I guess I don't speak for all of the BLAD council, but figured I'd get the ball rolling (presuming its not already rolling somewhere else)
When making your own lists (and please post them in response to this) the important thing to remember is to follow the inane logic of the AFI lists - pick your arbitrary "weird" genres (i.e. exploitation as opposed to horror or action) and include questionable choices...
TEN BEST EXPLOITATION FILMS:
1. Night of the Living Dead (1967)
2. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
3. Spider Baby
4. Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
5. Suspiria
6. Halloween
7. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
8. Valerie and her Week of Wonders (right)
9. Succubus
10. Species
MOST GLARING OMISSION: Evil Dead 2.
TEN BEST BAD MOVIES
1. Plan Nine from Outer Space
2. Glitter
3. Robot Monster
4. Showgirls
5. Myra Breckenridge
6. The Brainiac
7. Glen or Glenda?
8. The Apple
9. The Happening
10. Bloodrayne (pictured!)
MOST GLARING OMISSION: The Tingler
Other genres left out by AFI:
FOODIES :
#1: Like Water for Chocolate
Most obvious pandering to mass appeal:: Chocolat
Most glaring omission: The Cook, the Thief, the Wife and Her Lover
CLASSROOM INSPIRATIONAL:
#1: To Sir with Love.
Most obvious pandering to mass appeal: Dangeround Minds
Most glaring omission: Maedchen in Uniform (1931)
DRUG, DRINK & RECOVER:
#1: Lost Weekend,
Most obvious pandering to mass appeal: 28 Days
Most glaring omission: Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde (1931)
I made some lists also on Acidemic, the Acidemic top tens for, among other things, the Amok Children genre
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
BLAD Top Tens by Genre
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Glitter was on Dutch TV lately. Apparently, they decided there weren't enough Mariah Carey fans left to sell it on her... so they advertised it as "a movie SO bad, you HAVE to see it".
I actually think the most glaring omission on that particular list is Southland Tales. I thought it was a glorious mess, and I enjoyed every minute of it (simultaneously heckling it with four like-minded friends, of course).
TENNIS MOVIES
Strangers on a Train
The Witches of Eastwick
Match Point
As far as top exploitation movies go, I would toss out Plan Nine and Glen or Glenda, which I personally found too depressingly plodding to enjoy (as well as Beyond the Valley of the Dolls) and replace them with Foxy Brown, Coffy, and Brian De Palma's Sisters, which was bloody as well as rather stylish. And what about Basket Case?
And as for great bad films, my most guilty pleasure is the hideous eighties teen comedy Just One Of the Guys, with in my opinion the greatest line in all of cinema: "It's all right...he has tits."
The Woods were in the best of worst section, along with Just One of the Guys - which should actually be in its own category: Gender Benders.
I originally had COFFY in the top exploitation, but Spider Baby is by the same director and better, in my opinion. As for Foxy Brown, it's probably my least favorite, very nasty with oodles of rape and degradation and not much revenge and that Huggy Bear is one ugly ass mo fo.
Ten Best Bad Movies
1. The Turkish Wizard of Oz
2. The Turkish Star Wars
3. The Turkish Star Trek
4. The Turkish Titanic
5. The Turkish Gone with the Wind
6. The Turkish Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
7. The Turkish Dog Star Man
8. The Turkish The Searchers
9. The Turkish Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
10. The Turkish Utamaro and His Five Women
Oh Gary, methinks thou art a turkophile
I'm glad you've included The Happening in the list of bad movies. I can't stand the film.
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