RE: The Last Movie You Watched
December 13, 2021 at 12:18 am
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2021 at 12:18 am by arewethereyet.)
(December 12, 2021 at 11:45 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(December 12, 2021 at 11:07 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I have long been convinced that husband will watch almost anything. I generally am not paying attention to what he's watching but am messing around online or whatever and will look up to catch a couple minutes of scenes that are so bizarre. Most of the time if I ask what he's watching he has to check, he doesn't even know. If I paid closer attention to the titles I could maybe add a few to your list.
One thing is for sure - he does seem to really like movies with explosions...not much else seems to matter...or so it seems to me.
TVTropes has some exacting standards about what would qualify for that list, for the record. It's not enough for a film to be simply bad. It has to be the sort of bad where, even if it's only meant to appeal for a certain niche audience, it has to bomb even with that niche audience they aimed for. For instance, Sly Stallone's made a LOT of shitty movies. That said, the vast majority have at least some small, devoted, audience willing to defend it, even movies like Stop or My Mom Will Shoot or Rambo: Last Blood. The one example that doesn't: Escape Plan 2: Hades.
And as for movies that consist mostly of explosions, there's Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever. Lucy Liu and Antonio Banderas fight for reasons that appear to be related to a microscopic robotic frog that can inject poison into people with a delayed effect. It seems so bound to the structure of the Late 90s-Early 2000s action movie, but is so devoid of content that it's almost like it was directed by an alien.
My comment was tongue-in-cheek. I figured there was exacting criteria to fit the project but I roll my eyes so hard at some of the dreck husband will sit and watch.
Of course, he isn't all that interested in things that hold my attention so there's that...no accounting for taste, I suppose.
All these years together and there have been few movies and TV programs we both find interesting. Come to think of it...I'm not sure we have much more in common than our address.
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