Firstly, defences for films I enjoyed:
Rip - Rocky IV: many a giggle to be had. "I must break you!" and Drago's nickname, "Death From Above"! Great stuff. I know Chris_23 agrees with me here.
Everyone just wiping Australian films because they're Australian. Obviously cultural cringe is not dead.
Mr Blonde - you leave my boy Brodders alone. He's alright. Election was a great piece of work too (can't believe I'm agreeing with jod
).
Anyways, as a connoissuer of crap, I'll split my favourite movies into Good Good Films, my very favourites, and Good Bad Films, terribly corny, cliched pieces of rubbish that I enjoyed completely without irony, cos that's the shallow kind of gimp I am.
GOOD GOOD FILMS
Slingblade
The Apostle
Donnie Brasco
The Sixth Sense
Mississippi Burning
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Being John Malkovich
In The Line Of Fire
JFK
The X-Files
Ed Wood
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Patriot Games
The Fugitive
GOOD BAD FILMS
Major League: Dreadful formulaic "losers make good" baseball flick. But the cast made it enjoyable. Charlie Sheen's best ever role, Wesley Snipes excellent, Tom Berenger and Corbin Bersen do their jobs, Bob Uecker is everything Rex Hunt wishes he could be, and the coach (whose name escapes me) is fantastic. The sequels sucked, but the original is excellent trash.
Die Hard: There is only one action hero, and his name is Bruce Willis. As usual, it is the supporting cast that helps to make a film, and Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the slimiest villian of the screen. I especially love his comeback when McClain's wife claims he just a common theif: "I am an exceptional theif!"
The Last Boy Scout: See above. Bruce basically reprises the McClain role, but this time has a buddy in Damon Wayans. Very enjoyable, and again with first class villians.
Con Air: John Malkovich, John Cusack, Steve Buscemi and the chronically underrated Colm Meaney - how could this film not be good?! Even the usually pathetic Nicholas Cage puts in a good performance. Trash at its very best.
Galaxy Quest: Good fun. More Alan Rickman, not surprisingly.
Lock Up: The Sly Stallone prison flick with Donald Sutherland. So what if everyone else hated it. I loved it!
OTHERS
High Fidelity: After the debacle of Fever Pitch and the transplant from North London to Chicago, I was expecting the worst. Despite a poor cop out of Rob not knocking back Laura on the basis of not having a condom in the car (which I thought was a key re-gaining of "hand" in the book), the performances of John Cusack and Jack Black, and the dark humour of the book was maintained. The extra screenplay material even fitted in nicely. Also, Laura was a spunk.
Life Of Brian: I could watch it continuously.
FILMS I LOATHED
My Best Friend's Wedding: Here's my question: This self-centred, vain, cruel, manipulative bitch that Julia Roberts played, this was the character we were supposed to care about? Utter crap.
Chasing Amy: Yeah, I'm a lesbian, but I'll sleep with a bloke because the American audiences need a happy ending. Cop out.
Breakdown: How did a potentially gripping mystery and drama turn into a crappy, predictable action film? It's like watching two completely different films.
Mr Bean: Any danger of actually putting in a new gag?
Star Wars: Boring!
Anything that has its plot development centred around big and bigger explosions.
Anything, ANYTHING, with Demi Moore in it.
Clear And Present Danger: As good as Patriot Games was, this was bad.
Rip - Rocky IV: many a giggle to be had. "I must break you!" and Drago's nickname, "Death From Above"! Great stuff. I know Chris_23 agrees with me here.
Everyone just wiping Australian films because they're Australian. Obviously cultural cringe is not dead.
Mr Blonde - you leave my boy Brodders alone. He's alright. Election was a great piece of work too (can't believe I'm agreeing with jod
).Anyways, as a connoissuer of crap, I'll split my favourite movies into Good Good Films, my very favourites, and Good Bad Films, terribly corny, cliched pieces of rubbish that I enjoyed completely without irony, cos that's the shallow kind of gimp I am.
GOOD GOOD FILMS
Slingblade
The Apostle
Donnie Brasco
The Sixth Sense
Mississippi Burning
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Being John Malkovich
In The Line Of Fire
JFK
The X-Files
Ed Wood
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Patriot Games
The Fugitive
GOOD BAD FILMS
Major League: Dreadful formulaic "losers make good" baseball flick. But the cast made it enjoyable. Charlie Sheen's best ever role, Wesley Snipes excellent, Tom Berenger and Corbin Bersen do their jobs, Bob Uecker is everything Rex Hunt wishes he could be, and the coach (whose name escapes me) is fantastic. The sequels sucked, but the original is excellent trash.
Die Hard: There is only one action hero, and his name is Bruce Willis. As usual, it is the supporting cast that helps to make a film, and Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the slimiest villian of the screen. I especially love his comeback when McClain's wife claims he just a common theif: "I am an exceptional theif!"
The Last Boy Scout: See above. Bruce basically reprises the McClain role, but this time has a buddy in Damon Wayans. Very enjoyable, and again with first class villians.
Con Air: John Malkovich, John Cusack, Steve Buscemi and the chronically underrated Colm Meaney - how could this film not be good?! Even the usually pathetic Nicholas Cage puts in a good performance. Trash at its very best.
Galaxy Quest: Good fun. More Alan Rickman, not surprisingly.
Lock Up: The Sly Stallone prison flick with Donald Sutherland. So what if everyone else hated it. I loved it!
OTHERS
High Fidelity: After the debacle of Fever Pitch and the transplant from North London to Chicago, I was expecting the worst. Despite a poor cop out of Rob not knocking back Laura on the basis of not having a condom in the car (which I thought was a key re-gaining of "hand" in the book), the performances of John Cusack and Jack Black, and the dark humour of the book was maintained. The extra screenplay material even fitted in nicely. Also, Laura was a spunk.
Life Of Brian: I could watch it continuously.
FILMS I LOATHED
My Best Friend's Wedding: Here's my question: This self-centred, vain, cruel, manipulative bitch that Julia Roberts played, this was the character we were supposed to care about? Utter crap.
Chasing Amy: Yeah, I'm a lesbian, but I'll sleep with a bloke because the American audiences need a happy ending. Cop out.
Breakdown: How did a potentially gripping mystery and drama turn into a crappy, predictable action film? It's like watching two completely different films.
Mr Bean: Any danger of actually putting in a new gag?
Star Wars: Boring!
Anything that has its plot development centred around big and bigger explosions.
Anything, ANYTHING, with Demi Moore in it.
Clear And Present Danger: As good as Patriot Games was, this was bad.
