The Disaster Artist is now available on Netflix. It's a really good movie about a really bad movie (The Room) that's fun to watch.
The Disaster Artist is now available on Netflix. It's a really good movie about a really bad movie (The Room) that's fun to watch.
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I‘d say I’m the opposite. While I did see Escape from LA first (had never heard of Escape from New York), going back and watching Escape from New York felt like watching a slower and less polished, less crazy version of Escape from LA. Also, Cuervo was a more interesting villain to me given his obvious Che Guevara basis. It was a wackier film, too, with more over-the-top action. Maybe if I had seen Escape from New York first it wouldn’t have felt like a demo-reel for a more complete film.
In terms of Carpenter films, for me The Thing, Big Trouble I’m Little China, and Halloween are my favourites. I’d consider The Thing to be a good film, but probably not Halloween or Big Trouble in Little China - even though they were both massively entertaining.
Speaking of Ernest Borgnine and Halloween, Borgnine co-starred in this film as Ragnar, King of the Vikings. It also featured both parents of Halloween star Jamie Lee Curtis - who are Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh - Tony Curtis co-starred in the film as a slave called Eric who was a secret bastard of Ragnar, and won his freedom. Janet Leigh played Morgana, an English Princess caught in a love triangle between the two songs of Ragnar. The film starred Kirk Douglas, a violent power hungry rapist who terrorized women across the lands, who played viking Prince Einarr.
Last edited by Jumpin - on 14 June 2020I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
King's Ransom is a really dumb and not so good comedy I could watch over and over again.
Dude, Where's My Car? is another one I've had a lot of fun watching.
Rocketman, while most of the bits and gags fall flat, some of the moments are hilarious.
As soon as a movie is fun, or enjoyable, it's not bad? I definitely like movies that are considered to be bad, at least by "professional movie reviewers", who I hold in somewhat lower esteem as a whole than their gaming counterparts. This really only happens with comedy movies though. I'm struggling to think of a movie from another genre that would fit this bill....I liked Mortal Kombat in the theater in 1996 as a 21 year old. Maybe the best video game movie ever at the time? A low bar. But I can't look at it now...
I can at least name a few comedies that are critically panned that I like/love.
Love Semi-Pro. Orginal cut. Extended blu-ray cut adds almost 100% garbage. Maybe my most re-watched movie of the last decade.
Love Macgruber - For this, it's the inverse. Well, not quite. The extended blu-ray cut is the way to go, but the original theatrical is close. My other contender for most watched of the decade.
I loved Kung Pow!, but I haven't watched it in ages. Maybe it wouldn't hold up. It's been around 12 years since I last watched it and viewed it most vigorously almost 2 decades ago. Whatever though, I got a lot out of it. Great special features. Including 2 entirely different audio tracks for the film, one of which is complete nonsense.
I just watched Action Point. Really had fun with it. Big fan of Knoxville, and his stunt-work was yet again, excellent. Had some good laughs, but it wasn't the funniest movie ever.
Loved The Pest. It was so f***ed up. And not really in a "shock comedy" way. It was f***ed up in it's own unique way. It's also where the name COKTOE came from. I did legit love it, but it's the oldest movie on this list. I bet lots of it would fall flat now. Some of the racist stuff might be funnier than ever though. Hard to say. I cant' vouch for it any more. It's been probably almost 20 years since I watched it.
Really liked Popstar....It actually has a 79% at RT, but was a huge flop commercially.
- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."
I can get some saying Big Trouble in Little China does not qualify so I'll offer this up instead :
Ummm......
I need to catch up! =P
I think when it came to Legends of Hercules, those were like the B-films of the ancient Greek world. "What monster will Herc kill now? A dragon? No, we got to do better! A THREE HEADED DRAGON! And when you cut one head off, two grow in its place" "What about the sequel?" "Hercules goes to hell, and fights a giant dog! Not just any dog, but the hound of Hades, and it has THREE heads!"
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Starship Troopers
The Expendables (whole series)
Barbarella
Dead Man on Campus 1998, got horrrrrrrrible ratings from critics, but seemed to rub a lot of fans the right way. For my money, it's a fun film to watch. Zack Morris was pretty much the proto-Stiffler.
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
Here's another one I liked. Starring one of Kevin Smith's favourite actors to use, Jason Lee, and the quirky manic pixie dream girl played by Julia Stiles, this film just hits on trope after trope and cliche after cliche, but somehow ends up in a silly-entertaining guy's rom-com (yes, they exist! They're not all chick flicks).
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.