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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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Syt

This is great. Mark Hamill abducted by the Joker and the Trickster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL-VHe_4GmE

So meta. :D
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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frunk

MST3K, Mac and Me and Atlantic Rim.

This second season of the reboot is better so far than the first, better pacing and really terrible movies.

celedhring

Mac and Me scarred my childhood. At that age you're not supposed to notice when movies are terrible and even then I found it terrible  :lol:

frunk

Quote from: celedhring on November 26, 2018, 05:37:51 PM
Mac and Me scarred my childhood. At that age you're not supposed to notice when movies are terrible and even then I found it terrible  :lol:

I was prepared for some of it, but the total absurdity of the McDonalds scene and the final confrontation left me stunned.

Duque de Bragança

Quote from: celedhring on November 26, 2018, 05:37:51 PM
Mac and Me scarred my childhood. At that age you're not supposed to notice when movies are terrible and even then I found it terrible  :lol:

Mac and Me is at best a so-bad-it's-good movie, something you are not supposed to notice at that age.  :P

Malthus

Quote from: Duque de Bragança on November 27, 2018, 01:50:16 PM
Quote from: celedhring on November 26, 2018, 05:37:51 PM
Mac and Me scarred my childhood. At that age you're not supposed to notice when movies are terrible and even then I found it terrible  :lol:

Mac and Me is at best a so-bad-it's-good movie, something you are not supposed to notice at that age.  :P

Never actually watched it.

Is it so bad it's funny, or just so bad it's bad, like the Star Wars Christmas Special?
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

frunk

Quote from: Malthus on November 27, 2018, 03:30:37 PM

Never actually watched it.

Is it so bad it's funny, or just so bad it's bad, like the Star Wars Christmas Special?

It's a shameless ripoff of ET combined with shameless product placement combined with completely tone deaf scenes that have no business being in a supposed kid's movie.

If you think that sounds funny you are right.

Duque de Bragança

Quote from: Malthus on November 27, 2018, 03:30:37 PM


Never actually watched it.

Is it so bad it's funny, or just so bad it's bad, like the Star Wars Christmas Special?

While I can agree with you that the Star Wars Holiday Special is more painful to watch than hilariously bad, it has its cheesy moments, and has to be seen to believed when one knows how possessive is Lucas with his properties.

Mac and Me, IMHO, is funnier, the reasons frunk gave are good examples.

Malthus

Quote from: Duque de Bragança on November 27, 2018, 03:56:11 PM
Quote from: Malthus on November 27, 2018, 03:30:37 PM


Never actually watched it.

Is it so bad it's funny, or just so bad it's bad, like the Star Wars Christmas Special?

While I can agree with you that the Star Wars Holiday Special is more painful to watch than hilariously bad, it has its cheesy moments, and has to be seen to believed when one knows how possessive is Lucas with his properties.

Mac and Me, IMHO, is funnier, the reasons frunk gave are good examples.

"I came for the Boba Fett animation, but I stayed for the Princess Leia stoned off her gourd on cocaine sequence, and the Wookie porn".  ;)
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Liep

Timecop

I still can't find any flaws with this movie.
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The Minsky Moment

Quote from: Liep on November 27, 2018, 05:24:31 PM
Timecop

I still can't find any flaws with this movie.

There is a huge flaw.  No way can you have time travelling cops, it would wreak utter havok with public pension liabilities.
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--Joan Robinson

Eddie Teach

Another flaw: the presence of Jean Claude Van Damme.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

celedhring

That's a plus in my book. Timecop is the only opportunity we have to see JCVD in a decent movie.

Syt

Quote from: celedhring on November 28, 2018, 03:41:27 AM
That's a plus in my book. Timecop is the only opportunity we have to see JCVD in a decent movie.

Bloodsport disagrees. :rolleyes:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

celedhring

#40709
Bloodsport is a cheesy movie that we like because it's cheesy and over the top, not because it's good.

Timecop is a film that with a more respected actor would enjoy a much higher reputation. It's actually pretty decent.