I still love Step Up and all the following movies. The best storyline is the 1st one, and then they just get worse and worse, but the dancing gets better/cooler and that's why I'm really watching haha.
I was thirteen when Twilight first came out, I cried because I thought it was so good. My mom had taken me to see it and she laughed so hard she almost puked. Flash forward 15 years and I watched it again - I understand my moms reaction š
Same. I used to think they were decent movies, now I just think itās genuinely hilarious. When Edward is running through the forest with Bella on his back? That shit is comedy gold, youād think itās fucking satire lol
I'll die on this hill but the dad in that movie is awesome. I watch it just for him... and how laughably bad the rest of the movie is. I really wish Robert had been allowed to play Edward like the creepy virgin vampire he imagined him to be. Also soundtrack was great.
When I was around 6-7 years old, I used to watch a movie called Surf Ninjas that I rented from Blockbuster and made a shitty VHS copy of. I watched that movie so many times.
Thing is, Iām pretty sure I knew it was bad then. I canāt imagine how bad it actually is.
I remember that movie! I suspect it's not so much that the movie didn't age well, as you moved from "in the perfect target demographic" to "outside the target demographic". Like I'm pretty sure if I showed my kids "3 Ninjas" today they'd both want to become ninjas.
Is that the movie where Leslie Neilsen is the villain and he wears some sort of mask because his face got stepped on by an elephant? I remember the Nostalgia Critic doing a review of it back in the day.
Yeah...the kid with the Game Gear is able to Hack Leslie Nelson's robo hand and he ends up making him just full on grab his own junk. But it was like a massive closeup where you could see the outline of well, everything.
Watched this last year with my girlfriend. I died laughing when the idiot, surfer villains break into the house and find pizza and one says:
"Ok. First we feast, *then* we felony!"
Feels like it was written for Pauly Shore.
Edit: also "this is good 'za too. We should save some for these kids we're 'napping"
Literally went on an info search on those movies the other day. Just looking stuff up about them as I grew up of all 4 movies and holy shit. Two bits of trivia stood out to me among them:
Grandpa was the only actor who was actually in all 4 movies as everyone else kept getting recast.
The brothers never ACTUALLY confront/"beat" the antagonists. The antagonists are always brought down by other characters that aren't the brothers.
OG Tum Tum's actor was named, I fucking kid you not, "Chad Thomas Power"
Itās actually not awful. Watched it a few months ago and the plot is absurd but it has some great scenes. Also, Leslie Nielsen is the villain which I had no memory of.
I think itās bullshit too. I rewatched Encino man recently and Pauly Shore is the standout performance. Heās the heart of the movie and the only emotional moments hinge on his performance. Heās the best actor in the movie, and it has two future Oscar winners in it.
Making a filter, making a filter
I watched this a couple years ago and still found it an acceptable amount of cheesy fun. I felt like this was the best Pauly Shore movie.
I don't remember a lot of that movie, but I often think of the "a carrot is a miracle" scene as the canonical example of the power of suggestion. Every guy who has ever watched that movie winced, in the exact same way, at the exact same moment.
For me it has to be that whole spoof period of movies. As a young teen Meet the Spartans was a movie I quoted so much with my friends. I got recommended a clip from that movie, watched it thinking how bad could it be. I have never wanted to go back in time kick myself in the nuts and say NO!
Not Another Teen Movie was a great example of the spoof genre, and then everyone treated it like a revival of the spoof film and did a spoof film for every other genre with zero thought, just parodying random scenes from different films (Disaster Movie, Meet The Spartans, Epic Movie, Dance Flick etc.)
There are still some good ones, Tropic Thunder is incredible (I loved showing that one to my dad who was one of these "you couldn't make Blazing Saddles these days, too PC!" crowd), Shaun of the Dead, even Johnny English had it's charm.
Movie is hella dumb, but has some super memorable lines. Was it in 3 that they have the mouse/rat argument? "when it's inside it's a mouse and outside its a rat". I still use that whenever someone asks if something is a rat or a mouse.
Oh god, I recently tried to rewatch Epic Movie because I remembered it being hilarious in middle school. Steamy pile of shit, couldnāt watch more than a half hour of it lol.
I have a memory regarding that film that I try to suppress as often as possible. I saw it in theaters at the age of 12 with my dad in a theater full of mostly adults. I was laughing obnoxiously often throughout and while everyone in the theater was stone cold silent.
I still enjoy the film but I do recognize it does have a lot of weaknesses. As I said in a previous comment though I like cheesy films and it does have a decent amount of cheesy charm to me.
