MeatsOfRageIt's movie night. You don't know who's coming but you have to pick a movie everyone vibes with. What do you choose?
JackDarkRecently had a movie night where we watched Oscar. Only one person (the person that wanted to watch it) had seen it before, but it was their birthday, so we all sat down to watch. It is a fantastic comedy of errors movie with Sylvester Stallone. None of us could believe that we had never even heard of it before, because we all loved it so much, and laughed so frequently. Fantastic movie night movie. I can’t recommend it enough.
Excellent suggestion. One of my favorites.
I watched that when it was released, and I can’t remember that much about it. But I do remember everyone in the theater just laughing our asses off. For some reason I always kind of put in the same basket as Men at Work.
1hitsongGolf clap?
I love finding those movies that have somehow floated just below the surface of the consciousness of my sphere of community.
3 nominations for the Razzie?
Wildly undeserved IMO.
The Princess Bride
If you have seen it. You are happy to watch again. If you haven’t, you will love it.
It’s got romance, action, comedy, fantasy, safe for kids and families… Covers most groups
Is there kissing?
Some day you may not mind so much.
Kalkaline The fire swamp is a little intense for the little ones, but for teens and up it’s a great choice.
I think it’s fine for kids younger than teenagers. Maybe around 8 and up. By the time they are teenagers, most kids are watching anything and everything, included R-rated movies.
I wonder how I would have turned out if more sheltered growing up. I think I was around 7 when i watched Childs play and Nightmare on Elm Street. Then here you are saying some flames killing a fake looking big rat might be too scary for kids.
I watched The Neverending Story in my 30’s and realized the Artax scene had caused me decades of nightmares.
Oh yeah. Nothing like a painful death by drowning in a swamp pit that you led your horse/pet/friend into. Did not expect that to go down.
I just heard an interesting fan theory, that the scene with Artax and the swamp represents being unable to help a friend or family member through depression. That for the friend it can be perplexing (move or you’ll die!), but it’s so hard to do anything for a depressed person in a slump.
Even funnier since I ended up being metaphorical Artax.
My husband has a close friend who’s currently going through a rough patch. We know our Artax will pull through, but it’s going to be hard going for a while. Meanwhile my husband is trying to at least keep in touch.
It’s all you can do sometimes. When the darkness sets in for me I can’t recognize the light. I’m starting to break out of it somewhat, but there’s a lot of self hate still etched in. It does kind of improve once you’re on the other side.
I watched all that stuff as a kid too, I remember having nightmares for weeks over Children of the Corn. I want to avoid that with my kid and let her choose when to watch that stuff.
Oh, I chose to watch it all. It’s just that my parents allowed it. Lol
Oddly enough, the only thing that I ever remember getting nightmares about was an alien abduction movie called “fire in the Sky” that said it was based on a true story. That one kept me up at night.
Snot FlickermanSomething that everyone will love, like, The Room or maybe Samurai Cop or maybe even Hard Ticket to Hawaii.
Don't neglect Miami Connection.
Nothing beats the baby kung-fu in Kung Pow! Enter the Fist though.
jackalIf kids are around, probably Howl’s Moving Castle or another Studio Ghibli movie.
If I am gearing for adults, a comedy like Chef where the premise is lighthearted but not a total snooze fest.
bdonvranother Studio Ghibli
Grave of the Fireflies it is!
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Those movies are so great. Probably stick with the G and PG options if there’s a young kid in the mix (thinking of Princess Mononoke). The PG ones often have just the right amount of “safe-scary” elements that it absolutely grabs their attention. Great movies for grown-up/kid conversation-starters to boot, just due to the deep, rich, human themes they explore.
My two year old daughter loves My Neighbor Totoro, we even got her a giant Totoro stuffy for Christmas.
Chef actually made me want to go to culinary school, and what drove me to pursue food service work in general.
Well growing up in Utah there’s a lot of people that would not tolerate anything. Gotos are Princess Bride, Sandlot, most Disney movies.
Dredd
°˖✧ ipha ✧˖°Everyone loves ultra-violence, right?
Princess Bride
Really the platonic ideal of a standalone adventure movie
all-knight-party21 Jump Street. Lighthearted, don't need to worry about how deep it is or not, but it's well-written, well-executed comedy, and I've already seen it a couple times and know that's not just nostalgia talking.
I think a general group of adults would get a kick out of it.
The second one is dumb, but it plays into it, which I kind of like.
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
If they can’t vibe with that I don’t want them ever coming over again
AnissemBig Lebowski
Brandt can’t watch, though, or he has to pay a hundred.
ultra-awkward wheeze-laugh we’re all very fond of veroxii, such a free spirit!
Young Frankenstein.
davel
It’s Frankenstein!
Blücher!
horse whinnies in the distance
Nothing But Trouble, so they don’t come back
Calilou 2: Ice-Scream.
Fifth Element
Super green.
TrickDacyThat’s what I was thinking
It has the multi pass to everyone’s heart.
Korben my man. I-I-I-I have no fire.
The largest indoor explosion ever recorded on camera, I believe.
Hook. It’s always Hook.
That movie has a 29% rotten tomato rating…
How the fuck?
Aren’t those tomato meter scores the aggregate of critic reviews? On cult classics, low-brow, or franchises with baggage, the user reviews are way more likely to match the vibe of a movie.
Funnily enough, it’s almost the complete opposite for independent movies made for “film people”. Or plots that require critical thinking or deep attention (the latter is my own Achilles’ heel). Where the user score is garbage but the critic score is more likely to match the target audience’s reception.
LucidlethargyRotten Tomatoes is, and always has been, an absolutely abysmal place to go to find out if a movie is good.
Plex uses it other than that I don’t give them a click
Hook! Hook! Give us the Hook! Hook! Hook! Show us the Hook!