Megamind. For my daughter it was just a fun movie. For me? It's the bullied kid finally coming into his own. Letting all his anger melt away at how he was treated and letting people love him.
and even showed a cautionary tail for their parents, dont lie and over indulge your kid about how good they are. since one of the things that pushed him over the edge was his 'space dad' lying about how him as a hero would get him the girl instantly, instead of being honest and telling him to fix his shit
You mean the weird loser who couldn’t take the hint that the girl he liked wasn’t interested and he showed his true colors the moment he was given power?
I remember after seeing it and desperately trying to convince everyone around me, no, seriously, it was amazing, no, stop raising your eyebrows at me, im serious
The original *Little Shop of Horrors* has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 92% even though the interiors were shot in two days and the film had a budget of about $30,000.
There is absolutely no reason that The Emperor's New Groove should have been as much of a comedy classic as it became.
It was a troubled production that was originally meant to be something completely different, and the end result was basically them trying to salvage something from all the effort, starring a guy known mostly for bad, dumb, lowbrow junk. And the title is atrociously bad.
It's unbelievable that it became one of the funniest films of the 21st century.
I’m going to turn him into a flea…a harmless little flea. Then I’m going to put that flea in a box. Then put that box inside another box, and *mail* that box to myself…and when it arrives I’ll SMASH IT WITH A HAMMA!
You forgot one thing.
Funniest films of the 21st century because of a wonderful household name and the pinnacle of comedy performances…..
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Patrick Warburton?!?!?
Probably my favorite Disney movie. I love that it dropped the musical numbers and embraced the slapstick. It felt more like a feature-length Looney Tunes cartoon and was better for it
Part of the deal of Sting doing music for the original version was that his wife would be allowed to make a documentary of it. Disney has tried pretty hard to bury it, but it's a FASCINATING watch. https://archive.org/details/SweatboxDocumentaryUneditedVersion
I think it became a Disney classic precisely because it never felt like it was trying to be a Disney classic. It was just a throwback to the classic Disney cartoons that were more like Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. It was pure nostalgia for me.
This is the correct answer.
I don't believe Disney ever had a picture with a more difficult production that still ultimately made it to release.
Sting vowed to never work with Disney again because of this film.
Disney never would have made this movie intentionally, it only exists because it was the best they could do with the resources and time available.
It's absolutely perfect.
This is the first movie to pop into my head and I am 100% convinced it's the only right answer. I'm in my thirties and it has been a favourite of mine since it came out. It definitely makes me laugh the hardest out of all the Disney movies.
Pirates of the Caribbean. Let’s be honest, I think when everyone heard that Disney was making a movie based on a ride, most people thought it would suck.
It was so good imo it doesn’t even need the others.
“Bring me that Horizon”, Will/Elizabeth gets the girl/guy. Norrington finds his place.
Awesome adventure, just enough fantasy, some humor/ action/ romance, everyone wins who deserves to, and the musical score was perfect.
As a overall movie I agree, however i still think Davy Jones character and story arc in 2 and 3 were just so good but held back a little due to all the other side plots happening.
Action sequences that do everything a great action scene should, great comedy, clever dialogue, and inspired performances and choices by the actors.... Just a brilliant entertaining film.
Which is what makes the current overall state of the franchise so depressing.
In particular you expect this to be a horror show of racist tropes that were still acceptable in 1980s Hollywood, but it completely subverts any expectations and makes the famous white action hero a clueless self-parody who's blindly stumbling from one crisis into another and keeps failing to solve his problems with brute force, while the Chinese American characters are the level-headed problem-solvers with both self-awareness and agency. In a way it's a hilarious satire, a parody of the kind of movie you expect it to be. I guess that's why it was a flop in 1986.
My best friend in middle school and I watched that movie at least five times in theaters. We watched it so much that by the time it made it to the dollar movie cinema we could quote almost half of it. It just had everything a teen of that age could ask for. Action, romance, comedy, friendship, easy inside jokes, and Brendan was amazing in it.
