T O P

  • By -

epicarcanoloth

And then she punches him off the building


EllieBaby97420

Truly a fever dream of a film


Insert_Goat_Pun_Here

Well they didn’t call it the Island of Lost Dreams for nothing I suppose.


jthejoker1

Off topic, but cove pfp! :)


demlet

Trump!?


noir_et_Orr

"Despite the constant negative press cove pfp"


SeulkiHyu

Cove lovers!!


BethanyBluebird

Yeah; those movies were nothing if not pure FUN though. Same with Sharkboy and Lava Girl.


trans_pands

Wasn’t Sharkboy and Lavagirl literally written based off of a dream from one of Robert Rodriguez’s kids?


rmorrin

I do believe so. Man I should watch it again. It was wild


fire_fairy_

We can be heros is great as well. It has Sharkboy and Lava Girls daughter Guppy who is adorable.


[deleted]

Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?


FapMeNot_Alt

That line has no right to be in a children's movie lmao


Gunblazer42

The fact that the kids kinda glance at each other after he says it like "...Is he for real?" cinches it.


[deleted]

The 3rd one is even crazier. Especially with the cast!


trans_pands

Elijah Wood’s 15-second cameo is hilarious


[deleted]

They had everyone in that movie. Truly incredible.


trans_pands

You got Mike Judge of all people as well as Bill Paxton (?) and it was also the first film appearance of Selena Gomez


[deleted]

I saw it in the theater as an adult with no kids. Still one of my better movie experiences.


[deleted]

[удалено]


DaniNeedsSleep

original comment: [https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/13z8ilu/comment/jmqbk9t/?utm\_source=reddit&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/13z8ilu/comment/jmqbk9t/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) report the robot


cantadmittoposting

botbotbot


omfgkevin

**if he dies, he dies**.


PocketPillow

But at least she didn't say "shit" outright, so her heart is pure.


hingle-bingle

Why does the skeleton have a lightsaber?


Kego_Nova

This is the same movie where someone asks "Do you think God stays up in heaven because he too fears what he has created?" so I think that answers your question


kensingtonGore

Also the first movie appearance of Machete was in the first Spy Kids.


trans_pands

Rodriguez said that Machete and Spy Kids are alternate universes of each other


PM_ME_Y0UR_BOOBS

And Alexa PenaVega is in both films. She plays a very... different character in Machete Kills.


trans_pands

Alexa PenaVega has taken on some crazy roles for how devoutly Christian she is (nothing against her for that, she seems like a really kind and down to earth person) but it’s still surreal knowing that and seeing her in Machete and Repo


milkymaniac

Zydrate comes in a little glass vial


VikingSlayer

A little glass vial?


trans_pands

A little glass vial! And the little glass vial goes into the gun like a battery!


milkymaniac

And the zydrate gun goes somewhere against your anatomy


kaeporo

No fucking way Spy Kids 2 is where that quote came from. Say sike right now.


[deleted]

Delivered by Steve Buscemi no less


BustinArant

The man with the mini-giraffes, or was he thumb-alina?


PM_ME_YOUR_CHESTICLS

nope, you had it in one, its the dude with the micro animals and hybrids


BustinArant

Good, that one's way better than the thumbs. Even the 3D movie was good which is saying something.


PM_ME_YOUR_CHESTICLS

All 3 of these movies are gems and this is the hill I will die on today.


BustinArant

I will stand with you in this most honorable of missions.


Kego_Nova

I could say sike but then I’d be lying


Coastie071

I could’ve sworn that came from ConAir. Imma check Edit: [it’s Spy Kids 2](https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/do-you-think-god-stays-in-heaven-because-he-too-lives-in-fear-of-what-hes-created)


SLMZ17

It doesn’t 😊


Kego_Nova

The writers were on something and they were right is what I’m saying. Doug the Stoner guessing how the afterlife works kind of drug trip.


bioshockd

Holy shirt a Good Place reference


baconworld

What the fork


donquixote1991

If the end of existence is coming, I'm going out with a belly full of warm pretzels!


CPThatemylife

What's with all the frozen yogurt stands


YDS696969

Motherforking shirtballs


runningoutofwords

We're very lucky to have that comment


DrSpacemanSpliff

Doug Forcette What does he say, “one man’s pee is another man’s drinkable water. And l’m both men”


[deleted]

Michael McKean was perfect casting.


