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	Let's try something else
	Let's play a game. Based on something I said in the big 3,000 post. I said that I am hard-pressed to think of films where there wasn't at least one thing I thought was cool, or funny, or likable, in one form or another. Aside from the Transformers films and Blankman, which I drew an actual blank on. So. Name a movie. A movie you're fairly certain I've seen. If I haven't seen it, you go again. If you name something I like, well, great. I'll let you know that I liked it or loved it. And you can keep guessing, if you feel like it. If you name something you didn't think I liked, I'll give you something I liked about it. Like with Congo. The movie was drivel, poop, snot. But I liked Bruce Campbell, and I liked Ernie Hudson's character, and I liked the laser that cut evil super-apes in half. The two Transformers films and Blankman are already disqualified, but you are encouraged to come up with as many as you'd like. The idea of the game is to come up with a movie within which I could find no redeeming qualities. I'm proving to myself I haven't sunk into the technicolor wasteland of my own head yet, where everything is fixed and immutable based on the idea that once I've made my mind up about something, it takes too much effort on the parts of both others and myself to change it. Which, again, my overall problem with absolutes. 'Kay? Hit me. ♫: Ramona Brooks ~ "I Don't Want You Back"

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	From: danithesquirrel	Date: November 5th, 2009 07:10 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Con Air

Liar Liar

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	From: twitchywrote	Date: November 5th, 2009 07:16 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I never saw Con-Air, though I've seen bits of it and it didn't look to great, to me. However, the movie itself inspired half the plot to the Cowboy Bebop episode "Black Dog Serenade," so without Con-Air that episode may not have come into being.

Liar Liar...hmmm...Cary Elwes character was rather adorable. I giggled hardest when he tried to do the "Claw," but wasn't as annoyingly over-the-top as Carrey with it, hence, I liked it better!

Edited at 2009-11-05 07:16 pm (UTC)

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	From: smallvictories	Date: November 5th, 2009 07:14 pm (UTC)		(Link)

brazil

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	From: twitchywrote	Date: November 5th, 2009 07:21 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Aside from some very fine performances

Terry Gilliam's set design will always win me over. Before the heady days of shit-sucking CG being the set, we had actual props and setpieces and things, and Terry's will always look great to me.

It should be noted that while I realize it's perhaps the most heavy-handed commentary on corporate-run life and such, I didn't hate it until the absolute soul-crusher of an ending, which...I like to tell myself...was probably the only possible outcome for such a thing, but does nothing to endear me to the idea of hope.

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	From: apresminuit	Date: November 5th, 2009 07:17 pm (UTC)		(Link)

VAN HELSING.

& kate whatherface wearing leather pants & a corset & generally being hot DO NOT COUNT.

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	From: the_living_end	Date: November 5th, 2009 07:20 pm (UTC)		(Link)

i never really understood her transition from cold comfort farm proper english girl to leather-pants vixen.

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	From: twitchywrote	Date: November 5th, 2009 07:21 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I, uh, never saw that!

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	i wish i could say the same. dear god, how i wish!! - apresminuit Expand


	you took mine - liamtheruiner Expand


	it is gratifying to know that you hated it as much as i did - apresminuit Expand


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	From: apresminuit	Date: November 5th, 2009 07:22 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	or any of the underworld movies, for that matter

same caveat

(however, i would accept underworld whatever#: rise of the lycans, w/ the good thing being that kate whatsherface is not in it. b/c that was sort of my reaction to it.)

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	the kate whatsherface oeuvre is always my ace in the hole! - apresminuit Expand


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	i understand the appeal, i guess, i just don't think it makes up for how horrendo her movies are - apresminuit Expand


	Well, there aren't any great shots in either movie - twitchywrote Expand


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	Yes, dear - twitchywrote Expand


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	From: the_living_end	Date: November 5th, 2009 07:18 pm (UTC)		(Link)

the league of extraordinary gentlemen
the order (with heath ledger) this one i can actually think of something that makes me laugh in an omg wtf kind of way but i'm thinking not everyone will even go that far with it.

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	From: twitchywrote	Date: November 5th, 2009 07:25 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	I never saw the Order

The League...oh, my, that's a tough one.

Ah! Nobody's career I actually gave a shit about was damaged by that rigmarole. Yeah, it's the movie that caused Sean Connery to retire, but the man was 73 when it came out, and he was in shit that was just as bad before that (Hello, Highlander 2 and Zardoz), so I dunno what his beef even was.

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	From: chocolatebark	Date: November 5th, 2009 08:30 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Sean Connery got upset and suckerpunched Stephen Norrington, which is kind of awesome.

