I never saw Brokeback Mountain but Crash was a slam dunk oscar film any year two gay cowboys weren't fucking on screen. I enjoyed Crash, a little too melodramatic and heavy handed with the heart string pulling for my taste but not a bad film.
Independence Day. I can watch that movie unlimited times. I will recite lines for that movie incessantly. "Kick the tires and light the fires big daddy!" is said at least 5 times a week for anytime I'm about to start anything besides taking a shit. Everyone likes to trash the movie now, but Fuck You, you loved it when it came out unless you were already old as fuck and didn't like anything.
Two pages and no one has mentioned... Quite possibly the worst movie ever made. Yet, whenever it comes on tv, I HAVE to watch it. Patrick Swayze beating up white trash? Sure, why not. The dialogue is terrible. The acting is worse. The characters are hokey. Its perfect.
I saw Strange Wilderness sober, and I still fucking love it. It's like they made a full movie out of the "Badger Doesn't give a shit" video. I also just bought the Sucker Punch Blu-Ray on Black Friday. It's nice to be able to skip the story to see all the awesome battle scenes. I can watch that zeppelin blow up infinity times. I'll also second Quantum of Solace and add Roland Emmerich's Godzilla.
I also loved this movie & I never understood people who didn't like it. For the girlie side of me I love Grease II (I know all the words to every song); Guarding Tess (what can I say, I am a sucker for Shirley MacLaine)& Showgirls (but that's BECAUSE it's so bad, it's not secretly good). I can and have watched those movies over and over. I know I have even more embarrassing likes, but I'd have to go home & blow the dust off of my DVD collection.
Buying the Cow is the best comedy you've never heard of. Jerry O'Connell, Ryan Reynolds, Alyssa Milano, Bill Bellamy, it fell under the Hollywood radar when it came out, but it's one of the most underrated comedies.
"The Kentucky Fried Movie.". After all these years, you'd think one of the pay cable channels would run it at 2:45 am on a weeknight or it'd show up in a $5 bin at Walmart or Big Lots. The Bill Murray remake of "The Razor's Edge.". He brought a great quirkiness to the role of Larry.
I like you I. You say some controversial shit, but stick to your guns under massive pressure the opposite way. I respect that. And you're one of the few other non rhythmically impaired people on the board. So I want to to know that I really do think you're a pretty all around ok guy in my book. But that is by far one of the worst piles of twice microwaved simian excrement that has ever had the blatant temerity to try to ass ride a masterpiece. There are not enough words in every language in the history of this planet to describe my utter loathing for that "film." Many of mine have been said, but I will try to bring up some new ones that hold a place in my heart. Robin Hood Prince of thieves. I see it now and understand what a horrid movie it is, but I used to love that movie when I was a kid so it still holds nostalgia value for me. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. That movie is still awesome. Finally, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter is Dead. If you can boil a completely ludicrous decade into one movie, not make it the fucking Breakfast Club, and make it fun, it would be this movie.
Going for the obvious..."Bob. Bob had bitch tits" Fight Club. I just watched it the other night on Bluray. The Ikea furniture scene was supremely ironic considering they just opened the largest Ikea in Canada here in Ottawa. This one dude spent 24 hours outside so he could be the first one in as this was on his bucket list. To which I say....aim higher. "Couples Retreat". When did this become one of my favorite movies? We actually went out and bought it about 2 months ago since we couldn't find it at the rental store. I think part of it is the all the eye candy, but if you've been married long enough some of the movie hits home. Plus, being French-Canadian the scene with the sharks and the "I need you to take the french out of your mouth" cracks me up every time. Old action movies Lethal Weapon(s), Die Hard(s), Alien(s), Running Man...Ahhh, when the one-liner was king. I'm too old for this shit.
I don't think you got the focus of this thread.. Focus: Johnny Mnemonic, Hackers and pretty much every other computer/hacker related film from the 80s and early 90s. I love seeing the hopefulness and fear that computers inspired back then.
I think I had an under appreciated thread for sequels a while back but I'll say it again. Alien 3 is a good ass fucking movie. Critics and hardcore fans shit all over it when it first came out because they killed off two of Aliens biggest characters. That was really the biggest complaint people had. I saw it before I saw the first two and always liked it. Even with the script writing and shooting issues that plagued the production it is a more than solid addition to the Alien franchise. By the time Alien Resurrection no one seemed to give a fuck. Alien Resurrection was a true Hollywood CGI run of the mill money grab bullshhit. Not to mention the abortions that were AvP.
Hey I'm not disagreeing with that statement. I'm just saying, when that shit comes on HBO, I'm going to be hard-pressed to move. "Johnny Rico: These are the rules. Everybody fights, nobody quits. If you don't do your job I'll kill you myself. Welcome to the Roughnecks" "Jean Rasczak: Warm it up, everything you've got. C'mon you apes, you wanna live forever?"
Face/Off. John Woo directs gunfight pornography. Nicholas Cage does crazy in beautiful waves. John Travolta isn't half bad. The face-swapping aspect of the film was a cheesy distraction to the question: what if you switched places with the man you hated most? Dumb, unrealistic and impossible to act out convincingly? Yes. But still, somehow awesome.
Yeah I know fans of the book always hate on it but Starship Troopers is a fun movie and the director is known for his wink and nod cheese aspects of his films. It boarders on CGI porn but the actions scenes are deftly handled unlike true CGI porn that uses it as a crutch.
Haunted Honeymoon. I am a big Gene Wilder fan anyway but you can't beat Dom DeLuise in drag! On that note too: See No Evil, Hear No Evil. Probably the worst movie that Wilder & Pryor did together but I loved it!
I always thought that Alien³ was quite good. It's a mess, yes, but somewhere between the theatrical release and the Quadrilogy special edition lies a very enjoyable film.
Despite being laughed at by a couple of older cousins, I loved Kelly's Heroes as a teenager in the 80's and feel vindicated that years later they liked the film. I still think it's an awesome film.
Cabin Boy. Nobody saw this. Nobody has ever seen it. The people that made it don't give a shit about it. Every scene is fucking dry brilliance. Basically, Chris Elliot is a fancy lad that boards a fishing boat instead of the cruise liner to take him home. It's 90 minutes of them being chased by a half shark/half man, finding Cali and her salesman husband, encountering a giant floating cupcake that spits tobacco, and the ice man in Hell's Bucket. It has the most quoted line between my friend and I: Go for all that, stay to see how a harem girl dances: It was also written by the guy that did Death to Smoochy, another bizarre, brilliant movie that nobody ever saw. Chalk another up for LKG. I could quote that fucking movie all day. Hands down the best Sam Jackson movie ever. It was as though it was written for him. Bonus points for Brian Cox. "There may be many reasons not to kill you, but among them is not that you'll be missed by NASA. I found the address in your coat. Here. Between the address of a topless bar, and the picture of what looks like a man's penis." "That's a duck, not a dick." Fuck it. One more. Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang, another Shane Black flick. The chemistry between Val Kilmer and Robert Downey Jr is amazing. It's actually, really well written crime noir type thing. Plus, the goddamn dialogue: "Why in pluperfect health would you pee on a corpse?"