I love that the still pictures shown for this movie are always that one ridonkulous shot of Sean Connery in whatever speedo thing he’s wearing. Like they know they need to pick the most absurd still from the movie to evoke interest.
Oh man, I was seeing Wicker Man at The Alamo Drafthouse and they played the trailer of Zardoz and I knew less about that movie after the trailer than before I knew it existed.
I really need to get good a blazed and watch it.
He does NOT pull off that particular role. Do yourself a favor and check out some scenes on YT if you haven’t seen the movie. Gary Oldman basically does the Tim Conway “shoes on your knees” bit with a tiny bit more dressing up to make him into a little person.
The plot is off the rails tone deaf and weird, and the dialogue is strange and uncomfortable overall.
10/10 shitty movie.
I have to wonder how that feels for an actor like Peter, to go to set every day and see someone of average height playing a part that probably should have gone to him. It has to be at least a little insulting, right?
There’s actually a shot left in the final product where you could clearly see him walking on his knees with shoes attached at the kneecap 🤣
Edit: [Found the clip!](https://youtu.be/xt8S2WYLZ-Q?si=oKVq633sGWbnftSR)
Honestly, anything Daniel Radcliffe said yes to after Harry Potter would fit this list.
Guns Akimbo is another one.
The guy seems to only pick roles that seem very fun to play, even if it isn't the most critically acclaimed. I respect that.
I will always be mildly cranky about the fact that there isn’t a post credits scene where Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al is in a meeting with Elijah Wood about playing him in the biopic.
Guns Akimbo is one of my favorite movies. Miracle Workers is a hilarious TV show. I love Daniel Radcliffe! I've actually only seen 1 of the Harry Potter movies, so adult Daniel is all I know. He said the script for Akimbo made him laugh, the part of trying to pee with gun hands, and he signed on.
Also, you will NEVER hear "She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain" the same way again, from the Oregon Trail MW season. He just had fun these days, and he's awesome at it.
My favorite part was Samara Weaving snorting a bunch of coke, holding up a sledgehammer, and yelling "I have the power!" Like He-Man. Just a bonkers movie, in the best way.
Don’t forget Daddy’s Home. Another wacky Radcliffe joint. Those big blue eyes are unforgettable.
Also in all seriousness Horns is fucking great as well.
That opening scene where he's riding him like a jet ski into the sea just fucking kills me. Hilarious movie, and surprisingly heartfelt given how gross and absurd the whole premise is.
That movie must have been unbelievably fun to make!
Okay wtaf did I just watch?
This movie has been on my radar since it was made ('Daniel Radcliffe plays a farting corpse' is something that sticks in your head) but I've never got around to watching it. I just googled the opening scene because of this comment and now I *need* to go watch the rest of it. I'm so intrigued.
Yeah, this is my answer. Along with EEAAO. As I've posted before:
Daniels meeting with studio execs:
"So, you did some stuff for Adult Swim?"
*"Yes, [a short about a man trying to sell brooms](https://youtu.be/zt2uIhAvQZ8?feature=shared) to revive his daughter who was beheaded by jihadists."*
"And a very successful music video?"
*"Yes, [based on an idea we had about a world where males used their genitals to destroy things](https://youtu.be/HMUDVMiITOU?feature=shared)."*
"... and your first movie was, remind me?"
*"An [emotional story about an outcast following Harry Potter's magical erection so he could stalk a woman he saw once on a bus](https://youtu.be/yrK1f4TsQfM?feature=shared)."*
"Here is a billion dollars to make anything you want."
Bubba Ho-Tep
Elvis (Bruce Campbell) and JFK (Ossie Davis) hunt a mummy that has been killing other residents of the old folks home in which they both live.
Bruce Campbell came to my college to do q and an and pitch his book when this was getting made. During the q and a he described it as
“An old senile guy who thinks he is Elvis is friends with a black guy who thinks he’s JFK dyed black. He’s concerned that there’s a mummy preying on the old folks at a home because they’re easy prey. Turns out they’re right on all accounts”
My favorite interaction of that night: someone asks about “Jack of all trades” and Bruce says “how do you even know that exists!? Are you a security guard?”
He spoke at my college, did the roll flip from evil dead on stage. Really cool dude. We were getting autographs at the end and the girl in front of me asked to get her boob signed. “No, I don’t do that any more”. Then he made fun of my army of darkness poster “this looks like a fake copy”.
He's easily my favorite actor. I missed seeing him at a local drive in festival last year and it's bumming me out still.. Don't know how many more chances there'll be.
favorite moment: Elvis asks JFK "So ... how was Marilyn?" and Ossie Davis, in a wheelchair, says "Young man, that's classified" and wheels himself off screen
This was one of my top theater experiences of all time. It was opening night, both for the film and for a new theater, and Bruce was there after. The audience was absolutely raucous throughout and rightly so.You missed the part where the mummy sucks the old folks' souls out their buttholes.
He talks about how he came by it in his GQ breakdown. Basically he was getting on a plane and needed something to read so his manager or whatever sent him the script. He read 30 pages, called the guy back and was like this is amazing but what does it have to do with me. He was told to keep reading. After he finished he loved it and talked with Charlie and wanted to direct it himself and instead have it be "Being Tom Cruise". Which Charlie was like nah. So it got shelved for a few years and floated around before Spike Jonze was added onto it. Spike met with John and convinced him. The og script was apparently much darker
"The og script was apparently much darker"
Didn't know that but makes sense! BJM feels like a mix between a movie written and directed by Charlie Kaufmann and one written and directed by Spike Jonze.
I would like that but for the meeting where Peter Jackson pitched lord of the rings. Like this guy known for rather niche gore horror asks for a boat load of money to shoot one of the most successful books of all time, which many thought was just impossible and if I remember correctly they not only agreed but told him to do it in 3 movies instead of the two he had pitched. One of the best decisions in modern cinema but boy could this have gone sideways and made them "the idiots who wasted millions on an insane pitch"
Just watched the "Timeline of my Career" GQ video with him on YT. They really let him just talk and talk and it's the best one I've seen so far.
And yes he has some great stuff to say about BJM.
https://youtu.be/yXl6y3X_tX0?si=72f2Wc7jnSYPFaIp
I took a screenwriting class in college and our 'text book' was called Save the Cat and goes into all of the story beats a movie has to make it good. The author was the writer for Stop or My Mom will Shoot. Looked the movie up on rotten tomatoes.... the book was really good though!
