What, people don’t like The Frighteners? That movie’s great!
What, people don’t like Top Secret? That movie’s great!
I’ll second The Last Action Hero. Really underrated film. Sure, it doesn’t save the world, but few flicks do.
I see Waterworld and Johnny Mnemonic as kind of the same deal. Great ideas, great worlds, everything great… except the movie itself.
But my great shame seems to be North. Yep, I unabashedly loved this movie. Bruce Willis was great in it and delivered one lovely comic line after another. Dan Aykroyd was great too.
Take heart, those who like Dude, Where’s My Car? and Super Troopers, you are not alone.
I’ll add to the list January Man. Kevin Kline as a cop-turned-fireman-turned-cop tracking down a serial killer. And he drinks coffee drinks years before it became cool. And Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains. No one else seems to have heard of it but those who have seem to hate it.
“And why that old Jamaican will be mooning us, I have no idea.”
Yeah - it’s a Marx Bros ripoff - but still a lot of fun! Fortunate enough to have an old VHS copy of this - waiting not-so-patiently for a DVD release!
I will second Dude Where’s My Car. Great flick to chill out to.
Also, Linty Fresh, I thought I was the only person out there who had ever heard of the movie Necronomicon. Keeping in the same type of horror movies, Cameron’s Closet was great!
The 'Burbs, to this day is one of my all time favorites, right along with, uh oh, I’m gonna say it…Grease 2.:rolleyes:
Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yaks. It’s actually a fun, goofy movie if you don’t take it seriously. Clearly, no one who was making it took it seriously. I mean, suppose that a bunch of drugged-out French fashion models shaved off their heads and moved to 1930s China so they could operate steampunk machines and do great bondage stuff to one another … eh? eh? eh?
Dagon was a pretty good recent H.P. Lovecraft flick. I really liked the look of the ramshackle fishing village. Spain is no substitute for New England, but it still had a festering, unhealthy look to it … I don’t know how the critics felt about it.
My wife and I are both huge fans of the 1050s sf movie about the giant walking robot battery charger from outer space. Sure, it was cheesy, but the monster was so weird and unreal it really did give you a shot of the real SF feeling.
I have to second (third, whatever) that.
I think Salma Hayek really was at her best here, she brought something extra charming to the Meg Ryan/sandra Bullock/Reese witherspoon/Julia Roberts/other cutie du jour role.
And she reminded me ALOT of my wife.
I think the proper term is “remake,” since everything for the movie clearly credits the Marx Bros.’ A Night At the Opera – a rip-off wouldn’t acknowledge the source so clearly, IMO.
Evil Captor, Bigtime second on Dagon. One of my new all-time favorite movies. Great acting and Raquel Meroño looked very good.
Another fave that I haven’t yet seen mentioned is By The Sword. F. Murray Abraham is great in it, and it has some fun swordfights. Likely not at all realistic, but fun.
I also liked Daylight (Im not quite sure why though), and I loved Vanilla Sky. Dancer in the dark is my favourite movie ever (although this barely classifies into this category.)
My addition for the evening is Entrapment. Many people liked this movie, but I have only met one person other than myself who loved it. Its brilliant!
Oh, and may I also add the towering inferno and the poisedon adventure. Such brilliantly crap movies…I loved them! And yes, they were popular in their time, but there are few people who could see it for the first time today and love them.
I forgot to also second Last Action Hero and North. Oh, and Erik the Viking as well (has that been mentioned yet?)
Top Secret! isn’t my absolute favorite, but I like it. Don’t a lot of people like this movie, though?
On the other hand…I’m mystified by the apparent Dude, Where’s My Car fan base here. I actually FORCED myself to watch that movie all the way through, to see what the deal was. By the end, I was climbing the walls and praying for a fatal stroke, just to end the torture. My memory’s blocked out most of it, thank God.
It’s one of my periodic minor ragings-against-the-world that Rosencrantz & Guildentern Are Dead is STILL not on DVD.
xXx was the most I’ve laughed in a theater in recent memory; the bits with him jumping a motorcycle around the drug lord camp as literally everything except him explodes is one of the finest pieces of comedy ever crafted.
Cube gets panned enough to surprise me.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas got a lukewarm-at-best reception from all my friends; I loved it.
I’m actually embarrassed to admit this, but I thought Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion was pretty cool. I watch it when I’m in the mood for dumb entertainment.
And, Weird Al Yankovic’s UHF could well rank on the Top Ten Most Underrated Movies of All Time list.
I liked Hudson Hawk, too. I remember seeing it right when it came out, and I never understood the why the reviews were so bad because I liked it.
I don’t think it got reviewed one way or the other, but I’ve always liked Heartburn, which I can watch over and over. It has so many funny parts to it but somehow it never comes up as a funny movie. It only gets mentioned as Kevin Spacey’s first movie (he has a small part in it).
“Thelma Rice had her legs waxed - for the first time. Need I say more?”
I got to this thread late, but given that it’s been posted SEVERAL times on the board that I liked The Postman, (errr… thanks Turek) I figured I had to pipe in.
Put me down for that and Hudson Hawk (although HH seems very popular in this thread).
I just know I will go to hell for this, but I’m a Pokemon fan and I liked Pokemon 2000. I haven’t seen the rest of the Pokemon movies yet but I enjoyed this. Team Rocket has some great lines and they’ve got an extra bad guy who looks kind of like David Bowie. I’m not about to say it was a great film, but… there you have it.
Joe vs. the Volcano was the film my husband and I saw on our first date. I can never hate it.
I saw Top Secret twice years ago and I thought it was funny as heck.
