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I have a lot of these...
Jurrasic Park: The Lost World
Cliffhanger
The first 3 Phantasm movies
Bowfinger
Halloween 2-Over the original!
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978
Suspiria
Opera
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Friday the 13th Part V and VI
Johnny Mnemonic
Any of the Deathwish sequels
Back in Action
and does Roadhouse count, or has it come full circle back to being a good movie?
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Let's add:
She
Night of the Demons
Night of the Demons 2
Demons
and Christmas Vacation to that list.
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I agree with all of those (especially Suspiria) except Friday the 13th, Parts V and VI.
I have always loved Roadhouse myself, I think it has absolutely found an audience on home video and cable TV considering how often it is been on there.
I think Roadhouse got a bad rap because Swayze was considered such a hunky guy after chick flicks like Dirty Dancing (and later Ghost) that Roadhouse seemed laughable to many since it seemed to go against type. I think the movie also came out at a time when a lot of people started to get tired of action movies that included what was considered over-the-top, cartoonish violence.
On that Swayze note, I would add Next of Kin to that list of movies I like but everyone else hates. It has Liam Neeson in it, with hillbillies versus the mafia! How cool is that? The climatic scene with the cross bow and knife was sweetness.
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I agree with you there on Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978, The Lost World, and Johnny Mnemonic. Two in that list both contain Jeff Goldblum, the actor my friends and I like but critics seem to hate.
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Halloween III Season of the Witch
Return to Salem's Lot
Blood Sisters
Jason Goes to Hell
Nightmare on Elm Street part 2, Jack Sholder is one of the great forgotten 80s directors he also made Alone in The Dark and The Hidden
Prom Night 2
Abel Ferrara Body Snatchers.
Impulse, The one with Meg Tilly it's better than either version of the Crazies
One Dark Night
I disagree about the 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers not because it's bad. but because it's regularly cited along with the Thing and The Fly as an example of how to do a remake. Recently, I also liked daybreakers and Jennifer's Body which no one seemed to like,
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Oh, well.....I liked Daybreakers and Brad gave it a big thumbs-up too.
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I can get behind you on everything but Prom Night 2 and Elm Street 2...
Elm Street 2: At least it was better than part 5 and Freddy's Dead. Not saying much there though.
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2 was an Exorcist rip-off that wanted to be Carrie... Not sure how that could ever work, but regardless it was only remarkable for the scene where that one guy digs up a corpse than gets mad at it and starts punching it in the face.
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Brad, having read the Bob Woodward "Wired", I can safely say that it's NOTHING like that movie. If you can find a copy, give it a read. It's pretty damn thorough and well written.
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I have to say, the Phantasm Series is one of my favorites due to being one of the classic that uses darkness well. It also throws back to classic sci-fi/horror where the evil/feared thing is completely out there for the most part vs most of today's horror where if it's not just someone who's into chopping people up, it's a variation on something we've seen often before.... that enjoys chopping people up lol. There are exceptions, but they're rare in my opinion.
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Seriously... you're both trying to make a case that Star Trek The motion picture is better than IV?! You have got one hell of a set of cajones on you, guys.
Only thing that made The Motion Picture tolerable at all was the great musical score. Without it, the movie would have been an absolute fail.
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Pretty sure I never tried making the case that Motion Picture is better than IV. I know this, because I like IV better than Motion Picture, so I never would have said that. I was trying to make the case that Motion Picture isn't as bad as many people say it is.
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Sorry Brad, I think I irrationally got the idea that you were agreeing with the host about IV being the weakest of the first four movies.
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I could not agree more about Predator 2. I still love the hell out of the original but the entire 90s L.A. gang war backdrop just fits so well without rehashing the first film at all. It was probably an idea born out an attempt to save money by shooting locally than going to an expensive foreign locale but it really works. They also managed to advance the whole Predator universe in big ways without a lot of cliches (heavy handed exposition, flashbacks).
I think what kills it are the secondary characters are really hammily portrayed. That does make it a fun watch today but I think its vibe that killed it when it was released.
