Chat Thread 34: Something I Shouldn't Be Chatting About

The Grey Wolverine · Post by **The Grey Wolverine** » Sat Jan 14, 2012 5:04 pm

It is slowly making you awesome.

sonic id furreh!!! · Post by **sonic id furreh!!!** » Sat Jan 14, 2012 5:12 pm

whoa o.o.............. really?

Sat Jan 14, 2012 5:40 pm

Sleet wrote:
Tiggy wrote:Pfft, we all know Jackie Chan is the absolute best.
<3 Jackie Chan.

Even when it's fake animated Jackie Chan.

Bad day bad day bad day bad day bad day...

fake animated Jackie Chan was awesome. I loved Uncle.
"AYAAAH"

TensaZangetsu · Post by **TensaZangetsu** » Sat Jan 14, 2012 6:38 pm

Jackie chan is super awesome

Seth · Post by **Seth** » Sat Jan 14, 2012 7:19 pm

Oh mannnnn
Jackie Chan adventures
I just nostalgia'd hard.

I'm thinking about getting a Rocky Horror Picture show poster to hang in my bathroom.
Partly because I love Rocky horror, but mostly to creep out my suitemates(and my roommate

).
thoughts?

Post by **Sleet** » Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:32 pm

I think it'd be awesome.

RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:
Sleet wrote:
Tiggy wrote:Pfft, we all know Jackie Chan is the absolute best.
<3 Jackie Chan.

Even when it's fake animated Jackie Chan.

Bad day bad day bad day bad day bad day...
fake animated Jackie Chan was awesome. I loved Uncle.
"AYAAAH"

One mooore thing...

Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:36 pm

Sleet wrote:
RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote: "AYAAAH"
One mooore thing...

"hands are faster than the eye. *kick* but you should have been watching the foot."

The Grey Wolverine · Post by **The Grey Wolverine** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:26 am

sonic id furreh!!! wrote:whoa o.o.............. really?

Yes

Seth wrote:Oh mannnnn
Jackie Chan adventures
I just nostalgia'd hard.
Indeed

I'm thinking about getting a Rocky Horror Picture show poster to hang in my bathroom.
Partly because I love Rocky horror, but mostly to creep out my suitemates(and my roommate ).
thoughts?

There is a movie theater in Bridgewater I think, that the first Friday of every month shows the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and people always show up to see it. I'm thinking of going soon.

KJOokami · Post by **KJOokami** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:40 am

I really don't understand what people see in Rocky Horror Picture Show.

I tried watching it last semester at college because several of my friends are HUGE fans (they had actually recently gone to some special event commemorating it not long before), but I honestly couldn't find much of anything about the movie that would make it even bearable enough to see more than once, let alone develop into a cult following.

Can anyone explain to me the intended appeal to it? Because I really don't get it. @__@

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:43 am

it doesn't take itself to seriously, and the characters are goofy and enjoyable.

Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:44 am

like most things with cult followings, you either love it or you don't like it at all. there's no way to explain it.

KJOokami · Post by **KJOokami** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:46 am

I suppose so.

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:52 am

RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:like most things with cult followings, you either love it or you don't like it at all. there's no way to explain it.

Psykeout wrote:it doesn't take itself to seriously, and the characters are goofy and enjoyable.

or you could analyze the film systematically and decide what's good or bad about it.

Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:57 am

well honestly I've never seen the whole thing. just a little of the beginning. but yes, I suppose it's more like some people really love it, and the ones who don't can't tell why and can't explain it.

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:23 am

I would say it's very easy to not like, because It's of very low technical quality and isn't even really a story so much as a bunch of things happening.

Post by **Sleet** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:29 am

Anyone seen The Room? That movie's got a similarly creepy following, but it's more "this movie sucks" than "this movie is goofy."

Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:31 am

never seen it, but I know it's supposedly awesomely terrible.

Snakes on a Plane was also awesomely terrible, but not as much.

KJOokami · Post by **KJOokami** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:36 am

I think the main reason I disliked it as much as I did is because the only thing it seemed to be trying to accomplish was to be as raunchy and over-the-top sexual as humanly possible. It seemed like it was trying to make a statement (what kind of statement, I've got no clue), but then just said "screw it" and made every other character gay, bisexual, or transgendered, gave them a sex scene, and called it a day.

I dunno. Maybe I was just expecting more from it because of all the hype my friends were making about it. *shrug*

And I only know what The Room is because of NC's review of it. XD

"I did naht heet her. I did nahhhhhht-- oh hai Mark."

Post by **Sleet** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:52 am

It's very quotable. Also quite inappropriate. It's rather indulgent, which is part of why it's so famously terrible.

The Grey Wolverine · Post by **The Grey Wolverine** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:54 am

Sleet wrote:Anyone seen The Room? That movie's got a similarly creepy following, but it's more "this movie sucks" than "this movie is goofy."

I HATE that movie, bu it is so funny. Look into the Nostalgia Critic's review of it, it involves Sea Horses taking over the world.

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 2:26 am

KJOokami wrote:It seemed like it was trying to make a statement (what kind of statement, I've got no clue)

In lexington, we have a big party around Halloween dedicated to Rocky to celebrate how our culture doesn't need to be sexually repressed.

Anyway, like I said, it doesn't take itself so seriously, so no, it wasn't making a statement. That's the exact opposite of what it was doing.

KJOokami wrote:but then just said "screw it" and made every other character gay, bisexual, or transgendered, gave them a sex scene, and called it a day.

