I liked that movie. Didn’t love it, but I enjoyed it fine. Never understood why it’s considered bad.
I think I need to see Mystery Men, now.
It’s a funny movie. One of the few movies where I can tolerate Ben Stiller.
Meh. Skip Mystery Men, watch The Specials.
(Can’t include it as a movie “most people don’t like” because it is a movie most people haven’t heard of. It played in I think only 2 theaters and made only $13,000 at the box office.)
(Clip. Somebody crudely censored it, so it is kinda SFW.)
Have you seen A Guy Named Joe? It’s the movie Always is a remake of. I dislike Always only because I didn’t think A Guy Named Joe needed remaking.
The Core. Marvellous pulp sci-fi, depending on handwavium and unobtanium to make it work. Sometimes what you really need is a mechanical mole movie, and if it breaks the Second Law of Thermodynamics, so much the better.
I love *Xanadu *in all its cheesy glory.
I’m also a big fan of all several Stephen King TV miniseries that most people think sucked, like The Langoliers, IT, and Rose Red.
I really loved Almost Famous and Say Anything, so I was willing to watch anything else Cameron Crowe made. Now both of those are generally well-liked but Elizabethtown was not. And yet I liked it. (And actually I even warmed to Roadies, the premium cable series he was also involved in, but which ended after one season.)
You might like the novel which inspired it. Very different, but worth a read: Headlong (Williams novel) - Wikipedia
“Roadies” reminds me of a movie starring Meat Loaf and Kaki Hunter (of “Porky’s” fame), called “Roadie”. So bad it’s good, and it just OOZED 1970’s all over you. Though made in 1980, I think it’s the quintessential 1970’s movie, filled with 70’s character actors, music, and style. That movie marked the actual end of the 1970’s. OK folks, that’s a wrap. On to the 80’s! Not really an improvement, in my opinion.
I used to have a huge DVD collection, mostly because I lived in a shit-ass one-horse town with nothing to do, and because I lived near a Hastings, which rented DVD’s, then sold them when they were no longer in demand. I had to move across country and sold most of them, but kept about 50 of them. “Roadie” was one. Think I’ll throw it on now.
Reminds me of another movie, “Noises off”, in that their titles sound vaguely like British slang that I’m entirely left out on. No idea what they mean.
I saw it when I was young and was captivated. I saw it 20 years later, and I realized how full of shit the not-Wallace-Shawn guy was. Whackadoo. Maybe if I saw it a third time I’d get past the woo-woo bs and see something deeper, but I doubt I’ll be finding the time for it. I didn’t have a problem with it just being 2 guys talking, though. There had to have been a lot going right for that to work as well as it did. Acting, script, editing, directing. I didn’t find it boring at all.
“Brassed off” = “pissed off”
“noises off” isn’t slang, it’s theatre jargon - the stage direction for sound coming from offstage.
“And yes, I know I don’t wear much blue and I speak in a British accent, but if you know your history it really does make perfect sense!”
As usual in threads like this, there are a lot of movies mentioned that don’t exactly fit the “Movies you love that most people don’t.”
For example, “L.A. Story” was mentioned - Rotten Tomatoes has a 75% audience rating, a 94% critics rating, and 100% top critics rating. IMDd has it at 6.7/10.
Given that, I am a little hesitant to mention “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)”, because the only metric by which it fails is Rotten Tomatoes overall critics’ score. Still, I recall fans not liking it, so I still think it qualifies.
I absolutely loved it, and I have been a fan of the radio series, books, TV series and LP releases since the early '80s.
It was always going to be nearly impossible to translate the radio series/books to the big screen, but I think they did the best job possible.
Just rewatched “The Immortals” the other night.
Man, I love that movie. Awesome visuals and it has the best bad guy ever.
Agree with this bunch on Jupiter Ascending. Tomorrowland, and David Lynch’s Dune. I also like the cut-for-TV version of Lynch’s Dune, which is marked “Directed by Allen Smithee” and contains scenes that aren’t in the released version*. It was clearly cut by someone who knew and loved the novel, even if it wasn’t David Lynch.
*Please note that this is neither the Director’s Cut of Lynch’s Dune nor the SciFi Channel’s version of Dune, which is also well worth watching.
I’m a sucker for sentimental movies. The Third Miracle starring Ed Harris is an example that comes to mind — I think it was a box-office flop.
Troy. The Paris- Helen introduction part is much too long, but the battle and fight scenes are the best I have ever seen.
nightshadea:
I love Johnny Dangerously, and I always thought it was pretty well liked - I don’t know that it fits the title of the thread.
My answers:
Little Nicky: Yes, it’s Adam Sandler dumbness, but it has a lot of clever touches, and I think it does an amazing job of portraying someone who has no concept of what life on Earth is like. I love when he gets hit by a train, goes back to Hell, and says, “I got hit by some lights with a lot of metal attached to them.” That sounds exactly like how someone with zero Earthly experience would describe the experience.
Tomorrow Never Dies: Considered by most to be in the lower tier of Bond movies, I love the opening sequence at the terrorist bazaar, the hotel-garage car chase, the Bond girls are among the sexiest in the series, and I found the media-villain concept pretty original. And Brosnan is my favorite Bond actor, so I’m sure that elevates it for me more than for many who prefer one of the others.
I’ll second this. Even though it makes a ridiculous hash of a lot of the Iliad (most of it to no good purpose – and there’s a lot more than leaving out the gods), it’s still very well done.
Pair this with the Hallmark TV version of The Odyssey (which is more faithful, and leaves the gods in) and you’ve got the complete visual Homer.
Well, sure. I can see that having a certain…
Oh, COME ON now!