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Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
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
Classic scene:
Movie trailer:
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Insomnia #459
ANY S/L #459
Toy Story 2
1999
John Lasseter
A NEW GAME BEGINS
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I second Thelma & Louise.
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Nomination #12
Rudy
1993
Dir: David Anspaugh
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Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
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)
Wanted:
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Fairy Tale UK S/L
even though I barely remember it, I'll second Wayne's World.
Wanted:
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Fairy Tale UK S/L
The Sandlot (1993)
Director: David Mickey Evans
Trailer:
Spoiler:
You play ball like a girl!
Spoiler:
Another classic scene (re-enacted by the Milwaukee Brewers)
Spoiler:Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
I've heard of scraping the barrel, but that is taking the piss.
At this rate, I won't be surprised if Batman and Robin is nominated....
I will gladly and proudly second Showgirls. Own the DVD.
FFS!! 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!!!!
Showgirls is satire, which Paul Verhoeven loves to do. Man's a mad genius. Here's a fun review.
Satire 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.
Did you watch that video essay. I’m completely on board with her analysis.
How about Devil in a Blue Dress
1995
Don Cheadle and Denzel are fantastic. At least I think so.
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Confession: I've never seen Showgirls. The closest I've gotten to watching it is when I was 9 years old and my Dad scolded me for daring to pick up the video cassette.
I do love me some Verhoeven tho.
August 32nd on Earth (1998)
Denis Villeneuve
Watch trailer:
And I'll second Philadelphia.
NOMINATION #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
Classic scene:
Movie trailer:
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