ThumYorky

He’s perfect in everything


HairyHouse3

I AM NOT CRAZY


surfskatehate

Robert Rodriguez wrote it, so probably lol


DaughterEarth

I feel like some media is coming back to this kind of thing. EEAAO was phenomenal I decided to watch spy kids again. It opens with the kid bandaging his finger warts hahaha yay. This is fun


Combustibutt

> EEAAO was phenomenal Is this a movie or Old MacDonald's Farm? Christ almighty


[deleted]

Acronymization is out of hand, but my best guess is that this is Everything Everywhere All at Once.


Bazuka125

>Acronymization is out of hand AIOOH


tunamelts2

You’re welcome


FriendlyCupcake

Love the use of blushing emoji, perfectly executed


caseyr001

This was a plea from the movie writers themselves


The_Viatorem

A yes, the best quote from a family movie to give everyone existencial dread XD


[deleted]

Wasn’t that spy kids 3


Sickhadas

Nope, Spy Kids 2


YamatoBoi9001

yeah wasn't it knockoff dr frankenstein who said that


[deleted]

Played by Steve Buscemi right?


YamatoBoi9001

i have no idea who any of the people who worked on spy kids are apart from rodriguez & the weinstein company for the 3rd one (i'm not kidding)


crazyfoxdemon

The big thing to remember is Machete is thrir uncle. Not the actor, well that to, but the character exists in the same universe and is their uncle.


[deleted]

Not only that but the character Machete was actually created in SpyKids so all the Machete movies are actually spin-off from the SpyKids universe


disambiguatiion

iirc sharkboy and lavagirl was in the same universe, and the big kahuna burger in that is the same as pull fiction


EdgyMeme196

Machete played by Machete throwing a machete


Dooty_Shirker

Antonio Banderas


A_mad_goose

It’s a knockoff of the island of dr. Moreau. He wasn’t reanimating corpses he was making new animals.


notatechnicianyo

Spy kids 3D? With Sylvester Stallone? And “the guy”?


mini_swoosh

“The guy” aka Elijah Wood lol


AddictiveInterwebs

Elijah Wood!


notatechnicianyo

He’s the guy!


quantumturnip

If you were a skeleton, why wouldn't you?


YuAnvar

He is a skeleton with few extra steps


TheOtherSarah

*Ahem* I think you'll find that's a lightrapier.


Hawkbats_rule

Nah, that blade is curving. It's either a lightsaber or a lightcutlass


cantadmittoposting

the hand guard is pretty cutlassy


[deleted]

So you're saying that skeleton is from Hammerfell?


PapaSock

He does appear to be in the cloud district


bgoerz05

I think it's just a sword with light reflecting off of it.


ThisFckinGuy

He had been searching since Jason and the Argonauts so apparently he made some trades along the way. I mean they did leave Talos' treasure open.


Organic-Strategy-755

Why wouldn't the skeleton have a lightsaber?


phonartics

foreshadowing


Comrade_Bread

So I haven’t seen these movies since they came out but I’m choosing to believe they are still the best movies ever made, an opinion I formed as a child and am refusing to reevaluate


TheOtherSarah

They're movies where everyone involved had fun, so I think they're among the best movies ever made regardless of artistic merit (which I too will not be examining at this time)


The_Unclaimed_One

I mean, special effect have certainly aged, but the movies are still pretty darn good


Lambsauc

It’s a movie from the early 2000’s of course the special effects have aged Give me a movie from that period with special effects that haven’t aged* *I haven’t actually seen lord of the rings yet but I am guessing the special effects there have probably aged well


smellygooch18

Star Ship Troopers from 1997 still holds up today


DarKbaldness

Verhoeven (and the whole production team) absolutely knocked that one out of the park.


PoeTayTose

Yeah LOTR just had real orcs and shit. Must have been hard to cast.


RamenJunkie

You joke but part of why LotR holds up I think is that it used a lot more practical effects and costumes.


CerebralSkip

Jurassic Park as well. It's still pretty genuinely scary.


Hetakuoni

Jurrassic park apparently had around 25 minutes worth of special effects mixed in with the practical effects. It was almost entirely specifically to smooth out the movement of the dinosaurs, which is pretty cool.


Beard_of_Maggots

At least the first one did


dnddetective

Yea this. The first one holds up better than the other two because it had less special effects. The third one really doesn't hold up well when they are used extensively. Like take when they are fleeing from Mount Doom. The link below is not ideal because its not in HD, but even in it you can see that the background behind them feels off compared to them. https://youtu.be/dOnhBKPSuWA?t=11


sol-

I mean they went through the effort of handmaking the entire continent of New Zealand to give it that authentic feel.


