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I know ya'll are talking about this in the Movie Club, but I will defend Speed Racer to my dying breath. The Wachowskis said that they were making a live-action take on a 60s anime series, no more, no less, and that's exactly what they made. If you weren't already familiar with the source material I can see how you would think it was ridiculous, but those two made an honest-to-God love letter to that show and basically made the whole thing PURE Speed Racer.

Also, John Goodman was THE perfect choice for Pops. "Was that a ninja?!" "More like a non-ja. It's embarrassing what passes for a ninja these days."

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I frickin love Airheads. I don't really have any expansion on that, I just think it's really funny.

It's not really unheralded, everyone thinks it's good, but I don't know why Jackie Brown isn't universally considered Tarantino's best movie because it so is.

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I think it's looked at more fondly now, but I've always enjoyed License to Kill and pre-Casino Royale, it was still one of my favorite Bond films.  I think Robert Davi was great as a scumbag drug cartel dealer.  I loved seeing Bond on a revenge trip.  I like watching it today even more because of all the familiar faces that pop up in it that I recognize now.

 

Man, License to Kill was *dark*. I loved it. It flipped the script of typical Bond villains, going from "goofy and hell-bent on world domination" to "evil son of a bitch who wants vicious revenge".

 

 

Robert Davi was one of the few Bond villains you could actually see existing in the real world. No wackiness, no veneer of respectability, just a total sociopath.

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It's not really unheralded, everyone thinks it's good, but I don't know why Jackie Brown isn't universally considered Tarantino's best movie because it so is.

 

I completely agree with you, and if anything I'm fine with it being the forgotten Tarantino film.  Pulp Fiction was just such a monster, I think about anything he did as a follow-up was going to be compared to it and looked at as disappointing.  But I think it's his most relatable movie.

 

I'll defend Vanilla Sky to the death. I know Open Your Eyes is the better movie.  I just saw it at a time in my life where it absolutely spoke to me, and I could go for hours on why I love it as much as I do.  But I know most people just hated it.

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I have an unhealthy love for Rock and Roll High School Forever, the movie that shows off Corey Feldman at his most Michael Jackson-esque, has a Corey Haim lookalike because Corey Haim was in rehab, and has a scene that is blatantly stolen from Temple of Doom. It is amazing. 

 

I also assume that there are some soulless monsters in the world that don't consider Pootie Tang to be the finest comedy in the history of cinema, so I guess Pootie Tang also counts. 

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I will kill a man who doesn't like The Golden Child.

I was just talking to a coworker about how this is my favorite movie that I realize is absolutely horrible.  I've seen this movie at least 100 times and if I were to see it on TV the remote would be put down until it is over.  There was a time in my life that this very well have been my favorite movie.

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