Reviews like that spared me from ever giving it a chance lol. You could argue that movie is the reason Joseph Mazzello didn’t have a bigger career after Jurassic Park.
Fun with Dick & Jane slander ITT. This is secretly a Judd Apatow joint!!
The bank robbery scenes are hilarious.
Tea Leoni deserves an academy award for being married to David Duchovny at the time. Not her best work, which imo is actually Spanglish (2004) with Adam Sandler and Paz Vega and directed by James L Brooks.
Spanglish is an excellent food movie for fans of The Bear!!! You can tell Adam Sandler legit loves to make meals for people. Lots of long takes with him very casually working the kitchen.
The slander stands. Definitely agree on Spanglish though. Just in the last week or two I stopped to look up that delicious-looking fried egg sandwich he makes during the movie (and horrifyingly has to abandon right before eating in order to have a conversation or something) just to see if I could properly replicate it. Haven’t actually gotten around to the “making it” part though.
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Spanglish fans ITT!
I just remember Sean Fennessey hating this movie. I only now realized he actually posts brief reviews on Letterboxd, so that’ll be a fun rabbit hole to go down now that all of social media is dying.
For Spanglish:
I cannot recall another character as unsympathetically drawn as Tea Leoni’s Deborah Clasky. There are Bond villains with more humanity. It’s just a bizarre choice in a movie with a lot of problems made by people who have done and know far better.
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Ever since the Rewatchables made a joke about the bully kids hanging out in convertibles, I see it everywhere now: Back to the Future, Stand By Me. Feels like there was another one.
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I need to rewatch Back to the Future so that I can properly listen to that Rewatchables. Haven’t seen it since I was a kid. I remember I basically liked it, but I also remember I went around school pushing my hot take that Teen Wolf was better.
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Same, just watched it, enjoyed it more than I expected.
The Rewatchables said Zemeckis wanted to cut the Johnny B. Goode scene at the end, but test audiences said it was their favorite scene. I think it works so well for my generation because you just spent the last hour with kids from the 1950s (our parents), and you could really sense how much that sound might just blow their minds. When I was a kid growing up, 50s rock n’ roll was always around in the background, but it just felt old. Back to the Future kind of brought it to life for me.
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Let’s make a list of movies where the bullies/bad kids/popular asshole kids ride around in convertibles:
- Karate Kid
- Back to the Future
- Stand By Me
- Lucas
- Remember the Titans
Not sure what that first pic is.
The key is that there’s always a scene where the kid who’s in the popular jerk crowd, but is deciding he wants to hang out with our hero(es) instead, has to decide whether to drive off with the “cool” kids in the convertible or not.
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The fact that you identified Lucas but not The Goonies is completely shocking to me. I understand not recognizing either one, but Goonies is like 50x more popular than Lucas, right?
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In my mind goonies is the truffle shuffle kid and they’re always underground.
Imo the film that every other convertible appearance is paying homage to is Grease.
Fair but I didn’t want to post the whole movie
Lol did they have equal complaints about Adam Sandler’s character? The dude is just as sick as his wife. It’s a family of addicts and codependent people finding a brief moment where it’s possible to disrupt the cycle and begin to heal.
Idk I’d no sooner point a finger at characters in Shameless. They’re all terrible. It says more about the person watching whether they find certain characters to be more vs less relatable.
Now I want Framed: Convertible Edition
Let’s make a list of movies where the bullies/bad kids/popular asshole kids ride around in convertibles:
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