Instant Gratification

[BrotherRool]

Uwe Boll made a great film and the internet didn't collapse? Why didn't I know?

On the one hand I hate great films with depressing tones and messages on the other hand Uwe. Boll. made a great film??

 

[RTK1576]

A few thoughts:

"The Final Countdown": This was three-fourths of a good film. The ending (which I don't want to spoil) is a massive cop-out that undermines the whole should-they-change-history argument. The movie would have fared better if it had the bravery to stick to a decision, which I suspect is why this movie isn't considered a sci-fi classic.

"They Live": It wasn't as well put-together as I would have liked, but the idea behind it was pretty good, especially in the well-worn genre of alien invasions. And that fight... man, it combines awesomeness and ridiculousness in a way that few movies can achieve.

"Rampage": I really hate to say this, I know how this will sound... but I don't CARE if it's a good movie. Uwe Boll's cinematic sins are now legendary and he doesn't deserve kudos for finally making a good film. It's like complementing an arsonist for building a house after burning down fifty other homes - he's got a long way to go before he gets any respect from me.

 

[shogunblade]

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Moviebob, Your church is being started now; Dollman is probably the single greatest movie I have ever seen. I saw it on Netflix Instant a few months ago, and my life, quite possibly, was changed.

I'll tell you what, The Room is garbage compared to it, except Dollman is epic in possibly every way. Although the sequel Dollman versus Demonic Toys, was probably the worst idea ever conceived. That could have been a half-hour movie and it would have worked fine.

OT: Great movies all around, of the ones I have seen, Killer Klowns from Outer Space and
They Live are the only ones I have watched, I actually own Zu Warriors, and many of the other ones I have heard of.

Thank you for this list, it's amazing to see so many movies that are so different and probably very good.

 

[octafish]

Dear God in heaven. I'm old enough to have seen Streets of Fire, They Live, and Buckaroo Banzai in the theater. And I still quote from Buckaroo...

Laugh while you can, monkey-boy.

I've been ionized, but I'm okay now.

What gets me is all the Thomas Pynchon references in Buckaroo Banzai.

Also how young does Dafoe look in Steets of Fire! Amazing.

 

[zelda2fanboy]

The idea of a "good" Uwe Boll movie is a thing of urban legend lurking in the corners of the internet. I've read it positive things about the last ten or so films he's made. It's spooky.

 

[hwarang]

My I please indulge in suggesting another film?
Please? I'm going to anyway:

Six string samurai.
It is set in a parallel world destroyed after the cold war went hot in the fifties. The only remaining city untouched being "Lost Vegas" (Yeah, I know, you don't need to point *that* game out).
A character implied to be Buddy Holly is heading to Lost Vegas to become the new ruler as "The King" has died. He carries a guitar everywhere. He is also a samurai.

He is challenged on the way by cannibals, bowling bounty hunters, a Soviet surf band called The Red Elvises (they are supposedly a real band and so score the film), the Russian army, ah and a vision of the grim reaper mocked up as Slash. Yes of course that Slash.


The film climaxes as Buddy Holly and Death/Slash have a guitar battle followed by a sword fight as a representation of Rock and Roll versus Heavy Metal.

If you don't know if you want to see that film, re-fucking-read that previous sentence.

 

[WolfThomas]

Wait WHAT!?
Uwe Boll made a GOOD film?

Even a broke-ass clock is right twice a day.

 

[Urh]

Wait WHAT!?
Uwe Boll made a GOOD film?

My initial suspicion is that it was entirely by accident. He probably wanted 'Rampage' to be some sort of wacky comedy. I found it just a little depressing that when I first thought of "Rampage" and "Uwe Boll" at the same time I immediately thought of [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampage_%28arcade_game%29"]George, Ralph and Lizzie.[/a]

 

[Zephirius]

The Final Countdown sounds similar to Zipang, an anime series about a modern Japanese destroyer transported back in time to WW2-era Japan that is all about "They can change history, but should they?".

 

[uzo]

I was thinking about buying an old fave of mine the other day - 'Cherry 2000'.

