Bear Wyatt Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 Hook is a movie that's pretty critically panned but I love it. It's a fun movie with some terrific performances from Dustin Hoffman and Bob Hoskins and it gave us Rufio! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Ape Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 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." 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antacular Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 Loved Hook as a kid, but watched it again a year or two ago, and it did NOT hold up well at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeeball Wizard Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 Seconding the love for Speed Racer, also throwing in for Halloween 3: Season of the Witch. As a kid I hated it, spent the whole movie waiting for Michael Myers to show up. Hearing the back story and rewatching it as an adult gave me a great appreciation for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstout Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 If you haven't seen "Rambo" (the last so far of the Rambo movies) because, well, it's a Rambo movie, see it IMMEDIATELY. It's this awesomely over-the-top violent Tarantino homage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man Known as Dan Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 I will stand by Clueless being one of the better teen movies of the 90's till I die. Â In related movie name news, there are people who do not like Clue? Did they give up there soul at some point in there life, or were they just not born with one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 Bring It On.  Ditto.  Dredd flopped in cinemas, so I guess it counts:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqRim15-yOs  Didn't deserve to. I've supported Dredd here since its release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 I really like the Phantom. It really makes the most of its period piece nature. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincey Greene Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo Woodbine Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 I really like the Phantom. It really makes the most of its period piece nature. The Rocketeer is like that too, I don't think that film did well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Austin Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 One that I love that's very stupid is Yor The Hinter From the Future. By god its bad yet I love it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 Â 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. Â I think Robert Davi was great as a scumbag drug cartel dealer. Â I loved seeing Bond on a revenge trip. Â I like watching it today even more because of all the familiar faces that pop up in it that I recognize now. Â 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". Â Â 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 License to Kill is a good movie, but a bad Bond film. Clueless is great. Legitimately great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 Rookie of the Year is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydneybrown Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 Mark Kermode has a good argument for Jackie Brown being the best Tarantino film: Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 Flash Gordon. *points at location* 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scraylo187 Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 I will kill a man who doesn't like The Golden Child. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scraylo187 Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 Also, it's a little long, but Lost Skeleton of Cadavra is pretty great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRGoldman Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremebve Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Josie & The Pussycats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antacular Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 Speed Racer is indefensible. I demand to hear one redeeming quality about it besides nostalgia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 No. Speed Racer was already defended a page ago. You can't demand a defense with such a half-ass attack. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antacular Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 You're right, it was. It's so bad though I'm not going to bother mounting an attack, simply that out of all those listed here, Speed Racer is the first I vehemently detest. VEHEMENTLY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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