THIS is what they were trying to do. Everything is just silly and over the top.
How much you enjoy it depends on how you decide to watch it. It's a great B-Movie, and a terrible Movie.

Post by **Sleet** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 2:27 am

Guys, let's be careful not to break the forum rating.

Sun Jan 15, 2012 2:33 am

Psykeout wrote:a great B-Movie, and a terrible Movie.

don't those pretty much mean the same thing? aren't all great B-movies terrible movies?

Post by **Dissension** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 2:36 am

I'm a big fan of StrobeHawks.

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 2:43 am

RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:
Psykeout wrote:a great B-Movie, and a terrible Movie.
don't those pretty much mean the same thing? aren't all great B-movies terrible movies?

No, B movies are movies that were shown to supplement the A Movies at the drive in, and were there-for subsequently usually bad. But you didn't come to see the B movie anyway, so who cares if it's bad. It's like saying "Man this music sucks." Well yes, of course it sucks. You're listening to a humorous phone conversation. The sooner you stop saying that it has no rhythm and start noticing that it's quite hilarious the sooner we can all get to enjoying things again.

KJOokami · Post by **KJOokami** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:27 pm

So basically, every great B-movie is a terrible movie, but not every terrible movie is a great B-movie.

Seth · Post by **Seth** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:29 pm

RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:
Psykeout wrote:a great B-Movie, and a terrible Movie.
don't those pretty much mean the same thing? aren't all great B-movies terrible movies?

Indeed
B movies make something so terrible it's good
and thus they are the highest form of human art.

(Snakes on a palne being the best example of this underappreciated art form)

Psykeout wrote:No, B movies are movies that were shown to supplement the A Movies at the drive in, and were there-for subsequently usually bad. But you didn't come to see the B movie anyway, so who cares if it's bad. It's like saying "Man this music sucks." Well yes, of course it sucks. You're listening to a humorous phone conversation. The sooner you stop saying that it has no rhythm and start noticing that it's quite hilarious the sooner we can all get to enjoying things again.

you need to become a movie critic

Post by **Sleet** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 2:18 pm

KJOokami wrote:So basically, every great B-movie is a terrible movie, but not every terrible movie is a great B-movie.

That's an excellent way of putting it.

Foxstar · Post by **Foxstar** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 3:49 pm

Pretty much.

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 5:57 pm

Seth wrote:(Snakes on a palne being the best example of this underappreciated art form)

Snakes on a plane isn't a B-Movie. They don't make B-Movies anymore. I guess Indie movies are the "modern" B-Movie, but they're not USUALLY so-bad-it's-good material.

Seth wrote:you need to become a movie critic

Being a part of That Guy With The Glasses is a secret wish of mine.

Alastair · Post by **Alastair** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 6:04 pm

Are movies like Napoleon Dynamite considered B-movies?

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 6:15 pm

B-Movie used to mean the other half of a double feature, but CAN still mean "any low budget movie."

That being said, Napoleon Dynamite wasn't exceptionally low budget.

Mettlebird · Post by **Mettlebird** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 6:20 pm

How about the Anaconda movies? Those things were AWFUL. And yet, I love them! They were so horribly written and had some pretty crappy actors, sort of like the Halloween series. Those movies were great movies, but horribly acted (for some of them) and just had a rather repetitive storyline. It was the same movie something like five times, just in different locations and with some different people. For both Halloween and Anaconda. Yet they're still somehow pretty awesome. At least to me. *shrugs* I dunno.

Alastair · Post by **Alastair** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 7:06 pm

Mettlebird wrote:How about the Anaconda movies? Those things were AWFUL. And yet, I love them! They were so horribly written and had some pretty crappy actors, sort of like the Halloween series. Those movies were great movies, but horribly acted (for some of them) and just had a rather repetitive storyline. It was the same movie something like five times, just in different locations and with some different people. For both Halloween and Anaconda. Yet they're still somehow pretty awesome. At least to me. *shrugs* I dunno.

According to Psyke, those movies and the sort can be considered B-movies. I also think that all of the SCI-Fi channel original movies can be considered B-movies.

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 7:17 pm

I don't know that TV movies count.
It's just a small production company doing a small movie.

Wikipedia will clear up any uncertainty you have.

KJOokami · Post by **KJOokami** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 7:19 pm

I used to love watching Sci-Fi creature films. XD Well, I still do, I just don't get to do as often because most of the new movies they put on "SyFy", as they call it now, are just bad. Not funny bad; just bad-bad.

I think one of my favorites was one of the alligator or croc ones. Can't remember which one. I just remember laughing hysterically as it rampaged around some resort-type place, chasing people all over the place like the old Scooby Doo cartoons. Limbo like me.

McFly · Post by **McFly** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:31 pm

I believe that was Dinocroc vs. Supergator, but I could be wrong.

Seth · Post by **Seth** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:47 pm

KJOokami wrote:I really don't understand what people see in Rocky Horror Picture Show.

I tried watching it last semester at college because several of my friends are HUGE fans (they had actually recently gone to some special event commemorating it not long before), but I honestly couldn't find much of anything about the movie that would make it even bearable enough to see more than once, let alone develop into a cult following.

Can anyone explain to me the intended appeal to it? Because I really don't get it. @__@

Because this
and Tim curry in drag 'nuff said.

Alastair · Post by **Alastair** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:56 pm

Okay, since we're talking about sci-fi stuff: What do you guys think is the BEST science fiction movie to come out in the past ten years?

Seth · Post by **Seth** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 9:00 pm

Probably District Nine
that was such a cool flick