The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Films

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This week we turn the Spotlight on prolific Director Wes Craven, creator of the Nightmare On Elm Street series and the man behind the camera of the Scream films. Craven began his big screen career with 1972’s Last House on the Left and later this year will release My Soul to Take, which he wrote and directed, and will begin the next Scream trilogy as well.

On the podcast we give our lists of Good and Bad Craven directed films… enjoy!

Good

Allen

Music of the Heart

The Serpent & the Rainbow

Scream

The Hills Have Eyes

Deadly Blessing

John

Scream

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare

Red Eye

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Mark

Cursed

A Nightmare On Elm Street

Scream

Swamp Thing

Red Eye

Ross

A Nightmare on Elm Street

The People Under the Stairs

Shocker

The Serpent and the Rainbow

Swamp Thing

Bad

John

Deadly Friend

Scream 3

Diary of the Dead (Voice only)

Shocker

Vampire in Brooklyn

Mark

The Hills Have Eyes II

People Under the Stairs

Shocker

Scream 3

Vampire in Brooklyn

Ross

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare

Scream

Scream 2

Scream 3

Deadly Friend

Allen

The Hills Have Eyes II

The Last House on the Left

Vampire in Brooklyn

Shocker

Cursed

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In Part Two of our Spotlight on the films of 1996, we cover the worst of the worst with the Uglies, and the best of the best with our Top Five lists.

Feel free to leave comments on out lists, or submit you own, here in the comments section, or email them to us at podcast@goodbaduglyfilms.com .

NEXT WEEK: We take a look at movies that flopped.

The Ugly

John

Broken Arrow

Executive Decision

The Rock

Eraser

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday

Mark

Solo

Beavis and Butthead Do America

High School High

Bio-dome

Rumble in the Bronx

Ross

Up Close and Personal

Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy

Mystery Science Theatre 3000

Thinner

Jack

Allen

Phenomenon \ Michael

Kazaam

An Eye For An Eye

The Evening Star

The Fan

Top 5 Lists

Mark

1. The Frighteners

2. Kingpin

3. Kolya

4. When We Were Kings

5. Last Man Standing

Ross

1. Special Effects: Anything Can Happen (IMAX)

2. Tales From the Crypt: Bordello of Blood

3. The Celluloid Closet

4. Basquiat

5.I Shot Andy Warhol

Allen

1. The Long Kiss Goodnight

2. Grace of My Heart

3. Crash

4. Bound \ Evita

5. Jude

John

1. Fargo

2. Bound

3. Trainspotting

4. Beautiful Thing

5. Scream

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Box Office

• Weekend Grosses (Hangover #1 Again!)
• GBU List: Hostage Movies
• Opening this Weekend (The Proposal, Year One)

Recycle Bin

• Tony Scott Talks ‘Hunger’ Remake
• Fox Wants Ridley Scott to Direct ‘Alien’ Prequel – ScifiSquad.com
• Liam Neeson in talks for ‘A-Team’
• Bradley Cooper on a roll with ‘A-Team’
• Wes Craven Confirms the New Scream Trilogy Rumors
• Eli Roth Wants to Remake Tobe Hooper’s The Funhouse
• Neil Marshall to Direct Robert Rodriguez’ Predators Reboot?!
• Marcus Nispel Directing ‘Conan the Barbarian’
• Angelina Wanted Again

News

• ‘G.I. Joe’ Director Fired? Biggest Stinker of 2009? Do Tell!
• *Update From Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura*
• Inception Has $200 Million Budget?
• Must Watch: First Trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island
• Time, XYZ in DeLorean biopic race
• Russell Crowe’s ‘Robin Hood’ Movie ‘Not In Trouble’
• Sweden cuts out film censorship
• Lost Footage from Clive Barker’s ‘Nightbreed’ … Found! – Horror Squad
• EuropaCorp, Quinta to build French studio
• Captain America, thought dead, comes back to life

The Ugly:

• Reboot Fatigue
• Please! Directors… One Project at a Time!