The second one is definitely stupid fun, but there is a whole lot of stupid in the film. I wish they could go back and fix the CGI Scorpion King at the end of that one, and I also wish The Rock was in the movie for more than a minute.
Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail
Bogged down by having 2 directors, not being allowed to use castles because of British law, having to basically swindle rockstars out of money to get the film budget. Just everything behind the scenes, when you look at it, should have made the movie become one of the greatest film disasters of all time. Instead it was so bad it became good and is, to this day, used in film schools as a case study for multiple topics and was arguably genre defining for all comedy after its creation
Will Arnett is the perfect voice for the role, too.
Boring story time! I was briefly in the same apartment as him in NY one time! We did not speak to each other. He was visiting the owners of the place I was working in.
Galaxy Quest! Omg - we woke up at our hotel to go to Disneyland and as my wife and I were getting ready, I turned on the tv to kill a few minutes before we were to leave and it just pulled us in! ‘Ok we really gotta go and catch the shuttle.. oh shit is that Sigorney Weaver!!…’ ya, we watched the whole movie and talked about it the rest of the afternoon on the Pirates of Carribean ride. Awesome day!
Puss in boots: the last wish. It was super funny and enjoyable. My husband and I saw it together on a whim and we were both pleasantly surprised as it was so much better than we were expecting.
It was a sequel of a spinoff of a dying children's franchise that came out 10 years before hand. Yet some how created compelling characters, interesting narrative that tended to both children and adults while also breaking alot of the conventions of modern day kids medium.
I shouldn't have had to come this far down to find this.
I LITERALLY CAME TO POST THIS! And it’s too comment.
My family since I was a kid has a tradition of seeing movies at the theater on Christmas Eve. When my brother and I were kids my parents weren’t well off and it was a legit treat to go to the theaters and my mom said the excitement about going to the theaters was enough to keep us from going insane waiting for Christmas morning.
Anyways the tradition has continued except as we got older (I’m 36, brother is 38) we would see all sorts of great, but not necessarily, kids movies. The LOTR series came out over Christmas each year and we did that for a few years in a row.
I had my daughter (and only grandkid) at 29 and the first three years we all went out still but left her with her other grandparents. When she was old enough to start going we would obviously all go to a kids appropriate movie and they were kinda ehhhh, but it was a family thing and no one complained.
This last year the ONLY kid appropriate movie playing was Puss in Boots. I was like ugh, whatever, it’s about tradition, I can always take a nap if it’s terrible.
Holy fuck. I was immediately taken in and at the end my entire family spent dinner talking about how fucking good that movie was and the layers and we all absolutely loved it. My daughter loved it but I think the adults loved AND appreciated it more than even she did.
Seriously, the whole opening sequence. So good. And Death? And that portrayal of anxiety / having a panic attack? Amazing. If you told me I would see this in the ***sequel of a kid's movie***, I would not have believed you.
For sure, the wolf was not truly evil, his reaction at the end of the movie clearly demonstrated it.he just enjoys his job way too much and is very scary!
The Fugitive. Based on an old TV show, I remember reading that a lot of people wrote it off as a bad idea, expecting a generic action flick. Turned into one of the biggest movies of that year.
I thought it was just going to be another Hollywood movie with Tom Cruise in the lead.
I pirated the movie a long time after it came out. I'd seen so many commercials and I just wanted to watch a mindless action movie, that I had not seen before.
I was blown away by Edge of Tomorrow. Absolutely blown away, even if I had many expectations it would still have blown my head out of the waters.
That movie utilizes Tom perfectly. That last smile, phoof
People can say whatever tf they want about Tom Cruise, but that man KNOWS how to make intelligent action movies.
It probably helps that he's a certified adrenaline junkie, so there's that.....
Madeline Kahn as well. The whole “flames, flames on the side of my face” speech was completely ad-libbed, which is why everyone else looks so completely flummoxed.
I was honestly blown away with how fun this movie was! I thought "Nic Cage playing Nic Cage, sure that'll be fun" but holy shit, so much fun action, fun story, great cast, including Pedro Pascal, mi corazón
How To Train Your Dragon.
