I have to watch "Turner and Hooch" every time I flip past it. Can't not watch (and enjoy) it.
It's terrible, but both the dog and Tom Hanks are adorable in it.
Just keep walking, preacher-man.
River ,'Jaynestown'
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Scrappy - Jan 20, 2005 7:15:23 am PST #8043 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Jessica - Jan 20, 2005 7:17:24 am PST #8044 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
What movies can you absolutely make zero case for as good movies, but are absolutely enthralled with?
Dune. I can't help it, I just love it, in all it's ginormously crappy glory.
(Of course, me being the argumentative brat that I am, I could probably try to make a case for almost anything I enjoyed. But there are a few cases where I'm at least aware that my argument really boils down to "Because I liked it SO THERE." I suppose I'd have to include Matrix Revolutions in that category.)
Jessica - Jan 20, 2005 7:18:09 am PST #8045 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think O. C. and Stiggs is probably the worst movie Altman ever made, but I enjoy it much more than his better works.
I haven't seen it, but I have a hard time believing it was worse than Popeye.
Betsy HP - Jan 20, 2005 7:25:37 am PST #8046 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
What movies can you absolutely make zero case for as good movies, but are absolutely enthralled with?
Phantom of the Opera.
Betsy HP - Jan 20, 2005 7:26:11 am PST #8047 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
But the grand champion has to be Flash Gordon.
There is NO EXCUSE for that movie, and God, how I love it.
Glamcookie - Jan 20, 2005 7:29:03 am PST #8048 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
What movies can you absolutely make zero case for as good movies, but are absolutely enthralled with?
Most of mine are baddies that I loved as a child. Grease 2 (I want a cooooool rider!), Clash of the Titans, Pollyanna, and Flash Gordon (Betsy!).
Frankenbuddha - Jan 20, 2005 7:31:30 am PST #8049 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Dune. I can't help it, I just love it, in all it's ginormously crappy glory.
I'm with you here ( idly wonders if he still has the info sheet that was handed out to help people know what was going on )...
I haven't seen it, but I have a hard time believing it was worse than Popeye.
...and now you lose me. I adore POPEYE, and wouldn't even hesitate to defend it, although I'd probably do a crappy job if I tried.
Betsy HP - Jan 20, 2005 7:32:44 am PST #8050 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
"He's Laaaarge!"
In Shelley Duvall's nonexistent voice.
Oy.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 20, 2005 7:36:43 am PST #8051 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I haven't seen it, but I have a hard time believing it was worse than Popeye.
I don't know. Popeye at least had a purpose, as well as the most perfect example of casting in the history of cinema. O. C. and Stiggs was kind of pointless. It's basically David Lean's Porky's IV.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 20, 2005 7:37:55 am PST #8052 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I think your post cut off "Oyle" Betsy. :)
Seriously, though, if you've ever heard the singing in the old cartoons (and many of them had songs), Duvall wasn't too far off the mark.
I just realized that DUNE and POPEYE are similar in that they are unmistakebly the work of idiosyncratic directors who are probably trying to tackle a genre/subject/whatev that's dead wrong for them.
As far as unreasonable love goes, I'd be hard-pressed to defend my love for huge portions of the Ken Russell ouvre.