Three good movies, a bad one and a squicky webcomic
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012 05:40 am( Pfft, webcomics. )
So we hit up FYE and managed to grab a pretty big selection of super-cheap movies, + Darkwing Duck. Haven't gotten to the latter yet, but we've been making inroads on the movies.
The Cable Guy - the movie is still terrible, but as an adult I can actually appreciate the one or two funny scenes mixed in with the kind of so-so majority of the film. I still think the worst thing about this film is that it was clearly marketed at children, during the height Jim Carrey's fame as a comedian that kids found funny, and it was only rated PG-13. There are sooo many reasons it should not have been, and remembering my nine-year-old brother's stubborn insistence that it would get better and stop being scary makes me grit my teeth every time. The poor kid made my aunt and I stay through the whole movie swearing it would get funny, but it only ever got worse. The "joke" suicide scene + pretentious message at the end? Just-- no. It's not funny; and the 'message' really kills any dark humor you might've gotten out of it, because how preachy is it for a badly marketed movie to tell parents and kids alike "you boob! You're watching TV too much!"?
That's about as much thought as that ever deserves. Just...it's a disappointment as a film, and still is even on rewatching. Ah well.
On the upside, we discovered some excellence in the form of Ice Pirates, a 1984 movie that was pretty blatantly a partial Star Wars ripoff. Unlike Spaceballs, they went the route of sorta-serious parody. Their plotline makes NO sense-- in a distant future, somehow water (despite being composed of some of the most common elements in the universe) is so scarce that the titular Ice Pirates have to steal ice to make a living, using it both to survive and as currency.
Despite the silliness of the premise itself, the movie was pretty good just as a movie on its own, and while it included some hilarious misunderstandings of the current theory of near-light-speed travel, there was a lot of awesome old-school sci-fi in there that I really enjoyed. Also, the movie has Ron Perlman, which is rad.
Next were Madagascar and Rock-a-Doodle. The latter is a bit more meandering than my favorite Don Bluth films, but it was fun enough; and Madagascar was honestly pretty good. We decided to pick that one up since several friends had told us it was decent, and they didn't steer us wrong-- it was fun. I could live without Sasha Baron Cohen's character, but by contrast was pleasantly surprised by the monkeys and the penguins. Fun watches all.
Coming up will be the original HairSpray and Casino Royale; those should be interesting!
Also, been playing Pokemon Soulsilver for the last couple of days. I don't know why, but I just suddenly had the urge to play it. It has been pretty cute and lived up to my expectations so far!
So we hit up FYE and managed to grab a pretty big selection of super-cheap movies, + Darkwing Duck. Haven't gotten to the latter yet, but we've been making inroads on the movies.
The Cable Guy - the movie is still terrible, but as an adult I can actually appreciate the one or two funny scenes mixed in with the kind of so-so majority of the film. I still think the worst thing about this film is that it was clearly marketed at children, during the height Jim Carrey's fame as a comedian that kids found funny, and it was only rated PG-13. There are sooo many reasons it should not have been, and remembering my nine-year-old brother's stubborn insistence that it would get better and stop being scary makes me grit my teeth every time. The poor kid made my aunt and I stay through the whole movie swearing it would get funny, but it only ever got worse. The "joke" suicide scene + pretentious message at the end? Just-- no. It's not funny; and the 'message' really kills any dark humor you might've gotten out of it, because how preachy is it for a badly marketed movie to tell parents and kids alike "you boob! You're watching TV too much!"?
That's about as much thought as that ever deserves. Just...it's a disappointment as a film, and still is even on rewatching. Ah well.
On the upside, we discovered some excellence in the form of Ice Pirates, a 1984 movie that was pretty blatantly a partial Star Wars ripoff. Unlike Spaceballs, they went the route of sorta-serious parody. Their plotline makes NO sense-- in a distant future, somehow water (despite being composed of some of the most common elements in the universe) is so scarce that the titular Ice Pirates have to steal ice to make a living, using it both to survive and as currency.
Despite the silliness of the premise itself, the movie was pretty good just as a movie on its own, and while it included some hilarious misunderstandings of the current theory of near-light-speed travel, there was a lot of awesome old-school sci-fi in there that I really enjoyed. Also, the movie has Ron Perlman, which is rad.
Next were Madagascar and Rock-a-Doodle. The latter is a bit more meandering than my favorite Don Bluth films, but it was fun enough; and Madagascar was honestly pretty good. We decided to pick that one up since several friends had told us it was decent, and they didn't steer us wrong-- it was fun. I could live without Sasha Baron Cohen's character, but by contrast was pleasantly surprised by the monkeys and the penguins. Fun watches all.
Coming up will be the original HairSpray and Casino Royale; those should be interesting!
Also, been playing Pokemon Soulsilver for the last couple of days. I don't know why, but I just suddenly had the urge to play it. It has been pretty cute and lived up to my expectations so far!
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}