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    22 days ago

    Hudson Hawk, Bruce Willis’ longtime passion project where he and Danny Aiello play singing cat burglars.

    I genuinely love it despite it not being very good at all. Saw it in the theater knowing nothing at all about it.

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    22 days ago

    If I love it I objectively think its good. There are quite a few that people think were bad and most bombed hard and I loved them here goes one.

    Hudson Hawk: Sandra Bernhard and Richard Grant were the most over the top bad guys. They were having a great time being that. The whole cast was just playing it like it was a blast to be there.

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    22 days ago

    Dr Mordrid. I will forever be salty that Jeffrey Combs did not get a cameo in Multiverse of Madness.

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        22 days ago

        I honestly have no idea how WaterWorld was not a huge hit, I loved that movie … I’m also very afraid to re-watch it since I haven’t seen it in quite a while.

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          21 days ago

          It is very entertaining. And universal created a live action show at their theme park in Hollywood based on it, that’s still running.

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          22 days ago

          It was a pretty big hit at the time but the production costs got so out of control I don’t think it made it’s money back. I’m sure in the long run it’s done ok.

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            21 days ago

            I think I’m confusing two scenes. One where the women and girl are effectively at Kostner’s mercy and she offers herself to him so they don’t get thrown over board. I -think- he turns her down and then there is a consensual act later.

            Probably I was getting confused with blade runner.

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        22 days ago

        “Twelve megabytes of RAM, 500 megabyte hard drive. Built-in spreadsheet capabilities and a modem that transmits at over 28,000 BPS.”

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          22 days ago

          I just watched Blade for the first time. The computer model of the ascension chamber felt a lot like the visualization of the Gibson mainframe operated by that magician/skateboarder duo

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      22 days ago

      The postman was good. Sure it’s a generic post-apocalyptic romp with a positive message. But I liked it.

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    22 days ago

    I’m gonna tentatively say Cloud Atlas, but I don’t think it’s terrible. I am aware that not a lot of people like it, and I believe if the Wachowskis had followed the book, it would have been better received.

    Cloud Atlas, the book, was structured in a way that was easier to follow, and made for a narrative flow through its seven timelines. Seven timelines in and of itself is quite a tall order, but the point was that kindness and art resonate through each timeline. In the book, the first six timelines are told halfway through. At around the halfway point, you jump to the next timeline. When you get to the seventh, it plays through in its entirety (I think — I feel like the epilogue, if it was in the book, would have gone at the end — I haven’t read the book yet, but it’s on my list of books to read. I’m just aware of how it’s formatted). Then the other six timelines finish, but this time in reverse order. So if the timelines are 1-7 and the halves are A and B, the book is basically 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, 5A, 6A, 7A, 7B, 6B, 5B, 4B, 3B, 2B, and 1B. That makes sense. The film takes the book, cuts off the spine, throws all the pages up in the air, picks them up in random order, and then that’s the screenplay. It jumps all over the place without rhyme or reason. And it’s three fucking hours long!

    The first time watching Cloud Atlas, I don’t think anyone liked it. But once you know what’s going on and you go back and watch it again, that second time, you know what all the stories are, and you’re not getting thrown around as much. If I had the budget to adapt the book, I’d probably do it as anime and have 14 episodes, and you can see above how I’d do it. So each half would get a single episode. You’d be kinda lost for the first half, but then going through the second half, everything just clicks. I’m not sure how I’d do it as a film, except to say I fucking wouldn’t. That the Wachowskis made it work for those of us with the patience to sit through a second and third viewing is kind of a miracle. At the very least I’d want to do a miniseries.

    Cloud Atlas was not objectively terrible, but it was objectively flawed, and deeply at that. I still love it.

    Also, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Widely hated for Kevin Costner not being able to pull off an English accent and director Kevin Reynolds letting him get away with it. And yet, I don’t think if Reynolds had recast Robin, it would have been as good. So if you look at the guys who were active in movies in 1991, you got some choices. Richard Gere probably could have pulled off the acting part. The machismo of Robin Hood? Of that Robin Hood? Maybe not. If you go with the classic Peter Pan-built Robin, and get rid of the war hero opening, maybe — but then how do you explain Morgan Freeman’s character? And you don’t write him out. There were plenty of actors who could have done the English accent and the action scenes, but there’s something about Kevin Costner, American accent and all, that really tied that movie together. And it’s kind of bad, Robin Hood with an American accent. I mean, what even is that? And yet, I love it.

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      22 days ago

      I can force myself past Costner’s accent. It’s Slater’s hair that yanks me out of immersion! I do love that movie though, I just wish they’d cast someone other than Christian Slater.

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      21 days ago

      I also enjoyed both of these movies. If you tell me that you also enjoyed Crash (2004) despite all the hate then I think we’ll have to become best friends.

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    22 days ago

    I recently picked up a copy of Beer League at a thrift store.

    Their normal price for DVDs is $1, but it was a 50% off sale.

    It was definitely worth the 50¢.

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      22 days ago

      What’s objectively terrible about Tremors?

      The TV series and movies beyond the third one are objectively terrible. But the first two are solid films and the third one is good for a laugh.

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        21 days ago

        I mean that I like it, but when showing coworkers or friends very few seem to think it is any good. It is now old enough for a cult following so it has got that going for it.

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    20 days ago

    Super Troopers. It is such a ‘I dont know how we got the money for this script but here we fucking go’ movie. Good fun, good laughs.

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    22 days ago

    The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is a horrible movie and I absolutely love it! It is just so bad it is good.

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    20 days ago

    Godzilla vs Megalon

    It’s been years since I saw it, but it was my jam as a kid. Some sea people are mad and send their giant beetle thing, Megalon, to attack the surface, the sea people (Seatopians) also get help from aliens that send their kaiju, Gigan, to assist. A size changing robot, Jet Jaguar, gets his beat but Godzilla comes to the rescue in the nick of time. The end battle is a straight up WWE tag team matchup with kaijus!

    Plus the movie ends with Jet Jaguar’s bad ass theme song and a freeze frame!

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    I’ve been told Madame Web is objectively bad. I like it. I like the atmosphere of it. I like the main character despite reports that the actress gave an intentionally bad performance. I like the Britney Spears song playing in the diner scene. I like the story of her suddenly having to look after three teenagers. I know there are plot holes but I don’t care. I like the comedy, that may or may not have been intentional. I find the part where she “kidnaps” the girls funny. I like that Peter Parker is born in it, but I don’t get why they don’t say his name. Yeah, overall I like this movie but nobody else seems to.

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      thank you so much!! just had a blast rewatching it after not having seen it for a long time. i guess the “code brown” joke (the president shitting his pants) is more current than ever.