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Quote pixelblink Replybullet Topic: Movies - Guilty Pleasures
    Posted: 26 April 2005 at 12:30am

Some of my guilty pleasures in movies:

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The Chronicles of Riddick (just for the special effects)
Old School
Joyride
Notting Hill (yup, I'm a guy and I love that movie... funny as hell and just a good script... charming and it flows well)

just some to start you off thinking

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Quote sedgemonkey Replybullet Posted: 26 April 2005 at 11:51am

Old School is too damn funny... "ear muffs"

This is a great topic... spill your guts on potentially embarassing entertainment eh? 

  • Titanic -- Saw it twice in the theater (not intentionally, but loved it both times).
  • Love Actually -- My fave "chick flick".
  • The Matrix Reloaded -- The action was great and I didn't think the dialogue was that bad.
  • Star Wars Episode 1  -- All you have to do is ditch Jar Jar and that whole funky alien race, replace that pathetic kid actor, keep Darth Maul for the future and tone down the Amos and Andy routines and you'd have a damn good flick. 
  • Final Destination -- The movie was pretty crappy, but there's one scene in the beginning that totally freaked me out.
  • Event Horizon -- The last really scary movie I saw in the theater. Good actors in it too. Sam Neil is such a huge freak.
  • King of Queens -- Standard crap sitcom TV in syndication can be funny.
  • 21 Jumpstreet -- Watched the whole first season again last month on DVD and loved every corny second of it.
  • New TMNT episodes -- They follow the comic book really closely and the animation is much better.
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Quote mattz0r Replybullet Posted: 30 April 2005 at 6:32pm
Well Mean Girls is funny because it shows how girls really are in school.

S.W.A.T. was an awesome action movie

Gladiator has to be one of my favorites. Full of action. Its great.

XXX state of the union was Awesome but with some really lame lines. (never should've put Ice Cube in a movie.)
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Quote pixelblink Replybullet Posted: 30 April 2005 at 6:41pm

Originally posted by mattz0r

Well Mean Girls is funny because it shows how girls really are in school.

S.W.A.T. was an awesome action movie

Gladiator has to be one of my favorites. Full of action. Its great.

XXX state of the union was Awesome but with some really lame lines. (never should've put Ice Cube in a movie.)

Mean Girls - I never liked Lindsay Lohan til she got her boob job

S.W.A.T. - just pure sucked

Gladiator - Gladiator?? That one of your guilty pleasures?? That movie is one of the best Epic/Greek Tragedy/Action movies of all time... nobody should ever feel guilty for liking that movie

XXX - umm.. Ice Cube needs to melt away

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Quote mattz0r Replybullet Posted: 30 April 2005 at 6:51pm
how can you say S.W.A.T. was bad??? besides the main char could have looked better (bigger muscles and etc... and no unibrow)

yeah Gladiator was the best
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Quote pixelblink Replybullet Posted: 30 April 2005 at 7:48pm

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how can you say S.W.A.T. was bad??? besides the main char could have looked better (bigger muscles and etc... and no unibrow)

yeah Gladiator was the best

the whole point of this thread was about guilty pleasures... being movies that you are pretty much ashamed to admit you like. If you loved Gladiator and SWAT and aren't ashamed to admit it.. that's cool and all but, not really having to do with the theme in this thread.

More movies I'm ashamed to say I like:

- Love actually
- Iron Monkey (the dubbed version)
-Kate & Leopold
-Dark City
- Scooby Doo

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Quote pixelblink Replybullet Posted: 30 April 2005 at 7:52pm

Sedge:

Titanic - Only good thing about that movie were the people dying
Love Actually - I like it too
The Matrix Reloaded - CGI was good
Star Wars Episode 1  - Absolute crap... you're a loser for liking it
Final Destination - The only thing I didn't like abou that movie was they made a sequel
Event Horizon - Crap. Even worse than liking Star Wars Eps. 1

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Quote sedgemonkey Replybullet Posted: 01 May 2005 at 12:27pm

Pixelbink's really getting into the spirit of it... taunting the picks of other people wthout regard.

