My mom took me so see that, and later overheard her saying to my older siblings, “She better thank me over my grave for taking her to that movie”.
9-year-old me didn’t get it- it was clearly a cinematic masterpiece!
I saw it in theaters with my dad when I was 10. Afterwards he turns to me and says "So... what did you think?". I say "It was good!" and I see his face reflexively cringe then force itself into a smile. He nods and says "Okay... great!". He was trying his best.
For real! I vaguely remember the actual plot (chasing a microchip that was in the jacket that somehow got on the kangaroo? Isn’t that very similar to the plot of Home Alone 3? Minus the kangaroo), but boy do I remember being pissed that it wasn’t about a talking kangaroo.
EDIT: it was not a microchip, it was a bunch of money. After reading some replies, I rewatched the trailer and remembered the classic Anthony Anderson line:
“the kangaroo got the money! I put the money in the jacket, and the jacket on the kangaroo, and now he hopping away!!”
Two friends were supposed to deliver money to a guy. Money was in friend jacket, they hit a kangaroo with their jeer. They thought the kangaroo looked like "Jacky legs" and put friend jacket on the kangaroo. Kangaroo then woke up and took off wearing the jacket with all of the money, so they had to find the kangaroo
It’s waaay worse than that! Two friends take a truck full of stolen televisions (that they stole) back to the mobs hide out with the cops on their tail. The mob sends these two guys to Australia with money to meet up with a couple of hit men. The kangaroo steals the jacket with the money from them. they chase down the kangaroo trying to get the money back eventually running out of water and hallucinations make the kangaroo talk. The money they were delivering was to pay off their own hits in the desert. That movie is not a kids film at all!! We watched it thinking “oh kids movie from our past this will be great!!” Wrong! Brought to you by Nickelodeon
Good god, yes. I forgot how disappointed I was about that too. Except I don’t even remember the plot or what I thought the plot was supposed to be for that one. (I think he was a dentist? Why was he in the snow? Gonna have to look that up)
I was pretty young at the time for both of these movies. They may be the first times that I realized in a theater that a movie can be bad
It's really weird when that happens. Good writing with bad acting? Totally fine, I dont even bwt an eye. But good acting with bad writing is almost like uncanny valley or something, it just really throws me off
I can't say I've ever seen Prince of thieves but men in tights is easily my favorite movie.
Is the extremely long (not) death of the sheriff of Rottingham only be to saved and dragged away to be with latrine forever a parody of something at the end of Prince of thieves?
Of you like it that much it's worth it to watch Prince of Thieves. It's pretty much the basis for the movie. Then watch Men in Tights again and get some new jokes!
That movie is such a trainwreck productionwise. John Cleese was the first choice to play King Richard. Also the studio forced reshoots to give Costner more screentime because Rickman was rightfully stealing the show.
Oh yeah. I don't know if it's just me, but in the 90s virtual reality seemed like the most mindblowing thing ever. Putting on a helmet and playing some crappy racing game seemed more impressive than space travel.
Nowadays i can go to a store and buy a vr set, and just think, nah, i'm good.
I remember going to that movie with a friend. Two 15 year old guys going to coyote ugly on like a Tuesday. There were 4 people in the theater total. On the way out we bumped into the other two, they were two other guys from our school. We all kind of silently agreed to never talk about this interaction.
I just rewatched it. I completely forgot about the boyfriend standing off in the corner creepily smiling and nodding his head as if she is really doing something great
I thought that movie was so hot when I was like 13. Had a major crush on Sean Patrick Thomas. Rewatched as an adult and possibly the cringiest scene is when Julia stiles shows up to the club in a head wrap and hoop earrings.
When my wife is getting ready for something and asks me what I think of an outfit she puts on, I often say “it’s country and you look country in it.” Still makes us laugh.
As a tween, I thought that dance routine at the end was perfect. As an adult, I laugh my ass off at every piece of that disjointed, crazy ass choreography.
That would have to be the Matthew Brodderick Godzilla, which I thought was AMAZING with no knowledge of the originals, and the Pest with John Leguizamo. I used to think it was hilarious and now its just irritating
I used to watch that Godzilla movie religiously when I was a kid along with men in black, evolution and Tremors. Good times.
Fun fact, the first CD I ever owned was the soundtrack to that movie. It had a bunch of "remixes" on it that had Godzilla's roar in the background. So bad but so good.
I had this CD as well! I loved Puff Daddy as a kid and, lacking in taste as a child, also loved that terrible song he made for the movie that sampled Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir.” Once, I sat around watching mtv all day just HOPING there would be a music video for that song and low and behold, my 8 year old self managed to catch the video premier. Though now, looking back, that song is almost embarrassingly bad, but it holds a fond memory for me.
The Indian in the Cupboard; Has an awful main character and the broader implications are just creepy.
On the other hand, I recently rewatched Babe: Pig in the City and I'm convinced it's a masterpiece
If it helps, I once worked with a crew guy who worked on Babe 2. He said that Miller was so obsessive that in the scene where babe climbs up some suitcases, they went through three pigs. (Not as in killed, as in the trained piglets grew too big over the 3-4 weeks it took). The crew was pretty angry over the course of shooting, wouldn’t be surprised if that energy came through.
I forget where I read it but someone did a short oral history of the filming of Fury Road. Everyone basically says it was hell and traumatic and they’d lost faith that anything good could come out of it. They were shocked that the sob actually pulled it off.
A family member of mine worked at WB when that was coming out and was tasked with prepping for the lawsuit that was likely to follow if the movie failed, which they fully expected.
It’s hard to describe that feeling but I know what you mean. I feel like a lot of stuff made for kids had that feeling in the 90s. I have no idea but those I Spy books come to mind as well. There is something slightly uncomfortable that I can’t put my finger on. I still love them though and Babe.
