I cast "Raise Dead Film"

[Brown Jenkin]

My choices for liking when most didn't

Dude Where's My Car: I thought it was very funny and original, and totaly misadvertised

Subspecies: I liked thiis take on the Dracula story

Subspecies II: The best look I've seen on what its like to become a vampire.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

Mystery Men gets another vote here!

And Brazil! In fact, any Terry Gilliam movie that got panned (which seems to be most of them). I've never seen a Gilliam movie I haven't liked, and I'm waiting anxiously for the next one, whether it be Brothers Grimm, Good Omens, Don Quixote or whatever. The man's a genius!

 

[Viking Bastard]

Metropolis, the original with a good sound track, not the Loverboy soundtrack. A great movie, and it's just one that few people have seen.

I saw it with the Reykjavik Symphony Orchestra soundtrackin' it live. Very neat.

 

[Viking Bastard]

Mystery Men gets another vote here!

I think the problem with this movie, along with Galaxy Quest, is
that people that aren't familiar with the source material (comics,
or in GQ's case Star Trek) just didn't get it. My group of friends
are divided 50%/50% over the quality of MM into those who read
superhero comics and liked it and those that don't read
superhero comics and didn't like it.

Well, and then there's one that doesn't like it just because he's anal.

 

[WayneLigon]

Mystery Men gets another vote here!

And Brazil! In fact, any Terry Gilliam movie that got panned (which seems to be most of them). I've never seen a Gilliam movie I haven't liked, and I'm waiting anxiously for the next one, whether it be Brothers Grimm, Good Omens, Don Quixote or whatever. The man's a genius!

Indeed. I liked Brazil a great deal. The one about Baron Munchausen was just fantastic; I cannot imagine why it had such devestating reviews.

I have yet to see The Fisher King, though. Should rent it someday.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Funny. A Dune discussion popped up after my weekly viewing of them. Start with the old(and still fun) 80's Dune, then the Director's Cut Sci-Fi Dune(Amazing...I love this so much), then onto Children of Dune(The best of them all, even if it was altered a lot...it still told the story perfect)...just finished Part III of CoD about 5 minutes ago. *sighs and waits another few years for God Emperor*

 

[Brown Jenkin]

I liked Brazil as well and so did all my friends, and in fact I have liked just about everything written by or staring any former Python.

 

[Mean Eyed Cat]

I've never seen a Gilliam movie I haven't liked

Gilliam's movies rock. I just bought Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and watched it again. The carousel bar was frickin' hilarious

Oh and WayneLigon you should watch the Fisher King - its a good flick.

And we can't forget Time Bandits!

 

[Wayside]

You've all yet to mention a movie I didn't like. Well, except for The
Teen Apocalypse Trilogy, which I've never heard of. It sounds fun.

I definitely recommend them, if you're into movies with no clear plot, or beginning or ending, or movies that don't, umm, make sense . But hey if you can wade through Waking Life then give these a go; they're just more random, violent, and full of drugs and wierd sexual themes. You'll be amazed by the number of well known celebs that pop up in these movies though.

Araki's two other films Splendor and The Living End are also great.

So, any Donnie Darko fans here? I see that it's goin for 11$ (and free shipping in the US) on Amazon right now. I think I might just have to own it at that price. Will go check to make sure I can't get it instantly for $10 at Borders first though.

And btw, everyone here has great taste!

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

This might be controversial but...


SPOILER









I kinda liked Godfather III. I mean, yeah, Sofia Coppola sucked, but the payoff was great when she gets done in at the end. When she says, "Daddy?" and does the faceplant on the Opera House steps, it made everything up til then worthwhile. Seriously though, I like how the arc of Michael's life played out in that. The end of Part II wasn't sufficiently tragic enough, there had to be something worse around the corner.