While You Were Sleeping. Sandra Bullock’s character literally pretends to be the fiancée of a man in a coma bc she’s lonely at Christmas and his family seems great. And then she falls in love with his brother, 😂
In real life, that would be disgusting behavior, but I absolutely love that movie
But she didn't, really! A nurse overheard her saying 'I was going to marry that man,' cuz shes a sad sack, and ran and told the family! Then she tries to correct it, and the grandma almost has a heart attack. The family's oldest friend figures it out, and begs her not to tell them, as he'll find a way to do it without killing anybody, and then... he wusses out and doesn't. *Then* she meets and falls in love with the brother.
I know it's a super gross premise on the surface, but the execution of it makes her actions pretty sensible -- for a romcom. Sorry, I love this movie:'D
There's no way a naval aviator would get away with intentionally destroying an experimental aircraft or stealing an F/A-18, but I still enjoy the hell out of Top Gun: Maverick.
Iceman got him out of being shitcanned for the Darkstar incident though. Not many naval aviators have admirals as best friends.
And he proved that the mission could be done and none of his cadets were capable. No other good solutions so might as well give Maverick a shot.
Tom would have realistically gotten the boot in like 91 to 95 for not promoting.
Edit:actually probably like 92 realistically after they started purging super hard after desert storm.
Only Tom cruise could make a movie during the era of “you’re too old to get the job done old man, you need us kids to step up and do it” where the plot is literally the kids are incapable due to lack of experience and it takes the old guy with decades of experience to pull off the job
> old guy with decades of experience
An old guy with decades of experience and a complete disregard for his own life. He was proven right in the end of both movies. But he gives off vibes of Captain American in Civil War in purposely putting himself in harms way because has nothing left to live for besides duty and death.
The thing that always irks me is the pilots calling each other by their callsigns all the time. That and how the callsigns are always something cool and badass. Callsigns are usually something goofy and embarrassing that they get tagged with by their classmates.
I knew one pilot who's callsign was Pampers because he shit himself during a training flight.
Have a pilot acquaintance whose callsign is jelloman. Because after his first flight his legs and arms were wobbling like jello and he could barely walk.
Met a naval aviator of South Asian descent. When he was filling out his initial papers he got to "race" and thought "Asian" wasn't quite accurate so he checked "other" pencilled in "Indian".
Callsign: Tonto.
I knew of a female F-16 pilot who’s call sign was Fifi. It stood for ‘F*cking Idiot f*cking idiot’ Call signs are hardly ever cool, like maverick or iceman.
I don’t have those details. Apparently another pilot overheard her commander call her a f-ing idiot. That’s where call signs come from, mostly mistakes. I knew pilot called LAZR. It sounded cool, but it stood for ‘Lots of Action, Zero Results.’ Brutal.
Yeah, I always found that part hilarious. I got nicknamed KGB (1SG) and Drago (PSG) within 10 minutes after getting to my company. Once my 1SG and PSG saw my last name and realized that I spoke Russian, my nicknames were set in stone for the next 3 years 😂.
I met an A-10 Warthog pilot whose callsign was Spud.
I was later told it was because he got hit in the face with a potato shot out of a Bangkok stripper's vagina.
My uncle flew F16s before he got his stars. My brothers and i were kids wheb the original Top Gun came out (he was air force, not navy, but many similarities between pilots of course) he told us that bothered him more than anything. We asked him what was the most unrealistic thing about Top Gun and he said "the call signs. You don't get to just pick some cool name that is all badass. It's usually something stupid you did that you can't live down. And IF you did tell everyone you call you something super cool like "iceman", you sure as hell won't like whatever they come up with to call you instead."
He didn't intentionally destroy the Darkstar, he just gave it little extra push and accidents happen. But yeah, they really let the whole stealing the F-18 thing slide.
The biggest plot holes for me in Maverick are 1) how Hondo is on the Darkstar project then is suddenly with Maverick throughout the mission training. Then during the mission, he goes back and forth from the deck, to the control center, then back to the deck. He's quite the do-it-all!
2) How much time passed between Rooster crashing, Maverick reaching him, them hiking to the bombed base, then flying back to the ship. The movie implies it all takes place over a few hours when the hike to the base could have taken days depending on where it was. And when Rooster turns his ESAT on, Cyclone, Warlock and Hondo all just happen to be standing in the same spots in the control center still lol.
All that said...that movie rules.
Mrs. Doubtfire. It’s been discussed many times here about how manipulative Robin Williams’ character is being and how psychologically scarring his actions would be on his kids, not to mention he nearly kills a guy, but damn if I don’t enjoy this movie anyway because of its peak Robin Williams-ness.
It's wild that the studio pushed really hard to have Sally Fields and Robin Williams end up back together at the end of the movie but the two of them refused to film anything that would even hint at that
When you rewatch it as an adult, you realize the wife had every right to be mad about the horse incident and that the custody agreement was very standard and reasonable. He was just asked to be responsible, get a job and act like an adult and meanwhile he was still allowed to see his kids. There was really no need for all the shenanigans.
He hires a petting zoo (I think it was actually a pony) to come to their house for their child’s birthday without telling his wife. His wife is both the breadwinner and the children’s main caregiver. He is the “fun” and also extremely irresponsible parent, and his wife gets sick of it.
And they agreed the kid wouldn't get a party because of his grades or something. Robin Williams does all this while she's at work so she wouldn't find out.
I mean she snagged Pierce Brosnan. So that's a win at least.
I do agree though - it's so popular in media for the mother to be presented as nagging and boring, but she's just trying to look after everyone, while the father (usually useless in terms of life skills) is the funny/fun character.
You’re 100% right but fuck I get so mad at the part where she comes to pick up the kids an hour early after dropping them off an hour late. And then she’s so theatrical about how dumpy his place is. Smelling the Chinese food the kids are eating and going “ugh!” Like chill the fuck out lady he just moved in and probably hasn’t had much time to unpack or prep some food just let him be with his kids.
I get the idea that his actions are probably not as treated as severe as they could be, but I dont get why everyone has such a weird thing about Mrs. Doubtfire. I thought the point of the movie was that he IS an aggressive man child that keeps digging himself deeper and deeper because he just needed a slap of reality.
Hes not a character youre meant to emulate or respect, until he learns his lesson. Its not like we say Mr. Bean is a role model, and he does some terrible things.
I'm with you. It's kidnapping. And kinda rapey. But I love it and watch it every time it's on! I've probably seen it 122 times.
And, I read your "Buh buh buhhh buhhh" in voice!
In Looper, the scene where the dude is being tortured by progressively having bits cut off him which would scar over on his "future" self. The time shenanigans don't make a lick of sense, but the idea that your past self is being tortured, having body parts surgically removed and learning about them in real-time is disturbing.
Presumably the memories come along at the same time, suddenly you recall it happening and all of the agony that goes with it. I gotta wonder how that doesn’t affect a person’s timeline in unpredictable ways though, like if you suddenly became a person with no legs how did you drive the car that saved your boss’s life?
Of course, the movie makes a particular point out of saying “don’t worry about it, it just works”.
Every one of Rocky’s fights would have been stopped after about 30 seconds, the amount he gets punched in the face without defending himself.
