Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION The Anywhere Machine Ok, I admit, I like the goofy movies....

Fright Night II- the guy from Herman's Head, Roddy McDowell and Traci Lind. Don't know what happened to her, but she was a major hottie back then. But this little movie was in the same vein as Once Bitten. I call it a Homedy, horror with more than a little comedy thrown in. Fright night I didn't do a lot for me, for some reason, but this one was fun. Loved the guy that ate the bugs and gave the latin name for them.

Oh, how could I forget Movie Movie ?

A comedy... sort of. Not in the usual sense. A pastiche of a "typical" 1930s double feature, done more or less deadpan-- not as if it were the Zuckers, Mel Brooks or the National Lampoon crew. Definitely an acquired taste, but personally I love it. The first hour is your basic immigrant boxer makes good story. The second hour is the young girl who comes from the sticks and miraculously becomes a Big B'way Star. You see the same actors in both "features," which is part of the fun.

Amazon Women on the Moon- Arsenio Hall when he was funny yelling "No, there ain't f***** Thelma here!" The movie was just vignettes and shorts, but it was funny as all getout.

Among those listed here that would also be on my list...

JOHNNY DANGEROUSLY
SPY HARD
ACE VENTURA, PET DETECTIVE
UHF
SOAPDISH
OSCAR

...and let me add...

ELVIRA, MISTRESS OF THE DARK
STOP OR MY MOM WILL SHOOT

THE BOOGIE MAN WILL GET YOU
("That's moida. It ain't RIGHT t'moida. My mudda tol' me so!")

YOU'LL FIND OUT
(Big Band music in a haunted house-- with Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi AND Peter Lorre all in one film!)

Oscar - great, funny movie. One of Stallone's standout best, probably the best movie he made once he was pigeonholed into 'Action Hero'.

I vaguely remember this one. A kind of slapstick set in the 30's, with him being a gangster?

Yes, and it featured Ornella Muti ("Princess Aura") as his sister!

She played his wife, actually, and man, she was smoking hot...

I also liked her in ONCE UPON A CRIME, where she played John Candy's wife. The running gag of the film was people looking at him and asking, "This is your WIFE?" "Why do people keep ASKING me that?"


I checked her list on the IMDB site and discovered that about 95% of the movies she'd been in were Italian films which will probably never be translated into English... (awwwww)

Talking about her reminds me of the Bald Lady from the first Star Trek movie.

Persis Khambatta-- she was also one of the terrorists in NIGHTHAWKS (my favorite Stallone flick!), and I just saw her in a Stacy Keach MIKE HAMMER episode as one of a group who kidnapped a 10-year-old blind girl and her seeing-eye dog (B******s!!). Gee, didn't she ever play any "nice" parts after ST?

Oh, just found a new little movie that i really like. Shoot Em Up with Clive Owens, Monica Belluci, and Paul Giamatti.

This movie completely reminds me of Hard Boiled with Chow Yun Fat, and it is, in fact, partly inspired by it.

Its twisted, kinky, and lots of good shootin' fun.

And another one that kinda falls in line with me liking what a particular actor does...

Slither- 80's movies like gremlins or Tremors was the inspiration for this little gem. Nathan Fillion is the lead, and the movie is actually supposed to be set here in South Carolina, though they actually filmed it in Canada. It wasn't a big hit, but it is becoming one of the cult status flicks.

I blame Canada.

Thought of two more really goofy movies I don't think I've seen here yet:

Ghostbusters

Kung Fu Hustle (if you haven't seen this movie, it is a hoot).

I'M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA


"What makes you think you've got what it takes to be a BLACK HERO?"

"Umm.... I'm an ex-football player!"

The Brother from Another Planet (really not that "goofy" but off-beat)

Mars Attack ack ack ack ack.... lol


You Kill Me a hit man's career is in jeopardy because of his alcholism.

MEGAFORCE (or as some have called it, MEGAFARCE)!! Hal Needham trying to branch out into bigger-style "action" films.

The really screwy thing about this movie (more than anything else, at least) is if you watch it while knowing that it was SUPPOSED to star Burt Reynolds & Jerry Reed... (I'm not making this up!!) The 2 lead actors in the film are actually trying their best (worst?) to "channel" the guys from SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT.


Meanwhile, Chuck Norris went and did the "serious" version... DELTA FORCE.

My Super EX-Girlfriend.

This movie was panned and no one went to see it, which is unfortunate. My wife and i laughed our asses off at it.

Bought it for five bucks at wally world doing a late night movie binge. Basically said "what the hell, why not."

This movie...is what a Supergirl movie would be if she was a psycho little brat. It was funny as hell in spots and it managed to turn all the cliched superheroine/boyfriend roles on their asses.


For once, Uma Thurman hams it up, but its okay because it fits the actual script. The shark bit was funny as hell, and the car in outer space worked.

I did think that Eddie Izzard was a waste, he's much funnier than this. And with the goofy little goatee, he's starting to remind me of Tim Curry in his later years.

VAMPIRA (1974) -- This is an English horror-comedy (which right away means it's a lot more low-key than a US comedy) about Dracula & his wife in modern-day (early 70's) swinging London. If you've ever seen any of the Amicus anthology films, which tend to have one segment played for laughs, that's what this feels like-- stretched out to a feature film. It's got wildly different reviews online, some call it "the worst movie ever made" (no kidding!), others think it's "witty". It stars David Niven and Teresa Graves (who was sort of the early-70's Hallie Berry before she "got religion" and quit the film business).

Some FOOL renamed it OLD DRACULA when it got to America in a lame-ass attempt to attract fans of the Mel Brooks film YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN. I can only think that must have hurt the film more than anything else, because the 2 styles of comedy could hardly be less far apart.

This was directed by the same guy who did WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT, only with a lot more restraint & style-- at least, until the funky disco sequence (heehee).

The screwiest thing, the other female lead in the film is Jennie Linden, and I'd just watched another film with her in it only 3 days earlier! I mean, what are the odds?? I think I like her better as a brainy brunette than as the redhead she played in DR. WHO AND THE DALEKS.

I have stuff like that happen all the time. I used to keep a log of the strange coincedences when i was a kid, then i decided that if anyone ever found it, i would be taking a trip to the psyche ward, so i tossed it.

Some of my favs:

My Name is Bruce - Bruce Campbell is a god. This movie was great. Played straight enough to make it even funnier.

The Man with the screaming Brain - The single best worst movie with every cliche of Saturday afternoon bad sci-fi/spy movies all rolled into one. Plus, it has Bruce Campbell acting and directing.

Top Secret - Val Kilmer before...he was really famous.

Dev, I have Top Secret, love that old movie. Like Real Genius better, but it wasn't as inspired as TS.

Love Real Genius as well.

Oh man, how could I forget... Love At First Bite with George Hamilton. "come back black chicken, come back..." "children of the night...Shut Up!" Pretty spot on for its time, and well known, but these days its a largely forgotten movie. Hamilton also did Zorro, the Gay Blade, but I didn't find it as funny.