It used to be an HBO daytime staple. I enjoyed it (although, admittedly, the last time I saw it was when I was in high school), and was amused by Belusi’s eventual love interest.
And I, too, liked Unbreakable. Takes an interesting and, to some degree, a more realistic view of what it’d mean to be a superhero. (The end was kinda silly, but eh.)
I didn’t know people hate Stuart Saves His Family. Well then, they’re wrong. It’s a good glick. Maybe not high art; but it is funny and sweet.
Alien: Resurrection. Well, I wouldn’t go so far as to say I love it, but it certainly is leagues ahead of Alien: 3 (may God forever curse its name.) It successfully serves up philosophical questions and action at the same time, and slightly less heavy-handedly than The Matrix. (Plus it has Winona Ryder and a proto-Firefly Betty (the best name for a ship in fiction, ever.))
There are lots of movies mentioned here that I like, but this is perhaps the most misunderstood. It’s freqequently derided as being right-wing propaganda, but if you’re paying attention, you see it’s actually very left wing.
Well the director, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milius , is pretty well known right-winger (despite the fact he calls himself a Zen Anarchist) if there was anything left-wing going on in that movie, it was probably unintentional.
That being said, I did enjoy it quite a bit. Just had to turn my brain off a little.
I am definitely with Podkayne on Toys(one of my favorite moives to watch on Christmas), and with Filmgeek on Sister Act 2 (especially the concert sequence!).
My choice? Connie and Carla. I absolutely love this movie. It is improbable, implausible, and I enjoy it very much!
I agree with Unbreakable. I don’t know why everyone pans it. I actually like most of the Kevin Costner Sci-Fi stuff. I know he make William Shatner look like Marlyn Brando but its Sci-Fi so I take what I can get.
Robin Hood Prince of Theives is on my list too. There’s part of me that respects Kevin Costner because he didn’t even attempt to do an accent (lets be realistic here, the original Robin Hood, if he in fact existed, would not speak with a present day british accent anyhow).
Meet the Deedles (no, not Feebles). Two privileged surfers from Hawaii spend a summer in Yellowstone National Park pretending to be rangers who are trying to solve a prairie dog problem created by a man who is trying to get them (the p dogs) to dig a new geyser to create his own (bad guy) theme park. I ask you, waht’s not to like?
Well, assuming that the heroes are justified in what they’re doing, I don’t know how else to take the fact that they are explicitly compared to the Sandinistas and the Salvadoran FMLN. They even commit their own atrocity (okay, sort of) and have to answer the question, “What makes us different from them?”
I hated this movie, but I’m glad you made that point. I believe they used the Saxon/Norman angle for the story. In that case, he should have been speaking with a vaguely German accent, or in a Saxon dialect with subtitles.
Fair enough.
And after looking at all the films he’s worked on, especially as a writer, its probably not fair to pin him down to one idealogy, at a least as far as movies go.
I not only liked Burton’s Planet of the Apes and the Star Wars prequels, but I thought the originals really weren’t that great, by themselves, to begin with.
*Drop Dead Fred*. It’s just plain goofy and childish – makes me laugh every time.
I’m with you on this one. I wouldn’t put it in the most loved movie category for me, either – but I liked it. And it’s definitely way better than the Alien3 stinkfest.
For silly humor, I remember hearing that people were walking out of the theater when Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls came out. But I liked it – better than the first one, as well. Especially the scene when he gets hit with the poison darts. (I can always crack up a couple of friends mimicking that scene… ;))
I also thought Last Action Hero was a pretty clever one – Ah-nold doing a good job of ripping on himself. I liked it.
I just love that movie. I think it got written off because it really should suck a lot more than it eventually does. It probably would have been fine if it stood on its own without the whole “movie based on an SNL sketch you’re tired of” stigma. It was more a movie that only a small audience would ever really like but it’s good for what it is. It’s very Frankeny.
I liked The Core the first time I saw it… a second watching on cable and I realized it was as bad as everyone said it was.
I love these movies, too.
And after all, movies are supposed to be entertainment. Some entertainment is better done than the rest, but if it’s entertained you, really, that’s all that matters.
My personal vote goes to A Knight’s Tale.
I find Caligula fascinating. I used to own it on video. The porn scene are boring, though.
Jingle All The Way. Arnie does a great job of parodying himself as a well-meaning neighborhood loser, Phil Hartman as the superdad who’s actually a creep, and Sinbad as the postal worker on the edge of snapping.
It’s up there with Better Off Dead on my chart.
Amen - I would re-watch Burton’s version a hundred times in a row rather than watch the original again.
I really like* Hudson Hawk*, too. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Bruce and not liked him (and therefore, usually the film, too. Well, except Armageddon).
Bad science aside, I really liked the Day After Tomorrow. I have no idea why.
I also really liked Soldier.
And Reign of Fire.