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Post by timforston on Sept 30, 2010 21:40:22 GMT -5
www.wired.com/underwire/2010/08/cheesiest-sci-fi-films/?pid=564&pageid=43332this is a list of the so called 24 cheesiest sci fi films of all time and WTF how could anyone put tremors on this list i just dont understand it blows my mind most of the movies on the list i agree with but GGGGGRRRRRRRR some people just amaze me and whenever yall read this i am probably still walking around shaking my head in frustration
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Post by timforston on Sept 30, 2010 21:44:53 GMT -5
the only positive i can put on this is the overwhelming response in the comments to have tremors removed from this list
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Post by project412 on Oct 1, 2010 5:27:16 GMT -5
haha, I love the comments its getting.
Tremors is not cheesy at all. Its a classic. The sequels and TV series are cheesy, but that's what makes them so great
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Post by timforston on Oct 1, 2010 6:01:39 GMT -5
absolutely they are a hilarious kind of cheesy
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Post by captbart on Oct 1, 2010 11:14:26 GMT -5
I guess you have to define Cheesy before you can add a movie to a list. Calling Plan 9 cheesy is a slam dunk; it's why I own it and watch it. Same with most (actually not the original) Godzilla movies. Cheesy to me means poor acting, lousy plot, and bad special effects. Plan 9 hits a trifecta on that score. The original Godzilla had some poor special effects, but the story had a message to bring to the table and some of the acting was OK (alright, I was ready to FEED the crying female to Godzilla myself about 37 seconds into the film but different culture, different style). While the CGI stuff in the series wasn't my favorite, it was not bad. I'd argue that any of the Tremors movies and shows had plot, developed characters, and good acting. The old 50's "Giant Gila Monster' was cheesy beyond belief for example while 'Them' had a good plot and acting but mediocre special effects (not bad by the day's standards but not Ray Harryhausen stuff). I try to judge the special effects by the standards of the day. To judge Willis O'Brien's work in the 1933 version of King Kong by the standards of the remake of 'Day the Earth Stood Still' is dishonest. Given that criteria I think the special effects in the Tremors group is well above the level one might expect from the production price range. By any measure, including Tremors in the 'cheesy' list says more about the guy putting it together than it does about the movies. I enjoy bad Japanese monster movies and they are pretty cheesy. Gorgo was perhaps the worse thing I've ever seen (not bad F/X but they should feed the kid to the monster!) but I'm not sure I'd rate that as cheesy. It had good F/X but the acting was, well, British and the plot a little lame. Real cheese has to meet all 3 requirements, at the time it was produced. Tremors meets none of them, in my not so humble opinion.
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Post by project412 on Oct 1, 2010 17:06:03 GMT -5
I see where you are going, with hoe the tremors movies are a much better quality than most of those films I just mean some of the concepts are kinda cheesy, though they work perfectly and are 100% enjoyable. I didn't mean cheesy like so bad its good, but more just the way some concepts were done, like the ABs and such. Shoulda been more specific.
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Post by project412 on Oct 7, 2010 5:28:14 GMT -5
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Post by captbart on Oct 7, 2010 10:29:29 GMT -5
412, Thanks for the link. Some of those were so bad I had forgotten them ... The lists brought up a whole new crop of bad movie memories. When I was a kid, the local station used to run a Friday night show called Weird followed by late Weird. There were some really winners there!
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Post by captbart on Oct 12, 2010 16:12:02 GMT -5
I remember one night when I was a kid ... about 9 or 10 and I was watching late weird (my parents indulged their rather strange son on his tastes in movies)- some zombie, creepy monster thingy (don't actually remember exactly). When the creepy music started I'd start sliding back from the TV, cause I knew the monster was going to jump out and eat everybody, until I backed into the piano that was in the living room. Well I'd backed up, the music was at its peak creep and I guess I'd raised the seat on the piano bench because my toes were between the lid and the seat. I know this because my oldest sister(who was as blind as a Graboid) came down the hall (my attention riveted to the TV, I didn't hear a thing) and sat down on the stool just as the monster jumped out and started eating people. I was trying to pull myself away from what ever it was eating my toes, my sister was trying to avoid getting thrown off the now wildly bucking seat, both of us yelling our heads off and my father quickly in the room laughing himself sick at the spectacle in the room. I forever lost interest in zombie type movies after that. Still like the shows but I was careful to follow Black Hand Kelly's advice and always keep the door where I could see who was coming in to the room.
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