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I used to play at the Spring Valley Golf Course in Milpitas in the 1980s, so I'm familiar with the town. As far as the actual movie goes I'd say your rating seems awfully generous but there were a few laughs at the beginning and end.
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I used to play at the Spring Valley Golf Course in Milpitas in the 1980s, so I'm familiar with the town. As far as the actual movie goes I'd say your rating seems awfully generous but there were a few laughs at the beginning and end.

For me, a 2/5 is pretty disastrously low. A two means I wasn't in pain finishing it. And might have found a small handful of amusement in it. But The Mouliptas Monster is a pretty terrible movie, even by my standards.


Not Green Book bad, and certainly not Baby Driver bad, but in the ball park.


As for your Milpitas experience, I can only hope you didn't litter considering the apparent consequences.



It's also been about a month since I first came into contact with the movie Dangerous Men. It's the kind of thing talking about can only ruin, and needs to be experienced with complete uncertainty over what to expect. But recommending such a thing to the unsuspecting may break brains. And annoy the universe. And suck me into a black hole. So I'll just keep all of my thoughts to myself out of fear of being compressed to the width of a stick of spaghetti. Even though I imagine one can drink quite a few milkshakes inside of blackholes without any threat of getting all tubbo, so maybe it is where I have always meant to be.



All timer. I’ve got the Drafthouse Blu-ray and it’s prominently set beneath the tv beside Miami Connection



All timer. I’ve got the Drafthouse Blu-ray and it’s prominently set beneath the tv beside Miami Connection

Miami Connection is the kind of low budget weirdo artifact that lives in my heart. It is full of good intentions.

I have no interest in also letting Dangerous Men in there, but I have never seen a movie unfurl in such a way and over the last few months, it may have been the most captivated I've been watching anything.

I made a nonsense comment in another thread a while back how it somehow reminded me of Bunuel's Phantom of Liberty, and as dumb as that comment obviously is, I wasn't totally pulling that out of my ass. In PoL, I believe Bunuel's intention was to use all of his fragmentary ideas to subvert narrative so it would move from most interesting to the least as the film went along. In an abstract way, and I think entirely unintentionally, DM commits itself to a similar kind of drift. Watching its decomposition is part of its beauty.



Hence, why everyone should be clamouring to see Long Island Cannibal Massacre.


Unless people aren't cool here, or something.


#notjudging
I'm cool with whatever people consume, whether it be eclairs from the garbage or marble rye, or even jambalaya.*



Miami Connection is the kind of low budget weirdo artifact that lives in my heart. It is full of good intentions.

I have no interest in also letting Dangerous Men in there, but I have never seen a movie unfurl in such a way and over the last few months, it may have been the most captivated I've been watching anything.

I made a nonsense comment in another thread a while back how it somehow reminded me of Bunuel's Phantom of Liberty, and as dumb as that comment obviously is, I wasn't totally pulling that out of my ass. In PoL, I believe Bunuel's intention was to use all of his fragmentary ideas to subvert narrative so it would move from most interesting to the least as the film went along. In an abstract way, and I think entirely unintentionally, DM commits itself to a similar kind of drift. Watching its decomposition is part of its beauty.
You articulate its majesty so beautifully yet reject it from your heart and it’s rightful place alongside Miami Connection? That’s more baffling than Dangerous Men itself!



You articulate its majesty so beautifully yet reject it from your heart and it’s rightful place alongside Miami Connection? That’s more baffling than Dangerous Men itself!

While I like all brands of 'bad movies', I bring a little cynicism to those I don't feel were created out of some kind of artistic ecstasy. It's obviously a very subjective thing to dare interpret the intent of an artist, but certain movies I feel like this about I am kind of cold towards. The Room would be another one. What I sense more than anything in movies like this is a desire to become famous or succesful via movie making, and that there is little else there of the artist himself. In Miami Connection, there is a vulnerability in it's madness about the importance of friendship. In the Hallucinations movie I recently watched, there is a completely unpretentious devotion to the kind of escape horror films offer.



Back in the day, Bad Lieutenant made some pretty good counter points rebutting this claim against Tommy Wiseau, but because he's not here, and I can't remember them, they can obviously be discounted.



Feel free to defend the artistic purity of Dangerous Men all you like. I didn't feel it. But this also isn't to say I didn't mostly love it. It's just not a part of me, in the same way a handful of discarded toenail clippings is a part of the Milpitas Monsters soul.



I see I gave Dangerous Men 3.5/5 on Letterboxd when I saw it earlier this year, so I guess I enjoyed it, but it hasn't stayed with me like my favourite bad movies. But I was also unmoved by Plan 9 from Outer Space when I watched that last year, so I might be losing my taste for this kind of thing.


I have no great insights about the movie. Like Samurai Cop, it's the work of a man who knows the words but not the music of what he's aping, but I needed something to hold it together. Like Crumbsroom said, there isn't much warmth in the movie, like you get with Y K Kim or the Fasano/Thor team. It's baffling, not unamusing but also alienating in its effect.



And yeah, I'm a little cold on Wiseau as well. Unlike Kim or Thor, he doesn't seem very fun to be around.



I see I gave Dangerous Men 3.5/5 on Letterboxd when I saw it earlier this year, so I guess I enjoyed it, but it hasn't stayed with me like my favourite bad movies. But I was also unmoved by Plan 9 from Outer Space when I watched that last year, so I might be losing my taste for this kind of thing.