…whoever’s criticizing “Rosemary’s Baby” hasn’t read Scott Kosar’s [script] – we’re calling it “Rosemary’s Baby,” but we’re not doing that movie.

-Brad Fuller

Next Weeks GBU LIST: Immigration Movies

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It’s out 25th episode, and we go epic with it! we have plenty to talk about, and talk plenty we do… here’s the spin – 50% more podcast than usual!! ¦¬) We introduce a new segment this week with our Themed Good, Bad & Ugly Lists reflecting the theme of a newly released film – This week list is Party Movies to commemorate “The Hangover.” Next week we will list Hostage Movies in conjunction with “The Taking Pelham 123.” If you would like to share your examples of a Good, Bad and Ugly Hostage film, submit them to podcast@goodbaduglyfilms.com Feel free to submit news/story ideas as well! Enjoy the podcast.

Box Office

• Weekend Grosses (Up, Hangover, Land of the Lost)
• Opening this Week (Taking of Pelham 123, Imagine That)

GBUF

• Party Movies

Recycling

• James Cameron Might Be Directing a Heavy Metal Segment?!
• Producer Hints at Spider-Man 4 Villains, Says Dunst Will Return
• Tony Scott Explains Why He’s Moving The Warriors to LA
• Blade Runner Getting a Prequel Web Series Sometime Soon
• Rodriguez Says He’s Hoping to Shoot The Jetsons Next Year?!
• ‘Short Circuit’ gets ‘Robot’ touch
• Wimmer to write ‘Total Recall’ remake
• Will We See Another Scream Trilogy with the Original Cast?
• ‘Barbarella’: ‘Legally Blonde’ director Robert Luketic to helm remake?
• Heathers Sequel

“Whatever you hear, there is a sequel in the works. I swear to God,” she told the magazine. “But for some reason the writer Dan Waters and director Michael Lehman don’t want to talk about it. I’ve been wanting to do a sequel forever. There is a story, and Christian [Slater] has agreed to come back as a kind of Obi-Wan character.”

-Winona Ryder

• ‘Valley Girl’ redux set
• Universal and Hasbro to Produce ‘Stretch Amstrong’
• Must Watch: First Insane Teaser Trailer for [Rec] 2!
• Disney to leverage licensed characters
• A ‘MacGruber’ movie: Worst idea ever?
• Tobin Bell Confirms ‘Saw 8′ Rumors, Doesn’t Dismiss 9th Film!
• First Look: Josh Brolin as the Disfigured Bounty Hunter Jonah Hex

Stories

• Carradine’s death may be accidental
• Cameron’s Avatar Gets Revealed in Video Game Screenshots
• More Avatar
• Harry Potter’s IMAX Opening Delayed Two Weeks by Transformers
• Judge sends ‘Rings’ case to jury
• BitTorrent users spend money, too

-They buy 34% more movie tickets, purchase 34% more DVDs and rent 24% more movies than the average Internet user.

-They tend to have more and better equipment for consuming media, including home theaters and expensive computers with large screens.

-They spend less time watching TV, more online, and far more watching downloaded or streaming video.

-They’re not only early adopters, they’re more likely to share their opinions online, and with more people.

- Jon Healey

• ‘Bruno’ suit no laughing matter
• ‘Watchmen’ Blu-ray Bulked Up in UK
• Sigourney Weaver To Join Paul?
• Luc Besson probes third dimension
• Mike Dougherty’s Trick ‘r Treat Finally Coming to Theaters!

• Google the Movie
• ‘Angel of Death’ Summoned By Spike TV, DVD To Follow
• Will Ferrell talks THE B-TEAM – His Next Film With Director Adam McKay
• Francis Ford Coppola to Movieline: ‘Godfather Never Should Have Had More Than One Movie’
• Animation Upstarts Are Joining the Fray
• Fox Searchlight preps ‘Kidnap’

The Ugly

• Audience Comfort with the Familiar
• Warner Bros TV advertising of Gran Torino to Home Video

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