First of all Mike Caine's book on how to act is great, and it'll only take you 1-2 hours to read. It is even better if you read it in his accent and voice.

Also, Mike said he used to base his selection of movie jobs based on the per diem and whether or not the location was a nice place to vacation.

Aw, c'mon, VF - what do you have against "Zardoz"?

From time to time SciFi runs it (hey, BSG is in hiatus still) and it is still one of the most ridiculous movies I've ever seen. That's what makes it terrific. It's right up there with "Plan 9" for just out-and-out bad moviness.

Geez, Frank... Leah Thompson in her skivvies, in bed with a talking duck. What's not to like ?

It was back when people still thought Lucas could do no wrong. I thought the Howard the Duck character was the worst idea I ever saw in film.

Then I saw the Ewoks and Jar-Jar Binks and found myself thinking Howard wasnt half bad.

Zardoz is like 'lawrence of arabia' compared to Quintet. Zardoz at least has a topless Charlotte Rampling but after an hour of Quintet, you just want to jam knitting needles in your eyes.
Zardoz just doesnt make any sense, but it looks good. Quintent captures on film what the inside of your head has feels like after a three day bender in Tijuana. Its a cinematic hangover where you awake covered in someone elses vomit, your wallet is missing,theres a tattoo on your chest that says "Im with Stupid" and theres a donkey in the room thats wearing a party hat. Youre sure whatever happened was fun, but you cant quite remember what it was.

Its that bad. It really is. If they showed it at Guantanamo, the UN would insist that we go back to pulling the detainees fingernails instead.

I'm not at all ashamed to say I loved "The Hand." Then again, I was eight.

I basically agree with Caine, and I'm not sure his presence in so many awful movies detracts from his point. But it is pretty hilarious coming from him.

> It was back when people still thought Lucas could do no wrong. I thought the Howard the Duck character was the worst idea I ever saw in film.

Howard the Duck was a hilarious comic, an adult sendup of the whole Donald Duck concept, and exceedingly well done at first -- Disney felt so threatened by it that they sued Marvel and from thence on, Howard always wore pants. How can you hate something that starts out with a chief nemesis that's an intelligent turnip bent on destroying all mankind in revenge for the mistreatment of turnips throughout history?

The movie lost all that, somehow. The self-deprecating absurdism that was worthy of a cynical-universe Barks 'toon somehow faded, and, while I don't agree with it as a worst movie by any means (four words: "Manos, Hands of Fate"), it certainly did not live up to the talent involved or the original source material.

> It was back when people still thought Lucas could do no wrong. I thought the Howard the Duck character was the worst idea I ever saw in film.

Howard the Duck was a hilarious comic, an adult sendup of the whole Donald Duck concept, and exceedingly well done at first -- Disney felt so threatened by it that they sued Marvel and from thence on, Howard always wore pants. How can you hate something that starts out with a chief nemesis that's an intelligent turnip bent on destroying all mankind in revenge for the mistreatment of turnips throughout history?

The movie lost all that, somehow. The self-deprecating absurdism that was worthy of a cynical-universe Barks 'toon somehow faded, and, while I don't agree with it as a worst movie by any means (four words: "Manos, Hands of Fate"), it certainly did not live up to the talent involved or the original source material.

> anyone else remember the deep rotation of 1982's "Beastmaster" where it played on HBO for what seemed like every hour on the hour for about a year?)

Oh, heck, Beastmaster? It's not THAT bad -- contrast with the A. Whitney Brown SNL report, wherein he noted that "over on HBO, they're showing C.H.U.D for the thirty-fifth time this month"...

At least Beastmaster had an unclothed Tanya Roberts to offer for the time spent.

> anyone else remember the deep rotation of 1982's "Beastmaster" where it played on HBO for what seemed like every hour on the hour for about a year?)

Oh, heck, Beastmaster? It's not THAT bad -- contrast with the A. Whitney Brown SNL report, wherein he noted that "over on HBO, they're showing C.H.U.D for the thirty-fifth time this month"...