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.
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”
Crash… and Burn!
Actually, I think it’s lack of accuracy is kind of brilliant. It was weird in the day, but it has allowed the movie to be watchable far into the future without being terrible. Like watching it today the only time it gets cringey is when they specifically mention tech specs. e. g. 28.8 kbs modem. If they would have left that out it would fit in most time periods, by not really fitting into any of them.
I watch this at least annually just because. Mix of cheese, nostalgia, I don’t know.
Hack the planet.
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I’m not really ashamed but I have some 90s classic anime on DVD and people try to shame me for it all the time. Like, they sell it on the shelf in the corner and go ‘YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE ANIME NERD WEIRDOS’. Except I’m not. It’s just shit I liked as a teenager and I re-watch every few years. I don’t get why it is so ‘shameful’ to have these in my possession. I know nothing about anime since like 2004.
It’s Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne, and Neon Genesis.
I am not an anime nerd at all, but I do like cinema and good tv.
90s anime is best anime.
You have good tastes.
Bebop is great and what a great/strong soundtrack.
Eva is much more than mech fights. A lot more.
Good stuff.
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
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
Howard the Duck.
I’ll see myself out.
I saw that at a drive in theatre.
best lucas film, best marvel film, peak lea thompson. all in one package. hell yea!
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.
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.
Hudson Hawk.
Bunny, ball ball!
I like The Core. Also a fan of Deep Impact, in that I’ve watched it multiple times. I feel no shame.
I remember when deep impact came out. I wrote “deep impact” on my arm to tell my friend about it after i saw the trailer. I thought it’s gonna ve the biggest thing ever. I only remember the movie being boring, but it’s one of the movies i wanna rewatch
How High. It was one of the only movies I owned on iTunes so I watched it frequently
Hawk the Slayer from the early 1980s rush on medieval fantasy. Jack Palance as the bad guy (of course)…
The one where the witch has magical silly-string and bouncy-ball powers? 😂
McHales Navy, but Tim Curry is the perfect villian for it.
Tim Curry was born to play perfect villains.
The Party, from 1968. It’s straight-up blackface, a white actor plays the Indian main character, stereotypical accent and all. I am plainly ashamed to like it for that reason. That and there’s a painted elephant paraded around the house at some point and I don’t trust animal welfare in films to be taken seriously at all at this time.
Everything else about the movie is quite enjoyable. Nearly the whole movie takes place at a crazy awesome midcentury party mansion. The gags are hilarious. There’s quite a few heartwarming moments. And apparently, despite the racial stereotypes and blackface, the movie was “hugely popular” in India (or so says wikipedia)
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.
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.
What’s wrong with the subject matter? I thought it was an anti-war reflective novel publiished after and written about world war 1. Just a german version of something like 1917 or War Horse, right?
Read it again, please.
Okay I do get you, sorry.
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.
