OLD movies

[Arthur_Parker]

Once upon a time we didn't have the internet, you didn't to get to know what was worth watching and what wasn't.

If I can get you young uns to imagine a time when for every Highlander or Terminator you rented from your local VHS rental store, you rented 100 terrible, woeful, incredibly bad movies.  You even, if you can believe this, got friendly with your local VHS rental store manager and sought his advice, yes we were that desperate for entertainment.

So given that I just re watched the one I'm about to mention, I thought it might be a good idea to have a single thread for those movies lost to the mists of time, that just flat out weren't terrible.

To start here's The Salute of the Jugger, AKA The Blood of Heroes.  Trailer with free of charge 80's cheesy voice over.

Rutger Hauer at his absolute best.

the time period in this film is a post-apocalyptic future, where the wars waged in the wake of mankind's success in the 20th century have left the world barren and the past forgotten. In this time, most live from hand to mouth in enclaves known as "market-towns" or "dog-towns", scrounging out a bare subsistence harvesting hardy crops, raising dogs as food, and trading in whatever remnant trinkets from the past still survive.

What little entertainment is available in these times comes primarily from a brutal sport known only as The Game, and the merriment that follows after the day's play. It is played by bands of roving teams known collectively as juggers, who challenge local town teams. They pass for what might be considered professional athletes, as they make their living through the tribute paid by the people of the town, should they defeat the local team. Their trophy is the dog skull from the town. The Game involves two armed and armoured teams of five attempting to score by placing a decorated dog skull on the opposing team's goalpost. One unarmed player - the "qwik" - runs with the skull while protected by his/her teammates from attack by the opposing team.
...
Sallow, the team leader, has played in the League of the Nine Cities (all underground now) before, but was cast out because of his indiscretions with the lady lover of an Overlord. He now finds himself troubled by his past, playing The Game for his earnings. Kidda (Chen), an ambitious, young peasant girl joins the team after a game in her dog town where she virtually destroys her opposing competition and she and Gar instill a new desire in Sallow to challenge the league and purge his past.
Little do they realise that this time they are competing for more than just honour and the spoils of victory, this time they are fighting for their very survival. The Game is played a lot harder and meaner in the Nine Cities.

[Evildrider]

Killer Klowns From Outer Space!

 

[Riggswolfe]

One of my good friends practically worships the Blood of Heroes. I always thought it was merely ok. I'll try to think of an obscure old movie and contribute more to the thread later.

[Sir T]

Moon 44

A 1990 sci-fi cheap B movie but a pretty decent one. The acting is ok and the set design is excellent. I got it in a compilation of bad sci-fi flics and wound up really enjoying it.

[Murgos]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102800/

[Murgos]

Moon 44

An actually good 1981 Sci-fi movie that almost no one under 30 will have seen:  Outland

[JWIV]

I was always a bit of a fan of this one

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099740/

[Bunk]

The Sword and the Sorcerer - the DVD sits on my shelf. 1982, Lee Horsely, Richard Moll as the bad guy. Classic gory schlock. Watch for the blatantly obvious wires when he "shoots" his sword at someone.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084749/

I thought this was going to be a thread of us recommending Kurosawa movies to each other.

[JWIV]

The Sword and the Sorcerer - the DVD sits on my shelf. 1982, Lee Horsely, Richard Moll as the bad guy. Classic gory schlock. Watch for the blatantly obvious wires when he "shoots" his sword at someone.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084749/

I thought this was going to be a thread of us recommending Kurosawa movies to each other.

Who could ever forget the awesomeness that is a three-bladed sword?

[Sky]

Those are not old movies. I love the new digital channels from PBS, one is an old movie channel. Tons of stuff from the 30s and 40s, just watched an old Abbott and Costello last night. I can rarely get the fiancee to watch one with me, but our favorite thus far is either Murders in the Zoo or the more recent The Brain That Wouldn't Die.

[Murgos]

Well, if you actually want old movie recommendations the keep your eyes open for "The Thin Man" stuff. Those are entertaining without being on the radar.

[WindupAtheist]

Killer Klowns From Outer Space!

 

I see your killer clowns and raise you Dollman. He's a badass space cop who crashes on Earth and finds out that he doesn't even come up to knee-level. Fortunately his uber space gun blows dudes into giblets on his own planet, and can fuck up even us giant Earthlings. Then when you're ready for total hilarity, you've got a B-movie crossover: Dollman vs Demonic Toys.

[Johny Cee]

Moon 44

An actually good 1981 Sci-fi movie that almost no one under 30 will have seen:  Outland

Y-E-S.  Also, the original Rollerball with James Caan is great fun.

