Kinda borrowing an idea from avclub.com with this. Many movies can seem better after you have watched them multiple times but this is the opposite.
What are some movies that you highly regarded around the time you first watched them but upon revisiting them later they just didn't hold up or you might even consider to have drifted over into POS territory? [Reply]
The Perfect Storm comes to mind. When I first saw it, I thought all the things that happened on the doomed boat were based on radio messages or a journal they plucked from wreckage or something like that, but apparently they just made it all up. Had it been about a fictional boat and a fictional crew, that would have been fine, but they took some serious liberties, and the more I thought about it, the more classless and disrespectful it seemed.
Great special effects - having been in a few nasty ocean storms, it takes a lot to impress me - but I doubt if I'll ever watch it again. [Reply]
What?! Come on, that's the awesomest of the awesome 80s "America, F&^K YEAH!" movies!
It's highly quotable, utterly ridiculous and campy, and Arnold weilds an M-60 machine gun with magical ammo belts: one scene, half a belt, same scene but different cut where he turns to blast more bad guys with piss-poor aims, full belt, then another cut, blasting, almost no rounds remaining, cut yet again to three quarters of a belt. Come on man, that shit is magical.
He kills baddies with tool shed items! Chucking radial saw blades like some badass uberninja... plants a pair of hedge trimmers into some other nameless bad guy who was stupid enough to kidnap "Jenny".... that's straight up Chuck Norris!
I think I need to put that movie in my instant watch queue now.... [Reply]
Originally Posted by HC_Chief:
What?! Come on, that's the awesomest of the awesome 80s "America, F&^K YEAH!" movies!
It's highly quotable, utterly ridiculous and campy, and Arnold weilds an M-60 machine gun with magical ammo belts: one scene, half a belt, same scene but different cut where he turns to blast more bad guys with piss-poor aims, full belt, then another cut, blasting, almost no rounds remaining, cut yet again to three quarters of a belt. Come on man, that shit is magical.
He kills baddies with tool shed items! Chucking radial saw blades like some badass uberninja... plants a pair of hedge trimmers into some other nameless bad guy who was stupid enough to kidnap "Jenny".... that's straight up Chuck Norris!
I think I need to put that movie in my instant watch queue now....
I loved it as a kid, not so much now. I mean...how can 30 guys shoot autos at Awnold and not hit him. Yet, he hits them all while not aiming, walking out in the open, and never run out of ammo.:-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by HC_Chief:
What?! Come on, that's the awesomest of the awesome 80s "America, F&^K YEAH!" movies!
It's highly quotable, utterly ridiculous and campy, and Arnold weilds an M-60 machine gun with magical ammo belts: one scene, half a belt, same scene but different cut where he turns to blast more bad guys with piss-poor aims, full belt, then another cut, blasting, almost no rounds remaining, cut yet again to three quarters of a belt. Come on man, that shit is magical.
He kills baddies with tool shed items! Chucking radial saw blades like some badass uberninja... plants a pair of hedge trimmers into some other nameless bad guy who was stupid enough to kidnap "Jenny".... that's straight up Chuck Norris!
I think I need to put that movie in my instant watch queue now....
Commando rules so hard. All of the Hispanic bad guys, if you listen to their Spanish dialogue, they're actually just saying things like "Taco taco, burrito!" to each other. That movie, for the reasons you mentioned and more, is Reagan-era America. [Reply]
I love it when he blows up the barracks and you can see cardboard cutouts of the badguys being destroyed. Its up there with Citizen Kane and Godfather in my book [Reply]