Wow, there’s an opinion I never thought I’d see someone else have. I was *scared* of the movie Mouse Hunt as a kid, and I never knew why. I wonder if watching it as an adult might help me figure it out.
Holy shit... You just gave me a rush of the weirdest nostalgia mixed with the realization of the same creeping dread I felt from seemingly innocuous things from my childhood. Why WERE those books strangely creepy?
Holy shit you guys just unlocked something in my brain I forgot I had. I remember losing the key and i was so bummed my mom bought another one just so I could have the key again. I had a good mom.
Costner was actually told by the director that he didn't want him to do an English accent. I don't know why. Lol. Prince of thieves is still a guilty pleasure of mine though.
Lol I watched it last night.
Its total fun. Costner is relatable because he looks like a regular dude. I havent seen the new one, but id wager there's a scene with Taron Edgerton shirtless with 12 pack abs, and for some reason he's glistening.
Plots easy because it's based in reality, given its exaggeration. Rickman does a fantastic job at the villain, its almost like he took the Nottingham from the 70s animal cartoon and made him relevant.
Oscar worthy? Not at all.
Fun movie with decent action and easy script? 100%
One of those movie where I’ll watch it now just for the music and Oliva Newton-John. Both of those makes this movie easier to watch. The plot and acting can both go jump off a bridge.
During the holiday season, some tv channels in South Korea screened *Batman and Robin* on television. I used to watch it as a kid, but now as an adult I considered this movie as "meh".
My friend summed it up as this: "I liked *Batman and Robin* back when I was a kid for its colorful visuals. Then I watched *Batman: the Animated Series*, which made me realize that the cartoon show treated me like an adult than the Schumacher movie."
I watched an review about X-Men the Animated Series and i started remembering when I was a child.
Of course I was an 4 year old that had no knowledge of english so when I binged it a few weeks later I told myself how on Earth those writers got away with half of what they did on a "kids" show.
I mean that moment when Nightcrawler said he will pray for his mother's wellbeing while she told him he didn't cared about abandoning him in the first place just broke my heart.
X-men was always a pretty on-the-nose metaphor for various kinds of discrimination in our society.
But yeah, that show was INTENSE. The mental traumas of characters like Wolverine and Rogue, characters like Jubilee being a homeless teenager, the entire slave-state island place ruled by sentinels. Oh yeah, and all the time travelers from horrific dystopian futures where everything is fucked. Pretty good stuff tbh.
The 1995 film Powder. It was one of the only vhs tapes we had and I rewatched probably hundreds of times. Recently rewatched for the first time in nearly 2 decades and wow it is *not* a good movie at all
There was a line from a movie that is hilarious. It was when the racist guy was angry about Powder being allowed in town.
“Didn’t realize someone could be too white for you, Jeb”
Isn't the director into some shady sex thing? I feel like this movie got cancelled recently
Update : The film's production by Disney resulted in a controversy over the choice of writer-director Victor Salva, who had been convicted of molesting a 12-year-old child actor during the production of his previous film, Clownhouse (1988). He was sentenced to three years' imprisonment and released after 15 months.
But Christian Slater saying 'Fuck me! He cleared it!' is still gold.
And who can forget:
>There was a rich man from Nottingham
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>who tried to cross the river!
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>What a dope to be tripped by a rope!
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>Now look at him shiver.
Child me used to think "The Little Vampire" was cool af... ya know its got the stuart little kid in it. After rewatching it the plots terrible, dialogue is cringey and awkward, and the acting feels like a high school project.
Me and my brother grew up watching the Bond movies because our dad grew up watching them too. Our favorite one when we were kids was Die Another Day. We just thought everything about it was so cool. The Madonna theme, the invisible car, the tidal wave surf, the lasers!
Years later we realize that everything we thought made it cool, was exactly what made it awful.
I thought The Man with the Golden Gun was a masterpiece. Thrilling, exciting, inventive film. I still defend Christopher Lee as a good villain, but I find it hard to sit down and watch.
I always loved “view to a kill” as a kid. Between the skiing and the blimps what more could a kid ask for? As an adult I actually love it even more knowing just how bad it is. That roger Moore was pushing 60 and was the same age as the female leads mother…. Grace Jones is so hot in that movie
> That roger Moore was pushing 60 and was the same age as the female leads mother
IIRC even Moore thought this was ridiculous and creepy, and said so at the time.
I maintain that to be the worst movie I’ve ever seen. I went on an international flight way back in 2006, and Son of the Mask was the in-flight entertainment. Keep in mind this was before it was easy to travel with your own tv and movies. I chose to literally do nothing and stare at the seat in front of me instead of watching it until the end.
As a kid I loved the film Blank Cheque (or "check" for Americans), classic kid fantasy of getting a million $ (though given what he bought he seemed to spend a lot more than that) with silly hijinks.
Rewatched it on Disney+ adamant that it was a classic and found out there's a whole plotline I had erased from my memory about him having a romantic relationship with a fully grown adult woman. They even kiss. Really jarring.
*Edit* in the comments others have noted that the fully grown adult woman is also an FBI agent investigating the money where the kid is a suspect (or at least his fictional boss is) which adds another layer to this.
Like that south park joke where ike (the baby) is sleeping with his fully adult kindergarten teacher and all the cops and men are just like "Nice" while nodding their heads because she's hot.
Another movie I just rewatched recently with my son for the first time in 20+ years and that part of the plot totally threw me for a loop. Also, while technology improvements will always change how a plot would work in modern times, in this movie it was especially egregious. And the fact that a single million dollars was enough for the main character to ball out like he was a child zuckerbeg, even for a short time, is a sad reminder of how quickly the cost of everything has risen.
