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[The Rube]

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By what definition is TBL underrated? It seems to,be universally loved by anyone that can tolerate John Goodman.

It's still not an overly popular movie. Its fans are just WAY more vocal about it. There are a lot of haters/etc of the movie.

 

[St. Clown]

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Josie and the Pussycats is actually a fun little movie. And yeah, it's loads better than The Brady Bunch movies.

And yes, Gallipoli is better than Braveheart.

I'm not ashamed to admit it, I have a copy of Josie and the Pussycats on DVD. It's great commentary on the consumerism running rampant across the country, and various quick jabs coming out of nowhere at various entities were all well done.

 

[The Rube]

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I'm not ashamed to admit it, I have a copy of Josie and the Pussycats on DVD. It's great commentary on the consumerism running rampant across the country, and various quick jabs coming out of nowhere at various entities were all well done.

We all have those types of movies. Guilty pleasures. The most recent one being Pitch Perfect.

 

[Jimjamesak]

We all have those types of movies. Guilty pleasures. The most recent one being Pitch Perfect.

My guilt for liking Pitch Perfect has eroded away very fast.

 

[The Rube]

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My guilt for liking Pitch Perfect has eroded away very fast.

My other one is "Grease." Yeah, I sing along at gatherings. Sue me.

 

[Jimjamesak]

My other one is "Grease." Yeah, I sing along at gatherings. Sue me.

1776. Family watches it all the time on 4th of July.

 

[The Rube]

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1776. Family watches it all the time on 4th of July.

I would say "Wizard Of Oz" but c'mon....that's a classic no matter how you cut it. Can't remember which day, but for years one channel would show it, due to tradition. Never missed it.

 

[Kepler]

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I would say "Wizard Of Oz" but c'mon....that's a classic no matter how you cut it. Can't remember which day, but for years one channel would show it, due to tradition. Never missed it.

There's a wiki entry on its TV history which made my eyes glaze over. My memory, which is very unreliable, is that in NYC it was shown around Halloween every year for my whole childhood (the 70s).

 

[Kepler]

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1776. Family watches it all the time on 4th of July.

I started doing this with friends and it was a wonderful tradition. It has the ability to make me (fleetingly) patriotic, which makes it virtually unique among movies.

 

[Kepler]

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We all have those types of movies. Guilty pleasures. The most recent one being Pitch Perfect.

Roadhouse. I can recite the whole thing. It's a very, very, very bad movie, I love it, and screw you for judging.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Gladiator. It's a cheesy, overlong "macho melodrama", and after only 15 years it feels a bit dated, but I'll always watch it when it's on TV. To its credit, it's aged better than its older cousin Braveheart, IMO.

Jurassic Park. Crichton's original story was entertainingly preposterous, so the film is actually a reasonable adaptation and still holds up as a fun popcorn flick. The sequels are atrocious though, and not in a good way.

 

[The Rube]

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Roadhouse. I can recite the whole thing. It's a very, very, very bad movie, I love it, and screw you for judging.

Roadhouse is on most EVERYONE'S guilty pleasure list. Heck, I own it.

 

[Handyman]

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Having watched them both recently for the first time in years I will say PCU is much better than Animal House. (I completely reversed on this) Animal House has funnier lines but it is actually pretty boring now (better to talk about it than watch it) and is completely dated whereas PCU is actually more relevant now than it was when it came out. Plus Piven looked older then than he does now and he was amazing

Oh and TBL sucks...I just dont get why people love it...oh wait they get completely baked so it isnt a slow piece of crap. It is like my friends that love the movie Stuck on You. They got baked when we saw it and I didnt. They laughed the whole movie and remember it as awesome, I ****ed near fell asleep.

I will say Raising Arizona is amazing still and is the only Coen Brothers movie that doesnt make my *** twitch.

 

[joecct]

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Around Easter - "Ben Hur"
Your eyes are full of hate 41.

 

[rufus]

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I'm not ashamed to admit it, I have a copy of Josie and the Pussycats on DVD. It's great commentary on the consumerism running rampant across the country, and various quick jabs coming out of nowhere at various entities were all well done.

Exactly. Plus, Rachel Leigh Cook is a cutie, and the power pop songs are pretty catchy.

 

[Kepler]

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Having watched them both recently for the first time in years I will say PCU is much better than Animal House. (I completely reversed on this) Animal House has funnier lines but it is actually pretty boring now (better to talk about it than watch it) and is completely dated whereas PCU is actually more relevant now than it was when it came out. Plus Piven looked older then than he does now and he was amazing

Oh and TBL sucks...I just dont get why people love it...oh wait they get completely baked so it isnt a slow piece of crap. It is like my friends that love the movie Stuck on You. They got baked when we saw it and I didnt. They laughed the whole movie and remember it as awesome, I ****ed near fell asleep.

I will say Raising Arizona is amazing still and is the only Coen Brothers movie that doesnt make my *** twitch.

Animal House is far better than PCU, which isn't a bad movie.

TBL is great; I've never seen it baked.

Raising Arizona is OK.

If you hate the Coen Bros. in general I don't know what to say. You're missing out.

Generally speaking you appear to have terrible taste.

 

[Kepler]

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Exactly. Plus, Rachel Leigh Cook is a cutie, and the power pop songs are pretty catchy.

Had to google, I'd never heard of her. You're right -- she looks like an adult human female, unlike almost every other current anorexic starlet.

 

[The Rube]

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The green isn't my thing, but it took a watching or two to like TBL. PCU is a solid movie, but it's no Animal House.

Two Lives:
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a Norwegian woman's past spent in Germany is questioned. Very good movie. Based on history (not a specific person), and well done. The inner struggle of the main character makes the movie, IMO. Worth a watch.


The Wind That Shakes The Barley:
Two Irish civilian brothers, in the 1920s, join the Irish revolutionary movement. Cillian Murphy is in this, therefore it caught my attention. Pretty darn good movie. It does mention Michael Collins in brief, although this particular fictional story wants to separate itself from him. It wanted to be its own story, and it works. Definitely worth a watch.


Edit: IIRC, RL Cook is from MN.

 

[Handyman]

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Animal House is far better than PCU, which isn't a bad movie.

TBL is great; I've never seen it baked.

Raising Arizona is OK.

If you hate the Coen Bros. in general I don't know what to say. You're missing out.

Generally speaking you appear to have terrible taste.

The Coen Brothers are the movie version of one of your posts. Way overdone and longer than need be. Their version of True Grit was so horrid I openly laughed. Even Jeff Bridges couldnt save that piece of crap.

 

[The Rube]

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The Coen Brothers are the movie version of one of your posts. Way overdone and longer than need be. Their version of True Grit was so horrid I openly laughed. Even Jeff Bridges couldnt save that piece of crap.

The trouble with True Grit (remake) is that the original was so good. I didn't mind the remake, but wouldn't rate it was a good movie. It was passable.

Coens are hit and miss for me. O Brother blew goats, as did Raising Arizona. Fargo sucked. Burn After Reading was meh until the final scene (which absolutely saved the movie; it was the "proverbial rug that tied the room together"). No Country For Old Men was awesome. TBL is good (I'm not one of the cult-freaks who absolutely love it).