As cheesy as it was, I liked the 1980 Flash Gordon movie.  Terrible effects, considering that it came out after Star Wars, but so much fun.  Soundtrack by Queen, and Brian Blessed ("DIVE!!!").

[Riggswolfe]

The Sword and the Sorcerer - the DVD sits on my shelf. 1982, Lee Horsely, Richard Moll as the bad guy. Classic gory schlock. Watch for the blatantly obvious wires when he "shoots" his sword at someone.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084749/

I thought this was going to be a thread of us recommending Kurosawa movies to each other.

Did you know they are actually currently filming the sequel to this movie? I doubt if any original cast is in it. I think it'll be about his son or something but it is filming. I've seen a few set stills and a really cheesy teaser. Honestly, it looks terrible.

[Sky]

Another good one was It's Alive. Best scene: killer baby running from police cars in full pursuit down a spillway.

They made 3 of them, and there was a remake in 2008  

[Arthur_Parker]

I was always a bit of a fan of this one

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099740/

I well remembered the original 2000AD comic strip when I saw the film years ago, not sure I recall correctly, but I think the comic strip had a better ending.

[Evil Elvis]

[Riggswolfe]

Wasn't Space Hunter in 3d? I seem to remember it being one of a few films in the 80s that came out when they were trying 3D again.

[Evil Elvis]

Apparently, yes.

Also, I'm going to plug Excalibur, since it's one of my favorite 80's movies.

[Mattemeo]

Couple of great flicks that have had an impact on me for many years since I saw them as a kid - but I'd forgotten about until recently:

Les maîtres du temps - this broke my head when I was about 8 or so, a rather nifty and charmingly dated early 80s animated Scifi movie, visuals courtesy of the mind of Jean 'Moebius' Giraud. Forgive its extremely shonky animation, and its ponderous pace, and revel in the sheer otherworldlyness of it. Think of it as a frenchified Ghibli. Link is part 1 of 8, subtitled.

Phase IV - another slow burn, wonderfully doom-laden Scifi environmental movie with some astonishing wildlife camera work accentuating the classic 70s paranoia. I like to think it influenced some of Cameron's shots in Aliens, just on a teeny-tiny scale. Let's face it, it was never the spiders we should be scared of... Link is part 1 of 9.

[Margalis]

Killer Klowns from Outer Space is great.

I was always partial to Cherry 2000.

[Teleku]

Killer Klowns from Outer Space was the movie that gave me nightmares and made me afraid of all the clown nightlight/lamps/other shit we had around the house when I was a kid.  For YEARS.  Though not as bad as my cousin, who was traumatized for about a decade (not even joking in the slightest).  So yeah, Kudos to that.

Is this the thread where I can recommend The Ice Pirates?  I think I have before.  But you should really watch it.

Also, why was this thread moved from the movies forum to the general forum?

[Sheepherder]

[Musashi]

Kelly's Heroes pwns it.

[raydeen]

Anything by Harold Lloyd.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516001/




And of course Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/

[IainC]

Zulu

Kes

Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Kind Hearts and Coronets

[pxib]

Is this the thread where I can recommend The Ice Pirates?  I think I have before.  But you should really watch it.

Funny, campy, fantastic stuff. Also, the final film role of my drama teacher.

Chaplain's The Great Dictator is a delightfully uncomfortable film with surprisingly high production values. Interesting in that it was Chaplain's first entirely non-silent film, that it was his biggest box-office hit, and in that production began on it in 1937... well before the war. Hitler apparently watched it twice.

[Samwise]

Also, why was this thread moved from the movies forum to the general forum?

I didn't do it, but I would surmise because it violates the "one thread, one movie" rule of that forum.  Before it got moved I was contemplating splitting it up to enforce compliance.   

[Signe]

So many rules.  So little memory.   

[Sheepherder]

Like The Nameless One out of Planescape: Torment.  He's a zombie too, you should hook up.

[Samwise]

Like The Nameless One out of Planescape: Torment.  He's a zombie too, you should hook up.

Spoilers!   

[Sir T]

He wasn't a Zombie. He was in fact very much alive

[Sheepherder]

Notable because there's a prequel coming soon.

[veredus]

Is this the thread where I can recommend The Ice Pirates?  I think I have before.  But you should really watch it.

I just want to second Ice Pirates. I love that movie. It's so bad but yet so good.

[JWIV]

Is this the thread where I can recommend The Ice Pirates?  I think I have before.  But you should really watch it.

I just want to second Ice Pirates. I love that movie. It's so bad but yet so good.

Because everyone needs to be introduced to space herpes.