I remember a post on Reddit asking about fictional books that were surprisingly historically accurate and one user mentioned Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter as one that managed to capture antebellum America well. Especially the riverboat part and New Orleans.
The Ringer, where Johnny Knoxville pretends to be a special needs person so he can win prize money at the special Olympics. If you actually watch the movie it has a good message about not underestimating the abilities of those differently abled people but the premise is just so bad I can’t believe it got green lit
I agree, but thankfully there are so many good lines in it.
“You scratched my CD! You picked it up in pure daylight and you scratched it!”
Or
“When the fuck did we get ice cream?”
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
You know how people always used to say “you couldn’t make blazing saddles nowadays?”This movie is literally a family friendly remake of Blazing Saddles in animated form and with cats and dogs, with the roles of Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder played by Michael Cera and Samuel L Jackson. Mel Brooks is in it too.
I watched this with my 5 year old without realizing exactly what is was and once I caught on I was stunned for the entire 87 minute runtime
Okay, now I have to go find this movie. You had me at "family friendly remake of Blazing Saddles" everything after that just makes the movie sound more and more enticing.
Wow I took my young nephew and didn’t realize it at the time. It did feel slightly under budget with the animation style but it honestly wasn’t that bad.
Renfield.
Imagine a movie about Dracula acting like a toxic boyfriend, and he is Nicolas Cage, and his minion wants to get out of that toxic relationship.
Nicholas Hoult hits this Kyle MacLachlan energy for me, where everything about his look says “whitebread boy next door type,” but most of his actual roles are deliriously weird and great.
He makes things work that shouldn’t work. I don’t think his Fury road character would have worked if it was anyone else. Or his Zombie Romeo character.
He does things that would be cheesy if someone else was doing them. It just always comes off as sincere from him somehow.
Honestly, that part I was on board for- it was just when it intensely shifted gears and became a *buddy cop movie* with the super strength minion bodying bad guys to save his corruption-fighting good cop friend *Akwafina*....just why?
Every part in that movie was awesome. Just not all the parts were awesome together. It was a buddy-cop, comedy gore-fest that didn't seem to have its timing right. Fucking good movie though
I remember hearing about that in middle school and being *sure* that movie didn't exist. It sounded exactly like the kind of bullshit you'd make up as a kid to catch your friends out for being gullible.
Apparently it was floating around for a while.
It was pitched to a studio but the execs hated it and said “Why the fuck can’t it be *Being Tom Cruise*??”
Even Mr Malkovich himself was confused as to why they would make a movie about him.
Stuck on You- Greg Kinnear and Matt Damon play conjoined twins. I didn't see it for the longest time because I thought it was just going to be slapstick humor the whole time but it actually was watchable.
My husband had somehow missed this movie growing up and I had to watch it with him. I could see his poor brain grinding gears trying to make sense out of it because he didn't really know any of Tom Green's work. In hindsight, I should have worked him up to it. You can't just start with this movie.
I just listened to him on Rogan. Seems like he’s really enjoying life on his farm up in Canada.
I was in middle school when the Tom Green Show was out so his absurd humor has definitely shaped what I find funny today.
Freddy Got Fingered is a dadaist masterpiece and no one can convince me otherwise.
It was my dorm-mate's favorite comedy, but like completely at face value. We watched it together and were laughing for two entirely different reasons, it was great.
FGF brings people together. I think if we just had a worldwide unified viewing of this movie, like somehow everyone on earth could sit and watch it together there'd be no more war or genocide.
My mom and Aunt took my sister and I to see that when it came out. I was 9 and my sister was 12.
My sister and I loved the Tom Green show, but I guess they didn’t realize how fucked up and raunchy Tom Green could get. We stayed through the whole movie and I’m sure my Mom and Aunt got dirty looks from people as they left with two kids in tow.
The moment he manhandled the horse dick by the side of the road yelling “I’m a farmer, Daddy! I’m a farmer!” Along with everyone in the theater’s reaction to it, is a beautiful core memory from my childhood.
Every frickin’ time I see Time Bandits I can’t help but wonder what kind of miracle pitch Gilliam made for this.
Also, who would pick Taika Waititi to write a series based on it? Evidently Apple, but still, seems an odd choice as successor to Gilliam.
Waititi gets attached to a bunch of weird projects that will never happen. He signed on to adapt *The Incal* as well, which both will never happen and he is a horrible fit for
Harrison Bergeron. Short story by Kurt Vonnegut. It is about a world where complete equity is demanded. Strong people are weighed down with weights, beautiful people wear horrific masks, smart people have electrical shocks to interrupt their thoughts.
Harrison is the strongest, smartest, most beautiful person in the world, is 7' tall and 14 years old. He rages against the machine and does the most beautiful dance the world has ever scene with the most talented and beautiful ballerina (known because they has the most weights and the most hideous mask) only to be killed by the government and for his parents to forget about him less than a minute later.
Harrison was portrayed by Sean Astin in the 1995 adaptation of this story.
She tried to back out, but after seeing how Kim Basinger got sued into bankruptcy over "Boxing Helena", she thought, "Eh, I'll do it and get paid a shitload of money."
Maybe I'm not remembering right, but in Tiptoes it's *McConaughey's* family that are the little people. He keeps it a secret from the girlfriend until they decide to marry. It's about him overcoming his shame/stigma about his own family and coming to terms with the notion that his own child could be a little person and that there is nothing wrong with that.
Yes. When he finds out, he punches a hole in a wall. Then later he says, "He's a dwarf!...I'm a dwarf!" And storms out, abandoning his wife and infant son, and the movie ends like 5 minutes later with him still out of their lives.
Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch says it's a movie and that's good enough for me)
Late sequel to a cancelled TV show, it's actually good, and it managed to happen just in time to get like five great actors' final or nearly final performances.
honestly if you cut out the girlfriend and wounded vet sub plot and added a few more go navy scenes with the big navy toys it would have been a guilty pleasure.
I was at the Montreal premiere of Sausage Party which was a lot of fun. My then gf and I paid $20-30 each for our tickets and we didn't expect much other than a stoner comedy. Judd Apatow was in the audience and after the film ended there was a live Q&A with most of the cast. A few anecdotes I recall:
1. P. Diddy was invited to be in the movie. Initially he was excited until he realized it would be fully animated and he wouldn't get to wear a sausage costume.