  • Scooby Doo is just a disgrace... one of the worst movies ever made.
  • Dark City was Roger Ebert's number one movie the year it came out. 
  • Iron Monkey is one of the best Kung-Fu flicks eva eva eva.
  • S.W.A.T. got out of control. The opening training scenes were really sweet, but it just went completely crazy in the middle.
  • How could Gladiator ever be considered a guilty pleasure?  It won tons of awards, was hugely popular and had tons of brilliant action.
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Quote mattz0r Replybullet Posted: 01 May 2005 at 12:35pm
The Cell
Super Troopers
3rd Harry Potter (hermione was hot)

just to name some more

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Quote So-lou Replybullet Posted: 04 May 2005 at 7:16pm
My guilty pleasure movie: Charlie's Angels 1 and 2. XD (Crispin Glover = sex)
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Quote pixelblink Replybullet Posted: 04 May 2005 at 8:00pm

Originally posted by So-lou

My guilty pleasure movie: Charlie's Angels 1 and 2. XD (Crispin Glover = sex)

I already told you of my distate for anything with Drew Barrymore as well as my disappointment of Seed of Chucky.

Crispin was great in Willard though... another guilty pleasure I guess. Bound to go down as a great cult movie

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Quote sedgemonkey Replybullet Posted: 04 May 2005 at 11:11pm

Originally posted by So-lou

My guilty pleasure movie: Charlie's Angels 1 and 2. XD (Crispin Glover = sex)

Charlie's Angels 1 was OK (Bill Murray and the fun campiness), but Charlie's Angels 2?!  I don't know if I can ever fully trust you So-lou.

Originally posted by mattz0r

The Cell
Super Troopers
3rd Harry Potter (hermione was hot)

just to name some more
 

Super Troopers had some pretty funny scenes. The 3rd Harry Potter was pretty good.  They really pick some great actors to go along with the kids.



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Quote sedgemonkey Replybullet Posted: 18 May 2005 at 1:00pm

I just saw one last night that I never thought I would like... In Good Company.

Dennis Quaid and the young executive (can't remember his name, he's the dude from That 70's Show) are really good and that Scarlett Johanson is always a treat.

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Quote sedgemonkey Replybullet Posted: 18 May 2005 at 1:01pm
Oh yeah, I saw The Chronicles of Riddick finally... you should be embarassed liking that piece of Hollywood vomit.
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Quote Aleiav Replybullet Posted: 02 June 2005 at 12:16am
I like Disney TV movies like Cadet Kelly and Under Wraps. :)
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Quote sedgemonkey Replybullet Posted: 02 June 2005 at 9:53am
I haven't seen any of the Disney TV movies, but I used to like those Nickelodeon live action shows like "You can't do that on Television". 
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Quote So-lou Replybullet Posted: 04 June 2005 at 10:22pm
ALL of the Child's Play movies. ALL OF THEM. :D (especially Bride of Chucky X3)
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Quote sedgemonkey Replybullet Posted: 05 June 2005 at 12:30am

Originally posted by So-lou

ALL of the Child's Play movies. ALL OF THEM. :D (especially Bride of Chucky X3)

So you're the reason why they keep making those.

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Quote Chesheyre Replybullet Posted: 23 June 2005 at 10:09pm
Oh man..  I like to think I have good taste in movies..  but I do like a few pieces of crap. 

The X-Files Movie - I'm a hardcore fan of the series, and I know it's not the best movie in the world..  but man..  It's got a place in my heart.. 

Patch Adams - I am so ashamed for liking this movie.  But I do.  I can't explain it.  I just.  Moving on..

Tremors - Okay, I know it was horrible..  but I remember being scared out of my MIND when I was younger.  (To the point where I wouldn't put my feet on the ground)  Soo I still love it.  :)

Super Mario Brothers :  The Movie - Everytime I tell someone I love this movie, I can see their respect for me drop.  Tremendously. 

Howard the Duck - Duck sex. 

Candy Man:  Farewell to the Flesh - ...and every other cheesy horror movie ever made.  I'm a BIG fan of cheesy, crappy, unbelievable predictable horror movies.  :)

So basically, those are the movies that I only watch when I'm alone.  XP
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Quote pixelblink Replybullet Posted: 23 June 2005 at 10:35pm

x-files : was okay.. not great, just okay

patch adams :  they meant well and it was almost the feel-good movie of the year but they decided to cast Robin Williams as Patch

tremors : still enjoy it

super mario :  never saw it... probably never will

howard the duck : love it.. my guilty pleasure too. BTW, was one of the first films I've seen Tim Robbins in

Candyman : was this the second one? didn't the first suck enough?

