I’m partial to Last Days on Mars, and I’m one of those weirdos who loved both the book and movie versions of Cloud Atlas.
Cloud Atlas is one of my favorite movies! When I first realized I was watching
spoiler
Hugh Grant as a tribal cannibal king
… I was astonished. And I’m still floored by the expansive idea of it to this day.
Yeah! I thought the movie did a great job making sense of the recurring archetypes/ characters. Okay we’re friends now
not really sure how people view it (or even how i’d view it now nearly 30 years on) but i liked that weird Final Fantasy: Spirits Within movie when it came out. haven’t seen it since it was in theatres though so not sure what i’d think of it now; i just thought it was neat at the time (and age of 10)
The new Total Recall. It’s a fun ride.
I adore the original, but I’ll die on the hill that the Total Recall remake is great fun and worth watching.
I thought it was good as a serious sci-fi movie; but I still prefer the campy-ass original as an action/comedy.
Ice Pirates (1984) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087451/
Anjelica Huston
Ron Perlman
Mary Crosby
John Matuszak
John Carradine
- Michael Mans ‘Miami Vice’ 2006. Absolute shit rating is probably to hard, but the reviews back then were underwhelming (I remember ‘style over substance’ as a quote)
- The original XXX with Vin Diesel. It feels that nobody got the joke, that it is a parody of the James Bond movies, although a James Bond look alike literally gets killed within the first scenes of the movie…
Titan A.E
Grandma’s Boy
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Super Mario Bros (1993)
It was objectively a trainwreck but it was awesome when you were 8 and It brought video games to the big screen for the first time. I will always love it.
There are dozens of us who agree. Dozens.
Shout-out to the fansite: https://SMBMovie.com
My friend Garrett Gilchrist has bee trying to restore that movie to something closer to Morton and Jankel’s original vision for years now. I keep meaning to watch it because I do think that the movie had a lot of good ideas even if it was a mess.
https://archive.org/details/super-mario-bros-1993-the-morton-jankel-cut-extended-vhs_202207
People also forget that what most Americans knew about Mario at the time was that he jumped on mushrooms and turtles to rescue the princess.
But Morton and Jankel made both versions of the Max Headroom TV series. I absolutely give them credit.
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. Yes it’s utterly ridiculous. I don’t care, it’s still a masterpiece of absurdity to me. That 13% on RT is a shame.
Also how has it been 23 years since its release.
Kung Fu Hustle is Kung Pow, but good.
That movie rules. Shaolin Soccer is also pretty good.
Shaolin Soccer is the greatest masterpiece ever created with film.
The mistreatment of the female lead was a little too over the top, but otherwise 10/10 good film
You’re thinking of Kung Fu Hustle, which is brilliant in every way.
Yes, that’s the one! Now I guess I have to watch Kung Pow as well.
And I think it doesn’t qualify, because it was fairly well reviewed and did quite well at the box office.
I’m sure on some planet this movie is impressive, but its weak link is: this is Earth.
Hell yea!
My girlfriend got me plastered and showed me this fever dream of a movie. 10/10 experience
Tiger
Bird
Freddie Got Fingered. SOOOO ahead of its time. I love Tom Green.
You’re probably being sarcastic but the two guys that already commented on here are totally Fanboys of Freddy got fingered which is you know probably not good.
Daddy would you like some sausage?
Oh yes, that fucking leg break tonguing.
I understand praising the movie, but what about it was “ahead of its time”?
The movie was filmed down the street from where I grew up, so maybe for that reason or just for whatever lack of parenting reason, I watched this movie multiple times at the age of like 8 or 9.
I turned out okay, everything is fine. I think I need to rewatch it to check exactly in which ways it fucked me up.
The Last Dragon and Bloodsports.
Dirty Grandpa.
It’s much funnier than it has a right to be. Also, Aubrey Plaza really, really wanted to fuck Robert De Niro, and fought to get the role for that reason. Its ending sex scene is one of the most genuine in Hollywood because of that. Of course, Aubrey Plaza makes things better just by showing up.
Critics who hate it need to lighten up.
I like the White Men Cant Jump remake.
I actually think that theres some movies that SHOULD be remade every 15 to 20 years. I would watch Major League if it was remade every 5 to 10 years. New city, new cast, new jokes, new location, callbacks, subverting expectations… but same premise a shitty baseball team needs to get better or else. Give young up and coming actors an excuse to have fun, ham it up, play a wacky character.
Hell make it a punishment for being the statistically worst team for the season that they make it. “Sorry Boston but… you really ate shit this year…”
Stay
Massively underrated film imo.
Josie and the Pussycats.
Rated 5.7 by people who had no clue what it was saying at the time. I feel like if it was released in today’s pop culture environment it would fare far far better.
It’s far more satirical, clever and funny than an Archie adjacent bubblegum pop movie has any right to be.
I’m your back door lover
You are not the first person I have read say it about that movie, so I am definitely going to have to check it out.
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