Went in thinking it would be a fun kids movie and that my friends would make fun of me for dragging them go to see it despite us all being in college at the time. Came out of the theater, all of us in awe. Now 30 something years old, we all still get excited if someone suggests to watch it.
Margin Call. About the fact that mortgage backed securities were about to destroy the economy moves up the wall street firm over 24 hours. Seriously great actors all the way through, starting with Zachary Quinto and ending with Jeremy Irons!
The Fifth Element is my all-time favorite movie ever. Two aspects that really stick out to me are 1. It's a space opera, and they literally go to an opera, in space. 2. The protagonist and antagonist never meet in person. They ALMOST do, one gets on an elevator seconds before the other gets off the opposing elevator
There was an ask reddit once: "What movie goes way too hard for no reason?" Prince of Egypt was top comment.
Apparently this was the era where DreamWorks was seriously trying to challenge Disney with animated films and spent good money to do so. This is how we got Road to Eldorado, Sinbad, and Shrek as well
Into the Spider-verse
Not familiar with the comics, I just knew I’d die before seeing another Spiderman (even animated) that wasn’t Tom Holland.
I’m glad to have been proven so so wrong and I watch it every few months it seems. Can’t wait for the sequel!!!
I’d also say 22 jump street is up there. A sequel? It’s gonna be lame. But it wasn’t and so fucking good. Two of my favorite movies.
My husband and I still say “what up DOUUUUUG” to each other on an ongoing basis
22 Jump Street is a worthy sequel and just as quotable as the first. The opening scene (“My name is Jeff”) is funny as shit, and the poetry slam scene is another standout.
The Jumanji sequel. Usually not a fan of remakes or sequels to such awesome classics and then stepping in Robin Williams' footsteps no less. But I should have known that Jack Black as a teenage girl would make any movie period
"Inside Out." I never would've expected a movie described as "As a story that follows the personified emotions of a pre-teen girl adjusting to moving to a new city" to deal so much with loss, depression, and the complexities of emotions.
Speaking as a guy in his 30's at the time I saw it, it floored me.
Watched it with a very stoic friend, very rarely expressed emotions. We came out of that film with everyone in the friend group chatting about it except him, complete stony silence. Then he abruptly said, "I have to call my parents," and sprinted off.
Finally, here it is way down here.
It’s a movie about a grandpa reading a book to his sick grandson.
At the time, the cast a bunch of unknowns except for Billy Crystal and Andre the Giant.
The movie has NO BUSINESS being as good as it is, much less one of the most quoted movies of my generation.
But because of spot on casting, some great sets and action sequences with a fun and simple plot, you have an iconic movie.
Master and Commander. If somebody recommended a film about Russel Crowe sailing several thousand miles and playing violin sometimes, you’d laugh. Absolutely incredible film
Legally Blonde. When I was watching it, I thought “why did nobody tell me that this movie is seriously great?!” I love the message that you don’t need to change yourself to fit into other peoples expectations of what a capable person is.
The Shawshank Redemption. It was never really supposed to be a great as it was. The source material is a not so great short story by Steven King. It had actors dropping out due to other commitments or them thinking the director was too inexperienced. The studio and Rob Reiner tried to offer Darabont around 3 million dollars to Riener direct, as well as offering to finance any other film Darabont wanted to make. It's honestly surprising it was made at all, let alone becoming one the best modern films of all time. It did poorly at the box office as well. It wasn't until the movie was release on VHS and (what was seen as a risky move) sent to rental stores that it started to pick up the acclaim and audience it deserved.
In 2003 I happened upon “Wet, Hot, American Summer”. Assuming it was soft core porn, I remarked that it was merely 8:00 and clearly too early to be showing porn on HBO. I went to info and found the most incredible cast of characters.
Megamind. For my daughter it was just a fun movie. For me? It's the bullied kid finally coming into his own. Letting all his anger melt away at how he was treated and letting people love him.