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Quote Chesheyre Replybullet Posted: 23 June 2005 at 10:53pm
Well the Candyman thing, it was just a random one I pulled out of my cheesy horror movie collection..  and much to my dismay I enjoyed it!  :D 

Oh man, it's so horrible.  I don't know how I can sit through it. 

But man, how could anyone like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?!  Heh, I hated that SOOO much. 
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Quote pixelblink Replybullet Posted: 23 June 2005 at 11:03pm

aww...lol

Did you actually know who the characters were before watching the movie?

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Quote sedgemonkey Replybullet Posted: 23 June 2005 at 11:19pm

Originally posted by Chesheyre

Oh man..  I like to think I have good taste in movies..  but I do like a few pieces of crap. 

The X-Files Movie - I'm a hardcore fan of the series, and I know it's not the best movie in the world..  but man..  It's got a place in my heart.. 

Patch Adams - I am so ashamed for liking this movie.  But I do.  I can't explain it.  I just.  Moving on..

Tremors - Okay, I know it was horrible..  but I remember being scared out of my MIND when I was younger.  (To the point where I wouldn't put my feet on the ground)  Soo I still love it.  :)

Super Mario Brothers :  The Movie - Everytime I tell someone I love this movie, I can see their respect for me drop.  Tremendously. 

Howard the Duck - Duck sex. 

Candy Man:  Farewell to the Flesh - ...and every other cheesy horror movie ever made.  I'm a BIG fan of cheesy, crappy, unbelievable predictable horror movies.  :)

So basically, those are the movies that I only watch when I'm alone.  XP

Super Mario Brothers?  Really?

X-Files movie was confusing to me because I didn't watch the show. It seems like it could've been good.

Tremors is an awesome flick. Scared the heck out of me when I was a kid.

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Quote Carnivac Replybullet Posted: 24 June 2005 at 5:05am
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New TMNT episodes -- They follow the comic book really closely and the animation is much better.


I consider the old series to be more of a guilty pleasure since I watched some of them the other day and damn its cringe worthy.  Really embarassing trash that I was somehow hooked on as a kid.  The new show is great.  Actual proper plots and characters and much truer to the old black and white comics I had as a kid.  Do kinda miss April in the yellow jump suit though

Originally posted by Chesheyre

Tremors - Okay, I know it was horrible..  but I remember being scared out of my MIND when I was younger.  (To the point where I wouldn't put my feet on the ground)  Soo I still love it.  :)


Tremors is great fun.  I thought Tremors 2 was damn entertaining too.  Ain't seen any of the ones past that though.
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Quote Rynov Replybullet Posted: 04 July 2005 at 4:53pm

Guilty pleasures, eh? Sin City. delightfully campy and excessive in everything it does. It even has Japanese Fan-boy co-director Quentin Tarantino! I love you Sin City! And I love you Merv. You and your mitts. TMNT is also a big one for me.



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Quote So-lou Replybullet Posted: 04 July 2005 at 5:07pm

Quentin Tarantino***

 

he's the bomb diggity he is.

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Quote sedgemonkey Replybullet Posted: 05 July 2005 at 12:57pm

Being a Tarantino fan is nothing to be ashamed of... he gets good reviews and box office in general.  

What's a REAL guilty pleasure so-lou?  I bet it's something deviant.  

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Quote So-lou Replybullet Posted: 05 July 2005 at 6:34pm
Originally posted by sedgemonkey

Being a Tarantino fan is nothing to be ashamed of... he gets good reviews and box office in general.  

What's a REAL guilty pleasure so-lou?  I bet it's something deviant.  

 

Nah, I was just correcting his spelling of the great QT. :D

 

I enjoyed Harold and Kumar go to Whitecastle......and I'm not even a stoner. It's just so damned funny in places you don't expect it to be. But very lame. "You sunk my battle-sh*t!!"

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Quote sedgemonkey Replybullet Posted: 06 July 2005 at 8:11am
Harold and Kumar is at the top of my queue in Netflix coincidentally.  Sometimes goofy stoner comedy is good stuff.
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Quote ryan-gfx Replybullet Posted: 06 July 2005 at 3:13pm
My guilty pleasure is mean Girls... I love that movie even though it IS a chick flick and it has lindsay lohan in it, but still.. it's funny as hell :D

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Quote So-lou Replybullet Posted: 06 July 2005 at 5:35pm

Originally posted by ryan-gfx

My guilty pleasure is mean Girls... I love that movie even though it IS a chick flick and it has lindsay lohan in it, but still.. it's funny as hell :D

 

I wouldn't say that's a guilty pleasure - it's actually quite a good film. Lohan acted well in it (and that's coming from someone who LOOOAAATHES her) and the story wasn't full of cliches - in fact it was like how it was at my school. :| So yeah, be proud to say you like this one. I do as well.

