Baumer's/Tele's/Chas' 25 films that have brainwashed people into mindless adulation (Tele pg 26)

[MrPink]

The sequels are fleetingly funny.

 

The cameos were occasionally quite funny. Always died at the Danny Devito cameo. Same with Woody Harrelson

[Alpha]

[Avatree]

I still haven't seen Austin Powers, I always thought it sounded stupid but I think I'd appreciate it now. I watched the intro to the first film a couple of days ago and that was a good sign for the movie.

[Ozymandias]

Spy who shagged me is good, Goldmember is awful though.

[Dementeleus]

20. Judd Apatow (and Apatow-esque) movies

 

(too many posters to show)

 

Yes, a few of them are really funny. But I'm getting sick of comedies that feel like a greatest hits collection of skits revolving around only the vaguest effort of a plot. Plot a damn throughline! Give characters some arcs that pay off nicely. Don't just give me a bunch of improv bits shoved together to make basic sense.

[Empire]

Apatow and Apatow like movies are very hit and miss for me.

Edited January 21, 2015 by Empire

[TalismanRing]

There's a common through line in Apatow movies - the man-child or really child-man. It's not a plot but it a theme - an annoying theme but a theme.

 

The second AP is intermittently funny. Goldmember has a fun opening sequence but the rest is execrable

 

I think people like Scarface because of all cursing, violence but most importantly the cocaine mountain

 

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21. The Austin Powers sequels

 

 

The original was cute, funny, and a fresh amusing look at a genre which (for the most part) had taken itself very seriously for a few decades. The sequels that followed were considerably more expensive, more filled with cameos and glam co-stars, but basically just regurgitated or repurposed the same jokes from the first film. The bigger they got, the hollower and emptier they felt.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF5Q8pArXKk

 

The opening for Goldmember was genuine awesome

[luna]

the highest grossing movie that is better than INCEPTION is THE GODFATHER, with $134,966,411.

 

although that says more about the sort of movies that make lots of money than anything else.

[TalismanRing]

 

The opening for Goldmember was genuine awesome

 

 

Yes, it's just too bad the movie wasn't 7 minutes long.

[TalismanRing]

the highest grossing movie that is better than INCEPTION is THE GODFATHER, with $134,966,411.

 

although that says more about the sort of movies that make lots of money than anything else.

 

That's in 1972 money.  Adjusted for inflation that's $652,765,300 domestic

[Dementeleus]

I'm honored that Lisa disagrees with at least one of my choices. Now, if I can just get baumer's disapproval, I'll have covered the alpha and omega of Box Office Theory.

 

Good times coming up, baumer!

[luna]

That's in 1972 money.  Adjusted for inflation that's $652,765,300 domestic

i am aware of that, but i wasn't going to spend half an hour getting the adjustments perfect just for a cheap jab.

[Fancyarcher]

20. Judd Apatow (and Apatow-esque) movies

 

(too many posters to show)

 

Yes, a few of them are really funny. But I'm getting sick of comedies that feel like a greatest hits collection of skits revolving around only the vaguest effort of a plot. Plot a damn throughline! Give characters some arcs that pay off nicely. Don't just give me a bunch of improv bits shoved together to make basic sense.

 

Judd Apatow's films aren't bad. To me though, they just sometimes feel like there 2 hour overlong slideshows of him and his family with no real interesting plot connecting the scenes. 

Edited January 21, 2015 by Fancyarcher

[Kvikk Lunsj]

Judd Apatow's films aren't bad. To me though, they just sometimes feel like there 2 hour overlong slideshows of him and his family with no real interesting plot connecting the scenes. 

Last movie that he was involved that I liked was Pineapple Express. I love his two TV shows. 

[The Panda]

24. Inception

BWAAAAHMMMM

Look, I like this movie. Quite a lot, actually. But it's been placed on this absurdly high pedestal by crazed Nolan fanboys who will accept no God other than their own. It's a very clever concept and the action scenes are wonderfully done, and Nolan assembled a great cast... but, like he's tended to do with his recent blockbusters, he takes a brute force approach to storytelling. Exposition-filled speech after exposition-filled speech, characters who do nothing but wander around like the audience's Mary Sue, asking "Why?" ... the first hour is really inert.

Great action movie. Lots of fun. One of the greatest movies ever made? Not even close.

I applaud you for this and agree very highly.

[chasmmi]

Agree with Goonies, Goldmember is horrible, Apatow very hit and miss.

 

For most of the res your almost as wrong as me and Baumer are with our lists.

[Michael Gary Scott]

Apatow movies are great

[The Stingray]

22. Scarface (1983)

 

Another movie that's pretty good, but completely overblown in terms of praise and kneejerk adulation (especially after it was rediscovered in the '90s and '00s). It's such a hammy, overdone film, everything cranked to 11, so much so that it's hard to look at it as anything more than a parody of itself.

 

"Nothing exceeds like excess."

 

 

I love Scarface because it is so ridiculously OTT. It is also ridiculously entertaining.

[James]

I bet we'll see Interstellar on the list, one or more SH movies. American Sniper also deserves it's place in the Top. And also Mad Max