Hi All. So this is my first entry to the world of blogs and I figured that if there was anyone who needed to share/force his thoughts on others it was me. Hopefully you will like it.
So onto my subject title. Last night instead of going to bed around 11 I stayed up another hour watching Blue Chips. Any movie that combines Nick Nolte and Shaq is going to be a great flick. Throw in cameos from Bobby Knight, Jim Calhoun, Jim Boeheim, Tark the Shark, and Larry Bird and you have yourself a classic. But wait there is more... the starting point guard for Indiana (also there is no way Indiana or any of those coaches does a movie like this today) is none other than Bobby Hurley. I think the reason I get hooked everytime is you think that mayeb just maybe the ending will be different. Hoping that Shaq turns down the Lexus and Ricky and Anfernee Hardaway get kicked off the team. But alas...on to other can't stop watching classics.
The Rock - I feel any Nicholas Cage movie would suffice such as National Treasure or Con Air but the Rock is slightly more addicting and heres why. Sean Connery, a sweet car chase, a tourist attraction, and Sean Connery. Seriously he needs to make more movies because he is the ultimate bad ass.
Armageddon - This movie is simply terrible, yet I can't stop watching. I mean no one has actually seen the beginning of this movie, where Liv Tyler is speaking Japanese, yet we all know the part where Steve Buschemi is going out to the strip clubs before the mission. Also deep down we all want to see Ben Afflecks super truck eat it and not make the jump. Also the part where they visit MIR, genius.
Big Lebowski - To this day I have never seen the beginning scene. This movie is so good you always watch it and laugh just as hard as you did the first time. And talk about a cast, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore Steve Buschemi and Academy Award winner Phillip Seymour Hoffman as the butler. I also think that you notice something different every time which always makes it a little more fun to watch.
Tin Cup - This is another one of Ted Turner's favorite movies, seriously its on TNT or TBS at least once every two weeks. Kevin Costner and Cheech Marin are fantastic and Rene Russo is not bad to look at. On a side note Rene Russo and Jamie Lee Curtis have to captain the all overrated team. I'm sorry I just don't get it. Anyways the appeal here is obvious, I swear we all watch it just hoping he lays up, knowing full well he won't. The ending is perfect because rather than changing who he is, Tin Cup just accepts his limitations and embraces who he is.
Twister - This movie is beyond terrible but you just can't stop watching. Bill Paxton line of "he's in it for the money not the science" is so terrible it belongs in the worst movie lines of all time. Yet I think we all watch because one, tornadoes are awesome, and two because watching Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton tying themselves to water pipes and floating inside a F5 tornado never gets old.
Diggstown - Nobody, and I mean nobody besides me knows about this movie. James Woods, Louis Gossett Jr., Oliver Platt, and an extremely young Heather Graham round out the cast on this awesome boxing flick. Main point of the plot is that James Woods makes a bet that he knows a guy who can beat 10 men in one day. The stakes rise after every fight and murder, corruptions, and cheating are rampant. This movie is just awesome.
Honorable Mention - Legend of Bagger Vance, Shawshank Redemption (this movie is so good, too good to be on this list, also has to be Ted Turner's favorite movie, I feel like its on TNT every Sunday), any movie with Nicholas Cage (Con Air, Gone in 60 Seconds, National Treasure) and Top Gun.
Also, make sure to post your own favorites in the comments section.
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Wow, this holds an incredible resemblance to Maddux's article "Five Shitty Movies That Everyone Loves," except that its been stripped of its wit and fresh insight. Title for your next entry: 10 Reasons Why Everyone Should Have Jock Jams Vol. 1-5 In Their Car (An Open Analysis of T. Fitzgerald's Music Collection).
PS, as far as golf movies go, I dunno how Tin Cup AND Bagger Vance both made it above Caddyshack. One of them, maybe, but both!? Embarrassing Tom, Embarrassing.
First of all Fig every article written is like another article out there. And in this case I genuinely like all of those movies except Twister. Also Caddyshack is too good to be on the list. Simply put its the greatest comedy ever.
I'm going to have to say Dante's Peak is one of those movies. Despite the awesomeness that is Pierce Brosnan, this movie is still horendous. Yet whenever I click onto it I keep watching. However I will say that one of the saving graces of this movie is this magical pickup truck, that can drive across lava, and go roughly 300 mp/h.
Speaking of volcanos, what about "Volcano?" This movie is absolutely terrible. There is a volcano beneath los angeles apparently.
I also like Army Of Darkness. This is a B movie from the early '90s. Bruce Campbell plays a guy with a chainsaw for an arm who is transported back in time by some evil thing. I dunno it has its stupid moments and its hilarious moments.
ENCINO MAN!!! hahaha terrible Brendan Fraser/Sean Astin/Pauly Shore movie, who knew you could thaw out dead guys.
Speaking of Pauly Shore...BioDome...Enough said
wow this is just wat the world needs, tom bloggin... now he can argue with the whole entire world and never lose. haha. but in other notes not a terrible article, and wat the hell is wrong with Big Z.
You forgot Supernova. This movie has it all: ninth dimensional space matter, genetic fusion, seven (count'em, seven) completely gratuitous zero-gravity sex scenes, and some great lines including my personal favorite, "the only real sin is regret". A movie this spectacularly bad is a rare and precious find.
First, I would like to try to facilitate these Fig/Fitz arguments before they get out of hand and ruin this "blogadise" (see what I did there, 2 words became 1, whatevs) that has made my morning at work slightly less boring. Seriously guys, keep it to the apartment.
Second (as for bad movies)...White Chicks. I mean correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that Boydman is the only person that likes this movie. And if my 05-06 roommate remembers, he accused me of being racist for not liking such a masterpiece of cinema. kbye
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