The ( not so great ) Movie ride.

[imagineer boy]

Hello all, this is just a random idea for a ride for MGM that I came up with which is a spoof of the great movie ride, except there's a catch, it goes through moments of the worst movies ever made. It could be located in the old sounds dangerouse theater and ABC theater. The exterior could be made to look like a cheap sci fi movie laboratory. The premise is the same as the Great Movie ride. In the qeue you watch clips and trailers for the bad movies you are about to travel into. Ever once in a while, the mad scientist appears in between scenes to tell you the story. He's performing test experements to see if you can survive visiting the worst movies and analyze the data ( kind of like MST3K ) The cars are kinda the same as in the GMR, but maybe smaller, but you also have a host ( who provides more comic relief and interancts with the AAs more)

The movies that you could go into could include:

Manos: the Hands of Fate
Santa conqures the Martians
Battle Field Earth
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Space Mutiny

and possibly a few others. Could anyone reccomend any?

Any thoughts or comments?

 

[DisneyRoxMySox]

I like the idea, but I haven't heard of those movies.

You'd have to find movies that were bad, but everyone heard of...

 

[ntoeman]

I like the idea, but I haven't heard of those movies.

You'd have to find movies that were bad, but everyone heard of...

I totally agree, but now the trick is thinking of some...

 

[NemoRocks78]

I totally agree, but now the trick is thinking of some...

Here's a good list of some of the worst films of all time....

http://imdb.com/chart/bottom

 

[SIR90210]

Gigli and Osmosis Jones.

 

[maelstrom]

sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band.

if you haven't seen it, do so. awesome music. dumb plot.

 

[imagineer boy]

I like the idea, but I haven't heard of those movies.

You'd have to find movies that were bad, but everyone heard of...

Um, those are the better known worst movies of all time. :lol:

You havn't heard of Battlefield Earth? Its one of the worst bombs ever made. Plan 9 from outer space is defiately is by far the worst movie ever made. The reason why you've never heard of them is because they're so bad.

 

[DisneyRoxMySox]

Um, those are the better known worst movies of all time. :lol:

You havn't heard of Battlefield Earth? Its one of the worst bombs ever made. Plan 9 from outer space is defiately is by far the worst movie ever made. The reason why you've never heard of them is because they're so bad.

I am not saying it just because I haven't seen them, but I was just pointing out that it might make the attraction better.

 

[KentB3]

Here are a few I'd like to throw in:

2010: The Year We Make Contact
Escape From New York
Jack
Mommie Dearest

 

[NemoRocks78]

Here's what I'd like to see in the ride.... :lol:

- SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2
- Alone in the Dark
- Elektra
- Catwoman
- Son of the Mask
- Open Water
- Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones :lookaroun

 

[Laufschneller65]

the worst movies are pretty much all the Prequals to the origional disney classics which seem to have come out within the last 5 years. Urgh they all suck!!! Disney needs some new Writers to do something other than seconds!!!

 

[Legacy]

Ready to Rumble
Son of the Mask
Catwoman
Battlefield Earth
Batman and Robin


The Country Bears... :lookaroun

 

[WDWBro]

Here's a good list of some of the worst films of all time....

http://imdb.com/chart/bottom

What?? Why is "You Got Served" on that list?

 

[SirGoofy]

I know it's a Universal property, but Jurassic Park 3 was horrible.
You could also put War of the Worlds in it. Man what a dissapointment.

Power Rangers on that list. I mean as an teen it isn't great, but it serves it's purpose.

 

[DisneyDreams287]

Is it just me, or could Disney have spent a little more time in the FANTASIA portion of the ride...i mean...here they are with lavish sets and spectacle with everyone else's movies...but when it comes to one of their truley own movies...its a screen and a moving projector...why didn't they put a Snow White portion of the ride...it seems to be that was an important milestone in the movie industry...

 

[Legacy]

Is it just me, or could Disney have spent a little more time in the FANTASIA portion of the ride...i mean...here they are with lavish sets and spectacle with everyone else's movies...but when it comes to one of their truley own movies...its a screen and a moving projector...why didn't they put a Snow White portion of the ride...it seems to be that was an important milestone in the movie industry...

Because it wasn't originally suppose to be there. That room was suppose to be a "tornado room" to start off the Wizard of Oz section. That is why the cliffs are at that strange angle. That side of the room was the funnel. They couldn't get the effect to work right, and so Fantasia was thrown in there at the last minute.

 

[DisneyDreams287]

Oh! thanks for the info!

 

[LiamRowbi]

Here's what I'd like to see in the ride.... :lol:

- SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2
- Alone in the Dark
- Elektra
- Catwoman
- Son of the Mask
- Open Water
- Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones :lookaroun

hey lol I love Elektra Star Wars ep 2 and Batman Forever (posted later)! lol

 

[Dr.Seeker]

Because it wasn't originally suppose to be there. That room was suppose to be a "tornado room" to start off the Wizard of Oz section. That is why the cliffs are at that strange angle. That side of the room was the funnel. They couldn't get the effect to work right, and so Fantasia was thrown in there at the last minute.

Also, Disney had to buy the rights to Wizard of Oz from multi-zillionaire Ted Turner. Disney eventually managed to weedle out permission for 3 minutes (including sets, costumes, music e.t.c.) for an annual fee of $350,000! The tornado bit, while it did have some technical problems, ran over this time limit.

According to our friend Jim Hill:
"But what the Imagineers had originally planned to do in this area of the attraction was recreate that moment in MGM's version of "The Wizard of Oz" where the tornado is bearing down on Dorothy's farmhouse. (That's actually why there are still fans in this section of "The Great Movie Ride" that blow. Those were initially installed there to give you a wind-in-your-face feeling as a huge black-and-white projection of that funnel cloud came closer & closer to your theater car.)

FYI: It's also important to understand that the guys from WDI originally put an awful lot of thought into what moments went where in "The Great Movie Ride." That's why it's not a co-incidence that that scene in "Casablanca" comes right before where the tornado sequence from "The Wizard of Oz" was supposed to go.

To explain: "Casablanca" was in black-and-white. As was the tornado sequence from "The Wizard of Oz." And in "Casablanca," Ilsa is about to board that plane to fly to fly to freedom. Just as that tornado is about to fly Dorothy's farmhouse to Oz. So obviously there's an attempt here to connect the color, theme and style of these two scenes in the attraction.

Anywho ... Our theater car is supposedly blown to Oz. We roll into a technicolor recreation of Munchkinland and interact with the Wicked Witch of the West. From there, we roll past Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman & the Cowardly Lion (and Toto too!) as they stand gazing in wonder at the Emerald City in the distance.

And -- from there ... Well, I'm sure that you all know the ending of "The Great Movie Ride" as it exists today. Where your theater car rolls into a big empty soundstage. And -- once the second theater car gets into position -- you see a film montage that quickly pays tribute to dozens of movie stars & classic films."

 

[lebeau]

As a movie buff, I like the idea for a not-so-great movie ride. However, there are a few problems. One, any movie you pick might be someone's favorite movie. And two, who's going to give you the rights to use their film in a ride that insults the quality of their film?