Inspired from a post on the "Favorites..." thread & also a topic from the previous board.

Here's what I consider the worst movies from the '70's:  :P


5. Rocky Horror Picture Show (recently saw it and don't know why it's considered a "cult classic")
4. Love Story
3. Grease (I  can't stand musicals! The same for "Rocky Horror")
2. Beyond the Posedian Adventure
1. Night of the Lepus

Inspired from a post on the "Favorites..." thread & also a topic from the previous board.

Here's what I consider the worst movies from the '70's:  :P


5. Rocky Horror Picture Show (recently saw it and don't know why it's considered a "cult classic")
4. Love Story
3. Grease (I  can't stand musicals! The same for "Rocky Horror")
2. Beyond the Posedian Adventure
1. Night of the Lepus
Futureworld
Sgt. Pepper(I posted about that movie on another thread)
the remake of King Kong
Devil Dog(the hound from Hell)

Inspired from a post on the "Favorites..." thread & also a topic from the previous board.

Here's what I consider the worst movies from the '70's:  :P


5. Rocky Horror Picture Show (recently saw it and don't know why it's considered a "cult classic")

3. Grease (I  can't stand musicals! The same for "Rocky Horror")



I cannot but help agree with you here, Woops....

Sgt. Pepper(I posted about that movie on another thread)



I know I am in the minority here, but I loved Sgt. Pepper's.  I know it was a cheesy bad movie, but that is what made me love it.

Sgt. Pepper(I posted about that movie on another thread)



I know I am in the minority here, but I loved Sgt. Pepper's.  I know it was a cheesy bad movie, but that is what made me love it.



You are not the only one. I have it on video.  (I also like Rocky Horror Picture Show)



Cat

Sgt. Pepper(I posted about that movie on another thread)



I know I am in the minority here, but I loved Sgt. Pepper's.  I know it was a cheesy bad movie, but that is what made me love it.



You are not the only one. I have it on video.  (I also like Rocky Horror Picture Show)



Cat


Good to know...I have it on video, too. :)

I have to agree with woops about Grease.  And it seems that movie is always on.  It was on VH1 again this weekend.

Inspired from a post on the "Favorites..." thread & also a topic from the previous board.

Here's what I consider the worst movies from the '70's:  :P


5. Rocky Horror Picture Show (recently saw it and don't know why it's considered a "cult classic")
3. Grease (I  can't stand musicals! The same for "Rocky Horror")

I, along with Fuss, agree with you, woops....I'd also add Sgt. Pepper and Carwash

Billy Jack  ::)

these weren't on the list:  "pink flamingos" and "last tango in paris"

There was this absolutely HORRID movie on last week...from 1977, I think...It featured a gang of girls who ended up calling themselves the "Jezabells"...one of the characters clenched her teeth the whole time she talked....can't Believe that i actually watched it ::) :P

Hate Rocky Horror but LOVE the dance sequence.....I have it on tape. 8)

"The Day The Clown Cried" with that annoying Jerry Lewis.  Okay - any Jerry Lewis movie is the worst in my opinion.

"The Day The Clown Cried" with that annoying Jerry Lewis.  Okay - any Jerry Lewis movie is the worst in my opinion.
You've actually seen this movie??? I've always heard it was never released.

I absolutely HATED "Phantom of the Paradise."  :P

Firstly, it was a pretty lame remake of "Phantom of the Opera."  Secondly, I never could stand Paul ("Ishtar") Williams.  Thirdly, I was only nine years old at the time, and the images (which I won't even begin to describe here) literally made me throw up.  Maybe they wouldn't if I saw it for the first time today, but that nauseating memory has earned it the top spot on my "Most Hated Movies" list.

On a related note, Disney made a number of really awful live-action movies in the 70s: "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes," "Never a Dull Moment" (a misnomer if ever there was one), "The Boatniks," "The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit" (I like horses, but a team of horses couldn't save this horrible film), "The Gnome-Mobile," the list goes on and on . . . .

these weren't on the list:  "pink flamingos" and "last tango in paris"

PINK FLAMINGOS
was a John Waters movie, it's not supposed to be "good."
It's a sick, sick movie, and works!  You want take a 30 minute shower after 'coz it's so nasty!

Any Burt Reynolds movie except "The End"
Three Days of The Condor (Hated everything, especially the ending)
The Main Event
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Everyone said it was great, but I couldn't get past the screaming)

That disco movie Can't Stop the Music.  Donna Summer was in it and the Village People, I believe.  Five minutes in I was wishing someone would stop the music.

That disco movie Can't Stop the Music.  Donna Summer was in it and the Village People, I believe.  Five minutes in I was wishing someone would stop the music.


I agree...that one was horrible!  (and I love cheesy 70's disco movies, too)  I can't believe that I sat thru the entire thing and have lived to tell about it.  :D

My second choice would be Night of the Lepus.  I always wondered why MST3K never did that one....it was tailor made to be MSTied!