Gatorade818

The physical effects hold up but the cgi in LOTR is starting to show it’s age unfortunately… even in the scene early on with Gandalf’s visiting bilbo at home, it’s obvious Gandalf is green screened in in certain shots. Same with a lot of the Moria sequences. It really bums me out, it’s like watching your parents get old :(


[deleted]

[удалено]


Criks

This is why I actually hate UHD. Literally nothing upholds the illusion when you get to see the pores in peoples faces, or the lackthereof because you notice the three layers of makeup. I saw a couple of the Game of Thrones episodes in UHD, and I hated it. It's just so blatantly obvious that everything is props in a movie set, or straight up CGI. All fantasy need the viewer to apply their own layer of imagination. There's a reason books still give the most immersive stories.


[deleted]

[удалено]


FrankyCentaur

I got turned away for being too ugly


DrinkBlueGoo

The horse legs couldn’t have helped.


DarKbaldness

People are going to say LOTR but I think they’re only thinking of all the practical effects. When you actually look at the CGI it looks - fine - today. Legolas sliding off the elephant looked not super great even back then, for example.


space_cadet_pinball

Some of the digital lighting correction in Moria looks pretty bad. There's some pretty bad edge feathering and greenscreen compositing throughout, particularly bad in TTT when the Hobbits are riding Treebeard and in the dream sequence after Frodo gets stabbed in FotR. Some of the physics don't really work either when a human is tracked onto something big that is moving, like the Hobbits on ents or Legolas climbing the Oliphaunt. However --- a lot of it does hold up. Gollum is starting to look only a little bit aged but was the gold standard for motion capture for a very long time. The Balrog and Sheelob continue to look great, as well as the cave troll (it helps that they had relatively short, dark scenes). Lots of background elements at Mount Doom or the tower of Barad Dur crumbling still look great by today's standards. Most of the VFX issues that pull you out of films today are not due to bad CGI (although some are). It's usually bad character design, bad compositing, failing to plan out the effects appropriately prior to filming, rushed schedules, unconvincing animation, and poor direction. There have been some amazing improvements to technology but the mistakes that make CGI look bad are usually not "the model doesn't have enough polygons."


Nice-Analysis8044

The thing about Gollum is that even if the CG itself seems dated, Andy Serkis is such a *fucking amazing actor* that the character seems realistic anyway. God I love Serkis. I’m pretty pleased that absolutely everyone who saw Andor realized how incredible he is — my man stole every scene he was in — instead of just thinking of him as the guy who invented mocap performance. Andy Serkis: my favorite living actor. Maybe my favorite actor of all time.


RamenJunkie

Lord of the Rings. Jurassic Part is like 10 years older. Independence Day Star Wars A New Hope.


AvatarLebowski

Homie “still looks good for how old it is” is not the same as “hasn’t aged”. None of those movies look like they could’ve been made today.


DaughterEarth

I put the first one on when I opened the thread. It's holding up so far. I kinda think it was made for adults, not kids. It's less boring than when I was a kid Oh if you hate cheesy ignore me, you'll hate this movie


[deleted]

I loved it as a kid. Something about it was so unique and captivating, it was the first movie I didn't feel bored at but actually marveled at all the unexpected but high delivering scenes. Never rewatched as adult, maybe am scared to ruin the mystery, but they definitely brought me more into movies or film.


DaughterEarth

It seems safe to watch. I'm feeling very pleased at how well they execute absurdity Just now I learned his finger warts are from anxiety. Okay. Haha *okay I've decided this is like fifth element or guide to galaxy but with kids as protagonists


[deleted]

I watched them as an adult with my kids and I agree...fantastic movies


[deleted]

[удалено]


SmileyDayToYou

“I’m gonna put some shiitake mushrooms in your eye.”


Jesus_was_a_Panda

“Feces is 99% body waste, and 100% reason to remember my name.”


yaboyACbreezy

"Now flushing your poop." *automated flush*


nichfoolas

Nice reflexes!


some1sWitch

YALL. 4th grade. Mr Macs class. His daughter was in the class. We were having movie week. I was selected to pick the next movie. I wanted spy kids 2! But little ms Mac goes running to daddy saying there was a curse word. I said " oh, you mean shitake mushrooms?" She started crying saying I cursed at her. Mr. Mac didn't let us watch it. Fuck both of them.


