Never mind
Ohhh, don’t get me started on Parenthood 
What’s that, Mom?
It’s an electric . . . ear cleaner.
It’s big!
It suuuure is!
Words cannot express how sorry I felt for Dianne Wiest’s character.
And I liked Red Dawn, too. Not enough to get the DVD, but I’ll Tivo it if it’s on.
I think the second one was done just as well. Its not as effective because you already know the formula and the treasure isn’t as interesting. And no Sean Bean. It was still fun.
Man, I could do this for a long time. I’ll try to be short.
Movies: I loved the recent Narnia movies, much more than the books. A coworker brought in Newsies and I loved it. I own The Last Boy Scout on VHS, LD, and DVD, and rank it up there with Die Hard as an enjoyable action movie. I prefer Clerks and Mallrats over Chasing Amy. Tron is my favorite movie of all time.
Books: I’ve read and loved every Robotech novel. Series SF based on a TV cartoon! Yeah! I really liked Stephen King’s early novels (and the early Bachman books). I’ve read most of Ruth Parks’ novels-- no idea how she’s considered in critical circles, but her books were overly melodramatic and immensely enjoyable.
Tom Hanks lecturing Evelyn when she misses the cutoff man (AGAIN!) in this critical game is my favorite part of the movie. The rage he’s holding back is just too funny.
I saw 13 Ghosts on the big screen in 3-D last October. It was actually quite fun.
I love HPL & Jeffrey Combs, and the first two stories in Necronomicon were OK but the last one… bleh!
And in what universe is BRIDES OF DRACULA an awful movie? It’s all lush & magenta-hued & has cute babes, human & vampy, & stars frickin’ Peter Cushing, who shows us how to cure a vampire bite (heat a silver cross in the fire, press it to the bite wound to sear it shut & then quench the burning with holy water- you’re good as new, tho I wouldn’t use that for any other type of bite.)
I’m convinced most of the hatred for her here is fueled more by ideology than aesthetics, so I’ll say- Ayn Rand, mainly ATLAS…
That’s the good stuff. If you said you liked some of the more recent stuff, you might have something to be embarrassed about.
Glory, I will stand by you to defend Xanadu and Grease. Oh okay, and Grease 2! (Have you ever seen Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, with Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt? It’s excellent.)
As far as music goes, if it was produced before 1989 and other people think it’s crap, I probably love it. ETA: Wait…that doesn’t belong here! but it’s true.
Armageddon. I absolutely adore it. Especially when they round up the roughnecks. Oh, and when they write down their demands. Oh, and the animal cracker (COOKIE!) scene. The patch ripping. Yup, I’m there.
I can’t believe there are other people out there that loved Xanadu. We are not alone!
Joe Vs. The Volcano, one of the most overlooked performance of steamer trunks in a motion picture. Love it buckets full!
Dumb and Dumber, don’t tell my husband, or anyone I know. I actually enjoyed that movie.
By the end of The Wicker Man remake with Nick Cage I was just rolling on the floor laughing and laughing. I think it is one of the funniest movies EVER.
Of course, it’s supposed to be a horror film.
I loved Blades of Glory. Can I get a little contempt for that?
Me too. usually.
I like a lot of movies that are panned. The one that stands out in my mind right now is Zoom with Tim Allen. I enjoyed it, and it got a zero on RT.
But then, I often hate movies that everyone else loved. The Knocked Up got like in the 90s on RT and I hated it.
I think that FB is a bloody good film myself.
The sequels were pathetic tripe.
Zombie movies. I love and worship zombie movies. I know what you’re thinking, “The Holy Trilogy of Night, Dawn, and Day? Shaun of the Dead? 28 Days Later? Fido? What’s not to like? These are good movies.”
Yes, I’ve seen these - I own them. But it’s not just these zombie movies I lust after. I’ll watch anything zombie-related. The “Return of the Living Dead” series? Seen 'em - even “Rave to the Grave,” what a piece of dreck. “House of the Dead?” Check. The Last Man on Earth? Yep - it wasn’t bad. Night of the Comet? Yep - definitely bad. Planet Terror? Yep - I liked it. Resident Evils, certainly. Wicked Little Things, sure.
I know there’s tons I haven’t seen - it’s a popular genre for filmmakers, it seems. And most are uniformly terrible. But I love 'em, I love 'em a lot.
Mr. Snicks must really like me - he’s sat through a lot of bad movies.
Same reasons I love The Rock. The dynamic between Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery was awesome.
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When I saw Times Square for the first time, it blew me away and hauled me back – the storyline, the punk rock soundtrack, and the relationship between the two young leads. Imagine my surprise when I read that it was widely considered to be a bogus, exploitative and poorly-executed piece of crap!
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I like the **Falconhurst **series of novels by Kyle Onstott and Lance Horner – pulpy, racially offensive and melodramatic as they were. Especially Mandingo.
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In certain circles, it’s acceptable to like precode horror and crime comics – as long as they’re from EC Comics. Me, I like the gorier, schlockier efforts published by their contemporaries like Ajax, Comic Media and Charlton. The EC classics tend to lean on the same couple-three basic plotlines, while the “also-rans” have a lot more wild and insane stuff going on in the story.
Finally, I love most of the movies with which American International Pictures flooded American drive-in theatres from the mid 1950s to late '70s; they actually were somewhat schlocky, and frequently exploitative and pandering, but in a way that made them top-shelf bonehead entertainment both back in the day and right now.
One of my “specialties” in comics collecting when I was a kid/teen was post-code horror/sci-fi/monster books. The stories got really weird as publishers jumped through hoops to avoid breaking the code (like Marvel’s notorious zuvembies), were very dumbed down (despite some gems from American Comics Group and a few others)… and they are still really entertaining. Charlton kept at it for years after everyone else had give up.
My other comics “specialties” were just as odd. In addition to reading the normal monthlies, I collected promotional comics and had one of the largest collection of 1950s/1960s romance comics I’ve ever seen owned by a straight male comics fan. I think I just appreciated schlock.
I’ve always had a soft spot for Demolition Man (hence the screen name!)
Libertarianist themes, a near-future setting that actually EFFECTIVELY mocks the present in the same way we’d mock the recent past, and a young Sandra Bullock in a tight cop’s uniform. What else do you need? 
Are you my boyfriend?
I will watch The Replacements any time it’s on. Yes, the Keanu Reeves football movie.
Bulletproof perhaps Adam Sandler’s most underappreciated movie. I’m a sucker for juvenile humor and this has plenty of it. And the movie is laden with so many homoerotic undertones that it could be called Brokeback Sandler. Take for instance the scene where Sandler is in the shower and singing “I Will Always Love You” to Damon Wayans in the next room. And when he tries to escape out a window, Wayans literally sticks a gun up his ass.
I also love Rock Star. Yes, it is pretty cheesy and formuliac in a “Behind the Music,” rise and fall and redemption, kind of way, but again I’m sucker for that kind of stuff. And the music in it is pretty bad ass.
Joe vs. The Volcano is unfairly maligned. It’s funny, it’s poignant, it has good to great acting all around, it looks good, it has that whole repeated theme thing, the plot hangs together without holes, it’s just entertaining. I think it’s the best thing Tom Hanks ever did. It fell right between his early (often funny) screwball comedies and his serious (mostly drek) movies. Just the scene where he tells quits- holy crapthat’s exactly what everybody with a job thinks.