I agree...that one was horrible!  (and I love cheesy 70's disco movies, too)  I can't believe that I sat thru the entire thing and have lived to tell about it.  :D

My second choice would be Night of the Lepus.  I always wondered why MST3K never did that one....it was tailor made to be MSTied!

I just had to look that one up on IMDB!  Rabbits ? LOL!  Maybe that's where Monty Python got the idea for the Killer Rabbit in "Holy Grail."

Had Janet Leigh and DeForrest Kelley in it too!

Does anyone remember "trilogy of terror"? The movie about that native doll coming to life and killing it's owner scared the bejeebies out of me.  I couldn't sleep for a month after watching that.

The Trial of Billy Jack. >:(

This one was worse than the first one. Although I did like the way Billy Jack handled confrontation. If you didn't do as he said or got in his face he'd just explode and start kickin' everyone's ass...and we're talking fists and feet of fury!  :o

:P

(hmmm..that word "ass" got "**") ???

"Equinox"  When I saw this as a kid it scared and fascinated me.  I saw it again 'bout 9yrs ago, it didn't really get interesting 'til the C2H5OH kicked in.  It "starred" Frank Bonner (Herbert 'Herb' Tarlek) from WKRP.  Though bad, you know, I'd still recommend it.
God lyk!

I absolutely HATED "Phantom of the Paradise."  :P

Firstly, it was a pretty lame remake of "Phantom of the Opera."  Secondly, I never could stand Paul ("Ishtar") Williams.  Thirdly, I was only nine years old at the time, and the images (which I won't even begin to describe here) literally made me throw up.  Maybe they wouldn't if I saw it for the first time today, but that nauseating memory has earned it the top spot on my "Most Hated Movies" list.


I whole-heartedly agree, arnequis. It was truly one of the most uniquely awful films I have ever seen. If I remember correctly, I think it had the same nauseating quality as the 'rock-opera' Tommy - and that was bad!

I whole-heartedly agree, arnequis. It was truly one of the most uniquely awful films I have ever seen. If I remember correctly, I think it had the same nauseating quality as the 'rock-opera' Tommy - and that was bad!

Oh, that reminds me, what about Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park ?  On top of having no training as actors, the band was distracted, fighting, drunk, and couldn't remember their lines.  One of them was so bad, I think it was Ace, they had to dub his lines in after the fact.  There would be no need to make such a crummy movie with the latest pop sensation today.  They could just computer-simulate the whole thing, and no one would know the difference!

Tommy - The movie

Tommy - The movie

Oh yeah, Oliver Reed, Ann-Margaret, Elton John, with Ken Russell directing, and of course, as "Tommy" Roger Daltrey, the Rog himself.
Still, it's nowhere near as bad as Sgt. Pepper's, the movie!

I'm not too into movies so I'll steal ideas.  That Rocky Horror Picture Show is absolutely horrible!! I drove across country from MI to California and the guys I drove with were had that soundtract--I had to listen to that crap. That movie blows bad.


I dig Greese though. Just saw it AGAIN on TV the other night.

I'm not too into movies so I'll steal ideas.  That Rocky Horror Picture Show is absolutely horrible!! I drove across country from MI to California and the guys I drove with were had that soundtract--I had to listen to that crap. That movie blows bad.


I dig Greese though. Just saw it AGAIN on TV the other night.

Oh, I hate The Rocky Horror Pick-your-nose !  The way kids who weren't even born when it came out will go and do the little rituals is nauseating.  They even released a home video version with instructions!

Silver Dream Machine with David Essex.

Growing up in England in the seventies I always liked motorbikes and begged to go see this movie but never did.  Finally saw it as an adult and I'm so disappointed.  David Essex was hot back then, but this has got to be one of the lamest movies ever.  The horrible ending (cut out on DVD so I heard) further intensifies this crap. 

"THX  1138" (1971). Snooze fest about a futuristic society ruled by a tolatarian State. The movie featured a boring story line, high-tech mumbo-jumbo for dialogue and dwarves with body odor. The icing on the cake has to be a painfully thin bald woman with pimples & freckles on her face as the love interest! the acting is horrible and wooden.  I'd have walked out on this movie but I was at the cinema with a group of friends.

Anyone ever heard of the movie Fantastic Planet? I thought it was great, but others tend to disagree.

"THX  1138" (1971). Snooze fest about a futuristic society ruled by a tolatarian State. The movie featured a boring story line, high-tech mumbo-jumbo for dialogue and dwarves with body odor. The icing on the cake has to be a painfully thin bald woman with pimples & freckles on her face as the love interest! the acting is horrible and wooden.  I'd have walked out on this movie but I was at the cinema with a group of friends.


THX works better with THC.