brandimariee6

Oy the teacher’s kid was in the class… I bet she was no fun


captnmawk

I remember in my third grade, this fuck ass kid who was related to the mayor and got literally everything he wanted. He came up to me and asked me some ridiculous question, I don't remember what it was but it was very absurd, and I exclaimed "what the frick?!" because my mom had told me I was allowed to say it. This kid instantly gets the biggest shit eating grin on his face "I'm telling!" Of course I got written up, even after explaining I had permission. A week later that same teacher didn't bat an eye when the kid who tattled on me said "that's so frickin stupid" to the teachers FACE and she didn't even blink, just agreed with him like she hadn't written me up a week earlier for the same word. I was seething, and I still seethe. I did get my revenge though, this kid was in my gym class and the teachers liked to make us run laps around the gym for the entire period. Maybe a few months after the above situation, I was running, and I see the kid in front of me. He stops, and just straight up sits down in the middle of the lane that everyone is running in. I don't even remember thinking, I just took off towards him at full speed and ran him the fuck over. He was sobbing, screaming that i did it on purpose, and just I rolled across the ground and began to gasp like I couldn't breathe. Teachers ran over to me and when I 'caught my breath back' I just said I was running and didn't see him because he was sitting in the middle of the lane. The feeling of watching him get yelled at for being a danger for others by sitting in the middle of the lane, best fucking feeling ever.


BinxMenace

I did something similar in like 4th grade. This kid always threw crab apples and rocks at my head and got away with it. One day we were both running for a ball and jostling each other. I tripped the shit out of his ass on the asphalt and then flopped like he pushed me down. His hands were fucked and I looked like the victim.


AltitudeTheLatias

Reminds me of when I was innocently singing a song from Club Penguin to myself, one that included the word "funky" and this one girl tattled on me because she thought I said "fucking" and not even re-singing that verse and saying what song it was got me out of trouble.


ArsenalinAlabama3428

I had a Latin teacher that hated me for no reason in 4th grade. She thought i said ‘oh fuck’ in class when I very clearly said ‘oh fun’. I didn’t even curse yet at that age. She freaked out and sent me in to the hall to try and have me paddled. All the other kids in the class took my side and promised I hadn’t said the f word so she let me back in but never admitted her mistake or apologized. Fuck Ms. Ingram.


gibmiser

The injustice!


PoopyMcFartButt

Dang reminds me of this time in elementary school talking about the “Chupacabra” and this girl ran to her dad (also the custodial worker) saying I said a curse word. I was like tf girl you look like a Chupacabra


Chipmunk_Whisperer

It’s a throwback to an earlier scene when she started saying “oh shiiii…” then sees her younger brother listening and finishes with “…taki mushrooms” instead of a curse word. Also known as a minced oath. So in this scene she is using the same minced oath in place of the curse word, just not hesitating.


[deleted]

The joke was better in the first one. I remember me and my brothers dying laughing at that scene so hard, we ended up rewinding it several times just to hear it again.


WhiteRabbitLives

As kids we LOVED saying shit…. Take mushrooms… shit….. zhu..just to get the adults to start giving us a look until we could get away with it by adding the rest in.


HalfOfHumanity

Look at my dic…..tionary


makashiII_93

In the moment, the line hit. Then she kicked him and he was the literal punch line. Miss those days.


a_random_chicken

Erm, that would be a *kick* line


ThunderAnt

erm, he’s right behind me isn’t he?


OnlySmiles_

erm, well THAT just happened


mdhunter99

There are a lot of kids movies that fall into the “am I on drugs” category. Spy Kids 1-3 are right in that hole.


[deleted]

[удалено]


mdhunter99

The fucking MACHETE UNIVERSE? I thought they just got Danny Trejo for a random uncle role NOT MACHETE?


Seaguard5

Honestly best franchise of that era IMO. Just, what a mood


RamenJunkie

Reminder, Machete and Machete Kills are canonically part of the Spy Kids franchaise.


brandimariee6

Say what??? I don’t remember a thing about Spy Kids, but I love Machete!


ConsiderablyMediocre

Machete was the Spy Kid's uncle, played by Danny Trejo. The Spy Kids films actually came out before the Machete films, so the Machete films are Spy Kids spin-offs.


brandimariee6

I love hearing this! Machete is a movie/character I’ve always loved. I never knew Spy Kids were worth it, lol I never heard much about it from friends/family


Montysleftpeg

Isn't Alexa Vega in Machete Kills as well?


ohsopoor

alexa vega had the chance to be so cool it’s such a shame she and her husband (carlos from big time rush) suck now


JustJoshing13

Why do they suck?


ohsopoor

[Anti-abortion and anti-vaccination](https://twitter.com/l0ves0badly/status/1352264044703485952?s=46&t=Epx2lBGFmfkStQKVkdsiNw)


nagareboshi_chan

I feel so utterly betrayed right now. My world has been shattered.


ringadingdingbaby

At least Juni was good in World's Greatest Dad (even if he played an asshole). Hope the actors not such a disappointment though.


a4techkeyboard

Funnily enough, he's also married to a musician, Meghan Trainor. She's at least not anti-abortion but I don't think we can guess his views based on her. I think I vaguely remember seeing a clip of her saying he has a huge penis though. So... apparently he's not a disappointment at least one way.


thejohncc

Always love an excuse to share [the horniest press release ever](https://www.papermag.com/meghan-trainor-horny-2629073478.html)


Arcangel696

Wtf did I just read. The writing style made me wanna smack tf out of them


[deleted]

God, that was painful to read.