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	From: messerschmitt	Date: November 5th, 2009 07:52 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Black Knight, Big Momma's House, G.I. Joe (new one)

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	From: twitchywrote	Date: November 5th, 2009 08:03 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	I have never watched a Martin Lawrence movie

Nor have I seen the new G.I. Joe. You go again!

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	From: chocolatebark	Date: November 5th, 2009 08:30 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	3 word

ninja with jetpack

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	From: vogdoid	Date: November 5th, 2009 07:59 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Donnie Darko. I'm pretty sure you hate that one? I liked it ok (certain things I loved) but haven't watched in a long time.

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	From: twitchywrote	Date: November 5th, 2009 08:07 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	I watched it once and remember really not liking it

Patrick Swayze as a motivational speaker.

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	From: littlepalaces	Date: November 5th, 2009 08:16 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	HOW DID NO ONE ELSE THINK OF THIS YET??

Batman Forever

Batman & Robin

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	From: twitchywrote	Date: November 5th, 2009 08:30 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Oooooooofff

Honey, you drive a hard...nail, into my fingers.

Batman & Robin I remember more readily, so it goes first.

I've come full-circle on this bucket of shit, and after my initial dread, horror, despair, and general unhappiness about it, I revisited it. And you know what?

I laugh at the ice puns now. I do. Maybe not a healthy kind of laughter, but a sort of, "This isn't really happening, so I may as well laugh at it" kind of way.By no means can I be talked into watching it again, but if I did, the ice puns would make me laugh, still. It's like some kind of sub-irony wormhole, where we all knew that Arnold couldn't really try and be anything but an unintentionally funny cow man who shoots catchphrases, but we cast him anyway. "We'll show you how bad I can make a Batman movie suck!"

I don't remember that much of Forever, which is odd, because I saw it twice. I remember Two-Face going "BWAHAHAHAHAA" and the Riddler going "OOOOOOOOWAAAAAAAAAAA" like Judge Doom in cartoon form a whole lot. I remember so little else, though! You may have won the day, Games.

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	From: chocolatebark	Date: November 5th, 2009 08:19 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Cannibal Holocaust.

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	From: twitchywrote	Date: November 5th, 2009 08:30 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Does it count if I didn't watch the whole thing?

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	oh god, I shouldn't have suggested it - chocolatebark Expand


	I never saw that - twitchywrote Expand


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	no love for Ironsides? - chocolatebark Expand


	I always love Ironsides - twitchywrote Expand


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	From: mlknchz	Date: November 5th, 2009 09:12 pm (UTC)		(Link)

"Blood Simple"

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	From: twitchywrote	Date: November 6th, 2009 04:14 am (UTC)		(Link)

Not seen!

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	From: myglock_yrface	Date: November 5th, 2009 09:31 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	This is tough...

How about oh, any Adam Sandler film from the 1990s?

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	From: twitchywrote	Date: November 6th, 2009 04:20 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Any?

I've seen...uh, two that I can remember. Billy Madison had an uncredited Steve Buscemi with his "People He Planned to Gun Down" list, which I thought was kind of funny. Happy Gilmore has Richard Kiel (Eegah!) in it, which made me smile.

That's all I've seen of his! I knew better after that!

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	From: liamtheruiner	Date: November 5th, 2009 11:31 pm (UTC)		(Link)

cocktail

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	From: twitchywrote	Date: November 6th, 2009 04:20 am (UTC)		(Link)

Never seen it!

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	all right, the big guns - liamtheruiner Expand

	From: gargamellon	Date: November 6th, 2009 05:17 am (UTC)		(Link)

Last Action Hero
Time Cop
Apocalypse Now
The Last Samauri
Bowling for Colombine
Anaconda

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	From: twitchywrote	Date: November 6th, 2009 05:34 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Man, you pulled out all the stops!

Last Action Hero - Ian McKellan as Death. He was so cute!

Timecop - Aside from having Mia Sara in it (who I've never stopped having a crush on since Ferris Bueller's Day Off), it also features Van Damme saying "The same matter cannot occupy the same space at the same time," which comes out as "The sahme mahter canoot hockupie the sahme spashe aht the sahme toime." Price of admission, right there.

I saw Apocalypse Now once, when I was 7. I don't remember anything about it.

Never saw The Last Samurai.

Bowling For Columbine - Charlton Heston ignoring Moore was pretty great, and Marylin Manson had a decent point.

Anaconda - "Maybe some udder time," followed closely by "There snakes out dere dis big?!"

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	From: musemom	Date: November 6th, 2009 07:17 am (UTC)		(Link)

Monsters Inc.
Blazing Saddles
Dances With Wolves
Starman
Ladyhawk

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	From: twitchywrote	Date: November 6th, 2009 06:33 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I REALLY liked Monsters Inc., even though I was forced to sit through it at least 20 times.

The rest of those I haven't seen!

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