Movies: Your guilty pleasures

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jerseydevil said:
I don't think the first one is all that much a guilty pleasure. The sequels on the other hand...
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The movie [Highlander] and the TV show (minus large parts of the first and last seasons) are awesome, the sequels are crap.
 
KingInTheWest said:
The movie [Highlander] and the TV show (minus large parts of the first and last seasons) are awesome, the sequels are crap.
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I dunno, the second one, by virtue of Michael Ironside, is worth watching...and that Van Peeples one...well, it's got MVP!!!! If that ain't the DEFINITION of guilty pleasure...
 
Hellraiser is friggn awesome. Clive Barker willing, I'd love to see a modern reboot of the franchise with Doug Bradley as the man. The concepts make the story.

The only thing good about any of the crappy sequels was Paula Marshall in III:
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Goddamn she was HOT in HIII. She still makes my balls ache.
 
nocturn said:
Hellraiser is friggn awesome. Clive Barker willing, I'd love to see a modern reboot of the franchise with Doug Bradley as the man. The concepts make the story.

The only thing good about any of the crappy sequels was Paula Marshall in III:
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Goddamn she was HOT in HIII. She still makes my balls ache.
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i heard Clive did pitch a remake to the Weinsteins WITH Doug as Pinhead, of course, and they are green lighting it!
 
I once had a dream, lol, that they made a Hellraiser musical. I've must've had too many Skittles before going to sleep. mhihi:
 
Luc SkyBomba said:
i heard Clive did pitch a remake to the Weinsteins WITH Doug as Pinhead, of course, and they are green lighting it!
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jerseydevil said:
Clive Barker to pen ‘Hellraiser’ remake, Doug Bradley to play Pinhead | Hero Complex – movies, comics, pop culture – Los Angeles Times


Take w/grain of salt...Barker is a notorious procrastinator and it's been a while since any news other than the initial splash.
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Now that you guys mention it, I remember reading a quick something about a new one like 5 years ago.

Like I said, the concepts CB put into Hellraiser are timeless. With a well written, detailed screenplay, this potentially could be a Badass reboot. But without Doug Bradley, it would suck before the first second of film is rolled.
 
nocturn said:
Now that you guys mention it, I remember reading a quick something about a new one like 5 years ago.

Like I said, the concepts CB put into Hellraiser are timeless. With a well written, detailed screenplay, this potentially could be a Badass reboot. But without Doug Bradley, it would suck before the first second of film is rolled.
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I am all for Bradley...but dude is pushing 70(I think) at this point. Sooner or later it becomes moot. Problem with the property is the same as always...there is a DeSade quality to the evil contained in the concept. And when the first Hellraiser got made it was dangerous for its time. We live in an age of torture porn, which Hellraiser is not. It has elements, but it is even DARKER because of the psychological aspects. I think studios and the mpaa have less trouble with the rending of flesh, than they do with the rending of flesh coupled with psychological/sexual overtones. The RIGHT Hellraiser would be Bob Guccione going all Caligula and drumming up a **** ton of money and blow for Barker to entice great actors to throw away their careers on. I think Malcolm McDowell would JUMP at the gig. Ok...how do I get down off this soapbox.
 
Cannonball Run, Hooper, Six Pack, Smokey and the Bandit, Gator, Sharky's Machine...etc.

I have a super soft spot for late 70's-early 80's Burt Reynolds. He was the f***ing man.

I wish he and Dom DeLuise would have made more movies together. They had fantastic chemistry. I could watch the Cannonball Run blooper reels all day long. RIP Dom!
 
Many of those Burt Reynolds movies were directed by the late, great Hal Needham. Hooper will always be one of my all-time favorites.
 
Hooper was the very first VHS tape my pop bought for our new VCR way back when. I remember him complaining that the "G-Damn tape was $95 plus tax!"

That top loading VCR we had was a tape eating machine. Between that and the cost of movies, I think the VCR lasted about 6 months before Pops traded it in for a "ON TV" box. lol

Good times those late 70's, early 80's.
 
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Because sometimes it's fun to take an old German silent film, add color to it, and a soundtrack with the likes of Freddy Mercury. :grin:
 
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