Recommend (or don't) a movie thread v2

[trackercowe]

Watched Enemy of the State for the umpteenth time, but the first time with the wife. One of my favourite thrillers. I feel it's a contemporary classic, and almost called The Patriot Act a few years before it happened. Everything is great about the movie. Great story, fantastic action pieces, an awesome score, and an exceptional cast. The wife loved it as well. I think for my money it's my favourite Will Smith movie. It's amazing how many well known actors show up for small performances. Tony Scott was one of a director.

Oh and Gene Hackman always delivers. An underrated actor from his generation.

[PsYcNeT]

Tbh I don't feel like Gene Hackman is underrated at all, it's more that he gracefully bowed out into a proper retirement at the ripe age of 76 and hasn't shown up to do Anthony Hopkins-esque cameos or embarrassing past-their-prime roles like Pacino.

Not having been in any movies for nearly 20 years has just kind of pushed him to the back of the common consciousness.

[Finger Cookin]

Originally Posted by Nadal Fan

I saw the sequel in theaters on opening weekend, it's probably the most disappointing movie I've ever seen. I've only seen it once, so I'll give it another try ...... eventually

It's the most disappointing movie you've ever seen so far.

[Nadal Fan]

Originally Posted by Finger Cookin

It's the most disappointing movie you've ever seen so far.

Well Titanic 2 Rose's Revenge is due out soon

[Nadal Fan]

It's July 9th 1999, you walk into your local Famous Players theatre with $20 and you can catch only 2 films playing what are you watching?

Choices are

American Pie
Wild Wild West
Big Daddy
Tarzan (animated)
Episode 1 Phantom Menace
South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
Austin Powers 2
The Generals Daughter
Arlington Road

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Am I 15 again or am I today years old? I saw several of those in the theatre at the time but my choices would be different.

Probably South Park and Arlington road if I’m picking now. Maybe tpm, despite its terribleness, just for the score and the lightsaber fight at the end.

[Nadal Fan]

Good point, you go back in time the age you are now

[octothorp]

Originally Posted by dammage79

I unfortunately doubled down and did the Netflix double header of Rebel Moon. Woof.

I'm late to the party on this, but I'm confounded as to how anyone thought this was a workable script. I turned it off (again) a third of the way through the second movie during the epic 'bringing in the harvest' montage... It took me three separate viewings to get through the first movie because I kept getting bored, but I thought that must be because they saved the actual plot for the second one.

So at least I have to give Disney/Lucasfilm credit for not just greenlighting every bad idea they get pitched.

[handgroen]

Arlington road twice, took my very first date to it in grade 8.
Bold choice, bad choice, but for me, Arlington Road is for lovers.

[timun]

Originally Posted by Nadal Fan

It's July 9th 1999, you walk into your local Famous Players theatre with $20 and you can catch only 2 films playing what are you watching?

Hmmm, I saw The Phantom Menace, South Park and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
in their original theatrical runs... I think I'd see Austin Powers and... American Pie. I didn't see the latter until it was on home video, but I saw American Pie 2 in theatre a couple years later, and it was a fun experience from what I remember.

Going back in time and seeing The Phantom Menace would be kinda fun, just for the chance to relive the "pop culture" experience of it all. The hype was unreal; so was the disappointment, but I'm not sure the hype could have ever been met.

[Yamer]

I belong to a select group of people that actually liked The Phantom Menace. Of course, I wasn't fanatically invested in the original trilogy (although I liked all 3 films).

The only thing it could have done without was Jar Jar. Qui-Gon Jinn is one of my favorite characters throughout the SW Universe.

[#-3]

Thats an interesting list.

I think it's gotta be American Pie and the Phantom Menace.


I liked the General Daughter, but more of a late boring night DVD that a fun day at the theater.

I liked bigger louder uncut, but it's a long TV show, and surely doesn't hold up.

Big Daddy was just an early step in the long decline for Sandler.

I know the Austin Powers movies don't hold up, and if they did I would pick 1 over 2.

I did not like Tarzan at the time haven't seen it since

Wild Wild West was unmemorable at best.

I've surely seen it but Arlington road occupies a black spot in my head, I do not remember it.