I have no great insights about the movie. Like Samurai Cop, it's the work of a man who knows the words but not the music of what he's aping, but I needed something to hold it together. Like Crumbsroom said, there isn't much warmth in the movie, like you get with Y K Kim or the Fasano/Thor team. It's baffling, not unamusing but also alienating in its effect.

I wouldn't feel too bad about being cold towards Plan 9. I have different levels of how to appreciate the films of Wood. Too much is made of the ****ty production of Plan 9, when what is actually the most interesting stuff is the dialogue. If you ever watch it again, try and track where what they are talking about is going, and just let your mind melt along with it. You get a sense that Ed Wood really wanted to say a lot of things, but was just painfully inarticulate, and doesn't really understand people. I personally find a warmth in the tragedy of this (I respond to sadness) but when it comes to cardboard tombstones, who gives a ****.


Glen and Glenda is a slog of a watch, but when it comes to personal revelations, it is one of the obvious great B movies. His angora love is well established as canon by now, but there is more than that. His soul is screaming from the netherworld of this terrible terrible movie. And its really mostly an unbearable watch. But because of that tragic touch, I've become a fan.


But, obviously, the best Ed Wood movie is Night of the Ghouls. At least on the levels that people expect Ed Wood to be bad. Not saying it is an entirely enjoyable watch either, but is probably the easiest to get through. I proabably laugh the most during it.



And then there is Jailbait. Which I suppose matters for those who would like to see the world's worst blackface routine. But I imagine that is a small pool of people. And it's kind of a queasy thing to laugh at (even though I always laugh)



And yeah, I'm a little cold on Wiseau as well. Unlike Kim or Thor, he doesn't seem very fun to be around.

One of these days I need to do a Rock and Roll Nightmare rewatch, but I don't think I own it.


Sadface.



I wouldn't feel too bad about being cold towards Plan 9. I have different levels of how to appreciate the films of Wood. Too much is made of the ****ty production of Plan 9, when what is actually the most interesting stuff is the dialogue. If you ever watch it again, try and track where what they are talking about is going, and just let your mind melt along with it. You get a sense that Ed Wood really wanted to say a lot of things, but was just painfully inarticulate, and doesn't really understand people. I personally find a warmth in the tragedy of this (I respond to sadness) but when it comes to cardboard tombstones, who gives a ****.


Glen and Glenda is a slog of a watch, but when it comes to personal revelations, it is one of the obvious great B movies. His angora love is well established as canon by now, but there is more than that. His soul is screaming from the netherworld of this terrible terrible movie. And its really mostly an unbearable watch. But because of that tragic touch, I've become a fan.


But, obviously, the best Ed Wood movie is Night of the Ghouls. At least on the levels that people expect Ed Wood to be bad. Not saying it is an entirely enjoyable watch either, but is probably the easiest to get through. I proabably laugh the most during it.



And then there is Jailbait. Which I suppose matters for those who would like to see the world's worst blackface routine. But I imagine that is a small pool of people. And it's kind of a queasy thing to laugh at (even though I always laugh)
I will keep the above in mind.*The other one I watched from him was Bride of the Monster, which I didn't even think was that bad.*At the very least, Lugosi's performance classes it up a bit.*


Maybe I should take one for the team and watch Necromania.



I will keep the above in mind.*The other one I watched from him was Bride of the Monster, which I didn't even think was that bad.*At the very least, Lugosi's performance classes it up a bit.*


Maybe I should take one for the team and watch Necromania.

I just remember Bride of the Monster as being really boring. But did he even direct that? Of course I could check on my own, but I won't. Fact checking would probably bring a complete end to my posting. If I have one second on hand to reconsider what I'm about to say, I would never say anything.


Necromania? Lol. I didn't even know his pornographic contributions were even still available to watch. But you would obviously be the man to do the job if it was. I can't. Personally, I have about as much fondness for penetration shots as I do animal cruelty. I try to avoid, but will accept if it unexpectedly intrudes on what I'm watching.



Y’all don’t deserve the resplendent madness of John Rad and Amir Shervan. Next you’ll be saying “Neil Breen is too cold.”

*spits on the floor*



Y’all don’t deserve the resplendent madness of John Rad and Amir Shervan. Next you’ll be saying “Neil Breen is too cold.”

*spits on the floor*

I like Samurai Cop alot. But, as mentioned before, Hollywood Cop is the Shervan mana..



I almost added Breen to my 'cold list', until I realized that was dumb, and that Neil Breen screams into the abyss just as loudly as Ed Wood.



Necromania? Lol. I didn't even know his pornographic contributions were even still available to watch. But you would obviously be the man to do the job if it was. I can't. Personally, I have about as much fondness for penetration shots as I do animal cruelty. I try to avoid, but will accept if it unexpectedly intrudes on what I'm watching.
Ok, I just watched this...and I don't know if porn has rotted my feeble brain or at least eroded by taste buds, but I didn't think it was that bad? Some of the dialogue is (intentionally) funny, characters keep getting surprised by a stuffed wolf, and the soundtrack blasts jaunty music (usually rockabilly instrumentals) to make the sluggish, low energy sex scenes tolerable. (The hero usually struggles to put on his pajamas after, so be warned if the sight of flailing dong disturbs you.) The climax apparently features an antique coffin dating back to the Lincoln presidency, so it's historically significant as well.



In a fit of deeply dysfunctional musical venting.....


Let It Be > Abbey Road


I haven't held this opinion for very long. In fact I just stumbled upon it. But I think it holds up.