For me, it was The Ghost and the Darkness. I thought that both Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas were very good in this film. I liked the struggle between Man and Uber-Beast (a-la Jaws) and enjoyed the fact that, apparently, there was a kernel of truth to this story. I keep being told, however, that this movie is absolute garbage but I just don't agree. I've seen it four times and I still like it. Any similar experiences? Defend your movie like it's your mother.
"Well I tried didn't I Goddammit? At least I did that." - R.P. McMurphy
Posts: 49 | Location: Calgary | Registered: 14 April 2008
Originally posted by mymindsblank: Battlefield Earth.
I'm not joking.
OH YEAH! That's what I'm talkin' about! I mean, IT'S FLIPPIN' CAVEMEN FLYING HARRIER-FREAKIN'-JETS! How cool is that?! (This cool That's how cool!) That is worth the price of admission alone! But that's NOT all! We also have them fighting aliens! Oh, but they didn't stop there!!! Two of the aliens are played by John Travolta and Forest Whitaker in fantastic, completely over-the-top performances! "While you were still learning to speak your name, I was being trained to conquer galaxies!" His tone of voice and hand gestures during all of his little rants are absolutely priceless! However, we must not forget Whitaker's expressions everytime Travolta's character outsmarts him! If he played that character anymore pathetic... actually, he couldn't have. His life was so flippin' sad! I mean, Terl wasn't that smart to begin with and here we have Ker, who seems to have a mental deficiancy, ALWAYS being one step behind him. Well... except for that LAST ONE. It was a dooozy!
This movie also backs up my argument that aliens can't learn SQUAT by watching us from afar! ("If man-animal prefers their rat uncooked that only makes it easier for us." )
"I can't live the buttoned down life like all of you! I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles! Sure, I might offend a few of the blue-noses with my cocky stride and musky odor - oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called 'City Fathers' who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and talk about what's to be done with this Monkey_Boy?!"
Posts: 2524 | Location: Springfield, Oh! Hi ya, Maude! | Registered: 01 January 2007
Originally posted by mymindsblank: Battlefield Earth.
I'm not joking.
OH YEAH! That's what I'm talkin' about! I mean, IT'S FLIPPIN' CAVEMEN FLYING HARRIER-FREAKIN'-JETS! How cool is that?! (This cool That's how cool!)
So you liked it too. Right?
This film also bridged Barry Pepper's descent from a decent actor in BIG movies to playing Dale Earnhardt Sr. in his second ESPN original film 3. Why Barry? Whyyyyyyy?
Posts: 606 | Location: kentucky | Registered: 02 October 2007
Originally posted by mymindsblank: So you liked it too. Right?
Of course! I figured it mighta "sounded" a tad sarcastic, but that's how excited I was when I first saw the trailer. Cavemen flying harrier jets and fighting aliens played by Travolta and Whitaker was what drew me to the theater for this one. I accepted the movie for what it was, having no clue that it had some big Scientology connection. People often make fun of Travolta's performance, but I thoroughly enjoyed it! It just fit his character so well.
As for Berry Pepper, you're right! Before "Battlefield" he had done "Saving Private Ryan", "Enemy of the State" & "The Green Mile". After, the only one I've actually seen was the extremely predictable "We Were Soldiers". I also remember seeing him in a Jagged Edge video crying like a little b*tch. (I think it was "Goodbye".) His career musta been a casualty of the "disaster" that was "Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000".
"I can't live the buttoned down life like all of you! I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles! Sure, I might offend a few of the blue-noses with my cocky stride and musky odor - oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called 'City Fathers' who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and talk about what's to be done with this Monkey_Boy?!"
Posts: 2524 | Location: Springfield, Oh! Hi ya, Maude! | Registered: 01 January 2007
Originally posted by Duncan Black: Although it's a bad film, it's possible to watch Battlefield Earth in the same way one might enjoy Plan 9 From Outer Space
I digress - Films that only I seem to like?
Drop Dead Fred Cube Crimewave Death Machine Guest House Paradiso Hercules in New York
Dude, Cube rocks! There are people who don't love that film?!
