It is a terrible movie that is also a glorious spectacle and everyone (except Kevin Costner) is fantastic. Nothing makes any sense, but is fun to see and frequently illogically clever.
The thing about Waterworld is that it's a) a lot of fun, and b) absolutely terrible, but it's only terrible in the way that most movies of that time were terrible. It has this outsized reputation for being bad which is mostly down to the fact that it lost a lot of money (because it was extremely expensive to shoot and audiences immediately clocked it as being a Mad Max rip off with no new ideas to bring to the table). It's no more awful than any other summer action blockbuster of its time, and it has plenty of fun moments in amongst all the usual trash.
Well now I'm in a quandary. I want to say Hudson Hawk except I'm not ashamed. You either appreciate its quirkiness or you don't. And if you do you are simply a better, more evolved person than the rabble who doesn't like it.
I saw it in the theater as a teenager. I thought it was hilarious.
Saw it again 15 years later and was like "this is trash, how did I like this?"
Last rewatch I was like "the camp is actually brilliant."
Hackers. It is not a good movie. It is not an accurate representation of computer hacking. But it has Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Mathew Lillard, and Fisher Stevens as the villain. The very ridiculous villain. I have not seen a movie quite like it since.
Actually, I think it's lack of accuracy is kind of brilliant. It was weird in the day, but it has allowed the movie to be watchable far into the future without being terrible. Like watching it today the only time it gets cringey is when they specifically mention tech specs. e. g. 28.8 kbs modem. If they would have left that out it would fit in most time periods, by not really fitting into any of them.
The only part of the movie that I can't stand is the big ending and whats her name can't STFU in the background asking stupid question. Her voice just grates on me
I don't know any other film that passes the Bechdel test in a scene where two former Playboy models are topless in a hot tub together and talk about something other than men (there are no men in the scene, just the two women). A very unique and strange way to pass the Bechdel test that feels like it undermines the entire point of the Bechdel test existing.
Zombie Strippers is based on a French Existentialist play and is a major critique about a lot going on in the time. It would have been better with its deleted scenes.
Ashamed? None. I refuse to be ashamed of loving dumb trash. A couple of days ago I introduced my wife to A Knights Tale. She enjoyed it immensely and said it was one of the stupidest movies she's ever seen.
If you love something, there's always a good reason why, even if that good reason is buried under a mountain of flaws.
Speed Zone. It has John Candy and Eugene Levy in it… and a red Lamborghini skipping across a pond like a skipping stone (and that’s the joke). Dumb as hell but as far as car/race films it’s kind of fine. I mean, how seriously do you need to take a movie about a cross-country race? It was originally going to called Cannonball Run 3 but was dropped from the franchise. I’ve never seen the others.
Thanks for this. You just solved a mystery I've had for most of my life. I caught that Lambo scene once on TV without context, and I've wondered for like 35+ years what movie it was. It always randomly flitted into my mind when I wasn't near a computer, and then I'd forget to look it up.
I loathe to recommend AI chatbots, but they are good for stuff like this. I was talking to someone about a music video they remembered a couple parts of, so we asked ChatGPT and it told us what it was.
I've had a few white whales I've chased for years on Google. It didn't work for me. I'm sure a chatbot could have found one of them a lot faster.
Deeply problematic themes for a child actor. Luc Besson is a creep and wanted the problematic parts to be explicitly pedophilic.
But in the end, it's a fun story and Leon is nothing but a professional and a gentleman. The movie never crosses any major lines, its just uncomfortable.
You cannot, nor should not, make movies like this today. Still, this specific movie is good.
I love this movie and I have never seen any of it as being pedo. I have always felt that love being expressed in was between 2 abused people finding a kinship and love that they had both always been denied. It's about a child who loves and adores her savior and first person to ever be a parental figure. Someone who literally goes on a massive killing spree and gives up his own life to save her. And it's about someone who has been isolated and unloved his entire life suddenly finding his first real friendship and first real experience of someone loving him with no reservations, expectations, or demands. The type of love that only an innocent child can express towards a parent or caretaker. The movie does this amazing job of framing the development of this beautiful and deep kinship inside of an incredibly violent action movie. I adore this movie and the amazing acting and directing that went into it. I really wish that the director wasn't a complete and certified pedo, but I think that it's entirely possible that everyone came together and made this a beautiful movie despite, and even in spite of, the director being a pedo.
So, Luc Besson is, absolutely, a creep, no question about that, but I've never actually seen any believable evidence of this claim about making the film "explicitly pedo."
