Mine is August Rush, it’s so cheesy and I know it’s terrible but I’ve watched it a bunch of times.
Hackers. It is not a good movie. It is not an accurate representation of computer hacking. But it has Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Mathew Lillard, and Fisher Stevens as the villain. The very ridiculous villain. I have not seen a movie quite like it since.
Crash… and Burn!
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I watch this at least annually just because. Mix of cheese, nostalgia, I don’t know.
Hack the planet.
The only part of the movie that I can’t stand is the big ending and whats her name can’t STFU in the background asking stupid question. Her voice just grates on me
Same when she is screaming in “Goodfella’s”
Frankenhooker.
It’s crass and trashy and I fucking love it.
Also Hard Ticket to Hawaii
I don’t know any other film that passes the Bechdel test in a scene where two former Playboy models are topless in a hot tub together and talk about something other than men (there are no men in the scene, just the two women). A very unique and strange way to pass the Bechdel test that feels like it undermines the entire point of the Bechdel test existing.
Also Con Air, a star studded wild romp that’s so fucking stupid it rounds the bend to brilliant.
Ok so I actually just really love bad movies, that’s the thing. I could be on this thread all day.
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Should I add this to Zombie Strippers?
Oh Frankenhooker is far more thoughtful and clever than Zombie Strippers, imho.
The end of the film almost makes it a feminist film when the tables are turned and the main character gets his comeuppance.
Zombie Strippers is based on a French Existentialist play and is a major critique about a lot going on in the time. It would have been better with its deleted scenes.
The Core
You monster.
That movie, in my mind, hinges on the premise, delivered by Stanley Tucci: “but what if we could?”
I know he’s not the first and won’t be the last, but damn if that didn’t annoy me back in '03. It was just so… gutless as a sci-fi explainer.
YUSSSS
Ashamed? None. I refuse to be ashamed of loving dumb trash. A couple of days ago I introduced my wife to A Knights Tale. She enjoyed it immensely and said it was one of the stupidest movies she’s ever seen.
If you love something, there’s always a good reason why, even if that good reason is buried under a mountain of flaws.
A knights table is one of the stupidest movies she’s ever seen?
Wow, she’s got a lot of stupid movie catching up to do
None, if I love something, I have no shame about it.
You own that part of yourself.
Leon The Professional.
Deeply problematic themes for a child actor. Luc Besson is a creep and wanted the problematic parts to be explicitly pedophilic.
But in the end, it’s a fun story and Leon is nothing but a professional and a gentleman. The movie never crosses any major lines, its just uncomfortable.
You cannot, nor should not, make movies like this today. Still, this specific movie is good.
I love this movie and I have never seen any of it as being pedo. I have always felt that love being expressed in was between 2 abused people finding a kinship and love that they had both always been denied. It’s about a child who loves and adores her savior and first person to ever be a parental figure. Someone who literally goes on a massive killing spree and gives up his own life to save her. And it’s about someone who has been isolated and unloved his entire life suddenly finding his first real friendship and first real experience of someone loving him with no reservations, expectations, or demands. The type of love that only an innocent child can express towards a parent or caretaker. The movie does this amazing job of framing the development of this beautiful and deep kinship inside of an incredibly violent action movie. I adore this movie and the amazing acting and directing that went into it. I really wish that the director wasn’t a complete and certified pedo, but I think that it’s entirely possible that everyone came together and made this a beautiful movie despite, and even in spite of, the director being a pedo.
So, Luc Besson is, absolutely, a creep, no question about that, but I’ve never actually seen any believable evidence of this claim about making the film “explicitly pedo.”
Yes, I’m aware of the snippet of an “early script draft” going around with a sex scene between Leon and Mathilda. But I’ve only ever seen that one snippet. I’ve never been able to find a copy of the full draft it purports to be from and I’ve never been able to find any evidence that said draft actually exists. None of the actors have ever talked about it, which is weird given that you’d think at least Natalie Portman would right? She’s reached peak “Not having to give a fuck.” I do know that what Portman has said about her time on the movie has been entirely positive. She never seemed to feel that there was any danger to her from the material, even looking back as an adult.
I’m absolutely willing to be wrong here. If there’s evidence that I’ve missed, I’m willing to see it (almost said ‘happy to see it’ but obviously ‘happy’ wouldn’t be the right word here), but as far as I can tell it’s just a sensational rumour someone invented for clicks because it sounded believable enough after all the other stuff came out about Besson.
As regards what is there in the movie, well, yeah, it’s supposed to be really uncomfortable. It’s a story about two people who are, each in their own way, deeply vulnerable to exploitation. Exploitation is a common theme in Besson’s work, which is horribly ironic really (like Gaiman it sort of feels like he was telling on himself). I’m not sure if I agree with the idea of feeling “ashamed” of liking a movie that explores serious themes in a serious way. The world is full of terrible things and we need art that explores that effectively. For all the creator’s flaws, Leon The Professional is a very effective and well crafted story.
DCOMs (disney channel movies). i love 'em. especially the musicals.
Speed Zone. It has John Candy and Eugene Levy in it… and a red Lamborghini skipping across a pond like a skipping stone (and that’s the joke). Dumb as hell but as far as car/race films it’s kind of fine. I mean, how seriously do you need to take a movie about a cross-country race? It was originally going to called Cannonball Run 3 but was dropped from the franchise. I’ve never seen the others.
Not that ashamed, but it’s not a great movie.
Thanks for this. You just solved a mystery I’ve had for most of my life. I caught that Lambo scene once on TV without context, and I’ve wondered for like 35+ years what movie it was. It always randomly flitted into my mind when I wasn’t near a computer, and then I’d forget to look it up.
I loathe to recommend AI chatbots, but they are good for stuff like this. I was talking to someone about a music video they remembered a couple parts of, so we asked ChatGPT and it told us what it was.
I’ve had a few white whales I’ve chased for years on Google. It didn’t work for me. I’m sure a chatbot could have found one of them a lot faster.
Howard the Duck.
I’ll see myself out.
best lucas film, best marvel film, peak lea thompson. all in one package. hell yea!
I saw that at a drive in theatre.
McHales Navy, but Tim Curry is the perfect villian for it.
Tim Curry was born to play perfect villains.
Hawk the Slayer from the early 1980s rush on medieval fantasy. Jack Palance as the bad guy (of course)…
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The original Mario Brothers movie, given how terrible of an experience it was for the actors.
I thought it was hilarious John Liguzamo was talking so much bullshit about having the race actor/acress matching the characters race. As he played a fuckibg Italian plumber as a Columbian. Dudes a total hypocrite.
I did not know it was a terrible experience behind the scenes.
I love August Rush too. The emotion is so real!
The most embarrassing thing I’ve watched would be a romance-ish anime like High School of the Dead.
When it comes down to it though, I’m open to almost anything. I worked in the entertainment industry for a decade and I’ve enjoyed everything from silly cartoons to epic IMAX masterpieces.
I like The Core. Also a fan of Deep Impact, in that I’ve watched it multiple times. I feel no shame.
All Quiet on the Western Front, specifically the 2022 Netflix version.
It’s one of the most beautiful films I’ve ever seen in terms of its cinematography, which kinda just feels wrong given the subject matter.
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Read it again, please.
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No worries. I figured it was just a quick misread.
The subject matter is that war fucking sucks and we shouldn’t do it. Are you saying you find that position problematic?
Maybe read what I wrote a second time.
