Call me a Philistine, but I enjoyed David Lynch’s Dune. I also liked Men of Action (I may be the only one).
Here’s one nobody else has mentioned: at 9%/18%, 2004’s Catwoman with Halle Berry. That is a great movie, with a very well-done character story of a person dealing with their personalty being hijacked by an invading spirit. Sure the villain is a bit odd, but they’re just part of the background; the real problem Patience is dealing with is what’s happening inside her head.
I get why people didn’t like the movie - they were expecting a mindless action romp featuring Selena Kyle in gotham city, and they very much didn’t get that. But taken on its own the film is good, if not great.
Yeah, I did, but hoped to avoid mentioning Marjoe becuase I thought it was an excellent documentary about a young, once-prominent evangelical laying out - in a straight-up manner, completely devoid of histrionics or embellishment - all the nuts and bolts (and caveats) about that life.
Some favorite lines:
“He was a wizard, Neil!”
“That’s a gift!”
“Hello, 9-1-1? Yeah, my friend is bleeding out of her vagina! … Why are you laughing at me?”
Catwoman was more silly than I expected, not less.
The story of an eldritch abomination possessing the body of a woman and gradually altering her personality until it can successfully merge her identity with its own, until it carries out a successful integration (as opposed to the basically failed integration it attempted in Batman Returns)?
Yeah, that’s comedy right there!
I too liked Lynch’s Dune. Even after reading the book, I didn’t think his was such a bad adaptation. I got the gist of the story.
I think you might win. I’ve met other people who enjoyed Hudson Hawk, Dune, and even Star Trek V, but I’ve never met someone who said they liked Catwoman. I think you deserve a prize.
(Zorro The Gay Blade)
I loved it when it was new, recently watched it again and enjoyed it just as much as 40 years ago. I’m sure I speak for many pipple.
On the other hand, I also loved and had fondly remembered Love At First Bite. Recently saw it again and couldn’t even finish it. Awful film sprinkled with a few really funny lines.
It’s been so long since I’ve seen that movie I only remember a few things.
“Children of the night, shut up!”
And a scene where someone holds a knife to Dracula and he waves his hand and the blade goes limp.
Exactly. I’d remembered the good gags (“Silver bullet’s for a werewolf! The man’s not hurt! I’m a doctor…”) but forgotten the otherwise lame screenplay.
Yeah, but they didn’t have that stupid orange cap at the end of the barrel.
I also had a Johnny Eagle but it didn’t fit in my Lone Ranger holsters.
My fave, “I suck cock for gold coin”.
Oops. I got a title wrong. Should have said “Mystery Men”, not “Men of Action”. I think I forgot the title out of shame for having liked it. It was roundly trashed by critics, viewers, and the actors involved. Oh well, no accounting for lack of taste (mine).
Were you conflating “The Shootist” with “True Grit”, or are you just giving two separate examples?
I remember that. Very clever bit of filmmaking.
I can’t remember if it was in this movie, or in Beowulf and Grendel, the Gerard Butler/Stellan Skarsgaard film, that the Geats watch a fiery dragon descend from a mountain toward Heorot in a river of flame; but when it arrives, they see it’s actually a band of men with torches. Another clever effect.
That was indeed the The 13th Warrior.
I agree. It’s entertaining, it’s funny, and Keanu Reeves puts in a surprisingly heartfelt performance as Shane Falco. Better than Scott Bakula’s performance in a similar role in “Necessary Roughness”, anyway.
Another one that I always enjoy, but that is admittedly idiotic is “Biodome” with Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin. It’s one of those movies that’s SO idiotic that it somehow goes through the other side into almost being satirical commentary.
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Slayer. Yes, just 34% on Rotten Tomatoes and there may have been some historical inaccuracies but a good twist with lots of splatter. A good backstory, character development, and more splatter.
Ooh, I liked it too!
Heaven’s Gate (1980).