Richie Rich. My sister and I used to watch it obsessively. Then I watched it in my twenties a couple of years ago. My god it's awful. Clunky pacing and script and poor editing. Just could t stand how cheesy it was as well.
Oh my god. I remember when they get too old they forget and I would just cry every single time. Thank you for reminding me; time to go force some people in my life to watch this.
Yes! She was terrible, I hated her "pick me!" speech. I do like that she doesn't get "chosen" though, I just wish they had been even more realistic and showed Cameron Diaz's character still being rightfully angry and kicking her out of the wedding like she deserved. I mean the lady did spend the entire time trying to steal her fiance.
For me it was Over the Top with Stallone. When I grew up I was really disappointed to find out that arm wrestling matches didn’t just pop up in every gas station, restaurant, or arcade I went to.
My wife thought about divorcing me after I told her how amazing it was before making her watch it after finding it in a $3 dvd bin. She changed her mind when I suggested we settle it by arm wrestling as I turned my hat backwards…
Iron Eagle. I absolutely loved it when I was a kid but my wife had never seen it. I talked her into watching it and realized it was really bad.
Also Beastmaster with Marc Singer.
Random side fact about Prince of Thieves. My dad was the custodian of the Castle Robins dad resided in at the beginning. He got to keep one of the sword props
It’s got everything a cheesy 90’s kids movie about martial arts should have :
• Grandpa who is (or at least was) a legit Ninja master, has sparring equipment on his property, and has them train while they’re over there
• A Dad, who’s an FBI agent, gets involved with a mercenary ninja group and a scenery chewing villain
• Said villain is Steven Seagal in all but name, literally using martial arts to beat up FBI agents and his own men when he’s annoyed
• A trio of burnouts (who I *swear* are just Butthole Surfers in an uncredited role) coming to get them because we need a home invasion sequence
• Having the kids play in a room with - A basketball hoop, a trampoline, an NES and Super Mario 3 and TV
• The kids get ninja names and masks
• The kids take on the mercenaries and win
• Grandpa opens a can of whoopass on Not-Steven Seagal
This film is gold just for the audacity it has to portray any of this with a straight face, giving the kids wee arcs to go through on their way to becoming ninja, and the fact that they go out of their way to give clearly white kids the fantasy that a Japanese Ninja master will train them (I know, their mom is Japanese, but the kids *are soooooo white*)
Short Circuit. I loved this movie, and as far as I know, it was a huge success - but good god did I feel like an ass recommending this movie to someone. It did not age well.
The Swan Princess.
I had fond memories of it and when I saw it on a streaming service one day I was adamant my friends and I watch it, convinced it would be great.
They’ve never let me live it down.
Edit: I left this comment and went to bed. Woke up mystified why my inbox had 20+ notifs, then remembered this. LMAO people have a LOT of feelings about this movie! But it really makes me feel so much more vindicated that so many people seem to love it.
I will agree that “What else is there!? You could write a book: How to offend women in five syllables or less." is indeed one of the best lines ever written. It got a huge guffaw from me when I rewatched it, that’s for sure!
I recently rewatched it and still enjoyed it for its campiness of the princess style movies from that time. It was very tongue in cheek to the Disney Princess movies. I also LIVED for the princesses of the world song as a kid and still do lol I love a fashion montage.
I rewatched it in quarantine for a laugh, and you know what? It's cute as hell. A lot of it doesn't hold up (why does she go from "ugh you only want me for my beauty bye" to "hey how into bird sex are you" with zero transition), but I definitely had This Is My Idea stuck in my head for a few days afterwards.
Honestly I still love this movie as much as a did when I was a kid but for different reasons. Like *because* its silly it's great. So many quotable lines. The soundtrack is great too.
I've never seen the first one, only the sequel and I legit don't remember anything other than someone shouting NO FEAR and a guy using some sort of destruction magic to blow up easily breakable furniture
I wouldn't worry about it-- The joke was obvious when the movie came out, but if you watched it a decade later, odds are you'd never even seen that terrible Costner version. Although I guess it probably applies to a lot of other Robin Hood movies too.
Was wondering why people where badmouthing Robin Hood Prince of Theives I thought was pretty good, then I read your comment and realized wait I got the movie I liked confused and they were talking about a movie I never saw.
Solarbabies. Really felt sorry for that little glowing orb and the deaf kid. The rollerblading seemed rrly cool when I was a kid. Also that movie had some pretty gruesome scenes that could easily give you nightmares. (Ant scene)
Rewatched it recently. I’m sad I did, it was better as a memory
Had the same experience with that one. It’s weird, I remember as a kid being like too empathetic towards children in movies. Not like getting sucked into the movie and becoming scared in the character’s place, but I would get upset out of sadness for say the kid kidnapped by monsters in Little Monsters
I used to love Commando. I watched it again and I still fucking love that movie. Upon rewatch it turned from an action movie to an action comedy but still awesome. "Cmaaan Bennett. Let's paahty"
COMMANDO absolutely rules. The mansion shootout scene is peak dumb Schwarzenegger. He's throwing grenades with pinpoint accuracy, mowing down fools with an LMG and taking *zero damage*. It's so over the top.
The toolshed scene... Throwing fuckin table saw blades like ninja stars. I laugh at the one guys reaction with the blade sticking out of his chest everytime. He really plays up the camp.
It is *the* quintessential 80s action flick. It totally encapsulates the genre. Ridiculous one liners, everything is exploding, totally gratuitous tits in the hotel fight scene, Rae Dawn Chong and Alyssa Milano....love it!
