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I'm just going to assume DragonHeart didn't age well. I don't want to confirm it. I'm kind of afraid to.
It's not that I hold the movie in ultra-high regard, perse, but it did have a big impact on my creative pursuits as a kid... It inspired me more than I care to admit.
It's not that I hold the movie in ultra-high regard, perse, but it did have a big impact on my creative pursuits as a kid... It inspired me more than I care to admit.
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Ultraviolet, which I liked as a dumb teen. From the director of Equilibrium.
The biggest issue is that the director, Kurt Wimmer, doesn't believe the hero should ever be shown in danger because he thinks there's no point because we all know they're going to win. This means that there's no tension in the action scenes. Now, this isn't as much of a problem in Equilibrium because Christian Bale is a much better actor than Milla Jovovich, but also because his character is going through an arc of discovering his emotions and there's more focus on that.
Ultraviolet is mostly about the fight scenes, but at no point is anyone ever shown to even have a chance against Milla's character of Violet. Now this could make sense because she's a powerful vampire fighting human mooks, but there's a scene where she has to fight a dozen vampires who point out they're just as strong and fast as she is... and she kills them all simultaneously with one sword swing. It stops being fun and just becomes boring, especially because Milla cannot fucking act and this movie really highlights it. She's also going through a "Rediscovering her humanity" arc but she never really sells it the way Bale did.
Now I know why he didn't direct anything for 14 years.
The biggest issue is that the director, Kurt Wimmer, doesn't believe the hero should ever be shown in danger because he thinks there's no point because we all know they're going to win. This means that there's no tension in the action scenes. Now, this isn't as much of a problem in Equilibrium because Christian Bale is a much better actor than Milla Jovovich, but also because his character is going through an arc of discovering his emotions and there's more focus on that.
Ultraviolet is mostly about the fight scenes, but at no point is anyone ever shown to even have a chance against Milla's character of Violet. Now this could make sense because she's a powerful vampire fighting human mooks, but there's a scene where she has to fight a dozen vampires who point out they're just as strong and fast as she is... and she kills them all simultaneously with one sword swing. It stops being fun and just becomes boring, especially because Milla cannot fucking act and this movie really highlights it. She's also going through a "Rediscovering her humanity" arc but she never really sells it the way Bale did.
Now I know why he didn't direct anything for 14 years.
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It's surprising how much cultural impact that little movie had. Off the top of my head, Dragon's Dogma and Drakengard both clearly draw inspiration from the film.
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I don't remember it being a bad film. It was Citizen Kane when compared to Eragon....
One movie that I don't think holds up is Willow. It had some good for the time effects and a likeable protagonist, but the movie never quite gelled for me. And the baby seemed like more of a mcguffin in this movie than the One Ring seemed in LOTR.
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Oh good god, I remember this, I'm pretty sure I even still have the DVD. Looking at the clip now I feel like I have to rewatch this to shit on my childhood, because god damn it's bad. Mila has the exact same face the whole time lmao
This fucking movie along with the Catwoman movie with Halle Berry defined my entire chuuni phase. 12-year-old me was completely convinced that it's perfectly viable to fight people and do stuff in high heels and the only reason I'm failing is because I'm too weak. God bless my poor mother who had to relentlessly try to convince me that IRL leather outfits and exposed belly are only for hookers.
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Indian in the Cupboard. Aged poorly doesn't mean it's bad. I think I just had a lot more patience as a kid or something because it can drag in places.
It is the only movie you'll see Darth Vader fighting a T-rex while Robocop shoots a laser gun though.
It is the only movie you'll see Darth Vader fighting a T-rex while Robocop shoots a laser gun though.
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Inception. Memento grew on me, Inception the reverse.
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Marley and Me or just films that celebrate journalism as an infallible good.
I don't think it's enough to make the film bad but it's enough to leave a different taste in my mouth then when it did in 2008.
I don't know John Grogan, maybe he's a good guy? The parts where he's trying to be a father for his family is the best part of the film.
Also knowing what happens to the dog at the end of the film on another viewing greatly reduces any emotional effect it would have.
I don't think it's enough to make the film bad but it's enough to leave a different taste in my mouth then when it did in 2008.
I don't know John Grogan, maybe he's a good guy? The parts where he's trying to be a father for his family is the best part of the film.
Also knowing what happens to the dog at the end of the film on another viewing greatly reduces any emotional effect it would have.
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Well, I've never thought that this day will come, but for me it's "Fight Club", although not because this movie has bad visuals or something, quite the opposite, it's aesthetics kept growing on me over the years. What changed, however, was the fact that back in the day I missed the point entirely.
If somehow you spent the last two decades under a rock or just discovered the wonders of the internet, here is the main spoiler - Tyler Durden is actually a split personality of the protagonist. And if you look at it this way, the movie holds up perfectly, I mean, weak modern men, consumerism, generation without a goal, dangers of "fighting the system", all those problems have become even more prevalent since the movie release, if not for one little detail, which I am gonna need to hide under an even bigger spoiler:
With all that, it loses it's spirit and philosophy for me, it's just a story about a deranged man and his deranged worldview. And I can't just walk back and pretend that it means exactly what it meant before.