Yes, I'm aware of the snippet of an "early script draft" going around with a sex scene between Leon and Mathilda. But I've only ever seen that one snippet. I've never been able to find a copy of the full draft it purports to be from and I've never been able to find any evidence that said draft actually exists. None of the actors have ever talked about it, which is weird given that you'd think at least Natalie Portman would right? She's reached peak "Not having to give a fuck." I do know that what Portman has said about her time on the movie has been entirely positive. She never seemed to feel that there was any danger to her from the material, even looking back as an adult.
I'm absolutely willing to be wrong here. If there's evidence that I've missed, I'm willing to see it (almost said 'happy to see it' but obviously 'happy' wouldn't be the right word here), but as far as I can tell it's just a sensational rumour someone invented for clicks because it sounded believable enough after all the other stuff came out about Besson.
As regards what is there in the movie, well, yeah, it's supposed to be really uncomfortable. It's a story about two people who are, each in their own way, deeply vulnerable to exploitation. Exploitation is a common theme in Besson's work, which is horribly ironic really (like Gaiman it sort of feels like he was telling on himself). I'm not sure if I agree with the idea of feeling "ashamed" of liking a movie that explores serious themes in a serious way. The world is full of terrible things and we need art that explores that effectively. For all the creator's flaws, Leon The Professional is a very effective and well crafted story.
I thought it was hilarious John Liguzamo was talking so much bullshit about having the race actor/acress matching the characters race. As he played a fuckibg Italian plumber as a Columbian. Dudes a total hypocrite.
I'm not really ashamed but I have some 90s classic anime on DVD and people try to shame me for it all the time. Like, they sell it on the shelf in the corner and go 'YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE ANIME NERD WEIRDOS'. Except I'm not. It's just shit I liked as a teenager and I re-watch every few years. I don't get why it is so 'shameful' to have these in my possession. I know nothing about anime since like 2004.
Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God. It's a B-rate movie, but the grittiness is part of its appeal. It's like if a group of LARPers made a movie.
Saying that I "love" it is a bit strong, but I find it enjoyable and definitely better than Dungeons & Dragons (2000).
What's wrong with the subject matter? I thought it was an anti-war reflective novel publiished after and written about world war 1. Just a german version of something like 1917 or War Horse, right?
The most embarrassing thing I've watched would be a romance-ish anime like High School of the Dead.
When it comes down to it though, I'm open to almost anything. I worked in the entertainment industry for a decade and I've enjoyed everything from silly cartoons to epic IMAX masterpieces.
I remember when deep impact came out. I wrote "deep impact" on my arm to tell my friend about it after i saw the trailer. I thought it's gonna ve the biggest thing ever. I only remember the movie being boring, but it's one of the movies i wanna rewatch
The Party, from 1968. It's straight-up blackface, a white actor plays the Indian main character, stereotypical accent and all. I am plainly ashamed to like it for that reason. That and there's a painted elephant paraded around the house at some point and I don't trust animal welfare in films to be taken seriously at all at this time.
Everything else about the movie is quite enjoyable. Nearly the whole movie takes place at a crazy awesome midcentury party mansion. The gags are hilarious. There's quite a few heartwarming moments. And apparently, despite the racial stereotypes and blackface, the movie was "hugely popular" in India (or so says wikipedia)
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shittydwarf@piefed.ca · 39 pts · 37d
I'm no so ashamed but Waterworld is a glorious spectacle with great world building and an over the top performance by Dennis Hopper
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 37d
snooggums@piefed.world · 10 pts · 37d
It is a terrible movie that is also a glorious spectacle and everyone (except Kevin Costner) is fantastic. Nothing makes any sense, but is fun to see and frequently illogically clever.
Watched it last week!
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 37d
I've never understood why everyone dislikes this movie. I've loved it since I first watched it.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 36d
The thing about Waterworld is that it's a) a lot of fun, and b) absolutely terrible, but it's only terrible in the way that most movies of that time were terrible. It has this outsized reputation for being bad which is mostly down to the fact that it lost a lot of money (because it was extremely expensive to shoot and audiences immediately clocked it as being a Mad Max rip off with no new ideas to bring to the table). It's no more awful than any other summer action blockbuster of its time, and it has plenty of fun moments in amongst all the usual trash.
Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.app · 32 pts · 37d
Well now I'm in a quandary. I want to say Hudson Hawk except I'm not ashamed. You either appreciate its quirkiness or you don't. And if you do you are simply a better, more evolved person than the rabble who doesn't like it.
adarza@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 37d
hudson hawk gets rewatched here all the time. it is a good movie.
