I’ve voluntarily watched AI about 7 times. It helps that my daughter likes it too.
I like a lot of the same things about that movie too - perhaps other people were expecting a documentary or something?
Similarly, Deep Impact had, for some reason, a deep impact on me. I think the bit where the kids have to run to safety with the baby reminded me of the YA apocalyptic fiction I grew up with. Tea Leoni was great, very believable, and bolstered by strong actors as her parents. For a trashy Hollywood summer blockbuster it was pretty hard-hitting, really.
I’ve only seen the latest one, but it was really funny - way better than I was expecting. If I had anyone to talk about it to other than my daughter and her friends then it would even count as a recent favourite.
I watched it (Secondhand Lions) based on the recommendation of someone on another board. I did enjoy it, but thought it was a pretty OK film really, nothing outstanding; it didn’t seem like it was trying for outstanding, either. I’d happily watch it again but wouldn’t say it was fantastic.
I think that the main issue with critics is they tend to forget that movies are also entertainment and we do not always want deep inner meaning, and soulful messages. Sometimes we just want a flick to kill time, hang with friends and munch snacks to. Sometimes we want the movie equivalent to a harlequin romance novel, one of those The Destroyer kill everything that moves, or some random sword and sorcery D&D cheese. Hell, give me a tall cool lemon freezy, a bin of cut up veggies and some hummus to dip and Kull the Conqueror so I can get some good almost unclothed Kevin Sorbo goodness and I am a happy girl!
Frankly, I just plain don’t ever seem to want movies with deep inner meaning, I just want entertainment.
I embarassed that most of the movies that have been mentioned so far I haven’t seen.
My guilty pleasure movies are Down Periscope and the Tom Arnold remake of McHale’s Navy.
Rob Schneider does it for me in Periscope. When he gets pissed the veins in his forehead throb and he spewes little flecks of spit. He’s a pretty shitty actor, but in this film he plays borderline deranged very well. And I just want Tom Arnold’s hat and boat.
The first Tremors with an adorable Kevin Bacon is fantastic! Maybe you mean the sequels are stinkers? (I haven’t seen any, w/o KB, I’m not all that interested in big scary sandworms).
I would think about any made-for-Syfy-Channel movie would fit this topic, I think they’re all pretty bad (though I’ve been surprised!) but sometimes I just have them on in the background and end up watching, dozing off now and then.
I remember that, it wasn’t bad. But it certainly didn’t lead to a movie career for Cyndi Lauper. I remember thinking how thin she looked, but un-toned - what flesh hanging from her skeleton jiggled.
Brainsmasher-A Love Story-Teri Hatcher and “The Dice”. “If my sister says you’re a ninja, you’re a goddamn ninja!” Season of The Witch-Great medieval buddy flick. Hudson Hawk-The plot holes actually make this story better. Undercover Blues-Morty! 'Nuff said. Doctor Detroit-“Mom, I am going to rip off your head and shit down your neck!” Down Periscope-This movie needs a sequel. " Now, call me a prude if you want, but I don’t think it’s good policy for the Navy to hand over a billion-dollar piece of equipment to a man who has “Welcome Aboard” tattooed on his penis."
But above all of them is Xanadu-I like the music, the actors, the fantasy sequences, the way the two bands mesh together as they argue over what type of club to open, and what has got to be the most dramatic scene ever done roller skates as our hero decides to risk it all by heading at full speed face first. In fact, the movie makes all the sense in the world if you imagine that the full on wall smash actually happened first, and all the rest is a brain damaged hallucination as he lies in a hospital on life support.
Speaking of which, has anybody nominated Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins yet? Another popcorn flick with more cleverness than it’s given credit for.
Remo Williams: The Adventure begins is one of the finest movies ever made!
The only reason it has 42% is that women don’t like it…so it goes from 100% to 50%…and 16% of guys are not really guys but some sort of demented, girly ‘men’ and so it goes to 42%.
Is that the one with the Asian yoda guy, and the guy hopping around on thin poles? That’s about all I remember, except that it was silly and I liked it a lot.
