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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2016 7:21:53 GMT -5
I love Demolition Man! Utterly stupid film, but so much fun.
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Post by batlaw on Feb 19, 2016 7:26:36 GMT -5
One of the books I loved the most when it was published was Major Bummer at DC, which didn't seem to garn much love (hence cancelation after 15 issues). It was the one book that back hten managed to get me to laugh out loud. The premise was goofy ( two aliens fumble their university studies graduation project by making a human slacker into a super hero instead of the regular hero they were supposed to use as a guinea pig), but in the best way possible. You get hte creative team of The Mask at their strongest, right before Arcudi became the architect of the Hellboy universe and Doug Mahnke became an A-list artist.  Oh, and I relucantly must admit I enjoyed Long Halloween and that Roma Catwoman thing alright, despises Hush as much as one can do, but loved Superman For All Seasons incondtionaly. Loved major bummer. |
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Post by batlaw on Feb 19, 2016 7:30:57 GMT -5
Count me amongst those who enjoyed stalones dredd movie. I can see its warts, but I liked it. Especially at the time. I tend to like many movies that get slammed by others and vice versa.
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Post by Mormel on Feb 19, 2016 7:33:34 GMT -5
Count me amongst those who enjoyed stalones dredd movie. I can see its warts, but I liked it. Especially at the time. I tend to like many movies that get slammed by others and vice versa. 'Sucker Punch' FTW! >ducks and covers< |
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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 19, 2016 8:14:00 GMT -5
I love Demolition Man! Utterly stupid film, but so much fun. "In the future, ALL restaurants are Taco Bell." Cei-U! I summon the three shells! |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 19, 2016 9:14:21 GMT -5
I loved Caprica. Great series with depth and potential, and one that didn't try to milk the Battlestar Galactica story for whatever it could still provide.
Caprica also had a satisfying ending. Too bad the last few episodes had to cram a year's worth of stories into just three hours!
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Post by tingramretro on Feb 19, 2016 11:39:01 GMT -5
I'm going to take advantage of the fact that nowhere in tolworthy's initial post does he specify that these have to be stories found in comics so here are a couple of films I love that yes, I think everyone hates.
Punisher: War Zone. I'm not really even a fan of those modern superhero movies that are supposed to be great (I can't stand Christian Bale as Batman, for instance) but I thought this film nailed The Punisher perfectly while adding a daring angle to the story that the comics themselves have rarely (if ever outside of What If's) touched upon by having Castle kill an innocent person. Not everyone's a Punisher fan and I get that, but even die hard fans of the guy seemed to hate this picture. I guess I could address the perceived problems with this film but I honestly don't know what they could be.
Howard the Duck. I saw this in theatres when it came out and I was seven years old. Because of my age, the concept of hating anything comic book related was completely alien to me. Since I haven't seen the movie since I was about eight or nine I am unable to update my opinion on it, leaving my views of it then as my views on it now. Strangely, I haven't even accidentally come across any info on the legion of sequels and spin offs it surely must have spawned. I somehow only saw the ending of Howard (must have been on TV) but the special effects were amazing. The tentacled creature, whatever it was - the SFX team deserves an award, but nobody noticed. This was seven years before Jurassic Park supposedly proved that CGI mixed with real effects could be seamless. I was so impressed. Can't really comment on the rest of the story, but that ending bowled me over. Stallone's Judge DreddI loved the first Judge Dredd movie, but could not take the second one seriously. As you know, I like to treat my stories as absolutely real. For me the humour of early Judge Dredd is what made it work: Mega City 1 was so dysfunctional, so absurd, that the only way it could function (IMO) is if people like Dredd treated it as a joke. For the second Dredd to treat it seriously made it totally unrealistic IMO. But an absurdist take works. Much like great philosophers can be relaxed and crack jokes, and talk about being nice to people even though they are well aware that life in many respects is a cruel joke and far worse than we can imagine. It's all very meta. Without Dredd 1's layer of craziness you have to start asking serious questions, like "why send a rookie judge in with an exposed neck and no helmet?" Every scene in Dredd 2 had me rolling my eyes. They expect me to take this seriously? But Dredd 1 was so wild, so different, that yes, I can believe that maybe the future is like that. Creaky old Dr WhoI feel the same way about very old sci fi movies. I want my sci-fi to be a world where people think differently on a fundamental level, and don't just repackage modern sensibilities. I recently saw a very early Dr Who, it may have been the very first Dalek episode? The people were weak, the daleks were weak, people were slow and afraid and the biggest problem was cowardice. I loved it! This would never fly in the era of modern CGI. But this was 1963: these actors actually fought in World War II. They lived in an era where atomic annihilation was real, and where the class system was more visible than it is today. It felt so different, so real to me. If daleks are real then I bet this is how they are really. In a crazy dysfunctional universe, a class system, stupidity, weakness and wasted time are the norm. Kind of like how warfare in the real world is more like hungry child soldiers in Africa, and not like G I Joe. I'm another fan of both the HTD movie and Stallone's Dredd, the latter for the very reasons you specify; the scene in which Dredd calmly announces that two entire city blocks are under arrest never fails to make me smile, as does the scene in which he blows up the car of a guy who's parked illegally. I'm also a major fan of Doctor Who (I own every existing episode) though I feel I should defend it against the "old and creaky" allegation-I think most of the sixties stuff is still amazing. And the class system I think is still very much in evidence... |
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Post by Mormel on Feb 19, 2016 12:25:34 GMT -5
I love Demolition Man! Utterly stupid film, but so much fun. "In the future, ALL restaurants are Taco Bell." Cei-U! I summon the three shells! "Hold it. The Schwarzenegger Library?" "Yes, the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library. Wasn't he an actor when you...?" "Stop. He was president?!" Also, this is the largest congregation of Stallone Dredd enthusiasts I've encountered on the net. We should start a club! Or at least a support group. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 19, 2016 13:28:07 GMT -5
I love Demolition Man! Utterly stupid film, but so much fun. I saw most of it on cable when it was relatively new and I liked it a lot. I saw it a few years ago - the whole movie this time! - and I loved it! I'm always very happy when an actor I like makes a film that's not just really good or great, but is also so good that you can watch it multiple times. I say Demolition Man is the one Sandra Bullock will be remembered for in decades to come. |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 19, 2016 14:16:37 GMT -5
Demolition Man is the movie Stallone's Dredd should have been.
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 19, 2016 14:28:01 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2016 14:29:49 GMT -5
I love Demolition Man! Utterly stupid film, but so much fun. "In the future, ALL restaurants are Taco Bell." Cei-U! I summon the three shells! Strange but true - on all recent showings of the film (over here at least), "Taco Bell" is over-dubbed as "Pizza Hut" |
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Post by tingramretro on Feb 19, 2016 14:58:09 GMT -5
Taking the helmet off was still a mistake, though... |
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Post by tingramretro on Feb 19, 2016 14:59:40 GMT -5
"In the future, ALL restaurants are Taco Bell." Cei-U! I summon the three shells! Strange but true - on all recent showings of the film (over here at least), "Taco Bell" is over-dubbed as "Pizza Hut" Hardly strange. I've never heard of Taco Bell. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 19, 2016 15:39:12 GMT -5
Cymbeline
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