The sf&f movie "guilty pleasure" list
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Krull would belong amongst the worst mediocre films IMO. Personally, I just can't stand a hero that breaks down and weeps pathetically early on in the movie, it just doesn't work for me.
It does have rather cool effects tho for its time.
Don't you dare dis this movie, I've never seen better child actors than in this one. Not where kids so young have to carry such a big part of the movie, and do it so believably and successfully.
Has anyone mentioned The Black Hole yet in this thread? I just (semi)watched it again, got it on DVD... It's spectacular, from a nonsensical, bizarre, almost surreal aspect. At times it is fascinating, at others - laughable. Usually this happens when it comes to the terribly poorly executed robots, which in action sequences are either muppets or just empty mannequins.
There's some strange non-adherence to basic scientific facts too, such as the lack of need to breathe in open space around the probe ship. I guess they just started to run out of budget at that point in the movie and had to cut corners... Also, black holes aren't REALLY vortex-shaped in reality, and quite a bit larger in size than what is depicted on-screen, but I am willing to forgive the movie all of that just because of the magnificient sets we see. The ship itself is awesome.
They just don't make sci-fi movies like this anymore... For better and for worse.
There's some strange non-adherence to basic scientific facts too, such as the lack of need to breathe in open space around the probe ship. I guess they just started to run out of budget at that point in the movie and had to cut corners...
Also, black holes aren't REALLY vortex-shaped in reality, and quite a bit larger in size than what is depicted on-screen, but I am willing to forgive the movie all of that just because of the magnificient sets we see. The ship itself is awesome.They just don't make sci-fi movies like this anymore... For better and for worse.
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Holy crap!
I have to ditto your whole list practically verbatim. That's kinda scary. Damn... I was just about to add Lawnmower Man to your list, but I hadn't read far enough before instinctively hitting the quote button - you have that one too!
Trust me, its your age. You grew up with it. Its all nastolgia. The movie is poo.
I agree, I cant stand it actually. It lterally makes me sick.
The_Wolf_Who_Cried_Boy
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Agreed!
Edit: Huh, has Marjorie Monaghan, Marjean Holden, and Brion James in it. Hopefully this will be remastered in HD.
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Seconded. One big geek laugh.
Really hard to understand that the next Dan O'Bannon script that was turned into a movie was Alien. The two movies couldn't be further apart.
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neither will you be the last as i ditto that.
hey69 said:
that's what i though too until i saw ultraviolet.. *shivers*
since then i've been regarding aeon flux as smoothly watchable.
That's a guilty pleasure? You must be a massochist.
Oh no, now you've completely made me forget about work and I just want to rush home!