SANTA CLAUS AND THE ICE CREAM BUNNY

SANTA CLAUS AND THE ICE CREAM BUNNY-1972

A review by Robolly and friends:

Wow, I'd heard about this thing, but never saw any of it -- Just shows you: All you need is a camera, ratty costumes, and an old firetruck, and you can show Hollywood a thing or two about making movies (or create HELL ON EARTH).

L- This is quite possibly the worst movie ever made. Really, it makes Plan 9 look like f***ing Citizen Cane. I think all those kids were dosed w/ quaaludes before the shoot (and possible the crew as well.) Of course I can't take my eyes off of it.
I've never understood why people complain so much about Plan 9. At least it's entertaining, who cares if it's cheap and cheezy? I can easily sit through it; there are lots of movies I simply can't stand. I'd rather watch Plan 9 five times in a row than watch "Eyes Wide Shut" once!

Hell I'd sit through Plan 9 twenty times before I'd ever watch "Interview w/a Vampire" or "The X-Men" movie again. I've seen much much worse, but I think the status of P9FOS as the worst film of all time is really hyperbole and a perverse kind of media invention to give people a sense of belonging to an exclusive when they can declare that they've sat through the enitre thing. I remember my dad actually calling me on the phone to proudly tell me he watched it. Imagine it done w/ X-Mens budget - chances are it would be considered a sci-fi classic then "Santa Claus VS. The Martians" - now there's something pretty unwatchable unless you do the MST3000 version.

JS- As you very well know, I liked "Eyes Wide Shut" so I take nth degree offence at your deliberate smear of my inestimably
questionable taste!
---Kubrick Khan from Zanaxdu

P- (Heh, I knew I'd hear from someone on that!) I did not know this about thee, Mr. Khan from Zanaxdu (or is it Zanaxdon't), Son of Kubrick's Rube! With all due respect, I stand by my statement, but of course it's only my opinion and matters little in the greater scheme of things, yours very sincerely,
MoPammed of the Mountain

TITANIC

TITANIC- 1997

The review of the Historical movie block buster came in a form of several email conversation..

J-My particular movie torture moment would had to have been TITANIC which had to be longer and more painful than the actual event. And that was even including my 25 minute break to have a discussion with the elderly concession woman as to whether Snapple could really becounted as an iced tea or not ...

Jet- Instead of lemonade or Snapple, wouldn't miniature ice bergs like Sno-Cones be apt refreshments for viewing that movie?
A'course, how many can one eat before something goes overboard?

L-You mean you don't find Leonard DiCaprio dreamy???
George has seen Titanic more times than I care to admit, thankfully because he is a total ship history nerd and NOT because of the aforementioned.

F-Back at the height of the whole Titanic-mania, I do vaguely recall seeing some sort of "educational" toy Titanic that would split and sink just like the real thing. I also remember a day trip to Tijuana in the summer of 1998. Amidst the pharmacias and painted burros, the hustlers, the beggar children and the massage parlor girls happily waving from windows above, the one thing that was inescapable was Celine Dion's MY HEART WILL GO ON.
Everywhere you went, you heard it -- from loudspeakers and car stereos, p.a. systems - EVERYWHERE! ( Coincidentally, or maybe not, a sizable part of TITANIC was filmed in nearby Rosarito Beach) The omnipresence of the tune played no small part -- well, that and the heavy afternoon rain -- in cutting our trip short.
I hope at least your Snapple was good

B- My Titanic memories:

The movie openned when I was back from college and working at the Bay Park in Green Bay, Wi for the Christmas holidays. I remember that summer seeing movie posters and popcorn buckets saying: TITANIC: SUMMER. It was SO LATE, but it finally openned the same weekend as Tomorrow Never Dies and made about the same amount 20-30million. The staff previewed the film the night before, just to make sure the reels were all spliced in order and stuff, and I remember after the ship hit the iceberg the reel changed over, and all the actors were upside down and backwards. The reel was spliced wrong but all I could think was "All that money and time and ALL he can think to do is film the actors upside down!"

ALICE SWEET ALICE

"ALICE SWEET ALICE"- Was another horror comedy made during the 70's "Exorcist Craze", featuring haunting images and a psychotic little girl.
Paula Sheppard played the depressed and angry 12 year old Alice, her younger sister Karen (played by Brooke Shields) and their single mother (Linda Miller), from the very start of the film the audience can tell who the favorite is among the two sisters.

We see a lot of typical fighting a bickering between siblings, until Alice go to her secret shrine in the basement of their apartment building, to retrieve her favorite gear; a yellow raincoat, a plastic mask and a weapon....Then the screaming starts.. we're treated to a series of violent murders, all the evidence point to Alice....


Director Alfred Sole has a talent of making everyone in this film look as ugly as possible. Like many horror movies the audience were fed with images of sadistic violence and cutting to images of the Mother Mary and other religious icons, obviously Mr. Sole held a grudge against the Catholic Church.

The best part of the movie is Mr. Alphonso the morbidly obese, filthy landlord, who was constantly taunting Alice and showed sickening sexual attraction to the 12 year old. There are plenty of screams and laughs to this film while you can't take your eyes off the disgusting images of blood, torture, you can't help but look at stain that is so visible on the crotch of Alphonso's pants, so powerful that you can smell the urine in the air!