I find The Langoliers to be a genuinely entertaining movie.
― sedentary lacrimation (Abbott), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
langorly??
― fleetwood (s1ocki), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
This was prompted by watching Maximum Overdrive and Pet Sematary at 2am on Saturday night. Both movies have quite enjoyable bits.
― kingfish, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
The killer coke machine has remained lodged in my memory for 20+ years now.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.nxfansite.net.au/movies/petsematary1.jpg
― kingfish, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd take out Lawnmower Man since Stephen King successfully sued to get his name off it. Replace it with Creepshow!
― da croupier, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
creepshow is awesome, tho!
creepshow 2 would prob qualify for entertainingly bad.
― original bgm, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
making a distinction between "awesome" and "incredibly bad" seems foolish when dealing with stephen king.
just showing films he wrote himself might do the trick:
SleepwalkersPet SemataryMaximum OverdriveSilver BulletCat's EyeCreepshow
― da croupier, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
"awesome" and "entertainingly bad," i mean
― da croupier, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, I feel you on that.
and now that I think of it, did king write anything for creepshow besides that redneck plant dude thing he starred in? prob one of the weakest segments in the film.
― original bgm, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
he wrote the whole screenplay, according to imdb/wikipedia
― da croupier, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
ah.
anyway, the best one has gotta be leslie neilson vs ted danson
― original bgm, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.best-horror-movies.com/image-files/creepshow-tide-you-over.jpg
― original bgm, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
creepshow top 5 material for real.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm thinking the crucial balance will be between entertaining terribleness and just outright boredom. There are parts of Maximum Overdrive and Pet Sematary, to use them as examples again, where it's just kinda 'enh.' The pacing halfway thru MO just dies.
Then again, both movies also have enjoyable parts; from the coke machine to the killer ice cream truck to Fred Gwynne's accent to the toddler munching on Fred Gwynne's throat to Pascow the Helpful Bloody Ghost.
― kingfish, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Maximum Overdrive really shoots its wad in that first 20 minutes or so. How do you top a kid getting run over by a steamroller?
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
― da croupier, Tuesday, January 19, 2010 4:32 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
shouldn't that give it like extra-special bonus points?
― fleetwood (s1ocki), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link
!!! I suspect all of my memories of this flick are from those 20 min...
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd take out Lawnmower Man since Stephen King successfully sued to get his name off it. Replace it with Creepshow!― da croupier, Tuesday, January 19, 2010 4:32 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalinkshouldn't that give it like extra-special bonus points?― fleetwood (s1ocki), Tuesday, January 19, 2010 8:25 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
shouldn't that give it like extra-special bonus points?― fleetwood (s1ocki), Tuesday, January 19, 2010 8:25 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
For badness? Not really, since it's been established that King has terrible judgement about which of his own adaptations are good and which are bad.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I have a weird affection for Lawnmower Man, it's a fun movie.
― ô_o (Nicole), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 03:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Lawnmower Man was the first movie related to him that I saw in the theaters, as I
1) was 162) loved bad CGI & early-90s VR hype
― kingfish, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 04:14 (fourteen years ago) link
what of the fuck you talkie bout, Green mile is more than u could ever be so why not try to understand the artist directions before u go off running ur hairy mouth
― Ponger12, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 04:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Whoa, that was quick.
― kingfish, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 04:28 (fourteen years ago) link
We're done told.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 04:28 (fourteen years ago) link
well whut movies do u like then crap like Far and Away geez
― Ponger12, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 04:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Far and Away is scarey.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 04:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Lawnmower man features a chimp-cam lets not forget.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:28 (fourteen years ago) link
he didn't like Salem's Lot??
― piscesx, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:53 (fourteen years ago) link
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
true but in this case i feel like it's a special moment of critical/kingian rapprochement
― fleetwood (s1ocki), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
what of the fuck you talkie bout
― ice cool HOOSicle (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno, if i was holding a king marathon i'd want King-ian craziness, not some lame-o CGI bullshit that shares nothing with his work but a title - save that for the "oh wow COMPUTER ANIMATION" marathon with Hackers, etc.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
man do i miss college, sometimes
http://movies.infinitecoolness.com/it/richie/tn_it-richiewp01.jpg
Seth Green
― kingfish, Thursday, 21 January 2010 09:21 (fourteen years ago) link
watching "Graveyard Shift" now, and while the horror aspect is largely forgettable, I like its depiction of late-20th Century blue-collar life in New England
Oh yeah and Brad Dourif's in it
― kingfish, Thursday, 28 January 2010 08:44 (fourteen years ago) link
And random googling pops up with this:
JJ Abrams and the Lost guys drive up to Maine to hang out with the guy, and wind up going to the movies with him.
― kingfish, Thursday, 28 January 2010 08:50 (fourteen years ago) link
The langoliers is good until the langoliers show up. That is some really bad CGI.
― toastmodernist, Thursday, 28 January 2010 12:28 (fourteen years ago) link
xxp: Graveyard Shift was one of my favorite King stories when I was a kid. As such, I have both always and never wanted to see the film.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 28 January 2010 12:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Watching 'Christine' now. This is surprisingly watchable, due to John Carpenter knowing how to make a movie, doing the music, and the flick being filled with character actors(including Harry Dean Stanton!)
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Monday, 8 February 2010 05:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Saw Sleepwalkers, Secret Window, and Needful Things in the last few days.
Sleepwalkers is now on my list for my potential Stephen King viewing night.
And Alice Krige was hottttttt in it. And Madchen Amick.
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 07:20 (fourteen years ago) link
And on a related note, the scene where house cats save the day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBeMZFjGYh8
― Sex Sexual (kingfish), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 07:29 (fourteen years ago) link
What's the ceiling that dago painted?
― johnny crunch, Monday, 21 August 2017 23:42 (six years ago) link
partially eclipse inspired, i watched dolores claiborne tday for the first time. a bit overlong w some telegraphed beats & its crazy how many one-shot closeups there are but in general p decent and compelling
― johnny crunch, Monday, 21 August 2017 23:44 (six years ago) link