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Re: Top 5 Guilty Pleasure films
« Reply #170 on: September 16, 2009, 11:13:10 AM »
 We need to start a (Kevin Costner memorial) Top 5 bad accents thread just to give this film it's appropriate due  :)
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Re: Top 5 Guilty Pleasure films
« Reply #171 on: September 19, 2009, 04:40:18 PM »
My guilty faves are the LOTR and Pirates of the Caribbean trilogies.

Both are examples of how screenwriters can (and do) go mad with power, but still... I watch 'em... Even though Orlando Bloom has all the onscreen emotional depth of an Irish Setter, I watch 'em...    ;D

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Re: Top 5 Guilty Pleasure films
« Reply #172 on: September 20, 2009, 12:30:44 AM »


Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day, everybody!   :)

Oh yes!  thanks right !

(right now I'm imagining that adorable little bunny in your avatar talking like a pirate)
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Re: Top 5 Guilty Pleasure films
« Reply #173 on: September 20, 2009, 12:53:32 AM »
My guilty faves are the LOTR and Pirates of the Caribbean trilogies.

Both are examples of how screenwriters can (and do) go mad with power, but still... I watch 'em... Even though Orlando Bloom has all the onscreen emotional depth of an Irish Setter, I watch 'em...    ;D

Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day, everybody!   :)

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Re: Top 5 Guilty Pleasure films
« Reply #174 on: September 20, 2009, 12:54:46 AM »


Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day, everybody!   :)

Oh yes!  thanks right !

(right now I'm imagining that adorable little bunny in your avatar talking like a pirate)
Heh!  Yeah, that little thing would make a cute pirate.  A ship filled with cute bunny pirates would probably get away with waaaaay too much before someone stopped them.   

Which reminds me... I think Depp is actually making Pirates 4, isn't he...?   8)
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Re: Top 5 Guilty Pleasure films
« Reply #175 on: September 20, 2009, 01:00:27 AM »
My guilty faves are the LOTR and Pirates of the Caribbean trilogies.

Both are examples of how screenwriters can (and do) go mad with power, but still... I watch 'em... Even though Orlando Bloom has all the onscreen emotional depth of an Irish Setter, I watch 'em...    ;D

Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day, everybody!   :)

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I don't!  That's why I'm here.  Trying to figure out movie stuff.  Before I kill again.  Er, no, not exactly, but I wonder sometimes:  Why??!!!  Why, why, why?  Why did they do that to Return of the King???  Why??  And I get mad.  They gave it an Oscar, didn't they?  IIRC?  I don't understand why the writers did all that.... And then I have to snap out of it.  Ahem.  Sorry.  Which do you like? 
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Re: Top 5 Guilty Pleasure films
« Reply #176 on: September 20, 2009, 08:17:22 AM »
My guilty faves are the LOTR and Pirates of the Caribbean trilogies.

Both are examples of how screenwriters can (and do) go mad with power, but still... I watch 'em... Even though Orlando Bloom has all the onscreen emotional depth of an Irish Setter, I watch 'em...    ;D

Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day, everybody!   :)

Feel no guilt about 4/6ths of those films. You know the ones.
I don't!  That's why I'm here.  Trying to figure out movie stuff.  Before I kill again.  Er, no, not exactly, but I wonder sometimes:  Why??!!!  Why, why, why?  Why did they do that to Return of the King???  Why??  And I get mad.  They gave it an Oscar, didn't they?  IIRC?  I don't understand why the writers did all that.... And then I have to snap out of it.  Ahem.  Sorry.  Which do you like? 

I assumed Junior was saying the good films were LOTR 1-3 and Pirates 1...but I could be wrong.

What was your issue with ROTK? What's IIRC?

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Re: Top 5 Guilty Pleasure films
« Reply #177 on: September 20, 2009, 09:21:22 AM »
I'm going to assume IIRC means if I remember correctly.

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Re: Top 5 Guilty Pleasure films
« Reply #178 on: September 20, 2009, 11:43:04 AM »
Well, I am not embarassed by ANY movie I like :D

So here I go... not feelin' guilty at all...


OVER THE TOP (1987, Menahem Golan) - I LOVE it. I know that this isn't a good movie but it has so many things working for me... there's Sly doin what he's doin best: his famous sneer... even in slo mo :) and then there's a killer soundtrack... ranging from epic songs about the glory of America to cheesy pop-kitsch to Giorgio Moroders synthiemusic making the arm wrestling montages even more enjoyable. And then there's Sammy Hagar. The winner takes it all. Yes. I listen to it when I wanna feel like a winner. It helps and if you start the day with THAT song, it simply has to be a good one.  8)

ALLIGATOR/ PIRANHA (1980, James Teague/ 1978, Joe Dante) - Forget JAWS. JAWS maybe a better movie but I've had lot more fun with these two. And also I love Scheider he cannot compete with Robert Forsters or Bradford Dillmans troubles characters. They add some quality to the films which almost makes them A-movies.

8MM (1999, Joel Schumacher) - Considered a terrible movie by many many people but when I saw it in a theatre it blew me away. This dark atmosphere grabbed my by the balls and didn't let go. You may condemn the movie for being not really subtle about the fetish community and especially for Nic Cages sometimes horrible performance but I still enjoy it for what it is: a dark thriller exploring a milieu which has not been revisited that often in movie history and even managed to be not an exploitation flick like those wannabe-snuff-themed flicks comin from the 70s. This is mostly because it is beautifully shot and feels like an a-product throughout.

WOMEN IN CELLBLOCK 9 (1977, Jess Franco) - A movie so bad it turns to be good again: it features a couple of very hot "actresses" including the beloved French pornstar Karine Gambier trying to escape prison and not wearing ANYTHING almost throughout the whole movie. It's a nasty movie definitely not one you can really defend but well... it's fun though if you're into that stuff and Franco has certainly done worse.

NEW YORK MINUTE (2004, Dennie Gordon) - The Olsen Twins do Ferris Bueller. No, no, not THAT way. They actually try to go by the same formula and it works. A bit. Anyway: the Olsens are nice to look at and if you are not liking them (which I REALLY can understand  ;D ): DO NOT watch this  8)

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Re: Top 5 Guilty Pleasure films
« Reply #179 on: September 20, 2009, 12:20:34 PM »
I assumed Junior was saying the good films were LOTR 1-3 and Pirates 1...but I could be wrong.

What was your issue with ROTK? What's IIRC?
Yeah, I shoulda been more clear... It was late... 
IIRC = if I recall correctly. 

I don't always understand exactly what makes one movie good, another bad, and another one ugly.  That's a big part of why I started listening to Filmspotting. 

I have several issues with ROTK.  Here are a few:  The opening scene was indulgent and misplaced.  Sam never would have left Frodo.  When the gates of Gondor are broken, there were only trolls.  Eowyn vs. The Witch King?  That scene was profaned, never mind the hatchet editing job.  And The Dead kinda "cleaning it all up" on Pelennor, etc... Bleh. 

On the whole, though, I still really like the movie.  I know that it can't be the book. 
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