The '70s was actually a vigorous decade for cinema as it continued the '60s liberation from the Hayes Code.  Think of "The Godfather," "A Clockwork Orange," "The Taxi Driver," "The Life of Brian," and "Apocalypse Now."

But the '70s was not without it's cinematic suckitude, to wit:

Mitchell (1975, Joe Don Baker, Linda Evans, Martin Balsam)
Routinely sited by MST3K fans as the worst film they've ever seen...on MST3K!

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975, Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Meatloaf)
I have endured the RHPS experience on several occasions and each time the cult rites lost their charm revealing an extremely uninteresting film.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978, Peter Frampton, Gibb Brothers, Aereosmith, Steve Martin, George Burns)
If you're going to make fun of one of my favorite pop albums of all time, then have at it.  I love a good spoof.  But the SPLHCB movie is a purported tribute in earnest.  That's what hurts!

All The President's Men (1976, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden)
It only ranks among the worst because it SHOULD rank among the best.  The movie of the news story of the decade: Watergate.  The scandal that forever changed our relationship with our executive branch.  ATPM should have been as mind-blowing as "Network," but sorry, Robert Redford showed himself to be a pompous ass and this sh*t is boring, boring, boring, boring!!!

Grease (1978, John Travolta, Olivian Newton John, Stockard Channing)
The play is no great shakes either.  The movie is just a dreadful costume thing with cringe-worthy song-and-dance numbers hardly worthy of an episode of "Sha-Na-Na."  Anybody who feels fifties nostalgia while watching "Grease" either wasn't there or took way too much acid in the sixties!  Next!

Ice Castles (1978, Robby Benson, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Tom Skerrit)
OK, the blind chick wants to be a world-class figure skater, but that's not why you'll weep!

Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973)
The actors who did the talking birds didn't even want to be credited.  The book itself is Richard Bach's signature New Age schlock

At Long Last Love (1975, Burt Reynolds, Cybil Shepherd, Madeline Kahn)
Peter Bogdanovich's lip-synchronized homage to 1930s musicals featuring a mess o' Cole Porter tunes and set around rich people dilly-dallying.  Thought Bogdanovich would have scrapped the idea when he came off the bender, but he saw it through!

Bugsy Malone (1976, Scott Baio, Jodie Foster, and a bunch of kids)
A gangster musical about gangster kids for kids starring kids.  Tough job for any director to make such a screenplay NOT totally schmaltzy and Alan Parker didn't succeed.  My apologies to Tia, who I'm sure is a big Bugsy Malone fan.  They didn't portray gun fights because you can't have 12-year-olds blowing one another's brains out and still call it a family film.  So they used "splurge guns" that fired confectionary creme...but these are all cutaway shots because the whole "splurge gun" scheme had to be re-edited with special effects.  Not to mention, all the singing was later dubbed in by adult singers.  Paul Williams, 'nuff said.

My two cents...
Airport - Seriously, most of this movie has nothing to do with a airport or airplane, its a boring soap opera made into movie more than anything else. I remember watching it and constantly thinking "when does the movie start?".

Love Story - "Love never means having to say you're sorry". Oh really? Love is NO reason to excuse this narcissistic, self-involved over indulgent tear jerker. I supposed after many of the outlaw and protest, anti government themes coming out of Hollywood, a semi sentimental film of "love" was expected to be popular at the time. But watching it now, its just ridiculous, pompous crap. There is a part in me wanting Ali's character to die so much sooner and quicker so the film will be over...

Moment By Moment - A Cali beach bum falls for a mature woman. OK, I can see that, but, John Travolta lusting after Lily Tomlin?!? LILLY TOMLIN? Yes shes funny and talented, but there isn't enough rupies spiked drinks or extacy tabs to make anyone lust after her, even back in the 70's, sorry. And..Travolta's character's name is "Strip". Get ready for Lily to utter such jewels like "Oh ,Strip","I love You, Strip". Is it a porn movie or just rude suggestions?

'Earthquake,' 'Poseidon Adventure' and 'Towering Inferno' most of the disaster movies sucked. The first 40-60 mins of the film is just a agonizingly slow build up with trite plot. You're sitting in your seat begging, pleading for the disaster to happen, hoping that maybe some of the old semi washed up actors in it to get killed off...And in the case of the Poseidon Adventure and Towering Inferno, the main characters are complete buffoons with egos so big as to be a disaster within itself. The best thing about Poseidon is the annoying Shelly Winters meeting her end (finally) and in Towering Inferno, watching Steve McQueen and Paul Newman's over machismo one oneupmanship in trying to out stage each other. Props for getting creeped out to OJ's cameo parts and wondering in the back of your mind if he was capable of starting the fire himself...

Rabbit Test - First movie dealing with a man who becomes pregnant, Billy Cyrstal's first role of any note and thank god he went on to better things as this movie is a abomination of taste, writing and acting skills...