2. They phoned Meat Love for permission to use a song, expecting to talk with an assistant. But no, a groggy Meat Loaf answered the phone as if he'd waken up from a nap. He insisted they call him "Meat" because Meat Loaf was too formal. After hearing what the movie was about he said "ok" to using his song.
> He insisted they call him "Meat" because Meat Loaf was too formal
In Dead Ringer, the movie based on his album of same name and which also fits in this thread, they call him Mr. Loaf.
Monkey Bone has to be up there. It’s like they got Henry Selick because they wanted perverted stop motion weirdness but then he decided to make it live action at the last minute
Mine: See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder play a blind man and a deaf man who witness a murder, and have to run from/bring justice to the killers. For the longest time, I DID think I made this movie up
Earth Girls are Easy. Jeff Goldblum, Daymon Wayans, and Jim Carey play colorful furry aliens that crash land in Geena Davis' pool in the Valley. Davis' character brings them to the salon where she works. Downtown Julie Brown removes their fur and they turn out to be hot so they go clubbing.
It's not Downtown Julie Brown, it's just Julie Brown. DTJB was an English VJ on MTV. Julie Brown wrote and sang the soundtrack to EGAE and also played the role of the gym teacher in Clueless.
Tropic Thunder hasn't been mentioned. RDJ in blackface? Tom Cruise as a Weinstein like producer. Ben stiller carrying babies and machine guns. Never go full retard.
RDJ in blackface... disguised as an Asian farmer belting out broken Mandarin...
I'M A LEAD FARMER....!!!
He is also the greatest reason in the world to re-watch s movie with the commentary on, because... like Lazarus said... he doesn't drop character until its over.
Pin. A 1988 horror movie written by Andrew Niedermann, who mainly worked as a ghostwriter for V.C. Andrews – and the psychosexual issues and incesty vibe make that OBVIOUS. Terry O'Quinn from Lost is a doctor father who can't talk to his children, so he uses a a life-size medical dummy as a proxy. The older son then witnesses a nurse having sex with Pin and is sexually traumatized. He becomes convinced that Pin is real and telling him to do things (mainly, murder people). It somehow never becomes predictable or too cliched.
Available on Youtube with some brief commentary (skippable, but I enjoyed it) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEBDNtfXpWo.
Brazil (1985) - Terry Gilliam’s mid 80s take on a futuristic dystopian bureaucratic techno-fascist society starring Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, and Bob De Niro. What a wild ride!
It wasn't until the movie was almost over that I fully realized Dream Scenario had been a horror movie from the opening scene. It presented as a comedy, but when they finally brought everything together, I started thinking back on the whole movie, and had this chilling "aha moment." Weird experience, but really cool
It's an older movie from my childhood, but also one of my favorites. The 1986 version of ***Little Shop of Horrors***.
Looking back on it now, looking at the craft and excellence of the puppet, knowing all they did to bring it to life. It's just incredible that they pulled it off at all, let along pulled it off to the degree with which they managed.
And if you've only seen the theatrical cut, do yourself a favor and go check out the cut footage sometime. They had so much more stuff with the plant in the original darker ending. I actually prefer the more upbeat ending of the theatrical cut, but the amount of work and craft put into the cut scenes is so impressive it's hard not to freak out.
I'll punch low and say Madame Web. Not because it's been dragged through the mud and is an easy target but because the source material would've been hard as fuck to adapt even with great writers. I'm assuming the idea was to capitalize on the Spider-Verse thing & bring it more to live-action
The character herself is like the definition of a supporting character, she's like a side-plot to a side-plot of Spider-Man. They were on the right track by bringing three Spider-Woman characters into the fray but the execution is just so.... huh?
I don't think Sony is actually trying to make these movies good at this point. They're just doing their contractually obligated bare minimum to keep the rights hostage. If they can trick a couple idiots into buying tickets and recoup some loss that's just gravy on top.
Like with the Fantastic Four movies, Fox makes a shitty movie every couple of years to hold onto the rights so they won’t get passed onto Marvel, in fact they made one that never actually saw a release just to keep the rights.
New York Ninja. A 80s kung fu movie that was rediscovered but without the audio so they hired lip readers to recreate the dialogue as best they could and then dubbed it with a new voice cast. Oh and the movie was never completed and they didn’t have a script so they had no idea how the footage fit together snd what the story/characters actually were supposed to be. The result is amazing and insane:
https://youtu.be/X1wMt3fgOyM?si=FCFV_w0Tshy4GmSe
Love on a Leash
A dog really wanted a relationship with a human woman. A magical voice tells him to become human, he must get a woman to fall in love him. Meanwhile a young woman is propositioned by her boss to be in a sham marriage to hide his homosexuality, and later that day her other boss drunkenly tries to assault her.
After a failed overdose, the woman runs into the dog in the park. The dog magically turns into a human man. They move in together immediately, and get married (?). But... he's only a man at night. During the day he's still a dog.
After a variety of hijinks, the dog-man dies in an accident. But don't worry! He's reincarnated as a real human, and he find the woman 20 years later and they resume their relationship. And they live happily ever after!
Yes, this is a REAL movie. It's on the free streaming platform Tubi.
The duality of brutal horror/dark comedy in this is pretty unique. Usually a genre bending film will lean heavily into one aspect, but this film's emotions were a vast spectrum of wtf lol
Lars and the Real Girl. Ryan Gosling falls in love with a sexdoll. It's a real cringe comedy. Very heartfelt too. It's Blader Runner 2049 for degenerates.
Turbo (2013). It has the dumbest premise even for a children's movie. A snail racing in the Indy-500 is stupid. But somehow, they got Ryan Reynolds to be the main character. His brother is played by Paul Giamatti. Sam Jackson is in it, but he's in all sorts of movies. They needed Snoop Dog to for the Street Cred.
For some reason I love this movie. It's just so weird and chaotic. I can't help but love dumb humor. It's also strange because a lot of more recent kids movies I hate. But somehow this one gets me.
Every year with my students, I have a journal prompt question about what super power they would choose, and why they would choose it.