If somehow you spent the last two decades under a rock or just discovered the wonders of the internet, here is the main spoiler - Tyler Durden is actually a split personality of the protagonist. And if you look at it this way, the movie holds up perfectly, I mean, weak modern men, consumerism, generation without a goal, dangers of "fighting the system", all those problems have become even more prevalent since the movie release, if not for one little detail, which I am gonna need to hide under an even bigger spoiler:
Marla isn't real either. And all members of the Fight Club. He didn't blow up a thing, he didn't have an army across US and nearly all the events of the movie and the book are just his schizo delusions.
I denied this interpretation at first, but if you read the book and it's follow-up, it becomes clear - the protagonist was even more insane and none of this happened.
"But what does it change, still a good story" you can say, but I can't agree with this. To me it was a story about one lost man finding other lost men and giving them goal, albeit a misguided one. The story of a man, who went from crying over his shitty existence to dealing with it and transcending. Or you could look at it as a warning about the danger of cults.
Now there was no lost men, no club, no Project Mayhem, it's just a story about a schizo, who jerked-off while imagining two fake people fucking in his head until he tried to shoot one of them out of there. And what's sadder, if you describe it this way, it sounds exactly like anything Chuck Polanik has ever written, which just adds to this interpretation being correct.
I denied this interpretation at first, but if you read the book and it's follow-up, it becomes clear - the protagonist was even more insane and none of this happened.
"But what does it change, still a good story" you can say, but I can't agree with this. To me it was a story about one lost man finding other lost men and giving them goal, albeit a misguided one. The story of a man, who went from crying over his shitty existence to dealing with it and transcending. Or you could look at it as a warning about the danger of cults.
Now there was no lost men, no club, no Project Mayhem, it's just a story about a schizo, who jerked-off while imagining two fake people fucking in his head until he tried to shoot one of them out of there. And what's sadder, if you describe it this way, it sounds exactly like anything Chuck Polanik has ever written, which just adds to this interpretation being correct.
With all that, it loses it's spirit and philosophy for me, it's just a story about a deranged man and his deranged worldview. And I can't just walk back and pretend that it means exactly what it meant before.
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Early 2000s comedies like Dude where is my car? and the og Scary movie
I remember watching that shit over and over with friends and we all thought it was funny as shit
Not anymore
I remember watching that shit over and over with friends and we all thought it was funny as shit
Not anymore
This nigga can see the future
So you like scaly furry shit?
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I watched it recently and it held up pretty well,
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It also had very little to do with the book series. (Tho not surprising as it's a movie adaptation) I think the best part in the movie (which I think was in the book but I don't remember) is when he brings the army man to life to patch up the cowboy, and he's a British medic from WW1.
Also, the little boy in the movie looked like a girl.
I think Batman 89' is the best Batman movie ever made. I liked it much more than the overly serious, Christian Bale Batman's with the edgy Joker, and with Batman's stupid, growly voice. It took itself way too seriously, which is stupid IMO because it's still basically a children's movie about men in wacky costumes.
I felt that Batman 89' walked that fine line between goofy and sorta serious perfectly. And Jack Nicholson's Joker is the best. Michael Keaton is also such a great actor, he played the Batman/Bruce Wayne roles excellently. Way more subdued and likable than dumb, overacting Christian Bale.
That dumb, nigger movie was ALWAYS terrible. The Italina pizzeria owner and the older Italian brother were right. It should have ended with the old Italian blowing Mookie's stupid head off. Nigger's man, they never change. At the end, Mookie's like "Oh you shouldn't be that upset, you have insurance." That could've been filmed last week it's so dumb and ignorant.
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When I was 12 I loved the comedy film Dragnet that we'd taped off the TV. I thought it was one of the funniest things in existence, the goat dance recreation in the boss' office in particular. It's Dan Aykroyd when he was still funny, and Tom Hanks when he still did comedy, as mis-matched police partners blundering through a slapstick plot that I considered some sort of work of carefully constructed genius back then. I totally got the difference between the stoic voice over and what was being depicted at odds to it on screen, and hadn't seen enough films to spot the somewhat obvious twist as to who the bad guy was. I must have rewatched this film ten or more times I liked it so much.
Rewatching it as an adult, it is the most pornographic PG film I think in existence. I'm not prudish or easily shocked by anything these days, but fucking Hell, Dragnet is blue. That aspect of it totally went over my young head, and yet it forms the core of the film! I still enjoyed the goat dance recreation, but much of the other jokes are utterly repetitive to the point of tedium, especially "the virgin, Connie Swail" line. What I thought was a clever, tight plot turns out to be meandering nonsense with entirely unearned beats at several key points.
Just goes to show some kids' heads are full of sawdust, really...
