Films you enjoy...
Ricardo C.
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...but everyone else hates.
For starters, I seem to be only one on planet earth who enjoys The Cable Guy. I am the only one who not only finds it funny, but one of Jim Carrey's best films ? Sure it was jarring for people. It's like if Moe Howard was playing a psycho and still doing comedy. I thought the role was great of Carrey, this pathetic, lonely, sociopath who was pretty much warped by watching too much TV. I did feel for him by the end of the film and I laughed at everything else, "Porno Password".
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For starters, I seem to be only one on planet earth who enjoys The Cable Guy. I am the only one who not only finds it funny, but one of Jim Carrey's best films ? Sure it was jarring for people. It's like if Moe Howard was playing a psycho and still doing comedy. I thought the role was great of Carrey, this pathetic, lonely, sociopath who was pretty much warped by watching too much TV. I did feel for him by the end of the film and I laughed at everything else, "Porno Password".
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I love this movie, and a few people I know love it to. But for the most part, a lot of people hate it. When I first saw it in the theater two older ladies were leaving ahead of me. I over heard them saying "That was the worst movie I ever saw."
Temple Of Doom. I don't care what anyone says. This gory homage to Gunga Din is ten times better then that next installment where all the mystery and ambiguity of Indy is surgically removed by showing us his first archaelogical caper as a boy scout. TOD has human sacrifices, insects, crushing spike walls, skulls, chilled monkey brains and a great Bondish pre titles sequence. Crusade has Doody and Connery. Which is good, but c'mon.
The 13th Warrior. I love this creepy movie. It's underrated and was unfairly dismissed. The Viking fatalism is portrayed realistically, the score and battle scenes are terrific. (one of the few picture to show a battle of shield) Guess I'm a sucker for the Alamo/ Michael Caine Zulu type standoffs.
Moonraker. It's a comic book in space with lovely 70s lasses and some relatively harmless nonsense intertwined with tense harrowing moments. It's got a fantastic score and some pretty ingenious special effects given the budget. The endless bickering over this malinged monster falls on deaf ears here. I love watching MR on a big screen with a killer system.
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Russian Institute 6
There are some films I never tire of, I can watch them over and over again. Unlike other franchises, this hard core porn series simply gets better and better, in particular the threesome finale with some powerful reverse cowgirl positions, not to mention the lesbian scene with a Patsy Kensit lookalike halfway through...
However, when I slipped this into the DVD on Boxing Day last year following the Queen's Speech, with all the family gathered round, I barely got beyond the first 10 minutes! Personally I blame it on the stress of the season, and that Aunt Sophie was always a bit of a killjoy. Still, hard to fathom. ?:)
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Pulp Fiction is widely regarded as QT's masterpiece so I wouldn't call it scorned either. (though I still think it's a drag, sorry)
Honestly though, Napoleon. Pt 6? Have you no taste? Next time play the original Russian Institute. It's a bona fide ground breaking classic I'm sure even Aunt Sophie could enjoy.
oh shush. it makes me feel better when I'm sad.
Alex, you're not alone in your love of Moonraker. I enjoy watching it too, even when my buddies and family turn up their noses.
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Yeah, I am talking about films that are universally panned. They sort of don't fit into that cateogory.
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I think I understand the question now. Who liked the movie Gigli? (F.Y.I. I never saw it)
This one seems to be a popular target for the Fleming purists but I love it; it was the first Bond film I ever saw to this day it remains a lot of fun. Cool gadgets, hot babes, clueless redneck sheriffs, wild stunts, world threatening plot. In short, everything the fundamentalists hate about Bond and everything that drew me into his world in the first place.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Decried by most fans as boring, ST:TMP has some of the best special effects and production design I've ever seen with a look that still seems futuristic today. Of all the Trek movies made, it is also the truest to Gene Roddenberry's ideals of hope and finding non-violent solutions to problems. Any Trek fan who doesn't like this movie really doesn't understand what Trek was originally about.
Your not alone. I love DAF. That film actually was my first Non-Brosnan Bond.
Perhaps these films aren't so much derided as ignored, but I mention them here because I feel they don't get the credit they deserve.