Pronell@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 37d
I saw it in the theater and loved it then. Still do.
eightpix@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 37d
It's a guilty pleasure of mine, too. I'm not ashamed. I like what I like.
MrOtingocni@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 35d
I saw it in the theater as a teenager. I thought it was hilarious. Saw it again 15 years later and was like "this is trash, how did I like this?" Last rewatch I was like "the camp is actually brilliant."
Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d
Anna Baragli came to play.
subverted_per@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 25 pts · 37d
Hackers. It is not a good movie. It is not an accurate representation of computer hacking. But it has Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Mathew Lillard, and Fisher Stevens as the villain. The very ridiculous villain. I have not seen a movie quite like it since.
imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 37d
Crash... and Burn!
yyyesss@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 37d
AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 37d
I watch this at least annually just because. Mix of cheese, nostalgia, I don't know.
Hack the planet.
roger.wood@feddit.online · 4 pts · 36d
Actually, I think it's lack of accuracy is kind of brilliant. It was weird in the day, but it has allowed the movie to be watchable far into the future without being terrible. Like watching it today the only time it gets cringey is when they specifically mention tech specs. e. g. 28.8 kbs modem. If they would have left that out it would fit in most time periods, by not really fitting into any of them.
TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d
The only part of the movie that I can't stand is the big ending and whats her name can't STFU in the background asking stupid question. Her voice just grates on me
Same when she is screaming in "Goodfella's"
Hackworth@piefed.ca · 23 pts · 37d
Short Circuit 2
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 37d
I feel personally attacked. It's better than the first film.
Los locos kick your ass, los locos kick your face, los locos kick your balls into outer spaaaaace!
A great performance by Michael McKean as always.
We just don't talk about Fisher Stevens. Poor guy deeply regrets the role.
Punked out Johnny Five is the best Johnny Five.
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 37d
It's such a quotable movie!
No disassemble!
Tu mama haci el amore co mi perro
Johnny's in the tunnel with Oscar...
Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.app · 7 pts · 37d
There's no shame here. Punk Johnny 5 zooming in to save the day, sparks flying, I Need a Hero blasting.... Peak cinema.
Kvoth@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 37d
Why would you be ashamed of this?
TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 18 pts · 37d
National Treasure
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 37d
Some movies are just good fun, and Nicolas Cage is frankly in a lot of those kind of flicks. Con Air is up there, too.
catbum@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 37d
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a beaut. Definitely not ashamed to enjoy that one.
Only a tad ashamed that Nic and Pedro rank pretty highly on my list of stupidly adorable on-screen bromances.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 37d
Frankenhooker.
It's crass and trashy and I fucking love it.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 37d
Also Hard Ticket to Hawaii
I don't know any other film that passes the Bechdel test in a scene where two former Playboy models are topless in a hot tub together and talk about something other than men (there are no men in the scene, just the two women). A very unique and strange way to pass the Bechdel test that feels like it undermines the entire point of the Bechdel test existing.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 37d
Also Con Air, a star studded wild romp that's so fucking stupid it rounds the bend to brilliant.
Ok so I actually just really love bad movies, that's the thing. I could be on this thread all day.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 37d
I thought I was the only person on Earth that had seen this movie! It's amazing.
Mr_Wobble@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 36d
WANNA DATE?!
Mr_Wobble@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 36d
I went to my town's local fireworks display the other day, and I saw a guy wearing a Frankenhooker tshirt just out in the wild!
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 37d
Should I add this to Zombie Strippers?
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 37d
Oh Frankenhooker is far more thoughtful and clever than Zombie Strippers, imho.
The end of the film almost makes it a feminist film when the tables are turned and the main character gets his comeuppance.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 37d
Zombie Strippers is based on a French Existentialist play and is a major critique about a lot going on in the time. It would have been better with its deleted scenes.
Noam_Calhoun@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 37d
Buckaroo Banzai!
It is so so very good.
subverted_per@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 37d
There is no regret in loving this movie, it is a masterpiece.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 37d
Robocop singing power ballads.
Jeff Goldblum in a goofy cowboy outfit.
John Lithgow as a scientist gone mad from what he's seen and Christopher Lloyd as a weird alien.
God it's a fucking treasure along the lines of Big Trouble in Little China.
gramie@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 37d
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 37d
Terrible answer, who would be ashamed?
HubertManne@piefed.social · 4 pts · 37d
heck im not ashamed of liking that one.
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 37d
The Core
eightpix@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 37d
You monster.
That movie, in my mind, hinges on the premise, delivered by Stanley Tucci: "but what if we could?"
