Best Worst Ever

Well, seeing as Killer Condom is up there, and as I am the represented manifestation of da rubba, I am compelled to reply.

Best - Amatuer (Hal Hartley), Croupier
Worst - Death Promise and The Never Ending Story

Where's Puking Robot when you need him!?!

never ending story????? That was the first movie I ever saw on cinema, and it rocked!

Best- E.T.
Worst-Mothman Prophecies

sorry to disappoint you, snow white, but NES sucked the big rubbery one.

still, love your quote. do you know who the FIRST member of the rat pack was?

Come on, it wasn't as bad as Free Willy!

Who was the first?

Humphrey Bogart . . . you know the rest . . . Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop.

Satelite Rat Packers - Mia Farrow, Ava Gardner, Lauren Bacall.

Never saw Free Willy. Never liked the title. I always imagined some tinny little boy voice saying, FREE willIE.

So, SnowWhite, are you a fan of their music, too?

actually, I hate Frank Sinatra with a passion.

Shudders.

you rate with my mom. she doesn't like the COB either. still, i grew up with the man with golden arm, so i count myself as one of the faithful. saw him, too, at his last concert at Rockefeller Center. Don Rickles opened for him. It was great. *sniff, tears streaming down cheeks*

The rest of the rat pack are decent, it's just that Frank is such elevator music!

What other music do you like?

You have got to listen to Bim Bam Baby. Great jazzy not at all lift-like muzak. What else do I like, the deluded Wall Streeter that I am. Well, my taste is everywhere and I enjoy listening to most anything. Some might actually surprise you . . . in no particular order

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Blondie - The Cure - New Order - OMD - The Pogues - Loreena McKennitt - Iris Dement - John Prine
- Kraftwerke - Elvis - Johnny Cash - The Pixies - Led Zepplin - Rolling Stones (actually met them on a business trip to Milwaukee) - Dean Martin - josh groban - annie lennox - natalie merchant - Emmy Lou Harris -

I mean it's all over. How about you? What do they listen to over there in merrie olde england.

by the way, ever been to twickenham or richmond?

I know Richmond well, a few of my friends live/lived there. That's where Mick Jagger lives (And Sting?-bleugh!). I know his godchild infact. Oh, and one of my best mates knows the Pogues.

I like- The Pixies, Mudhoney, L7, Baby Chaos, Blondie, The Cure, Nirvana, the old Feeder, Ramones, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Jim Carroll Band, Hole(sue me), Foo Fighters, The Doors, The Sex Pistols (I hate Johnny Rotten now), The Beach Boys, The Smiths, Queen (laugh all you like), Bowie, Radiohead (in moderation though), A, Oasis, Blur, Survivor,Electric Six...
The list goes on...

You're lucky living in New York. It's probably my favourite place to be. I'm going there for a few weeks in the summer. Rates higher than London (even Twickenham?shock shock horror..)

Actually, I *love* Queen. Freddie certainly is missed. And, I certainly forgot to mention the Doors. My mother's boss was a Morrisson roadie and I went to college with his granddaughter.

Bowie rules, too. The line in Major Tom, ...everyone wants to know whose shirts you wear. My dad's a shirt manufacturer.

New York has many plusses and a significant amount of minuses, too. I grew up in the Bronx in the shadow of the great city and lived on the Upper West Side for 5 years. I have a love / hate relationship with nueva york.

Have been to the city in london. My mates are finance stiffs. Twickenham is a lovely place to visit, not sure if I'd live there. Hampton Court, on the other hand, w o w! Loved the maze. Do you read history? Allison Weir done some great stuff with henry the viii and his wives.

doesn't mick jagger have a place is st john's wood? or is that the expat local of choice?

I've been to Hampton Court. Understatement of the year. I'm fucking dragged around it infact. Over seas family friends love going to those kind of places, so I can remember it pretty well.
More of a chore really.

London and New York are great places to be if you have money I suppose. Not that i'm saying I do or I don't, but I'm sure you get me.

I always cringe when I hear people talking about Twickenham, simply because the reason people usually talk about it, is because of the Rugby stadium. My dad loves Rugby, whereas I do not, and he spends most of the weekend watching it-it has made me bitter about Twickenham!