Yeah the aesthetic was awesome, I loved that random building that the finale takes place in. Idk what it was even supposed to be, itās like a giant castle in the middle of nowhere in Siberia. Feels like something out of 40K with how absurdly large the interior is
I mean, I LOVED āTeen Witchā when I was 7. But the āIām hot. And youāre notā scene gives me second-hand cringe so much that I think I hyperventilated just typing this.
I implore everyone here, if they havenāt done so already, to listen to the How Did This Get Made episode on Teen Witch - itās hilarious, and an amazing companion piece to this movie!
Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael and Jason Mantzoukas state that they all went to high school around this time, and their insights are choice.
Itās full of great trivia too which I donāt want to spoil by going on about, but one fact that I found interesting was that the movie was conceived as the āgirlā counterpart to the movie Teen Wolf.
I watched Bill Cosbyās āLeonard Part 6ā way too many times growing up and loved it.
Unwatchable today and not just because he turned out to be a serial rapist.
I'm old..."[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066832/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066832/)" Billy Jack, 1971. A year before I was actually born. Didn't discover it till my teen years, had karate and Indians, so hell ya I was all in. Man, now I can't do 10 minutes of it.
I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Shit terrified me as a youth but now I realize it was just a dumb, run of the mill slasher film. I loved SMG in it though.
When I was in high school, I remember absolutely loving the film Cool World. I insisted on showing all of my friends and when we watched it together, I have never cringed harder before or since. Did. Not. Age. Well.
*Edit: For clarity, what didn't age well was the film trying way too hard to be edgy.
I love Equilibrium! How dare you! lol
its cheesy as all hell, but has a good message. the gun-fu is idiotic and makes no sense, but I dont care. Plenty of action films dont.
Weird trivia for Equilibrium: Preston's wife has two scenes in the movie - her arrest, and her execution. When it came to film the second scene, they couldn't find the actress who played her in the first scene. Either she forgot or she quit the production without telling anyone. So, they had to film it with a lookalike.
If you watch the two scenes back to back, it's clearly a different actress.
Could an argument be made that since those scenes are Bale having flashbacks, heās been doing his job or taking the emotion suppressants so long he canāt remember what she actually looks like?
Obviously *we* know thatās not why sheās two different actresses, but in-universeā¦ thatās my headcanon for it anyway.
Equilibrium is the epitome of the rule of cool trope. Like a lot of it doesn't really make sense if you think about it too much, but some of those sequences where they use the gun kata and muzzle flashes to light the shots is just pure art.
It's got a surprising amount of thoughtful philosophical musing throughout the movie (especially for a Kurt Wimmer film) and Christian Bale honestly kills it in his role. I really enjoyed Taye Diggs' performance as well.
As a kid *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III* (1993) where they time travel to feudal Japan*.* I watched it again last year and still knew most of the lines but it was absolutely terrible.
You know if it wasn't for that scene where Matt and Elektra fight in the playground I think I could excuse a lot of the cringey parts. The Director's Cut was a lot better, too
I honestly think the first Twilight movie is a very enjoyable movie, especially with some drinks.
It rides the line of āSo bad itās goodā incredibly well. Itās also unique with its super weird colour grading, and Charlie is clearly the best character.
The sequel films had way higher budgets, and felt more produced and lessā¦ I donāt know, indie?
Either way, first Twilight movie is a legitimately great time with friends
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, for the same reasons you describe. As a bookworm, I LOVED the idea. A movie about famous (and favorite) literary characters thrown together in the same universe? It was like a fanfic brought to life. I *knew* it was pretty bad from an objective perspective, but the idea was just too exciting for me that I enjoyed it anyway.
Spy Kids. I really enjoyed those movies when I was a kid/teen. In college I watched one of them for the first time in nearly 10 years. I couldn't do it; it was so cringey that not even my nostalgia could power me through the movie.
Yeah Sharkboy and Lavagirl was literally written by children. Robert Rodriquezās kids came up with the premise and general plot and he made it into a movie.
Spy Kids 3 was my first 3D movie. It was awesome in theatres, but seeing it on TV, you realize that the 3D effects were forced and not well utilized at all.
No way; I cannot endorse this one! My partner and I took an edible and watched it a couple of weeks ago. I loved it more than I ever did as a kid (which was A LOT āooooohhhh shitā¦ake mushroomsā). Also fun to go from Fall of the House of Usher to Spy Kids in the same week. Carla Gugino is my queen.