 

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Quote PixelSnader Replybullet Posted: 06 July 2005 at 5:40pm

your life was like lindsay lohan?

i allways thought you were okay.. untill now.. :P


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Quote So-lou Replybullet Posted: 06 July 2005 at 6:02pm
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your life was like lindsay lohan?

i allways thought you were okay.. untill now.. :P

 

Huh? o_0 N.....o.....it was like Cady's, Lohan's CHARACTER. Actually I'm probably more of a Regina.... : | Except in a lot of ways - not. Ugh you've confused me snader. ><

 

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its not my words that confuse you, its my utterly sexy style of typage O.o

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Quote sedgemonkey Replybullet Posted: 07 July 2005 at 1:24am
Mean Girls = sheepish
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Quote blue Replybullet Posted: 07 July 2005 at 10:39am
I think Love Actually was absolutely brilliant. The plot was all over the place, but it just gave these little vignettes of peoples' lives. Unfortunately, I saw it on an airplane, and they'd cut out the whole porn star plot...I still haven't seen that all the way through...

I think my Guilty Pleasures are more...TV shows. I watch the same episodes of Whose Line? over and over. I watch Ed, Edd, and Eddie, the Powerpuff girls, Totally Spies, ocassional Winx Club [why? I really don't know] and Mad TV. I generally claim that I'm just too lazy to turn the channel...;)
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Quote sedgemonkey Replybullet Posted: 07 July 2005 at 11:54am

Speaking of Love Actually... I'm a closet Hugh Grant fan.  That guy cracks me up in every flick.

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Quote Aleiav Replybullet Posted: 08 July 2005 at 1:05am
Hmm.. well I don't really have any movies I feel guilty about liking..

buuut Shrek 2 almost made my eyes water which says a lot because.. well.. movies don't make me cry.. well, movies like THAT. I mean, romance movies. I'm usually like ".. blarg.. stop kissing NOW". But in that one when Fiona said Shrek was fine as an Ogre.. it was.. so.. touching. XD XD
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Quote 1ucas Replybullet Posted: 08 July 2005 at 6:16am
Tremors (1+2), They Live, The Blob, The Stuff, Alien 3 (everyone seems to hate this one?), Groudhog Day, Child's Play series (though I hardly see them nowdays because it's never on anymore :/), Hellraiser, Cube and Cube Zero, Cabin Boy, Demolition Man... can't really think of more

Hmm yeah, and there are loads of silly 80's movies I used to watch as a kid on the "Sessão da Tarde" ("Afternoon Session"), the name of the movie session Rede Globo (the biggest network here) has on weekdays. Great days...

Oh, and a few years ago they had a "Cine Trash" session in another network, just before Sessão da Tarde, where they aired crappy horror movies. I absolutely LOVED anything they aired there, it was sooo awesome

(I never did homework because of it)

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Quote Blueberry_pie Replybullet Posted: 08 July 2005 at 7:57am
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Tremors (1+2), They Live, The Blob, The Stuff, Alien 3 (everyone seems to hate this one?), Groudhog Day, Child's Play series (though I hardly see them nowdays because it's never on anymore :/), Hellraiser, Cube and Cube Zero, Cabin Boy, Demolition Man... can't really think of more

Ooh, I loved Groundhog Day... I don't really see why it's a guilty pleasure though?
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Quote 1ucas Replybullet Posted: 08 July 2005 at 8:05am
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Originally posted by 1ucas

Tremors (1+2), They Live, The Blob, The Stuff, Alien 3 (everyone seems to hate this one?), <span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Groudhog Day</span>,
Child's Play series (though I hardly see them nowdays because it's
never on anymore :/), Hellraiser, Cube and Cube Zero, Cabin Boy,
Demolition Man... can't really think of more

Ooh, I loved Groundhog Day... I don't really see why it's a guilty pleasure though?


Yes, I don't really see why either. Guess I just put it there because I like it so much?

Ignore that one then

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Quote sedgemonkey Replybullet Posted: 08 July 2005 at 8:13am

1ucas:  Alien 3 had some cool moments and the overall idea wasn't that bad, but some of the plot points seemed kinda lame to me.

