Objectively bad movies you still love
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Apparently John Carter is a bad movie. I was so bummed that they cancelled the sequel. I really liked it.
Nowadays it's the dreaded "personal reasons"I wonder if anyone has tried calling in sick and saying they had a brain cloud
I haven't had "mental health day" yet but when it happens that may be the last time you ever hear from me.
Wow, I've missed out on a heckuvah Cooler Thread today.
1) Jurassic Park is objectively great.
2) My guilty pleasure movies are Real Genius, Meatballs, & Mallrats.
3) The plot to Cocktail as best as I can recall is:
Tom Cruise as Brian Flanegan. He gets out of the Navy and has a dream to open a bar. He goes to business school while working in his uncle's bar but when they submit their business plans to class his teacher craps on it and I think he walks out. He ends up getting hooked up with some Australian guy (Conklin or something) learning to do bottle tricks and they become successful bartenders at fancy clubs (I imagine in NYC). Conklin is also his general mentor on such sage wisdom as "beer is for breakfast, we drink a red eye." I think a red eye was like a shot of bourbon with a raw egg dropped in it. He gets a girlfriend who's like a photographer or something when they're doing a routine to the Hippy Hippy Shake. The guys have a plan to move to the Caribbean to open their own bar on the beach but they have a falling out when the old man sleeps with Cruise's girlfriend to win a bet that she'd cheat on him. Cruise ends up going to the Caribbean to open his beach bar. He meets Elizabeth Shue when her friend gets like alcohol poisoning or something. They have a romance and make sweet sweet love under a waterfall to the sounds of the Beach Boys "Kokomo." He runs into Conklin in paradise, who ends up married to some rich lady and he's living the dream of a kept man. Shue ends up pregnant and she and Cruise split up because he gets caught cheating I think. She goes back to the city. here's where it's getting fuzzy. Cruise goes back to the city to win her back but has some real struggle with her family accepting him/them. I think the dad tries to pay him off to go away. Conklin ends up dying by suicide because they were actually broke and his life was falling apart. Cruise gets inspired and wins Shue back. The final scene is them in his new bar, I think he's partnered with his uncle or something, called "Cocktails & Dreams." He gives a toast before the bar opens for the first time and she drops on him that it's actually twins and he says "drinks are on the house," much to his uncle's chagrin.
Rocky IV is wonderful. 3 & 5 are terrible. I don't count anything since.
Dirty Dancing is rotten.
Real Genius......just perfect.
Also, Weird Science.
How many times did I use "how'd you like a nice, greasy, pork sandwich served in a dirty ashtray" when my friends and I started our drinking adventures.
Lol. I enjoyed it. I had to check Wikipedia for the accuracy of my summary. I'm about 75% -80% accurate.
When I was in HS I would record movies off of TV, hitting the pause button when they'd go to commercial and restarting the recording when they'd come back, so I'd have movies for more or less free. But I had to really watch them all closely to not miss scenes. Had a decent collection when I went off to college.
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My dad used to record vacations on a camcorder to vhs tapes. He got one of those nifty vhs to dvd conversion things and I was to convert our vacation and pay attention so i could remove the extra stuff that wasn't supposed to be recorded.
Suffice it to say, after 20 minutes of him recording his shoes walking down the sidewalk, I stopped paying close attention and just left it converting lol. Not sure anyone ever had the time to rewatch our vacation anyway.
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Rocky IV is "wonderful" but Rocky III "terrible"?????????
Then I guess Rocky III is my guilty pleasure.
Clubber Lang was boring.
Rocky won the Cold War in IV. And that training montage may be the height of 80s cinema.
Rock V was indeed terrible. Rocky 3 was kinda meh. Definitely worse than two, but I don't know if I would call it terrible.
Dirty Dancing has a 90% audience score on rotten tomatoes, so you are officially part of the resistance now!
I can live with your Rocky rankings.
I'm going to guess that the audience of Dirty Dancing is weighted to the ladies of the 80s.
Now now now. You can't just walk in here and hot take like that. This shit used to be civil.
A couple bros running on the beach
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A man conquering Siberia with the KGB on his tail.
Not even a question.
Twister and Day After Tomorrow. I am a sucker for weather calamity movies.
I also remember all the movies from the 70s and 80s - killer bees, ants, spiders, etc.
I also remember all the movies from the 70s and 80s - killer bees, ants, spiders, etc.
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The Creed movies are pretty decent. At least the first one was. I count those as Rocky sequels. Or at least spin-offs. They do continue the Rocky story.
Yeah that's nuts. Rocky 1 is one of the best movies ever made. I still get goosebumps when the music starts. Eddie Murphy had a funny bit about white guys coming out of the theatre after seeing it
This from the guy who has never seen "The Godfather".
I've heard Godfather 2 is better. So think of this in terms of year after year blockbusters. 74 Godfather 2. 75 Jaws. 76 Rocky. 77 Star Wars.
Ha Conair is horrible. I love it. Let's just put nicholas cage alongside Swayze on this list. I love vegas or leaving vegas or whatever it is too
The sneaky part is Buscemi was in Armageddon (turrible but I'll watch it) and Con Air (ditto) but he gets like no stick whatsoever for it.
He's literally Donny from Big Lebowski in real life, but with a brain.
Notice I didn't put "The Rock" on that list because of Connery and Harris.
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