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You guys are all mentioning good action blockbusters.
I'm not embarrassed about any movie I like. My baseline requirement is that the movie have characters in it. If it doesn't, I will be extremely bored, extremely fast and turn it off/walk out of the theater.
Starship Troopers is actually absurdly complex character-wise for a movie about shooting alien bugs with machine guns (and as a military satire). You've got Rico as this rich, arrogant, naive kid who still has a sense of duty... struggles in the military, almost washes out... eventually finds himself and becomes a bad-ass platoon leader. Not to mention an evolving love triangle that spans from high school through space war.
What's embarrassing is nowadays something like Fast Five is a critical and commercial success. Gal Gadot being a girl who drives cars is not a character. That Asian guy being an Asian guy who drives cars is not a character. Ludacris being... oh god, I'm just gonna stop there...
We're talking guilty pleasures, so Starship Troopers, Face Off, The Rock... really shouldn't count as I'll freely admit that they're favorites. What I don't usually bring up in conversation is my affinity for Waterworld. I drew the line with The Postman though. That just plain sucked.
I liked the first Twilight fine. The rest are kinda unwatchable.
I've seen every (non-animated) Hilary Duff movie ever made and every Nicolas Cage movie ever made. Hilary's embarrassing. Nicolas Cage I genuinely think is one of the greatest actors of his generation.
Oh and I love Showgirls.
And I'll second Troy and third Armageddon with no embarrassment. Those are both extremely solid blockbusters.
I like Cage as well. Although I'd rather he hadn't gone the face lift and hair plug route. He looks ridiculous. He should have aged gracefully. Not like he was some major heart throb that needed to do it.
I agree Cage is underused/wrongly used, underrated.
He did win that Oscar for Leaving Las Vegas.
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So Chris, you surely must be a fan of Younger, given your Hilary obsession. I admit when I came across it I binged and never looked back. Lots of fun.
And I've unabashedly watched Pretty Woman a gazillion times. Julia Roberts is just beautiful in that fairy-tale of a movie. She wasn't really a prostitute you know - she turned one minor trick before Richard, and she didn't like the experience. And she flossed her teeth after eating strawberries, and would never ever touch drugs.
P.S. No offence to those who love it but I cannot stand Love Actually.
"Sea Beast" - 2008 is one of the most hilarious so terrible it's great movies of all time, and I am not at all embarrassed to say I've watched it countless times.
There have got to be at least 75 LOL moments, in which all watching literally do laugh out loud!
Most of these are actually recognised as good films of their type - there's no shame in liking Con Air!
Here's one, though: I have an inexplicable soft spot for the original Tomb Raider film. It's silly fun, and the action sequences are a blast. Plus Iain Glen makes a great villain.
I love Tomb Raider (and that terrible U2 video, too). Props to director Simon West -- he debuted with Con Air, gave us Tomb Raider, AND directed a hair plug-era Nic Cage flick.
LC, I actually don't watch any television! Missed Hilary on Younger (and Gossip Girl).
I've got a soft spot for The Big Hit, along with a lot of the action movies that came out while Hollywood was poaching the best HK action directors and ripping off its style. Face/Off is a stone cold classic in my opinion, but you gotta love Knock Off, Double Team, Replacement Killers, The Corrupted, and Hard Target, too.