1996: Movies I've Seen
Submitted by AJDaGreat on Sat, 09/27/2003 - 09:07
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A
- Secrets and Lies
- Sling Blade
- Trainspotting
A-
- Bound
- Breaking the Waves
- Fargo
- Swingers
B+
- The English Patient
- Lone Star
- Primal Fear
B
- Beautiful Girls
- The Birdcage
- Flirting With Disaster
- Jerry Maguire
- Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
B-
- Kingpin
- Mother
- Ridicule
- Waiting for Guffman
C+
- Mission: Impossible
- My Fellow Americans (Used to be my favorite movie, probably mainly for all the cursing, which I found hilarious at the time.)
C
- Bottle Rocket
- The Frighteners
- James and the Giant Peach
- The Late Shift
- A Very Brady Sequel
C-
- Fly Away Home
- Harriet the Spy
- High School High
- Hunchback of Notre Dame
D+
- First Kid
- Matilda
- Michael
- The Nutty Professor
- Space Jam (I loved it when I was a kid, probably just to see my favorite cartoon characters on the big screen. But now I realize how much they butchered those great characters.)
D
- Aladdin and the King of Thieves
- Bulletproof (Among the first R-rated movies I saw, this was a hard-fought struggle to get my parents to let me see this. I now wonder why I tried so hard.)
- Happy Gilmore
- Jingle All the Way
- Muppet Treasure Island
- Sgt. Bilko
- Spy Hard
- The Stupids
D-
- Big Bully
- Black Sheep
- Carpool
- Down Periscope (I don't remember much about this movie, but one thing I do remember is the scene in which a fat guy's flatulence is mistaken for the sounds of a whale. I'm at a loss as to why "Down Periscope" didn't win Best Screenplays.)
- Head Above Water (I can't really remember why I watched this lame made-for-HBO movie. Maybe for the cast. As I recall, it went like this: Tie up Cameron Diaz and try to kill her. She escapes. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.)
- 101 Dalmatians
F
- D3: The Mighty Ducks
- Ed (What a generic title. I had to look it up to remind myself that this is the crappy movie in which Joey from "Friends" plays a baseball player with a monkey.)
- Eddie (What a generic title. I had to look it up to remind myself that this is the crappy movie in which Whoopi Goldberg plays a basketball coach.)
- Jack
- Kazaam
- Phenomenon
- Snowboard Academy (Yes, I actually saw this movie. Maybe I was temporarily insane.)
- Two Much (I'm really not sure why this Antonio-Banderas-starring romantic-comedy appealed to me in the Blockbuster. But some mysteries are best left unsolved.)
Should See
- Shine
Author Comments:
I once again choose to go swimming in a sea of wretched movies and bad memories. Why do I do this, you may ask? I do not know. But I feel that it happens and I am tormented. (I will be very impressed if anyone besides geek can identify what that is a reference to.)
BTW, many of the kiddie movies listed above are ones I haven't seen since they came out in theaters in 1996, so I'm doing my best on what I can remember of them.
C+ or higher = all movies I liked to some degree and would probably recommend
C = average
C- or lower = all movies I disliked to some degree and would probably not recommend
Cloned From:
Baz's Romeo + Julet hasn't appealed to you yet? I suggest checking it out...it's similar in some ways to Moulin Rouge!, but I feel that certain polarizing directors are worth watching, if just to make your mind up on them.
Fair enough, I'll add it. For the record, I liked Baz's visual style, I just didn't like "Moulin Rouge!"'s plot behind the style. But it's hard to beat the source material for "Romeo + Juliet."
Well, if you like his style, you might like Romeo + Juliet more than Moulin Rouge!...I've always heard people bash Moulin Rouge!'s screenplay, but I've never really had a problem with it. Some films focus on storytelling (Memento), some films focus on a mood (The Virgin Suicides) and some films focus on visual storytelling (Moulin Rouge!). It's sorta like the Abbey Road debate. I guess it boils down to another "to each his own" resolution.
:( i can't agree here with Happy Gilmore ok its silly and stupid, but its by far Sandler's funniest! i mean out of his starring role ones (Big Daddy,Mr.deeds,Billy madision)i love the intro!
Your thoughts on Happy Gilmore / Adam Sandler?
I really don't like Adam Sandler. His schtick was funny when I was 11, but I pretty much grew to despise him after that. I find him immensely irritating in nearly every movie he's in. The sole exception is Punch-Drunk Love, which is a really wonderful movie. Since he still plays the same old character type in PDL, I'm tempted to blame the awful scripts more so than Sandler's acting.
Granted, I haven't seen Happy Gilmore in 8 years, but even then, I didn't find it particularly funny. I often enjoy dumb humor, but this movie is way too dark for its own good, and things like having Sandler beat up Bob Barker are just bizarre, not funny, at least in my eyes. I do remember laughing at the line, "You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?"
I would be more tempted to call Billy Madison or Anger Management Sandler's funniest movie, but that is also by a very slim margin. They're all in my Pretty Bad category (except for Little Nicky, which is Abominably Terrible).
muppet treasure island? that bad? Granted I haven't seen it in years, but i remember loving it when i was younger... I also hope you don't hold the same opinion about Mighty Ducks 2 as you do for 3... funny story, Mighty Ducks 2 currently holds the record for longest time as my favorite movie, it held the spot for about 9 years, up until I started really getting into movies about 2 years ago... that would account for the ages of 8 through 17, and I was never really a fan of hockey, and never played it, although i was big on sports, and did give it a try in leau of being in love with the first two movies.
I haven't seen Muppet Treasure Island in years either; in fact, I saw it in theaters, so it must have been nine years. I don't really remember anything about it, except that I wasn't too impressed as a 9-year-old, so I imagined I'd be even less impressed as an 18-year-old. But maybe I should put in an "Unranked" tier like Jim has, because I obviously have to fudge some ratings for movies like Muppet Treasure Island.
As for the Mighty Ducks series, I'm in a similar boat. I can't remember anything about the first or second one. I currently have the first ranked as "Pretty Bad" and the second not on my list, but I think it's possible that I saw the second and didn't see the first. I tend to hate most sports movies, though, and to be honest, if I have seen D2, I doubt I liked it very much. I have definitely seen D3, though, and on top of my hatred for sports movies, I also hate movies that try to derive humor from people playing lame pranks on each other, so that film was definitely not for me.
So obviously the ratings are fudged, but my guess is I didn't appreciate D2 or Muppet Treasure Island the way you did. Sorry.
well if it's just a hate for sports movies i can understand that... although D3 is one of the worst I've seen as well so... it's all good.