Guilty Pleasures/Bad Movies
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Originally posted by Basilisk:
[b]I have never been able to stomach The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I feel as though there is a hole in my education without it, but I just can’t watch it. [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/frown.gif[/img][B]
There is, indeed, a hole in your education. I am constantly amazed by this film. It’s brutally intense, and people continue to be convinced that it’s an exceptionally gory film, yet there are only 2 scenes of bloodletting, both involving people getting their hands cut (and only for a few seconds at that). Ahhh, [i]Saw[/i], how I love thee.
quote[quote][B]If any of you had to put together a sci-fi movie list of 10 films that were required viewing for literacy in the genre, what would you choose? [/b][/quote]
1) [i]2001: A Space Odyssey[/i]
2) [i]Alien[/i]
3) [i]The Thing[/i] (either version, though I prefer John Carpenter’s)
4) the [i]Star Wars[/i] series (it’s 4 films going on 6, and I’m cheating, but there you go)
5) [i]Forbidden Planet[/i]
6) [i]The Day the Earth Stood Still[/i]
7) [i]Godzilla[/i] (1956, particularly the original Japanese version, sans Raymond Burr)
8) [i]Videodrome[/i]
9) [i]Quatermass and the Pit[/i]
10) [i]Blade Runner[/i]…And no, I wouldn’t include any [i]Star Trek[/i] vehicles. They just don’t cut it.
–Aleck