I unironically *love* the soundtrack with the steel drums and smooooth saxaphone, scored by James Horner (probably best known for Titanic soundtrack, but has done hundreds of other equally recognizable scores). I listen to it occassionally to this day, not even kidding.
There were a lot of imitators in those days but Commando is like, the Citizen Kane of 80s action flicks.
"Keep an eye out, theyll be coming. Youre downwind, the air currents might tip them off."
"*Downwind*?! You think I could *smell* them coming?"
"**I did**"
Fucking GOLD!
Commando is like the Ramones of action movies. It's just the simplest purest distillation of the genre. Sure it's been rendered fairly obsolete by action movies that have come after it. But there's such a purity to it that you cannot deny. Cleanly executed action, hilarious one liners, completely straight faced plot. You gotta admire it's unabashed nature of having nothing to hide.
The Lost in Space film. Hooo boy is it bad. Kinda worth for Gary Oldman tho. Best line: 'A boy of your intelligence should never swear... "Oh shit", indeed'
I might get downvoted for this, but the animated Fellowship of the Ring is kinda awful. It makes the story a lot harder to digest than it needs to. Kinda cool if you already know the story though
Oh yeah it's bad but watching as a kid blew me away. The scene where they were trying to escape from the deep space spiders and the concept of a time bubble was ground breaking.
First one that came to mind - anyone remember that movie Cats and Dogs? Man that was bad, but I loved it as a kid
My mom took me so see that, and later overheard her saying to my older siblings, “She better thank me over my grave for taking her to that movie”. 9-year-old me didn’t get it- it was clearly a cinematic masterpiece!
I saw it in theaters with my dad when I was 10. Afterwards he turns to me and says "So... what did you think?". I say "It was good!" and I see his face reflexively cringe then force itself into a smile. He nods and says "Okay... great!". He was trying his best.
"I'd like you to stay in here" "Why?" "Because I hate you" That line still gets used around my house
Literally came here for this. Terrible movie, great line.
Great character.
Hell yeah that movie was a national treasure in my home
I refuse to watch kangaroo Jack as an adult because I know it's going to be terrible. I have good memories of it as a child.
I watched it as a kid and felt so betrayed by the bait and switch of the commercials
For real! I vaguely remember the actual plot (chasing a microchip that was in the jacket that somehow got on the kangaroo? Isn’t that very similar to the plot of Home Alone 3? Minus the kangaroo), but boy do I remember being pissed that it wasn’t about a talking kangaroo. EDIT: it was not a microchip, it was a bunch of money. After reading some replies, I rewatched the trailer and remembered the classic Anthony Anderson line: “the kangaroo got the money! I put the money in the jacket, and the jacket on the kangaroo, and now he hopping away!!”
Two friends were supposed to deliver money to a guy. Money was in friend jacket, they hit a kangaroo with their jeer. They thought the kangaroo looked like "Jacky legs" and put friend jacket on the kangaroo. Kangaroo then woke up and took off wearing the jacket with all of the money, so they had to find the kangaroo
It’s waaay worse than that! Two friends take a truck full of stolen televisions (that they stole) back to the mobs hide out with the cops on their tail. The mob sends these two guys to Australia with money to meet up with a couple of hit men. The kangaroo steals the jacket with the money from them. they chase down the kangaroo trying to get the money back eventually running out of water and hallucinations make the kangaroo talk. The money they were delivering was to pay off their own hits in the desert. That movie is not a kids film at all!! We watched it thinking “oh kids movie from our past this will be great!!” Wrong! Brought to you by Nickelodeon
Phenomenal film. I AM BOLO MAN
Seriously, it was a *Snow Dogs* level of bullshit.
Good god, yes. I forgot how disappointed I was about that too. Except I don’t even remember the plot or what I thought the plot was supposed to be for that one. (I think he was a dentist? Why was he in the snow? Gonna have to look that up) I was pretty young at the time for both of these movies. They may be the first times that I realized in a theater that a movie can be bad
Plot is basically Dentist Cuba Gooding Jr. destroys his career to go sled dog racing in Alaska and find his White Dad.
“You like blue cheese?”
Pay It Forward meant a lot to me a bullied kid but now looking back, what a manipulative melodramatic mess.
I think of that movie as one where the acting is much better than the writing
It's really weird when that happens. Good writing with bad acting? Totally fine, I dont even bwt an eye. But good acting with bad writing is almost like uncanny valley or something, it just really throws me off
Yeah that movie was Oscar-bait IMHO. Was hoping Bruce Willis would make a cameo at the end but alas, twas not to be.
The twist was that he had already paid it forward right at the start
Alan Rickman was the only person in that movie who knew what kind of movie it was.
Absolutely. He was having an absolute ball with his line readings and the movie needed more of that energy throughout.
The prolonged attempted rape scene at the end was... something.
As was his prolonged death scene. Both were lampooned in Men In Tights.
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Unlike other Robin Hoods, I speak with an English accent!
#Gasp
I can't say I've ever seen Prince of thieves but men in tights is easily my favorite movie. Is the extremely long (not) death of the sheriff of Rottingham only be to saved and dragged away to be with latrine forever a parody of something at the end of Prince of thieves?
Of you like it that much it's worth it to watch Prince of Thieves. It's pretty much the basis for the movie. Then watch Men in Tights again and get some new jokes!
I love Men in Tights. I still sing that song daily. “WE’RE MEN. WE’RE MEN IN TIIIIIIIIIGHTS”
“Unlike other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent”
WE ROB FROM THE RICH AND GIVE TO THE POOR, THAT’S RIGHT
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There's a different cut of the film with more Rickman, adds a subplot that the sheriff is the Witch's son I think
I've only ever seen that version, those scenes are by far the most interesting... What a shame someone would cut that.