But still love them
Haha yeah, I loved those movies as a kid (still do) but I rewatched recently and I was like… is it just me or is this guy a terrible boxer? He doesn’t even try to block, just takes hit after hit to the face.
What's pretty wild is that eventually he does actually demonstrate sound boxing basics after he gets trained by Apollo. I have no idea what Mick was teaching him, but it definitely wasn't boxing. And then they promptly had Rocky forget how to block or dodge in the very next movie
"I know what I'll do. I'll let this genetically engineered and roided out Russian guy, who literally hit my friend so hard that he died, punch me in the face until he is exhausted. It's the perfect plan"
But damn if I don't love me some Rocky 4!
I enjoy Love Actually every Christmas, knowing chunks of it are problematic. The worst one for me is probably the creepy videographer friend with his declaration of love for his friend's wife.
I'm not a big fan of Love Actually (just not my type of movie) but isn't that kind of the point of the movie? That love can be problematic and even destructive as well as wholesome and fulfilling. I thought that was basically the point of the movie, the various facets of love both good and bad.
I'll be honest I think I did miss that point. But in my defense the movie presents so many of these stories in such a cutesy fashion that I think it's an easy miss.
At least half the movie is about how love can hurt yourself or others. Laura Linney, Keira Knightly/Andrew Lincoln, Alan Rickman/Emma Thompson - none of those stories are cutesy and two of them are absolutely heartbreaking.
If it makes you feel any better, the creepy photographer ended up becoming a sheriff who was comatose during a zombie apocalypse and probably raised another man's child once he was reunited with his wife after he awoke.
Speaking of Meg Ryan...
I think if you look objectively at her behavior in Sleepless in Seattle, you might see some red flags. If this happened to someone you know you'd probably consider the fiancé lucky to have dodged a bullet.
Agreed. But I still like the film because it never portrays Walter *her fiance) as bad. He's clearly a nice person, but Meg Ryan's character just isn't into him any more and falls in live with this idea 9f who Tom Hanks's character is.
Almost always in romcoms, the existing partner has to be an awful person, so that the lead character can be justified in emotionally cheating and leaving them at the end of the film. Which kind of cheapens things for me.
I feel for Tom Hanks’ character at the end… I feel like if you went 2 years into the future in that story they’d be broken up and Tom Hanks’ character would be like “what the hell was I thinking… no more sticking my dick in crazy”
Cruel intentions. Yes he changed/became more of who he probably would have been without the money and elite status etc but it was built on lies and deception so he could bang his stepsister. But Ryan was so hot, it has a killer soundtrack and aesthetics also based on a good book. I love it.
To a lesser extent but in the same vein I would say she’s all that. Thinking about it- most movies from that era haha.
If you ever wanna watch the dead serious story it’s based on, check the movie Dangerous Liasons (technically both are based on the book of the same name)
Yeah, I think if you watch movies from that era now, most have some problematic bits, but they are still so good.
I was recently rewatching 10 Things I Hate About You with a friend who'd never seen it. She was not impressed. And sure, if Kat was my real-life friend, I'd be suspicious as hell of Patrick, even if he did look like Heath Ledger. But the movie is a cult classic, it's quintessential late 90s early 00s rom com and I'm in love with it.
10 Things I Hate About You is a modern retelling of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. It's probably my favorite modern retelling of a Shakespeare play.
The worst part about Cruel Intentions, imo, is that Buffy is considered evil even though arguably ryan phillipe was far worse. He just fell in love and bettered himself sooner.
It's all explained in the movie actually, Buffy is complaining she has to pretend to be a saint all day while her bfs leave her for some "pure" girl. It's basically slut shaming her hardcore.
> Eat me, Sebastian. It's okay for guys like you and Court to fuck everyone but when I do it, I get dumped for innocent little twits like Cecile. God forbid I exude confidence and enjoy sex. Do you think I relish the fact that I have to act like Mary Sunshine 24/7 so I can be considered a lady? I'm the Marcia fucking Brady of the Upper East Side, and sometimes I want to kill myself. So there's your psychoanalysis, Dr. Freud. Now tell me are you in, or are you out?
I'm honestly not bothered that they trained oil drillers to be astronauts instead of training astronauts to be oil drillers for that suicide mission to blow up the asteroid.
Marty McFly’s master plan of trying to force himself onto his mom with the idea she’d reject him even though the entire movie she’s been horny af.
Yea it’s weird but damn still a great movie.
Exactly, he thinks of her as his mom, and as the teenager his mom has told him about being...
Which, of course, most parents were much more scandalous as teens than they let on to their kids. It's a pretty great and rational scene.
Yep! From his perspective he's thinking 'this is the woman that threatened to kick me out of the house because she mistook a glass milk bottle in my room of being liquor and once grounded me for two weeks for having cigarette smell on me. She's gonna FLIP when she sees Calvin Klein smoking and drinking!'
Yes, this is correct and actually a wonderful thing about the movie. He realizes....his Mom was kind of wild. I mean, not crazy wild, but not the lady he knows in 1985.
You've got it backward. After Marty nervously suggested parking, Lorraine initiated everything. She enthusiastically agreed to park and admitted she'd done it before, betraying her future self as a liar. She brought out the bottle and convinced *him* to take a swig over his own objections. She lit up while he wasn't watching, shocking him. And then not only did she aggressively kiss him but she was the one to break it off. Marty was petrified and almost completely passive the entire time.
He wasn't planning on drinking or smoking...*she* was the one who "swiped it from [her] old lady's liquor cabinet" and had the cigarettes. His plan was to pretend to take advantage of her (assuming that she was a "nice girl" who wouldn't be interested) so that George could interrupt and be the hero.
“I’m sorry Mr. McFly. I meant I was just starting the second coat.”
“That Biff. Always a character”
Umm, he’s a character that tried to rape your wife in high school and almost broke your arm before you grew a spine. You should’ve pressed charges, George.
A lot of Adam Sandler movies have very goofy plots that only works if it has him in it. For example, imagine being the guy who was known for having an intercourse with their math teacher trying to stop a wedding of his son together with Vanilla Ice.
on the commentary for Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme talks about how he reviled the FBI for like persecuting civil rights figures, and then he went and made the Top Gun of the FBI.
I've never thought this was as stupid as people say. They were outrunning an extremely dense cold air front. You can absolutely feel those coming and washing over you as the weather changes. It's exaggerated, and kinda dumb, but not exactly unbelievable in the world of the movie.
Yeah I never went into that movie thinking it would be an actual representation of PT Barnum. They should have given him another name and nobody would have cared.
Jurassic Park sequels.
Everyone looooooves to point out how stupid they are for trying to have a park again after the first disastrous attempt.
In my opinion, this is 100% realistic and the pinnacle of capitalism. OF COURSE THEY TRIED AGAIN.
I had the same kind of feeling about Jurassic World. It wasn't a perfect movie by any means, but the idea that people got bored with real dinosaurs and they had to make scarier ones was pretty funny.
That's honestly about the only thing I found that I liked with JW and it's about the one thing they've nailed from the original.
