Originally Posted by listopencil:
As I recall the guy who made the movie said that he read a few pages, got bored with it, and then made a movie that had nothing to do with the book. I'm a huge Heinlein fan. The guy that made that movie can go fuck himself with a doorknob.
Paul Verhoeven was the director - same guy who did the original Robocop and Total Recall. He generally makes good movies.
Like Discuss Thrower said, had this been separated from the book completely (which wouldn't have been all that difficult), I think people would have loved it. [Reply]
I clicked on this thread solely to offer up Freejack and see it was pretty much first out of the chute. Nice - goddamn that movie is deliciously awful.
Virtuosity is of similar mind and similarly god-awful and rewatchable.
Broken Arrow and Face Off - both just awful movies that I've seen a half dozen times each.
Really, Nicholas Cage's entire catalogue could fall here. I mean lord, Ghostrider and Ghostrider 2 are maybe the most appallingly shitty movies ever made and I sat through both of them laughing at the absurdity. Seriously, did Sam Elliott lose a fucking bet?
Jean Claude Vandamme movies and Arnold movies are in the same vein; solidly entertaining but obviously terrible. Most of Sly's stuff is in the same boat, as are the F&F franchise.
Then there are some movies with such an interesting concept that I have to give them some credit even if said concept just failed. Sucker Punch qualifies, as does Scott Pilgrim. [Reply]
In looking through Nicolas Cage's list of films, he has been in one movie that I absolutely loved (Lord of War), a couple that I've liked (Knowing and Guarding Tess), and one silly ass guilty pleasure movie (the first National Treasure). Of the rest, I've either not seen them or thought they were shit.
Lord of War was phenomenal, though. That's one of my all time favorites, and he's brilliant in it. [Reply]