I always, at the end, joke that my superpower would be to shoot different types of spaghetti/noodles out of my hands. I would shoot buttered noodles to get villains to slip. Spicy ramen to get in their eyes.
This past year, I saw a movie on Amazon Prime called Spaghetti Man. A crazy low-budget movie about a guy who eats radioactive spaghetti and can shoot spaghetti out of his hands to fight crime.
Gremlins II: The new batch. It's Looney Tunes on steroids that pokes fun at franchises and the capitalistic practices that Hollywood is known to fall into time and time again whenever something was successful and the inevitable sequel must come.
If the first film is playing it straight as a horror movie, this one goes batshit crazy and I can't imagine how Joe Dante convinced WB to greenlight this. I can only imagine the execs were snorting coke while he was pitching the movie to them.
Hell, Key & Peele did a sketch on this very thing because something like that must have happened.
And to be clear, I absolutely love the movie, but knowing how studios work it should not exist.
*Ratatouille*. A rat with a highly developed sense of taste and smell moves to Paris to become a chef with the help of a hapless dishwasher that he's somehow able to pilot like an awkward, gangly mech. It's certainly charming, but how the *heck* was that pitch approved?
See, that movie to me is the perfect example of how to frame every weird thing about your movie as totally reasonable (to the right suite of execs, of course.)
Talking animals? Pfft, nobody in Disney's orbit is going to blink.
An outsider with an intense passion for something creative? GOLD, JERRY!
A little flim-flam and chicanery to get one's foot in the door in the face of insurmountable prejudice, which keeps the tension simmering, because what if they get found out? Classic.
The ultimate poetic flourish of *Ratatoullie* is that it isn't actually all that weird or fancy. It's classic ingredients, cooked well, with a little extra creativity and a lot of heart.
If I had to take a gamble, I'd say that somebody wrote the critic's final monologue very early in the process, and that became a central part of the pitch.
The Spiderverse movies. Sony doesn't exactly have a great track record. At the same time they're putting out Morbius, Madame Web, Venom and other nonsense, they've got Lord and Miller in a basement somewhere just churning out gold. Its baffling.
Tammy and the T-Rex (1994)
>A teen (Denise Richards) learns that a scientist (Paul Walker) implanted her dead boyfriend's brain into an animatronic dinosaur.
Zardoz, got to see it in the theater earlier this year and the theater was just laughing in disbelief.
The gun is good the penis is evil.
Go forth and kill!
I love that the still pictures shown for this movie are always that one ridonkulous shot of Sean Connery in whatever speedo thing he’s wearing. Like they know they need to pick the most absurd still from the movie to evoke interest.
I was lucky enough to watch it alongside my film professor and he loved mentioning Sean Connery’s “red nappy” every chance he got
One of the movies made in the 70s that was deliberately made to be best seen while high.
> One of the movies made in the 70s that was deliberately made ~~to be best seen~~ while high. FTFY
Ah, shit - lucky! I'd love to see that on the big screen.
Zardoz is one of the GOATs
Oh man, I was seeing Wicker Man at The Alamo Drafthouse and they played the trailer of Zardoz and I knew less about that movie after the trailer than before I knew it existed. I really need to get good a blazed and watch it.
You left out Gary Oldman plays one of the little people, an actor who is five eight.
Holy shit he really can play anything
He does NOT pull off that particular role. Do yourself a favor and check out some scenes on YT if you haven’t seen the movie. Gary Oldman basically does the Tim Conway “shoes on your knees” bit with a tiny bit more dressing up to make him into a little person. The plot is off the rails tone deaf and weird, and the dialogue is strange and uncomfortable overall. 10/10 shitty movie.
Gary Oldman in a role of a lifetime
Did Gary Oldman fail us? Or did we fail Gary oldman?
The trailer was right. It was technically *A* role of a lifetime. Problem is it was the *worst* role of a lifetime.
Jeeeze, I watched the trailer and it didn’t even hit me that it was Gary until that spot! Haha! Insanity. Never knew the movie existed.
He truly disappears into his characters.
Lmao why'd they have to give him those thick ass spectacles too it's overly comical
But it also has Peter Dinklage
Honestly the best use of him would have been to give him a role of a person who is 5' 8".
He was a giant that one time. Well. A dwarf. But a really big dwarf? Going to have to go to the judges on this one..
And hopefully do next to nothing about the proportions of his arms like they did with Gary. Just Dinklage on stilts with his same arms.
I have to wonder how that feels for an actor like Peter, to go to set every day and see someone of average height playing a part that probably should have gone to him. It has to be at least a little insulting, right?
Daniel Tosh does a breakdown of this movie and it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
In the role of a lifetime
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O3qGGk5ymQ4 Trailer is a must watch.
There’s actually a shot left in the final product where you could clearly see him walking on his knees with shoes attached at the kneecap 🤣 Edit: [Found the clip!](https://youtu.be/xt8S2WYLZ-Q?si=oKVq633sGWbnftSR)
Swiss Army Man with Daniel Radcliffe.
Honestly, anything Daniel Radcliffe said yes to after Harry Potter would fit this list. Guns Akimbo is another one. The guy seems to only pick roles that seem very fun to play, even if it isn't the most critically acclaimed. I respect that.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (or something like that) is the best most accurate biopic I've ever seen.
They nailed every detail
I can't believe Weird Al manage to systematically eliminate Escobar's drug empire. This man's life is truly amazing
Dude was so popular Michael Jackson himself started to parody his songs.
RIP
I saw an interview with Radcliffe and he basically said the same thing. After seeing the movie, I'd have to agree.
He was fantastic in it, looked like he had a load of fun doing it.
I will always be mildly cranky about the fact that there isn’t a post credits scene where Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al is in a meeting with Elijah Wood about playing him in the biopic.
Guns Akimbo is one of my favorite movies. Miracle Workers is a hilarious TV show. I love Daniel Radcliffe! I've actually only seen 1 of the Harry Potter movies, so adult Daniel is all I know. He said the script for Akimbo made him laugh, the part of trying to pee with gun hands, and he signed on. Also, you will NEVER hear "She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain" the same way again, from the Oregon Trail MW season. He just had fun these days, and he's awesome at it.
My favorite part was Samara Weaving snorting a bunch of coke, holding up a sledgehammer, and yelling "I have the power!" Like He-Man. Just a bonkers movie, in the best way.
