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I nominate Backdraft
1991
NOMINATION #41
"Ahhh, so you found your father's old stag movies, did ya?....Is that the one with the donkey and the chambermaid?"
Film: Dead Alive (aka Braindead)
Director: Peter Jackson
Year: 1992
Plot spoiler with classic scene: No
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Toy Story 2
1999
John Lasseter
Nomination #12
Rudy
1993
Dir: David Anspaugh
I will second Rudy.
Ducking behind a table and waiting for the rottan tommatoes to be thrown:
Nomination #9?
Showgirls
1995
Paul Verhoeven
(hey it made the list of 140 essential movies of the 90's)
even though I barely remember it, I'll second Wayne's World.
The Sandlot (1993)
Director: David Mickey Evans
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You play ball like a girl!
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Another classic scene (re-enacted by the Milwaukee Brewers)
Spoiler: 01-21-2019 11:26 AMT-Dogz_AK47I've heard of scraping the barrel, but that is taking the piss. :o><:doh:
01-21-2019 11:29 AMT-Dogz_AK47At this rate, I won't be surprised if Batman and Robin is nominated.... :doh: 01-21-2019 11:35 AMmaeI will gladly and proudly second Showgirls. Own the DVD. 01-21-2019 12:17 PMT-Dogz_AK47FFS!! This tournament needs some gravitas....
Why hasn't this been seconded already!!??
The film was released to critical acclaim, and received 12 nominations at the 69th Academy Awards, winning nine, including Best Picture and Best Director.
Yet Showgirls on the other hand: was universally derided by audiences and critics alike, received no less than 7 Golden Raspberries and was described as being "Vile, contemptible, garish, and misogynistic".
So yeah, WTF!!!! :wtf::wtf::wtf: 01-21-2019 12:29 PMmaeShowgirls is satire, which Paul Verhoeven loves to do. Man's a mad genius. Here's a fun review.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFi9zqSidps 01-21-2019 12:47 PMT-Dogz_AK47Satire eh? Well this is what Kyle MacLachlan said about it being "satire"....
"I was absolutely gobsmacked. I said, “This is horrible. Horrible!” And it’s a very slow, sinking feeling when you’re watching the movie, and the first scene comes out, and you’re like, “Oh, that’s a really bad scene.” But you say, “Well, that’s okay, the next one’ll be better.” And you somehow try to convince yourself that it’s going to get better… and it just gets worse. And I was like, “Wow. That was crazy.” I mean, I really didn’t see that coming. So at that point, I distanced myself from the movie. Now, of course, it has a whole other life as a sort of inadvertent… satire. No, “satire” isn’t the right word. But it’s inadvertently funny. So it’s found its place. It provides entertainment, though not in the way I think it was originally intended. It was just… maybe the wrong material with the wrong director and the wrong cast."
Writer, Joe Eszterhaus, was just as scathing....
"Clearly we made mistakes. Clearly it was one of the biggest failures of our time. It failed commercially, critically, it failed on videotape, it failed internationally. . . . In retrospect, part of it was that Paul and I were coming off of Basic, which defied the critics and was a huge success. Maybe there was a certain hubris involved: We can do what we want to do, go as far out there as we want.'. That rape scene was a god-awful mistake. In retrospect, a terrible mistake. And musically it was eminently forgettable. And in casting, mistakes were made."
Mad genius? I think not. :nope:thumbsdownsmall 01-21-2019 12:59 PMmaeDid you watch that video essay. I’m completely on board with her analysis. 01-21-2019 01:09 PMMikeDukeHow about Devil in a Blue Dress
1995
Don Cheadle and Denzel are fantastic. At least I think so. 01-21-2019 01:34 PMTommy 01-21-2019 01:55 PMfernandito 01-21-2019 01:59 PMmaeAugust 32nd on Earth (1998)
Denis Villeneuve
Watch trailer: 01-21-2019 02:15 PMmaeAnd I'll second Philadelphia. 01-21-2019 02:22 PMT-Dogz_AK47NOMINATION #42
"Don't get too cocky, my boy. No matter how good you are, don't ever let them see you coming. That's the gaffe, my friend. You gotta keep yourself small. Innocuous. Be the little guy. You know, the nerd, the leper, shit-kicking serf. Look at me. Underestimated from day one. You'd never think I was a master of the universe, now would you?"
Film: The Devil's Advocate
Director: Taylor Hackford
Year: 1997
Plot spoiler with classic scene: No
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