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Saturday, April 12, 2008

I'm No Critic




I walked out of the movie theater the other day for the 2,007,283rd time. I don't even remember what I saw, now that I think of it. It wouldn't matter anyway. As far as movies are concerned, it takes little to entertain me. A little drama, a little comedy and a bit of action set to the backdrop of some futuristic or post apocalyptic waste land, is enough to keep me riveted for hours. This is not to say I don't know a legitimately good movie when I see one. I can foresee, with some accuracy, what movies the academy will be celebrating by the years end. I am also aware of which movies I can recommend to my movie connoisseur friends, and which ones I should tell them to avoid. The truth is, I enjoy many movies I know I should not. So here it is-- the top ten worst movies I love. This list will not contain such titles as Breakin' or Breakin' II (The Electric Bugaloo), Rad, or The Blues Brothers, because these movies have an intrinsic value comedically and by way of capturing the unique identity of an era.

1. Water World
2. The Postman
3. Robocop
4. Mad Max (Beyond Thunder Dome)
5. Legend
6. The Replacements ( a Keanu Reeves classic)
7. Remo Williams
8. Big Trouble in Little China

---Side note: Water World happened to come on T.V. after I started my list, and yes, I am watching it.

9. The Day After Tomorrow
10. Tango and Cash

Now, you can feed me a bunch of bull about how your favorite movie is Citizen Cain or Motorcycle Diaries or an obscure foreign film by some Russian director. But, your favorite movie is a movie you could watch any time, with a group or all by yourself. You could catch it for the 20th time on T.V. and keep it running even though you own the video or dvd.
Every body has movies they are ashamed of liking, and I want to know what they are. I don't want to know what your favorite movies are. I want to know what movies you're ashamed of liking.

17 comments:

HaLaine said...

Favorite or bad favorite? Back to the Future for good favorites. Princess Bride and Singing in the Rain...Good. Annoying movies? Most things with Ben Stiller or Adam Sandler.

Salt H2O said...

The replacements? Seriously? Man, I'm going to have to reconsider visiting this blog again. You lost all credibility with one post.

The last half hour of that movie consists of a shot of skanky cheerleader then a football play, flash back to the skanky cheerleaders, flash back to the football, then to the whorish cheerleaders so on and so forth.

Keanu Reves has but one classic- which is Bill and Ted. (If you consider his cameo in the Paula Abdul video- he has TWO classics)

Melissa said...

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the movies Once and Garden State, and would probably call them my favorite. However, when Rob is out of town, I always seem to fall asleep to the following:

Father of the Bride
Bridget Jones' Diary
Labrynth
My Best Friend's Wedding
Notting Hill
When Harry Met Sally

All of which are from my very treasured VHS collection. I can't watch Robocop. It brings back terrible memories of a gradeschool nickname.

Tom Quinn. said...

Salt,
Did you just critisize my movies and then make a Paula Abdul reference.

And I never said they were my 10 favorite.

Jewels said...

'Rad' is so fantastic, I nearly named my son 'Cru' because of it...and I still might.

My 'go to' movies of choice are as follows -

1 - The Slipper and the Rose
2 - The Scarlet Pimpernel
3 - Galaxy Quest
4 - Groundhog Day
5 - John Tucker Must Die
6 - Clue
7 - French Kiss
8 - Clueless
9 - Grease 2
10 - Shag

Although, there is this super great epic entitled 'The Day After Tomorrow', are you familiar?

Steve said...

Oh, I'm loving the love for Rad! Good call by Salty on Bill and Ted's. I could watch that forever. But I can't turn the channel whenever I see a Back to the Future movie or an Indiana Jones movie. Groundhog Day is another movie I've seen on TV at least 10 times!

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Anonymous said...

Crap...I can hardly think of any movies I could watch over and over again. I love my seasonal movies for Halloween and Christmas and can watch Home Alone everyday from the day after Thanksgiving through Christmas...and A Christmas Story, among many others. Some of my favorite non-Holiday movies might be:

Se7en
The Usual Suspects
Truth or Consequences N.M.
True Romance
State of Grace
Very Bad Things
Haute Tension

Just to name a few that I can watch over and over...

theriddle said...

I LOVE the 1986 Jim Henson movie Labyrinth.

Before my ultra conservative mother took me to see it she warned me that the goblin king was a really strange Rock Star and that those people didn't function very well in society.

I instantly fell in love with David Bowie and didn't admit it to my mother (now much less conservative) until I was in college.

Those leather pants just really did it for me I guess. Great post.

The UnMighty said...

Stop or my mom will shoot!

H Yeah!

kathryn said...

oh brother, ben... that IS a movie to be embarrassed to like.

My go-to movies:
French Kiss
Groundhogs Day
Amelie
Pollyanna
Swiss Family Robinson
The Shaggy Dog
Orange County

And here's one for ya: I've been sitting down to watch the T.V. show Yo Gabba Gabba with my kids every day because I think it's hilarious... DJ Lance Rock is so awesome (Nick, Jr. is where it's at, people)

kathryn said...

oh, i forgot to put on my list:

muppet movies.

Melissa said...

Tom....I think it's time to revisit your own blog. You get us all worked up over the possibility of Tom as a blogger - then you totally fail to commit.

Give us what we came for....!!

Amelia Merritt said...

Brett just talked me into watching Remo Williams two nights ago. It has some horribly bad dialogue. "Did you do the 310 test and the 480 sequence?" And Joel Grey cast as a Korean? Ah, the 80's. So glad it's almost over.

Amelia Merritt said...

Oh, and I seem to watch Roxanne a couple times a year.