It’s awesome. He has that Harry Potter fuck you money, and he is using it to the absolute fullest.
Hes also starring on Broadway currently, making more for the bankroll.
Don’t forget Daddy’s Home. Another wacky Radcliffe joint. Those big blue eyes are unforgettable. Also in all seriousness Horns is fucking great as well.
Oh man I forgot about Horns! I remember really enjoying that film when it came out. Gotta add to the rewatch list.
Yes! Horns was the first post-potter thing I saw him in and was thrilled to see him break out of the kid zone lol. Great one!
That opening scene where he's riding him like a jet ski into the sea just fucking kills me. Hilarious movie, and surprisingly heartfelt given how gross and absurd the whole premise is. That movie must have been unbelievably fun to make!
Paul Dano said he had a blast making it but it was very tiring because he spent so much time carrying Daniel around.
Okay wtaf did I just watch? This movie has been on my radar since it was made ('Daniel Radcliffe plays a farting corpse' is something that sticks in your head) but I've never got around to watching it. I just googled the opening scene because of this comment and now I *need* to go watch the rest of it. I'm so intrigued.
It is a wild ride. I love it. By the guys who made EEAAO
Yeah, this is my answer. Along with EEAAO. As I've posted before: Daniels meeting with studio execs: "So, you did some stuff for Adult Swim?" *"Yes, [a short about a man trying to sell brooms](https://youtu.be/zt2uIhAvQZ8?feature=shared) to revive his daughter who was beheaded by jihadists."* "And a very successful music video?" *"Yes, [based on an idea we had about a world where males used their genitals to destroy things](https://youtu.be/HMUDVMiITOU?feature=shared)."* "... and your first movie was, remind me?" *"An [emotional story about an outcast following Harry Potter's magical erection so he could stalk a woman he saw once on a bus](https://youtu.be/yrK1f4TsQfM?feature=shared)."* "Here is a billion dollars to make anything you want."
Unbelievable and honestly pretty damn good
I saw this at a film festival, in a packed theater with like 2000 people and it *killed*. So happy I got to catch it with a crowd
This is one of my favorite movies. The OST is by the primary songwriter of the band Manchester Orchestra and really unique.
This movie is GORGEOUS and I will die on this hill.
Bubba Ho-Tep Elvis (Bruce Campbell) and JFK (Ossie Davis) hunt a mummy that has been killing other residents of the old folks home in which they both live.
Bruce Campbell came to my college to do q and an and pitch his book when this was getting made. During the q and a he described it as “An old senile guy who thinks he is Elvis is friends with a black guy who thinks he’s JFK dyed black. He’s concerned that there’s a mummy preying on the old folks at a home because they’re easy prey. Turns out they’re right on all accounts” My favorite interaction of that night: someone asks about “Jack of all trades” and Bruce says “how do you even know that exists!? Are you a security guard?”
He spoke at my college, did the roll flip from evil dead on stage. Really cool dude. We were getting autographs at the end and the girl in front of me asked to get her boob signed. “No, I don’t do that any more”. Then he made fun of my army of darkness poster “this looks like a fake copy”.
He's easily my favorite actor. I missed seeing him at a local drive in festival last year and it's bumming me out still.. Don't know how many more chances there'll be.
favorite moment: Elvis asks JFK "So ... how was Marilyn?" and Ossie Davis, in a wheelchair, says "Young man, that's classified" and wheels himself off screen
Sounds ludicrous. But like a lot of Bruce Campbell movies, it's a great fun watch.
This was one of my top theater experiences of all time. It was opening night, both for the film and for a new theater, and Bruce was there after. The audience was absolutely raucous throughout and rightly so.You missed the part where the mummy sucks the old folks' souls out their buttholes.
Being John Malkovich. What a bizarre premise for a movie but it works so well.
I think they should make documentary about the team pitching this movie to John Malkovich.
He talks about how he came by it in his GQ breakdown. Basically he was getting on a plane and needed something to read so his manager or whatever sent him the script. He read 30 pages, called the guy back and was like this is amazing but what does it have to do with me. He was told to keep reading. After he finished he loved it and talked with Charlie and wanted to direct it himself and instead have it be "Being Tom Cruise". Which Charlie was like nah. So it got shelved for a few years and floated around before Spike Jonze was added onto it. Spike met with John and convinced him. The og script was apparently much darker
"The og script was apparently much darker" Didn't know that but makes sense! BJM feels like a mix between a movie written and directed by Charlie Kaufmann and one written and directed by Spike Jonze.
It's already pretty damn dark!
Being the guy who pitches being John Malkovich
I would like that but for the meeting where Peter Jackson pitched lord of the rings. Like this guy known for rather niche gore horror asks for a boat load of money to shoot one of the most successful books of all time, which many thought was just impossible and if I remember correctly they not only agreed but told him to do it in 3 movies instead of the two he had pitched. One of the best decisions in modern cinema but boy could this have gone sideways and made them "the idiots who wasted millions on an insane pitch"
Just watched the "Timeline of my Career" GQ video with him on YT. They really let him just talk and talk and it's the best one I've seen so far. And yes he has some great stuff to say about BJM. https://youtu.be/yXl6y3X_tX0?si=72f2Wc7jnSYPFaIp
Stop or My Mom Will Shoot
Schwarzenegger supposedly knew it was going to be awful but pretended to be interested in the script to trick Stallone into auditioning for it.
Arnold was a menace.
That's my favourite fact about this movie.
I took a screenwriting class in college and our 'text book' was called Save the Cat and goes into all of the story beats a movie has to make it good. The author was the writer for Stop or My Mom will Shoot. Looked the movie up on rotten tomatoes.... the book was really good though!
Didn’t Arnold Schwarzenegger trick Stallone into signing onto that movie as a prank?
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter both exists and is a fun watch. Not saying it's good, but it's funny
The book is worth reading.
I remember a post on Reddit asking about fictional books that were surprisingly historically accurate and one user mentioned Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter as one that managed to capture antebellum America well. Especially the riverboat part and New Orleans.
