Good call on Blair Witch I found it one of the most effective horror fils for quite some time. Mind you I saw it for the first time on DVD one afternoon before going out for a 3-day hike. 
Armageddon is one of my ‘guilty pleasure’ films. Lots of flaws, loud & dumb but its the perfect film for when I’m in the mood for that kind of thing. Con Air falls into the same category.
Evolution for a laugh.
I laughed until my sides hurt when I saw ** Joe Dirt **.
<hangs head>
I love those movies. I happened to catch Clean Slate on tv one day, and though it was a movie I don’t think I would’ve seen in the theatres, I enjoyed it far more than I thought I should’ve.
(Joe vs the Volcano - $5 at Circuit City!)
I love Drop Dead Fred!
“It’s the Mega-Bitch!”
Top Secret is one of my favorite comedies. I loved all of the inside jokes about war and espionage movies, and a lot of the throwaway lines are a riot. I recently listened to the commentary from Jim Abrams and the Zucker Brothers, who really didn’t seem to think much of the film themselves.
One here for Island of Dr. Moreau. Will never understand why this great melodrama gets slagged- it’s like people forget it’s supposed to be over the top! It’s a story about a guy who turned animals into men, fah cryin out loud.
Performances are great, script is intelligent and suspenseful, and John Frankenheimer directed it like a bastard.
(You no lika film if actors dressed up as animal/human hybrids? Then don’a bother us with a review of its execution.)
I’m a great fan of John Norman’s Gor novels – I consider them a great if flawed achievement in writing – and I also liked Attack of the Clones … probably my fave of the Star Wars movies.
I kind of like the movie The Road to Wellville. It could be better than it is, the book is 500 times better, and the only performances I really like are Anthony Hopkins’s Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and Dana Carvey’s George Kellogg, but it has a certain charm. Maybe it’s the fact that it’s a period piece (it takes place in 1907), I don’t know.
I loved Greg The Bunny.
I have said in other threads that I enjoyed the first 5, maybe six Gor novels. I could have lived without all the slave nonsense, but it was enjoyable otherwise.
After that though, it was pure crap.
I dunno if everyone else hate them, but the early releases of The Desstroyer are pure gold. The ones with both Murphy and Sapir writing.
I like Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Sarah Brightman’s singing. I mean, I’m not going they’re the second coming(s) of Mozart or anything, but it’s nice music.
Also…
-Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes. (Actually, I liked it better than the original. And I liked the makeups, to boot.)
-The Punisher movies. Though I mostly like the first one for Dolph Lundgren, and little else…he brought in a “Doc Holiday” vibe that really clicked. And the recent version wasn’t great, and could have been better, but it was OK.
-Resident Evil: Apocalypse.
-I forget…did everyone else hate Daredevil? It’s the only movie I liked Ben Affleck’s performance in.
And the heresy of heresies…I liked the dubbed, slightly reedited version of the anime Escaflowne that aired on Fox. It just seemed to work better. (They even left the blood in. Before they cancelled it for no reason, at least. :mad: )
I never did catch the chopped-up Escaflowne, but I did like the first couple of seasons of Digimon: Digital Monsters. Much better than I expected. While we’re on the subject of substandard Japanese entertainment, I’m embarassed to admit I like the Negima/Magister Negi Maho books.
I watch too many cartoons. Most are good. I can’t justify Chalk Zone, though. It’s sufficiently weird I can treat it like a Williams Street show, but at core it’s pretty silly.
Ben Kingsley has another good unknown movie floating around out there called Without a Clue, where he plays that brilliant detective, Dr. John Watson. Only he doesn’t want anyone to know he’s a brilliant detective, so he creates a character named “Sherlock Holmes” and hires hack actor Michael Caine to play him. Funnier than it has any right to be.
Forgot about Digimon…did you catch Season 3? Even better than the first two seasons, I thought. (I never could get into Season 4, though.)
Hijack - Big Bad Voodoo Lou - check out Trojan Records boxsets. They’ve recently released a whole series of triple cd boxes of their material based on themes - Rocksteady, British Hits, Ska, etc. I just got 2 boxsets for 15 quid - around $10?
The Upsetters, Toots, Dave and Ansell Collins, Desmond Dekker etc etc
Absolutely wonderful.
Sorry for the 'jack.
I like Dolph Lundgren movies, especially Red Scorpion and Universal Soldier: {reanimated Vietnam vet made super-soldier by glowing green serum holds up necklace of severed ears} “I’m all ears”. Oh yeah, and Robot Ninja is the greatest name for a movie ever.
Movies that I love but I hear get slammed all the time:
**Hudson Hawk
Underworld
Not Another Teen Movie **
On Preview(I have dialup and didn’t check for awhile): Nobody should be ashamed for loving Joe Dirt. It’s one of those movies that, if I come across it while flipping through channels, I have to watch the rest of the way through, even though I’ve seen it a dozen times.
I’ll ditto Top Secret, too
Hey, me too. And so does my wife. But all our friends think we’re nuts.
I disliked it because everyone he ever cared about (with one exception that I can’t even remember now) is dead by the end of the movie. Is that original enough? I swear, I’m the only person in the world who noticed that about that movie.
I’m the only person in the world (ok, maybe one of a few people) who think Timothy Dalton’s Bond was great, a close second to Connery’s. He did a superb job with two lousy scripts, but most people (including the producers) blamed him rather than the writing. If he’d been given a chance to do Goldeneye, They wouldn’t have even thought about bringing in Brosnan.
I like romance novels. I’ve read all kinds, but I mostly love historicals, especially Regencies and Westerns. I know they’re bad; I love them for the badness. I draw the line at Danielle Steele, however. Eventually the badness reaches a point where you just can’t laugh at it anymore because you pity the author.
I read them to laugh at them, though, so I don’t know if this particular love counts.
I liked a lot of the movies already mentioned – Dances with Wolves, Shakespeare in Love (though Elizabeth was much better), Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes, Forrest Gump, The Road to Wellville, Adam Sandler movies, Ben Stiller movies, and many more.
I think a lot of people are looking for art in every movie they see, rather than just entertainment. They can co-exist, but you don’t need one to have the other. Just because something isn’t art doesn’t mean it’s crap.
My favorite Shakespeare play is Titus Andronicus. (Ha HA. Dare anyone to top that.) The movie based on it, Titus, starring Anthony Hopkins, was quite good as well.