SpyKids trilogy, and Shark boy and Lava rule still rules.
“Do you think God stays in heaven because he, too, lives in fear of what he’s created here on earth?”
…Is that a quote from Spy Kids?
Spy kids 2 IIRC
North [1994] for me!
Disney’s The Black Cauldron. Apparently it was so bad it like…almost killed off Disney animation for good? But I loved that shit as a kid. No idea why we had it, either. I was born almost a decade after it came out. Eilonwy deserves her place with the Disney Princesses, damn it!
I saw that in I think Carnegie Hall with an orchestra doing the music when it got released. The kids such as myself liked it but the parents were silent.
I know I saw that movie, but I cannot remember a single detail about it. It’s like my brain has purposely erased all traces of it from my memory.
I must have been pretty young when I watched it though, because I’m certain my born again Christian parents would not have allowed it in our house once that became the thing.
I watched a YouTube video a while back about that movie’s production. It was originally going to be a franchise iirc.
Wait, that movie bombed?? I really enjoyed that one as a kid! I even rewatched it as an adult and still enjoyed it!
Granted it had more of a “gritty” feel comparatively, but still excellent IMO
It wasn’t until 2024 that the world understood how perfect it was to cast John Leguizamo as Luigi.
He’s always been a pest to society…
I finally got around to watching that after the missus kept referring to him as the pest guy.
As soon as well started the movie she just went “you’re going to hate it”
She was not wrong. How the man continued to have a career after that is anyone’s guess.
I never liked him much, but he guest-hosted the Daily Show not too long ago and he was amazing. Maybe political satire was his true calling and he just never realized it.
Watch his one man shows like Spaz. He’s incredibly talented.
Watch his one man shows from the 1990s. He’s insanely talented.
The OG Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter movies are dope. I don’t care what anyone else says.
M. Bison’s famous “It was Tuesday” line in Street Fighter (1994) is frequently misread by viewers as a statement of apathy. Instead, he is telling Chun Li that the day her father died was so important to him that he can instantly recall what day of the week it happened on.
I don’t think I’ve seen the Street Fighter movie, but Mortal Kombat rocks.
I love coming across this shortly after using this meme on Lemmy. Enjoy lol
Raul Julia is SO GOOD in it. Campy as hell.
Raul Julia was a legend… I firmly believe that, at least later in his career, the dude would do whatever shlocky film he could for a paycheck, so he could spend the rest of the time doing theater for fun. And he’s often the best part of those movies.
Street Fighter is far superior.
Everything about it is terrible, but it’s saved by Raul Julia in the same way that Tim Curry saves the Three Musketeers and Alan Rickman saves Robin Hood.
A classically trained actor treating the whole thing like a pantomime. It’s glorious.
Test your might!
MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAATTTTT!
Traci Lords remix if the movie theme is great if you never heard it and like EDM.
Note if you do not know who Traci Lords is please make sure you include “Mortal Kombat soundtrack” in any search for it as she famously did porn before turning 18
The first MK movie was the archetypal “It’s good… for a video game adaptation” movie for a long time. Luckily now we have great adaptations (not necessarily movies though) to point to that stand on their own merits.
But yeah, there’s always a part of me that will have fond memories of MK and the JCVD Street Fighter movie. Hell, add Double Dragon to that list.
Hell, add Double Dragon to that list.
I gotta watch it…I just remember panicked guys shoving trash into a van to fuel it during a car chase or something. It looked radical lmao.
Only 4 1/2 stars?
I’ve always enjoyed it for what it was; A campy, goofy movie based on a video game. It never took itself too seriously, and it just kind of accepted itself. Just watched Borderlands, for example, and it was horrible and flat. The characters were there, but they weren’t the characters, just 2D imaginings of them. Anyway, looking up reviews, I found a great one that compared it to the '93 SMB. They said that we needed another SMB, and we didn’t get it, Borderlands wasn’t “interestingly stupid”. That’s a great term. Interestingly Stupid is definitely what SMB was, simultaneously a blast, while also being the dumbest thing you ever saw, and you can never quite put your finger on the reason it(kinda) worked.
Cars 2
The Last Dragon. It’s a blacksploitation movie that was trying to mirror popular kung fu movies, but “in the ghetto”.
It’s cringe. The fight scenes are meh. The plot is… something to do with a kidnapping maybe?
It has some cool glowy bits. 10/10.
Sho-nuff!
Who is the master!?
…
I am…
lmao reads like Big Trouble in Little China … just take out only the ‘black’ part keep the ‘sploitation’
I love that movie
Hot wheels Exceleracers but it’s not a bad movie
Riddick was awesome and I’m tired pretending that it was not
Underrated classic
I don’t know how They Live ended up having two professional wrestlers giving us the worst fight scene since Kirk took on a Gorn.
But at least we got some badass one liners.
I hope you’re not referring to this fight between Keith David and Roddy Piper. First, Keith David’s never been a wrestler, and second, it’s a hilariously awkward, unnecessary, and drawn out fight that deserves love, not scorn.
Was there some other fight with a pro wrestler in the movie that I forgot about? It’s been a while since I saw it and didn’t see any wrestlers I recognized in the main cast.
That’s a brilliant fight. You can think of it more as a very concise second act rather than a hilariously drawn-out fight scene.
This meme makes no sense because SMB93 is a masterpiece.
Agreed. IMO it’s a coked-out SMB fanfic that became a movie, and I love it.
Fun fact, the two leads were drunk most of that movie because, well, because they were the two leads in that movie.
The directors, yes two of them, were horrible to work with according to pretty much everyone that worked on it.
Spare a thought for the animatronic Yoshi who remained stone cold sober for the entire shoot.
That thing was so cool, and disappointing, at the same time. We didn’t care though, we were kids. It was awesome.
I like to imagine Bob Hoskins was a fun drunk
I’d sincerely like to think so; between Mario Bros., Hook and Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Bob Hoskins is a foundational part of my childhood…
I picture him as a fun cross between Capt Hook and Eddie (from Roger Rabbit) when drunk. Im down for it.
I wonder if he was still dabbling in water colors.
Except he was Shmee!
