Medieval German Metal mit Dudelsack!
Schmaltz Schlagen!

That's 7 minutes of over produced schmaltz I'll never get back.

Correct! The Way of the Dragon. Great karate schmaltz, that. And Chuck gets killed at the Colosseum in Rome after a great preening match with Bruce Lee. But Enter the Dragon . . . not.

>> ^alien_concept:

>> ^silvercord:
Chuck Norris wasn't in Enter the Dragon, Dusty. He was, however, in the Virgin Islands. Now, they are just the Islands.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068935/

You shouldn't have used any music. I had to turn the clip off part-way from the schmaltz. Why was the music necessary? It wasn't necessary. It's so fucking annoying.

The music and sparkly "THE HEALING BEGINS" text has made me vomit one half-second into this clip.

I wish people would just do things and not insist on filming them, and especially not insist on ultra-cliched editing schmaltz.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I'm deliberately not reading this post, as I'm still working through season 3, but I'd just like to say that BSG is cheesy schmaltz most of the time. If I have to see Adama and Apollo hug once more to swelling music, I think I'm going to barf.

The Terminator series is much better, at least I'm only dealing with teen angst.

(1978) Is it schmaltz, or is it cheese?

It is a crime against humanity.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'all out of love, all out of cheese, air supply, 70s, schmaltz, gouda' to 'all out of love, all out of cheese, air supply, 70s, schmaltz, gouda, cheese' - edited by kronosposeidon

Holy runaway train. As I said earlier, this is a lesson about what happens when you repress your inner desires for schmaltz.

As someone who has lived through the entirety of both the 70s and 80s, I believe cheese should be reserved for 80s music and that schmaltz would be the correct word to describe music from the 70s. But then again I guess it is hard to find a picture of schmaltz to put on your head.

Take a stroll through my discards, and you'll see I know no shame when it comes to 70's schmaltz.

SAY!, if you happen to see, the most beautiful girl, who walked out on meeee...hmm hmm hm hmmm hmmmmm...

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
No one wants to defend the Oscar noms?

Hmmm, well since no one else will do it, I guess I'll have to.

-Babel

While this was almost certainly Alejandro González Iñárritu's weakest film, considering the fact that I find Amores Perros and 21 Grams to be near-masterpieces (Amores Perros in particular), that was pretty much a forgone conclusion. The stories don't tie together quite as nicely as you'd hope, and it felt a tad long long, but it was really well made and superbly acted.

-Crash

Yes, it's heavy-handed; there's no denying that subtlety isn't a word in this film's vocabulary. But there were some surprisingly powerful moments, and it featured (mostly) very good performances.

-The Aviator

This was definitely one of Scorsese's weaker films, but there were a lot of things I liked about it. I liked the visual style, and how it tried to mimic the look of movies of the various eras. Cate Blanchett was really good. Ummm... well look, it wasn't a great film, but it certainly wasn't so bad as to be a waste of celluloid.

-A Beautiful Mind

Again, not great, but not awful, either. It was a competently made, entertaining Hollywood film. No more, no less.

-Titanic

I'm going to admit that I really liked this one. Though this isn't exactly the kind of thing James Cameron became famous for, I still think he's at his best here. This film manages to be a very good romance, and a good disaster movie, without one element ever eclipsing the other. Yes, it is schmaltzy, but I think an unabashed romance like this is allowed to have a bit of schmaltz. I still remember seeing this opening weekend, when the only buzz around it was "how hard is this film going to FLOP??" and walking out completely stunned. I know it isn't "cool" to like this film because of the way it was embraced by teenage girls, but you know what? I don't care. I think it's great, old-fashioned movie-making. Also: if you can remain dry-eyed during the sequence in which the string quartet plays while various passengers make their final preparations, then you sir are made of stone.

-The English Patient

I can't defend this one too vigourously, as I thought it was horribly overrated, but I will admit that it wasn't terrible. I honestly don't remember much about it... Ralph Fiennes was very good, though, as he always is (and go see In Bruges if you want to see a very different, and very hilarious, performance from him).

The schmaltz: you're soaking in it.

And it looks as if the lore got you to upvote, so all is well.

Wow! Knowing that bit of lore, still doesn't keep that cheesey feeling from childhood, from creeping up, in a polyester jumpsuit, holding a Spam caserole, with a grocery store soundtrack, piped in gently as background muzak.

Glen was schmaltz, pure and simple, the C&W, Pat Boone!!