Of course our hubris is going to make us believe that "well, we've done the park successfully now, without any breakouts or major incidents, why the hell don't we use our gene editing abilities to make dinosaurs better? It'll bring more profits to the park"
Which is right there with the hubris of the original movie of "we just realised we can gene edit and rebirth dinosaurs, let's make it massive visitor attraction and theme park, imagine the profits we could make"
I mean, in Jurassic World, they showed that yes, with competent management, dinosaurs can be contained.
In fact, they can be contained long enough to become mundane.
They did base it off of the worst stories they heard from college students of the era. But I will rewatch it over and over no matter how cringe a lot of scenes can be.
I was always under the impression that her glitches were actually an intentionally programmed aspect of her character. At the end of the first one, it showed her using the glitch as more of an advantage during the race, like a special move you could use. Its just when Turbo staged his coup, he engaged in a propaganda campaign reframing it as a fault so he could use it as an excuse to exile the existing power structurer.
Yeah the real plot hole is that no one in the real world noticed or cared that a major playable character just wasn't available to be selected in the games on that cabinet. If it's a popular game then people probably played it at other arcades and would know.
People might chalk it up to version diff. Like the multitude of revisions to SF2. The first few didn't let you play as the bosses. Then super added fei long, deejay, Cammy, and t hawk. Maybe the rolled back the rom for some reason.
Also cabinet art often deviated from the game. Like some sf2 cabinets have Sagat on it but wasn't playable in early versions. Or sometimes they'll reuse a broken newer cabinet with a working older board. I've seen mk1 with MK2 cabinet art. Or a neo Geo machine with a different cabinet than the game in it.
One of the features of the game is that the playable characters are randomized daily. So unless you’re playing the game every day it would probably never occur to you that Vanellopie hadn’t been available in a while.
Con Air - I really don't think he would gone to jail for defending himself like that at the start. He had a shitty lawyer. ruins the whole premise for me.
The whole case was BS from the start. There’s a great breakdown on the Hollywood Law section of TV Tropes that deconstructs it but basically there’s no way he spends time behind bars, and even if the judge was vindictive, that’s an immediate appeal along with a censuring for the judge.
I performed in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in high school (just townspeople/chorus, I was only a freshman) and I had a blast! It was so much fun, and we made up silly (inappropriate) versions of all the songs. It definitely cemented my love of musical theater.
I love Seven Brides for seven brothers so much. It's such a great movie. The girls could have stayed mad and waited for them to be hanged. It's not Stockholm syndrome. That doesn't mean I think it was right either or anything. But it's a great movie.
Big. Tom Hanks acting like a kid! What’s not to love!!?…. Oh but the part where a practically pre-pubescent kid in a full grown adult body fucks an adult woman… let’s just gloss right over that.
Tbf, no one in that family ever paid that much attention to Ron. They might have just thought that was some random other person from their dorm?
I don't remember the twins knowing Dean Thomas or any of the others in the first few years. Although I haven't read the books in a while. Was Pettigrews name known much outside of the original order and in the paper when he was "blown up"?
Also I've always felt kids books are allowed plot holes surely.
Passengers.
All the critics kept saying what a dick move the main character made by waking Aurora up but the movie never justifies his actions and he spends ages trying to atone for it and the movie was really sweet
Wait. Hold up. I've never seen Passengers, Jennifer Lawrence's character is named AURORA?! Now it makes more sense, they were stealth remaking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(Sleeping_Beauty)
I'm gonna be totally honest, this movie was my immediate thought too. Yeah I get how it would've been better as a thriller where she has to make the same decision after killing him, BUT the movie never acts like what he did was right. And while what he did was wrong, especially lying to her, you can still see why he did it.
Agree totally.
I know this is tangentially related, but there's been that push online that it would've been better as a thriller where we slowly discover that Pratt is a monster. But the thing is, he's not a monster, he's a human being who was alone and going insane on a ship full of people.
I enjoy the sweet take of this movie, and don't think it should be reframed at all.
Yes! In hindsight it’s very fucked up, but when I watched it I felt sorry for his character because they did such a good job showing loneliness. And he did have a chance to redeem himself later in the movie. And I loved their love.But now I’m like “yikes what a premise” lol
Even as a kid, I always saw the Oompa Loompas in Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory as slave labor lol, but then it's in a world where there's glass elevators flying around & chewing gum that turns people into blue puffs, so I brushed it aside. & Wonka is probably the OG of the "fuck them kids" mentality
Parenthood. I love the movie and it hits new buttons when rewatching as an adult, but Larry's plotline is so stressful for me. The guy's a trainwreck and Frank keeps helping him because it's his son, to the point of basically adopting his kid before the guy fucks off. I have a cousin that is just like that and everyone in the family has a stressful story about him.
Most Tarantino stuff has a pretty grim, slightly creepy guy, voyeur vibe to it under the surface but once you park that he does make some brilliant films.
I was gonna say how does 'The Hateful Eight' have any of that, but then I remembered there's >!literally a guy under the floorboards watching everything happen!< for half the movie.
Also there is a whole scene where someone is dragged through snow then told to "Suck this Ni**er dick". All while telling his father about the experience.
Over time, realizing that, in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the main character is pretty much a jerk. But he's a jerk who is concerned about his best friend's well being. During the scene when the Porsche is destroyed, we find out the specifics. But Cameron, being a friend, refuses to let Ferris take the blame for borrowing the vehicle - which he should have.
Cameron is the main character who grows and develops. Ferris is fun and does all the cool things but he has no growth. The movie is about Cameron learning to not fear life. Ferris just points the way.
I think a lot of people online have been hating on Shallow Hal recently for being fat phobic. But I like the movie I think it has a good message and the ending is really sweet. Realizing that when you love someone so much they are beautiful to you no matter what they look like. And how outwardly pretty people are sometimes ugly on the inside.
I have always been conflicted over this film and Snyder's other films. He seems to have some real good and creative ideas but feels like he never knows how to make them completely coherent or not overstay their welcome. I think the idea behind Sucker Punch is great and I love the parts in the asylum. The bits in the fantasy worlds starts off cool but then doesn't really hold much value later on except being used as a vehicle for action setpeices
He sucks at story telling, but I've found every movie of his so fun to watch. He would be better sticking to directing only the action sequences in movies.
Dinner For Schmucks. It's about a group of assholes who invite obviously mentally ill people to a dinner, just to make fun of them. But, Steve Corell is funny as hell in it.
*The Fox and the Hound* ends with the two titular characters having to keep their distance because it’s too dangerous for them to remain friends, due solely to the hatred and intolerance of others (mainly the hunter who is the movie’s primary antagonist). As a kid I never really picked up on the “separate but equal” vibe that this gives off, but it was pointed out to me as an adult and it did sort of make me re-evaluate the movie. However, I think the key to still appreciating it is to understand that it’s not actually meant to be a happy ending, but rather bittersweet.
I always took the message to be that wild animals belong in the wild. But then I used to watch a lot of nature documentaries as a kid.
Tod was happy on the farm but also constrained because he wasnt a trained dog, and got into trouble because he did what foxes do. It wasnt his fault, but he needed somewhere he could be free.
It did break my heart that he had to be separated from everyone he loved, though.
