Movies That Are On The "100 Years, 200 Stinkers" List But That I Enjoyed
Submitted by bertie on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 09:13
Tags:
- ACE VENTURA - WHEN NATURE CALLS
- DUNE
- THE FIFTH ELEMENT
- THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY
- HOWARD THE DUCK
- THE LAST ACTION HERO
- NOTHING BUT TROUBLE
- POPEYE
- THE POSTMAN
- WATERWORLD
Author Comments:
I'm not saying any of these are great, mind you, but they don't deserve to be called stinkers.
Notice that most of these are either comedy or science fiction. It's been my experience that people's senses of humour differ enormously. And we sf fans all know that there are people who are rabidly, almost fearfully, intolerant of the genre.
The "100 Years, 200 Stinkers" list can be found here.
I didn't see The Postman or Waterworld, but I can't say that I really want to. Howard the Duck, on the other hand, was pretty awful, mostly due to the horrible midget duck suit. The only redeeming quality of Ave Ventura WNC that I could spot was the Land Rovers (And they crushed one of them!) Anyway, this prompted me to suggest my own list of non-stinkers.
For reply, see comments to UmcRoger's list. No, wait a minute. I neglected to say there that AV-WNC has many very funny scenes: the hollow rhino, Ace's battle with the midget, etc. If you didn't laugh uproariously at these, you just don't appreciate JC. Amen.
The rhino scene was HILARIOUS. I really want to see _The Postman_ because I just read the book a couple months ago. I loved _The Gods Must be Crazy_ it's one of my parent's favorite movies.
Although the movie version of The Postman strayed significantly from the book, I thought it had enough redeeming qualities to make it enjoyable. I'm a big fan of post-apocalyptic fiction and always like to see how the world is portrayed after civilization's destruction. Having said this, I still refuse to Waterworld.
Then what do you think of my two 'End of the World' lists? I like both post-apocalyptic stories and (significant difference) those that portray the actual apocalypse.
I suppose I found the movie Dune the most odiferous of this lot because I liked the book so much I added it to this list. Every other film on this list I mildly liked, even WATERWORLD & THE POSTMAN.
Can you post a link to the original list in your comments? The only one I could find was this one (100 years, 100 stinkers).
That must be the wrong list. It has Armageddon on it, which I'm sure you would have included based on this conversation.
Here's the link, Jim. And here's the meta-search-engine I found it with. Originally I found the link on TL homepage, you may recall.
I did remember, but couldn't find it on a first pass through the old news. And then when I looked at the 100/100 list that I found, I knew that couldn't be the right one (it had some weird choices on it, like Titanic and Blair Witch). But on this list (100/200), The Fifth Element would certainly be my favorite of the bunch.
I actually love The Gods Must Be Crazy, it put me in stitches. I'm surprised its on the list because it played for a year straight in a one screen art house back in 1986 in LA. It was very popular out here. I also liked the sequel, Spaceballs, and Toys. Spaceballs is much better and more clever than Brooks' lat 3 movies Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Life Stinks, and Dracula, Dead and Loving It.
bufdet
I thought SPACEBALLS and ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS were both quite good parodies - though neither is in the same league as Brook's masterpiece YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, of course.
THE GODS...was not only very funny, it was also refreshingly different - an exotic comedy.
I've found that people either love Spaceballs or hate it. I don't really understand how people could hate it (it still cracks me up even though it's on TV every few weeks), but we all know that peoples' tastes vary widely.
I was disappointed with Men in Tights. Not one of Mel's better efforts, IMHO. I agree that Young Frankenstein is a masterpiece.
Well, the 2nd Ace Ventura was horrible but I loved the 1st. The 5th Element was highly entertaining and Last Action Hero has a certain je ne sais quoi that keeps you from turning it off even though it's so bad. Only thing I can remember from Howard the Duck is that the duck really scared me(don't ask me why, I must've been 3 when i saw it).
Well, a movie that treats us to Jim Carrey emerging from the rear end of a rhino and losing a stand up fight with a pygmy gets my vote. Agree with you on 5E; I've seen it again since and enjoyed it just as much. LAH actually made me want to see Big Arnie take on the role of Hamlet (just kidding). Where I live, the word was that H the D flopped in the US because it was based on a cult comic-strip to which it did not live up. I never saw or heard of the comic until after I saw the movie, so I had no vision of how it should be.
I had totally forgotten about the Hamlet part in LAH. That's gotta be one of the funniest scenes ever!!!