Not even sure why I like it that much. Possibly has something to do with my obsession with redheads from the 80s (Molly Ringwald, Melanie Griffith, Belinda Carlisle, that chick from Willow ...).

 

[Akaros]

F*** "The Final Countdown".

I'm sorry. Let me back up. This part has SPOILERS.

I watched that movie a couple years back. I remember getting drawn in by the plot, even if it was a little overdone and the characters rather schlocky. The main dilemma was genuinely intriguing. When it was getting close to the end, I was genuinely enthralled.

And then the director flips off the audience and sends the characters back home without making a decision. OH WELL, SO MUCH FOR ACTUALLY DEALING WITH THE CENTRAL QUESTION! Considering most of the movie's quality rested on that central dilemma, wrapping it up with the return of the two morons that got left behind felt like adding ketchup to a shit sandwich.

RTK had it right, it's about 3/4's of a good movie.

 

[Littaly]

I know I'm sounding like a broken record, but I figure the more I say it, the bigger the chance is that someone in the right position is finally going to get the point...

What is taking Netflix so goddamn long to expand to Sweden?

 

[2-part Epoxy]

I picked up a copy of Buckaroo Banzai on VHS a few years ago. I bought it in a going-out-of-business sale at a nearby video rental place.

Best $1.00 I ever spent.

I've since acquired a copy on DVD. In the commentary track, the director refers to the movie as a "docu-drama," and frequently remarks on what the "real" Buckaroo Banzai thought of certain scenes. His guest commentator, the "real" Reno, shares his recollections of the events that "inspired" the film. In any other movie, that would seem hard to believe, but this one is already a singularity of zaniness.

These sound interesting, Bob, I will keep them in mind!

 

[Enkidu88]

Did you seriously suggest the "The Final Countdown"? Really, Bob? Did you even watch that movie or are you just basing your opinion on the blurb on the back of the box?

I watched that movie, because I too thought the premise sounded intriguing. Unfortunately they don't do anything with it. There's hardly any discussion about the consequences of changing the timeline, and what little discussion there is about time-travel in general is just vague philosophizing (Sheen's character drudges up the age-old trope of killing his grandfather, instead of you know, considering how the timeline might change if Pearl Harbor were prevented).

Plus, a solid 30-45 minutes of the movie are just watching planes take off. Planes landing. Planes getting ready to land. Planes flying. More planes flying. Planes refueling. Planes rearming. It was loaded with enough irrelevant minutia to rival "Starfighters". And when they do finally get around to shooting down a couple of Zeroes, there's no discussion on what repercussions that might have on the timeline.

The whole movie was a waste of a perfectly good premise.

 

[Vuirneen]

The only title I've seen is They Live and it was awesome.

 

[Verlander]

And thus, the differences between America and Europe. Most of those films received a DVD release, if not a cinematic release, a long time back. I own a few... thank God for a vastly different distribution system

Cheers for advertising them though. Chocolate is a great martial arts film, those Thai guys really know how to bring ridiculous acrobatic fighting into the 21st century!

 

[Live4Lotus]

Thanks Bob...your picks are better than the ones from netflix by a wide margin...and they have my ratings for over 1000 movies, so you are at a serious disadvantage.

Please post more of these...you don't even need descriptions for all I care; just let me know of some good movies that I can get without paying extra for a disk plan and I'll be very happy.

 

[Artemis923]

Fire and Ice is the tits.

 

[Harry Mason]

I've... I've seen every single one of these movies...

 

[TripleDaddy]

Dear God in heaven. I'm old enough to have seen Streets of Fire, They Live, and Buckaroo Banzai in the theater. And I still quote from Buckaroo...

Laugh while you can, monkey-boy.

I've been ionized, but I'm okay now.

What gets me is all the Thomas Pynchon references in Buckaroo Banzai.

Also how young does Dafoe look in Steets of Fire! Amazing.

No, no, no, don't tug on that. You never know what it might be attached to.

Dafoe was a scary SOB in that movie and Diane Lane was only 18.



@Akaros - They did make a decision. They launched the alpha strike against the Japanese carriers but had to abort when the time vortex appeared. The big tense moment at the end of the film was whether the air group had turned around in time (no pun intended) to make it back.