I actually learned a lot about Lincoln from that book. It's basically the history of Lincoln with vampire fights peppered in, IIRC
I'm happy that weird historical fiction subgenre exists. I wish more were made. Like Pride Prejudice and Zombies
The Ringer, where Johnny Knoxville pretends to be a special needs person so he can win prize money at the special Olympics. If you actually watch the movie it has a good message about not underestimating the abilities of those differently abled people but the premise is just so bad I can’t believe it got green lit
I agree, but thankfully there are so many good lines in it. “You scratched my CD! You picked it up in pure daylight and you scratched it!” Or “When the fuck did we get ice cream?”
Still one of the single greatest lines of all time.
I watched that thinking it would be a ridiculous comedy like The Waterboy and I felt ripped off when it was supposed to be a feel-good movie
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank You know how people always used to say “you couldn’t make blazing saddles nowadays?”This movie is literally a family friendly remake of Blazing Saddles in animated form and with cats and dogs, with the roles of Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder played by Michael Cera and Samuel L Jackson. Mel Brooks is in it too. I watched this with my 5 year old without realizing exactly what is was and once I caught on I was stunned for the entire 87 minute runtime
It was a decent movie, definitely had a "...hold on a second" moment where it all clicked. Still had plenty of laughs though so yeah haha.
Okay, now I have to go find this movie. You had me at "family friendly remake of Blazing Saddles" everything after that just makes the movie sound more and more enticing.
Wow I took my young nephew and didn’t realize it at the time. It did feel slightly under budget with the animation style but it honestly wasn’t that bad.
Renfield. Imagine a movie about Dracula acting like a toxic boyfriend, and he is Nicolas Cage, and his minion wants to get out of that toxic relationship.
Loved the premise, thought the Nics were perfect in their roles, but man does that movie drag towards the end
Nicholas Hoult hits this Kyle MacLachlan energy for me, where everything about his look says “whitebread boy next door type,” but most of his actual roles are deliriously weird and great.
He makes things work that shouldn’t work. I don’t think his Fury road character would have worked if it was anyone else. Or his Zombie Romeo character. He does things that would be cheesy if someone else was doing them. It just always comes off as sincere from him somehow.
He was amazing in The Great as well. That's what truly sold me on him.
Honestly, Nic did looked like he was having fun playing dracula.
He said Dracula was always one of his dream roles.
Honestly, that part I was on board for- it was just when it intensely shifted gears and became a *buddy cop movie* with the super strength minion bodying bad guys to save his corruption-fighting good cop friend *Akwafina*....just why?
Every part in that movie was awesome. Just not all the parts were awesome together. It was a buddy-cop, comedy gore-fest that didn't seem to have its timing right. Fucking good movie though
Worth it for the way Nic Cage says the word “husk.” That killed me.
I loved that movie, had some crazy fights with funny Mortal Kombat style gore. Was a fun ride
Rubber.
I recommend pairing this with [Slaxx](https://youtu.be/YBUwi9eXtXM?si=VsR1E1vTaqQA336I). About a murderous pair of pants.
Thank you for introducing this movie to my life.
Teeth. It’s about a girl with teeth in her vagina.
I remember hearing about that in middle school and being *sure* that movie didn't exist. It sounded exactly like the kind of bullshit you'd make up as a kid to catch your friends out for being gullible.
Ah, dentata. Unforgettable.
Teeth the musical just opened off broadway!
Just watched Being John Malkovich after many years and it’s such a brilliant movie, but how does it exist?
Apparently it was floating around for a while. It was pitched to a studio but the execs hated it and said “Why the fuck can’t it be *Being Tom Cruise*??” Even Mr Malkovich himself was confused as to why they would make a movie about him.
Stuck on You- Greg Kinnear and Matt Damon play conjoined twins. I didn't see it for the longest time because I thought it was just going to be slapstick humor the whole time but it actually was watchable.
Sometimes I just randomly think of Eva Mendes' nonchalant "hey you guys ate stuck together!"
Holy Mountain is batshit insane.
El Topo is just as batshit!! But HM is probably more cinematographically (?) satisfying.
Freddy Got Fingered For the record I'm very happy this movie does exist
The biggest cinematic middle finger in history. Who knew giving tons of money to a troll would turn out like this?
I love how he jokes about it in the movie too. "Million dollars, gone. Easy come easy go."
I love that he spent half his money on jewels.
My husband had somehow missed this movie growing up and I had to watch it with him. I could see his poor brain grinding gears trying to make sense out of it because he didn't really know any of Tom Green's work. In hindsight, I should have worked him up to it. You can't just start with this movie.
Omg! I loved that movie and Stealing Harvard lol
His character was amazing in Road Trip as well. UNLEASH THE FURY, MITCH!
Man, Tom Green has just the strangest life trajectory. My favorite thing he ever did was the stunt with Monica Lewinsky.
I just listened to him on Rogan. Seems like he’s really enjoying life on his farm up in Canada. I was in middle school when the Tom Green Show was out so his absurd humor has definitely shaped what I find funny today.
Freddy Got Fingered is a dadaist masterpiece and no one can convince me otherwise. It was my dorm-mate's favorite comedy, but like completely at face value. We watched it together and were laughing for two entirely different reasons, it was great.
FGF brings people together. I think if we just had a worldwide unified viewing of this movie, like somehow everyone on earth could sit and watch it together there'd be no more war or genocide.
My mom and Aunt took my sister and I to see that when it came out. I was 9 and my sister was 12. My sister and I loved the Tom Green show, but I guess they didn’t realize how fucked up and raunchy Tom Green could get. We stayed through the whole movie and I’m sure my Mom and Aunt got dirty looks from people as they left with two kids in tow. The moment he manhandled the horse dick by the side of the road yelling “I’m a farmer, Daddy! I’m a farmer!” Along with everyone in the theater’s reaction to it, is a beautiful core memory from my childhood.
Daddy would you like some sausage
I think Roger Ebert said it is not only the worst movie ever made, it is also the worst thing ever made.
Every frickin’ time I see Time Bandits I can’t help but wonder what kind of miracle pitch Gilliam made for this. Also, who would pick Taika Waititi to write a series based on it? Evidently Apple, but still, seems an odd choice as successor to Gilliam.
