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Hook my beloved. I understand objectively why it is not a good movie, but having watched it 852 times throughout my childhood, I could not find fault with it on a recent rewatch.
edit: I watched that movie so early and so often, that I can recite whole scenes not by word, but by phonemes and cadence, because my language skills weren't fully developed at the time.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2.
Go ninja go ninja go....
Willow 1988 my first taste of fantasy
Airborne 1993 put me in a rollarblading phase
Tremors 1990 all three are good fun
It wasn't until 2024 that the world understood how perfect it was to cast John Leguizamo as Luigi.
He's always been a pest to society...
I finally got around to watching that after the missus kept referring to him as the pest guy.
As soon as well started the movie she just went "you're going to hate it"
She was not wrong. How the man continued to have a career after that is anyone's guess.
I never liked him much, but he guest-hosted the Daily Show not too long ago and he was amazing. Maybe political satire was his true calling and he just never realized it.
I've not had a chance to experience this infamous Mario Bros movie. Hope I can find some time to sit down and really immerse myself.
Also, can I interest anyone in the masterworks of Neil Breen?
The Breen is something you need the moral support of others to watch. I traumatised a colleague by making him and another friend watch Twisted Pair with me. I watched two Breens alone after that, since the other two refused to watch any more with me, and it was painful.
"I'm not seeing another psychiatrist. I'm not. I'm not seeing another psychiatrist. I'm not seeing another psychiatrist. I'm not."
(Is that lines from a Breen film, or my reaction after watching a Breen film?)
They maintain the Breen is a troll, but I think he's got delusions of grandeur and really thinks he's making these deep masterpieces.
Fun fact, the two leads were drunk most of that movie because, well, because they were the two leads in that movie.
The directors, yes two of them, were horrible to work with according to pretty much everyone that worked on it.
To be fair to Morton and Jankel, they had never directed a big budget feature film before. All of their experience was in TV
Spare a thought for the animatronic Yoshi who remained stone cold sober for the entire shoot.
That thing was so cool, and disappointing, at the same time. We didn't care though, we were kids. It was awesome.
I like to imagine Bob Hoskins was a fun drunk
I’d sincerely like to think so; between Mario Bros., Hook and Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Bob Hoskins is a foundational part of my childhood..
SpyKids trilogy, and Shark boy and Lava girl rule still rules.
"Do you think God stays in heaven because he, too, lives in fear of what he's created?"
The OG Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter movies are dope. I don't care what anyone else says.
I don't think I've seen the Street Fighter movie, but Mortal Kombat rocks.
Raul Julia is SO GOOD in it. Campy as hell.
Raul Julia was a legend... I firmly believe that, at least later in his career, the dude would do whatever shlocky film he could for a paycheck, so he could spend the rest of the time doing theater for fun. And he's often the best part of those movies.
Street Fighter is far superior.
Everything about it is terrible, but it's saved by Raul Julia in the same way that Tim Curry saves the Three Musketeers and Alan Rickman saves Robin Hood.
A classically trained actor treating the whole thing like a pantomime. It's glorious.
The first MK movie was the archetypal "It's good... for a video game adaptation" movie for a long time. Luckily now we have great adaptations (not necessarily movies though) to point to that stand on their own merits.
But yeah, there's always a part of me that will have fond memories of MK and the JCVD Street Fighter movie. Hell, add Double Dragon to that list.
idk if it was terrible because I haven't watched it in over 20 years.. but that'd be Space Jam for me. Watched it so often, the VHS gave out and we had to buy it a second time.
Disney's The Black Cauldron. Apparently it was so bad it like...almost killed off Disney animation for good? But I loved that shit as a kid. No idea why we had it, either. I was born almost a decade after it came out. Eilonwy deserves her place with the Disney Princesses, damn it!
Oh there are so, so many awful movies that I loved as a kid that I have a positive memory of but would be better off not watching again to ruin that memory.
Legend would have to be one of them. It’s still a spectacle to watch, and Tim Curry is incredible as Darkness, Robert Picardo is Meg Mucklebones, but it’s so far over the top it’s a fever dream.
Cave Man with Ringo Star, Shelly Long, and Dennis Quaid. Laughed so hard I cried when I was a kid. Watched it again not too long ago and it’s pretty bad.
Whoopee Boys, same as Cave Man. Cannot rewatch.
Buckaroo Banzai, Revenge of the Nerds, so many other bad movies I loved as a kid. Most of the cheap action films too. Schwarzenegger’s, Stallone’s, Van Damme’s…so bad, lol. There were some absolutely great ones, though…the original Predator (‘87) comes to mind.
Clutch Powers (2010)
THE LEGO SECRET AGENT?????
Ohhhhhhhhhhh yeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh baby
The Last Dragon. It's a blacksploitation movie that was trying to mirror popular kung fu movies, but "in the ghetto".
It's cringe. The fight scenes are meh. The plot is.... something to do with a kidnapping maybe?
It has some cool glowy bits. 10/10.
I don't know how They Live ended up having two professional wrestlers giving us the worst fight scene since Kirk took on a Gorn.
But at least we got some badass one liners.
1999's The Night of the Headless Horseman. Very '90s CG but if you're able to get past that it's amazing, one of my top two favorite tellings of the tale, with voice actors including Mark Hamill, Clancy Brown, Tia Carrere, Bill Fagerbakke, and William H Macy.