There is one movie that EVERYBODY talks crap on, but I remember enjoying it immensely. Apparently this movie is sooo bad George Lucas is ashamed of it! That's right, I'm typin' about "Howard the Duck"! I haven't seen it in years... not since I was around 10 or 11, maybe 12... but I remember laughing my tail off and drooling over Lea Thompson. (She was such a cutie!) I've searched high and low for a copy on DVD, but have been unsuccessful. (How is it they release crap like "Manos: Hands of Fate" and "Bad Boys 2" to DVD, but they don't give ya want you really want?!) If I ever do find a copy, I'll probably have the same revelation I had when I saw "Jaws the Revenge" after many, many years: "Good god, this is awful! How did I ever enjoy this?!" Then again, I might laugh just as hard as I used to!
"I can't live the buttoned down life like all of you! I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles! Sure, I might offend a few of the blue-noses with my cocky stride and musky odor - oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called 'City Fathers' who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and talk about what's to be done with this Monkey_Boy?!"
Posts: 2524 | Location: Springfield, Oh! Hi ya, Maude! | Registered: 01 January 2007
Originally posted by Monkey_Boy: There is one movie that EVERYBODY talks crap on, but I remember enjoying it immensely. Apparently this movie is sooo bad George Lucas is ashamed of it! That's right, I'm typin' about "Howard the Duck"! I haven't seen it in years... not since I was around 10 or 11, maybe 12... but I remember laughing my tail off and drooling over Lea Thompson. (She was such a cutie!) I've searched high and low for a copy on DVD, but have been unsuccessful. (How is it they release crap like "Manos: Hands of Fate" and "Bad Boys 2" to DVD, but they don't give ya want you really want?!) If I ever do find a copy, I'll probably have the same revelation I had when I saw "Jaws the Revenge" after many, many years: "Good god, this is awful! How did I ever enjoy this?!" Then again, I might laugh just as hard as I used to!
I remember liking that one as a kid too. And I too was probably 8-10 years old the last time I saw it.
Oh my, "Howard the Duck" was a classic of my childhood. I bet I've seen it thirty of forty times. At the beginning when Howard was being pulled through dimensions and going through walls of an apartment building, he goes through a wall and there is a naked Duck-lady taking a shower and she kind of has breasts. I think that was some of the first exposed breasts I had seen at the time. I thought it was cool when I was a kid, but thinking back now, its just kind of sad.
Posts: 606 | Location: kentucky | Registered: 02 October 2007
Talk about inspired, hilarious casting. Dennis Hopper as a coked-out neo-modern Koopa??? Awesome!! Bob Hoskins as Mario??? John Leguizamo as Luigi??? And then the bizarre Goombas who looked absolutely nothing like Goombas, and the Mushroom Kingdom which was more Blade Runner-esque than anything. A strange cult classic.
Also, Fierce Creatures, a sort of pseudo-sequel to A Fish Called Wanda. John Cleese and Kevin Kline are spot on in this movie, and yeah, there are some weird continuity issues, but the movie's funny. That's all that matters.
"The only thing hotter than this hot tub is you two ladies."
Posts: 262 | Location: Tucson | Registered: 10 December 2007
There are a few, of course, but the ones that appeared relatively recently that I liked and many did not were "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "The Jane Austen Book Club." Ironically, both were based on books that I had read before. Perhaps that gave me additional insights into these films. For "Jane Austen Book Club," that was the rare example of the movie exceeding the book, which was much darker.
Posts: 178 | Location: Mercer County, NJ | Registered: 22 May 2004
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How cool is that?! (This cool 
That's how cool!) That is worth the price of admission alone! But that's NOT all! We also have them fighting aliens! Oh, but they didn't stop there!!! Two of the aliens are played by John Travolta and Forest Whitaker in fantastic, completely over-the-top performances! "While you were still learning to speak your name, I was being trained to conquer galaxies!" His tone of voice and hand gestures during all of his little rants are absolutely priceless! However, we must not forget Whitaker's expressions everytime Travolta's character outsmarts him! If he played that character anymore pathetic... actually, he couldn't have. His life was so flippin' sad! 
I mean, Terl wasn't that smart to begin with and here we have Ker, who seems to have a mental deficiancy, ALWAYS being one step behind him. Well... except for that LAST ONE. It was a dooozy!
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Then again, I might laugh just as hard as I used to! 
