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Post by voiceofreason on Jan 8, 2007 0:53:59 GMT -5
What are your favorite cheesy sci-fi movies? "Cheesy" meaning either "I would never admit to friends (or enemies) that I like this movie" or "sooo bad but sooo good".
I will start with (in no particular order):
-Flash Gordon---Sam Jones and the killer Queen soundtrack
-Starship Troopers (Doogie)
-Deep Rising (Cliff Curtis-dead yet again-oops spoiler)
-Deep Star Six---underwater monsters eating pretty people
-TANK GIRL
-Ghosts of Mars
-Deep Blue Sea---LL Cool J and parrrot take on giant smart sharks (oh and Samuel L. Jackson stops by).
-Split Second--Rutger Hauer tries to save flooded London from MONSTER
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Post by brittany on Jan 8, 2007 11:00:52 GMT -5
How was Ghosts of Mars? I was so close in actually buying that movie on DVD after I saw Crank with Jason Statham...
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Post by voiceofreason on Jan 8, 2007 13:23:52 GMT -5
Ghosts of Mars is a blast. Jason and Ice Cube especially are havin a lot of fun. You've got colonists infected by Martian ghosts out to kill everything. The bad guys and good guys have to join up to survive. Turn off the brain and just enjoy.
And, good additions Marilyn. Anything with a sci-fi theme certainly fits.
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Post by filmbuff on Jan 8, 2007 15:34:52 GMT -5
What a fabulous thread! 
I'll throw my vote out for The Forbidden Planet. Leslie Nielsen and Anne Francis (you can refresh your memories on either the Netflix or imDb sites).
And, certainly all those GIANT INSECT films made in the 50's (Lot of that was based on nuclear/Cold War hysteria). Its not limited to the fact that we have become accustomed to terrific graphics, but the acting was a so stiff. And, best of all the dialog keeps me in tears with laughter; especially the lines like "no place for a woman".
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Post by voiceofreason on Jan 8, 2007 16:38:55 GMT -5
Definitely Forbidden Planet!!! I didn't want to reveal just how old I was right away in this posting. I love the older sci-fi films.
A few favorites:
-Tarantula
-Monster on Campus
-Black Scorpion
-Green Slime
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Post by filmbuff on Jan 8, 2007 18:14:53 GMT -5
Well, Voice, I think most of us here are of a "certain" age. Which is why I always get a kick out of the stats that Sci-Fi channel uses to reach their core audience of males 18-40. I'm neither, 'course being female I never really would have been. 
You'll notice that several of us remember the original Twilight Zone and Outer Limits. Not to mention seeing Star Wars in the theater for the first time in the 70's. Of course being 20+ then or 13 would be different and no one claims which they were at the time!
Anyway, you don't need to be older to catch these "cheesy" gems on the tube. A lot of cable systems with premium channels run them especially on weekends or late at night. And, so many in b/w - ah for the good OLD days.