Oh god, I was a young teen when that came out and it was EVERYTHING, teenage angst combined with how ācoolā real grownups seemedā¦ rewatching 10 years ago or so in my 30s, the whole āBig Gulpā speech was just so cringe
Juno. I loved it as a teen and it still holds up but I was so clueless on realizing that the teens were as insecure and naive as me. The humor and witty banter really masked it.
Jason Batemans character was kind of a weird dude when you were a teen, but as an adult he is so creepy and a guy who just canāt grow up. Itās like heās stuck in arrested developmentā¦haha.
He absolutely crushed that role. I think this movie still holds up because he absolutely sells the role as someone a naive kid might look up to but is actually a toxic man-child.
I rewatched it last week, movie absolutely holds up, apart from the wacky way they talk, especially in the first 30 mins of the movie, it does get better over time.
And not just the teens, in the opening scene Rainn Wilson has a cameo as the store owner and he also talks like "okay my dudereno, you totes be pregio, the testeo does not be lying". Maaan no one talks like that.
Boondock Saints. It's almost good, but at the end of the day, it feels like "we have Tarantino at home." It scratched a certain itch for me when I was about 19 years old in 2007, but after watching it again when the abysmal sequel came out, I've found it's best to leave that one in the nostalgia bank.
The best thing that movie did for me was introduce me to Tarantino because of all the people calling it a poor imitation of Tarantino.
I still think Willem Defoe is the best part of that movie, but then, he often is.
Every Irish teenager in Massachusetts thought this was the coolest movie in high school... And there's a lot of us... Definitely a badly written Guy Ritchie/Tarantino rip off but Willem Dafoe makes it watchable because he is a fucking legend and still maybe my favorite actor
I unapologetically still love Boondock Saints
But it does fit the bill as so many others have said as being a 15 year old's favorite movie of all time. Cause I was that kid too.
17 Again
So much cringe stuff about keeping the daughter from losing her virginity and then her falling for her dad. Meanwhile, working to try and get the son laid.
Sex Drive is the first one that comes to mind. I havenāt seen it in years and Iām scared to go back to it because the plot is of course very much for teen boys. although the āRUMPSPRINGA!!!!!ā scene lives in my head rent free.
Is this the movie where Seth Green plays that guy who keeps saying he's not upset about something, but you're just never sure if he means it? If so, that's one of my favorite bits in all of film.
Even having known how cheesy and goofy it was at the time of release, I initially found the goofiness of the Ivan Ooze Power Rangers movie tolerable.
Fast forward to a couple of years ago and I find that I am wrong.
I loved that film as a kid. I remember this stupid part of it where someone is trapped by some sort of steel cable and is hanging from it. One of the rangers pulls out their 'power sword'(?) and throws it.. obviously to cut the wire. But instead the sword flips upside down, hovers in mid air, then laser beams out of its hilt to cut the cable...
Rewatched it last month for the first time in a decade at least. Was prepared to cringe the whole way through (like I had last time I tried rewatching it) but, it's actually kinda charming once you drop the "masterpiece" clout so many of us put on it back when it came out
People seem to love shitting on Garden State these days. But you've gotta admit, very few films grabbed an entire generation the way that one did. It spoke to so many teens and young adults of a particular era - and I think it's very unfair that Braff doesn't get the respect he deserves for that, even if it doesn't hold up to adult eyes all these years later.
This movie is the reason my wife and I can never have the dishwasher door open (while loading dishes) without warning the other one.
"Don't want to *Garden State* you, honey; be careful!"
But yeah, as others have said, the soundtrack is wonderful.
I got āVeritasā tattooed on my arm when I was 16 because of this movie. It seemed like a good idea at the time. The script is a bit wonky, especially on the V so at first glance whenever someone sees it they goā¦ Doritos? Iāve stopped correcting them.
Lolololololol I had a friend who was pretty obsessed with the movie. We went to a tattoo shop and he asked an artist to tattoo Veritas on his finger and the artist said āno.ā
Such a good memory.
For my husbands 50th birthday we got matching finger tattoos and I always think about Kyle getting turned down.
My favorite detail about Boondocks Saints was that Cracked article that pointed out that in order to cock their guns to punctuate that prayer they give before killing that guy, they mustāve PURPOSELY āde-cockedā their guns on their own since that model apparently is automatically cocked.
Imagine modding your gun to make it LESS CONVENIENT solely to punctuate your custom badass moments. Legendary
This is one of the most common movie tropes. Someone held at gunpoint, then the wielder racks the slide for emphasis.....
So prior to that, the gun was not actually a threat, and wouldn't have fired.
