A Potentially GREAT Bad Movie Weekend
May. 19th, 2006 07:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomWell, this oughta be fun.
I'm gonna go on Sunday to see Over the Hedge, which looks pretty darn good. But that's not the focus of my attention this morning.
It appears as if there's a decent chance that the overhyped movie version of The DaVinci Code may actually have a Tomatometer reading in the same general area as that of See No Evil, the WWE-produced slasher movie starring Glen "Kane" Jacobs.
Bluntly, I don't know why anyone's surprised. Not having read the book, everything I've heard about it sounds like The Illuminatus Trilogy Very Lite. But, more importantly, the screenplay is by Akiva Goldsman.
"But he won an Oscar™ for A Beautiful Mind!" I hear you cry. "He wrote Cinderella Man!"
He also wrote Batman Forever, Batman and Robin, and Lost in Space.
I have a theory regarding Mr. Goldsman, and by it I do not mean him any insult -- hell, those three bad films are among the most entertaining cheesy flicks evah. My theory, that which is mine and belongs to me, is this (ahem): Mr. Goldsman doesn't do over-the-top well.
There are a few ways to do over-the-top. Some don't work. Batman and Robin are fighting Mr. Freeze in the museum. One of the guards yells, "Our lungs are freezing!" Hah? B&R click their heels and ice skates pop out. Hah?
(On the other hand, in that very same movie, Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy comes out in a pink gorilla suit, which she slinks out of to the strains of a really good instrumental version of "Poison Ivy". That works. That's one of the only shots in the movie that works for me. Granted, I laughed till I cried. But I guess that's why it worked. It was audacious, not merely dumb.)
Or Independence Day. Vivica A. Fox, complete with kid and dog, outruns an alien fireball, dodges flying auto parts, and kicks in a metal door, all in heels. And we're supposed to be worried about her character and the kid and the stupid dog. Feh.
Then there's my definitive good example, the one that always sets![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
huskiebear to laughing, which is in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! There's a spaceship landing, see, and a US diplomatic envoy out to meet the aliens 'n' stuff, and there's a red carpet just out there in the landing area, and when the spaceship lands it lowers a ramp that lines up precisely with the edge of that red carpet.
That's funny.
What are your favorite over-the-top movie moments, good and bad? (Although try not to list too many from Mel Brooks, Monty Python, or Abrams/Zucker films -- that's too easy.)
I'm gonna go on Sunday to see Over the Hedge, which looks pretty darn good. But that's not the focus of my attention this morning.
It appears as if there's a decent chance that the overhyped movie version of The DaVinci Code may actually have a Tomatometer reading in the same general area as that of See No Evil, the WWE-produced slasher movie starring Glen "Kane" Jacobs.
Bluntly, I don't know why anyone's surprised. Not having read the book, everything I've heard about it sounds like The Illuminatus Trilogy Very Lite. But, more importantly, the screenplay is by Akiva Goldsman.
"But he won an Oscar™ for A Beautiful Mind!" I hear you cry. "He wrote Cinderella Man!"
He also wrote Batman Forever, Batman and Robin, and Lost in Space.
I have a theory regarding Mr. Goldsman, and by it I do not mean him any insult -- hell, those three bad films are among the most entertaining cheesy flicks evah. My theory, that which is mine and belongs to me, is this (ahem): Mr. Goldsman doesn't do over-the-top well.
There are a few ways to do over-the-top. Some don't work. Batman and Robin are fighting Mr. Freeze in the museum. One of the guards yells, "Our lungs are freezing!" Hah? B&R click their heels and ice skates pop out. Hah?
(On the other hand, in that very same movie, Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy comes out in a pink gorilla suit, which she slinks out of to the strains of a really good instrumental version of "Poison Ivy". That works. That's one of the only shots in the movie that works for me. Granted, I laughed till I cried. But I guess that's why it worked. It was audacious, not merely dumb.)
Or Independence Day. Vivica A. Fox, complete with kid and dog, outruns an alien fireball, dodges flying auto parts, and kicks in a metal door, all in heels. And we're supposed to be worried about her character and the kid and the stupid dog. Feh.
Then there's my definitive good example, the one that always sets
huskiebear to laughing, which is in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! There's a spaceship landing, see, and a US diplomatic envoy out to meet the aliens 'n' stuff, and there's a red carpet just out there in the landing area, and when the spaceship lands it lowers a ramp that lines up precisely with the edge of that red carpet.That's funny.
What are your favorite over-the-top movie moments, good and bad? (Although try not to list too many from Mel Brooks, Monty Python, or Abrams/Zucker films -- that's too easy.)