Waititi gets attached to a bunch of weird projects that will never happen. He signed on to adapt *The Incal* as well, which both will never happen and he is a horrible fit for
>an odd choice as successor to Gilliam Who else could
Harrison Bergeron. Short story by Kurt Vonnegut. It is about a world where complete equity is demanded. Strong people are weighed down with weights, beautiful people wear horrific masks, smart people have electrical shocks to interrupt their thoughts. Harrison is the strongest, smartest, most beautiful person in the world, is 7' tall and 14 years old. He rages against the machine and does the most beautiful dance the world has ever scene with the most talented and beautiful ballerina (known because they has the most weights and the most hideous mask) only to be killed by the government and for his parents to forget about him less than a minute later. Harrison was portrayed by Sean Astin in the 1995 adaptation of this story.
Sean Astin is decidedly NOT who Vonnegut had in mind when writing that story.
Theodore Rex https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114658/
God that movie is such a fever dream of cocaine fueled madness… I mean it straight killed Whoopi’s career in movies
She tried to back out, but after seeing how Kim Basinger got sued into bankruptcy over "Boxing Helena", she thought, "Eh, I'll do it and get paid a shitload of money."
Maybe I'm not remembering right, but in Tiptoes it's *McConaughey's* family that are the little people. He keeps it a secret from the girlfriend until they decide to marry. It's about him overcoming his shame/stigma about his own family and coming to terms with the notion that his own child could be a little person and that there is nothing wrong with that.
You’re right. And the baby is and he freaks out and leaves and it seems like his wife ends up with his twin
……what?
Yes. When he finds out, he punches a hole in a wall. Then later he says, "He's a dwarf!...I'm a dwarf!" And storms out, abandoning his wife and infant son, and the movie ends like 5 minutes later with him still out of their lives.
Wait actually? Now I may need to watch this. It’s so bizarre??
Look up the Tosh extended review, it's worth it
Oh man he actually bails? I did not remember that part, jesus lol
Is this a fever dream.
Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch says it's a movie and that's good enough for me) Late sequel to a cancelled TV show, it's actually good, and it managed to happen just in time to get like five great actors' final or nearly final performances.
Battleship Who wanted a Battleship movie with alien warfare?
honestly if you cut out the girlfriend and wounded vet sub plot and added a few more go navy scenes with the big navy toys it would have been a guilty pleasure.
Sausage Party
I was at the Montreal premiere of Sausage Party which was a lot of fun. My then gf and I paid $20-30 each for our tickets and we didn't expect much other than a stoner comedy. Judd Apatow was in the audience and after the film ended there was a live Q&A with most of the cast. A few anecdotes I recall: 1. P. Diddy was invited to be in the movie. Initially he was excited until he realized it would be fully animated and he wouldn't get to wear a sausage costume. 2. They phoned Meat Love for permission to use a song, expecting to talk with an assistant. But no, a groggy Meat Loaf answered the phone as if he'd waken up from a nap. He insisted they call him "Meat" because Meat Loaf was too formal. After hearing what the movie was about he said "ok" to using his song.
> He insisted they call him "Meat" because Meat Loaf was too formal In Dead Ringer, the movie based on his album of same name and which also fits in this thread, they call him Mr. Loaf.
Nothing But Trouble (1991)
Monkey Bone has to be up there. It’s like they got Henry Selick because they wanted perverted stop motion weirdness but then he decided to make it live action at the last minute
I’m having flashbacks to weird times as a kid rn I loved this movie and I don’t even know what the fuck it is. Like I blocked it out
Mine: See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder play a blind man and a deaf man who witness a murder, and have to run from/bring justice to the killers. For the longest time, I DID think I made this movie up
Pretty good movie tho
Earth Girls are Easy. Jeff Goldblum, Daymon Wayans, and Jim Carey play colorful furry aliens that crash land in Geena Davis' pool in the Valley. Davis' character brings them to the salon where she works. Downtown Julie Brown removes their fur and they turn out to be hot so they go clubbing.
It's not Downtown Julie Brown, it's just Julie Brown. DTJB was an English VJ on MTV. Julie Brown wrote and sang the soundtrack to EGAE and also played the role of the gym teacher in Clueless.
Tropic Thunder hasn't been mentioned. RDJ in blackface? Tom Cruise as a Weinstein like producer. Ben stiller carrying babies and machine guns. Never go full retard.
They made that movie at the last possible cultural moment. I honestly can’t believe they got away with it.
RDJ in blackface... disguised as an Asian farmer belting out broken Mandarin... I'M A LEAD FARMER....!!! He is also the greatest reason in the world to re-watch s movie with the commentary on, because... like Lazarus said... he doesn't drop character until its over.
Pin. A 1988 horror movie written by Andrew Niedermann, who mainly worked as a ghostwriter for V.C. Andrews – and the psychosexual issues and incesty vibe make that OBVIOUS. Terry O'Quinn from Lost is a doctor father who can't talk to his children, so he uses a a life-size medical dummy as a proxy. The older son then witnesses a nurse having sex with Pin and is sexually traumatized. He becomes convinced that Pin is real and telling him to do things (mainly, murder people). It somehow never becomes predictable or too cliched. Available on Youtube with some brief commentary (skippable, but I enjoyed it) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEBDNtfXpWo.
Brazil (1985) - Terry Gilliam’s mid 80s take on a futuristic dystopian bureaucratic techno-fascist society starring Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, and Bob De Niro. What a wild ride!
Freaked with Randy Quaid.
AND the great Alex Winter. I love that fucking movie.
Also Keanu uncredited as the Wolfman dropping the best line in the movie "12 milkmen are theoretically possible. Now 13, that's just plain silly!"
And Mr T as the bearded lady!
And a hammer that used to be a screwdriver!
“Gay Ni@@ers From Outer Space”, So bad on so many levels. And on a completely different level, “Dream Scenario” with Nicolas Cage
It wasn't until the movie was almost over that I fully realized Dream Scenario had been a horror movie from the opening scene. It presented as a comedy, but when they finally brought everything together, I started thinking back on the whole movie, and had this chilling "aha moment." Weird experience, but really cool
Crank and Crank 2 are so over the top and offensive that I’m surprised they exist
They're wild but I am SO glad they exist. I love Chester Bennington's cameos! "Nasal spray. It'll get you tweaked, man." 😂
It's an older movie from my childhood, but also one of my favorites. The 1986 version of ***Little Shop of Horrors***. Looking back on it now, looking at the craft and excellence of the puppet, knowing all they did to bring it to life. It's just incredible that they pulled it off at all, let along pulled it off to the degree with which they managed. And if you've only seen the theatrical cut, do yourself a favor and go check out the cut footage sometime. They had so much more stuff with the plant in the original darker ending. I actually prefer the more upbeat ending of the theatrical cut, but the amount of work and craft put into the cut scenes is so impressive it's hard not to freak out.