Rocky Horror Picture Show & Grease - For all the reasons mentioned by others here, and more.

Xanadu - How I HATE this movie! Olivia Newton Johns looks carried this little stinker of a film. I know many loved this over stylized non-sensical wonderland of a movie. Most just rolled their eyes and moved on, just like Olivia's acting career...

EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC - OMG! This has to be THE worst, most bizarre, insane movie to be released to the public in the last 35 years! Honestly, can anyone that has seen this really describe (with any clarity) just WTF is going on? Bees, locusts, just what was this about, and had WHAT to do with the first movie? Both the studio and the director pulled the film multiple times during its short release to re-cut and edit and had no success in trying to make this mess understandable or worth watching.

Xanadu is another good choice for the worsts.  Technically it was released in 1980.  Any ONJ movie will do, "Two of a Kind" might be a candidate for '80s worsts!
::)

here's a justifiably lost 1978 film

http://mtceuropavideo.com/matilda.jpg

movie starring elliot gould about a boxing kangaroo. suuuuuucked. i remember seeing it when it came out and i was just a wee tyke.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show was a low budget B movie that was never meant to be good. The appeal to the
movie is the participation by the audience so unless you plan on having quite a few people over for a Rocky party
home viewing of this movie is not recommended.


I saw a movie in the theaters when it was released and I must say, it has to be one of the worst movies with a
multiple star cast I've ever seen. This movie featured O.J. Simpson, how many others have seen....

The Klansman...aka...KKK. The white town leaders blame Garth (O.J.Simpson) on the violent rape of a young
woman. Garth, knowing he won't get a fair trial, takes to the woods while being hunted by a lynch mob.

The star cast: Lee Marvin, Richard Burton, Lola Falana and Linda Evans.

here's a justifiably lost 1978 film

http://mtceuropavideo.com/matilda.jpg

movie starring elliot gould about a boxing kangaroo. suuuuuucked. i remember seeing it when it came out and i was just a wee tyke.


I agree ! It was HORRIBLE !!!! I hope it stays lost !

I agree ! It was HORRIBLE !!!! I hope it stays lost !
haha, i looked it up on netflix and there's a "matilda: special edition." i was like, the world SO did not demand a 30-year 2-dvd anniversary edition of a horrible kangaroo movie. but it turns out it's a totally different movie, some 90s kid flick.

"The Man Who Fell To Earth" starring David Bowie as an alien. He lands on earth and falls in love with Candy Clark. Awful, boring dreck! The funniest scene is when emaciated Bowie falls ill to the ground and is then picked up by Clark and carried in her arms!

"The Man Who Fell To Earth" starring David Bowie as an alien. He lands on earth and falls in love with Candy Clark. Awful, boring dreck! The funniest scene is when emaciated Bowie falls ill to the ground and is then picked up by Clark and carried in her arms!

OK, would have to agree on you there. The Man Who Fell To Earth was "WTF" before the term could be invented.

I remember watching it and being completely freaked out in the doctor examination scene where they are cutting under David Bowie's nipples *cringe, shudder* as if therein lies the secrets to the alien. Still one of the most disturbing scenes in any movie from the 70's without question... :P

Corvette Summer (1978).

Although I've never watched this movie all the way through, I've seen enough clips to know how much of a steaming turd it is. It stars Luke Skywalker Mark Hamill as a high school kid who custom builds a Corvette in his shop class. (He even builds it with right-hand-drive so he can talk to girls walking down the sidewalk.  ::) ::) ::))

Now, Mark Hamill was never a great actor to begin with (what's up with George Lucas and bad actors anyway?) and his acting here is bad enough to make this a worse-than-average movie. But what really pushes Corvette Summer from being merely a bad movie into one that approaches Plan 9 From Outer Space levels of sh!ttiness is the Corvette itself.
























































**Caution: May induce vomiting.**




















































http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e329/hje313/CorvetteSummerVette1.jpg

There aren't enough adjectives in the English language to describe accurately how much of a travesty this car really is.




It illustrates perfectly everything that was bad about the 1970's.  8-P

Corvette Summer (1978).

Although I've never watched this movie all the way through, I've seen enough clips to know how much of a steaming turd it is. It stars Luke Skywalker Mark Hamill as a high school kid who custom builds a Corvette in his shop class. (He even builds it with right-hand-drive so he can talk to girls walking down the sidewalk.  ::) ::) ::))

Now, Mark Hamill was never a great actor to begin with (what's up with George Lucas and bad actors anyway?) and his acting here is bad enough to make this a worse-than-average movie. But what really pushes Corvette Summer from being merely a bad movie into one that approaches Plan 9 From Outer Space levels of sh!ttiness is the Corvette itself.
























































**Caution: May induce vomiting.**




















































http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e329/hje313/CorvetteSummerVette1.jpg

There aren't enough adjectives in the English language to describe accurately how much of a travesty this car really is.




