I don't really know if a story that at its heart tries to sell the message that "Oh hay this judge guy could be the monster even if he's not as uglies as the guy inna tower" qualifies as "a thinking movie". Then again, I suppose I am unfair. An animated movie is not merely about the story. I maintain that they are all great for watching brain-dead.This may be controversial... but any Disney movie qualifies.oh Sissyl you just like being controversial ;D.
However you are not wrong except for maybe 4-5 of them. (hunchback comes to mind as a thinking movie or maybe just kind of a sad movie especially if you know the story its based from.)
I think i'm mostly just bitter that they made a sequel to a movie based on a book where just about every main character dies. Now that I think about it that might be a lot of the stories that Disney movies are based. Man historical and story accuracy sucks. I wanna go back to innocent Disney forget I said anything.
Lilo and stitch and everyone LIVED happily ever after until the third sequel anyways.
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The Mummy.
The Mummy.
No thanks!
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The Mummy 2 makes its prequel look like a deep, intellectual masterpiece.
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Avengers, Age Of Ultron.
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Jurassic Park or its sequels.
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More comedy vein (I kinda like comedies, what can I say ... they tend to lend themselves to light entertainment) ...
The Man with One Red Shoe - musician mistaken for spy, with humorous results.
The Man Who Knew Too Little - brother visits his successful brother in London, gets signed up for "Theater of Life" and things go horribly astray in a spy filled comedy
Arsenic and Old Lace - classic Cary Grant, if you have not seen it you really should. Freaking hilarious.
The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest - comedy in a psuedo tech vein, marketing guy quits to take a creative job at a tech firm and takes on the "$100 computer" project which is basically the "never gonna happen, low budget" project.
Real Genius - more psuedo tech comedy. Another classic.
The Jerk - classic Steve Martin ... "Oh no! He hates these cans too!" hehehehe
The Mummy 2 makes its prequel look like a deep, intellectual masterpiece.Mummy 3 makes both of the previous movies seem Oscar worthy ...
The Hammer Mummy films,on the other hand, have less action, and similar amounts of cheese- but it's better cheese.
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The Mummy 2 makes its prequel look like a deep, intellectual masterpiece.
I don't know... while Mummy 2 would never win an Oscar, it IS fun to watch. And it totally reminds me of an adventuring party. Which probably adds to my fun.
Da Vinci Code and V for Vendetta are my fun dumb movies of choice.
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The Lost Boys. "One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach; all the damn vampires."Woo! Vampire movies! I can watch The Lost Boys or Vamp or Near Dark on endless repeat.
For comedies, it's Clue, Oscar, A Fish Called Wanda, Soapdish, etc.
There's also pulpy stuff (some campy, some almost serious), like The Shadow, The Rocketeer, The Phantom, Flash Gordon or Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
Have you seen Without a Clue? Michael Caine as Sherlock Holmes and Ben Kingsley as Dr. Watson. Hilarious!
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I think i'm mostly just bitter that they made a sequel to a movie based on a book where just about every main character dies.
They didn't. Disney's core animation studio made the canon movies—DisneyToons, their TV show branch, made the sequels. Except for Rescuers Down Under, but that's a legitimately awesome movie.
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I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothin'!
The Mummy 2 makes its prequel look like a deep, intellectual masterpiece.Mummy 3 makes both of the previous movies seem Oscar worthy ...
Am I a bad person because I suspected as much and never went to see the third one?
Da Vinci Code and V for Vendetta are my fun dumb movies of choice.
See now i'm confused I thought we were listing movies that you don't have to pay attention to to enjoy fully so like shallow ploys and alot of action kind of stuff.
V for Vendetta is probably my favorite movie ever but i feel you have to kind of pay attention to it.
and yes rescuers down under was better then the one before.
V for Vendetta is, to me, a kind of goofy and absurd movie when you apply serious thought to it. Not unlike Da Vinci Code. But I guess that's an argument for another day.
So maybe not a movie to over think? I Don't know about brainlessly watch for those two.
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V for Vendetta is a comic book. There was never a movie made from it. Luckily. It could never match the genius comic.
Super confused now.
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V for Vendetta, like Cloud Atlas, really didn't do its source material justice. Which is fine by me, since the source materials for both were not my cuppa tea, but it does mean something of a lapse in meaning and intelligence.
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Exactly. They never made that one. Just like they never made any sequels to Matrix. I mean, if they did do a Matrix sequel, it would NEVER have matched up to the first one.
Ah critics I see. I'm an easy audience and there is a lot of movies I like that others don't. Of course everyone has different tastes and You can't really convert someone to liking a movie that they have already decided against. So i'm just gonna let it drop.
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You forgot Army of darkness!Sharknado... though I think you have to be brain dead in advance to watch this.Which is why I haven't watched any of them.
Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2.
I looooooove Army of Darkness!
I mean, if they did do a Matrix sequel, it would NEVER have matched up to the first one.
Indeed, very little could hope to be that dirt-awful.
(Hated The Matrix from the word go. Dark City 4 Lyfe.)
Breaking from topic guys^^
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V for Vendetta is a comic book. There was never a movie made from it. Luckily. It could never match the genius comic.
Ah, like how there were never, ever any sequels to Highlander. None. At all.
'There can be only one,' after all.
And on topic, Highlander is a fun movie to add to the list.
And Death Trap. A movie, about a play, or a play, turned into a movie. I don't even. But it's got Christopher Reeves in it, playing someone other than Superman.
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Avengers, Age Of Ultron.
Thats one brain dead movie.
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FDR: American Badass
At one point FDR parachutes out of a plane in his wheelchair, which is armed with machine guns, to hunt down Hitler, who is a werewolf.
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Not a movie, unless maybe you watch it all at once, but if you have Hulu, Axe Cop is joyously mindless.
Hot Shots: Part Deux.
Royce.
The Onion Movie.