Favorite cheesy, B-Movies
I’m a little embarrassed to write that, in this household, Howard the Duck is played at least once a year. The ‘real’ SF comedy nerd (who also controls what we watch) thinks it’s a classic.
He also revisits B&W pre-WW2 films, whatever he can find. He did confess over the weekend that he can’t stand the Marx Bros, and won’t be downloading any of their output for our nephew. (Shame. Duck Soup had apparently showed up on a list, I would have liked to see it again)
I wonder if I can talk him into getting The Cars That Ate Paris??
joanne said:
I’m a little embarrassed to write that, in this household, Howard the Duck is played at least once a year. The ‘real’ SF comedy nerd (who also controls what we watch) thinks it’s a classic.
He also revisits B&W pre-WW2 films, whatever he can find. He did confess over the weekend that he can’t stand the Marx Bros, and won’t be downloading any of their output for our nephew. (Shame. Duck Soup had apparently showed up on a list, I would have liked to see it again)
I wonder if I can talk him into getting The Cars That Ate Paris??
Now that's a great bad movie.
Along this thread drift, I have to say I was never a fan of the Marx Brothers either, or the Three Stooges, but I'd sit down and some Abbott and Costello or Laurel and Hardy anytime.
I love the Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges, but would never ever put them in the same sentence.
oh! This is certainly the time to get into a couple of classic Chaplins!
And maybe some of the other silent greats? There was a very funny spoof made about 10, 15 years ago by some Kiwis, supposedly unearthing a hidden cache of a national-hero status silent-era director’s reels. @marksierra might remember the one I’m trying to name. Our ABC showed it.
I recommend "Real Genius" - a goofy comedy with a young Val Kilmer (filmed at Pomona College)
If you like that, then try the even sillier "Top Secret" with Kilmer as an Elvis-type singer in WWII era Germany. There are horrible puns and songs. It was made by the same team who made "Airplane!"
EBennett said:
I recommend "Real Genius" - a goofy comedy with a young Val Kilmer (filmed at Pomona College)
If you like that, then try the even sillier "Top Secret" with Kilmer as an Elvis-type singer in WWII era Germany. There are horrible puns and songs. It was made by the same team who made "Airplane!"
good choice. Real Genius is one of my favorite movies. I just watched it again last week.
joanne said:
I’m a little embarrassed to write that, in this household, Howard the Duck is played at least once a year. The ‘real’ SF comedy nerd (who also controls what we watch) thinks it’s a classic. 0
When I lived in Berkeley, I spent a fair amount of time in Albany, CA at the Mallard Club where they had a Playduck Poster from that movie on the wall of their mens room. It could be disconcerting at times.
I love the Beatles movie, Help. Hard Day's Night got better reviews as an "Art Film" but I like the humor and pacing of Help.
Eddie and the Cruisers is a cheesy melodrama about an early 60s Jersey rock & roller who perished (or did he?) in a car accident just as his band was about to break big. It was a box office flop, but it ran constantly on HBO in the early '80s, which was enough to gain it cult status. The story is pretty hokey, but the soundtrack, supplied by John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band is really good bar band music, and the story is very, very New Jersey 
DaveSchmidt said:
I love the Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges, but would never ever put them in the same sentence.
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Depending on the mental age/age of innocence you're trying to reclaim, the Peanuts/Charlie Brown movies are fun. (I've just been reading an article about a retrospective, on the BBC website http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20181112-good-grief-the-beguiling-philosophy-of-peanuts )
There might be a remake in the works for "Night of the Comet" which was a fun '80s movie where two teenage sisters survive the passing of a comet that turns nearly everyone else to dust. Not high-budget or incredibly profound, but Catherine Mary Stewart and Kelli Maroney bring a great energy to the film.
drummerboy said:
yahooyahoo said:yup
Tremors with Kevin Bacon.
My other half just ran cringing from the room... 
Not even sure what defines a B movie anymore.
There used to be movie theaters that only showed them. I saw An American werewolf in London in one of those and loved that movie.
Also Brewster McCloud (showing my age).
Since it was mentioned on here - just heard the news that there may be a Northern Exposure reboot!
Was thinking of The Warriors. It works.
