Your Favourite Mediocre Movie

[Arrian]

Thanks to the "Movie Golden Retreiver" I now know (couldn't remember the title either):

One Crazy Summer (which the MGR gave 2 1/2 bones).

-Arrian

[molly bloom]

'Endangered Species'- an Alan Rudolph film with black helicopters, exsanguination, cattle mutilation and toxins liquefying flesh. And a government conspiracy. It stars Robert Urich, Peter Coyote, Jo Beth Williams, Gailard Sartain and is nothing like Rudolph's other films.

'Race With the Devil'- Loretta Swit, Peter Fonda and Warren Oates as American vacationers fleeing Satanic cultists, in their mobile holiday home.

'Bring it On'- I've never seen the point of cheerleading (still don't) but I derived mucho enjoyment from this exploration of a peculiar American institution.

'Spirit fingers! Spirit fingers! These are spirit fingers!!!!'

Oh and many others 'Adalen 31', 'The Baker's Bread', 'The World of Ake', 'Death in a French Garden', '10 Rillington Place', 'Cromwell' (Richard Harris completely miscast as Cromwell, but Alec Guinness perfect as Charles I), 'The Deadly Affair' 'Day of the Jackal' (Edward Fox chilling as amoral assassin for hire- compare and contrast with lumpy Bruce Willis), 'Horror Hotel'....

[Tuberski]

Mediocre movies that I have on tape:

One Crazy Summer
Better Off Dead
Bachelor Party
Evolution
Heartbreak Ridge
Amos and Andrew
The Last Dragon
The 'Burbs
I'm Gonna Get you Sucka
Sixteen Candles
Beavis and Butthead do America
The Matrix

ACK!

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by BeBro
Matrix

*runs*

Matrix Reloaded

--> *back at ya*

[Rufus T. Firefly]

You know what nobody's mentioned yet (actually, I always say that and then it turns out that somebody did mention it, so mea culpa if that's the case):

Night Shift - Michael Keaton and a reluctant Henry Winkler operate a brothel out of the city morgue, with Shelley Long as the Hooker With A Heart Of Gold? It's like a blueprint of how to make a great 2-star movie!

[Asher]

Originally posted by Harry Seldon
I don't know if classics like this can be considered mediocre.

I certainly don't consider it mediocre. It's a fantastic movie, brilliant stuff.

My favorite mediocre movie is Road Trip. I've watched it like half a dozen times, for whatever reason. I still enjoy it.

[FrostyBoy]

Mediocre movies have a good quality about them, they're not trying too hard to be the best, and they're not too boring either, a lot of them are much more interesting than the really great ones. (altho, how do you define what is great? maybe mediocre movies are the great movies? or maybe great movies are/become mediocre?)

Rufus, when you mentioned Night Shift, I remembered one late night I was bored, watched that show and even though the movie was very basic, I was still happy to watch it.

Another good mediocre one is Taxi Driver

[-Jrabbit]

Night Shift - Michael Keaton and a reluctant Henry Winkler operate a brothel out of the city morgue, with Shelley Long as the Hooker With A Heart Of Gold? It's like a blueprint of how to make a great 2-star movie!

Good call, Rufus.

[Tiberius]

Independence Day
Matrix
Predator
True Lies
The Fifth Element
X-Files
Heat (that was quite good, actually)
etc

Damn, there are a lot of mediocre movies

[Saint Marcus]

I have to state that the Average European propably doesnt know this Movie

It was on TV here in Holland.

Afterwards, I ordered the DVD from Amazon.

[Felch]

Clueless, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Super Troopers, SLC Punk

[Harry Seldon]

I really liked Series Seven as well.

[Richelieu]

Grosse Pointe Blank (i like most John Cusack movies actually) and Hudson Hawk (although this one's considered more a stinker than a mediocre i think).

[Ned]

Risky Business

[MattyBoy]

The Fifth Element doesn't count as mediocre, but was one of my favourites.