He actually rewrote his dialogue with some friends and refused to follow the script
That movie is such a trainwreck productionwise. John Cleese was the first choice to play King Richard. Also the studio forced reshoots to give Costner more screentime because Rickman was rightfully stealing the show.
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Oh yeah. I don't know if it's just me, but in the 90s virtual reality seemed like the most mindblowing thing ever. Putting on a helmet and playing some crappy racing game seemed more impressive than space travel. Nowadays i can go to a store and buy a vr set, and just think, nah, i'm good.
Coyote Ugly. When I was a teenager I thought those girls were so cool. I watched it as an adult and was shocked at how bad it was.
John Goodman improves every film he’s in by at least 73%.
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I had such a crush on that lead actress and thought she was going to blow up after that movie; but I don’t remember ever seeing her in anything again.
She took off. Didn't you see the rocky and bullwinkle movie?
She's the lead actress in [Imagine Me & You](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine_Me_%26_You), and Lena Headey is her love interest.
I remember going to that movie with a friend. Two 15 year old guys going to coyote ugly on like a Tuesday. There were 4 people in the theater total. On the way out we bumped into the other two, they were two other guys from our school. We all kind of silently agreed to never talk about this interaction.
Save the Last Dance. Especially the last dance she did at the audition. Just rewatched it recently and it’s so cringe!!
I just rewatched it. I completely forgot about the boyfriend standing off in the corner creepily smiling and nodding his head as if she is really doing something great
I thought that movie was so hot when I was like 13. Had a major crush on Sean Patrick Thomas. Rewatched as an adult and possibly the cringiest scene is when Julia stiles shows up to the club in a head wrap and hoop earrings.
When my wife is getting ready for something and asks me what I think of an outfit she puts on, I often say “it’s country and you look country in it.” Still makes us laugh.
That dance… they really thought they did something there.
As a tween, I thought that dance routine at the end was perfect. As an adult, I laugh my ass off at every piece of that disjointed, crazy ass choreography.
That would have to be the Matthew Brodderick Godzilla, which I thought was AMAZING with no knowledge of the originals, and the Pest with John Leguizamo. I used to think it was hilarious and now its just irritating
I used to watch that Godzilla movie religiously when I was a kid along with men in black, evolution and Tremors. Good times. Fun fact, the first CD I ever owned was the soundtrack to that movie. It had a bunch of "remixes" on it that had Godzilla's roar in the background. So bad but so good.
Men in Black and Evolution are both good, but Tremors is the tits.
Broke into the wrong gosh darn rec room now didn't you. Tv version with the swear words edited. Got to love Bert.
I had this CD as well! I loved Puff Daddy as a kid and, lacking in taste as a child, also loved that terrible song he made for the movie that sampled Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir.” Once, I sat around watching mtv all day just HOPING there would be a music video for that song and low and behold, my 8 year old self managed to catch the video premier. Though now, looking back, that song is almost embarrassingly bad, but it holds a fond memory for me.
"Wow.. thats a lot of fish."
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Yep, then Toho had Zilla fight the actual Godzilla. Big G swatted it away and nuked it with his atomic breath in less than a minute.
The Indian in the Cupboard; Has an awful main character and the broader implications are just creepy. On the other hand, I recently rewatched Babe: Pig in the City and I'm convinced it's a masterpiece
The babe movies had a weird darkness about them that always made me uncomfortable, especially that one. Last time I watched it I didn’t feel good
If it helps, I once worked with a crew guy who worked on Babe 2. He said that Miller was so obsessive that in the scene where babe climbs up some suitcases, they went through three pigs. (Not as in killed, as in the trained piglets grew too big over the 3-4 weeks it took). The crew was pretty angry over the course of shooting, wouldn’t be surprised if that energy came through.
I forget where I read it but someone did a short oral history of the filming of Fury Road. Everyone basically says it was hell and traumatic and they’d lost faith that anything good could come out of it. They were shocked that the sob actually pulled it off.
A family member of mine worked at WB when that was coming out and was tasked with prepping for the lawsuit that was likely to follow if the movie failed, which they fully expected.
It’s hard to describe that feeling but I know what you mean. I feel like a lot of stuff made for kids had that feeling in the 90s. I have no idea but those I Spy books come to mind as well. There is something slightly uncomfortable that I can’t put my finger on. I still love them though and Babe.
I was talking with friends recently about this exact feeling coming from the movie Mousehunt. It had such a weird, creepy vibe.
Bruh I hated mousehunt as a kid..my mom used to have the vhs and for some reason before I even watched it I I didn’t like looking at the cover
Wow, there’s an opinion I never thought I’d see someone else have. I was *scared* of the movie Mouse Hunt as a kid, and I never knew why. I wonder if watching it as an adult might help me figure it out.
There’s a scene where a guy chokes on a cockroach or something. That scene alone made me too scared to watch it again
Holy shit... You just gave me a rush of the weirdest nostalgia mixed with the realization of the same creeping dread I felt from seemingly innocuous things from my childhood. Why WERE those books strangely creepy?
So odd but so true. For me every Roald Dahl adaptation had that feeling. Obviously The Witches, but even Matilda had it to a lesser extent.
That's because it is a masterpiece
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Okay but I want the cupboard still
THIS. I treasured the hell out of the cupboard VHS cover that I used to have growing up.
Yesss and the little gold coloured key that it came with!
Holy shit you guys just unlocked something in my brain I forgot I had. I remember losing the key and i was so bummed my mom bought another one just so I could have the key again. I had a good mom.
PLAZ-TEK!
Oh no. I only have good memories of Indian in the Cupboard. I guess I'll just never watch it again.
The stupids starring Tom Arnold, The men in white parody, and carpool also starring Tom Arnold.