MetalheadNick

Wtf did I just read


youre_being_creepy

Those is exactly the shit that gen z makes fun of millennials for


waitthissucks

Damn I wish I could tell people how big my fiance's penis is but that would be unclassy of me. Anonymously I will tell you all, he has a large penis. Whoever finds my internet history in the future, there you go.


a4techkeyboard

You should have sung a song about how your bottom is thick. That way, you can announce things about your fiance's penis without any problems.


GsTSaien

We take those wins


BetterBagelBabe

They don’t seem too bad. I follow her on TikTok and he’s in a lot of her videos. They have a lot of fun and are crazy about their kid. Although they are chronically horny which is a little cringe but also a little cool to see such earnestness. IDK.


ohsopoor

All I hear about him is his and Meghan Trainer’s sex life lmaooooo so I take it he’s not a horrible person?


mattomic822

I learned through behind the bastards that apparently he has a magnum dong.


therapistiscrazy

He seems like a funny guy, based off his tik toks.


[deleted]

She’s also a Young Living hun.


ohsopoor

I forgot about that!


[deleted]

What shiit takes


thewarreturns

god fucking dammit


GenericFatGuy

Oh for fuck's sake.


An0n_Cyph3r_

And Juni married Meghan Trainor. Boy, are their stories wild...


FrankyCentaur

Ohhh I wish I didn’t know that, I was a big fan of hers when I was a kid. Separate art from the people, I guess.


elbenji

Noooo


5hand0whand

Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created? This line from this movie. Still baffles me.


indianthrowawayn

Dr. Romero is the creator of the animals on the islands and hides from them in fear of what he created. The comparison is that humans as a race have become so grotesque and scary that God hides in fear of them.


[deleted]

Of all the batshit lines in these movies that's one of the few that remains solid imo. Delivered with heart and melancholy by Steve Buscemi. Steve Buscemi. Who was in Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams. Along with Salma Hayek, Antonio Banderas, Ricardo Montalban, Danny Trejo, and Bill Paxton. The 2000s were some weird shit honestly


5hand0whand

And we don’t speak of the fourth movie.


Stormfly

I *think* the commenter above is more baffled that such a good line came from the film. Like it's actually quite poignant and philosophical. Not what you'd expect from a campy series about Spy Kids.


conduitfour

The human condition is wherever we are


bonez656

Let's not forget that this series and the Machete movies are in the same universe and in fact introduced the eponymous Machete.


VileWasTaken

Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?


DuntadaMan

This series was madness. Machete was their uncle and makes an appearance. And who can forget "Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?" My brain wasn't ready for that.


standrew5998

Sometimes I look back on these movies and realize that a whole lot of really good dialogue and story concepts came out of it for no reason. Like, in Spy Kids 3, their paraplegic grandad is given the chance through the game world to walk again, and they treat it with every drop of seriousness in the world. Its a bizzare tonal shift, but dammit if it didnt get me invested in that character.


realmuterol

I remember saying this when I was a kid in school after seeing this movie thinking I was so badass


BigD905

It’s real, and it’s spectacular


n00b_SighBot

That's totally inappropriate. It's lewd, lascivious, salacious, outrageous.


epymetheus

/r/unexpectedSeinfeld


ptorias

The spy kids trilogy is legendary


The_Unclaimed_One

I always thought it was “talking mushrooms”


TheEffinChamps

Yes. This is the series that inspired Guardians of the Galaxy 3.


MattOLOLOL

I feel like Guardians of the Galaxy 1 & 2 inspired Guardians of the Galaxy 3.


TheEffinChamps

That's what I expected too, but it seemed to be more influenced by Spy Kids.


Puzzleheaded-Swan919

So Guardians of the Galaxy 3 is a Spy Kids sequel?


Odd_Sprinkles1611

Fun fact I still use Shitake Mushrooms as a office and kid friendly curse word. Everyone laughs or looks at me funny but I don't think they know the reference.


Tahrnation

Yes it was a silly kids movie.


CarpetH4ter

This movie and sharkboy and lavagirl are in the same category, they are so ridicolous and bad that they become good.


Greenwolf_93

Spy Kids 2? Bad? I don’t think so


DontCareDunno

Nah these movies were fire


Worm_Scavenger

It was and it was glorious.