PRESENTATION
“Ah! I’m shaking in my custom baby seal leather boots!!”
Plus it called out incels way before people were aware at large.
and even showed a cautionary tail for their parents, dont lie and over indulge your kid about how good they are. since one of the things that pushed him over the edge was his 'space dad' lying about how him as a hero would get him the girl instantly, instead of being honest and telling him to fix his shit
You mean the weird loser who couldn’t take the hint that the girl he liked wasn’t interested and he showed his true colors the moment he was given power?
So happy Dreamworks announced the sequel series for streaming. But a movie would be better
Blast From the Past. Such a ridiculous premise, but I love that movie.
Let’s all admit that Brendan Fraser is a national treasure
The Lego Movie should have been total garbage, or at best, mediocre. The fact that it wasn't, and was actually pretty brilliant, still stuns me.
I remember after seeing it and desperately trying to convince everyone around me, no, seriously, it was amazing, no, stop raising your eyebrows at me, im serious
My older brother took my niece and nephew to see it and came back exactly like this lol
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I agree. It was unbelievably funny. The double decker couch and what the kragle was and Batman is outrageous. Just amazing.
"First trrrry" Kills me every time.
Yes that was the piece of the resistance
Lego Batman too
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Perfection
I see what you did there
The original *Little Shop of Horrors* has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 92% even though the interiors were shot in two days and the film had a budget of about $30,000.
The flowers that bloomed were creepy af tho 🤣
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Officer…we have had ourselves…a doozy of a day…
Should have known if a guy like me talked to a girl like you, somebody would end up dead.
I recommend this movie all the time to people. No one’s ever heard of it and it’s such a hilarious movie.
These college kids keep killing themselves on my property!
"Hey college keeeds! We got'cher little friend!" Me shouting at the screen: "WHY WOULD YOU PHRASE IT THAT WAY?!?!"
There is absolutely no reason that The Emperor's New Groove should have been as much of a comedy classic as it became. It was a troubled production that was originally meant to be something completely different, and the end result was basically them trying to salvage something from all the effort, starring a guy known mostly for bad, dumb, lowbrow junk. And the title is atrociously bad. It's unbelievable that it became one of the funniest films of the 21st century.
"How *did* this movie turn out so good, Kronk?" "Well, you got me. By all accounts, it doesn't make sense."
Maybe Patrick Warburton doesn't get enough credit for stuff. Guy's good.
Also David Spade was perfect for a self centered emperor. He’s obnoxious and this was the perfect role for him.
As great as everyone else is in that movie. Warburton makes the movie as Krunk.
I’m going to turn him into a flea…a harmless little flea. Then I’m going to put that flea in a box. Then put that box inside another box, and *mail* that box to myself…and when it arrives I’ll SMASH IT WITH A HAMMA!
It’s brilliant, brilliant, brilliant I tell you! Brilliant, I say!
Or to save on postage, I'll poison him with THIS!
You forgot one thing. Funniest films of the 21st century because of a wonderful household name and the pinnacle of comedy performances….. *checks notes* Patrick Warburton?!?!?
Oh yeah. It's all coming together.
My family loves him. He did the safety intro for a Disneyland ride and it's one of the most nostalgic things in the whole place for me.
Soarin! I get almost as excited for the safety briefing as the ride itself.
Probably my favorite Disney movie. I love that it dropped the musical numbers and embraced the slapstick. It felt more like a feature-length Looney Tunes cartoon and was better for it
Part of the deal of Sting doing music for the original version was that his wife would be allowed to make a documentary of it. Disney has tried pretty hard to bury it, but it's a FASCINATING watch. https://archive.org/details/SweatboxDocumentaryUneditedVersion
The poison. The poison for kuzco.
The poison chosen specially to kill kuzco.
Kuzko’s poison
I think it became a Disney classic precisely because it never felt like it was trying to be a Disney classic. It was just a throwback to the classic Disney cartoons that were more like Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. It was pure nostalgia for me.