New York seems a friendly place for tourists, whereas London are not hospitable. I'd really love to live in Long Island though, I stayed at some family friends place there, when I was thirteen, and since then, never wanted to grow old anywhere else but there.

I only really went to the bronx to see the Yankees play. I have this love for baseball, so I had to go. I'll be going again in July no doubt!

didn't know that about twickenham. the rugby, i mean. my best friend moved there last march with his wife and daughter. there's a pub near richmond green (?), the cricketeer and also the prince's head. great places. i played cricket a few times, even belonged to a club in maine. long island is great, but i much prefer cape cod. still, amagansett is very nice and not so posh.

new york is in fact very friendly to tourist. new yorkers in general are very friendly people, yet suffer from a bad rep. don't know why. all the ***holes i know are bridge and tunnel folk. well, almost.

you don't meet many brits that like baseball. do you play?

Not for a team, but I used to have a mit, and a ball. I'm really into basketball. More than baseball. It's a shame that it hasn't taken off as much as it could here, baseball and basketball that is. I love playing Basketball at school, I'm one of the two girls that play with the boy's group, twice a week.
The english equivilant of Baseball, rounders, is shocking.

I know those pubs! Last time I went past them, all the drunken men started wolf whistling me and a friend. Pretty nice that they could dislocate themselves from Sky Sports, cricket etc for a second...not.

Richmond green is very dangerous infact. Lots of muggings and rape attacks.

you're kidding me! rapes. muggings. what's a posh nabe to do! i'll have to let m'mates know about the odious and cruel behaviour exhibited there. sadly, it must be those creeps hanging out at the pubs, wolf whistling at the hot flaxen haired lasses. (if it were last my, it could've been me howling) there are a few other places i ventured into looking for dangerous fun, but, as i later discovered, were franchises - the slug and lettuce, piano and pitcher (maybe the other way 'round) and banks (a wine bar). seemed like a lot of night life if you're into that kind of thing. i live in ny so i am into the night life. tonight i am meeting folks at my favorite watering hole - the blind tiger. great beer, ale, barley wine and lager from all over the world.

never heard of rounders. maeks sense though. didn't a brit "invent" basketball. nesmith, something like that? bet his family could get a piece of the nba. college chum of mine played in the italian league, banked a lot of lira. very popular in europe. more popular than most americans realize.

well umm.... my vote for Best Worst Movies would be:

Reefer Madness- I still need to see all the other anti-drug propoganda films that came out in that era, there are a load of them.

Nailgun Massacre- If you can find this movie BUY IT! (or rent it) it has got to be one of the best movies ever made and everytime you watch it there is something new everytime and it taught me many things like: you can die from a rubber nail wound in the arm.

Mr. T's Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool- HILARIOUS video narrated by BA Barracas; see Mr. T rap and (attempt to) breakdance all while teaching very valuable life lessons.

Any movie from Ed Wood, Ray Dennis Steckler, or Ted V. Mikels

so there....

If you liked Nailgun Masacre (pronounced cree) you'll love Death Promise. Own It! Watch It! Live It!

hmm- ok- just to make sure- by 'Best Worst' i mean- films you love EVEN though they are really TOTAL HORSE-SHIT.

people really are not understanding this best/worst thing...
one of my best/worst films that i've seen recently is swimfan!

"Return to Horror High"--george clooney's first movie, and the best B horror movie ever made

"warlock"--saw it on TV once and it was like a car wreck--i wanted to, but i just couldn't look away

"Halloween"--do i really need to explain?

Warlock! Julian Sands!?!?! GENIUS.

add to that also- the Amityville Horror ( the first one, not one of the myriad spin-offs )... so funny.

also "The Langoliers" made-for-TV miniseries. shit yeah.

speaking of TV movies, im quite partial to 'Atomic Train'with Rob Lowe, and 'Death Train' with Pierce Brosnan etc-- something about TV movies with trains that seem to get me going.