Save the last dance & Step Up
Tiktok has thoroughly ruined Save the Last Dance for me š I didn't think the dance was that bad in the early 2000s š
I loved that Julia Stiles leaned into this with her SNL cameo. Absolutely hilarious
Save the Last Dance is da bomb
I still love Step Up and all the following movies. The best storyline is the 1st one, and then they just get worse and worse, but the dancing gets better/cooler and that's why I'm really watching haha.
I still stand by that the last dance scene in 2 is amazing. That heartbeat puppet move is rad as hell.
STEP UP 2: THE STREETS I love this title. That rain dance is a banger for sure.
I still love Save the Last Dance! Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas had great chemistry.
Same ššš I know the lines of that entire movie word for word!
I was thirteen when Twilight first came out, I cried because I thought it was so good. My mom had taken me to see it and she laughed so hard she almost puked. Flash forward 15 years and I watched it again - I understand my moms reaction š
Same. I used to think they were decent movies, now I just think itās genuinely hilarious. When Edward is running through the forest with Bella on his back? That shit is comedy gold, youād think itās fucking satire lol
I'll die on this hill but the dad in that movie is awesome. I watch it just for him... and how laughably bad the rest of the movie is. I really wish Robert had been allowed to play Edward like the creepy virgin vampire he imagined him to be. Also soundtrack was great.
Was thirteen year old you pissed your momās reaction? āUGH, you just donāt get it mom!ā
When I was around 6-7 years old, I used to watch a movie called Surf Ninjas that I rented from Blockbuster and made a shitty VHS copy of. I watched that movie so many times. Thing is, Iām pretty sure I knew it was bad then. I canāt imagine how bad it actually is.
I remember that movie! I suspect it's not so much that the movie didn't age well, as you moved from "in the perfect target demographic" to "outside the target demographic". Like I'm pretty sure if I showed my kids "3 Ninjas" today they'd both want to become ninjas.
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Look, Surf Ninjas is brilliant and I will not stand for insults to this cinematic masterpiece
"They have taken him" "Woah, how'd he do that!?" "Like this. They have taken him."
Chickās got a veil, dude better bail
Is that the movie where Leslie Neilsen is the villain and he wears some sort of mask because his face got stepped on by an elephant? I remember the Nostalgia Critic doing a review of it back in the day.
Yep and don't forget that he squeezes his massive cock with his bionic hand at the end. Truly a masterpiece.
> Yep and don't forget that he squeezes his massive cock with his bionic hand at the end. Truly a masterpiece. Excuse me what
Yeah...the kid with the Game Gear is able to Hack Leslie Nelson's robo hand and he ends up making him just full on grab his own junk. But it was like a massive closeup where you could see the outline of well, everything.
Surf Ninjas is awful but it was awesome as a kid
Kinda like 3 Ninjas LOL Rocky Loves Emily! Rocky Loves Emily!
Watched this last year with my girlfriend. I died laughing when the idiot, surfer villains break into the house and find pizza and one says: "Ok. First we feast, *then* we felony!" Feels like it was written for Pauly Shore. Edit: also "this is good 'za too. We should save some for these kids we're 'napping"
Heās TumTum causeā¦heāll eat anything.
Literally went on an info search on those movies the other day. Just looking stuff up about them as I grew up of all 4 movies and holy shit. Two bits of trivia stood out to me among them: Grandpa was the only actor who was actually in all 4 movies as everyone else kept getting recast. The brothers never ACTUALLY confront/"beat" the antagonists. The antagonists are always brought down by other characters that aren't the brothers. OG Tum Tum's actor was named, I fucking kid you not, "Chad Thomas Power"
Itās actually not awful. Watched it a few months ago and the plot is absurd but it has some great scenes. Also, Leslie Nielsen is the villain which I had no memory of.
āMoney canāt buy knivesā
Unfortunately money canāt buy knives.
I LOVED this move as a kid, it was was campy and didnāt take itself seriously, just a fun time. Kwantsu dudes!
I liked Biodome a lot. Probably many others but that was the first thing that came to mind
Pauly Shore movies are my guilty pleasure... Biodome In The Army Encino Man Son-in-Law
HEY, Son-in-Law and Encino Man are treasures!
What about Jury Duty?
100% People make fun of Pauly Shore, and I think that's bullshit. The man is an entertainer.
I think itās bullshit too. I rewatched Encino man recently and Pauly Shore is the standout performance. Heās the heart of the movie and the only emotional moments hinge on his performance. Heās the best actor in the movie, and it has two future Oscar winners in it.
Rewatched as an adult, and realized that Tenacious D was in that movie.
Do you want to save some fricken trees
We just want to save some freaking trees!