It illustrates perfectly everything that was bad about the 1970's.  8-P








Oh yeah!!!! Definately agree. And what about Annie Pott's vehicle? She drove a van and named it Van-Nessa because her name was Vanessa. Who writes this stuff anyway? Lol !

Corvette Summer (1978).

Although I've never watched this movie all the way through, I've seen enough clips to know how much of a steaming turd it is. It stars Luke Skywalker Mark Hamill as a high school kid who custom builds a Corvette in his shop class. (He even builds it with right-hand-drive so he can talk to girls walking down the sidewalk.  ::) ::) ::))

Now, Mark Hamill was never a great actor to begin with (what's up with George Lucas and bad actors anyway?) and his acting here is bad enough to make this a worse-than-average movie. But what really pushes Corvette Summer from being merely a bad movie into one that approaches Plan 9 From Outer Space levels of sh!ttiness is the Corvette itself.
























































**Caution: May induce vomiting.**




















































http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e329/hje313/CorvetteSummerVette1.jpg

There aren't enough adjectives in the English language to describe accurately how much of a travesty this car really is.




It illustrates perfectly everything that was bad about the 1970's.  8-P







i saw this damn movie recently! it sucked royally. instead see "Stingray," from the same year, and

well, okay, try and keep up. it gets complicated.

corvette summer's working title is "stingray." it came out the same year as another movie called "Stingray." say what you want about that horrid travesty of a car in corvette summer, it IS in fact a real stingray. though customized beyond recognition. in the other "stingray" the car isn't actually a "stingray" (i dont think; it's a slang term and might mean different things to different people, but i think "stingray," i think the shark-style design with the raised wheel wells and retractable headlights, thus...

http://www.chooseyouritem.com/classics/photos/77000/77148.1973.Chevrolet.Corvette.Stingray.jpg

so named because the wheel wells gave it sorta this aquatic look, it almost looks like the wings of a stingray raised up slightly as it swims.

http://www.rnbsac.co.uk/pictures/alexg/Stingray_2.jpg

... but i think in fact a mid-60s corvette, which, though also an awesome car, the design's a lot more conventional for its time, reminiscent of the MG, the mustang, and a bunch of other cars of the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI1ARAsSj1s

nevertheless, i think you can even tell from the clip that though this other "Stingray" is also obviously a rather stupid movie, it delivers the groceries in terms of what a 70s car chase movie should deliver: high quality largely factory standard muscle cars, stunt drivers who plainly don't care if they live or die (VERY important!), good-looking heroes who win with the ladies, like we all would like to, and just enough low-brow humor from the heavies to be amusing to the audience's amphibian brains, the same part that loves the three stooges, without causing undue stress to the higher brain functions. should the viewer happen, by off chance, to possess those.

now i remember seeing this movie when it came out with my uncle and thinking it was pretty fun, there are a few scenes from it i remember to this day, but my uncle hated it... mainly because of the "Stingray" fkup, which, admittedly, is a pretty major mistake. and he actually owned a kickass 1970 stingray. blue, as above. so he had reason to care.

so, to sum up... movie called corvette summer, that used to be called stingray, that contains an actual (though crappy) stingray but is not called stingray, sucks.

movie called stingray, that contains a car called a stingray that is in fact not one, is actually pretty cool.

man i miss the 70s. they had a unique logic back in those days. must have been all the pot.

i saw this damn movie recently! it sucked royally. instead see "Stingray," from the same year, and

well, okay, try and keep up. it gets complicated.

corvette summer's working title is "stingray." it came out the same year as another movie called "Stingray." say what you want about that horrid travesty of a car in corvette summer, it IS in fact a real stingray. though customized beyond recognition. in the other "stingray" the car isn't actually a "stingray" (i dont think; it's a slang term and might mean different things to different people, but i think "stingray," i think the shark-style design with the raised wheel wells and retractable headlights, thus...

http://www.chooseyouritem.com/classics/photos/77000/77148.1973.Chevrolet.Corvette.Stingray.jpg

so named because the wheel wells gave it sorta this aquatic look, it almost looks like the wings of a stingray raised up slightly as it swims.

http://www.rnbsac.co.uk/pictures/alexg/Stingray_2.jpg

... but i think in fact a mid-60s corvette, which, though also an awesome car, the design's a lot more conventional for its time, reminiscent of the MG, the mustang, and a bunch of other cars of the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI1ARAsSj1s

nevertheless, i think you can even tell from the clip that though this other "Stingray" is also obviously a rather stupid movie, it delivers the groceries in terms of what a 70s car chase movie should deliver: high quality largely factory standard muscle cars, stunt drivers who plainly don't care if they live or die (VERY important!), good-looking heroes who win with the ladies, like we all would like to, and just enough low-brow humor from the heavies to be amusing to the audience's amphibian brains, the same part that loves the three stooges, without causing undue stress to the higher brain functions. should the viewer happen, by off chance, to possess those.

