...Requesting permission to shake the hand of the daughter of the bravest man I've ever met.
What's your favourite cheesy movie?
...Requesting permission to shake the hand of the daughter of the bravest man I've ever met.
What's your favourite cheesy movie?
I'm actually quite disappointed that you consider it 'cheesy'. I thought you were the only other person who truly understood it.
Bill Pullman's speech in Independence Day is a thing of majesty.
I'm not sure I do think that really, given I also think it's a masterpiece. I always get massive goosebumps at that line.
We're probably in a minority on that score though Lewis, hence the thread.
I'm long past the point of caring about what people think about the things I enjoy.
#inb4schindlerslist
He's just said it, my legs have gone again and I feel like a 12 year old girl who's ridden a horse for the first time.
It's tragic how shit Michael Bay became.
It's a fucking work of art, and the best disaster film ever made. People need to realise.
I don't like cheesy movies. The whole 'so bad it's good' thing is usually a load of shit, although one has to have viewed 'The Room' just to experience it.
Completely agree.Originally Posted by Lewis
It's a fucking work of art, and the best disaster film ever made. People need to realise.
Sky have just absolutely cunted the credits by playing some adverts for other shit over Aerosmith, from about 15 seconds in.
The Rock.
Had to google what this was from, never seen it.
But Top Gun, Commando and Raw Deal should all qualify.
Nobody even cares. This is where Christopher Nolan went wrong.
If we're ranking the holy trinity, I'd probably go for:
1. Armageddon
2. Independence Day
3. The Rock
Does Die Hard count as cheesy?
Ahmen.
Ironically Nolan still got stick for doing science wrong.
Armageddon is a far far better film than Interstellar.
Maybe. I'm not sure.
I love that too either way. Although most people don't understand that the order of goodness is 1 > 2 > 3 and not 1 > 3 > 2.
Independence Day
What a fucking movie that is.
I would have The Rock second on account of Lewis' Law, but I'm happy with the 'Holy Trinity'. Die Hard (for example) is class, but I don't really see it as the sort of thing you can pick up forty minutes in and still get right in to. I'm not entirely sure why that is, but there we go.
Beverly Hills Cop.
Indeed - I only caught the last 15 or so minutes of Armageddon there and it still made me damp.
For me, the end of The Rock shits itself a bit (from its previously very high standards) when Ed Harris bottles it.
Armageddon is perfect from start to finish, while Inependence Day goes off the rails a bit with the boring subplot with Will Smith's wife. You care about her because Big Willy does, so you don't need to see her in addition to that to do so.
Oh yes.
Probably wouldn't have that down as cheesy, or didn't think others did, but what a film and what a soundtrack.
Die Hard is not cheesy.
I've just noticed there's a rogue comma in the quote in the thread title. There's no pause before ma'am, is there? IMDB seem to think so.
Rush Hour.
Also fuck your trinity Lethal Weapon is cheesy as fuck.
It's on the cusp of cheesy I'd say, benefit of the doubt for Rosewood alone.
And also not as good as any of those films.
I've always thought his BOTTLE JOB makes it more complex and drama drama drama. Plus Sean Connery predicts it after a brief chat with him, so that's another thing he dons.
It's better than Armageddon.
I dunno, I think what makes these type of films so good is a black and white villain (be that Hans Gruber, some Aliens who want to wipe us out, a bad man who owns an art gallery or a fucking big rock). As soon as you get to moral ambiguity it dilutes the awesomeness. Which The Rock had in spades up to that point.
The Rock is bloody awful. Pure nostalgia.
Get out.
True Lies is brilliant and plenty cheesy. Not that it's necessarily my favourite cheesy film (it's up there) but it's one which sprung to mind.
"You're fired."
I tell you what I did re-visit the other day that's actually a bit crap (beyond the awesome premise that sustains it for a while), Face Off.
I've still no idea why you can't buy that on Blu-Ray.True Lies is brilliant and plenty cheesy. Not that it's necessarily my favourite cheesy film (it's up there) but it's one which sprung to mind.
"You're fired."
True Lies is incredible. That JLC scene was my first erection I'm sure of it.
Armageddon is shit.
I pick Commando.
Armageddon is a beast of a film. When Bruce Willis has the flashbacks before he detonates. What a moment. Chills all over, every time.
Grace, I know I promised you I was coming home.
I-I don't under-understand.
Looks like I'm gonna have to break that promise.
I'll sit down to Running Man any time it's on.
Moving away from action films a little, although there's still an obviously slimy, hateful 'villain', Coming to America is brilliant.
Oh fuck yes.
Running Man's another one you can't get on Blu-Ray.
But that and Coming to America.
I'll chuck in Trading Places as well.
John Travolta sustains it. People don't properly appreciate (again) that he's playing Nicolas Cage playing John Travolta. He gets the quirks and everything bang on.
Yeah, that bit of it is great. It's just a shame the plot runs out of steam quite quickly, with a fair bit of runtime still to go.
48 Hrs. is another one. It's a shame Eddie Murphy disappeared up his own rectum, he did some properly good work.
How about Hard Boiled? Love that.
You look at all these films and I'm not sure it's all his fault really, in that who is writing these type of films these days?
We've gone well past the cheesy point and into 80s and 90s classics territory now, but I genuinely can't think what their teens equivalent would be.
I'd actually put Independence Day slightly above Armageddon. It's just got something about it that makes it infinitely rewatchable, whereas I'll not necessarily leave Armageddon on if I stumble upon it. I don't know why that is, either. Probably Jeff Goldblum's dad.
Oh yeah.
Making a departure from 80's/90's action films I'm going to suggest Naked Gun and Murder by Death. Airplane too.
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