I know he's not the first and won't be the last, but damn if that didn't annoy me back in '03. It was just so.. gutless as a sci-fi explainer.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 37d
YUSSSS
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 37d
Ashamed? None. I refuse to be ashamed of loving dumb trash. A couple of days ago I introduced my wife to A Knights Tale. She enjoyed it immensely and said it was one of the stupidest movies she's ever seen.
If you love something, there's always a good reason why, even if that good reason is buried under a mountain of flaws.
Kvoth@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 36d
A knights table is one of the stupidest movies she's ever seen?
Wow, she's got a lot of stupid movie catching up to do
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 37d
None, if I love something, I have no shame about it.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 37d
You own that part of yourself.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 37d
Speed Zone. It has John Candy and Eugene Levy in it… and a red Lamborghini skipping across a pond like a skipping stone (and that’s the joke). Dumb as hell but as far as car/race films it’s kind of fine. I mean, how seriously do you need to take a movie about a cross-country race? It was originally going to called Cannonball Run 3 but was dropped from the franchise. I’ve never seen the others.
Not that ashamed, but it’s not a great movie.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 37d
The first Cannonball Run is a classic shit movie. You gotta put it on your list
Odo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 37d
Thanks for this. You just solved a mystery I've had for most of my life. I caught that Lambo scene once on TV without context, and I've wondered for like 35+ years what movie it was. It always randomly flitted into my mind when I wasn't near a computer, and then I'd forget to look it up.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 37d
I loathe to recommend AI chatbots, but they are good for stuff like this. I was talking to someone about a music video they remembered a couple parts of, so we asked ChatGPT and it told us what it was.
I've had a few white whales I've chased for years on Google. It didn't work for me. I'm sure a chatbot could have found one of them a lot faster.
chewypoops@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 37d
Leon The Professional.
Deeply problematic themes for a child actor. Luc Besson is a creep and wanted the problematic parts to be explicitly pedophilic.
But in the end, it's a fun story and Leon is nothing but a professional and a gentleman. The movie never crosses any major lines, its just uncomfortable.
You cannot, nor should not, make movies like this today. Still, this specific movie is good.
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 37d
I love this movie and I have never seen any of it as being pedo. I have always felt that love being expressed in was between 2 abused people finding a kinship and love that they had both always been denied. It's about a child who loves and adores her savior and first person to ever be a parental figure. Someone who literally goes on a massive killing spree and gives up his own life to save her. And it's about someone who has been isolated and unloved his entire life suddenly finding his first real friendship and first real experience of someone loving him with no reservations, expectations, or demands. The type of love that only an innocent child can express towards a parent or caretaker. The movie does this amazing job of framing the development of this beautiful and deep kinship inside of an incredibly violent action movie. I adore this movie and the amazing acting and directing that went into it. I really wish that the director wasn't a complete and certified pedo, but I think that it's entirely possible that everyone came together and made this a beautiful movie despite, and even in spite of, the director being a pedo.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 35d
So, Luc Besson is, absolutely, a creep, no question about that, but I've never actually seen any believable evidence of this claim about making the film "explicitly pedo."
Yes, I'm aware of the snippet of an "early script draft" going around with a sex scene between Leon and Mathilda. But I've only ever seen that one snippet. I've never been able to find a copy of the full draft it purports to be from and I've never been able to find any evidence that said draft actually exists. None of the actors have ever talked about it, which is weird given that you'd think at least Natalie Portman would right? She's reached peak "Not having to give a fuck." I do know that what Portman has said about her time on the movie has been entirely positive. She never seemed to feel that there was any danger to her from the material, even looking back as an adult.
I'm absolutely willing to be wrong here. If there's evidence that I've missed, I'm willing to see it (almost said 'happy to see it' but obviously 'happy' wouldn't be the right word here), but as far as I can tell it's just a sensational rumour someone invented for clicks because it sounded believable enough after all the other stuff came out about Besson.
As regards what is there in the movie, well, yeah, it's supposed to be really uncomfortable. It's a story about two people who are, each in their own way, deeply vulnerable to exploitation. Exploitation is a common theme in Besson's work, which is horribly ironic really (like Gaiman it sort of feels like he was telling on himself). I'm not sure if I agree with the idea of feeling "ashamed" of liking a movie that explores serious themes in a serious way. The world is full of terrible things and we need art that explores that effectively. For all the creator's flaws, Leon The Professional is a very effective and well crafted story.
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 8 pts · 37d
Sin City.
The story is bad in so many ways, but I love this extreme cynism.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 37d
It really is a great bad movie
adarza@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 37d
DCOMs (disney channel movies). i love 'em. especially the musicals.