I disagree somewhat about Labyrinth, the only major element that changed for me was that I now want to kill Sir Diddymus. As an adult I picked up on the dark grooming aspect which came as a surprise, not only that it was present so prominently, but how confidently the film handled it, and it totally changes the end stand off scene and exactly what triumph Sarah achieved. I finally understood what the Fire Gang represent and the lyrics to Chilly Down make sense now, and that fucking scene where Sarah thinks she's home only to open the door and see the bag lady again is still beat-perfectly timed to catch you off-guard on par with the blood test scene in The Thing. Those kiddy horror elements for children who haven't seen a horror film before all still work. The bag ladies themselves representing Jareth's discarded lovers once in Sarah's position isn't obvious as a child viewer, nor is how very clever the ballroom dance sequence is at communicating she's completely out of her league around adults. That mysterious thing they do with the hand mirrors is perfect. And I still hated that little shit of a worm right at the start who sends her the wrong way despite his benign motivations. I think it's a timeless film, endless new generations of kids will enjoy it for the first time, and I was going to add "it's remake-proof, thank God" but then I remembered what happened with The Dark Crystal...
Someone uploaded Bowie's original demo version of Chilly Down before the production encountered copyright issues calling the Fire Gang the Wild Things:
Rewatching it as an adult, it is the most pornographic PG film I think in existence. I'm not prudish or easily shocked by anything these days, but fucking Hell, Dragnet is blue. That aspect of it totally went over my young head, and yet it forms the core of the film! I still enjoyed the goat dance recreation, but much of the other jokes are utterly repetitive to the point of tedium, especially "the virgin, Connie Swail" line. What I thought was a clever, tight plot turns out to be meandering nonsense with entirely unearned beats at several key points.
Just goes to show some kids' heads are full of sawdust, really...
I disagree somewhat about Labyrinth, the only major element that changed for me was that I now want to kill Sir Diddymus. As an adult I picked up on the dark grooming aspect which came as a surprise, not only that it was present so prominently, but how confidently the film handled it, and it totally changes the end stand off scene and exactly what triumph Sarah achieved. I finally understood what the Fire Gang represent and the lyrics to Chilly Down make sense now, and that fucking scene where Sarah thinks she's home only to open the door and see the bag lady again is still beat-perfectly timed to catch you off-guard on par with the blood test scene in The Thing. Those kiddy horror elements for children who haven't seen a horror film before all still work. The bag ladies themselves representing Jareth's discarded lovers once in Sarah's position isn't obvious as a child viewer, nor is how very clever the ballroom dance sequence is at communicating she's completely out of her league around adults. That mysterious thing they do with the hand mirrors is perfect. And I still hated that little shit of a worm right at the start who sends her the wrong way despite his benign motivations. I think it's a timeless film, endless new generations of kids will enjoy it for the first time, and I was going to add "it's remake-proof, thank God" but then I remembered what happened with The Dark Crystal...
Someone uploaded Bowie's original demo version of Chilly Down before the production encountered copyright issues calling the Fire Gang the Wild Things:
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Sounds like basically any superhero movie.
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Shark Tale- dated animation, bad color palette, the characters forget that they’re fish, Godfather rip-off, pop culture references everywhere.
Happy Feet- dated animation, heavily influenced by Finding Nemo.
Beverly Hills Chihuahua- saccharine, creepy CGI, bad puns, predictable storyline, cashing in on the Chihuahua obsession in the 2000’s.
Happy Feet- dated animation, heavily influenced by Finding Nemo.
Beverly Hills Chihuahua- saccharine, creepy CGI, bad puns, predictable storyline, cashing in on the Chihuahua obsession in the 2000’s.
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The highway chase in Reloaded was pretty cool, especially with the way they filmed it and were actually using real cars. If something like that had been done today, it would've been all CG and a mess. The rest of the movie though? Eh. It has its moments, but there's just too much going on at once.
The first Matrix works as a stand alone film, and the way that it ends (no teaser bait, just a good, solid ending).
As others have pointed out, early 2000s comedies don't really work today. Especially Kevin Smith's work. Specifically Dogma and the first Clerks movie. I didn't realize how much of a whiney prick Dante actually was during it, and Randal is a retarded manchild. Holy shit, I can't believe I ever liked him.
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No. It uses Xmas a backdrop in scenes but isn't about the holiday at all. Die Hard is about a guy trying to get his family together for the holidays. Just because there are guns doesn't change what it is.
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I only watched it twice, when it first came out and when I had to write a paper on the book version for school. I never liked it. I watched it initially b/c a bunch of ppl I went to school with were saying it was one of their favorite movies of all time. I know ppl like a lot of dumb shit, but since so many different ppl were praising it, I thought it might at least be somewhat entertaining. But no, I didn't care for it at all. I really like Norton and Brad Pitt too, but that movie did nothing for me. The book didn't stand out either, imo.
Another series that has zero appeal to me. I know everyone appreciates the first movie and think the other two are awful, and yes, the first one was more entertaining tho it wasn't all that great either. I might've had a slightly higher opinion of the first film had it not gotten so much undeserved (imo) praise back in the day.
Of all his movies that i've seen (mallrats, clerks 2, dogma, chasing amy) the first clerks is the only one that I halfway enjoyed. It's not anything special. Nothing about it really sets it apart from a 100 other independent comedies of that period, but for a low budget, independent movie that a younger guy made as a first effort, it had a handful of funny lines. Once again, it's one of those "cult" movies that certain nerds back then would hype, so you might go in expecting something much funnier.