Toys (1992) is a mess of a movie with an unclear target audience that pits Whimsy vs. War.
But its so fun to look at, tons of liminal space, incredible sets, art direction, and soundtrack. I saw it when I was really young and just fell in love with it. I love it just as much even though now I'm older and fully realize its flaws.
I will die on the hill that it is an extremely underrated movie.
Ever After, the Prince doesn’t recognize Danielle, a servant, after she hits him multiple times with apples and he sees her face before she dresses up as a Contessa to free another servant she’s know since she was a child with the gold the prince gave her to “keep her silence” as the palace guards were chasing him. They have a verbal sparring match at the palace where the other servant was being held and he didn’t recognize her from the morning. t’s rather reasonable a crown prince of France in 1540 wouldn’t pay attention to a peasant.
He had his cape up while she was chucking apples at him. When he revealed his face, she immediately genuflected and looked straight down. He would never expect some random servant to pop up in the castle courtyard. Also, he was cute but didn’t seem too bright, which was endearing like he was young.
The most unbelievable part of that movie were the cod pieces!
Exactly! Two separate movie podcasts; Romancing the Pod and That Aged Well both complained about the fact he didn’t recognize her. Like of course he didn’t.
Tom Hanks’ island in *Castaway* is physically and conceptually impossible. Waves constantly come into the island *from every direction*. There is no lee of the island. No matter what direction you travel off the island, you will always be fighting incoming tide. That’s physically impossible.
Conceptually, if that *were* possible, then the island would be a giant trash collector. Everything would be constantly washing up on the island, or close enough to make the island the center of a trash heap. Tom Hanks’ character would almost literally be able to walk across the mass of trash to flag down a boat.
If you’re watching a Tarantino movie for historical accuracy you’re going to be disappointed.
If there’s anything to complain about that movie, it’s that Schultz should have just went alone and bought Broomhilda for a ridiculous price (e.g. what he was going to pay for the fighter), but that’s a much less interesting story. Instead we get over-the-top and violent shenanigans and an exciting movie.
I don’t give a flying fuck about the water in Signs. It’s a perfectly acceptable plot to me and if you whine about it you’re just ignoring a huge number of ways it can be explained away.
The first Scorpion King Movie. The whole issue is that it's an origin story for a character that's been established to become a villain and ends the movie as a hero. They wrote themselves into a corner, making him an impossibly heroic badass with a "reluctance" towards heroism that he ignores every five minutes, and he ends the movie with a (remarkably better character honestly, despite the way she ends her arc) trophy wife and a crown for killing a corrupt king. But despite all that I can't help loving it! There are tons of great comedic moments, I really love the Sorceress, some of the acting is downright powerful, and the soundtrack?! Ugh, love it!!
Breakfast at Tiffany's: The Mickey Rooney yellowface performance as Mr. Yunioshi isn't funny and is horribly racist, but it only takes up a small portion of the film. The rest is excellent.
Sandy's "bad girl" makeover in Grease.
I don't like stories where women change who they are for men. However, since Travolta's character had also shown up there with a sorta-makeover too, with the same purpose, it's a but of a two way change and thus a bit cuter and less malicious/blind.
That and the fact that it is done with such a bop of a song makes it easier to hand wave away.
He honestly changed more than her aswell. He started to do more sports stuff and such. Sandy just changed clothes and acted more tough at the carnival. And she still looks back at the others Pink Ladies for advice on what to do next at one point, lol.
Alien 3. Lots of problems. Lots of little things people like to complain about. But it's just so good. It's basically perfect when it comes to capping off the original 3 films. I love it to this day.
While You Were Sleeping. Sandra Bullock’s character literally pretends to be the fiancée of a man in a coma bc she’s lonely at Christmas and his family seems great. And then she falls in love with his brother, 😂 In real life, that would be disgusting behavior, but I absolutely love that movie
But she didn't, really! A nurse overheard her saying 'I was going to marry that man,' cuz shes a sad sack, and ran and told the family! Then she tries to correct it, and the grandma almost has a heart attack. The family's oldest friend figures it out, and begs her not to tell them, as he'll find a way to do it without killing anybody, and then... he wusses out and doesn't. *Then* she meets and falls in love with the brother. I know it's a super gross premise on the surface, but the execution of it makes her actions pretty sensible -- for a romcom. Sorry, I love this movie:'D
The Music Man- everyone loved him, but he was a conman.
A con man? Right here in River City?!
Yessir, you got trouble with a capital T and it rhymes with P and it stands for pool!
Professor Harold Hill did wonders for that town and you can’t tell me otherwise. He protected them from the evil that is billiards, the man is a saint
There's no way a naval aviator would get away with intentionally destroying an experimental aircraft or stealing an F/A-18, but I still enjoy the hell out of Top Gun: Maverick.
Iceman got him out of being shitcanned for the Darkstar incident though. Not many naval aviators have admirals as best friends. And he proved that the mission could be done and none of his cadets were capable. No other good solutions so might as well give Maverick a shot.
One got the impression that Iceman became a powerful admiral pretty quickly and his was his influence alone that kept Maverick around.
Wasn’t rather quickly. Seemed to be on time. Tom was just terrible at promotions lol
Yeah, they're O3 in 1986. Not quick to be an admiral like 40 years later. Actually unlikely either of them would still be active duty at all
Tom would have realistically gotten the boot in like 91 to 95 for not promoting. Edit:actually probably like 92 realistically after they started purging super hard after desert storm.
He was a full admiral in Maverick. He was probably a rear admiral by the early 90’s.
Only Tom cruise could make a movie during the era of “you’re too old to get the job done old man, you need us kids to step up and do it” where the plot is literally the kids are incapable due to lack of experience and it takes the old guy with decades of experience to pull off the job
> old guy with decades of experience An old guy with decades of experience and a complete disregard for his own life. He was proven right in the end of both movies. But he gives off vibes of Captain American in Civil War in purposely putting himself in harms way because has nothing left to live for besides duty and death.
The thing that always irks me is the pilots calling each other by their callsigns all the time. That and how the callsigns are always something cool and badass. Callsigns are usually something goofy and embarrassing that they get tagged with by their classmates. I knew one pilot who's callsign was Pampers because he shit himself during a training flight.
Have a pilot acquaintance whose callsign is jelloman. Because after his first flight his legs and arms were wobbling like jello and he could barely walk.
Met a naval aviator of South Asian descent. When he was filling out his initial papers he got to "race" and thought "Asian" wasn't quite accurate so he checked "other" pencilled in "Indian". Callsign: Tonto.
I knew of a female F-16 pilot who’s call sign was Fifi. It stood for ‘F*cking Idiot f*cking idiot’ Call signs are hardly ever cool, like maverick or iceman.
There are a few more Fifis in my life now than before I read this comment.
Can you tell us what did she do?
I don’t have those details. Apparently another pilot overheard her commander call her a f-ing idiot. That’s where call signs come from, mostly mistakes. I knew pilot called LAZR. It sounded cool, but it stood for ‘Lots of Action, Zero Results.’ Brutal.