Maybe we should another weird top ten list - do you remember---
a telephone with a dial
banana bikes
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Post by voiceofreason on Jan 8, 2007 19:05:44 GMT -5
Or:
Life before cable channels and vcrs
Pong as a hi tech video game
8 track tapes
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Post by punctuator on Jan 8, 2007 21:37:48 GMT -5
... and before microwave ovens!  Someone mentioned "Dark Star" on the Evil Pinbacker-- *dang*-- I just labeled him AGAIN, didn't I-- thread. How the heck could we forget "Dark Star"? (Well, I guess we didn't, 'cause several of us just mentioned it, but, umm--) WOW, WHAT A SLICE OF CHEESE. Muffin-tin space suits AND a beach-ball alien-- all by guys who went on to do Big Important Stuff in the genre. Not to mention very cool uses of two scientific space facts: 1. Radio waves don't travel nearly as fast as you'd like them to, and 2. Being in space for too long makes you NUTS. What I will add to the list: Leviathan. Another Velveeta of the Deep. Having Peter Weller's cheekbones and laser-blue eyes on hand doesn't hurt a bit. In fact, his laser-blues get to do battle with the laser-blues of Meg Foster, whom I honestly believe to be from another planet. As well as from "Flash Gordon," referenced above. John Carpenter's The Thing. Which is-- don't get me wrong-- a fine, fine film. But it gets the cheese nod for the following exchange: "What the hell is it?"/ "I dunno-- but it's weird and p*ssed off!" And for the head that sprouts spider legs and skitters across the floor. The Tingler. Novelty-horror-master William Castle's supreme schlockfest! Brides of Dracula. Technically-- like "The Tingler"-- horror, I know: but Hammer deserves a nod. As does Peter Cushing. And his cheekbones. Predator. "I ain't got time t' bleed!" You tell 'em, Jesse!! The Core. Which makes the cheese list only 'cause so darn many critics smacked it. I get a real old-fashioned Jules Verne kick out of it. And it kinda sorta reminds me of the plot of this upcoming film about a team of science types sailing off somewhere very warm to fix some big hot thing that got itself broken....  |
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Post by punctuator on Jan 9, 2007 4:37:28 GMT -5
And three more....
Demolition Man. Stallone... knits! Snipes goes blonde! Bullock wishes she were an Oscar Mayer wiener! And what the heck are the shells in the bathroom for, anyway...?
Total Recall. Also known as Total Rebate in more retail-minded corners of the universe. Best eyeball-poppin', chick-fightin', human-shield-usin' Ah-nuld flick set on Mars EVER!
The Running Man. Mick Fleetwood, Richard Dawson, more Jesse, more Ah-nuld, and more than a dash of shiny gold spandex add up to a new world that's maybe a little too brave for the more sensible among us. But this IS the Cheese Thread, after all! And the exploding-head-trick thing is WAY cool!
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Post by voiceofreason on Jan 9, 2007 4:47:07 GMT -5
Sure, and here I was hopping on to add Demolition Man. Hammer is in a class all by itself.
Let us not forget the glorious spoof Hardware Wars.
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Post by punctuator on Jan 9, 2007 4:51:07 GMT -5
Or Buckaroo Banzai. "LAUGH WHILE-A YOU CAN, MONKEY-BOY!"
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Post by punctuator on Jan 10, 2007 6:07:05 GMT -5
And remember: "Basketball's a people planet...!"
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Post by Amanda on Jan 10, 2007 13:29:46 GMT -5
Deep Blue Sea is probably the most amazing film I have ever seen in my entire life. They play it on the cable channel around here all the time. I absolutely cracked up when I realized that Samuel L. Jackson was in it (I didn't remember that he was), and then he got eaten.
"That's IT! I have had it with these motha f**kin' sharks on this motha f**kin'--*GETS EATEN*"
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Post by filmbuff on Jan 10, 2007 14:19:50 GMT -5
He uses the same line in Snakes on a Plane but is not eaten or biten.
"I'm tired of these MF snakes on this MF plane"
And, oh, BTW, I only rented the film to see JUST how bad it was - it exceeded my expectations. I did laugh a lot though.
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Post by chero on Jan 11, 2007 14:04:34 GMT -5
Deep Blue Sea is probably the most amazing film I have ever seen in my entire life. They play it on the cable channel around here all the time. I absolutely cracked up when I realized that Samuel L. Jackson was in it (I didn't remember that he was), and then he got eaten. "That's IT! I have had it with these motha f**kin' sharks on this motha f**kin'--*GETS EATEN*" I watched this film when I was younger and I was terrified! Poor little parrot....and that guy on the stretcher!!!  I never expected that to happen. No way!! Hmmm....now that I'm thinking about it, I really should have waited until this thread came up to post about my favorite slice of sci-fi cheese, Lost in Space. |
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I never expected that to happen. No way!!