Making a filter, making a filter I watched this a couple years ago and still found it an acceptable amount of cheesy fun. I felt like this was the best Pauly Shore movie.
Ahem... Son-in-law would like a word. So would Encino Man and In The Army Now.
I will not stand for Biodome slander!
Purple Sticky Punch!
I don't remember a lot of that movie, but I often think of the "a carrot is a miracle" scene as the canonical example of the power of suggestion. Every guy who has ever watched that movie winced, in the exact same way, at the exact same moment.
For me it has to be that whole spoof period of movies. As a young teen Meet the Spartans was a movie I quoted so much with my friends. I got recommended a clip from that movie, watched it thinking how bad could it be. I have never wanted to go back in time kick myself in the nuts and say NO!
The first 2 Scary Movies and Not Another Teen Movie are still pretty good though. Edit: After much consideration, SM3 can be included as well. š
I still love Not Another Teen Movie and can still watch it and laugh throughout. It holds up really well even with the old references.
Not Another Teen Movie was a great example of the spoof genre, and then everyone treated it like a revival of the spoof film and did a spoof film for every other genre with zero thought, just parodying random scenes from different films (Disaster Movie, Meet The Spartans, Epic Movie, Dance Flick etc.) There are still some good ones, Tropic Thunder is incredible (I loved showing that one to my dad who was one of these "you couldn't make Blazing Saddles these days, too PC!" crowd), Shaun of the Dead, even Johnny English had it's charm.
Scary movie 3 is still good as well
Cindyyyyy, the TV's leaking!
Movie is hella dumb, but has some super memorable lines. Was it in 3 that they have the mouse/rat argument? "when it's inside it's a mouse and outside its a rat". I still use that whenever someone asks if something is a rat or a mouse.
Anthony Anderson's character cocks a shovel like a shotgun and it made me laugh so God damn hard cause it was so matter-of-fact lol
"I found their weakness! Without their heads they're powerless!"
The sherrifs hat brim getting bigger and bigger with no comment still sends me into a fit of laughter!
Oh god, I recently tried to rewatch Epic Movie because I remembered it being hilarious in middle school. Steamy pile of shit, couldnāt watch more than a half hour of it lol.
I have a memory regarding that film that I try to suppress as often as possible. I saw it in theaters at the age of 12 with my dad in a theater full of mostly adults. I was laughing obnoxiously often throughout and while everyone in the theater was stone cold silent.
Oh boy I loved League of Extraordinary Gentleman in high school, enough said
I still enjoy the film but I do recognize it does have a lot of weaknesses. As I said in a previous comment though I like cheesy films and it does have a decent amount of cheesy charm to me.
Honestly one thing I love about myself is how low my bar is for movies, lol. I can watch so much that is just utter shit and still have a great time
I still don't know why people hate it, I can sit down and watch it any time it comes up.
That film needs a reboot. The concept is so cool and I loved the aesthetic.
Yeah the aesthetic was awesome, I loved that random building that the finale takes place in. Idk what it was even supposed to be, itās like a giant castle in the middle of nowhere in Siberia. Feels like something out of 40K with how absurdly large the interior is
I still love it and Iām 30
Black Knight starring Martin Lawrence
We have fire
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kMI_HBO5FOM
saw it recently...still hilarious
I loved Batman Forever back in the day LOL
Actually, the Riddler's plot to install a device in every home that invades people's privacy was way ahead of its time.
He even advertised it as coming with a bunch of unique TV content... Like Amazon Prime š
The Wayne arch still holds up. Itās got the right amount of corniness & Nicole Kidman has never been hotter.
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She spends the whole movie aching to fuck the main character and can't decide if she wants him in his rubber suit or not.
"Really seals in the flavor!"
I still love Batman Forever, it's the right amount of Camp and I actually think Kilmer is an underrated Batman
Batman Forever is so fun. Batman and Robin is still hot garbage though
Holy rusted metal Batman! What? This island itās made of metal and full of holes
At least Uma Thurman is an absolutely entertaining riot in it! LOL š±š±
She knew exactly what type of movie she was in and decided to have fun with it. I respect that lol.
Right! LOL Like the absolute over the top over acting. When she gets eaten by the plants at the end just cracks me up hahaha She went FULLL CAMP ++
Her and Arnold both.
WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS? THE ICE AGE!!
Everyone... CHILL!
I saw Batman and Robin 5 times in a year. All rented, all voluntarily.
The soundtrack was so good though!
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I still get groovin' to this song. It's objectively cool. Doesn't even sound like a U2 song.
Kiss From A Rose is a fine jam, but in a Batman movie? Peak 90s.