Cnote5@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 36d
Howard the Duck.
I'll see myself out.
adarza@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 36d
best lucas film, best marvel film, peak lea thompson. all in one package. hell yea!
radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d
I saw that at a drive in theatre.
akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 37d
All the animated Tinker Bell movies by Disney.
Steve@startrek.website · 4 pts · 37d
We recently watched the old Peter Pan, and I never realized Tinkerbell was a murderous hoe.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 37d
Never trust the Fae
Okokimup@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 36d
The original Mario Brothers movie, given how terrible of an experience it was for the actors.
Tiral@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 36d
I thought it was hilarious John Liguzamo was talking so much bullshit about having the race actor/acress matching the characters race. As he played a fuckibg Italian plumber as a Columbian. Dudes a total hypocrite.
subverted_per@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 36d
I did not know it was a terrible experience behind the scenes.
glups@piefed.social · 5 pts · 37d
How High. It was one of the only movies I owned on iTunes so I watched it frequently
Killer57@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 37d
McHales Navy, but Tim Curry is the perfect villian for it.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 37d
Tim Curry was born to play perfect villains.
AskewLord@piefed.social · 4 pts · 35d
I'm not really ashamed but I have some 90s classic anime on DVD and people try to shame me for it all the time. Like, they sell it on the shelf in the corner and go 'YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE ANIME NERD WEIRDOS'. Except I'm not. It's just shit I liked as a teenager and I re-watch every few years. I don't get why it is so 'shameful' to have these in my possession. I know nothing about anime since like 2004.
It's Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne, and Neon Genesis.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 35d
I am not an anime nerd at all, but I do like cinema and good tv.
90s anime is best anime.
You have good tastes.
Bebop is great and what a great/strong soundtrack.
Eva is much more than mech fights. A lot more.
Good stuff.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 37d
Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God. It's a B-rate movie, but the grittiness is part of its appeal. It's like if a group of LARPers made a movie.
Saying that I "love" it is a bit strong, but I find it enjoyable and definitely better than Dungeons & Dragons (2000).
_deleted_@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 37d
Hawk the Slayer from the early 1980s rush on medieval fantasy. Jack Palance as the bad guy (of course)..
Mr_Wobble@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 36d
The one where the witch has magical silly-string and bouncy-ball powers? 😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTDt5PuETLA
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 37d
All Quiet on the Western Front, specifically the 2022 Netflix version.
It's one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen in terms of its cinematography, which kinda just feels wrong given the subject matter.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 37d
What's wrong with the subject matter? I thought it was an anti-war reflective novel publiished after and written about world war 1. Just a german version of something like 1917 or War Horse, right?
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 37d
Read it again, please.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 36d
Okay I do get you, sorry.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 36d
No worries. I figured it was just a quick misread.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 37d
The subject matter is that war fucking sucks and we shouldn't do it. Are you saying you find that position problematic?
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 37d
Maybe read what I wrote a second time.
njordomir@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 37d
I love August Rush too. The emotion is so real!
The most embarrassing thing I've watched would be a romance-ish anime like High School of the Dead.
When it comes down to it though, I'm open to almost anything. I worked in the entertainment industry for a decade and I've enjoyed everything from silly cartoons to epic IMAX masterpieces.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 2 pts · 37d
Honestly The Longest Yard with Adam sandler It’s pretty poorly written. But I love it
YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 35d
I like The Core. Also a fan of Deep Impact, in that I've watched it multiple times. I feel no shame.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 1 pts · 34d
I remember when deep impact came out. I wrote "deep impact" on my arm to tell my friend about it after i saw the trailer. I thought it's gonna ve the biggest thing ever. I only remember the movie being boring, but it's one of the movies i wanna rewatch
TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d
Hudson Hawk.
Bunny, ball ball!
noxypaws@pawb.social · 1 pts · 35d
The Party, from 1968. It's straight-up blackface, a white actor plays the Indian main character, stereotypical accent and all. I am plainly ashamed to like it for that reason. That and there's a painted elephant paraded around the house at some point and I don't trust animal welfare in films to be taken seriously at all at this time.
Everything else about the movie is quite enjoyable. Nearly the whole movie takes place at a crazy awesome midcentury party mansion. The gags are hilarious. There's quite a few heartwarming moments. And apparently, despite the racial stereotypes and blackface, the movie was "hugely popular" in India (or so says wikipedia)
one_old_coder@piefed.social · -4 pts · 37d
Duplicate of https://lemmy.world/post/48669808
akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 37d
https://stackoverflow.com/ called. They want you to pay them. /s