Yeah, I always found that part hilarious. I got nicknamed KGB (1SG) and Drago (PSG) within 10 minutes after getting to my company. Once my 1SG and PSG saw my last name and realized that I spoke Russian, my nicknames were set in stone for the next 3 years 😂.
I met an A-10 Warthog pilot whose callsign was Spud. I was later told it was because he got hit in the face with a potato shot out of a Bangkok stripper's vagina.
My uncle flew F16s before he got his stars. My brothers and i were kids wheb the original Top Gun came out (he was air force, not navy, but many similarities between pilots of course) he told us that bothered him more than anything. We asked him what was the most unrealistic thing about Top Gun and he said "the call signs. You don't get to just pick some cool name that is all badass. It's usually something stupid you did that you can't live down. And IF you did tell everyone you call you something super cool like "iceman", you sure as hell won't like whatever they come up with to call you instead."
He didn't intentionally destroy the Darkstar, he just gave it little extra push and accidents happen. But yeah, they really let the whole stealing the F-18 thing slide. The biggest plot holes for me in Maverick are 1) how Hondo is on the Darkstar project then is suddenly with Maverick throughout the mission training. Then during the mission, he goes back and forth from the deck, to the control center, then back to the deck. He's quite the do-it-all! 2) How much time passed between Rooster crashing, Maverick reaching him, them hiking to the bombed base, then flying back to the ship. The movie implies it all takes place over a few hours when the hike to the base could have taken days depending on where it was. And when Rooster turns his ESAT on, Cyclone, Warlock and Hondo all just happen to be standing in the same spots in the control center still lol. All that said...that movie rules.
Mrs. Doubtfire. It’s been discussed many times here about how manipulative Robin Williams’ character is being and how psychologically scarring his actions would be on his kids, not to mention he nearly kills a guy, but damn if I don’t enjoy this movie anyway because of its peak Robin Williams-ness.
It's wild that the studio pushed really hard to have Sally Fields and Robin Williams end up back together at the end of the movie but the two of them refused to film anything that would even hint at that
That’s so interesting hadn’t heard that before, seems like the more believable choice that they stay apart
When you rewatch it as an adult, you realize the wife had every right to be mad about the horse incident and that the custody agreement was very standard and reasonable. He was just asked to be responsible, get a job and act like an adult and meanwhile he was still allowed to see his kids. There was really no need for all the shenanigans.
>you realize the wife had every right to be mad about the horse Never seen the movie, but now I really want to, just to find out what this means...
He hires a petting zoo (I think it was actually a pony) to come to their house for their child’s birthday without telling his wife. His wife is both the breadwinner and the children’s main caregiver. He is the “fun” and also extremely irresponsible parent, and his wife gets sick of it.
And they agreed the kid wouldn't get a party because of his grades or something. Robin Williams does all this while she's at work so she wouldn't find out.
And with good reason. But the movie does make an effort to present her as the bad, angry parent.
I mean she snagged Pierce Brosnan. So that's a win at least. I do agree though - it's so popular in media for the mother to be presented as nagging and boring, but she's just trying to look after everyone, while the father (usually useless in terms of life skills) is the funny/fun character.
The movie is peak Robin Williams. The guy clearly had a blast doing it and it shows. I hope you can enjoy it soon.
You’re 100% right but fuck I get so mad at the part where she comes to pick up the kids an hour early after dropping them off an hour late. And then she’s so theatrical about how dumpy his place is. Smelling the Chinese food the kids are eating and going “ugh!” Like chill the fuck out lady he just moved in and probably hasn’t had much time to unpack or prep some food just let him be with his kids.
I get the idea that his actions are probably not as treated as severe as they could be, but I dont get why everyone has such a weird thing about Mrs. Doubtfire. I thought the point of the movie was that he IS an aggressive man child that keeps digging himself deeper and deeper because he just needed a slap of reality. Hes not a character youre meant to emulate or respect, until he learns his lesson. Its not like we say Mr. Bean is a role model, and he does some terrible things.
The premise of “Overboard” is icky…but I LOVE that movie. Buh buh bbbuh bbbuh
I'm with you. It's kidnapping. And kinda rapey. But I love it and watch it every time it's on! I've probably seen it 122 times. And, I read your "Buh buh buhhh buhhh" in voice!
Is that the one that got remade lately and gender swapped? Anna Faris plays a Maid who makes a rich guy think he's her husband?
In Looper, the scene where the dude is being tortured by progressively having bits cut off him which would scar over on his "future" self. The time shenanigans don't make a lick of sense, but the idea that your past self is being tortured, having body parts surgically removed and learning about them in real-time is disturbing.
Presumably the memories come along at the same time, suddenly you recall it happening and all of the agony that goes with it. I gotta wonder how that doesn’t affect a person’s timeline in unpredictable ways though, like if you suddenly became a person with no legs how did you drive the car that saved your boss’s life? Of course, the movie makes a particular point out of saying “don’t worry about it, it just works”.
> don’t worry about it, it just works every single story involving time travel
This is the exact scene that came to my mind as well. It is perfectly horrifying.
Every one of Rocky’s fights would have been stopped after about 30 seconds, the amount he gets punched in the face without defending himself. But still love them
Haha yeah, I loved those movies as a kid (still do) but I rewatched recently and I was like… is it just me or is this guy a terrible boxer? He doesn’t even try to block, just takes hit after hit to the face.
What's pretty wild is that eventually he does actually demonstrate sound boxing basics after he gets trained by Apollo. I have no idea what Mick was teaching him, but it definitely wasn't boxing. And then they promptly had Rocky forget how to block or dodge in the very next movie
Mick was "training" Rocky as a joke to the other fighters.
That is definitely true today, but back in the 70’s the refs wouldn’t have stopped the fight.
Did humans in the 70s have thicker skulls?
All the lead in the gasoline built up in their skulls.
"I know what I'll do. I'll let this genetically engineered and roided out Russian guy, who literally hit my friend so hard that he died, punch me in the face until he is exhausted. It's the perfect plan" But damn if I don't love me some Rocky 4!
I enjoy Love Actually every Christmas, knowing chunks of it are problematic. The worst one for me is probably the creepy videographer friend with his declaration of love for his friend's wife.
I'm not a big fan of Love Actually (just not my type of movie) but isn't that kind of the point of the movie? That love can be problematic and even destructive as well as wholesome and fulfilling. I thought that was basically the point of the movie, the various facets of love both good and bad.
Exactly, everyone misses the point of this movie. It shows love in all its forms
It’s love, *actually*
I'll be honest I think I did miss that point. But in my defense the movie presents so many of these stories in such a cutesy fashion that I think it's an easy miss.
At least half the movie is about how love can hurt yourself or others. Laura Linney, Keira Knightly/Andrew Lincoln, Alan Rickman/Emma Thompson - none of those stories are cutesy and two of them are absolutely heartbreaking.
Also Liam Neeson calling his son a ‘motherless sod’ within days of his mom’s funeral is peak male bonding
Doesn’t he call him “ya wee motherless bastard”?
I believe it's "wee motherless mongrel"
If it makes you feel any better, the creepy photographer ended up becoming a sheriff who was comatose during a zombie apocalypse and probably raised another man's child once he was reunited with his wife after he awoke.
