Ask Lemmy

I am not an anime nerd at all, but I do like cinema and good tv.

90s anime is best anime.

You have good tastes.

Bebop is great and what a great/strong soundtrack.

Eva is much more than mech fights. A lot more.

Good stuff.

The thing about Waterworld is that it's a) a lot of fun, and b) absolutely terrible, but it's only terrible in the way that most movies of that time were terrible. It has this outsized reputation for being bad which is mostly down to the fact that it lost a lot of money (because it was extremely expensive to shoot and audiences immediately clocked it as being a Mad Max rip off with no new ideas to bring to the table). It's no more awful than any other summer action blockbuster of its time, and it has plenty of fun moments in amongst all the usual trash.

It is a terrible movie that is also a glorious spectacle and everyone (except Kevin Costner) is fantastic. Nothing makes any sense, but is fun to see and frequently illogically clever.

Watched it last week!

I've never understood why everyone dislikes this movie. I've loved it since I first watched it.

The only part of the movie that I can't stand is the big ending and whats her name can't STFU in the background asking stupid question. Her voice just grates on me

Same when she is screaming in "Goodfella's"

Actually, I think it's lack of accuracy is kind of brilliant. It was weird in the day, but it has allowed the movie to be watchable far into the future without being terrible. Like watching it today the only time it gets cringey is when they specifically mention tech specs. e. g. 28.8 kbs modem. If they would have left that out it would fit in most time periods, by not really fitting into any of them.

Crash... and Burn!

I watch this at least annually just because. Mix of cheese, nostalgia, I don't know.

Hack the planet.

I saw it in the theater as a teenager. I thought it was hilarious. Saw it again 15 years later and was like "this is trash, how did I like this?" Last rewatch I was like "the camp is actually brilliant."

hudson hawk gets rewatched here all the time. it is a good movie.

A knights table is one of the stupidest movies she's ever seen?

Wow, she's got a lot of stupid movie catching up to do

I remember when deep impact came out. I wrote "deep impact" on my arm to tell my friend about it after i saw the trailer. I thought it's gonna ve the biggest thing ever. I only remember the movie being boring, but it's one of the movies i wanna rewatch

I feel personally attacked. It's better than the first film.

Los locos kick your ass, los locos kick your face, los locos kick your balls into outer spaaaaace!

A great performance by Michael McKean as always.

We just don't talk about Fisher Stevens. Poor guy deeply regrets the role.

Punked out Johnny Five is the best Johnny Five.

Why would you be ashamed of this?

Some movies are just good fun, and Nicolas Cage is frankly in a lot of those kind of flicks. Con Air is up there, too.

WANNA DATE?!

I went to my town's local fireworks display the other day, and I saw a guy wearing a Frankenhooker tshirt just out in the wild!

I thought it was hilarious John Liguzamo was talking so much bullshit about having the race actor/acress matching the characters race. As he played a fuckibg Italian plumber as a Columbian. Dudes a total hypocrite.

There is no regret in loving this movie, it is a masterpiece.

Terrible answer, who would be ashamed?

Robocop singing power ballads.

Jeff Goldblum in a goofy cowboy outfit.

John Lithgow as a scientist gone mad from what he's seen and Christopher Lloyd as a weird alien.

God it's a fucking treasure along the lines of Big Trouble in Little China.

I saw that at a drive in theatre.

best lucas film, best marvel film, peak lea thompson. all in one package. hell yea!

You monster.

That movie, in my mind, hinges on the premise, delivered by Stanley Tucci: "but what if we could?"

I know he's not the first and won't be the last, but damn if that didn't annoy me back in '03. It was just so.. gutless as a sci-fi explainer.

I love this movie and I have never seen any of it as being pedo. I have always felt that love being expressed in was between 2 abused people finding a kinship and love that they had both always been denied. It's about a child who loves and adores her savior and first person to ever be a parental figure. Someone who literally goes on a massive killing spree and gives up his own life to save her. And it's about someone who has been isolated and unloved his entire life suddenly finding his first real friendship and first real experience of someone loving him with no reservations, expectations, or demands. The type of love that only an innocent child can express towards a parent or caretaker. The movie does this amazing job of framing the development of this beautiful and deep kinship inside of an incredibly violent action movie. I adore this movie and the amazing acting and directing that went into it. I really wish that the director wasn't a complete and certified pedo, but I think that it's entirely possible that everyone came together and made this a beautiful movie despite, and even in spite of, the director being a pedo.

So, Luc Besson is, absolutely, a creep, no question about that, but I've never actually seen any believable evidence of this claim about making the film "explicitly pedo."

Yes, I'm aware of the snippet of an "early script draft" going around with a sex scene between Leon and Mathilda. But I've only ever seen that one snippet. I've never been able to find a copy of the full draft it purports to be from and I've never been able to find any evidence that said draft actually exists. None of the actors have ever talked about it, which is weird given that you'd think at least Natalie Portman would right? She's reached peak "Not having to give a fuck." I do know that what Portman has said about her time on the movie has been entirely positive. She never seemed to feel that there was any danger to her from the material, even looking back as an adult.

I'm absolutely willing to be wrong here. If there's evidence that I've missed, I'm willing to see it (almost said 'happy to see it' but obviously 'happy' wouldn't be the right word here), but as far as I can tell it's just a sensational rumour someone invented for clicks because it sounded believable enough after all the other stuff came out about Besson.

As regards what is there in the movie, well, yeah, it's supposed to be really uncomfortable. It's a story about two people who are, each in their own way, deeply vulnerable to exploitation. Exploitation is a common theme in Besson's work, which is horribly ironic really (like Gaiman it sort of feels like he was telling on himself). I'm not sure if I agree with the idea of feeling "ashamed" of liking a movie that explores serious themes in a serious way. The world is full of terrible things and we need art that explores that effectively. For all the creator's flaws, Leon The Professional is a very effective and well crafted story.