my top ten 'films no one understands why I like them'

[*veers*]

Hey I love them, most people hate them and my street cred is going to take a pounding. I mean I rate all of these movies between 7/10 - 9/10.

1-The Crow: City Of Angels
2-Beethoven's 2nd
3-Alien 3
4-M. Butterfly
5-Tequila Sunrise
6-The Fan
7-The Baby Of Macon
8-Zandalee
9-Free Willy
10-Raising Cain

[Rindy]

Veers,

I'm with you on Tequila Sunrise and Raising Cain. Both of these movies were very entertaining, and John Lithgow does a very good 'bad' guy. He's the reason I like Ricochet so well, even though his performance is a little over the top.

R.

[Gore 4 All]

I know everyone on the board likes this movie, but everyone I know outside of this tiny space on the web hates "Fight Club". I love that freaking movie.


They just don't get it.

[the night watchman]

1. Alien 3 (good call *veers*)
2. Hardware
3. Hudson Hawk
4. Dead Alive (though I am making converts /ubb/smile.gif )
5. The Cell (what gives? this movie is great!)
6. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
7. Prophecy ('79, Frankenheimer)
8. Pumpkinhead (again, what gives?)
9. CHUD
10.Maximum Overdrive (understandable)

[HomerSimpson]

In the order they appear in my top 100:

1.Airplane!
2.Dark City (MOST UNDERRATED MOVIE EVER!)
3.Dumb and Dumber
4.The Naked Gun
5.Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
6.The Naked Gun 3
7.The Naked Gun 2
8.Austin Powers (first one)
9.Rounders
10.Men in Black

[loner]

HomerS: people really give you a hard time about those movies? For the most part they seem to be pretty popular choices to me.

[HomerSimpson]

Well, let's see:

Airplane! - nobody really gives me a hard time for it but nobody can believe it's in my top 10

Dark City - not really, although it's severely underrated

Dumb and Dumber - absolutely, you have no idea how much shit i've gotten because I love that movie

Naked Gun 1, 2 and 3 - kinda like Airplane!

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - yeah, because it's my favorite Indy and NOBODY agrees with me on that

Austin Powers and Rounders - nope, but they're underrated too

Men in Black - yeah, very often

I guess mine was more of an "under-rated films" list.

Here's a more accurate list (in no order):

Dumb and Dumber
Indy Jones and the Temple of Doom
Men in Black
Sphere
The Lost World (my favorite guilty pleasure)
Dirty Work
Mission to Mars
Arlington Road
Deep Blue Sea
Mafia!
BASEketball

...that's all I can think of for now


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[loner]

HomerS: no offense but are you fuckin' serious?!?! You think Temple of Doom is better than Raiders of the Lost Ark? Please explain that one.

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[HomerSimpson]

There's not much to explain - I think Temple of Doom is a more entertaining film. Raiders of the Lost Arc is the better film. However, Temple is my favorite - there's a diffrence between favorite and best.

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[TobyDammit]

Yo Nightdude, I love Pumpkinhead, Lance Henrikson (sp?) is a very, very underated and under utilised actor.

[idealdiscountdude]

I'm always getting criticized for liking these flicks:

-I Know What You Did Last Summer
-Hope Floats
-Speed 2
-Mary Reilly
-Unlawful Entry
-The Good Son
-The Vanishing (1993)
-Diabolique (1995)
-Sliver
-Maximum Overdrive
-Scream 3
-The Whole Nine Yards
-Mission Impossible 2
-The Virgin Suicides
-Coyote Ugly

[Raena]

Alien 3 is a Fincher Flick I don't like. . .Maybe because what came before it was so great and my expectations were so high. Who knows?

[mafia]

Natural Born Killers. I adore this movie, but I feel lonesome..

[HomerSimpson]

Hey, I like NBK! A lot of people do, including Ebert!

[loner]

hey Homer, does that make you feel better when Roger Ebert agrees with you about a movie?

[HomerSimpson]

Of cource it does. He's my favorite critic and I value his opinion more than any other critic's (sorry Jo).

[loner]

OK. Just wondering. How about the show? Do you like the new guy or do you miss Siskel?