How about Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (and VOTD for that matter)
have we mentioned Land that Time Forgot? Plan 9 From Outer Space; and The Day The Earth Stood Still? Love those special FX. 
seeing this lovely article reminded me of the Monty Python films, and then all the Mad & National Lampoon movies. Not horror or SF necessarily (although some have appropriate sequences), but do they do help fill time and distract the mind?
Article: hooray for Eric Idle, now PhD:
““Vice Chancellor Professor David Lloyd said it was a joy to bestow the honour to Idle, who he described as "a man who has mercilessly lampooned Yorkshiremen, Scots, Australians, Canadians, Germans, French, lumberjacks, Judeans, Pharisees and Romans — though notably, not the Irish".
"Though Eric Idle has spent a good deal of time in his career dressed in women's clothing, and has a performance wardrobe full of cardigans, we're going to add to his dress collection tonight with some academic clothing," he said.
The evening concluded on a more philosophical note, with Idle reflecting about a subject tackled by Monty Python, the meaning of life.””
Well done, Bruce! 
Sorry. 
I'm thinking of the enjoyment factor, and the ability to so totally immerse yourself in trying to breathe the air of the filmed universe.
joanne said:
have we mentioned Land that Time Forgot? Plan 9 From Outer Space; and The Day The Earth Stood Still? Love those special FX.
The Land That Time Forgot is a definite B-Movie and a major guilty pleasure for me. I also enjoyed its sequel The People That Time Forgot and the the middle film (which wasn't related but was made by the same company) At The Earth's Core. All 3 had Doug McClure in them, and he was my idol at the age of 6. I loved At The Earth's Core so much I decided I was going to be a movie director when I grew up.
Then next year Star Wars came out and I suddenly stopped caring about dinosaurs.
ridski said:
joanne said:The Land That Time Forgot is a definite B-Movie and a major guilty pleasure for me. I also enjoyed its sequel The People That Time Forgot and the the middle film (which wasn't related but was made by the same company) At The Earth's Core. All 3 had Doug McClure in them, and he was my idol at the age of 6. I loved At The Earth's Core so much I decided I was going to be a movie director when I grew up.
have we mentioned Land that Time Forgot? Plan 9 From Outer Space; and The Day The Earth Stood Still? Love those special FX.
Then next year Star Wars came out and I suddenly stopped caring about dinosaurs.
And Plan 9 is a definite way-below-B-Movie.
drummerboy said:
ridski said:And Plan 9 is a definite way-below-B-Movie.
joanne said:The Land That Time Forgot is a definite B-Movie and a major guilty pleasure for me. I also enjoyed its sequel The People That Time Forgot and the the middle film (which wasn't related but was made by the same company) At The Earth's Core. All 3 had Doug McClure in them, and he was my idol at the age of 6. I loved At The Earth's Core so much I decided I was going to be a movie director when I grew up.
have we mentioned Land that Time Forgot? Plan 9 From Outer Space; and The Day The Earth Stood Still? Love those special FX.
Then next year Star Wars came out and I suddenly stopped caring about dinosaurs.
Oh, for sure.
I get a hankering for on the edge of straight to video action movies from the 80s and 90s every now and then, my favorite being Walter Hill's Extreme Prejudice, starring Nick Nolte and Powers Boothe chewing up the scenery. It some amazing quotable lines, with a writing team of Deric Washburne (Deer Hunter, Silent Running) and Harry Kleiner (Bullitt, Fantastic Voyage), with a story by John Milius and Fred Rexer. It's a fun mess of a movie, but I love it.
Maybe for me they’re all caught up with the memories of sitting up back of Valhalla cinemas and giggling, and reciting the lines, and rolling Jaffas (or Maltesers) down the wooden floorboards for added sound FX...
It’s a bit like the fine appreciation of spaghetti Westerns. Not usually my thing, but certain films take me back to Uni days and a bunch of us watching in Italian and having very late nights that seemed to last all weekend.
Edited to add: D has just informed me he's downloading 2019, After the Fall of New York. Goodness. :0
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UHF - "Weird Al" and a long shaggy-dog story leading up to that "Supplies" closet. Wildly funny if you're in the mood, or 11 to 13 yo.