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the_siobhanI've been trying to cut down on my caffeine consumption. I've had a killer headache for two days that has been completely impervious to any kind of painkiller, including codeine. Today I finally broke down and bought myself a coffee.
My head feels fine.
Can you say, "addict"?
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What is the best bad movie you've ever seen? What is the worst?
My best is an old black-and-white called The Creeping Terror. It's one of those things that you only ever see on television at 4 in the morning after you've been out gettin' stupid all evening. It was supposedly about an alien monster that crash-landed on earth and went around eating people, but the monster was a shag carpet with some guy underneath it. Occasionally you could see his feet sticking out. It was so low budget they didn't have a sound-stage - they used a narrator who explained what was happening. We started keeping count of how many times we saw the same actors being devoured more than once. The monster would magically just appear inside buildings with no explanation of how it got there, and the scale kept changing. And the entire ending was narrated - they didn't even bother to play it out.
My favourite scene was where the monster attacks a couple who are making out in a car. After a ten minute of roaring and heaving, the monster finally devours the man. Then the terrifying shag rug turns back towards the car, and instead of being half-way to Istanbul, the chick is still sitting there. I thought I was gonna pee.
The absolute worst movie I have ever seen in my life has to be Event Horizon. The premise was interesing enough - somebody invents a drive that allows a spaceship to cross through dimensions and so travel faster than light speed. Except that the dimensions change the nature of the ship and the crew goes mad.
The actual execution sucked beyond suckage. Instead of doing something interesting with it, they turned the dimension into hell and made it a typical scream-and-chase flick. Since nobody is actually afraid of hell, they couldn't manage scary, so they just made the movie really startling. It would be really quiet quiet quiet quiet quiet then REALLY FUCKING LOUD NOISE. Really dark dark dark dark dark then sudden REALLY FUCKING BRIGHT LIGHT. As a friend put it, "By the end I was afraid of the movie."
So whatcha' got?
My head feels fine.
Can you say, "addict"?
What is the best bad movie you've ever seen? What is the worst?
My best is an old black-and-white called The Creeping Terror. It's one of those things that you only ever see on television at 4 in the morning after you've been out gettin' stupid all evening. It was supposedly about an alien monster that crash-landed on earth and went around eating people, but the monster was a shag carpet with some guy underneath it. Occasionally you could see his feet sticking out. It was so low budget they didn't have a sound-stage - they used a narrator who explained what was happening. We started keeping count of how many times we saw the same actors being devoured more than once. The monster would magically just appear inside buildings with no explanation of how it got there, and the scale kept changing. And the entire ending was narrated - they didn't even bother to play it out.
My favourite scene was where the monster attacks a couple who are making out in a car. After a ten minute of roaring and heaving, the monster finally devours the man. Then the terrifying shag rug turns back towards the car, and instead of being half-way to Istanbul, the chick is still sitting there. I thought I was gonna pee.
The absolute worst movie I have ever seen in my life has to be Event Horizon. The premise was interesing enough - somebody invents a drive that allows a spaceship to cross through dimensions and so travel faster than light speed. Except that the dimensions change the nature of the ship and the crew goes mad.
The actual execution sucked beyond suckage. Instead of doing something interesting with it, they turned the dimension into hell and made it a typical scream-and-chase flick. Since nobody is actually afraid of hell, they couldn't manage scary, so they just made the movie really startling. It would be really quiet quiet quiet quiet quiet then REALLY FUCKING LOUD NOISE. Really dark dark dark dark dark then sudden REALLY FUCKING BRIGHT LIGHT. As a friend put it, "By the end I was afraid of the movie."
So whatcha' got?
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Date: 2006-10-14 04:52 pm (UTC)Worst: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083550/
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Date: 2006-10-14 05:16 pm (UTC)I honestly think that the best bad movies I've seen have all been ones where it actually wasn't about the movie at all, but rather was about the company. We had a hell of a time watching (I think?) Jeepers Creepers. It wasn't a hilariously bad movie itself, but it just had a whole lot of opportunities where you could yell at the characters for being idiots, and we all seemed to be in the mood for that at the time, so much yelling was done.
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Date: 2006-10-14 05:18 pm (UTC)Andy Warhol's Frankenstein.
It used to be my favourite movie. I went to see it in the theatres all the time. There was a rep theatre back home that had an odd fetish for it (ironically).
However, it gets better.
One day they announced a new twist.
Andy Warhol's Frankenstein IN 3D
Seriously, someone went and painstakingly 3D-ized the entire movie. It was hilarious and utterly pointless. It retained the "WTF?!?!" factor of the original, but added a lot of more basic hilarity. The part where the guy gets impaled on the huge pike and there's this incredibly fake-looking jiggling organ stuck on the end was side-splitting in 3D.
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Date: 2006-10-14 05:23 pm (UTC)We have it if you ever want to borrow it. ;) (On VHS.)
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Date: 2006-10-14 06:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-14 09:19 pm (UTC)It was a bit of a cult favourite with some of the acid heads I used to hang out with.
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Date: 2006-10-14 05:27 pm (UTC)Highly quotable, sampled by Skinny Puppy, Joe Delassandro's ass, and UDO!
