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On 3/14/2024 at 8:47 PM, CoTex said:

I enjoy Captain Ron.

Kurt Russel’s schtick.

Martin Short’s overacting and spasticity.

The overly simplistic plot. 

The whole damned thing.

You buried the lede. Nude Mary Kay Place. Been waiting on that since Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

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This movie is not good, but it has its moments and was pretty ahead of its time for being released in 1995.

I used to sit and watch this movie with my little gay brother so my dad wouldn’t get pissed that my brother wanted to watch a bunch of drag queens instead of playing football. It also helped that the movie had Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes in it. 

My “approval” of the movie helped my brother get comfortable in his own skin and not be ashamed of being gay. A lot of young people didn’t have that kind of support back then. 

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Knights Tale (mentioned already)
Starship Troopers (also mentioned I think)
The Replacements
Big Trouble in Little China

Starship Troopers and Big Trouble do not belong on that list because:

1) They have both aged well
2) Directed by geniuses
3) This is Surly and we mostly love those films

now if you admit you love Starship Troopers 2-4, then you’re on to something
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You never read the book, did you?

You bookfags. Unless you read 120-page novellas they arent being faithfully adopted into a 2-hour movie.

Regardless, on Surly people arent worried about bookfags snobby opinions.
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I guess The Notebook. It’s the Cadillac of Nicholas Sparks films. Jesus Christ, what a sad ending.

Honorable mention: Safe Haven. It takes itself way too seriously. Peak Julianne Hough hotness, and her alcoholic ex-husband is just so hilariously over the top evil.

Spoiler

Cobie Smulders as a ghost encouraging Hough to bang her widowed husband was really funny. 

 

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56 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:


You bookfags. Unless you read 120-page novellas they arent being faithfully adopted into a 2-hour movie.

Regardless, on Surly people arent worried about bookfags snobby opinions.

Didn’t think so. 

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On 5/4/2024 at 11:15 AM, MrBig said:


To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

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This movie is not good, but it has its moments and was pretty ahead of its time for being released in 1995.

I used to sit and watch this movie with my little gay brother so my dad wouldn’t get pissed that my brother wanted to watch a bunch of drag queens instead of playing football. It also helped that the movie had Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes in it. 

My “approval” of the movie helped my brother get comfortable in his own skin and not be ashamed of being gay. A lot of young people didn’t have that kind of support back then. 

CSB they filmed the scene where they drive out on a dead end bridge in a small town I lived in. I was there but they used doubles and not the actual actors.

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Beaches. Yeah it’s the definition of a chick flick, but it’s also a wonderful story of friendship. 
 

Bette Midler is terrific. One the best Seinfeld episodes ever playing herself. I think her career was stunted by Barbara Streisand fatigue. 

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On 2/18/2024 at 11:39 PM, Frieda’s Boss said:

Blue Streak

Movie is awesome. 

On 2/19/2024 at 4:58 AM, kingkoopa6 said:

Blue streak with Martin Lawerence ? That movie is amazing

Shit just saw I already commented in the past lol. 
 

but point remains 

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It’s an on-going family joke for years that Dad loves Beaches. I can watch it once a week.

Many of us in our late 40s or early 50s have movies we fell in love with because of HBO in the 80s. The movie that I associate with this most is Arthur. I had an unhealthy obsession with this movie before I was 10. Still do.

Bucky Larson. Maybe the worst movie ever made but the first 20 minutes is hilarious.

Blue Streak has been mentioned. I’m not sure this qualifies - I know tons of people that love this movie. “Kiss my ass with them shits” has been quoted thousands of times in my friend circle.

Saving Silverman
Law Abiding Citizen
Pet Semetary (original)

So many found footage horror movies.

Posted
48 minutes ago, lateshow said:

Fuck that. Rad was awesome.

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And "Thunder in Your Heart" is a fucking banger that's in my workout playlist.

 

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On 3/19/2024 at 2:10 PM, Covri said:

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That's a legit pretty good flick.  Ben Foster is fantastic.  I think we'd have seen big things from Anton Yelchin eventually.  RIP.

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On 3/19/2024 at 6:13 PM, Bama Llama said:

I rather enjoyed this one. Made me think about snails, cheetahs, Cameron Diaz’ ruthless ass and how fucking stupid lawyers can be when beauty and money are involved. 

 

Gets better with rewatch.

I will submit Battleship.

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On 5/11/2024 at 3:48 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

Beaches. Yeah it’s the definition of a chick flick, but it’s also a wonderful story of friendship. 
 