now i remember seeing this movie when it came out with my uncle and thinking it was pretty fun, there are a few scenes from it i remember to this day, but my uncle hated it... mainly because of the "Stingray" fkup, which, admittedly, is a pretty major mistake. and he actually owned a kickass 1970 stingray. blue, as above. so he had reason to care.

so, to sum up... movie called corvette summer, that used to be called stingray, that contains an actual (though crappy) stingray but is not called stingray, sucks.

movie called stingray, that contains a car called a stingray that is in fact not one, is actually pretty cool.

man i miss the 70s. they had a unique logic back in those days. must have been all the pot.


Know-it-all alert: Actually, the car in "Stingray" was a Sting Ray.  When Chevrolet redesigned the Corvette for 1963, they also added "Sting Ray" to the model name. They used that particular body style (which happens to be my favorite) until 1967, and all of the Vettes of that generation were called "Sting Rays." When they redesigned again in 1968 they kept the name but it was now all one word, and they used the "Stingray" name off and on throughout the Seventies.

Don't ask me why I know all this stuff, I'm just a car geek with a sponge mind.


I'd actually never seen or even heard of that Stingray movie before, but after watching that clip I'd have to say that it at least has some redeeming, "so-bad-it's-good" qualities going for it. I mean, come on. You just gotta love the whole "nun with a gun" thing.

Plus they destroyed an early 1970's Ford LTD, and no 1970's action movie or TV show that's worth it's salt was complete without the destruction of at least one early 1970's Ford LTD. As a matter-of-fact, back in the 70's I saw so many LTD's get smashed up, barrel-rolled, T-boned, driven off cliffs, crushed by tractor-trailers, and blown up into huge balls of flame on TV that (no joke) I was actually afraid of them when I was a little kid.

But I'm getting off the subject here. As admittedly bad as the "Stingray" clip is, it's Citizen Kane compared to Corvette Summer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U5NBCRdPFw

The car chase is lame, the music sounds like it should be used for a promo spot for the 1980 Olympics or some damn thing, that brunette chick is annoying as hell, and when Mark Hamill plays chicken with the black Trans-Am (talk about the wrong car getting destroyed!) I kept expecting Obi-Wan Kenobi's voice to surface in the background and tell him to "Use the Force, Luke."

All of which is plenty bad enough.

But oh, that car.

That UGLY F**KING CAR.

I don't know what Kustom Kalifornia Kar krack den that thing came out of, but whoever designed that thing should be prohibited by law from getting within 25 feet of a sheet of fiberglass for the rest of his life.

I can almost live with that giant fiberglass hemorrhoid that they stuck on the hood despite serving no functional purpose and creating a giant blind spot directly in front of the driver, but then they had to add that huge Grouch Marx schnoz to the front of it and then design the lower grill in the shape of a smile, which gives the car the overall appearance of having an exceptionally bad overbite.

You know what that 'Vette reminds me of? It reminds me of that goofy baby buzzard from the old Warner Brothers cartoons that always flew around really slow and sang, "A-loop, da-doop...A-loop, da-doop!"  :D

i have much more to say but it will have to wait until another day. all i can say is i got corvette summer from netflix hoping it was the corny but still cool "Stingray" movie from my youth, and immediately realized it wasn't the fond movie of my youth when i saw that horrific exorcism-worthy custom... um, thing... that they decided to base the movie around. i was like, no no! my stingray movie had a cool car! i'm pretty sure!

as for the confusion regarding the word stingray, i sorta felt like i might be wrong -- though perhaps not entirely; i have a feeling back in the day there might have been a few purists who swore by the "new" design as the only one tried and true "Stingray", just because, come on, it's cooler -- but i had a feeling the entire cast and crew of a 70s car chase movie couldn't ALL be wrong about such an obvious thing and i could be right.

still, it's better to mouth off erroneously about sheesh 70s car chase movies than it is to be correct about 99 percent of the movies that come out nowadays. so i have tried myself in a jury of alter-egos who think i'm awesome and found myself NOT GUILTY OF ALL CHARGES.

cuz i'm just infuriating that way. any excuse to talk 70s car chase films, i WILL grab hold and hang on. that's how i roll.

i have much more to say but it will have to wait until another day. all i can say is i got corvette summer from netflix hoping it was the corny but still cool "Stingray" movie from my youth, and immediately realized it wasn't the fond movie of my youth when i saw that horrific exorcism-worthy custom... um, thing... that they decided to base the movie around. i was like, no no! my stingray movie had a cool car! i'm pretty sure!

as for the confusion regarding the word stingray, i sorta felt like i might be wrong -- though perhaps not entirely; i have a feeling back in the day there might have been a few purists who swore by the "new" design as the only one tried and true "Stingray", just because, come on, it's cooler -- but i had a feeling the entire cast and crew of a 70s car chase movie couldn't ALL be wrong about such an obvious thing and i could be right.

still, it's better to mouth off erroneously about sheesh 70s car chase movies than it is to be correct about 99 percent of the movies that come out nowadays. so i have tried myself in a jury of alter-egos who think i'm awesome and found myself NOT GUILTY OF ALL CHARGES.

cuz i'm just infuriating that way. any excuse to talk 70s car chase films, i WILL grab hold and hang on. that's how i roll.


