Straight Time, with Dustin Hoffman, is terrific, and well worth the rental if you just watch up to the part where he deals with his parole officer. After that, it’s a thorough waste of time, one damned thing after another leading up to a 1970s-era pseudo-profundity. Except maybe for a remarkably appealing Theresa Russell, from before she developed the flavorless taint of Hollywood glamour.
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I can’t say I disliked Avatar, as I was so bored by it I couldn’t finish. I bailed out after about 30 minutes, when I realized that I simply didn’t care what happened to the lead character.[/QUOTE]
The Rifftraxed version of Avatar is far better than the one without the rifftrax enhancement, makes an overly preachy movie much funnier
As fond as I am of John Cusack, America’s Sweethearts was just painful. However, the scene where he meets Zeta-Jones’s character on the hill, and she asks, “Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?”, and he says, “No, it’s a gun” and shoots her like ten times? Brilliant.
Even if it is just a stupid dream
I imagine the opening scene of “The way of the gun” will be a popular choice here.
Pretty much all of Christopher Walken’s scenes in “Balls of Fury.” The movies sucked, well, balls, but he was fuckin’ hilarious in it.
I’ll put up with parts of Pirates 2, 4, & even 3 if I can just skip to some of Johnny Depp’s brilliant moments
I pretty much loathe the entire Matrix trilogy. The verbal doubletalk nonsense gives me a migraine and the hand to hand combat is cheesey.
But I will stop to watch the freeway chase scene from the second film.
I don’t know what rifftrax is. Anyway, I stopped watching when what’s his name (Sully? the wheelchair guy) went into the forest.
From childhood to old age in that remarkably sweet, tender, but not saccharine manner. Beautiful. I liked the whole movie though.
Bottle Shock is a terrible movie except for any scene that has Alan Rickman in it. Which is only about 20 minutes total.
Alien: Ressurection was a horrible film, but it had two great scenes: the lab full of failed clones, and the xenomorphs swimming under water.
Is this serious, or is it another Rhymer affectation?
I know what it is now. I looked it up on Google. But I didn’t when I wrote that, and I didn’t Google it first because if I had I wouldn’t have been able to go all Temperance Brennan on y’all.
I also do not know what the big deal about the infield fly rule is and how it is distinct from the designated hitter rule, which I understand from overheard comments at work sucks eggs.
I don’t know of many who like Full Metal Jacket beyond the boot camp scenes. One however must admire that leather-miniskirted hooker (“Me so horny!”) and that crazy door gunner (“Anyone who runs… is a VC! Anyone who stands still… is a WELL-DISCIPLINED VC!”).
What do we get for ten dollars?
Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin). One of the top 5 films ever made. He’s the lead. Watch it.
I hated Attack of the Clones, but all the solo Obi-Wan scenes were cool. I think the prequels should have been all about Obi-Wan, I could watch Ewan McGregor for hours.
I didn’t like Gangs of New York, but I liked the opening gang fight.
Karate Kid (1984)
I hate the movie, especially the main protagonist. He’s a whiny passive-aggressive little sh#t who pretty much invites the bullying. First he picks a fight with the main bully on the beach by injecting himself into what is obviously an emotionally charged argument between a couple he doesn’t even know. At soccer practice he gets tossed off the the team for throwing a punch at one of the other kids who had fouled him. Then at the dance our Genius-san decides to prank the head bully dude with a hose. And running away! You know, by this point I was pretty much rooting for the Cobra Kai.
Anyway, I love, love, love the scene with Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita) on the anniversary of his marriage to his late wife who died in a California internment camp while he was off fighting with the 442nd RCT:
What are we celebrating here?
Anniversary.
Whose anniversary? (looking at picture) Is this your wife? I didn’t know you were married.
Damn beautiful, don’t you think?
Yeah, she’s pretty.
First time I saw her was cane field, Hawaii. Beautiful! Damn good cane cutter, too!
Where is she now?
Drink, drink, Daniel-san. Look, look. (picture of pregnant wife) First American-born Miyagi waiting to be born. Drink, drink.
(Miyagi talking to himself): "Sergeant Miyagi! “Yes, sir! Sergeant Miyagi reporting. Killed many Jerry Germans, sir.” “Sergeant Miyagi.” “Yes, sir.” “Regret to inform wife have complications at birth.” Complications. No doctor came. Land of free, home of brave. No doctor came. (Miyagi passes out)
I didn’t hate Revenge of the Sith, but the montage where the clones all suddenly turn on the Jedi is FAR better than the rest of the mostly mediocre movie, and most of the final fight scene is brilliant.
Star Trek: Generations is a bad movie all round, but the crash of the Enterprise is a beautiful piece of cinema.
The 1967 version of Casino Royale is bad, apart from Burt Bacharach’s music.
But… I’ve seen beacon towers set up like that. Mind you, most of them wouldn’t have the same people all the time, but it was a very common setup on mountain ridges and rocky shores in Spain throughout the Middle Ages and later. They were like lighthouses, but used to give warning of attack rather than to provide ships with guidance.
One of the first “grown-up” duties of elder children, and one of the duties left to maimed men, was lookout on beacon towers.
The movie’s setup is exaggerated but hellOOOOO, the whole thing is!
I’ve mentioned this before here but Levon Helm’s scene in the otherwise cut-rate Shooter absolutely crackles. Mark Wahlberg is decent, Danny Glover and Ned Beatty phone it in and Michael Pena needs to be punched in the face repeatedly for a terrible performance but Helm, who is onscreen for all of about four minutes, is fantastic.