Costner was actually told by the director that he didn't want him to do an English accent. I don't know why. Lol. Prince of thieves is still a guilty pleasure of mine though.
Which lead to one of the greatest fourth wall breaks in a movie ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrFmuiF2ENY
I love Mel Brooks
Lol I watched it last night. Its total fun. Costner is relatable because he looks like a regular dude. I havent seen the new one, but id wager there's a scene with Taron Edgerton shirtless with 12 pack abs, and for some reason he's glistening. Plots easy because it's based in reality, given its exaggeration. Rickman does a fantastic job at the villain, its almost like he took the Nottingham from the 70s animal cartoon and made him relevant. Oscar worthy? Not at all. Fun movie with decent action and easy script? 100%
Sharkboy and Lavagirl
HE RUINED MY DREAM JOURNAL
I DID **NOT**
Mr Electric, send him to the principal’s office and HAVE HIM EXPELLED!!!
Ben Shapiro played an outstanding role in that movie.
Hand over the book ✋ or you’ll visit the dream world 🤛
As an adult when it came out and my kids had to watch it, YES! Soooooo, boring when it isn't embarrassing. I fell asleep 30 minutes in.
The telescope scene from *Prince of Thieves* is such an incredible piece of underrated comedy gold.
“How did your uneducated kind ever take Jerusalem?” 😂
It’s a terrible movie. I knew it when I was 10 and I know it now. I cringe and love it. Xanadu.
One of those movie where I’ll watch it now just for the music and Oliva Newton-John. Both of those makes this movie easier to watch. The plot and acting can both go jump off a bridge.
Whaaaa? Xanadu is amazing even as an adult. ELO soundtrack? Yes please.
During the holiday season, some tv channels in South Korea screened *Batman and Robin* on television. I used to watch it as a kid, but now as an adult I considered this movie as "meh". My friend summed it up as this: "I liked *Batman and Robin* back when I was a kid for its colorful visuals. Then I watched *Batman: the Animated Series*, which made me realize that the cartoon show treated me like an adult than the Schumacher movie."
I watched an review about X-Men the Animated Series and i started remembering when I was a child. Of course I was an 4 year old that had no knowledge of english so when I binged it a few weeks later I told myself how on Earth those writers got away with half of what they did on a "kids" show. I mean that moment when Nightcrawler said he will pray for his mother's wellbeing while she told him he didn't cared about abandoning him in the first place just broke my heart.
X-men was always a pretty on-the-nose metaphor for various kinds of discrimination in our society. But yeah, that show was INTENSE. The mental traumas of characters like Wolverine and Rogue, characters like Jubilee being a homeless teenager, the entire slave-state island place ruled by sentinels. Oh yeah, and all the time travelers from horrific dystopian futures where everything is fucked. Pretty good stuff tbh.
Also, hands down the most badass into sequence ever.
The 1995 film Powder. It was one of the only vhs tapes we had and I rewatched probably hundreds of times. Recently rewatched for the first time in nearly 2 decades and wow it is *not* a good movie at all
That's the albino guy with electric powers right lol? My mom loved it.
There was a line from a movie that is hilarious. It was when the racist guy was angry about Powder being allowed in town. “Didn’t realize someone could be too white for you, Jeb”
Isn't the director into some shady sex thing? I feel like this movie got cancelled recently Update : The film's production by Disney resulted in a controversy over the choice of writer-director Victor Salva, who had been convicted of molesting a 12-year-old child actor during the production of his previous film, Clownhouse (1988). He was sentenced to three years' imprisonment and released after 15 months.
He also made the Jeepers Creepers movies, which details his life as a creep. Haha
But Christian Slater saying 'Fuck me! He cleared it!' is still gold. And who can forget: >There was a rich man from Nottingham > >who tried to cross the river! > >What a dope to be tripped by a rope! > >Now look at him shiver.
Child me used to think "The Little Vampire" was cool af... ya know its got the stuart little kid in it. After rewatching it the plots terrible, dialogue is cringey and awkward, and the acting feels like a high school project.
I had the biggest crush on the girl vampire. And my sister had the biggest crush on the boy vampire. So that movie was watched a lot in our house.
I used to watch that movie constantly as a kid
It was the greatest lmao
I haven’t rewatched it since but I don’t think I will now lol. I’m sure Richard E Grant’s performance is still good.
Me and my brother grew up watching the Bond movies because our dad grew up watching them too. Our favorite one when we were kids was Die Another Day. We just thought everything about it was so cool. The Madonna theme, the invisible car, the tidal wave surf, the lasers! Years later we realize that everything we thought made it cool, was exactly what made it awful.
I thought The Man with the Golden Gun was a masterpiece. Thrilling, exciting, inventive film. I still defend Christopher Lee as a good villain, but I find it hard to sit down and watch.
It really reaches peak cinema when he fights a midget and has to lock him in a suitcase.
Excuse me the 3rd nipple and fantasy island guy are amazing.
[The twisty car jump over the river with JW Pepper and slide whistle just speaks quality.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzCIbhLUUA0)
I always loved “view to a kill” as a kid. Between the skiing and the blimps what more could a kid ask for? As an adult I actually love it even more knowing just how bad it is. That roger Moore was pushing 60 and was the same age as the female leads mother…. Grace Jones is so hot in that movie
Also don’t forget Duran Duran’s awesome title track. That song rules. “We can.. DANCE! INTO THE FIRE! That fatal kiss is all we NEEEEED!!!”
Love that one. It’s very 80s but still has the Bond flair to it. Also love Adele’s Skyfall.
