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Defend a Maligned Movie
I don’t believe in “guilty pleasures” – why should I feel guilt because the critical groupthink scorned something I think has merit? It’s not as if those individual critics don’t pull the shades and watch something the rest of the priesthood demeans. (Unless Marty Scorcese gave it a nod in an interview, and then it’s time for a Fresh New Look.) I also don’t believe in watching bad movies to revel in their awfulness, unless there’s some meta-level payoff. (Plan Nine really is the apotheosis of true unintended hilarity.) I’m watching something right now that makes eyes roll if you try to make the case for its importance, but that’s not important right now. (No, I’m not watching Airplane!) I’ll hand it off to you: defend a movie dismissed by the gatekeepers.
Published in General
Disney+ has put content label warnings on “The Muppet Show.”
This is the kind of crap you get when you raise two generations on participation trophies.
It’s the only Indiana Jones movie we haven’t rewatched . . .
Yeah, I’ve never gotten the hate for that movie. IMHO, it is one of the best of Pixars output. Good story, likable characters, great animation.
It was maligned at the time.
I remember reading something shortly after Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade came out where Spielberg said he made the third Indiana Jones movie as an apology for the second.
That flick stands up more or less OK on re-watch. Has some really odd and eerie visuals (courtesy of McG), echoing lots of childhood nightmares of Large Malevolent Things From The Sky ripping the roof off the house to “get” me.
Still not great, but a fun watch. Dark Fate was a crap festival. And a really hideous naming.
Thanks for that – I think I had it on my watch list at one point and it fell off. Back on.
Talk about Christian Bale whiplash. I’ll watch Hostiles then Terminator Salvation. Throw in The Machinist and American Psycho and you’ll need a chiropractor.
It’s sequel was much better, The League of Extraordinary Genitals.
I was just thinking … the most Maligned movie that nobody has seen has to be “The Hunt”… Ive been looking for it, and cant find it anywhere… (even when sailing the high seas)
It sparked such controversy that it had to be pulled from theatrical release – only to get caught by covid-1984 shutdowns…
If you mean the 2020 title with Ike Barinholtz and Hilary Swank, apparently it’s come out on blu-ray and is also downloadable.
Some of it was progressive hatred for celebrating small-town America, and some of it was because people were sick of their children watching it over and over again.
Leak.
“Leakage” probably works better.
You know what? I enjoyed Cars 2.
Too many syllables.
Just one more. And it doesn’t seriously upset the rhythm of the title.
Unfortunately, I was busy being born the year it came out in theaters so it wasn’t really an option.
I’m pretty sure he composed and sang the title song.
Forbidden Planet?
That’s 1956. When Worlds Collide came out in 1951.
If you’re still unable to find it, send me a private message or something and I can get it for you.
Actually I found it, it was quietly added to Amazon Prime.
And the wizard granted the Cowardly Redshirt a name.
Get Off My Lawn is a classic.
I am not sure what this implies about Temple of Doom, @percival. Does this mean that Temple of Doom has a content warning or has been cancelled altogether? Or perhaps Disney just notes which racists watch the movie and sends their names to Homeland Security for domestic terrorist activity.
I used to try to fathom what they were thinking, but it gave me brain cramps. They are probably just banning everything BW (Before Woke).
It did have a memorable line, spoken by a teenage girl who was watching her parents fight: “I’m going upstairs where it’s not so stupid.”
“Where are we going!?”
“DIMENSION X!!!”
“And when are we going to get there!?”
“REAL SOON!!!”
‘That’s Big Boot-ay!”
It’s full of lines:
“Hey, I’m a reasonable guy. But I’ve just experienced some very unreasonable things!”
“It’s black blood of the earth.”
“You mean oil?”
“I mean BLACK BLOOD OF THE EARTH!”
“Me!? Scared!? Huh.”
“Remember: no matter where you go, there you are.”