Groundhog Day is Bill Murray bringing his A game.  Great movie.

Heh, They Live was a neat idea but John Carpenter can be totally cheesy... "I came here to chew bubblegum and kickass and I'm all out of bubblegum."

Demolition Man is indeed a movie that is embarassing to like.

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Quote Carnivac Replybullet Posted: 08 July 2005 at 8:33am
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1ucas:  Alien 3 had some cool moments and the overall idea wasn't that bad, but some of the plot points seemed kinda lame to me.

Groundhog Day is Bill Murray bringing his A game.  Great movie.

Heh, They Live was a neat idea but John Carpenter can be totally cheesy... "I came here to chew bubblegum and kickass and I'm all out of bubblegum."

Demolition Man is indeed a movie that is embarassing to like.



Alien 3 was just...nothing.  And it's still hard to forgive them killing the rest of the 'Aliens' survivors with ease like that.

Groundhog Day (Murray is a comedic genius) and They Live are great and Demolition Man's bout the only Stallone movie I ever found myself actually enjoying.  Mainly due to Sandra Bullock, Wesley Snipes and Denis Leary more than Stallone himself.
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Quote So-lou Replybullet Posted: 08 July 2005 at 9:11am

 

I LOVE Alien vs. Predator.  (ps - bought an Alien bobble-head today )

 

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Quote 1ucas Replybullet Posted: 08 July 2005 at 9:14am
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Heh, They Live was a neat idea but John Carpenter can be totally cheesy... "I came here to chew bubblegum and kickass and I'm all out of bubblegum."



Actually, that line was adlibbed by Piper
Btw, the original tale the movie's based on, Eight o' Clock in the Morning is pretty cool too.

About Alien 3, I think what hooks me on it is the ambience of the setting (I have a thing for foundries?) and the Alien design. The dog-like smooth-head alien is the best incarnation of the xenomorph, IMO.
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Quote So-lou Replybullet Posted: 08 July 2005 at 9:49am

Me, I like Alien Resurrection more - in fact it's probably my favourite one. Most likely because of my EXTREME affection for Gediman. "Beeeautiful baaaby." XD And that whole underwater sequence was just - so tense and perfectly shot imo.

 

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Quote sedgemonkey Replybullet Posted: 08 July 2005 at 12:28pm

Wolverine:  Another Demoliton Man fan?  How can you not like Stallone in Rocky? It's the great american sports movie.  

1ucas: Piper came up with that eh?  Well, I still stick by assertion that Carpenter can be a cheeseball.  Don't get me wrong... I loved the original Assualt on Precinct 13, Halloween, Big Trouble in Little China and In the Mouth of Madness... I just can't think of a single movie of his where I didn't roll my eyes at least once.

So-lou: The underwater scene and the "alien torture scene" were both pretty cool in Resurrection, but the first two Aliens are untouchable.

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Quote Carnivac Replybullet Posted: 08 July 2005 at 12:44pm
Originally posted by sedgemonkey

Wolverine:  Another Demoliton Man fan?  How can you not like Stallone in Rocky? It's the great american sports movie. 


Ain't a fan of DM as such.  I just find it watchable due to the rest of the cast. As for Rocky...well... I ain't american and I ain't into sports.


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Piper came up with that eh?  Well, I still stick by assertion that Carpenter can be a cheeseball.  Don't get me wrong... I loved the original Assualt on Precinct 13, Halloween, Big Trouble in Little China and In the Mouth of Madness... I just can't think of a single movie of his where I didn't roll my eyes at least once.

Which bit of The Thing gets yer eyes rolling then?  Ya ain't got it mentioned there but its a superb movie.  Shows not all remakes are crap.
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Quote PixelSnader Replybullet Posted: 08 July 2005 at 2:42pm
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How can you not like Stallone in Rocky? 

because he doesnt even block punches? the only good part is the training part ¬_¬


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Quote sedgemonkey Replybullet Posted: 08 July 2005 at 3:25pm

Wolverine:  Heh, you don't have to be a Yankee or sportsfan to enjoy Rocky -- it's just that America makes a sh*tload of sports movies and 90% of them are just awful. I'm not a fan of any sport except for basketball, but I still enjoy a good boxing story.

I totally forgot about The Thing...  one of the best horror flicks ever hands down.  That movie is the one (and only) exception to the Carpenter cheeseball factor in my experience.

snader: Agreed.

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