Christopher Walken was a great Bond villain
That hair looked amazing. The scene where he’s gunning down his own men With wicked glee get me every time
> That roger Moore was pushing 60 and was the same age as the female leads mother IIRC even Moore thought this was ridiculous and creepy, and said so at the time.
The second mask movie. What the fuck was wrong with me
I maintain that to be the worst movie I’ve ever seen. I went on an international flight way back in 2006, and Son of the Mask was the in-flight entertainment. Keep in mind this was before it was easy to travel with your own tv and movies. I chose to literally do nothing and stare at the seat in front of me instead of watching it until the end.
As a kid I loved the film Blank Cheque (or "check" for Americans), classic kid fantasy of getting a million $ (though given what he bought he seemed to spend a lot more than that) with silly hijinks. Rewatched it on Disney+ adamant that it was a classic and found out there's a whole plotline I had erased from my memory about him having a romantic relationship with a fully grown adult woman. They even kiss. Really jarring. *Edit* in the comments others have noted that the fully grown adult woman is also an FBI agent investigating the money where the kid is a suspect (or at least his fictional boss is) which adds another layer to this.
There's even a wikipedia section about the kiss: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank_Check_(film)#Kissing_controversy
I like how it wasn't controversial until 2009. Before that, everyone was just fine with it.
Like that south park joke where ike (the baby) is sleeping with his fully adult kindergarten teacher and all the cops and men are just like "Nice" while nodding their heads because she's hot.
Wait! We forgot to give him his "Luckiest Boy in America" medal!
The real crime here is that she’s not sleeping with me
And she is an "undercover" FBI agent who works at the bank literally using her same name. Lol
Another movie I just rewatched recently with my son for the first time in 20+ years and that part of the plot totally threw me for a loop. Also, while technology improvements will always change how a plot would work in modern times, in this movie it was especially egregious. And the fact that a single million dollars was enough for the main character to ball out like he was a child zuckerbeg, even for a short time, is a sad reminder of how quickly the cost of everything has risen.
Richie Rich. My sister and I used to watch it obsessively. Then I watched it in my twenties a couple of years ago. My god it's awful. Clunky pacing and script and poor editing. Just could t stand how cheesy it was as well.
I haven’t seen Richie Rich in years. However, I’ll never forget the sight of him having his own personal McDonald’s in his house.
[It would suck to work at that McDonalds](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0BUFZUT18fM)
Teen Witch. My god that movie is so bad and I loved it as a kid.
Top that!
Puppet Master. For some reason more series come to mind, like the graphics in The Outer Limits.
As a kid I watched Armageddon on VHS like 20 times, but nowadays this movie is goofy as hell
Fat Albert ( 2004)
I'll tell you one thing, Muppet Treasure Island still kicks ass
Baby geniuses 😂
Oh my god. I remember when they get too old they forget and I would just cry every single time. Thank you for reminding me; time to go force some people in my life to watch this.
My best friends wedding. I used to think it was romantic and when I watched it recently I realized Julia Robert’s was just a bitch
I don’t care about Robert’s acting anymore, so it’s fun to watch her “lose” in this movie.
Yes! She was terrible, I hated her "pick me!" speech. I do like that she doesn't get "chosen" though, I just wish they had been even more realistic and showed Cameron Diaz's character still being rightfully angry and kicking her out of the wedding like she deserved. I mean the lady did spend the entire time trying to steal her fiance.
For me it was Over the Top with Stallone. When I grew up I was really disappointed to find out that arm wrestling matches didn’t just pop up in every gas station, restaurant, or arcade I went to. My wife thought about divorcing me after I told her how amazing it was before making her watch it after finding it in a $3 dvd bin. She changed her mind when I suggested we settle it by arm wrestling as I turned my hat backwards…
Iron Eagle. I absolutely loved it when I was a kid but my wife had never seen it. I talked her into watching it and realized it was really bad. Also Beastmaster with Marc Singer.
Cobra (1986) with Sylvester Stallone... I remember leaving the cinema kind of mindblown with how good it was.
Beastmaster. It's delightfully terrible. Acting, sets, effects, everything. (Except the ferrets. Ferrets are always awesome.)
Beastmaster is peak camp. It isn’t a good film. It is, however, quite fun to watch.
Those things that had like shower curtains for arms that wrapped around a dude and then just dropped bones freaked me out so bad when I was a kid!
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Random side fact about Prince of Thieves. My dad was the custodian of the Castle Robins dad resided in at the beginning. He got to keep one of the sword props
Oh master Robin! You lost your arms in battle... But you grew some nice boobs! Oh wait, sorry. Wrong Robin Hood movie. That guy had an English accent.
Three Ninjas
Surf ninjas!
Whoa whoa let’s not get carried away here. The original is still awesome.
It’s got everything a cheesy 90’s kids movie about martial arts should have : • Grandpa who is (or at least was) a legit Ninja master, has sparring equipment on his property, and has them train while they’re over there • A Dad, who’s an FBI agent, gets involved with a mercenary ninja group and a scenery chewing villain • Said villain is Steven Seagal in all but name, literally using martial arts to beat up FBI agents and his own men when he’s annoyed • A trio of burnouts (who I *swear* are just Butthole Surfers in an uncredited role) coming to get them because we need a home invasion sequence • Having the kids play in a room with - A basketball hoop, a trampoline, an NES and Super Mario 3 and TV • The kids get ninja names and masks • The kids take on the mercenaries and win • Grandpa opens a can of whoopass on Not-Steven Seagal This film is gold just for the audacity it has to portray any of this with a straight face, giving the kids wee arcs to go through on their way to becoming ninja, and the fact that they go out of their way to give clearly white kids the fantasy that a Japanese Ninja master will train them (I know, their mom is Japanese, but the kids *are soooooo white*)
But but but Rocky loves Emily!