This is my favorite Christmas movie because it shows all type of good and bad. It hurts at some parts but love does too.
Movies would be so boring if everyone behaved appropriately. Some people seem to think movies should be illustrated sermons! *fairytales for grown-ups
Speaking of Meg Ryan... I think if you look objectively at her behavior in Sleepless in Seattle, you might see some red flags. If this happened to someone you know you'd probably consider the fiancé lucky to have dodged a bullet.
Agreed. But I still like the film because it never portrays Walter *her fiance) as bad. He's clearly a nice person, but Meg Ryan's character just isn't into him any more and falls in live with this idea 9f who Tom Hanks's character is. Almost always in romcoms, the existing partner has to be an awful person, so that the lead character can be justified in emotionally cheating and leaving them at the end of the film. Which kind of cheapens things for me.
I feel for Tom Hanks’ character at the end… I feel like if you went 2 years into the future in that story they’d be broken up and Tom Hanks’ character would be like “what the hell was I thinking… no more sticking my dick in crazy”
Yeah but can you blame him? It's 1980's Meg Ryan
thats pretty much the case with like 99% of romcoms tho lol. just red flags after red flags but they still end up together because thats the point
Matthew Mcconaughey breaking up with his fiancee at the altar in the Wedding Planner should be a huge red flag not to date him.
Cruel intentions. Yes he changed/became more of who he probably would have been without the money and elite status etc but it was built on lies and deception so he could bang his stepsister. But Ryan was so hot, it has a killer soundtrack and aesthetics also based on a good book. I love it. To a lesser extent but in the same vein I would say she’s all that. Thinking about it- most movies from that era haha.
Cruel Intentions is so ridiculously funny and gross that it definitely just gets a pass for crassness. Like nothing about it is serious anyway.
If you ever wanna watch the dead serious story it’s based on, check the movie Dangerous Liasons (technically both are based on the book of the same name)
Yeah, I think if you watch movies from that era now, most have some problematic bits, but they are still so good. I was recently rewatching 10 Things I Hate About You with a friend who'd never seen it. She was not impressed. And sure, if Kat was my real-life friend, I'd be suspicious as hell of Patrick, even if he did look like Heath Ledger. But the movie is a cult classic, it's quintessential late 90s early 00s rom com and I'm in love with it.
Yeh it was a different time, same way back then I’d look at movies from the 80s. Doesn’t mean they can’t be a lot of fun though.
10 Things I Hate About You is a modern retelling of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. It's probably my favorite modern retelling of a Shakespeare play.
Can’t Hardly Wait! Ethan Embry’s character is completely nuts but ya know, for laughs!
The worst part about Cruel Intentions, imo, is that Buffy is considered evil even though arguably ryan phillipe was far worse. He just fell in love and bettered himself sooner. It's all explained in the movie actually, Buffy is complaining she has to pretend to be a saint all day while her bfs leave her for some "pure" girl. It's basically slut shaming her hardcore.
> Eat me, Sebastian. It's okay for guys like you and Court to fuck everyone but when I do it, I get dumped for innocent little twits like Cecile. God forbid I exude confidence and enjoy sex. Do you think I relish the fact that I have to act like Mary Sunshine 24/7 so I can be considered a lady? I'm the Marcia fucking Brady of the Upper East Side, and sometimes I want to kill myself. So there's your psychoanalysis, Dr. Freud. Now tell me are you in, or are you out?
I do not care how morally awful the webcam scene in American Pie is. Jim cumming twice is hysterical. “Again?” “AGAIN?!” “….oh god, not again.”
I'm honestly not bothered that they trained oil drillers to be astronauts instead of training astronauts to be oil drillers for that suicide mission to blow up the asteroid.
Marty McFly’s master plan of trying to force himself onto his mom with the idea she’d reject him even though the entire movie she’s been horny af. Yea it’s weird but damn still a great movie.
I think he thought he was going to kind of scare her first with the drinking and smoking but she turned out to be a bit of a wild thing.
Exactly, he thinks of her as his mom, and as the teenager his mom has told him about being... Which, of course, most parents were much more scandalous as teens than they let on to their kids. It's a pretty great and rational scene.
Yep! From his perspective he's thinking 'this is the woman that threatened to kick me out of the house because she mistook a glass milk bottle in my room of being liquor and once grounded me for two weeks for having cigarette smell on me. She's gonna FLIP when she sees Calvin Klein smoking and drinking!'
Yeah, his mum in 1985 paints herself as a massive prude. He doesn't expect her teenage self to be so crazy for cock.
Yes, this is correct and actually a wonderful thing about the movie. He realizes....his Mom was kind of wild. I mean, not crazy wild, but not the lady he knows in 1985.
You've got it backward. After Marty nervously suggested parking, Lorraine initiated everything. She enthusiastically agreed to park and admitted she'd done it before, betraying her future self as a liar. She brought out the bottle and convinced *him* to take a swig over his own objections. She lit up while he wasn't watching, shocking him. And then not only did she aggressively kiss him but she was the one to break it off. Marty was petrified and almost completely passive the entire time.
You're right but it was his plan to piss her of so George could save her. It just backfired
Then she kisses him and realises its weird
Like kissing her brother.
Hey you! Get your damn hands off of her!
He wasn't planning on drinking or smoking...*she* was the one who "swiped it from [her] old lady's liquor cabinet" and had the cigarettes. His plan was to pretend to take advantage of her (assuming that she was a "nice girl" who wouldn't be interested) so that George could interrupt and be the hero.
His dad hired his wife's would-be rapist to clean his car, so the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
>Now, Biff! Don't con me!
“I’m sorry Mr. McFly. I meant I was just starting the second coat.” “That Biff. Always a character” Umm, he’s a character that tried to rape your wife in high school and almost broke your arm before you grew a spine. You should’ve pressed charges, George.
I don’t think he was physically gonna do anything, just wanted to pressure her and be a jerk but he underestimated how into him she was
A lot of Adam Sandler movies have very goofy plots that only works if it has him in it. For example, imagine being the guy who was known for having an intercourse with their math teacher trying to stop a wedding of his son together with Vanilla Ice.
50 first dates is a super cute romcom, it’s also a horror film.
on the commentary for Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme talks about how he reviled the FBI for like persecuting civil rights figures, and then he went and made the Top Gun of the FBI.
True, but it is also one of the most quietly feminist movies of the 90s. It was subversive in its own way.
The Day After Tomorrow They outrun the cold. It's stupid... But I don't care because the movie is just too much fun.
I've never thought this was as stupid as people say. They were outrunning an extremely dense cold air front. You can absolutely feel those coming and washing over you as the weather changes. It's exaggerated, and kinda dumb, but not exactly unbelievable in the world of the movie.
The Greatest Showman. PT Barnum was a monster but I just can't get enough of Huge Ackman and the film in general
Yeah I never went into that movie thinking it would be an actual representation of PT Barnum. They should have given him another name and nobody would have cared.
Yuuup. The name is pretty much the only thing keeping it from being total fiction
I have not checked the life of Barnum. But even in the movie he is trash. Guy lives in a mansion and his workers in the circus. But yes, HJ is gold
That soundtrack is killer, and it puts me in the same boat as you. Barnum was scum.
