closely at that shot, and you will see that it is actually 2 shots
edited together.....the man outside the building with the bag of oranges will
all of a sudden "jump" positions as he passes the camera.

					Jason
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From: kreme@nyx.cs.du.edu (Not A Random Name)
Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 19:58:01 GMT

dhawk@netcom.com (David Hawkins) writes:

>My Dinner With Andre had 3 -- Andre, Wally, and the waiter.

Swimming to Cambodia had one.  I think.

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From: colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten)
Subject: Re: Apocalypse Now query
Summary: Are you sure?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 12:05:36 GMT

In article <185m2pINNp1l@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen) writes:
> 
> >In article <1992Sep3.161051.290@dct.ac.uk>, mctsrj@dct.ac.uk writes:
> >> Something has been puzzling me for a while.
> >> Its a while since I have seen Apocalypse Now, but I seem to
> >> remember that the narration was credited to someone other                 
> >> than Martin Sheen, although the voice sounds exactly like
> >> Sheen's?                                                     
> >>                                
> >> I s my recollection correct, and if so why didn't Sheen do
> >> the narration?                       
> >> Can anyone help?                              
> >> Cheers                            
>                                            
> >I was fooled too, until I saw the credits.  STill hard to believe
> >it wasn't him when I heard it again.  However, I read that he
> >had a heart attack during filming, so they must have gotten someone
> >to "do" his voice.                         
>                 
>                                                                
> >marc colten
> 
> No, no, no............
> 
> The narration was WRITTEN by someone else, but it was still
> spoken by Sheen.
> 
> Sheen did suffer a heart attack during the filming, which
> prevented him from being on the set for several weeks
> (see the excellent _Hearts of Darkness_ documentary for
> details). However, Sheen did return to finish the film
> and certainly was in fine health when the time came to
> do the looping (post-production when dialogue is
> re-recorded for the film, and when the extra narration
> was presumably added).
> 

Are you sure about this?  I've seen lots of credits and
"Narration ..... <name>" has always meant the voice.  If
it was written by someone - they would have gotten some 
kind of writing credit (Like "Additional material by ..").


marc colten

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From: jason@ab20.larc.nasa.gov (Jason Austin)
Subject: Movies you heard were good but sucked (was Re: Most Embarassing Movie)
Reply-To: Jason C. Austin <j.c.austin@larc.nasa.gov>
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
	<715352065.25571@minster.york.ac.uk> <BD.92Sep3130817@fluent.UUCP>
	<Bu0v9q.Mt3@agora.rain.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:43:57 GMT

In article <Bu0v9q.Mt3@agora.rain.com> hopkins@agora.rain.com (Scott Hopkins) writes:
-> In article <BD.92Sep3130817@fluent.UUCP> bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU writes:
-> >pete@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
-> >
-> >>Mike Haskell (mlh@eddy.austin.ibm.com) wrote:
-> >>: 
-> >>:  What is the most embarassing movie you have ever seen?  (What I mean by
-> >>
-> >>Home Alone. No contest (although it was on at the University film society
-> >>and I didn't pay...) Laugh? I nearly started.
-> >
-> >I wasn't embarassed that I went to see it, but I was disgusted by
-> >my fellow watcher's laughter.
-> >

	Home Alone was one of those movies I kept hearing was great,
went to see it, and hated it.  Seems to be a lot of those lately:

Barton Fink: Had to be the most boring piece of nonsense I've ever
	seen. 

Pump Up the Volume: A few good scenes of Christian Slater doing his
	show, but there was no story progression.  There was some evil
	principal and evil federal commission thrown in to please the
	teenagers, but nothing much else.

Wayne's World: About the same quality of the new Saturday Night.  It
	was funny to start with but the joke ran thin after the first
	ten minutes.  I don't even know how it ended, because I fell
 	asleep.

Robin Hood: A lot of noise.

--
Jason C. Austin
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From: masticol@cadenza.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
Date: 29 Aug 92 17:33:04 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Koyyanisquatsi. But that may be stretching a point about "actors"...

Now if you want films with no _humans_, there might be some nature
pics that would suffice...

- Steve (masticol@cs.rutgers.edu).
From: kfree@fatcity.cts.com (Kenneth Freeman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Best shots wanted
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 01:06:37 PDT
Organization: Fat City Software, San Diego, California

jxxl@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke) writes:

> le01167@portal.lasc.lockheed.com (Ron Nadel (x2025)) writes:
> # In article <1992Aug25.194911.24208@midway.uchicago.edu>, gre2@midway.uchica
> # 
> # >	The Third Man: The closing shot.
> # 
> # Actually, this movie may have 100 great shots with those crazy camera 
> # angles combined and that zither constantly in the background, but my 
> # favorite is when Harry Lime (what a great name!) steps out of the shadows 
> # for the first time!
> 
> He doesn't step out. He's illuminated. But, you're right, a great moment.
> 
> John (movie buff)

 
What's especially great about the closing shot is that 
the director didn't tell Joseph Cotton what was going to
happen. The female lead walked past him, and he kept waiting
to hear "Cut!" He actually threw his cigarette down in disgust.
What other great shots were improvised, if any?

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