Bette Midler is terrific. One the best Seinfeld episodes ever playing herself. I think her career was stunted by Barbara Streisand fatigue. 

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Some absolutely terrible movies from my childhood and young adulthood that I love and will re-watch any time on tv

Cobra

Delta Force (went and rented it on 9-11)

Saving Silverman

Road House

Aspen Extreme

Over the Top

Iron Eagle

Tango & Cash

Hard to Kill

Under Siege 2

The Monster Squad

Just One of the Guys

Rad

No Retreat, No Surrender

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6 minutes ago, A-Tex Devil said:

Amazing Grace & Chuck

Thor Love and Thunder

Les Miserables (with Wolverine, Linda Lovelace and Stephen Hawking)

MegaForce (the original Cybertrucks)

 

 

Forgot about Amazing Grace and Chuck.  Very solid flick.  Plus I love just about any movie set in Montana.  

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4 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

Forgot about Amazing Grace and Chuck.  Very solid flick.  Plus I love just about any movie set in Montana.  

It’s a ridiculous premise but it’s the first movie that ever made me cry.  
 

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On 5/5/2024 at 6:12 AM, WhatTheBuck said:

You never read the book, did you?

 

On 5/5/2024 at 5:11 PM, Eskimohorn said:


You bookfags. Unless you read 120-page novellas they arent being faithfully adopted into a 2-hour movie.

Regardless, on Surly people arent worried about bookfags snobby opinions.

 

On 5/5/2024 at 6:08 PM, WhatTheBuck said:

Didn’t think so. 

Neither did Verhoeven - at least, not all the way through - and that's what makes the movie so great. He got partway through, realized it was garbage promoting a garbage fascist worldview, and wrote the movie to make fun of it.

It's the one instance I know of where a movie adaptation of a novel succeeds because it's satirizing the novel.

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For the Boys aged like a bag of peaches left out in the sun. I liked it as a kid, but the Vietnam scenes are pure dogshit. I liked to watch some of the old USO shows with Bob Hope. This wasn’t it. 
 

Great cast, Middler, James Caan, George Segal, and Norman Fell. Good premise. Just didn’t work. 

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On 2/19/2024 at 11:23 AM, Dutchrudder said:

Step Up Revolution. It's a terrible movie with stupid characters, but it is absolutely hilarious to watch these completely unrealistic people come together and pull off the most insane dance sequence mobs.  It's like a kid friendly version of Fast and Furious where the crazy underground car racing scenes and rivalries are replaced with spontaneous dancing. Just look at this shit:

 

 

Nobody got shot with all of these people dancing on top of that many classic cars?

Nobody?

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2 hours ago, Rimbo said:

Neither did Verhoeven - at least, not all the way through - and that's what makes the movie so great. He got partway through, realized it was garbage promoting a garbage fascist worldview, and wrote the movie to make fun of it.

It's the one instance I know of where a movie adaptation of a novel succeeds because it's satirizing the novel.

That sounds like rationalization. It doesn’t satirize the novel. That’s not how satire works.  (And how did you get sold on the excuse that instead of finishing the book the director decided to satirize it? How did he know what he was satirizing if he didn’t read the book? That’s an obvious cop out.)

Let me think of an analogy that the illiterati might understand. I’ll use a movie instead of a book so non-readers might get it. You wouldn’t try to satirize Star Wars with a bad remake that omitted The Force, Obi-Wan Kenobi and the Jedi Kinghts, and then called it Star Wars. Anyone who saw the original Star Wars would say it sucked. Anyone who said it was satirizing Star Wars would sound like an idiot.

”What happened to Obi-Wan Kenobi? May The Force be with you? Use The Force, Luke?”

“It’s satire.”

”No it’s not. That’s not how satire works. What the fuck is wrong with you?”

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18 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

That sounds like rationalization.

It's pretty close to a direct quote from Verhoeven himself.

And while I've not read that particular novel, I've read more Heinlein than I ever care to. He's the sort of author that guys who drive Camaros around the nearby high school trying to pick up freshmen think is a deep intellectual. He was a pulp author cursed to have to justify the sex and violence; a victim of the golden age, whose transparent fallacies are obvious to everyone else but him. Well, him, and the pseudo-intellectuals who feel they've found the rationalizations to justify their own base feelings.

The only reason I don't have a lower opinion of Heinlein than Hubbard or Ayn Rand is, unlike those two, he never created a dangerous cult.

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