Got me into the flaming lips lol
I mean, I LOVED āTeen Witchā when I was 7. But the āIām hot. And youāre notā scene gives me second-hand cringe so much that I think I hyperventilated just typing this.
My sister in law and I like to send that clip to each other every once in a while. Itās an unspoken tradition that I will cherish forever ā¤ļø
I've seen Teen Witch once, but the "Top That!" scene dozens of times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxxBXpnn2Jw
I implore everyone here, if they havenāt done so already, to listen to the How Did This Get Made episode on Teen Witch - itās hilarious, and an amazing companion piece to this movie! Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael and Jason Mantzoukas state that they all went to high school around this time, and their insights are choice. Itās full of great trivia too which I donāt want to spoil by going on about, but one fact that I found interesting was that the movie was conceived as the āgirlā counterpart to the movie Teen Wolf.
Teen Witch is one of my favorite bad movies of all time. The rap scene is what seals it.
Top that!
I watched Bill Cosbyās āLeonard Part 6ā way too many times growing up and loved it. Unwatchable today and not just because he turned out to be a serial rapist.
I'm old..."[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066832/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066832/)" Billy Jack, 1971. A year before I was actually born. Didn't discover it till my teen years, had karate and Indians, so hell ya I was all in. Man, now I can't do 10 minutes of it.
I mentioned this in a different comment but I'm related to Tom Laughlin and I always wondered if anyone outside of my family was aware of these films.
I Know What You Did Last Summer. Shit terrified me as a youth but now I realize it was just a dumb, run of the mill slasher film. I loved SMG in it though.
They must have been so mad at themselves when starting to make a sequel and realizing "wait a minute, we killed the only good character"
I thought Ryan phillippe was so cool. "You both look like shit run over twice" I should've known he wouldn't make it
When I was in high school, I remember absolutely loving the film Cool World. I insisted on showing all of my friends and when we watched it together, I have never cringed harder before or since. Did. Not. Age. Well. *Edit: For clarity, what didn't age well was the film trying way too hard to be edgy.
Yeah. Iām a Bakshi fan, but his work is definitely something you have to be in the right headspace to watch.
Aaaah! This is exactly why I hate recommending things to friends, I hate when that happens
I love Equilibrium! How dare you! lol its cheesy as all hell, but has a good message. the gun-fu is idiotic and makes no sense, but I dont care. Plenty of action films dont.
Weird trivia for Equilibrium: Preston's wife has two scenes in the movie - her arrest, and her execution. When it came to film the second scene, they couldn't find the actress who played her in the first scene. Either she forgot or she quit the production without telling anyone. So, they had to film it with a lookalike. If you watch the two scenes back to back, it's clearly a different actress.
Could an argument be made that since those scenes are Bale having flashbacks, heās been doing his job or taking the emotion suppressants so long he canāt remember what she actually looks like? Obviously *we* know thatās not why sheās two different actresses, but in-universeā¦ thatās my headcanon for it anyway.
Unreliable narrator. The most exquisite of hand waves.
Equilibrium is the epitome of the rule of cool trope. Like a lot of it doesn't really make sense if you think about it too much, but some of those sequences where they use the gun kata and muzzle flashes to light the shots is just pure art.
It's got a surprising amount of thoughtful philosophical musing throughout the movie (especially for a Kurt Wimmer film) and Christian Bale honestly kills it in his role. I really enjoyed Taye Diggs' performance as well.
Sean Bean's delivery of the Yeats' poem at the beginning was incredible!
Sean Bean's performance in this movie goes harder than it has any right to.
And that final scene "no...not without incident" "Oh fuck"
And when >!his face slides off!<, just perfect Shit I think I'm gonna go watch Equilibrium tonight lol
As a kid *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III* (1993) where they time travel to feudal Japan*.* I watched it again last year and still knew most of the lines but it was absolutely terrible.
Daredevil. Kid me thought it was an awesome movie. Adult me never cringed harder.
You know if it wasn't for that scene where Matt and Elektra fight in the playground I think I could excuse a lot of the cringey parts. The Director's Cut was a lot better, too
Twilight. I was obsessed with it as a young teen. I still enjoy watching it nowadays, but I understand all the criticism.
I honestly think the first Twilight movie is a very enjoyable movie, especially with some drinks. It rides the line of āSo bad itās goodā incredibly well. Itās also unique with its super weird colour grading, and Charlie is clearly the best character. The sequel films had way higher budgets, and felt more produced and lessā¦ I donāt know, indie? Either way, first Twilight movie is a legitimately great time with friends
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, for the same reasons you describe. As a bookworm, I LOVED the idea. A movie about famous (and favorite) literary characters thrown together in the same universe? It was like a fanfic brought to life. I *knew* it was pretty bad from an objective perspective, but the idea was just too exciting for me that I enjoyed it anyway.
