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The Chronicles of Riddick - I had not seen Pitch Black and didn’t know anything about any other Riddick stuff, but it was fun to watch.
I agree with the Jackal. I didn’t see the original before I saw this. The original is very good though.
The Saint - I enjoy spy type flicks and it was entertaining for me. I think the critics and everyone else I know panned this one.
Oh, Og, yes, Dumb and Dumber! The scene where the guys are suffering after eating some very, very hot sauce and are trying to “put out the flames” by squeezing ketchup up and catching it in their mouths in midair… jeez, I thought I would die. 
The Matrix Reloaded definitely had its moments, and I wouldn’t mind seeing it again, but it fell quite a bit short of the original IMHO, and then the third was just a total mess.
Johnny Dangerously
This critic panned * Johnny Dangerously* once. Once.
Bicentennial man
Thank you! Yes–that is it. I never realized it was a pilot, though. I had a mad crush on Buck. And I remember Twiki’s going “ibby dibby dibby ibby” a lot.
I guess I was a 16 year old girl disguising an 8 year old boy. I loved that movie. I will not go back and rewatch it–I don’t want to ruin what little memory I have of it.
Re Momma Mia–yes, some of the cast could sing. But the cinematographer or the director had no clue how to film dance sequences or dancers.
Wow. I’ve always had the sense that it was considered a disappointment (along with a few other people here, I see). Maybe early reviews were poor and those are the ones that stuck with me.
I’ve only seen the DVD. How is it different from the theatrical cut?
I remember he predicted that a critical re-evaluation of Showgirls was going to happen and he got a lot of shit here for a long time for saying that, but I’ve noticed it starting to come true. The AV Club has a mostly positive article on it.
A lot of people say that Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers are the only Coen Brothers movies they don’t like. Actually, I suspect Burn After Reading will go on that list, too.
The Brave One, imo, definitely falls into this category. Although the overall message that’s conveyed by this particular movie is rather hard to take, I enjoyed it, in sort of a perverse way.
The Cable Guy was hysterical and manic and awesome. Never understood the hate that movie got.
Ladykillers suffers greatly by comparison with the much-loved-in-Britain original. Those who only know Alec Guinness from Star Wars are encouraged to rent it.
And Harlem Nights suffered because it wanted desperately to be the black version of The Sting, which it didn’t quite manage. What it was instead was an excuse to put a lot of extremely talented and sadly marginalized black comic actors onscreen, which is reason enough to watch it. Man, Della Reese is great. “You shot my pinky toe!”
I also really enjoyed the Tom Hanks version of Ladykillers and will quote it with the BF: “We will have waffles forthwith!”
I loved Newsies as a kid. I rented it pretty recently, hoping I’d still love it, since you know some stuff just isn’t as good as you remember it. But it WAS. I still love it.
From this thread, I also love Death to Smoochy, Hudson Hawk, the Riddick* movies and Pootie Tang.
*I love Vin Diesel.
Which I also liked.
About One From The Heart
The first 20 minutes or so goes back and forth between the main couple with a series of practical and optical transitions - like a scrim wall, with the lights coming up behind the wall and coming down in front. The new edit broke that up. I think the original beginning is an extra on the DVD. We had grown the love the original so much that, when we saw this new cut in the theater, I actually went out to the lobby, convinced that they had assembled the reels incorrectly.
I wasn’t around here, but I thought it went much further than getting a lot of shit - I thought he had been banned and was officially prohibited from mentioning the film.
Really? I enjoyed all of those, Burn After Reading especially. The Coen brothers are lucky in that they don’t have to keep producing critical or commercial successes to keep making movies.
Dutch with Ed O’Neil. (19% on RT). I just do not understand how I’m seeing something totally different in this movie as the rest of the world. It’s not a masterpiece and has its share of cliches but I thought Ed O’Neil gave a truly original performance and there were some great, very heartfelt moments between him and the kid. I thought they had a lot of chemistry together. I can’t think of any other movie where my opinion is so at odds with the reviews I’ve seen.
Loved Joe vs. the Volcano too.
Gung Ho too. (43% RT). Yeah, full of 80s cliches, including one of the most formulaic, textbook montages ever, and also the Japanese and American stereotypes are distilled to absurd degrees, but again, great chemistry between Michael Keaton and the Japanese actor (whose name I think I should know, but can’t remember). It had a lot of great moments where these 2 guys find connections despite their cultural differences. I wanted to hear more of their conversations and arguments and a movie that creates characters where I want to hear more is a movie I like.
You kids with your hippity hoppity music!
I agree 100% with you. It’s my favourite Jim Carey movie.
Mahogany.
Seconding Dumb and Dumber and The Last Action Hero.