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Another thing I like about Predator 2 over Predator 1, is how you don't have to wait 40 minutes to get there. With Predator 2, he shows up RIGHT away, and from then on, the threat of his presence is always there.
Also, Predator 1 is pretty much just a guy's movie, pure testosterone-driven dialogue and such. If you WANT that, fine, but not everyone's going to get into that. The 2nd Predator is easier for anyone to get into. Idk, just my two cents.
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Predator 2 is an awesome movie, but there's no way I like it more than the first movie. The last 20 minutes of the first movie alone destroy the 2nd movie. It's just Arnold vs. the Predator in a sequence with basically no dialogue whatsoever where the hunter becomes the hunted.
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Dracula, Dead and Loving It.
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I second that. I thought it was a fine movie. It did slow down at times, but it picked up.
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Personally i think Predator 1 was a little better than Predator 2.... but i do agree that Predator 2 was REALLY GOOD and it is VERY underrated. Predator 2 was more cleverly written than the first, but the first movie was better executed. The third predator film (predators) i didnt think was as good as the first two. But i enjoyed it. But after you mentioned the novelization of the predator 2 film i want to read that now.
And i agree with you on waterworld. I liked that movie. It wasnt great, but it was not a terrible movie at all. Ill tjeck out the extended cut when i get the time.
And Star Trek 3 was way better than star trek 4, because the things about the whales in that movie was just stupid.
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I love Predator 2 and all the lore that came from the book for the movie.
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I completely agree about Blair Witch 2. I've always been a defender of the film, I love Joe Berlinger and his Paradise Lost documentaries are fantastic and have a few subtle similarities to BW2. I thought it was a really cerebral film. Berlinger has gone on record as saying that the studio really screwed with the film by turning into a slasher film by intercutting the murder scenes. Plus the movie was very much open to interpretation as to what exactly happened. I don't there was meant to be a definitive answer as to what happened. I also like how it wasn't a rehash of the first film and that it treated the first one as just that, a work of fiction. I also loved Last Action Hero, though I thought it was a tad too long.
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Man, thought I was one of the few people left who liked Temple of Doom and Search for Spock. Can't go wrong with Christopher Lloyd as a Klingon.
One film that I love which has been left to the dustbin of Cinematic history is The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Saw it as a kid and I've loved it ever since, especially with John Neville's delightful performance and Terry Gilliam's ever-imaginative special effects. Unfortunately the film was a huge bomb at the box office and even most Gilliam fans I've talked to tend to gloss over the Baron.
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Last Action hero is great. predator 2 is pretty fab.
Anyone else prefer LA Take Down to Heat? And 1941, I love that film.
Wired, I dunno. I read the book and it's a real shocker, the film dilutes it.
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Is it just me or is the webspace this is hosted on really really slow. It has been rather slow in the past, but when I try to download this now i dont even get 1 kb/s. Is it because I try to download it from germany? Whats going on
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Yeah, I cant dl either. Was going at 5kb/s, and then hung up.
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Yeah, having some problem with the mirror too...
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Their site does slow down every now and then. Try again later today.
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Alright then....I'll double-down and give you some REAL 'guilty pleasures':
Xanadu
Toys
Nightbreed
Dune
Johnny Mnemonic
Love at First Bite
Zorro the Gay Blade
The People Under the Stairs
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Time After Time (My fav. Malcolm McD. movie)
Jesus Christ Superstar (as an atheist)
...and my best/fav movie ROCK AND RULE
Now there's a list to be proud of!
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wait...almost forgot....
Howard the Duck
....oooh yeah. lol
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Xanadu! You've got to love a bit of ELO.
Toy;s. is actually very charming'
The Little Girl who Lived Down the Lane, is a greatand genuinely creepy psycho film.
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Amen to Johnny Mnemonic and The People Under the Stairs. I think it's better than Scream.
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In a nutshell Star Trek 3 is generally considered "bad" because it had all the elements to be even better then 2 but failed to use them. Although most Trekies I know will stick up for 3 (including myself). SFdebris does a pretty good review of the problems with it.
http://sfdebris.com/startrek/film3.asp
Although the Star Trek: The slow Motion Picture better than 4? I have to disagree there.
