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In Reply to: Movies You Hate To Admit You Like posted by highendman on April 04, 2002 at 18:46:13:
I love these movies which critics almost universally trashed:1. Americathon
2. Death Race 2000 (the original)
3. Kentucky-Fried Movie
4. Fletch Lives
5. Spies Like Us
6. High Anxiety
7. In Harm's Way
8. Gone In 60 Seconds (the original, which was far, far better than the remake)
9. Vanishing Point
10. Zabriskie Point
11. Carwash
12. The Strawberry Statement
13. The Harrad Experiment
14. The Valachi Papers
15. Death Wish (despite my total opposition to this films political statements - and there are many - I can't deny that it is an exceptionally well-made and exciting film. Forget the countless sequels, though)
16. Billy Jack
17. It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
18. Zardoz (which I still think is one of the top sci-fi films of the 70s)
19. They Call Me Trinity (a comedy spaghetti-western that is really a dead-on spoof of the genre)
20. Bamboozled! (Spike Lee is misunderstood but one of our best filmmakers)12.
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No need to be ashamed of Zardoz. I've always loved this sarcastic parody of life and death.drobo
I don't recall saying I was ashamed of liking any of the listed movies.ZARDOZ is, in my book, a classic. I think it gets little respect because Jon Boorman gets little from critics and most are clueless when it comes to science fiction movies. I guess they prefer junk like BARBARELLA to serious sci-fi like ZARDOZ.
...I always get the giggles when the hero rubs his manly sweat on the ladies...this fim is WORTHY, I tell you.I'd rather have my sweaty men recite incantations, like Nicol Williamson does as Merlin in Boorman's Excalibur.
Hey danj,I've always been a fan of 'Death Wish' - politics aside. (This gets to be like the Seinfeld episode re gays and "...not that there's anything wrong with that". Must qualify...)
Of the sequels, I've only seen 'II' - what a piece of crap. Big mistake moving Paul Kersey (Bronson) move to the West Coast. Jimmy Page doing the soundtrack doesn't help.
Have you ever heard the Herbie Hancock soundtrack to 'Death Wish"? Good stuff.
I wouldn't be embarressed about liking that one. I can't see how it is not on nearly everyones top ten comedy list. A great film. You are however correct in keeping the rest of your list hidden, you've got some true crap in there. ;^)Steve
I think Mad, Mad World is a comedy classic that pays a lot of homage to the movies director Stanley Kramer grew up on. I love the movie and have seen it many times. Why so many critics hate it is a puzzler. Maybe they don't want to watch a well made film with a good cast that's one gag after another. Maybe the pace is so fast they can't keep up.Or maybe they just had something against Stanley Kramer.
It's a later film of Kramer's that has a heavy, negative, cynical edge missing from his other films. Compared with the rest of Kramer's ouvre, this sticks out like a genuninely "sore thumb". It's also a very cynical, dark comedy; he wasn't known for his humor but for his films of the human condition, expressed in the hope of the individual of overcoming his dark side(s), etc.. He rarely strayed from these general themes, but when he did...it just didn't ring true.I mean this guy is the director of a film about the few survivors of a nuclear war..."On the Beach", "Inherit the Wind", "The Defiant Ones", "Home of the Brave" and "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner". Message films...high quality, well crafted stories.
I won't get into a pissing match about this film. Mad, Mad World is more than anything Kramer's homage to the films of his youth. He said so himself. As a film buff I recognize many of the little in jokes and asides in the film. It's been one of my favorite comedies since it was first released.Beneath all that madcap foolery is an intelligent movie with something to say about greed and stupidity. I don't think it's crass or unsubtle. If people don't get it, they aren't paying attention.
Well, the thread is on movies we're embarassed to admit that we like. Call it guilty pleasures.Yeah, some of the movies, like AMERICATHON and DEATH RACE 2000 aren't exactly of the highest calibre, but I liked them. Turn off your brain and some movies can be taken for just their entertainment value. Plus, I have always like movies that are satirical or spoof the current fads.
Which of my list, other than AMERICATHON and DEATH RACE 2000, which I admit are pretty much crap, do you truly dislike? Have you seen them or just judging from word-of-mouth?
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