American Pie for my age group is in a way the Plutonic form of a genre that we followed for another decade following, and Ep1 at the very least is a fun action movie theater watch.

[Voodooman]

Originally Posted by timun

Hmmm, I saw The Phantom Menace, South Park and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
in their original theatrical runs... I think I'd see Austin Powers and... American Pie. I didn't see the latter until it was on home video, but I saw American Pie 2 in theatre a couple years later, and it was a fun experience from what I remember.

Going back in time and seeing The Phantom Menace would be kinda fun, just for the chance to relive the "pop culture" experience of it all. The hype was unreal; so was the disappointment, but I'm not sure the hype could have ever been met.

I remember going on opening day with my buddy, who was a huge Star Wars nerd, to see TPM, and I laughed my ass off during and after. He was so bitter about that movie.

Of course, me providing my commentary on the experience in Jar Jar speak likely didn't help his mood. And in retrospect, given the time and the circumstances, it must have been a massive letdown for the fanbase after waiting so long for it. Sometimes movies are bad, and that's OK, but for a lot of people, the original films were a pretty big part of their childhood.

I mean, those movies are all terrible, and designed solely to sell toys, but TPM was really, really awful.

[ResAlien]

I suppose I could see why Easy Rider was a big deal at the time but outside of Nicholson’s performance that wasn’t really worth watching.

[Locke]

Well. In light of recent Forum events I highly recommend: "Dirty Work"

[FireGilbert]

I definitely attended Phantom Menace and Austin Powers 2 in the summer of 99.

Also Blair Witch game out like a week later. I paid to see this twice, sneaking into American Pie the 2nd time.

[Yamer]

Originally Posted by Locke

Well. In light of recent Forum events I highly recommend: "Dirty Work"

A total classic.

The lack of respect it gets hurts the second most.

[jg13]

Saw Longlegs last night. 3.75/5

Spoiler!

This got off to a really strong start and 10 minutes in I didn't know if I would be able to take a full 102 minutes of it. The pace slowed down and it turned out to be a fairly solid thriller/horror movie overall. I didn't like that there ended up being a supernatural explanation for the murders and I thought at times the jump scares were a little much. I thought the acting between Maeka Monroe, Nick Cage and Alicia Witt was really impressive. Oh and lastly I wish there was more of a backstory on Longlegs and why he called himself that. It was never explained why/how he got that name.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by timun

Hmmm, I saw The Phantom Menace, South Park and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
in their original theatrical runs... I think I'd see Austin Powers and... American Pie. I didn't see the latter until it was on home video, but I saw American Pie 2 in theatre a couple years later, and it was a fun experience from what I remember.

Going back in time and seeing The Phantom Menace would be kinda fun, just for the chance to relive the "pop culture" experience of it all. The hype was unreal; so was the disappointment, but I'm not sure the hype could have ever been met.

With the PM, you had to prebuy tickets. The energy and vibe in the theatre line to get in was unreal. It was great...then the movie came on. An awful movie full of horribly racist caricatures....so so racist.

[timun]

I didn't have to pre-buy tickets to TPM, but I did wait in line to get them. And waited quite a while in line at the theatre doors, in the hopes of getting decent seats.

I remember my initial thoughts afterward being "it was... not... not-terrible... But it was not... not-good... either, I think? I dunno man, that just wasn't what I was expecting. I knew we were in for a weird time when the opening crawl starting blathering on about taxation..." The first of the five stages of grief, really (denial).

I think part of me would get a kick out of being there just to see the hype again; anecdotally I think it was the single most hyped movie ever. I otherwise couldn't care less about seeing the movie again, and with 25 years of retrospection it's pretty clear it sucked ass.


Like I wrote earlier, purely for the sake of taking in the theatre-going experience of seeing the movies again with a bunch of people who don't know there's a time-traveller in their midst who's already seen them, I'd pick Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and American Pie. Both just silly comedies, both very much of their time. They're not really great movies, they really haven't stood the test of time, but they're fun. I think they're very representative of the kind of care-free feeling I wish I could rekindle if I went back to 1999.

Kind of like going on a trip and enjoying the journey vs. getting to the destination, y'know what I mean? I'd "enjoy the journey" to 1999 seeing Austin Powers and American Pie; I don't really give a crap about "getting to the destination".