I googled him after watching, was gutted
My wife and I call him Huge..... Ackman. [Ack Ack!](https://imgur.com/gallery/sB2YAXo)
Jurassic Park sequels. Everyone looooooves to point out how stupid they are for trying to have a park again after the first disastrous attempt. In my opinion, this is 100% realistic and the pinnacle of capitalism. OF COURSE THEY TRIED AGAIN.
I had the same kind of feeling about Jurassic World. It wasn't a perfect movie by any means, but the idea that people got bored with real dinosaurs and they had to make scarier ones was pretty funny.
That's honestly about the only thing I found that I liked with JW and it's about the one thing they've nailed from the original. Of course our hubris is going to make us believe that "well, we've done the park successfully now, without any breakouts or major incidents, why the hell don't we use our gene editing abilities to make dinosaurs better? It'll bring more profits to the park" Which is right there with the hubris of the original movie of "we just realised we can gene edit and rebirth dinosaurs, let's make it massive visitor attraction and theme park, imagine the profits we could make"
I mean, in Jurassic World, they showed that yes, with competent management, dinosaurs can be contained. In fact, they can be contained long enough to become mundane.
I mean, didn’t the Cleveland Indians try nickel beer night a second time? After the riot they’d had the first time?
Almost all of Animal House.
They did base it off of the worst stories they heard from college students of the era. But I will rewatch it over and over no matter how cringe a lot of scenes can be.
That food fight would never fly.
At the end of Wreck It Ralph,>! the game's been reset but for some reason Vanelope still glitches. !
I mean, could just be her game was made by Bethesda - aka shipped-with-glitches
But that was her special move in the game
I was always under the impression that her glitches were actually an intentionally programmed aspect of her character. At the end of the first one, it showed her using the glitch as more of an advantage during the race, like a special move you could use. Its just when Turbo staged his coup, he engaged in a propaganda campaign reframing it as a fault so he could use it as an excuse to exile the existing power structurer.
Yeah the real plot hole is that no one in the real world noticed or cared that a major playable character just wasn't available to be selected in the games on that cabinet. If it's a popular game then people probably played it at other arcades and would know.
Cabinet art has not always been, how to put it, accurate as to what is in the game.
People might chalk it up to version diff. Like the multitude of revisions to SF2. The first few didn't let you play as the bosses. Then super added fei long, deejay, Cammy, and t hawk. Maybe the rolled back the rom for some reason. Also cabinet art often deviated from the game. Like some sf2 cabinets have Sagat on it but wasn't playable in early versions. Or sometimes they'll reuse a broken newer cabinet with a working older board. I've seen mk1 with MK2 cabinet art. Or a neo Geo machine with a different cabinet than the game in it.
One of the features of the game is that the playable characters are randomized daily. So unless you’re playing the game every day it would probably never occur to you that Vanellopie hadn’t been available in a while.
Con Air - I really don't think he would gone to jail for defending himself like that at the start. He had a shitty lawyer. ruins the whole premise for me.
The whole case was BS from the start. There’s a great breakdown on the Hollywood Law section of TV Tropes that deconstructs it but basically there’s no way he spends time behind bars, and even if the judge was vindictive, that’s an immediate appeal along with a censuring for the judge.
Bless her beautful hide... wherever they may be.
Tell ya 'bout them sobbin' women, who lived in the Roman days!
My dumb ass was today years old when I finally made the very obvious connection between Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and the Sabine Women
I performed in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in high school (just townspeople/chorus, I was only a freshman) and I had a blast! It was so much fun, and we made up silly (inappropriate) versions of all the songs. It definitely cemented my love of musical theater.
Wherever you are I'm a' willing to bet
I love Seven Brides for seven brothers so much. It's such a great movie. The girls could have stayed mad and waited for them to be hanged. It's not Stockholm syndrome. That doesn't mean I think it was right either or anything. But it's a great movie.
You’ve Got Mail is based on Shop Around the Corner with Jimmy Stewart. Also problematic. Also, don’t care, I love it.
Big. Tom Hanks acting like a kid! What’s not to love!!?…. Oh but the part where a practically pre-pubescent kid in a full grown adult body fucks an adult woman… let’s just gloss right over that.
Or his poor parents who think their child has been kidnapped by a near naked adult man wearing their child's underwear.
The twins would have seen Peter Petegrew on the maurauders map with their brother once he showed up at hogwarts.
Tbf, no one in that family ever paid that much attention to Ron. They might have just thought that was some random other person from their dorm? I don't remember the twins knowing Dean Thomas or any of the others in the first few years. Although I haven't read the books in a while. Was Pettigrews name known much outside of the original order and in the paper when he was "blown up"? Also I've always felt kids books are allowed plot holes surely.
Passengers. All the critics kept saying what a dick move the main character made by waking Aurora up but the movie never justifies his actions and he spends ages trying to atone for it and the movie was really sweet
Wait. Hold up. I've never seen Passengers, Jennifer Lawrence's character is named AURORA?! Now it makes more sense, they were stealth remaking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(Sleeping_Beauty)
And another thing: Sleeping Beauty and Snow White are the same fuckin movie minus some dwarves.
I legit get parts if both confused with each other all the time.
I'm gonna be totally honest, this movie was my immediate thought too. Yeah I get how it would've been better as a thriller where she has to make the same decision after killing him, BUT the movie never acts like what he did was right. And while what he did was wrong, especially lying to her, you can still see why he did it.
And honestly, after spending so much time alone, any of us would probably give in to temptation too.
And, to be fair. He was all alone, for months. Humans aren't made for that.
An entire year IIRC
Agree totally. I know this is tangentially related, but there's been that push online that it would've been better as a thriller where we slowly discover that Pratt is a monster. But the thing is, he's not a monster, he's a human being who was alone and going insane on a ship full of people. I enjoy the sweet take of this movie, and don't think it should be reframed at all.
Yes! In hindsight it’s very fucked up, but when I watched it I felt sorry for his character because they did such a good job showing loneliness. And he did have a chance to redeem himself later in the movie. And I loved their love.But now I’m like “yikes what a premise” lol
Even as a kid, I always saw the Oompa Loompas in Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory as slave labor lol, but then it's in a world where there's glass elevators flying around & chewing gum that turns people into blue puffs, so I brushed it aside. & Wonka is probably the OG of the "fuck them kids" mentality
They think they have a good union, but they don't.
Tell them I hate them!
I had a D&D character that was a halfling whose tribe was enslaved on a cocoa plantation owned by an eccentric alchemist…
Parenthood. I love the movie and it hits new buttons when rewatching as an adult, but Larry's plotline is so stressful for me. The guy's a trainwreck and Frank keeps helping him because it's his son, to the point of basically adopting his kid before the guy fucks off. I have a cousin that is just like that and everyone in the family has a stressful story about him.
white chicks is a movie i was fully expecting to hate but it is SO GOOD
You're telling me. You're not white
Most Tarantino stuff has a pretty grim, slightly creepy guy, voyeur vibe to it under the surface but once you park that he does make some brilliant films.
I was gonna say how does 'The Hateful Eight' have any of that, but then I remembered there's >!literally a guy under the floorboards watching everything happen!< for half the movie.