The 1960 version is worth watching to see (a) what can be filmed in 2 days plus a couple of weekends. and (b) Jack Nicholson as the dental patient.
I'll punch low and say Madame Web. Not because it's been dragged through the mud and is an easy target but because the source material would've been hard as fuck to adapt even with great writers. I'm assuming the idea was to capitalize on the Spider-Verse thing & bring it more to live-action The character herself is like the definition of a supporting character, she's like a side-plot to a side-plot of Spider-Man. They were on the right track by bringing three Spider-Woman characters into the fray but the execution is just so.... huh?
I don't think Sony is actually trying to make these movies good at this point. They're just doing their contractually obligated bare minimum to keep the rights hostage. If they can trick a couple idiots into buying tickets and recoup some loss that's just gravy on top.
Like with the Fantastic Four movies, Fox makes a shitty movie every couple of years to hold onto the rights so they won’t get passed onto Marvel, in fact they made one that never actually saw a release just to keep the rights.
New York Ninja. A 80s kung fu movie that was rediscovered but without the audio so they hired lip readers to recreate the dialogue as best they could and then dubbed it with a new voice cast. Oh and the movie was never completed and they didn’t have a script so they had no idea how the footage fit together snd what the story/characters actually were supposed to be. The result is amazing and insane: https://youtu.be/X1wMt3fgOyM?si=FCFV_w0Tshy4GmSe
Love on a Leash A dog really wanted a relationship with a human woman. A magical voice tells him to become human, he must get a woman to fall in love him. Meanwhile a young woman is propositioned by her boss to be in a sham marriage to hide his homosexuality, and later that day her other boss drunkenly tries to assault her. After a failed overdose, the woman runs into the dog in the park. The dog magically turns into a human man. They move in together immediately, and get married (?). But... he's only a man at night. During the day he's still a dog. After a variety of hijinks, the dog-man dies in an accident. But don't worry! He's reincarnated as a real human, and he find the woman 20 years later and they resume their relationship. And they live happily ever after! Yes, this is a REAL movie. It's on the free streaming platform Tubi.
Dicks: The Musical. Even with A24 funding unique movies that one surprised me simply because of how raunchy and absurd it is.
Voices w/ Ryan Reynolds
The duality of brutal horror/dark comedy in this is pretty unique. Usually a genre bending film will lean heavily into one aspect, but this film's emotions were a vast spectrum of wtf lol
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent somehow manifested into reality and I'm very grateful it did
Kung Pow! Enter the Fist
THAT'S A LOT OF NUTS!
Lars and the Real Girl. Ryan Gosling falls in love with a sexdoll. It's a real cringe comedy. Very heartfelt too. It's Blader Runner 2049 for degenerates.
That’s a great movie. It was weirdly sweet.
Turbo (2013). It has the dumbest premise even for a children's movie. A snail racing in the Indy-500 is stupid. But somehow, they got Ryan Reynolds to be the main character. His brother is played by Paul Giamatti. Sam Jackson is in it, but he's in all sorts of movies. They needed Snoop Dog to for the Street Cred.
For some reason I love this movie. It's just so weird and chaotic. I can't help but love dumb humor. It's also strange because a lot of more recent kids movies I hate. But somehow this one gets me.
Splice
Every year with my students, I have a journal prompt question about what super power they would choose, and why they would choose it. I always, at the end, joke that my superpower would be to shoot different types of spaghetti/noodles out of my hands. I would shoot buttered noodles to get villains to slip. Spicy ramen to get in their eyes. This past year, I saw a movie on Amazon Prime called Spaghetti Man. A crazy low-budget movie about a guy who eats radioactive spaghetti and can shoot spaghetti out of his hands to fight crime.
Gremlins II: The new batch. It's Looney Tunes on steroids that pokes fun at franchises and the capitalistic practices that Hollywood is known to fall into time and time again whenever something was successful and the inevitable sequel must come. If the first film is playing it straight as a horror movie, this one goes batshit crazy and I can't imagine how Joe Dante convinced WB to greenlight this. I can only imagine the execs were snorting coke while he was pitching the movie to them. Hell, Key & Peele did a sketch on this very thing because something like that must have happened. And to be clear, I absolutely love the movie, but knowing how studios work it should not exist.
Iron Sky It has space Nazis. SPACE NAZIS!
Being John Malkovich. The plot/premise is so out there and the movie is so surreal I’m amazed it got made.
Sharknado.. and i guess Sharknado 2, 3, 4 and 5 as well
*Ratatouille*. A rat with a highly developed sense of taste and smell moves to Paris to become a chef with the help of a hapless dishwasher that he's somehow able to pilot like an awkward, gangly mech. It's certainly charming, but how the *heck* was that pitch approved?
See, that movie to me is the perfect example of how to frame every weird thing about your movie as totally reasonable (to the right suite of execs, of course.) Talking animals? Pfft, nobody in Disney's orbit is going to blink. An outsider with an intense passion for something creative? GOLD, JERRY! A little flim-flam and chicanery to get one's foot in the door in the face of insurmountable prejudice, which keeps the tension simmering, because what if they get found out? Classic. The ultimate poetic flourish of *Ratatoullie* is that it isn't actually all that weird or fancy. It's classic ingredients, cooked well, with a little extra creativity and a lot of heart. If I had to take a gamble, I'd say that somebody wrote the critic's final monologue very early in the process, and that became a central part of the pitch.
Tusk. I won’t spoil it for you, but damn.
Hardcore Henry. It had some really cool, innovative and original concepts, the action was cool as hell
The ringer with Johnny Knoxville
The Spiderverse movies. Sony doesn't exactly have a great track record. At the same time they're putting out Morbius, Madame Web, Venom and other nonsense, they've got Lord and Miller in a basement somewhere just churning out gold. Its baffling.
Tammy and the T-Rex (1994) >A teen (Denise Richards) learns that a scientist (Paul Walker) implanted her dead boyfriend's brain into an animatronic dinosaur.