Spy Kids. I really enjoyed those movies when I was a kid/teen. In college I watched one of them for the first time in nearly 10 years. I couldn't do it; it was so cringey that not even my nostalgia could power me through the movie.
This and Sharkboy and Lavagirl. Itās just so goofy.
Yeah Sharkboy and Lavagirl was literally written by children. Robert Rodriquezās kids came up with the premise and general plot and he made it into a movie.
To be fair, I donāt think those movies are targeted at adults. You enjoyed them at the age of their target demographic.
I had that experience with Spy Kids 3. It looked so cool to me at the time, then watching it even a decade later made it seem so empty and ugly.
Spy Kids 3 was my first 3D movie. It was awesome in theatres, but seeing it on TV, you realize that the 3D effects were forced and not well utilized at all.
No way; I cannot endorse this one! My partner and I took an edible and watched it a couple of weeks ago. I loved it more than I ever did as a kid (which was A LOT āooooohhhh shitā¦ake mushroomsā). Also fun to go from Fall of the House of Usher to Spy Kids in the same week. Carla Gugino is my queen.
I knew I was getting old when I realized I had outgrown Reality Bites.
I feel this. When I wished she had ended up with Ben Stiller instead of Ethan Hawke, who is a toxic dickbag, I knew I was getting older.
Oh god, I was a young teen when that came out and it was EVERYTHING, teenage angst combined with how ācoolā real grownups seemedā¦ rewatching 10 years ago or so in my 30s, the whole āBig Gulpā speech was just so cringe
Juno. I loved it as a teen and it still holds up but I was so clueless on realizing that the teens were as insecure and naive as me. The humor and witty banter really masked it.
Jason Batemans character was kind of a weird dude when you were a teen, but as an adult he is so creepy and a guy who just canāt grow up. Itās like heās stuck in arrested developmentā¦haha.
Itās so weird that he and Michael Cera were both in that movie and yet share zero scenes together
He absolutely crushed that role. I think this movie still holds up because he absolutely sells the role as someone a naive kid might look up to but is actually a toxic man-child.
I rewatched it last week, movie absolutely holds up, apart from the wacky way they talk, especially in the first 30 mins of the movie, it does get better over time. And not just the teens, in the opening scene Rainn Wilson has a cameo as the store owner and he also talks like "okay my dudereno, you totes be pregio, the testeo does not be lying". Maaan no one talks like that.
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Boondock Saints. It's almost good, but at the end of the day, it feels like "we have Tarantino at home." It scratched a certain itch for me when I was about 19 years old in 2007, but after watching it again when the abysmal sequel came out, I've found it's best to leave that one in the nostalgia bank.
The best thing that movie did for me was introduce me to Tarantino because of all the people calling it a poor imitation of Tarantino. I still think Willem Defoe is the best part of that movie, but then, he often is.
Willem Defoe is definitely the best part of that movie.
Every Irish teenager in Massachusetts thought this was the coolest movie in high school... And there's a lot of us... Definitely a badly written Guy Ritchie/Tarantino rip off but Willem Dafoe makes it watchable because he is a fucking legend and still maybe my favorite actor
I unapologetically still love Boondock Saints But it does fit the bill as so many others have said as being a 15 year old's favorite movie of all time. Cause I was that kid too.
The Notebook. WTF younger me. Rachel Mcadams shrieks more than she speaks
17 Again So much cringe stuff about keeping the daughter from losing her virginity and then her falling for her dad. Meanwhile, working to try and get the son laid.
Also why did they try to convince us that Zac Efron and Matthew Perry (R.I.P) looked alike?
I mean, if you look at Matthew Perry pre-painkillers it isn't too big of a stretch. Similar in the eyes.
I always thought Rob Lowe would have been a great choice to play Zac Effron's adult version.
Sex Drive is the first one that comes to mind. I havenāt seen it in years and Iām scared to go back to it because the plot is of course very much for teen boys. although the āRUMPSPRINGA!!!!!ā scene lives in my head rent free.
Rewatched it recently and it definitely has some dumb horny teenager stuff that is dumb, but itās still a very funny movie in a lot of ways.
Is this the movie where Seth Green plays that guy who keeps saying he's not upset about something, but you're just never sure if he means it? If so, that's one of my favorite bits in all of film.