[HomerSimpson]

Uh, well... actually, I've never seen the show when it was with Siskel... I'm kinda of a new Ebert fan, and a new fan of movies alltogether so I can't really answer that...

Roeper is OK, he's got a shitty taste in movies, but I don't really care as long as Ebert's there.

[Brock Landers]

Everytime my bud is losin' an argument with me, he says "What about the frogs?", 'cause I loved "Magnolia" and he could not understand or even begin to comprehend the frogs dropping from the sky, so he just makes fun of me by saying that /ubb/wink.gif just like Hannibal asking Clarice about "the lambs"...

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[TobyDammit]

Feel lonesome no more Mafia.

I also like NBK'S, although I do not adore.

[!MorganOnyx!]

VEERS -
I'm a big SNIPES fan, so don't worry about THE FAN, i liked it too.

However, i'm thinking you must never have had any 'street cred' when you like a movie like BEETHOVENS 2ND, i'm laughing as i write this. I thought people would take the piss out of me cos i like THE KARATE KID, but DAMN!!!! What are you?! a ten year old girl?!! LOL!

[love broker]

But Brock what do the frogs mean? The way I figure it is that things happen you know strange things happen. that is what i think anyway.

The Wrong Guy is a great film
BASEketball funny

[mafia]

Thank you thank you TobyDammit!!

Homer and loner, who is Roger Ebert?

[*veers*]

Dear MorganOnyx,

I am a very sad 27 year old loser, I even love Mans's Best Friend (The one with Ally Sheedy, anyone remember that?)

[!MorganOnyx!]

VEERS -
That movie wasn't that bad. Lance Henrikson was also in it wasn't he? He's always good. Don't be so hard on yourself. I was only having a bit of fun with ya!

[John Q. Public]

Most people don't even remember this movie, but I must have watched it 20 or 30 times in my younger years- Short Circuit 2. I love when he becomes "evil" and wears the leather vest an mohawk...classic.

[falconfilms]

"The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension". High-octane cheese with a stellar cast. What's not to like?

"Shakes the Clown". The "Citizen Kane" of alcoholic clown movies.

"Mars Attacks!" I get so much grief for liking this film. I think it's hysterically funny.

"Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" Steve Martin intercut with Bogie, Bacall, Cagney, et. al. in the silliest film noir spoof of all time. You have to give them points for figuring out how to create a plotline out of the scenes they borrowed from all of those classic noir films.

"Popeye" I can finally admit that this one sucks, but it is still an absolute guilty pleasure of mine. Plus I love the fact that it was directed by Robert Altman.

[falconfilms]

I almost forgot.

"Ed Wood"

Apparently I'm one of about three people who loved this film.

[HomerSimpson]

falconfilms, a lot of people like Ed Wood (myself included), I give it 8/10 but I can't say I "loved" it.

[Cyclonus]

Hey, I also liked NBK and "Ed Wood".

"Alien 3" was, despite its flaws, a pretty decent movie. See the thread I started on the sci-fi board.

Finally, what does everyone make of the fact that "From Dusk Till Dawn" is my favorite 'guilty pleasure' movie? /ubb/wink.gif (So far, I only know one other guy who liked it.) I have not yet summoned up the nerve to actually purchase a copy... /ubb/frown.gif

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[Green]

I own FROM DUSK TILL DAWN
and a lot of people I know have it as well...

[QUENTIN]

I think you'll find more than 50% of the film-going populace and particularly nation of geekdom like Ed Wood & From Dusk Till Dawn. Myself included....

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[falconfilms]

In the film crowd I run with, I get a lot of raised eyebrows for both Ed WOod and From Dusk Till Dawn.

I think they're both brilliant.

[Hannibal21]

I do get criticized for liking these movies.....

Pearl Harbor
A Walk to Remember
Bringing Down the House
Scream 2
Friday the 13th
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part II
The Mothman Prophecies
From Dusk Till Dawn
Natural Born Killers
The Faculty

They're nowhere near my top 250 list but I still enjoy them.

[stevereno]

I do get a hard time. Maybe it's because I like sequels so much.

