Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

If you risk nothing, you have nothing.


or

Outsourcing the elderly

Constantine

Guilt.  It keeps the demons at bay,

I should probably read the graphic novel at some point.  I watch this movie every time it's on.  Good and evil, forgiveness, things you think you see out of the corner of your eye, loaded with religious paraphenalia and symbolism and, of course, Rachel Weisz.

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Big Trouble in Little China

Noodle Western with all your favorite B-listers.

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Movies that VHS turned into cults classics





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Hodejegerne (Headhunters)

Little movie from Norway about motivations and miscommunications...

It's convoluted and fun and you won't mind the subtitles.

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Hard Times

What happens in a small Irish village, stays in the village and then gets exploited for tourism.

or

How many euphemisms for sex and naughty bits can you come up with?

Half Light

Demi going crazy in Maine.


Or

Be paranoid because they are always after your money.

Jack and Jill

Sandler makes fun of Tyler Perry


or


The self-depricating side of Al Pacino






This movie gets a really bad rap.  As a stand alone, it's bad, Sandler and David Spade cross-dressing, Pacino slumming, tired tropes about twins, etc.  BUT, if you look at it as a parody of all the twin movies and the lead as two characters etc, then it's actually pretty wicked.
He has Al Pacino making fun of himself and doing a singing and dancing Dunkin Donuts commercial!  He has cameos of most of the SNL cast from decades past as well as Drew Carey, Christie Brinkley, Johnny Depp, Bruce Jenner, John McEnroe, and Shaq.
His premise is the relative who visits and never leaves, but it's also about how you have to own your past and acknowledge it and move forward from it, because nothing stays buried alive.  It's also about being honest with yourself and being honest with those around you and allowing them to be honest with you.  Acceptance.  Love.  You don't have to like their behavior, or agree with their choices.
He's also poking fun at the usual crap coming out of Hollywood like 13 going on 30 and Big Momma's House and all the tired cliche ridden crap sequels that get made.
As usual, his humor is harsh at times and has that nasty 5 boroughs sharp hurtful one-liner hatred of all things unpopular, but really, isn't Sandler saying things you thought for a fleeting second and shoved away because it wasn't a "nice" thought?

The Wedding Singer

Gen X ten years later.


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"Singles" in New Jersey








(One of my favorite Sandler movies)

Sinister

Ethan Hawke playing himself letting his demons ruin another marriage.


or


Idea from a dinner napkin, never fleshed out...

John Voight

Last night, Phil and I are under the weather, I make chicken cutlets and penne in vodka sauce and we settle under blankets with dinner and a movie. Dinner is getting cold as he flips through the Comcast on demand list and I say "Pick anything!"
So we end up paying $4.99 to watch Pride and Glory.
When it's over, I look at him and say "That's it. From this moment forward, no more movies that have John Voight with billing higher than cameo."
Phil asks why.
"Because anything with him in it is usually bad or mediocre, and if it's a free movie, mediocre is fine, but I'm not paying for his performances anymore."
"That seems a little extreme."
"Name three good movies he's been in since 1990."

He couldn't.

(this is from 2009)

crocodile dundee

it is a movie made of silences

sounds of the outback instead of dialogue

Dredd

Un-campified future cop movie.  Kept waiting for Stallone, Bullock, or Snipes to show up.  except that was "Demolition Man" so I was very confused. Then I forgot and enjoyed the movie.

The Last Gladiators

Sad documentary about pro hockey players without translatable job skills.

Goon

Reverse "The Last Gladiators".   Bouncer plays hockey.

Killer Joe

So, Matthew McConaughey?  You're gonna hate him.
And you're gonna hate fried chicken.