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What's your favorite trash movie series to watch? My fiancee and I just watched Twilight and it was a hilarious romp. End of the fourth movie was GROSS though.
More schlock than trash, but my comfort movies are anything directed by John Woo starring Chow Yun-Fat.
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Not sure about movie series, but I watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel during formative years, and still enjoy them quite a lot.
The Twilight book was very absorbing in a slightly uncomfortable way, but I don't think I enjoyed the movies very much. Maybe I didn't even watch the last one. The first person perspective really sells the books, and all the drama around the Edward POV book getting leaked, and its wonderful over the top broodiness was great.
Hah yes I have seen Buffy multiple times, excellent show.
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Twilight isn’t my cup of tea, but I suspect it will be considered Great Literature in a hundred years. I think a lot of things that a jaded modern audience sees as hilariously Freudian will be seen as rich with symbolism to later readers.
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My girlfriend took me to the first one in the cinema and I was howling with laughter throughout.
Mindhunters is an unofficial adaptation of And Then There Were None from 2004, with the twist that most of the characters are FBI agents-in-training. It is spectacularly silly and cheesy. It features, among other things, Jonny Lee Miller doing a laughable Southern accent; the corpse of one of the most recognisable actors in the cast portrayed by an entirely unconvincing plastic mannequin; and Ice Cube saying "eeny-meeny-miny-mo: who's the next motherfucker to go?" in deadly seriousness. Absolutely nothing about the plot makes a lick of sense: the killer's plan hinges on impossible coincidences they could not possibly predict in advance; the characters (who are all, as mentioned above, FBI agents) behave incredibly stupidly when convenient for the plot; and Saw-esque death traps which would require, at the minimum, a vanload of equipment and several days' prep time are assembled out of an overnight bag in a matter of hours, without a hitch.
I've probably seen it at least ten times. It is tremendous fun.
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It's not a series, but I laugh far too much at terrible comedies like Mom and Dad Save the World.
Summary so you don't have to watch it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mom_and_Dad_Save_the_World
One of the better jokes: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dCeD2gF9jUo?si=w6SpJDsQwsSePYon
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I'm reminded of Steve Sailer's post on the Fast and Furious franchise.
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I have a deep and abiding love for the Roger Moore Bond films. And I can make arguments for why Live and Let Die and For Your Eyes Only are underrated gems, but the rest are definitely trash. I love them anyway. Something about Moore's interpetation of Bond as more of a genteel lounge singer than a spy just puts me in my happy place.
I watched Moonraker for the first time a few years ago and, as someone who only watched the Brosnan & most of the Craig Bond films (along with Dr. No and Goldfinger), I was pleasantly surprised by just how camp it was. That they actually devoted time and effort a sappy romance montage of the primary henchman with metal teeth having a meet cute with some girl and falling in love with her, and then actually had that pay off, IIRC, by the henchman turning good thanks to the power of love at the climax, was pretty fantastic.
Some girl with BRACES! No I’m not crazy! They were there all along, I can see them... burned into my memory... that’s the joke! That was the joke, they both have metal teeth! They edited it out, they scrubbed the tape, they don’t want you to see it I don’t know why—get away from me with that syringe! I will not take the psychiatric meds! I hate the Antichrist! I HATE THE ANTICHRIST!
I heard that Nelson Mandela originally made the girl have braces, but after he died in prison in the 80s, the Berenstein Bears conspired to destroy all copies of the original cut and replace it with one where the woman doesn't have braces.
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Only Moore's Bond would send a man to his gruesome death, drop a witty bon mot to his mangled corpse, and stroll off. His Bond is the most blood-chilling of them all, in a good way.
No one does "ice cold" like your nice, goofy grandpa who you forget spent his early adulthood killing men in a jungle.
Right? I have military family - mostly not on in frontline combat roles I think, but they were deployed to hot zones in Afghanisation - and they're so soft and cuddly it's hard to remember that they're trained to kill. I would never be so impolite as to ask if they have.
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