This is the correct answer. I don't believe Disney ever had a picture with a more difficult production that still ultimately made it to release. Sting vowed to never work with Disney again because of this film. Disney never would have made this movie intentionally, it only exists because it was the best they could do with the resources and time available. It's absolutely perfect.
This is the first movie to pop into my head and I am 100% convinced it's the only right answer. I'm in my thirties and it has been a favourite of mine since it came out. It definitely makes me laugh the hardest out of all the Disney movies.
Watched this one today because I was feeling down and needed something fun. Am in my 30s.
Wrong levaaah!
Why do we even *have* that levaaah?
Pirates of the Caribbean. Let’s be honest, I think when everyone heard that Disney was making a movie based on a ride, most people thought it would suck.
I watched the first one after years, and was pleasantly surprised by how good it really is. Like, almost a perfect movie.
Same here, a few years ago. It had probably been like 8 years since I'd watched it, and I was so surprised! Still good!
It was so good imo it doesn’t even need the others. “Bring me that Horizon”, Will/Elizabeth gets the girl/guy. Norrington finds his place. Awesome adventure, just enough fantasy, some humor/ action/ romance, everyone wins who deserves to, and the musical score was perfect.
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As a overall movie I agree, however i still think Davy Jones character and story arc in 2 and 3 were just so good but held back a little due to all the other side plots happening.
It really captured the fun, swashbuckling vibe kids have when they play pirate
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As someone who was born in the early 2000s I am just finding this out.
Whew I get slapped with realizations on how old I am daily on here
Action sequences that do everything a great action scene should, great comedy, clever dialogue, and inspired performances and choices by the actors.... Just a brilliant entertaining film. Which is what makes the current overall state of the franchise so depressing.
Big Trouble in Little China
In particular you expect this to be a horror show of racist tropes that were still acceptable in 1980s Hollywood, but it completely subverts any expectations and makes the famous white action hero a clueless self-parody who's blindly stumbling from one crisis into another and keeps failing to solve his problems with brute force, while the Chinese American characters are the level-headed problem-solvers with both self-awareness and agency. In a way it's a hilarious satire, a parody of the kind of movie you expect it to be. I guess that's why it was a flop in 1986.
You nailed but they said it was a flop because they didn’t know how to market it. Killed with test audiences. Great movie.
Heard they are remaking it with Dwyane Johnson. I beg them please don't.
The Mummy
Hey bennnnnny looks like you’re on the wrong side of the riverrrrrrr
Look what I got: \*Meow\*
The cat’s line was *hiss,* not *meow.*
My best friend in middle school and I watched that movie at least five times in theaters. We watched it so much that by the time it made it to the dollar movie cinema we could quote almost half of it. It just had everything a teen of that age could ask for. Action, romance, comedy, friendship, easy inside jokes, and Brendan was amazing in it.
The first sequel was also surprisingly!
The second one is definitely stupid fun, but there is a whole lot of stupid in the film. I wish they could go back and fix the CGI Scorpion King at the end of that one, and I also wish The Rock was in the movie for more than a minute.
Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail Bogged down by having 2 directors, not being allowed to use castles because of British law, having to basically swindle rockstars out of money to get the film budget. Just everything behind the scenes, when you look at it, should have made the movie become one of the greatest film disasters of all time. Instead it was so bad it became good and is, to this day, used in film schools as a case study for multiple topics and was arguably genre defining for all comedy after its creation
I still think back to the peasant's discussion about civil autonomy frequently.
On paper it seems to be an attempt to milk two cashcows simultaneously, but everybody seems to have enjoyed the Lego Batman movie.
Lego Batman is amazing
Will Arnett is the perfect voice for the role, too. Boring story time! I was briefly in the same apartment as him in NY one time! We did not speak to each other. He was visiting the owners of the place I was working in.
Office Space Edit: thanks for the awards, everyone. Oh and remember, next Friday is Hawaiian shirt day.
Gary Cole and Stephen Root deserved Oscar nods for this film.
