Heh, guess we dodged that bullet. I definitely was not performing, nor even thinking about it, while watching Estelle Getty & Stallone.
Ah, sustained booming noises; around nine, nine-fifteen.
I also love this movie, mainly because I love some of the visuals, and I really don’t think most people are interested in seeing a movie just for visuals. They consider it cheap, or simplistic, for some reason, and I never agreed with that. Similarly, I thought the Speed Racer movie was good, precisely because it’s a CG showcase, whereas the “true fans” and “cineasts” and all of the pseudo-intellectuals fall all over themselves to decry CG and demand physical effects and, I presume, in-camera effects and whatever other dogma the cashiers want these days.
Anyway. Metropolis disproves them comprehensively, as does the oeuvre Stanley Kubrick. Film as spectacle has been with us from long before film as storytelling was seriously considered, and it will never be fully out of fashion.
I love great visuals and I can appreciate a movie for a lot of different reasons.
But Toys is just a bad movie. It makes my list of the ten worst movies I’ve ever seen.
I’m certainly not going to argue, but I’m impressed that anyone had a strong enough reaction to this film to consider it one of the worst they’ve ever seen.
Toys is, to me, a Magritte painting, a visually beautiful piece of surrealist art without the darkness surrealism usually implies. (Why can art not have dreams without their being nightmares?) I love it because it captures something I love about the era in which it was made, but I can’t imagine it having enough substance to be seriously hated by anyone. Oh, well.
Count me in as another who likes The 13th Warrior.
I love My Dinner with Andre. Can’t find anybody else who gets the appeal of watching two guys have dinner and talk.
King Ralph.
Utterly stupid. One Dimensional. Predictable.
Fun, though.
I didn’t know that we weren’t supposed to like that one. I think it’s great.
My contribution is a pair of films:
The Jean Claude van Dam “Street Fighter” movie. Raul Julia makes that movie for me.
And “The Adventures of Ford Fairlaine,” starring Andrew “Dice” Clay as a rock n roll detective.
Given the woeful level of the competition in the genre, I think “Bend it Like Beckham” was the greatest sports film ever made.
I’ve always hade a soft spot for “Always”, and I thought "Cheaters (Jeff Daniels) was a seriously under-appreciated picture.
“Brassed Off” was a fun picture, too.
Wait a minute – it coming to me – “Swamp Thing”
Paul Blart Mall Cop. I mean it’s not exactly Oscar bait, but it’s a perfectly decent little family comedy.
Most of it is merely mildly entertaining, but Alan Tudyk’s mad gay German really makes it worth watching.
*Toys *always disappointed me in that it’s great up to Act 3 (and absolutely beautiful) and then, somewhere around the time we get the music video, it loses its way. So close to being brilliant, but not close enough.
I do like that one. And it’s even better if you read what filming it was like - drugs, chaos, and a constant van Damme/Minogue shagfest.
Generally well received, as I recall, although a bit auteur-ish. I’ve heard it called a bookend to Woody Allen’s Manhattan and I wouldn’t disagree.
I give up - what’s the first? There are so many to choose from.
I am amazed at the lack of love for this movie. When I saw it in the theater there were less than a dozen people there. On a Friday 9-something show. It’s second weekend.
Worse, I was the only person who burst out laughing at the funniest line: “Look, I’m a publicist, not a magician.”
Tons of great bits: “Doc, you’re a genius.” “That’s what it says on the card.”
Great supporting cast: Lena Olin, Eddie Izzard, Tom Waits, etc. Okay, Claire Forlani is a dud.
Who hasn’t wanted to defraculate Greg Kinnear?
I blame Smash Mouth.
Not everyone knows that acting is Ricky Jay’s second career.
Geoffrey Rush and Wes Studi are great in it.
“When you can balance a tack hammer on your head, you will head off your foes with a balanced attack.”
“We are number one. All others are number two, or lower.”
For me, the best part of the movie was Hank Azaria as the Blue Raja.
Shoveller: You’re the master of cutlery. You couldn’t throw a knife sometimes when someone’s trying to kill me?
Blue Raja: No, I can’t! You couldn’t, uh, use a rake sometimes?
Shoveller: No. I’m the Shoveler.
Blue Raja: Well, I’m the Blue Raja. I’m not Stab Man, I’m not Knifey Boy - I’m the Blue Raja.
I think there are maybe one or two movies people have mentioned already that I’ve seen that I don’t like.
After that…
-Considering it, and seeing it again on a marathon recently, I find I have kind of a soft spot for 1998’s Godzilla. Although I’d like it a lot better, and I think other people would too, if they’d only called the monster “Leviathan” or something.
And “Zilla” has made a far better showing of himself in other media, such as the cartoon spinoff series, which was actually quite well animated and well written, as I remember.
-I don’t own a single Tomorrowland pin…
I own two.
Aeon Flux
My favourite movie of all time is “Slaves of New York.”