Do we have membership cards? I think the only movies I like with him are where he’s voice talent, because I at least like Megamind.
Good Lord, Tommy Chong must have been hurting for money.
As @Mahaloth pointed out, he was watchable in Stranger Than Fiction, opposite a cadre of very solid actors - Robert DeNiro, Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal. Of course, he played a quiet, reserved, awkward character - the complete opposite of his normal schtick.
Charter member, here.
Not only do I moderate the r/fullmoonfeatures subreddit, I had it resurrected from inactivity to be the moderator.
I’ve actually not seen the bong movies, though. I like Puppet Master and Subspecies.
There are quite a few actors whose usual schtick is repellent to me and yet who aren’t bad actors. And on the rare cases when I get to see them doing something different, I can enjoy them. e.g. Adam Sandler in Fifty First Dates
Well, both Dick and Stranger Than Fiction are worth seeing on their own merits (and Will Ferrell has a starring role in one of them).
Crash (the 1996 one), about people who got a sexual thrill from car crashes.
I would have walked out if I hadn’t been dragged there by a crazy girlfriend. I stared enviously as others left, and kept checking my watch.
I’m a lifelong polyamorist, so not exactly a prude. It struck me as a repressed person’s idea of what it was like to be a libertine.
If you asked me if I was a Will Farrell fan I would say no based mostly off of SNL. He’s still been in some of the best comedies in the last few decades.
Which comedies of his are some of the best of the past 20 years?
I actually think he is very funny when not acting in a movie.
Not to mention “Shaving Ryan’s Privates”, “In And Out In Beverly Hills”, “Riding Miss Daisy”, “Enchanted In April”, “Dickman and Throbbin’”, etc.?
I remembered watching “National Velvet” as a kid, and liked it. I Tivo’ed it off TCM and tried to watch it recently. ZZZZZZZZZ. Maybe a four-star classic for other people, but not for me.
I liked “Titanic” despite it being overlong, and I didn’t see “American Beauty” until it was several years out of the theaters. I appreciated it (it’s a hard movie to say one liked) but I could understand why so many people didn’t like it, because they were living it.
When it was released, “Jerry Maguire” was lauded as an instant classic, and while it was good, it also had several cultural references that dated it. The VHS boxes have been used to create, ahem, performance art pieces, like this one.
I hated American Beauty because the characters were caricatures, the plot wholly unbelievable, and everyone was dislikable. It was shallow and obvious. I’ve never met anyone like those people. I felt morally and intellectually soiled.
Titanic was just written with a sledgehammer. I found it exceedingly dull.
National Velvet would have been a fine, predictably saccharine Hollywood film I would have enjoyed as a horse-crazy kid, but I had read the subtle, funny, ironic, lyrical book, in which the protagonist had buck teeth and a tendency to vomit when tense, and the horse was a lumpy piebald (at that time a sign of common, low breeding, a mongrel as it were). Velvet was an ugly skinny weirdo with a gift for riding, not Elizabeth Taylor, and The Pie was another ugly misfit, not a gorgeous Thoroughbred. But mostly, it debased a quite lovely little literary masterpiece.
I have only vaguely heard of Jerry Maguire.
Patch Adams was insulting.
I agree with some and disagree with others.
I walked out of Eyes Wide Shut. That might be the only time walking out of a theater.
Everything Everywhere All At Once. Hot dog fingers, enough said.
The Black Panther. I can’t suspend my disbelief that much.
I can understand the hate some have for Phantom of the Opera, since they botched the lead casting so badly. But the visuals were exquisite and Emmy Rossum was fabulous.
Some ones not yet mentioned:
Exorcist II Proof that not all movies should have sequels.
Red Dawn, too much pro-gun propaganda snuck in.
Batman and Robin Worst of the franchise by far and away.
Fleischer invented it.
(FWIW and IF I remember correctly)
Or A Sale Of Two Titties
I have never seen the 2012 release but the intent of the 1984 version was to show Americans what subjugation and resistance feel like. Guns are going to be a part of that, not in a hoorah way, but in very practical cold calculus for young children killing other humans. Getting conquered isn’t something in our collective American WASP consciousness, but I think it is valuable and probably far more effective than any Anti-war flick.
Man in the High Castle was the same.
“Titanic is popular with 2 year old girls because it seems to have been written by one.” (can’t remember which critic said this)
Patch Adams is not one of my “most hated,” but it’s not among my “most liked,” either. It’s another like Good Morning, Vietnam, where the film starts with Williams as his wonderfully wacky self, and then about halfway through, the film takes a dark turn. Williams did best when a film was pure comedy (Mrs. Doubtfire) or pure drama (Awakenings).
I’m surprised. I don’t even think the original Patch liked his portrayal. The guy would be annoying to others at the very least, and dangerous at worst. I mean, he’s partly responsible for his girl dying. Sure, there’s something to be said for fulfilling wishes of peoples who are terminally ill, but this is self indulged, sentimental garbage, in my humble opinion.