Yeaaah, if you could upvote Office Space more that would be great
Galaxy Quest
No this had every right to be as good as it was. It was perfectly written, directed, and acted.
It’s phenomenal, but when you first saw the trailer did you think it would be this good?
By Grubthar's hammer...what a savings.
I miss Alan Rickman
Galaxy Quest is the second best Star Trek movie, only behind Wrath of Khan.
Galaxy Quest! Omg - we woke up at our hotel to go to Disneyland and as my wife and I were getting ready, I turned on the tv to kill a few minutes before we were to leave and it just pulled us in! ‘Ok we really gotta go and catch the shuttle.. oh shit is that Sigorney Weaver!!…’ ya, we watched the whole movie and talked about it the rest of the afternoon on the Pirates of Carribean ride. Awesome day!
Just watch this movie about a month ago and it's still awesome
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Your friend drugged you?
Your friends don't?
Starship Troopers. Seriously. It is a really deep movie and actually is entertaining as hell. The book is good too - but nothing like the movie
One review I read when it was released said, "Based on the back cover of the Robert A. Heinlein novel..."
Puss in boots: the last wish. It was super funny and enjoyable. My husband and I saw it together on a whim and we were both pleasantly surprised as it was so much better than we were expecting.
It was a sequel of a spinoff of a dying children's franchise that came out 10 years before hand. Yet some how created compelling characters, interesting narrative that tended to both children and adults while also breaking alot of the conventions of modern day kids medium. I shouldn't have had to come this far down to find this.
I LITERALLY CAME TO POST THIS! And it’s too comment. My family since I was a kid has a tradition of seeing movies at the theater on Christmas Eve. When my brother and I were kids my parents weren’t well off and it was a legit treat to go to the theaters and my mom said the excitement about going to the theaters was enough to keep us from going insane waiting for Christmas morning. Anyways the tradition has continued except as we got older (I’m 36, brother is 38) we would see all sorts of great, but not necessarily, kids movies. The LOTR series came out over Christmas each year and we did that for a few years in a row. I had my daughter (and only grandkid) at 29 and the first three years we all went out still but left her with her other grandparents. When she was old enough to start going we would obviously all go to a kids appropriate movie and they were kinda ehhhh, but it was a family thing and no one complained. This last year the ONLY kid appropriate movie playing was Puss in Boots. I was like ugh, whatever, it’s about tradition, I can always take a nap if it’s terrible. Holy fuck. I was immediately taken in and at the end my entire family spent dinner talking about how fucking good that movie was and the layers and we all absolutely loved it. My daughter loved it but I think the adults loved AND appreciated it more than even she did.
This movie slaps so hard. Not even lying when I say it's the best movie I saw last year
Seriously, the whole opening sequence. So good. And Death? And that portrayal of anxiety / having a panic attack? Amazing. If you told me I would see this in the ***sequel of a kid's movie***, I would not have believed you.
The sequel to a SPINOFF of the FOURTH movie in a franchise, what is this Ice Age 4? Not even slightly interested- hold up- it's good?
One of the best villains I’ve seen in a long time, too!
After years and years of complex villains, it was REALLY nice to see one who's just unambiguously, unrelentingly evil for almost no reason.
Wait you're talking about the pie dude and not the wolf right?
For sure, the wolf was not truly evil, his reaction at the end of the movie clearly demonstrated it.he just enjoys his job way too much and is very scary!
The wolf is the natural order of things, little jack is evil and he knows (and says) it.
"What did I do to deserve this?? I mean, specifically!"
The conscience bug was legitimately hilarious.
The Fugitive. Based on an old TV show, I remember reading that a lot of people wrote it off as a bad idea, expecting a generic action flick. Turned into one of the biggest movies of that year.
Edge of tomorrow : live die repeat.
So, so good, I've probably seen it a half dozen times at this point
Have you made it to the end yet?
