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Three of my favourite films ever are Existenz, The Life of David Gayle and The Cell.

 

Existenz was a critical success, granted, but most real people seem to hate it. Also, I don't quite accept that any of these are, in fact poor; I just accept that people are idiots.

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Does BMX Bandits count?

 

Terrible premis/plot, crap dialogue, woeful acting. Utterly dire. But I love it. I had a couple of the tracks from the soundtrack on my ipod for a bit too.

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Does BMX Bandits count?

Been trying to get a decent UK copy of that film for YEARS. It's an Aussie film, isn't it? Nicole Kidman is in there IIRC.

 

Every copy I have managed to procure has been totally unwatchable because it looks like somebody has smeared a big handful of Vaseline over the lens. Very weird. Just looking for a clean print.

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All the Hugh Grant films as well, I know film buffs don't like them very much but I find them entirely enjoyable regardless. 'About A Boy' and 'Love Actually' especially.

 

Hugh Grant has never made a bad or substandard film. He's awesome.

 

 

Forgot this! As if.

 

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I love The Room. I have a picture of a spoon on the wall of my kitchen in tribute to this film.

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Three of my favourite films ever are Existenz, The Life of David Gayle and The Cell.

 

Existenz was a critical success, granted, but most real people seem to hate it. Also, I don't quite accept that any of these are, in fact poor; I just accept that people are idiots.

 

The Cell is shit. Amazing film to look at but completely and utterly boring.

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need to get on The Cell, never seen it.

 

I saw Existenz back in the day with a group of friends, it kind of went down the 'what the fuck' route, but i went back to it years later when i was going through my David Cronenberg-phase, loved it.

 

I'm due another Davind Cronenberg phase.

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The Great Outdoors. John Candy, Dan Ackroyd. Awesome comedy.

 

Oh and Uncle Buck. Superb.

 

Again, in what way are these bad or substandard films? THEY'RE NOT.

 

The Great Outdoors was a massive box office faliure, so probrably gets the "Bad" tag from that. I loved it though.

 

This.

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The Great Outdoors. John Candy, Dan Ackroyd. Awesome comedy.

 

Oh and Uncle Buck. Superb.

 

Again, in what way are these bad or substandard films? THEY'RE NOT.

 

The Great Outdoors was a massive box office faliure, so probrably gets the "Bad" tag from that. I loved it though.

 

This.

 

Did you not pay attention to what chokeout wrote or are you just being deliberately ignorant? The Great Outdoors made $40 million+ in US box office alone, double its initial budget. So, in other words, not 'This'.

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Outside the back-to-back awfulness of Crash, M Butterfly and Naked Lunch, no. He went through a phase of boring adaptations but shook himself out of it.

 

Ah, Crash, yes. I actually liked Naked Lunch, but that's probably down to adoring the book, and it had Robocop in. M Butterfly was kind of a noble failure. Jeremy Irons specialized in those for a bit.

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