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We all have our guilty pleasures. Not all of us like movies just because they receive glowing reviews on "Fresh Aire." Name a movie you like in spite of the fact that you should know better.
I have many. Here is one of them.
Turbineguy
(37,412 posts)The Peter Seller's version. "The King was never a well man!"
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)Even when the movie is bad, he's generally great.
cdsilv
(904 posts)CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)When he dressed up as the Mafia wiseguy I felt a little embarrassed for him.
On the other hand I am delighted to have found an online print of The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu as I did like that odd little film.
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(21,551 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)Initech
(100,139 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,100 posts)LOL!!! That WAS a pretty entertaining movie. Got to have some mindless entertainment every so often.
bluesbassman
(19,385 posts)Should
Have
Bought
A
Squirell!
I love that movie.
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(21,551 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)It was actually pretty good!
benld74
(9,911 posts)Archae
(46,373 posts)The third one was beyond awful, but I loved that trucks/cops brawl.
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)2x Academy Award Winner Sally Field
Jackie Gleason - who never won an emmy, but probably should have for The Honeymooners
The multi-talented Jerry Reed
and, of course, Burt Reynolds.
I was about to comment something similar, until I saw your post...
Jerry Reed
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Archae
(46,373 posts)The first Star Trek movie.
I love it.
pink-o
(4,056 posts)I fell kinda bad for liking it, and honestly it probably looked a lot better as a tag line than the finished product did. But how can you not crack up at a white ghetto wannabe and 2 African Americans who were clueless about HOW to act ghetto? Especially since Blair Underwood was one of them.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)To me, this is Golden Age pulp Science Fiction. What could be better?
Now, if it had been steampunk, it would have been a hit. Audiences these days don't seem to care for this kind of science fiction at all. Oil well, their loss.
GoCubsGo
(32,100 posts)I'm a fan of the Art Deco period, and I think that made it more attractive to me. I also like that it was so hokey.
FSogol
(45,582 posts)Initech
(100,139 posts)KT2000
(20,604 posts)Joe vs the Volcano
Brewinblue
(392 posts)By far Keaunu Reaves best work. In retrospect, I'm not sure he was acting.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)If you factor out Jar Jar Binks, it's a pretty good movie with a stellar cast.
Trunk Monkey
(950 posts)But I still love Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
Alan Rickman's Sheriff was hilarious
yellerpup
(12,254 posts)Won Academy Award. Hated it.
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)Whenever one of our kids complains we were late picking them up, etc., I yell (a la Daniel Day Lewis) "I've abandoned my child."
My reaction to the final scene was completely inappropriate. When Lewis beats Paul Dano to death with the bowling pin, I wanted to applaud -- having myself felt the desire to beat the guy to death for the entire picture.
yellerpup
(12,254 posts)Do the kids get it? By the end, I was ready to see them all die.
RZM
(8,556 posts)Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day Lewis are both talented. But they also have a tendency to overdo it and take themselves a bit too seriously. Putting them together just didn't work for me.
It wasn't a horrible movie, but I didn't think all of the accolades were deserved.
yellerpup
(12,254 posts)Especially in the private bowling alley scene.
Son of Gob
(1,502 posts)yellerpup
(12,254 posts)Daniel Day Lewis won the Oscar for his leading role in that movie, but the film did not win the Oscar.
nuxvomica
(12,464 posts)And quite a few already listed.
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)I think there's a really good film there, but 10 minutes needs to be trimmed, and I thnk they'd have done better telling the story in sequence (i.e. starting with young Rex's racing career, instead of with flashbacks)
GoCubsGo
(32,100 posts)I do, however, like the flashbacks. I think it gives the film a bit more of an edge.
Son of Gob
(1,502 posts)I never saw Speed Racer.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)it's hilarious
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)..for the same reason.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)And I'm a big Jason Robards fan. Very underrated movie.
HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)I don't understand why it was so universally panned.
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)Also, the film didn't quite fit nicely into a niche.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)I believe it mostly has negative reviews but I always split at the sides when I see that film.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)though I remember liking it, too. Pretty much any movie with John Candy is great!
Auggie
(31,230 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)Hell, even the director hates it! Also, the movie in which everyone screams!
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)Funny as hell! Great song by Koda Kumi!!
Flaxbee
(13,661 posts)But then again, I like almost anything with Steve Zahn in it
RedStateLiberal
(1,374 posts)I don't think it was received too well by critics and it flopped. I finally saw it last night via Netflix blu-ray and I was pleasently surprised. Yes, it's pretty cheesy but it is based on a novel that's 100 years old. I'm a sci-fi/fantasy geek so it hit on all cylinders for me. It's just a fun movie that reminded me of my childhood and movies like Star Wars and Flash Gordon. I thought it was right up there with Avatar so, if you liked that one, check it out.
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)Contrary to popular belief, it's not going to bankrupt the folks at Disney. When overseas gross is factored in, it made about $283M, which means it about broke even on it's $250M budget.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=johncarterofmars.htm
rppper
(2,952 posts)Underrated IMHO, not to mention I've always had a thing for jean triplehorn....
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Both are basically "so bad, they're good" and laugh at themselves.
RZM
(8,556 posts)I found that it didn't rise above 'so bad, it's still bad.'
The biggest problem was the acting. They had some decent actors in there, but the only one who turned in anything resembling a real performance was Shea Whigham. Perhaps I'm partial because he's on 'Boardwalk Empire,' which is the best show on right now, IMO.
Even if a movie is campy, the actors still have to give you something for it to be fun. Jessica Alba was particularly atrocious. I was glad to see she won the Golden Razzie for that performance (among others).
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)It's more of a spoof on exploitation flicks than an exploitation flick.
Note how many times the cast speak lines that serve as de-facto soliloquies, as if "narrating" to point out an obvious point to the audience. It cracked me up.
RFKHumphreyObama
(15,164 posts)protect our future
(1,156 posts)RFKHumphreyObama
(15,164 posts)Sure, it was not actually a sequel because it has nothing to do with the original movie beyond the use of a few of the characters in the first movie but the whole premise of the movie and the way that it unfolded was quite intriguing, haunting and beautiful. Perhaps it helped that I saw this movie before realizing that it was a sequel. It probably should have been released as a stand-alone movie instead of as a sequel to the first movie but it's still great
Home Alone 2 was another one. Even though it mimicked the first movie almost scene for scene, it was still entertaining and hilarious for me and I still enjoy watching it in reruns. The franchise should have stopped there, though
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)It got mixed reviews but I love that movie.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)Also Waterworld and The Postman
(there may be something wrong with me)
2Design
(9,099 posts)frogmarch
(12,161 posts)It was originally billed as Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature but Part 2 was never made. I think it should have been. I dont know if movie critics ever bothered to comment on it, since it was on Cinemax.
I liked it so much that I bought the dvd, and Im not ashamed of it either. ; -)
Wiki sez:
It is the first in a series of films made for Cinemax paying tribute to the films of American International Pictures. The films in this tribute series reused the titles of old American International Pictures films, but are not remakes of the earlier films.
T_i_B
(14,749 posts)I don't care what the critics say, fart jokes are hilariously funny.
Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)Savaged by critics, found funny by moi. I have an embarrassing weakness for Farrelly Brothers comedies.
protect our future
(1,156 posts)The Postman is one of my favorites of all time. The Bodyguard got low ratings when it first came out, and I couldn't understand why...the music alone was sensational.