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Star Trek 3 is a pretty good continuation of the story from Star Trek 2, but I think it looks kind of cheap. I watched it a few months ago and the destruction of the Genesis planet just looked silly. Maybe if they at least got Kristie Alley back as Savik, it might have bumped it up a few notches.
I think Star Trek: The Motion Picture has some interesting ideas and is an overall good movie, but it looks so separate from the sequels. Star Trek 2 is the first real Star Trek movie to me. I think that's because of it's connection to the TV series and visually it is the start of the standard movie Trek look. It even looks like it goes with TNG series.
To me, Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a stand alone film that is pretty good, but it's not better than any of its sequels, even Star Trek 5. Plus, those costumes are a crime against sci-fi fashion.
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A group of my soldiers went to see Boyz 2 Men because they were at the Salt Lake International Airport while we were there. They wanted to charge $50.00 for autographs. FUCK Boyz 2 Men!
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Gleaming the Cube is good.
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I kind of wish Jerrid wasn't on Radiodrome. That's my only complaint about this awesome show.
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The gun from Predator 2 said 1715 not whatever year Brad's co host said.
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But... I like both Postman and Waterworld. Waterworld is my preference, though. It's not the plot and characters so much (though I think they are fine), but I really enjoy the fictional world and the visuals. I wish they would put together a better extended cut.
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I like the movie Radio. Cuba Gooding Jr. does a great job as the title character. If one actually watches the movie you can see him inhabiting this character, like any good actor. Cuba is not playing himself with a goofy r-tard voice. He is fully immersed in his character.
Yes, the movie is sentimental and all, but it's still believable. Even some of the characters that play pranks on Radio aren't all bad. I think it would have been stupid to make them really awful and irredeemable. It's more true to life to portray them as they were in the movie.
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Nightbreed
RoboCop 2
The Funhouse
Raising Cain
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THANK YOU. For a while I have been ashamed to admit that I personally think Predator 2 is the best of the Predator movies with the third one 2 and first in third.
Maybes it's because I was raised on Bruce Willis as a action hero and don't care for Arnold or Stallone but I like Predator 2 because it brought a lot more culture to the Predators and showed more of their philosphies.
Now the movie I know for sure everyone hates but I love...
INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULLS !!!!!
Facts are... I Like it more than Temple of Doom :p
Also to me the whole aliens thing or the fridge didn't bother me because the indie series has always been campy with strange mystical elements to it.
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I thought all predators were called "yautja"
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OH MY GOD SOMEONE MENTIONED GWAR
GWAR
GWAR IS THE BEST BAND IN THE UNIVERSE
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So the big one for me, and that is BIG in full caps, would be Highlander 2. I love Highlander 2, I think it is a very solid piece of sci-fi action. The only flaw I can agree on is that it screws up the continuity from the first one, but ignoring the ties to first movie I enjoy the heck out of Highlander 2. I also like Highlander 3, but people seem to give that some slack because it isn't part 2.
Another would be the Don 'The Dragon' Wilson vehicle (there's a term you don't hear too often) FutureKick, which I thought was an intriguing sci-fi film with some really interesting ideas, and except for the ending being complete bullshit I really like it. Nobody else appears too as the director never got to make another film.
Same goes for TC2000 with Billy Blanks and Radioactive Dreams with Michael Dudikoff, both of which I enjoyed.
As for sequel preferences I think all the Phantasm sequels are better than the original, part 3 might be my favourite. I think Son of Dracula with Lon Chaney jr is much better than the Bella Lugosi version. And Conquest of... was my favourite Planet of the Apes film.
Finally I completley agree on Predator 2 being awesome, I still prefer the first because Arnold is as good as it gets, but the second one is great. If you follow the link in my name you'll be lead to the Predator 2 friendliest forum on the web, we practically banned a guy for hating on it, or it was for acting like a dick and telling the co-founder to go fuck himself. I struggle to remember, but the point remains; Predator 2 rules.
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