Other than early 1970's Ford LTD's, I'm only scared of two things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8IqSIw1P0I

That 'vette from Corvette Summer almost reminds me of some of the cars from Deathrace 2000.

i just bought a copy of stingray on dvd for 15 bucks.  8) my expectations are very very high!

still, it's better to mouth off erroneously about sheesh 70s car chase movies than it is to be correct about 99 percent of the movies that come out nowadays. so i have tried myself in a jury of alter-egos who think i'm awesome and found myself NOT GUILTY OF ALL CHARGES.

cuz i'm just infuriating that way. any excuse to talk 70s car chase films, i WILL grab hold and hang on. that's how i roll.


    ;D ;D ;D


  Ok to Stingray, all I'm finding is a TV series, on DVD, that is.  A couple of my alter egos are officially curious...

    ;D ;D ;D


   Ok to Stingray, all I'm finding is a TV series, on DVD, that is.  A couple of my alter egos are officially curious...
no no stingray the series is a wonderful sci-fi puppet thing by the british geniuses who went on to do "Space: 1999," one of my favorite t.v. series of all time. it's actually, as i recall, literally and actually quote-unquote "good."

this stingray is a retarded 70s car chase film -- not commercially available except apparently in australia, which is where i had to buy the dvd from -- that features stripping nuns with lugars and lots of cut-rate country music under idiotic car chases and it will probably make the dukes of hazzard look like 2001: a space odyssey. but i know me and i think i will thoroughly enjoy it.  ;D

plus it doesn't contain this car. not one frame of this car appears photographically in this film.

http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/corvettesummer1.jpg

al-b is not exaggerating. that really is probably the most revolting car ever.

no no stingray the series is a wonderful sci-fi puppet thing by the british geniuses who went on to do "Space: 1999," one of my favorite t.v. series of all time. it's actually, as i recall, literally and actually quote-unquote "good."

this stingray is a retarded 70s car chase film -- not commercially available except apparently in australia, which is where i had to buy the dvd from -- that features stripping nuns with lugars and lots of cut-rate country music under idiotic car chases and it will probably make the dukes of hazzard look like 2001: a space odyssey. but i know me and i think i will thoroughly enjoy it.  ;D

plus it doesn't contain this car. not one frame of this car appears photographically in this film.

http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/corvettesummer1.jpg

al-b is not exaggerating. that really is probably the most revolting car ever.


  The vette, pictured above, is a travesty.  I own Corvette Summer and *sigh* take it for the pot of warm cheez wiz that it is...

  Ima look for Stingray 'cause a pair of stripping nuns beat a Mark Hamil and a hoopty... 

   The vette, pictured above, is a travesty.  I own Corvette Summer and *sigh* take it for the pot of warm cheez wiz that it is...

   Ima look for Stingray 'cause a pair of stripping nuns beat a Mark Hamil and a hoopty... 
haha. you OWN corvette summer? well, i'ma forgive you just cuz you're an awesome dude but al-b might pop the tab off a can o' whoopass, i dunno. man's plainly unbalanced on the subject. ;D

   The vette, pictured above, is a travesty.  I own Corvette Summer and *sigh* take it for the pot of warm cheez wiz that it is...
  Mmmm... warm cheeze wiz.,,, :P

"The Car" starring James Brolin. Cheap crap about a demon possessed sedan terrorizing Mr. Brolin throughout the film. The only redeeming value in this muck is when the leading lady, "wooden" actress Kathleen Lloyd is run down by the titular character.

"The Car" starring James Brolin. Cheap crap about a demon possessed sedan terrorizing Mr. Brolin throughout the film. The only redeeming value in this muck is when the leading lady, "wooden" actress Kathleen Lloyd is run down by the titular character.
there's another redeeming feature of "the car"....

http://www.kimrichards.net/Kim/vidcaps/Car/gmbc-Richards(theCar)-001.jpg

http://www.kimrichards.net/Kim/vidcaps/Car/gmbc-Richards(theCar)-002.jpg

   The vette, pictured above, is a travesty.  I own Corvette Summer and *sigh* take it for the pot of warm cheez wiz that it is...