Wes, are you talking about 'guilty pleasure' movies here? Like movies that we know we should hate but love anyway? Cause my vote for that would have to be 'The Wedding Singer.'

also, "what dreams may come". i saw it on a weird day, and bawled my eyes out at it.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by jane s. [/i]
[B]Wes, are you talking about 'guilty pleasure' movies here? Like movies that we know we should hate but love anyway? Cause my vote for that would have to be 'The Wedding Singer.' [/B][/QUOTE]

Yes, precisely. Nicely put Jane. 'Guilty Pleasures'..... exactly.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by insomnomaniac [/i]
[B]"Return to Horror High"--george clooney's first movie, and the best B horror movie ever made

"warlock"--saw it on TV once and it was like a car wreck--i wanted to, but i just couldn't look away

"Halloween"--do i really need to explain? [/B][/QUOTE]

Warlock kicks ass! But, Warlock III-The End of Innocence is even funnier! I've seen all three, but someone'll have to refresh my memory about the second.

Other amazingly brilliant BMovies:

'Camp Blood' (probably my favourite)

'Camp Blood II'. Quote: victim:'Why are you doing this?'
killer: 'Why?Why? that's the question I ask god every day...' ha ha.

'Witchhouse'

'The Fear II:The Halloween Night' I would really like to know whether anyone else has seen this movie. It's about a couple of teenagers who go stay at this guys house for a halloween seance dressed as their fears. The evil guy is a wooden american indian mannequin (that looks more like it's out of Latex!). Anyway, it's got some great lines, and the acting is shocking.

'Critters3' Leonardo Di Caprio is an adolescent in this, that helps tackle some Gremlin like creatures which have appeared in a basement. The funniest bit of this was probably Leo saying to his step father 'DON'T CALL ME SPORT!'...

This list goes on..

critters 3 is the one where the critters all join together and form on giant ball critter and roll over people, eating them as they roll, right?

i love that one.

Planet of the Vampires. e nuf sed.

-10 Things I Hate About You (so bad it's good, and i love the soundtrack)
-Shakespeare in Love (haha yeh so what?)
-Notting Hill (ok this is actually a good film, i just don't like to admit that i like it lol)
-Sliding Doors (same as Notting Hill)
-You've Got M@il (!"&*"%&*%)
-All of the Austin Powers films (love em to bits)

Worst: The Ninth Gate (hands down)

Best: The Godfather parts I and II

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by insomnomaniac [/i]
[B]also, "what dreams may come". i saw it on a weird day, and bawled my eyes out at it. [/B][/QUOTE]

Same here. Damn movie kicked me right in the sack. So to speak...

All right then...Driller Killer, Return of the Living Dead part 2, some shite about fish-men coming out of the sea and raping every woman in sight, Piranha and a whole crapload of other bad horror films (though I have yet to see Sub-Humanoid Meltdown 3). I got far too much pleasure out of Strictly Ballroom and Grease.

anyone seen dead alive? wasn't that an aussie flick too?

*doesn't think people are getting the bestworst concept*

stupidity is a virtue

Okay, I put E.T when I was in one of those 'life is beautiful and precious like a flower' moods. It is one of my favourites though. So I'm going to ask myself the question again.
Best-The People Vs Larry Flint, Fight Club, American History X, E.T...

Decisions Decisions. And before some clever dick says, 'hey, 3 out of the 4 movies have Ed Norton in..' I noticed!

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by RuByLiCiouS [/i]
[B]*doesn't think people are getting the bestworst concept* [/B][/QUOTE]

yeah, youre right.

how fucking hard is it guys?

ill put it this way [b]'what films- that if youre friends knew you watched-would never let you live it down?'[/b]-- i.e. 'Guilty Pleasures'

Alright, Wes, I'll try to recover this thread in the right direction.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by RuByLiCiouS [/i]
[B]-10 Things I Hate About You (so bad it's good, and i love the soundtrack)[/B][/QUOTE]

I can't fucking believe I agree with you on this one. It almost pisses me off that I like this, just because it's against everything I think is good and right in movies.
I'm not sure what some of you kids think is an awful movie. I love the stupid humor movies like Space Balls, Dumb and Dumber, etc.
Oh man, a great one that's so horrible yet absolutely genius is Mars Attacks! Huge cast, horrible plot, but absolutely brilliant.

Mars Attacks was genius in the genre of bad filmmaking. I love that thing and I'm not ashamed to admit it!

Another classic that I'm semi-ashamed of: Bio-Dome. Knox brought it to my attention. Horrible, horrible movie, yet I couldn't help but love it, Paulie Shore and all.

Best - [u]American Beauty[/u] (Don't hate me, please)

Worst - [u]That Darn Cat[/u]

Okay, I know it's for five year olds, but..um.. Problem Child.