Worst would be John Carpenter's Vampires. Stupid in the extreme not to mention gut-wrenchingly misogynistic (I know there's going to be a lot of non-feminist content in horror movies. I accept that. This movie, however, just went WAY beyond).
I actually wrote a paper for a Women's Studies class about how a porn movie, called Pornogothic (http://www.vampyres-online.com/pornogothic.html) (only
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Date: 2006-10-14 06:28 pm (UTC)Now THAT'S addiction
Clinical Evidence
Date: 2006-10-14 07:14 pm (UTC)My head feels fine.
You have discovered what clinical researchers have known for a long time...
"Caffine prevents headaches!"
TADA!
See, coffee gets a bad wrap. Everyone says it's bad for you, but it's not really and it has a lot of things that are quite good including more anti-oxidants than any fruit or vegetable, it's fairly well established that it reduces the risk of parkinson's disease (http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/283/20/2674). There is also considerable evidence that it decreases the risk of type II diabeties (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=12433517&dopt=Abstract) and of liver cirrhosis. (http://www.cosic.org/coffee-and-health/liver-cirrhosis)
The relationship between coffee and Type II Diabetes is not very well established, but the inverse correlation between coffee and parkinson's disease has about 2 dozen studies supporting it. The relation between coffee and cirrhosis is a relatively new finding.
The things you need to worry about:
1). Unfiltered coffee can raise your cholesterol, but if you have ok cholesterol, no prob.
2). It will deplete about 1/2 a cup of milk's worth of calcium/liter of coffee, but if you get plenty of calcium, again not a problem.
3). The headache you get is from the arteries in your head dialating, or should say not constricting. Caffeine is vasoconstrictor for blood vessels going to the head, but a vasodialtor for blood vessels in the torso. It's the added pressure on your brain that is giving you the headache. Hence it's use in early head ache formulations (blood thinner aspirin + anti=inflmmatory aspirin + vasoconstrictor coffee = less pressure near brain.)
No one really knows the long term effect of vasoconstriction on brain blood vessels, but there is enough epidemiological info to suggest there is no long term ill effect.
4). lack of coffee makes people irritable. :D Hence, the reason why mormon's dont drink it; they ran out midway between the trip from Springfield, IL to SLC, UT and deemed it "evil."
I encourage your addictions!
jv
You may be better off with aspirin with a caffeine headache than codeine.
Re: Clinical Evidence
Date: 2006-10-14 08:56 pm (UTC)Re: Clinical Evidence
Date: 2006-10-14 09:15 pm (UTC)I don't have anything against coffee (I've also read it's really good for asthma symptoms) but I get pissy when I have to do anything not by choice.
PS Cholesterol a touch high, and I'm lactose-intolerant, so who knows how much calcium I get.
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Date: 2006-10-14 07:23 pm (UTC)That's actually on my 'best of the bad' list. I love Event Horizon. :D
I don't actually have a number one best, as it's too hard to decide between all of the ones I love. But, I do have a number one bad: Ax 'Em (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0349113/). This is some serious bad.
Runner up to that is Flesh for the Beast (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372921/). ugh.
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Date: 2006-10-14 09:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-15 06:53 pm (UTC)Here's what I got
Date: 2006-10-15 03:41 am (UTC)Best movie ever: Blade Runner, the Director's Cut. Simply the Best. Pure. Science. Fiction. Movie. EVAH. Practically no special effects, just great cinematography and set design, plus great acting. You have to get the Director's Cut because in the original version they added a lame-ass voice-over because they assumed the audience would be too dumb to follow the plot. The Director's Cut also includes the unicorn dream, which makes the whole movie make sense. Honorable mentions go to Strange Days and Cube.
Worst movie ever: Disney's The Black Hole. Everything about this movie sucked. I saw it once when I was about 8, and even then knew I would never see a worse movie in my life. Somehow, Anthony Perkins is in it.
Re: Here's what I got
Date: 2006-10-15 06:56 pm (UTC)Oops
Date: 2006-10-15 10:56 pm (UTC)Re: Oops
Date: 2006-10-16 02:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-15 05:06 am (UTC)Lots of sympathies about the coffee thing - I hope you find a solution before your allergy tests.
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Date: 2006-10-15 08:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-15 06:55 pm (UTC)That's a serious question. I never found anything about it frightening, the sudden rapid changes just irritated the shit out of me.
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Date: 2006-10-16 07:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-16 02:13 pm (UTC)I find it interesting that we had such different experiences. Lots of people told me they thought it was the scariest movie ever, and I was really disappointed once I saw it.
oh, phew.
Date: 2006-10-18 02:41 pm (UTC)i was afraid of *what might be*. that i might either see, or imagine, something awful, and that i might not know which was happenning, and that the horrible things that your brain fills in might be real. you know that moment when you wake up at night, and for a second the vacuum cleaner is a man with entrails in his mouth? i had that. all the time.
i later watched it on DVD at home, and it had nothing like the same effect, though. when we tried it on the projector at home recently it was quite effective again. it loses something totally essential in scale, i think.