Army of Darkness is the best movie ever.
Shame of me… Kenneth Branagh’s Frankenstein!
The Beach, the Big Chill, and the Michael Mann Miami Vice epic, which is the greatest film based on a television series EVAH!
Yea The Beach is good, I’ll have to look into Miami Vice.
Waterworld? ….seriously?
I have to admit that I love ‘Almost Heroes.’ I think about seven people have seen it, and I’m counting myself twice on that list.
I also really like Lucas’ THX 1138, and all those Jack Ryan movies that Harrison Ford and Alec Baldwin were in.
Attack of the killer tomatoes. Troll 2. Anything Blaxploitation. Movies like that.
re: Ryan -
I think i’m the other five ;) that was going to be my top pick there. Christopher Guest’s ALMOST HEROES, the final film of the late great chris farley. I think his best work here, and it’s funny every single viewing.
it seems most people who see MAGNOLIA just hate the goddam frogs and it destroys the experience for them. I love it.
Another one i love that most people can’t stand is jarmusch’s BROKEN FLOWERS. ’it’s just a movie about bill murray driving around.’ I think it’s brilliant.
ICHI THE KILLER;
For me, the first one that comes to mind is “The Accidental Tourist”. I have had countless people tell me they fell asleep during it and think it’s one of the most boring films ever made. But hey, I liked it – and found alot in it to admire. The other “Gee, I don’t know, I kind of liked it” was both “Lady in the Water” and “The Happening”. Why do people rip on those films so much? Honestly, they aren’t THAT bad………
David — Attack of the killer tomatoes? Hahaha. Wow. That’s a surprising pick. I remember liking it when I was a kid, and I watched it again recently, and I had the hardest time sitting through it. It’s painfully bad.
That’s funny that someone else knows that movie, too. I’ve never heard anyone else mention it.
Speed Racer.
I’m not even trying to defend it, but I went to see it not only once, but twice. I’m still ready to bet that in 10, 15 years it will be considered a great and … I don’t know… trailblazing movie.
The Science of Sleep…one of my favorites but anyone who I show it to hates it!
Oh, and I love Ken Park by Larry Clark.
Oh god someone really liked Miami Vice? I like Mann films, but I don’t know if I could handle Miami Vice again, especially in a theater.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within…I think I like this just because I’m a huge sci-fi fan so I find it entertaining
Jim Van Bebber’s THE MANSON FAMILY. I was so knocked out by it that I saw it twice in one week at a theater an hour’s drive from my home. The folks I brought along the second time thought I was nuts, but I think it’s some sort of deranged masterpiece.
Oh, and I don’t trust anyone who hates on ARMY OF DARKNESS or any of the EVIL DEAD films. As Pauline Kael said, movies are so rarely great art that if we can’t appreciate great trash there’s little reason to be interested in them, and Sam Raimi’s best stuff is superlative trash.
Hey Daniel, I really liked Science of Sleep too. I also noticed that a lot of people hate it. Whatever. It’s a really fun movie, and I have a crush on Charlotte Gainsbourg.
I see a lot of hateable movies here (anything by M. Knight is just God-awfull), but quite a few good ones. The mere idea that someone LOVES Gummo sends shivers down my spine. I appreciate it as a film, but love was one emotion I positively never felt while watching it.
I find the Tarkovsky films I love are powerful sleep medicine for everyone I’ve tried them on. And my undying love for Godard’s absurdity in his Le Fou and Weekend period provokes questions (possibly well-founded) about my sanity. That and my claiming the long argument between the husband and wife in the middle of Contempt is cinema’s most convincing relationship-between-the-sexes scene ever put on film.
Oh and nobody should hate Troll 2. Its the most perfectly terrible movie ever made. I simply cannot stop watching it.
The Stuff. Anyone? Sci-fi spoof. I don’t know if it’s hated so much as unknown, but it’s Michael Moriarity and a hilarious Paul Sorvino, trying to stop the infestation of a yogurt-like substance that’s delicious but, of course, deadly. Streams of goo taking over the world.
Sorvino plays a deeply paranoid general called in to get the Stuff under control. “You wouldn’t be trying to trick, deceive or entrap me?” a line I’ve used, probably every few days, since I heard it twenty some years ago.
Holy shit Wendy two for two. That movie scared the shit out of me as kid. You can actually get it on dvd. I saw it one late night with my dad and i could not sleep that night. Thank again for the memories.:)
surprisingly, not a lot of people I’ve met like Memento.
I can get it on dvd? Thank you, LA! You’ve solved several Christmas gift problems in the space of 2 minutes (my strange sister also loves the film…and we also quote another of Sorvino’s lines, spoken to one of the media wizards behind The Stuff: “98% of the population hates me…you got ‘em to eat that shit—why can’t you get ’em to like me?”)
You can find it on amazon. And it’s cheap too:)
Excellent! Thanks. And AO Meng: you should stay away from people who do not like Memento :)
I’m afraid I’m only half-joking. “Memory is treachery”. I mean….how true this is. And Guy Pearce is a woefully underrated actor, I think.
Hmm. I just thought Memento’s premise was lame, and the ending was truly disappointing.
But Nolan made a way cooler film before that: The Following.
I second the mention of Ken Park. A lot of Larry Clark’s earlier films always struck me as sleazy and exploitative but this one, though still sexual and disturbing in a lot of ways, had some real substance to it.
RE The Stuff
It made my day to stumble in here this afternoon and see some love being shown to one of my favorite 80’s gems.
Randyman – I love Xanadu! I also really liked Marie Anoinette. I’m obsessed with Grey Gardens…I know that tere is a serious cult following for this film, but I also know a lot of people who cannot sit through the first 15 minutes. On the so bad it’s good front, I lovelovelove Showgirls!!!
Breakin’
Breakin’ II: Electric Boogaloo
Hey, I can’t help it. Those movies gave me many laughs when I was a kid. So silly.
Roadhouse → Never has a movie taught me so many one-liners and I also learned it is possible to rip a man’s throat out.
Adam Cook
Unbreakable, Army of Darkness, Clerks II, most pornos and also Eurotrip but I don’t blame people for that one.