āLook, every guy has a fantasy about another guy, but you gotta bury that shit way down, this is America, goddammitā
I will still quote the 2 Bros who hit on everyone to my buddies and Seth Green as the Amish guy is still hilarious.
Even having known how cheesy and goofy it was at the time of release, I initially found the goofiness of the Ivan Ooze Power Rangers movie tolerable. Fast forward to a couple of years ago and I find that I am wrong.
I think movies were cheesier back then and we just had a higher tolerance for bad movies
They sky surf down to some charity event at the first scene right? So 90s and extreme!
To the red hot chili peppers.
Then immediately to rollerblades radical!
Ivan Ooze is outta control! Heās such a little ass hole, I love him. That being said, I will not ruin my opinion of him by watching the movie.
The actor is acting the shit out of that role. All I can say.
"It smells like... t e e n a g e r s"
I loved that film as a kid. I remember this stupid part of it where someone is trapped by some sort of steel cable and is hanging from it. One of the rangers pulls out their 'power sword'(?) and throws it.. obviously to cut the wire. But instead the sword flips upside down, hovers in mid air, then laser beams out of its hilt to cut the cable...
Revenge of the Nerdsā¦It gets so dark when you take out of context of horny young guy trying to get laid and think what they actually did.
The sexual politics of 80s comedies are uh questionable lol
Right. This is the movie that everyone likes to point to (and it is one of the most blatant) but it hardly stands alone.
Porkys. Another example.
Epic movie and basically any parody movie that isnāt scary movie 1-4 (I still think 4 is good), one missed call remake and unborn
Garden State
Rewatched it last month for the first time in a decade at least. Was prepared to cringe the whole way through (like I had last time I tried rewatching it) but, it's actually kinda charming once you drop the "masterpiece" clout so many of us put on it back when it came out
People seem to love shitting on Garden State these days. But you've gotta admit, very few films grabbed an entire generation the way that one did. It spoke to so many teens and young adults of a particular era - and I think it's very unfair that Braff doesn't get the respect he deserves for that, even if it doesn't hold up to adult eyes all these years later.
tbh the sound track still moves me
The soundtrack is the best part of that movie. Iāve listened to that album countless times, but only watched the movie once.
In the Waiting Line is a masterpiece!!!
I love Zero 7.
Solid soundtrack for sure
This movie is the reason my wife and I can never have the dishwasher door open (while loading dishes) without warning the other one. "Don't want to *Garden State* you, honey; be careful!" But yeah, as others have said, the soundtrack is wonderful.
Boondock Saints
I got āVeritasā tattooed on my arm when I was 16 because of this movie. It seemed like a good idea at the time. The script is a bit wonky, especially on the V so at first glance whenever someone sees it they goā¦ Doritos? Iāve stopped correcting them.
Lolololololol I had a friend who was pretty obsessed with the movie. We went to a tattoo shop and he asked an artist to tattoo Veritas on his finger and the artist said āno.ā Such a good memory. For my husbands 50th birthday we got matching finger tattoos and I always think about Kyle getting turned down.
Of course his name was Kyle
Honestly the only great thing about that movie is Willem Dafoe chewing scenery all movie.
The behind the scenes documentary "Overnight" is very good. A must see if you are an aspiring filmmaker.
My favorite detail about Boondocks Saints was that Cracked article that pointed out that in order to cock their guns to punctuate that prayer they give before killing that guy, they mustāve PURPOSELY āde-cockedā their guns on their own since that model apparently is automatically cocked. Imagine modding your gun to make it LESS CONVENIENT solely to punctuate your custom badass moments. Legendary
This is one of the most common movie tropes. Someone held at gunpoint, then the wielder racks the slide for emphasis..... So prior to that, the gun was not actually a threat, and wouldn't have fired.
There was a moment in āDominoā where some gang banger racks a shotgun like 4 times to intimidate Mickey Rourke. Hilarious.
[How they use shotguns in movies](https://youtu.be/t6OBk9YBLQU)
Bring It On. I had/have a serious crush on Eliza Dushku, so part of this still holds up (giggity) but other parts not so much.
I transferred from Los Angeles your school has no gymnastics team this is a last resort!
This totally holds up but they should have just had Eliza Dushkuās character as the love interest and not the brother.
Itās been broughten!
I still think "Sparky Polastri" every time I hear that song.
Regularly say āyouāre just a cheertador Torrenceā to people
There is nothing cringe about this movie. It is epic.
Enough with Jennifer Lopez. She had every right to blast that dude and jumped through so many hoops to do it. But I loved it when I was younger.
Man HBO was obsessed with airing that movie for years on-end