mrbasehart's Film Challenge! - COMPLETE

[mrbasehart]

License to Drive is another Corey Haim/Corey Feldman vehicle, though the former takes the lead role as a teenager who's just failed his driving test but decides to steal his father's car to take a hot girl out on a date anyway, which turns into a rather long odyssey in which the condition of the car is utmost in the boy's mind.  Despite its numerous cribs from other 80s movies (most notably Ferris Bueller's Day Off), I didn't like it.  I've decided I FUCKING HATE Corey Haim.  I didn't know why before tonight, but now I know. He won't keep his mouth shut.  It's always fucking open.  He's a mouth breather, and the way his tongue sort of lolls around at the front of his mouth like a panting dog is disgusting.  Apart from the problem with the lead being tough to look at, the film fails in other places too: it's not funny, it's totally predictable, the characters are paper thin, and it has a stupid ending.  Fuck this movie and fuck Corey fucking Haim.

[ScottotD]

I think Blow Out was the only one where Haim was the lead.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

Fuck this movie and fuck Corey fucking Haim.

You did get to see Murphy's Romance before you decided this, I hope?  He doesn't have a huge part in the movie (plays Sally Field's son) but he's in it enough.

[mrbasehart]

I think Blow Out was the only one where Haim was the lead.

You mean by himself? Because he's usually the lead when paired up with Feldman. 

Disorganized Crime is a heist comedy from the 80s starring Corbin Bernsen and Lou Diamond Phillips.  Bernsen plays a criminal mastermind in the middle of rural Montana planning a heist on a local town's bank when he's arrested on a previous charge by police officers from Newark.  Having already recruited his gang, who don't know he's been arrested, they set out to rob the bank without his help, while he escapes from the police and finds himself totally at the mercy of the Montanan (Montanian? Montanite?) countryside.  It's not particularly noteworthy in any respect, but it's a fun, lively affair that zips along with enough humour and ideas to sustain its running time.

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[mrbasehart]

Fuck this movie and fuck Corey fucking Haim.

You did get to see Murphy's Romance before you decided this, I hope?  He doesn't have a huge part in the movie (plays Sally Field's son) but he's in it enough.

I have seen it, but the quality of Field and James Garner is enough to balance out Haim's involvement. 

[ScottotD]

I think Blow Out was the only one where Haim was the lead.

You mean by himself? Because he's usually the lead when paired up with Feldman. 

No, Feldman's in it too.  I've always felt they're either co-stars or Feldman's the lead.

Although there was that werewolf thing (Watcher?) where he's in the wheelchair, I think that was pre-THE COREYS though

[mrbasehart]

I think Blow Out was the only one where Haim was the lead.

You mean by himself? Because he's usually the lead when paired up with Feldman. 

No, Feldman's in it too.  I've always felt they're either co-stars or Feldman's the lead.

He's the better actor, but Haim's usually the lead.  Lost Boys, Dream a Little Dream, License to Drive, and Blown Away are all Haim vehicles that co-star Feldman.  They've only made a couple more together, though I haven't seen them so Feldman could star in those I guess.

[ScottotD]

I guess, Lost Boys is the only one of those I've seen more than once (and in the last 15 years) but I'd kind of see them both as supporting to Jason Patrick in that.  Isn't he a goofy Duckie-esq character with a cane or something in Dream a Little Dream?

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

Isn't he a goofy Duckie-esq character with a cane or something in Dream a Little Dream?

He's some old man who ends up in a young man's body trying to find his wife in the body of a young woman in his high school only she doesn't know that she's been switched....and while he searches, he imitates Michael Jackson.

No, seriously.

[mrbasehart]

The Incredible Hulk is the second - possibly last - feature film to star the big green guy with anger management issues.  Wholesale changes abound from the Ang Lee version (which I thought was pretty great until the disappointing end), with cast and crew swapped out and certainly a less mannered tone from the first film.  Dispensing with the origin in the credits, it picks up some months later where Bruce Banner is on the run and trying to find a cure for his affliction when the government track him down and it essentially turns into one big chase movie.  The bad guy this time around is Emil Blonksy (Tim Roth) who's injected with an inferior form of the stuff that Banner got and eventually turns him into the Abomination, which leads to the big final confrontation in New York between he and Hulk.  I liked it.  It moves quickly and rarely loses momentum, has a couple of excellent set-pieces and the cast are uniformally good, with special mention to Tim Roth, who's perversion from soldier to monster is probably the best thing in the movie.  I don't know how The Hulk will be used in future Marvel movies, but this is as good a set-up as any to bring him in.


CHALLENGE COMPLETED

[Tripe]

You want me to lock this one and unlock the book thread now? 

[spaceforarent]

CHALLENGE COMPLETED

Would you like to earn some extra credit?

[mrbasehart]

mrbasehart's Film Challenge wrap-up.

Okay, that took a little while, didn't it? 59 days to be precise.  In total, I saw 56 of the films you people suggested, though there were a dozen or so that I just couldn't find to watch.  Of the people that suggested movies, Compound was easily the most prolific, giving me a list of 26 movies to watch (although some of them I'd seen) while other notables were Tripe, ScottH and THE QUEEN! so thanks guys and gals, I couldn't have done it without you. 

I think the best film I saw during the challenge was Il Postino, though with THE QUEEN!'s kind-hearted suggestions (rather than those of you who sought to punish me) the other's in her list were almost as good.  Other than the obvious quality of those movies, I was pleasantly surprised with films like Welcome to Woop Woop, Brain Donors, and Primer.

Much harder to rate is the worst film I saw: Was it the endless Godbothering of the 70s Christian movies? Or perhas the rancid awfulness of Corey Haim? In the end, they don't quite compare to the feeling of despair that washed over me watching Knight Chills.  A film so devoid of basic competence, you wonder if the people who'd made it had yet to evolve opposable thumbs.  At least the Christian movies were funny in their insane rambling nonsenses about the end of the world, while Knight Chills has nothing, NOTHING, to recommend about it (apart from the cool-ass basement that they cast played D&D in, but that's not really movie related). 

I will be starting up a SECOND MOVIE CHALLENGE very soon, and have collected some of the suggestions people made after I stopped taking them, and I'll be looking for your feedback and suggestions then.  Thanks to everyone who suggested movies, endured my half-competent ramblings, or just took part in the discussion.  With your help, we'll be doing this again. 

[THE QUEEN!!!]

mrbasehart's Film Challenge wrap-up.

Okay, that took a little while, didn't it? 59 days to be precise.  In total, I saw 56 of the films you people suggested, though there were a dozen or so that I just couldn't find to watch.  Of the people that suggested movies, Compound was easily the most prolific, giving me a list of 26 movies to watch (although some of them I'd seen) while other notables were Tripe, ScottH and THE QUEEN! so thanks guys and gals, I couldn't have done it without you. 

I think the best film I saw during the challenge was Il Postino, though with THE QUEEN!'s kind-hearted suggestions (rather than those of you who sought to punish me) the other's in her list were almost as good. 

aw how kind. but now I'm intimidated to find better or just-as-good movies to recommend for the next challenge, but I'll try.

[MontyServo]

I think I did rather well.  I only suggested 4 films, but all 4 got fairly positive notes about them.

I'll try to think of some more for the next challenge.