The ultimate cheesy movie marathon

[barsoomcore]

Saw Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter in the theatre and have to vote for that one. GREAT fun. Hideous, but hey, Mexican wrestlers!

 

[Nuclear Platypus]

Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster

That was when Godzilla flew via his nuclear halitosis?

Don't forget some of the old Gamera movies (Gamera is really neat, Gamera is full of meat, every kid loves Gameraaaaaaaa!), the Fantastic Four movie that was released straight to video, the pilot for the Justice League live action series, TMNT 3 (add TMNT 2 if you wanna hear the 'Ninja Rap') and Vanilla Ice's movie debut 'Cool as Ice'.

 

[LeapingShark]

Cheesy for me would be "not high drama or high art, and not to be taken seriously; just pure basic fun!"

- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Master of the Flying Guillotine (the one with the old blind man and his decapitator-hat-on-a-chain, plus kareem abdul jabbar with 15' long arms, the monkey-man, and the one-armed boxer)

 

[Wolf72]

OK, I want to do a cheesy movie marathon, give me ideas. My first two titles are Hawk the Slayer and Bubba Ho-Tep.

whoa ... you just mentioned Hawk the Slayer ...

*wolf shudders* ... man, that was the coolest movie ever ... when I was a kid. I don't think I'd be able to sit and watch more than a few minutes of it without breaking out in laughter though.

 

[Teflon Billy]

whoa ... you just mentioned Hawk the Slayer ...

*wolf shudders* ... man, that was the coolest movie ever ... when I was a kid. I don't think I'd be able to sit and watch more than a few minutes of it without breaking out in laughter though.

Their gloomy, monotone, homicidal elf (Crow I think his name was) did more for our circa-1983 D&D portrayals of elves than Legolas, Elrond or Arwen ever did.

Glorfindel however was our example Paladin

 

[Wolf72]

Their gloomy, monotone, homicidal elf (Crow I think his name was) did more for our circa-1983 D&D portrayals of elves than Legolas, Elrond or Arwen ever did.

Glorfindel however was our example Paladin

Oi Oi! agreed ... that's no machine gun, that's my elf archer! Legolas was a much preferred name though.

 

[CarlZog]

To me, "cheesy" is movies that weren't supposed to be funny -- but are.

The reasons can range from production value to just being outdated.

A few favorites:

Damnation Alley
Beastmaster
The Sword and the Sorcerer
Red Sonja
Omega Man
Mazes and Monsters

 

[SSquirrel]

For specific Ed WOod films, you must have Plan 9 From OUter Space adn Glen or Glenda in the mix. The Ed WOod film starring Jonny Depp is very well done as well if you want more info on Ed.

Manos Hands of Fate is a movie friends have mine have claimed to be worse than Plan 9. Sadly I've never seen it, but you can buy teh MST3K version on DVD which has teh original version PLUS the MST3Ked version together heh. Mitchell was another horrible MST3K flick.

Frankenhooker should be part of your bad movie night as well.

Hagen

 

[Mister Underhill]

For good cheese, you can always go for the Patrick Swayze double-ticket: Point Break, in which Swayze portrays an X-treme bank robber who matches wits with FBI agent Keanu Reeves (!), and Road House, in which Swayze teaches us the Zen of Bouncing.

 

[billd91]

whoa ... you just mentioned Hawk the Slayer ...

*wolf shudders* ... man, that was the coolest movie ever ... when I was a kid. I don't think I'd be able to sit and watch more than a few minutes of it without breaking out in laughter though.

I love Hawk the Slayer (from a cheesy movie point of view). I own it on DVD. It's a far better D&D movie than the D&D movie, at least in capturing the feel of how FRPGs are actually played.