ALIENS (a sequel. My friends think im a sci-fi geek because of it)
THE LOST BOYS (Nun of my friends liked it. And they hate me for it)
WEIRD SCIENCE (My friends don't like that im an 80s freak, but some like it)
HEATHERS (Some of my friend like it, others hate it. Its so valley girl. My friends give me strange looks)
BETTER OFF DEAD (No one has really heard of it till now)
HALLOWEEN 4 (Not only do most of my friends not like horror, but they dont like 80s sequels)
POLTERGEIST 3 (No one has heard of this, and the ones who do HATE IT and Hate me for it)
TERMINATOR 2: (Probably liked by some. But the girls dont know why)
THE GOONIES (Probably most popular with my friends, which makes me reconsider why i like it so much)
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3 (To my friends its just another "Jason Krueger" movie)

SHIVER ME TIMBERS

[Dignan]

10.Nothing But Trouble
9. Gods and Generals
8. The Punisher
7. Caddyshack II
6. Four Rooms
5. Don't Be A Menace...
4. the Big Hit
3. The Mummy Returns
2. The Shipping News
1. ANOES II

and I wonder why I have no friends....

[ilovemovies]

A lot of the movies mentioned here I like as well (some notable exceptions are Friday the 13th and Natural Born Killers). So here are some that I enjoyed that haven't gotten the best reviews that haven't already been mentioned:

Eye of the Beholder - I think this is a near masterpiece I don't get why people hate this movie

The Adventures of Pluto Nash - I thought it was inventive and entertaining

Fair Game - What can I say? Cindy Crawford may not be much of an actress (although she's no worse than Billy Baldwin, the least talented of the Baldwin brothers) but she's damn hot and the action scenes are well executed and the movie is short and sweet. Definately a BIG guilty pleasure of mine :D

Most Van Damme & Seagal movies - I really enjoyed most of their movies. Some that I didn't like though are Knock Off, Street Fighter, On Deadly Ground, The Glimmer Man, Fire Down Below

The Stupids & Big Bully - Two poorly recieved Tom Arnold movies that I thought were hilarious

There is A LOT more but I continue later.

[ANavissi500]

I try and have this professional taste for movies, but I admit there are quite a few movies that I love but no one else agrees with me on...

10 Things I Hate About You - 10/10

Shaft (with Samuel L. Jackson) - 9/10

Snake Eyes - 9/10

Zoolander - 9/10

Bring It On - 8/10

Drop Dead Gorgeous - 8/10

Miss Congeniality - 8/10

My Fellow Americans - 8/10

The Sandlot - 8/10

i also LOVE slasher flicks (Valentine, Urban Legends 1 and 2, etc.)

[sarah1980]

top ten films I love that everyone else hates


1.Showgirls
2.13 Ghosts
3.American Psycho II
4.The Mummy Returns
5.The Big Hit
6.Jason X
7.BWP
8.Final Fantasy
9.Jaws 4
10.Pearl Harbor


oh btw stevereno I'm a girl and I've loved T2 since I was 10 yes everyone you heard right I'm a chick and love Showgirls lol :p

[zeppelin]

falconfilms, I guess I'm another one of the 3 people who loved Ed Wood. Quentin Tarantino would be the 3rd (it's in his top 100, if I remember correctly).

stevereno, I think most people do like Aliens, The Goonies, Heathers, and Terminator 2. Or at least the people I've talked to.

Anyway, the one film that I love that everyone else always says "You actually liked that movie?" to is The Thin Red Line. I love it, and it seems like everyone else hates it because "it makes no sense" or "it's too long and boring." Oh well. Martin Scorsese named it the #2 film of the 90s, so I guess I'm in good company.

[QUENTIN]

Originally posted by zeppelin

Anyway, the one film that I love that everyone else always says "You actually liked that movie?" to is The Thin Red Line. I love it, and it seems like everyone else hates it because "it makes no sense" or "it's too long and boring." Oh well. Martin Scorsese named it the #2 film of the 90s, so I guess I'm in good company.

It was nominated for Best Picture, so obviously a lot of people loved it... I do too, it's a 10/10, the best war film of the 90's.