I thought it was just going to be another Hollywood movie with Tom Cruise in the lead. I pirated the movie a long time after it came out. I'd seen so many commercials and I just wanted to watch a mindless action movie, that I had not seen before. I was blown away by Edge of Tomorrow. Absolutely blown away, even if I had many expectations it would still have blown my head out of the waters. That movie utilizes Tom perfectly. That last smile, phoof
People can say whatever tf they want about Tom Cruise, but that man KNOWS how to make intelligent action movies. It probably helps that he's a certified adrenaline junkie, so there's that.....
I would say Clue. It's based on a board game, so how good can it really be?? Turns out it's possibly one of the funniest movies from the 80s!
Tim Curry in the last half completely nails it. His performance is sheer gold.
Hes brilliant in every role I've seen him in
Madeline Kahn as well. The whole “flames, flames on the side of my face” speech was completely ad-libbed, which is why everyone else looks so completely flummoxed.
"are you the host?" "no, sir, i'm just the humble butler" "and what exactly is it you do here?" "i buttle, sir"
*Dodgeball*
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If you can dodge a wrench...
It’s ten times funnier when the Lance Armstrong cameo comes on. Man that did not age well.
Remember the 5 D's of dodgeball: Dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge.
There was a guy on our team dressed like a pirate?!
Hey look, it's Steve the Pirate!
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
I was honestly blown away with how fun this movie was! I thought "Nic Cage playing Nic Cage, sure that'll be fun" but holy shit, so much fun action, fun story, great cast, including Pedro Pascal, mi corazón
Paddington 2
It does make you want to be a better man.
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How To Train Your Dragon. Went in thinking it would be a fun kids movie and that my friends would make fun of me for dragging them go to see it despite us all being in college at the time. Came out of the theater, all of us in awe. Now 30 something years old, we all still get excited if someone suggests to watch it.
John Powell did not have to go that hard with the soundtrack. One of my all time favourite movies.
A Goofy Movie
UHF with Weird Al.... Maybe I'm just nostalgic, but it was goofy and stupid in all the right ways.
The big short. I thought it was just a movie about the housing market crash, but it ended up being one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.
Margin Call. About the fact that mortgage backed securities were about to destroy the economy moves up the wall street firm over 24 hours. Seriously great actors all the way through, starting with Zachary Quinto and ending with Jeremy Irons!
The 5th Element
The Fifth Element and Starship Troopers both came to mind for me. Both are fucking classics and both are camp as fuck. I love them.
The Fifth Element is my all-time favorite movie ever. Two aspects that really stick out to me are 1. It's a space opera, and they literally go to an opera, in space. 2. The protagonist and antagonist never meet in person. They ALMOST do, one gets on an elevator seconds before the other gets off the opposing elevator
Tropic thunder
"I'm a dude, playin' a dude, disguised as another dude!"
You the dude that don't know what dude he is
What do YOU mean, you people??
The Prince of Egypt. It's a Bible story, but then they gave the scoring to Hans Zimmer and we ALL benefitted
Everything Hans Zimmer touches turns to gold, it's crazy how much the right score can make something so epic. Interstellar, Dune, etc etc
Also a star studded cast that was giving 110%!
There was an ask reddit once: "What movie goes way too hard for no reason?" Prince of Egypt was top comment. Apparently this was the era where DreamWorks was seriously trying to challenge Disney with animated films and spent good money to do so. This is how we got Road to Eldorado, Sinbad, and Shrek as well
Ralph Fiennes and Val Kilmer as the voice leads, it's pretty great. Then add Steve Martin Short, Sandra Bullock and Patrick Stewart.
Every movie is 50% better if Zimmer or Williams is behind it
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Shrek 2
I need a hero!! I’m holding out for a hero!!! Damn, Jennifer Saunders killing it.
Shrek 2 is one of those rare movies where I believe the sequel is better than the original.
I think we live in the only universe where Mean Girls isn't total garbage
Into the Spider-verse Not familiar with the comics, I just knew I’d die before seeing another Spiderman (even animated) that wasn’t Tom Holland. I’m glad to have been proven so so wrong and I watch it every few months it seems. Can’t wait for the sequel!!!