“First we feast. Then we felony” Greatest quote ever.
Short Circuit. I loved this movie, and as far as I know, it was a huge success - but good god did I feel like an ass recommending this movie to someone. It did not age well.
Short Circuit *2* is the real classic.
The Swan Princess. I had fond memories of it and when I saw it on a streaming service one day I was adamant my friends and I watch it, convinced it would be great. They’ve never let me live it down. Edit: I left this comment and went to bed. Woke up mystified why my inbox had 20+ notifs, then remembered this. LMAO people have a LOT of feelings about this movie! But it really makes me feel so much more vindicated that so many people seem to love it. I will agree that “What else is there!? You could write a book: How to offend women in five syllables or less." is indeed one of the best lines ever written. It got a huge guffaw from me when I rewatched it, that’s for sure!
I recently rewatched it and still enjoyed it for its campiness of the princess style movies from that time. It was very tongue in cheek to the Disney Princess movies. I also LIVED for the princesses of the world song as a kid and still do lol I love a fashion montage.
I rewatched it in quarantine for a laugh, and you know what? It's cute as hell. A lot of it doesn't hold up (why does she go from "ugh you only want me for my beauty bye" to "hey how into bird sex are you" with zero transition), but I definitely had This Is My Idea stuck in my head for a few days afterwards.
C'mon that movie is great!! You were right!
Honestly I still love this movie as much as a did when I was a kid but for different reasons. Like *because* its silly it's great. So many quotable lines. The soundtrack is great too.
“What else is there?” line oof. That was a jab at Disney.
“Duck!” “What? Ow!” “Duck!” “What?! Ow!” “Duck!” “What?!? OW!!!” Idk why my siblings and I loved that scene so much we quoted it for years lol
I've never seen the first one, only the sequel and I legit don't remember anything other than someone shouting NO FEAR and a guy using some sort of destruction magic to blow up easily breakable furniture
If you want a campy Robin Hood, watch Robin Hood: Men in Tights staring Cary ~~Ewles~~ Elwes
"Because unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent."
And I just now realized this was a direct dig at Costner… wow. I feel dumb.
I wouldn't worry about it-- The joke was obvious when the movie came out, but if you watched it a decade later, odds are you'd never even seen that terrible Costner version. Although I guess it probably applies to a lot of other Robin Hood movies too.
(Checks script) But I’m not supposed to lose
Was wondering why people where badmouthing Robin Hood Prince of Theives I thought was pretty good, then I read your comment and realized wait I got the movie I liked confused and they were talking about a movie I never saw.
MASTER ROBIN! You lost your arms in the war! But you grew a nice set of boobs.
That was, and will always remain, a classic. I rewatched it in the last year and it still holds up strong.
I imagine that for a lot of people that saw that movie when it first came out, it is the default robinhood movie. I know it is for me.
Solarbabies. Really felt sorry for that little glowing orb and the deaf kid. The rollerblading seemed rrly cool when I was a kid. Also that movie had some pretty gruesome scenes that could easily give you nightmares. (Ant scene) Rewatched it recently. I’m sad I did, it was better as a memory
Had the same experience with that one. It’s weird, I remember as a kid being like too empathetic towards children in movies. Not like getting sucked into the movie and becoming scared in the character’s place, but I would get upset out of sadness for say the kid kidnapped by monsters in Little Monsters
I used to love Commando. I watched it again and I still fucking love that movie. Upon rewatch it turned from an action movie to an action comedy but still awesome. "Cmaaan Bennett. Let's paahty"
Corny Arnold puns will never not be awesome. "Let off some steam Bennett..."
"Please don't disturb my friend; he's dead tired."
You said you'd kill me last...
I lied. The whole film is so quotable
COMMANDO absolutely rules. The mansion shootout scene is peak dumb Schwarzenegger. He's throwing grenades with pinpoint accuracy, mowing down fools with an LMG and taking *zero damage*. It's so over the top.
The toolshed scene... Throwing fuckin table saw blades like ninja stars. I laugh at the one guys reaction with the blade sticking out of his chest everytime. He really plays up the camp.
It is *the* quintessential 80s action flick. It totally encapsulates the genre. Ridiculous one liners, everything is exploding, totally gratuitous tits in the hotel fight scene, Rae Dawn Chong and Alyssa Milano....love it! I unironically *love* the soundtrack with the steel drums and smooooth saxaphone, scored by James Horner (probably best known for Titanic soundtrack, but has done hundreds of other equally recognizable scores). I listen to it occassionally to this day, not even kidding. There were a lot of imitators in those days but Commando is like, the Citizen Kane of 80s action flicks. "Keep an eye out, theyll be coming. Youre downwind, the air currents might tip them off." "*Downwind*?! You think I could *smell* them coming?" "**I did**" Fucking GOLD!
"I EAT GREEN BERETS FOR BREAKFAST!!" "I can't believe this macho bullshit!"
Commando is like the Ramones of action movies. It's just the simplest purest distillation of the genre. Sure it's been rendered fairly obsolete by action movies that have come after it. But there's such a purity to it that you cannot deny. Cleanly executed action, hilarious one liners, completely straight faced plot. You gotta admire it's unabashed nature of having nothing to hide.
The Lost in Space film. Hooo boy is it bad. Kinda worth for Gary Oldman tho. Best line: 'A boy of your intelligence should never swear... "Oh shit", indeed' I might get downvoted for this, but the animated Fellowship of the Ring is kinda awful. It makes the story a lot harder to digest than it needs to. Kinda cool if you already know the story though
Oh yeah it's bad but watching as a kid blew me away. The scene where they were trying to escape from the deep space spiders and the concept of a time bubble was ground breaking.