   Ima look for Stingray 'cause a pair of stripping nuns beat a Mark Hamil and a hoopty... 

haha. you OWN corvette summer? well, i'ma forgive you just cuz you're an awesome dude but al-b might pop the tab off a can o' whoopass, i dunno. man's plainly unbalanced on the subject. ;D


Unbalanced? Well, maybe. And to be honest that car almost does make me want to get violent.

But not simply because someone happens to have in their DVD collection the movie in which it appears. Everyone needs to have a few "pots of warm cheez whiz" in their DVD collection, God knows I have a few. Then again I will say that Corvette Summer smells more of "whiz" then it does of "cheese," if you get my drift.

All I know is that someone needs to take a sledgehammer to that thing and give it a much needed rhinoplasty. (And maybe give that monstrosity on the hood a good coating of Preparation H while they're at it.)

http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/corvettesummer1.jpg

there's another redeeming feature of "the car"....

http://www.kimrichards.net/Kim/vidcaps/Car/gmbc-Richards(theCar)-001.jpg

http://www.kimrichards.net/Kim/vidcaps/Car/gmbc-Richards(theCar)-002.jpg


Oh, yes! That's right! The Richards sisters were in the film. Love them! Thanks for the reminder, Tia !

Corvette Summer (1978).


http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e329/hje313/CorvetteSummerVette1.jpg

There aren't enough adjectives in the English language to describe accurately how much of a travesty this car really is.




Are you kidding? If I had that set of wheels I could get a cheeseburger and a good f**k in less than half an hour, and not necessarily in that order!
8)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show was a low budget B movie that was never meant to be good. The appeal to the
movie is the participation by the audience so unless you plan on having quite a few people over for a Rocky party
home viewing of this movie is not recommended.


I participated in Rocky Horror Pick Your Nose live revue in '83 (with my Unitarian Youth Group), and again in '93 (with my girlfriend and her Q friends who used to be in Unitarian Youth Group)...and even at the self-deprecating level of "was never meant to be good," I found the experience effing miserable.  Sorry, Rocky Horror bites a big one, and you can't hide from it under cover of irony!
:D

I participated in Rocky Horror Pick Your Nose live revue in '83 (with my Unitarian Youth Group), and again in '93 (with my girlfriend and her Q friends who used to be in Unitarian Youth Group)...and even at the self-deprecating level of "was never meant to be good," I found the experience effing miserable.  Sorry, Rocky Horror bites a big one, and you can't hide from it under cover of irony!
:D
What is the connection between the Unitarians and Rocky Horror? I was just talking with somebody the other night that does the Live shows. He said his group was going to be doing a show at a Unitarian sponsored fund raiser in their Auditorium. I just can't see many Churches throwing in with a film featuring Transexuals. Not condemning or condoning, just asking.

What is the connection between the Unitarians and Rocky Horror? I was just talking with somebody the other night that does the Live shows. He said his group was going to be doing a show at a Unitarian sponsored fund raiser in their Auditorium. I just can't see many Churches throwing in with a film featuring Transexuals. Not condemning or condoning, just asking.


Unitarians tend to be much more open, much less judgmental. 

Ok, that might explain it then.

Unitarians tend to be much more open, much less judgmental. 


I was involved in the Unitarian youth organization just after the church finally dissolved the LRY (Liberal Religious Youth, plenty of L, not much R).  My older sister was in the LRY at the height of its depravity.  The organization basically became a facilitator for acid-fueled orgies and punk rock shows.  The church felt it was important for young people to understand their sexuality; this was manifested as porn movies in the basement.  Musical tastes in the organization had taken a turn towards the Sex Pistols, though the Grateful Dead was still the main event.  When the RHPS became the hot thing on the midnight movie circuit, the LRY incorporated it as ritual.  I still have some pics my sister took at LRY costume parties where boys and girls alike were dressed as Frank-N-Furter!  For the sake of privacy, I won't post them.  After all, you might see your son's English teacher!
:o

Not all was mellow and groovy in the LRY.  The organization had been suffering horrific internecine fighting since the early 1970s.  The kids managed to keep most of the sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll out of view of the church elders, but the problem with counselors consorting with, erm, counselees came to their attention.  This was bad.  Very bad.  The LRY party was over in the early '80s and so was the LRY, an organization which had served the Unitarians well for generations. 

So, by the time I got in there after sis, it was cleaned up.  The organization was now called YRUU, a terribly hokey acronym standing for Young Religious Unitarian Universalists.  However, there were still holdovers from the LRY days, so when our group was planning a movie night, the overwhelming vote was for RHPS at midnight.  I would have preferred "Blade Runner" at a reasonable hour; the YRUU turned out to be one in a series of organizations I didn't fit into!

And that's what it is with the Unitarians and Rocky Horror.  I'm just surprised it's still going on 25 years later!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/08/rudolf.gif

  ^ Interesting, the Unitarian Youth thing...

  I haven't heard of it...