I recently watched AI and found it a rather fantastic film. Well, two films really.
That’s the problem.
The ending of **AI **makes me cry every time. :’(
I love Signs and The Village.
The ending of Signs is not so much a “twist” as a reveal. And it’s not about the water. It’s that his wife’s seemingly nonsensical message upon her death was actually instructions on how to defeat the aliens. This restored Mel’s faith. I think many people just roll their eyes at the faith parts of the story and ignore it, but that’s what the entire movie is about. That conversation with Mel and Joaquin on the couch about two different kinds of people? Those who believe that all things have a purpose and those who think it’s just random? That’s important.
I don’t ignore it at all. That’s why I hate it.
The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love get a lot of hate because they won the best picture Oscar over Fargo and Saving Private Ryan. They are both exceptionally well made films, but it seems like people like to shit all over them.
Tango & Cash is one of my favorite movies, actually.
And I liked “Cutthroat Island.”
I disagree, Signs is just fucking awful. However, Lady in the Water is actually worth a rewatch.
yes, yes.
I like Cutthroat Island, and I can’t think of any reason that someone would enjoy Pirates of the Caribbean, The Mummy, or any other tongue-in-cheek adventure movie and not like Cutthroat. I assume it just came out a little too early, before people were in the mood for silly action. Of those three, I’d put it above The Mummy, though below Pirates.
Not one but three: all three “Hobbit” movies. The production was far closer in atmosphere and feeling to the book than LOTR ever was. And I thought Freeman nailed it.
Matthew Modine and Geena Davis. She looked like she’d dropped the kids off at soccer, he looked like a weed-selling pizza driver. If they’d cast a couple of decent, charismatic leads - say, a sober Robert Downey and a young Catherine Zeta Jones - it would have been terrific.
I don’t think anyone has mentioned it, so I guess I will be the one to tempt the fates and say that I really liked Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Yes, really.
It certainly had its flaws, and a lot of it was way over the top, but I had so much fun watching it I didn’t really care.
Yes, really.
I won’t comment on Neighbors, but I fully agree on Continental Divide.
Yes, John Belishi doing a rom-com seems implausible. But somehow, it works.
“The bear ate my cigarettes!”
My life became a bowl of cherries after getting dragged to “Maid in Manhattan”.
Well, Tango & Cash was a landmark film in gay cinema, to be sure.
As for The Long Kiss Goodnight - I think it was a great action movie, and am surprised it didn’t find more of an audience. I’ve recommended it to folks many a time, as a fun action flick with a kick-ass heroine.
I agree. It was at least more enjoyable for me than Temple of Doom, which I hated.
Unbreakable was a good movie. The problem was, it was only 1/3 of a good movie. It was a very good, very long first act, then it abruptly skips right to the ending, which we are told in the form of a few short captions. That is what put people off, including myself.
Oscar, the 1991 comedy starring Sylvester Stallone. To this day, I count it as the best $1 I ever spent at the movies. Hilarious! So quotable! Tim Curry! Harry Shearer! It’s like a French farce with a 1930s gangster setting. I think people stayed away because, “Stallone isn’t supposed to do comedy.” But trust me, it’s well worth your time.
My favorite line: a henchman with a bottle of champagne (during Prohibition) casually strolls into a room with several obvious policemen. He stops, and says, “…oh, we just keep this around for yacht christenings.” And off he goes.
I didn’t think Battlefield Earth lived up to its rep as being terrible - I watched it during a day of movies and beer, and it was a fun ‘spaceships blow up’ sf/action thing. It wasn’t some great work or anything thought provoking, but it was basically like Independence Day, and wasn’t in the ‘good because it’s so bad’ category like Kiss vs The Phantom of the Park (which I also watched that day).
You’re the first person I’ve heard defend Lady in the Water. It’s the first one of his movies that I walked out saying “What a piece of shit.”
And I like The Village and basically nothing Signs and the plant movie…but I HATED Lady in the Water.