Linus Van Pelt wrote:George McFly? Not Crap.

the onion wrote:2. The Country Bears (2002)

Scene: Christopher Walken practices his evil

A stray Christopher Walken scene can improve almost any movie, good or bad, from Pulp Fiction to Gigli: Walken has made a career out of creepily memorable, iconic performances that linger in the brain (and the shuddering nerves) long after the framing material is forgotten. But Walken cameos don't get much better than his central scene in Disney's numbingly bad The Country Bears. As an evil developer out to destroy the old-timey music venue Country Bear Hall, Walken shows up at intervals to threaten the animatronic-suited Country Bears in standard baddie form. But in a deliriously bizarre mid-film moment, he dances around his office alone in red boxers and bunny slippers, playing with his own face, cackling, and dropping an immense remote-controlled weight on balsa-wood models of Country Bear Hall in order to practice the none-too-shocked line "Oh no! Country Bear Hall has been crushed!"

6. Like Mike (2002)

Scene: Crispin Glover terrorizes an orphan

Sometimes, the strangest actors do their most subversive work in children's films, where their demented quirks stand in sharp relief to the family-friendly wholesomeness. (See also: Christopher Walken in The Country Bears, above.) As the prototypically cruel head of a orphanage, Glover forgets he's in an overlong Nike commercial and sets about terrorizing kids in his inimitably peculiar style. In the most twisted scene, Glover tries to squeeze information out of young Jonathan Lipnicki (the bespectacled moppet from Jerry Maguire) by holding a lighter under the sole remaining picture of his long-lost mother.

But Walken cameos don't get much better than his central scene in Disney's numbingly bad The Country Bears. As an evil developer out to destroy the old-timey music venue Country Bear Hall, Walken shows up at intervals to threaten the animatronic-suited Country Bears in standard baddie form. But in a deliriously bizarre mid-film moment, he dances around his office alone in red boxers and bunny slippers, playing with his own face, cackling, and dropping an immense remote-controlled weight on balsa-wood models of Country Bear Hall in order to practice the none-too-shocked line "Oh no! Country Bear Hall has been crushed!"

Thanks to the Onion, I might have to go out and rent two of these bad films

Run Around on Fire wrote:Allow me to take this opportunity to say i fucking HATE "Wild at Heart." I'm not a huge Lynch guy anyway, but this move has a very simple, braindead plot, yet lasts 3 hours and goes into diversions that are complete wastes of time. Crispin's scenes are a great example of this. They have nothing to do with the movie. I guess thats why some people love Lynch...but for me its really tedious.

You also get to see a naked, hairy Nic Cage with a thick Elvis accent, having sex with a gross looking Lura Dern.

I raelly feel like i'm missing out on something by hating this movie, because I guess its really artistic and cinematic and all that hoo-ha.

glynnisjohns wrote:At some point in my youth i sent away for one of his books "The art of ratcatching" it was boring and it was signed (by him.)