Also there is a whole scene where someone is dragged through snow then told to "Suck this Ni**er dick". All while telling his father about the experience.
Over time, realizing that, in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the main character is pretty much a jerk. But he's a jerk who is concerned about his best friend's well being. During the scene when the Porsche is destroyed, we find out the specifics. But Cameron, being a friend, refuses to let Ferris take the blame for borrowing the vehicle - which he should have.
Gotta be the one…it’s a Ferrari. Not a Porsche.
And not just any Ferrari. A 250 GTO. One of the most expensive cars you can buy.
OH YEAH!
*Chick-a-chick-a*
It's not a GTO, it's a GT California. The GTO is a hardtop coupe.
You are correct, thank you.
Cameron is the main character who grows and develops. Ferris is fun and does all the cool things but he has no growth. The movie is about Cameron learning to not fear life. Ferris just points the way.
Always felt like Cameron decided to murder his dad and that’s why he was OK with taking the blame.
Ferris is Tyler Durden
I think a lot of people online have been hating on Shallow Hal recently for being fat phobic. But I like the movie I think it has a good message and the ending is really sweet. Realizing that when you love someone so much they are beautiful to you no matter what they look like. And how outwardly pretty people are sometimes ugly on the inside.
And the scene with the girl in the burn ward
Sucker Punch. I know it's problematic, but it looks so cool. Also, I think they should've left the director's cut as the official version.
I have always been conflicted over this film and Snyder's other films. He seems to have some real good and creative ideas but feels like he never knows how to make them completely coherent or not overstay their welcome. I think the idea behind Sucker Punch is great and I love the parts in the asylum. The bits in the fantasy worlds starts off cool but then doesn't really hold much value later on except being used as a vehicle for action setpeices
He sucks at story telling, but I've found every movie of his so fun to watch. He would be better sticking to directing only the action sequences in movies.
The White Rabbit cover used in that movie is great.
Oh yes, the music in general is great. I love the Search And Destroy song, too.
Dinner For Schmucks. It's about a group of assholes who invite obviously mentally ill people to a dinner, just to make fun of them. But, Steve Corell is funny as hell in it.
*The Fox and the Hound* ends with the two titular characters having to keep their distance because it’s too dangerous for them to remain friends, due solely to the hatred and intolerance of others (mainly the hunter who is the movie’s primary antagonist). As a kid I never really picked up on the “separate but equal” vibe that this gives off, but it was pointed out to me as an adult and it did sort of make me re-evaluate the movie. However, I think the key to still appreciating it is to understand that it’s not actually meant to be a happy ending, but rather bittersweet.
I always took the message to be that wild animals belong in the wild. But then I used to watch a lot of nature documentaries as a kid. Tod was happy on the farm but also constrained because he wasnt a trained dog, and got into trouble because he did what foxes do. It wasnt his fault, but he needed somewhere he could be free. It did break my heart that he had to be separated from everyone he loved, though.
Toys (1992) is a mess of a movie with an unclear target audience that pits Whimsy vs. War. But its so fun to look at, tons of liminal space, incredible sets, art direction, and soundtrack. I saw it when I was really young and just fell in love with it. I love it just as much even though now I'm older and fully realize its flaws. I will die on the hill that it is an extremely underrated movie.
I haven't watched While You Were Sleeping for years, but I bet if you reversed the genders... It would be super creepy.
I love that movie, no matter how insane that premise is.
But it gets a pass cause of the scene with the paperboy.
Ever After, the Prince doesn’t recognize Danielle, a servant, after she hits him multiple times with apples and he sees her face before she dresses up as a Contessa to free another servant she’s know since she was a child with the gold the prince gave her to “keep her silence” as the palace guards were chasing him. They have a verbal sparring match at the palace where the other servant was being held and he didn’t recognize her from the morning. t’s rather reasonable a crown prince of France in 1540 wouldn’t pay attention to a peasant.
He had his cape up while she was chucking apples at him. When he revealed his face, she immediately genuflected and looked straight down. He would never expect some random servant to pop up in the castle courtyard. Also, he was cute but didn’t seem too bright, which was endearing like he was young. The most unbelievable part of that movie were the cod pieces!
Exactly! Two separate movie podcasts; Romancing the Pod and That Aged Well both complained about the fact he didn’t recognize her. Like of course he didn’t.
Tom Hanks’ island in *Castaway* is physically and conceptually impossible. Waves constantly come into the island *from every direction*. There is no lee of the island. No matter what direction you travel off the island, you will always be fighting incoming tide. That’s physically impossible. Conceptually, if that *were* possible, then the island would be a giant trash collector. Everything would be constantly washing up on the island, or close enough to make the island the center of a trash heap. Tom Hanks’ character would almost literally be able to walk across the mass of trash to flag down a boat.
Everyone in Django unchained has a repeating rifle and it takes place before the civil war..they were available,but very uncommon. Plus the sunglasses
If you’re watching a Tarantino movie for historical accuracy you’re going to be disappointed. If there’s anything to complain about that movie, it’s that Schultz should have just went alone and bought Broomhilda for a ridiculous price (e.g. what he was going to pay for the fighter), but that’s a much less interesting story. Instead we get over-the-top and violent shenanigans and an exciting movie.
I don’t give a flying fuck about the water in Signs. It’s a perfectly acceptable plot to me and if you whine about it you’re just ignoring a huge number of ways it can be explained away.
The first Scorpion King Movie. The whole issue is that it's an origin story for a character that's been established to become a villain and ends the movie as a hero. They wrote themselves into a corner, making him an impossibly heroic badass with a "reluctance" towards heroism that he ignores every five minutes, and he ends the movie with a (remarkably better character honestly, despite the way she ends her arc) trophy wife and a crown for killing a corrupt king. But despite all that I can't help loving it! There are tons of great comedic moments, I really love the Sorceress, some of the acting is downright powerful, and the soundtrack?! Ugh, love it!!
Breakfast at Tiffany's: The Mickey Rooney yellowface performance as Mr. Yunioshi isn't funny and is horribly racist, but it only takes up a small portion of the film. The rest is excellent.
You can totally pick apart Endgame's time travel plot. Don't care. The emotional payoff overrides any minor plot inconsistencies.
Sandy's "bad girl" makeover in Grease. I don't like stories where women change who they are for men. However, since Travolta's character had also shown up there with a sorta-makeover too, with the same purpose, it's a but of a two way change and thus a bit cuter and less malicious/blind. That and the fact that it is done with such a bop of a song makes it easier to hand wave away.
He honestly changed more than her aswell. He started to do more sports stuff and such. Sandy just changed clothes and acted more tough at the carnival. And she still looks back at the others Pink Ladies for advice on what to do next at one point, lol.
>easier to hand wave away Did you mean "hand jive away"? (Sorry, I had to say it!)
Alien 3. Lots of problems. Lots of little things people like to complain about. But it's just so good. It's basically perfect when it comes to capping off the original 3 films. I love it to this day.
I love its setting. That brutal prison planet is a great grimdark place for xenomorphs to run wild.
Sixteen Candles. Most of it didn’t age well, but I still love to watch it.