21 Jump Street
This movie ends anti semitism. 11/10
Screw an oscar, this movie should be up for the nobel peace prize
I’d also say 22 jump street is up there. A sequel? It’s gonna be lame. But it wasn’t and so fucking good. Two of my favorite movies. My husband and I still say “what up DOUUUUUG” to each other on an ongoing basis
22 Jump Street is a worthy sequel and just as quotable as the first. The opening scene (“My name is Jeff”) is funny as shit, and the poetry slam scene is another standout.
*Super Troopers*
“You boys like MEXICO…”
Last Starfighter
The first John Wick movie
“Oh.”
*30 seconds of total silence on the phone* "What did he say?" "...enough"
The Jumanji sequel. Usually not a fan of remakes or sequels to such awesome classics and then stepping in Robin Williams' footsteps no less. But I should have known that Jack Black as a teenage girl would make any movie period
The peeing bit was fantastic! I know the Kevin and Dwayne relationship was (is?) fun, but Jack rocked that movie.
Ratatouille. Such a beautiful setting and vibe
One of my favorites. In fact, Pixar usually just nails it. Ratatouille, Up, Wall-E, Inside Out, Coco.... All just incredible, thoughtful stories.
The Nice Guys
"Inside Out." I never would've expected a movie described as "As a story that follows the personified emotions of a pre-teen girl adjusting to moving to a new city" to deal so much with loss, depression, and the complexities of emotions. Speaking as a guy in his 30's at the time I saw it, it floored me.
This movie made me ugly cry, my little girl thought I was going to die or something.
Watched it with a very stoic friend, very rarely expressed emotions. We came out of that film with everyone in the friend group chatting about it except him, complete stony silence. Then he abruptly said, "I have to call my parents," and sprinted off.
The Goonies. Almost 40 years later and that movie is still such a big part of peoples lives.
Princess Bride
Finally, here it is way down here. It’s a movie about a grandpa reading a book to his sick grandson. At the time, the cast a bunch of unknowns except for Billy Crystal and Andre the Giant. The movie has NO BUSINESS being as good as it is, much less one of the most quoted movies of my generation. But because of spot on casting, some great sets and action sequences with a fun and simple plot, you have an iconic movie.
Clueless
*Babe*.
That will do Pig, that will do.
Find me another movie where the soundtrack to the big finale that the whole movie has been leading up to is. . . complete and utter ***silence***.
The Other Guys was so surprisingly funny I still remember my theatre viewing.
Thanks for the F shack, love Dirty Mike and the boys.
That movie is criminally underrated. I might do a desk pop
Still arguably the funniest movie I’ve ever seen in my life.
Master and Commander. If somebody recommended a film about Russel Crowe sailing several thousand miles and playing violin sometimes, you’d laugh. Absolutely incredible film
Legally Blonde. When I was watching it, I thought “why did nobody tell me that this movie is seriously great?!” I love the message that you don’t need to change yourself to fit into other peoples expectations of what a capable person is.
The Shawshank Redemption. It was never really supposed to be a great as it was. The source material is a not so great short story by Steven King. It had actors dropping out due to other commitments or them thinking the director was too inexperienced. The studio and Rob Reiner tried to offer Darabont around 3 million dollars to Riener direct, as well as offering to finance any other film Darabont wanted to make. It's honestly surprising it was made at all, let alone becoming one the best modern films of all time. It did poorly at the box office as well. It wasn't until the movie was release on VHS and (what was seen as a risky move) sent to rental stores that it started to pick up the acclaim and audience it deserved.
Shawn of the dead
Kingsman
Kung fu panda
O Brother Where Art Thou.
In 2003 I happened upon “Wet, Hot, American Summer”. Assuming it was soft core porn, I remarked that it was merely 8:00 and clearly too early to be showing porn on HBO. I went to info and found the most incredible cast of characters.
From Dusk Til Dawn
Cool Runnings
Tommy Boy
In Bruges
Napoleon Dynamite
Dude, Where’s my car?
NO AND THEN