# Movies that still hold up but only God knows why **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 4, 2019, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541 "2019-07-04T23:02:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541/61 "2019-07-06T17:33:47Z")
> [@Encinitas](#): > > _ **Ice Station Zebra** _ has always done it for me. Ernest Borgnine as a Russian double agent! Patrick McGoohan as the MI6 spy! Rock Hudson as The Skipper! What more could you want? **Maintain Revolutions!** ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541/62 "2019-07-06T20:55:38Z")
I would also like to third (or fourth) Fifth Element. All the things I like: Dumb action, funny lines, kick ass women-- I even think Chris Tucker is good in it. Shows you how delusional I can be. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541/63 "2019-07-06T21:37:50Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Another movie that I watch anytime I can is [The In-Laws](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079336/). Perfect casting, great directing, an astounding script, fantastic cinematography and just funny, funny, funny. “Serpentine, Shel! Serpentine!” Hell, yeah. Make sure you never watch the execrable re-make. We yell the serpentine line all the time. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541/64 "2019-07-06T21:45:51Z")
I love _The Long Kiss Good-bye_ too, **Biggirl**. I even came into it late the first time I saw it and still liked it. I can’t watch _Point Break_ because I find Patrick Swayze repulsive. I can’t stand to look at him. Has anyone read the book it was based on? Really weird. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541/65 "2019-07-06T21:58:39Z")
There was a book? I didn’t know that Point Break was based on a book. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541/66 "2019-07-06T22:01:47Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > There was a book? I didn’t know that Point Break was based on a book. _Tapping the Source_. Different than the movie, and, as I said, the ending was waaay weird. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541/67 "2019-07-06T22:18:50Z")
> [@Encinitas](#): > > _ **Ice Station Zebra** _ has always done it for me. Ernest Borgnine as a Russian double agent! Patrick McGoohan as the MI6 spy! Rock Hudson as The Skipper! What more could you want? Ginger and Mary Ann. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541/68 "2019-07-06T23:13:00Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I like action movies and I like bitches that kick ass. So liking The Long Kiss Goodnight when I first saw it was a gimme. It’s full of great lines, incredible think-on-your-feet action sequences and very large explosions. Plus Samuel L. Jackson being all Sam Jackson-y. > > But I’ll watch it again and again for Gena Davis. Sweet Sam and Badass Charlie. We watch them fight for this woman’s soul and I find it facination. And also for the punch lines. Oh yeah! “_Chefs do that_” ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541/69 "2019-07-07T05:23:48Z")
> [@digs](#): > > … The Rocketeer…still great movies… Oh heck yes! ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541/70 "2019-07-07T05:25:58Z")
> [@galen\_ubal](#): > > [_Flash Gordon_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080745/) from 1980. The effects are either badly dated or just bad, the acting ranges from nonexistent to completely over the top, with no middle ground, and it’s just generally silly. Oh, yeah, and the soundtrack is…unique. > > I _love_ it! I don’t know if it holds up for others, but it certainly does for me. > > (dundundundun FLASH! AH-AH!) _ **Flash Gordon** _ completely embraced the aesthetic of the old serials, and that is its crime and its glory. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541/71 "2019-07-07T07:07:24Z")
Multiplicity (1996) holds up and never gets any love. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541/72 "2019-07-07T07:17:20Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > ‘Crazy Larry, Dirty Mary’. It’s campy, silly and fun. Possibly the best line in any movie at one point. Anyone know it?😉 “I just hit it with a bigger hammer” is my favourite, but there’s something to be said about the scene where the one guy reads off the sign regarding “spitting, swearing and loose women”, and makes a crack about it pretty much covering Mary. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541/73 "2019-07-07T16:46:34Z")
Time After Time. Talk about a weird premise that still holds us. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541/74 "2019-07-07T16:55:28Z")
> [@zoogirl](#): > > “I just hit it with a bigger hammer” is my favourite, but there’s something to be said about the scene where the one guy reads off the sign regarding “spitting, swearing and loose women”, and makes a crack about it pretty much covering Mary. “If a man was smart, you know what he’d do right now?” “What?” “…I don’t know. I thought maybe you’d know.” ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541/75 "2019-07-07T16:56:00Z")
I can still watch the original _Fright Night_ over and over again. The main attraction is seeing Roddy McDowall’s character transform from a cowardly snob into a fearless vampire killer. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541/76 "2019-07-07T17:27:54Z")
I haven’t seen Fright Night in decades. I barely remember Roddy McDowall. But there is one image from that movie that has stayed with me all these years. It’ll pop up in my head for no reason when I’m alone in the house at night and the house has a conversation with itself in the basement. It is that girl opening her mouth. And opening it. AND OPENING IT AND OMG SO MANY TEETH!!! ---
**Author:** ![SkyRangerRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@SkyRangerRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkyRangerRich)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541/77 "2019-07-07T22:30:59Z")
Tremors! Everything about that movie is perfect, brilliant casting, wonderful location. But it’s the way it’s played and the tone of the film that makes it truly great - it’s not played for laughs, but doesn’t take itself seriously. Wonderful. Should have got an Oscar. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541/78 "2019-07-07T22:53:08Z")
My nom is Buckaroo Banzai: Across The 8th Dimension. Goofier than a bag of squirrels on crank. Live it. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541/79 "2019-07-08T01:23:01Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > No, but I own Dirty Mary Crazy Larry. > > Talk about a surprise ending. The flower children of the Sixties didn’t expect to grow old. They would have their brief bright day in the sun and then either be shot by the Man or incinerated in the coming thermonuclear war. ETA: has any movie ever had the chutzpah to conclude, with no presaging whatever, by having nuclear war break out? ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541/80 "2019-07-08T02:20:51Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > The flower children of the Sixties didn’t expect to grow old. They would have their brief bright day in the sun and then either be shot by the Man or incinerated in the coming thermonuclear war. > > ETA: has any movie ever had the chutzpah to conclude, with no presaging whatever, by having nuclear war break out? Not that I know of…but that would be amazing. Just going along. a rom-com or sports movie, suddenly missiles are flying and roll credits. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-still-hold-up-but-only-god-knows-why/836541.md?page=5)