Thread: What movies get a pass from you?

Here's a couple, one I watched last night, and another that I was reminded of..........

Space Cowboys ~ 4 of my favourite actors, Eastwood, Sutherland, Garner & Tommy Lee Jones just hamming it up deliciously

Flash ~ Big budget Dino De Laurentis movie that is carried by the exuberant Brian Blessed & sinister Max von Sydow, along with a thumping Queen soundtrack.............completely OTT, more camp than Boy George, Elton John & the Scissor Sister's combined..............fantastic

Ok I have some more, too:

Legend (with Tom Cruise and that cool Demon)
Gremlins 2
One Crazy Summer
Better Off Dead
Fletch Lives
Spies Like Us
Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo
Weekend at Bernies
Commando

Originally Posted by sneakers

The animated Transformers movie (1986)...my favorite movie as a kid.

This movie is too well respected, and overall structured better than the live action joint. The part where Megatron becomes Galvatron is one of my favorite moments in animated movie history, third only to when Unicron transformed into a big ass robot and when Optimus destroys the Decepticons with "You Got The Touch" in the background.

Originally Posted by BigDaddyBronco

How about old Godzilla movies...

I love those.

Even though it looked like a man in a rubber suit destroying a Lego set, they were the shiz. Godzilla's Revenge is my alltime favorite even though it is probably the least popular. And those twins singing to Mothra. That's my shower song.


Other guilty pleasures:
- Bedazzled
- Take The Money And Run - probably Woody Allen's least known flick but DAMN funny!
- Foul Play - This is actually a very good movie and probably shouldn't be on the list.
- 70s and early 80s porn.
- Explorers
- Wildcats
- Airplane 2 - I don't care if the jokes are recycled.
- All the Abbott & Costello flicks, but a special mention to "Time Of Their Lives" the only one where they didn't have dialog with each other. But it was actually one of their best, to me at least.

And I don't know if they did this outside of New York, but every Saturday at 3:00 in the early 80s they ran back to back Kung Fu flicks. And that ya ya ya ya theme song rocked!!

Originally Posted by MasterShake

Ok I have some more, too:

Legend (with Tom Cruise and that cool Demon)
Gremlins 2
One Crazy Summer
Better Off Dead
Fletch Lives
Spies Like Us
Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo
Weekend at Bernies
Commando

Better off Dead? That movie was great! A classic.

Originally Posted by NightTrainLayne

Better off Dead? That movie was great! A classic.

Yes, but hardly Oscar caliber....

Originally Posted by MasterShake

Pretty in Pink

Originally Posted by slim

Did you know we got here now?

Originally Posted by frauschieze

Did you know we got here now?

Yeah, I keep forgetting about that.

Originally Posted by slim

Actually, any of the Brat Pack movies make my list.

Anything with Chris Farley in it.

I watched Tommy Boy the other day (is it just me or is that movie on every weekend?).

Army of Darkness
The Crow
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Say Anything
Flash Gordon
Dead Again

Originally Posted by Bizzarro

Army of Darkness
The Crow
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Say Anything
Flash Gordon
Dead Again

Say anthing...I like the flick. Good choice.

Star Trek ~ The Motion Picture.

After the success of Star Wars, Paramount decided to take the perspective script to a 2nd TV run of Star Trek, give it a massive budget (I believe in real terms, it's the most expensive film ever), and put it onto the big screen. The result was a tedious monstrosity, that was a 45 minute script stretched out by some admittedly fantastic visuals, and at times it sure felt like it.............

But the thing is, it's like your easy chair, or your favourite slippers, it just feels so 'comfortable', it's like having your mates round

Most of the ones that come to mind off the top of my head are already listed:

The Princess Bride
Neverending Story
Big Trouble in Little China
Harry and the Hendersons
Puppetmaster (all of em)
Species
Mannequin
My Cousin Vinny
Killer Clowns from Outer Space (tres under-rated classic )
Sleepaway camp
Scanners
Screamers (total recycled trash and I love it)
The trifecta of crucified Van Damme in Cyborg, Kickboxer 3 with the kid from Step by Step and badass arrow catching in American Ninja for the win

~G

Edit: Oh, oh, and bonus undead trifecta of My Best Friend is a Vampire, My Boyfriend's Back, and Dead Heat. Total awesomeness, especially Dead Heat - see it back to back with Rowdy Roddy Piper in They Live and find out if your eyes melt from sheer awesomeness.

Oh, and the Reanimator movies, and anything by Troma especially Tromeo and Juliet, and Class of 1999 1 and 2, and the Return of Swamp Thing with Heather Locklear...jeez, there's a lot when I think about em...

I love fine cinema, but if you watched enough 3 am Cinemax, especially back in the 80s and 90s, then you had to grow to love terrifically terrible cinema too.

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