Dissolve's Forgotbusters: Movie Hits That Audiences Forgot

like, the idea that 3 is when it starts to wallow in weak culture refs

Simon....Rex

marlon...wayans

(that was an arg for...not against.)

Xpost dammit

For my money they were all equally horrible movies that i loved to watch on basic cable.

yeah i mean i have my preferences based on which had more random bits i recall fondly but jesus if i did have beef with someone liking 4 more than 2 or 1 more than 3 i don't think i'd lead with "but it had a corny pop culutre joke!" or "but it had a wack actor!"

Yea it boils down to "which memetic hodgepodge do you prefer?"

Simon Rex rap battling Fat Joe wins regardless

yeah that scene was great

also totally going to rank sheen and nielsen over the wayans bros when it comes to this kind of movie, c'mon

I just realized that this was an argument I was about to enter and then I re-prioritized.

no no you entered it, now you gonna run away

I just realized that this was an argument I was about to enter and then I re-prioritized.

http://i.imgur.com/vTimL2N.gif

He one of those instigatas

http://www.mouthymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/5EInvGx.gif

most fondly recalled non-zaz zaz movie is loaded weapon 1

though i never saw carl reiner's fatal instinct

F. Murray Abraham in Loaded Weapon showed how easy Hannibal Lecter was to play.

man remember when Samuel L. Jackson played second tier Danny Glover to Emilio Estevez and Nicholas Cage

did jackson get those pre-pulp fiction comedy lead roles off of jungle fever or is there some other breakout moment i'm forgetting?

sea of love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UytZHT1ewnI

i don't know why the opening of this scene kills me but it does

weird now, seeing the picture at the top :/

http://thedissolve.com/features/forgotbusters/237-with-jack-coppola-gave-robin-williams-his-sentimen/

In this moment, the film shamelessly ejaculates thick streams of undiluted sap in a 25-person gang-bang of grotesque melodrama.

Prepare to get plagiarized, Rabin. Hard and often.

Prepare to get slimed, world.

Indecent Proposal:

http://thedissolve.com/features/forgotbusters/708-in-1993-indecent-proposal-made-sleazy-sex-look-bor/

In the 1990s, Demi Moore became highest-paid female movie star

http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/1993_Indecent_Proposal/993IPR_Demi_Moore_116.jpg

"me highest paid female movie star"

Crime is a disease, meet the cure

http://thedissolve.com/features/forgotbusters/749-cobra-gave-the-1980s-the-dirty-harry-knockoff-it-d/

A seemingly ballsy choice, but actually quite OTM. I can't remember the last time I heard anyone mention this film.

http://thedissolve.com/features/forgotbusters/877-avatars-rapid-rise-sudden-downfall-and-endless-bil/

According to Box Office Mojo, it made more than 2.7 billion dollars in theaters worldwide. Audiences loved it so much, media reports claimed, some viewers became deeply depressed or even suicidal because the film’s fantastical alien world of Pandora wasn’t real.

0_o

There has been so many clickbait articles about how forgotten AVATAR is today, they've collectively defeated their own point.

Boomerang:

Murphy entered the guilt-stricken dad/silly fantasy gimmick/fat-suit portion of his career shortly after Boomerang, but in that one film, he plays a character rarely seen in American films of the time: a black man who’s also a proudly sexual, cultivated professional. Murphy’s Marcus has money and class. He’s assured enough in his place in society that when a snooty high-end clothing store clerk treats him, and friends Gerard (David Alan Grier) and Tyler (Martin Lawrence) with racist condescension, Marcus experiences pity for the racist clerk’s ignorance rather than anger at his bigotry. It’s worth noting that the exchange is also the only scene in the film that suggests the existence of racism. Otherwise, Boomerang occupies a post-Cosby Show realm full of rich, upper-middle-class African-Americans who rarely acknowledge race.

Was inspired enough by this to actually give the film a fresh look tonight, and this is OTM. The film's vision of an affluent, professional world populated entirely by African-Americans, and its remarkably sex-positive attitude both remain striking. I still wish the romance was a little less boring, though.

oh fuck Monster in Law:

Monster-In-Law, 2005’s 23rd highest-grossing film, is a particularly egregious case, because it marks the cinematic return of Jane Fonda, one of the preeminent feminist voices of the past century, following a big-screen absence of 15 years. A fierce force like Fonda starring in a movie with gender politics this regressive, particularly after such a long absence, is like Gloria Steinem starting her own Lingerie Football League, in collaboration with Hooters.

http://thedissolve.com/features/forgotbusters/544-the-agonizing-dullness-of-alan-aldas-the-four-seas/

The still at the top could not shout 1981 any louder.

btw that review a classic example of the criticism Rabin deserves. An editor could've mad tightened those two opening grafs.

lol @ at this comment:

There's this peculiar aesthetic blandness to much of the studio filmmaking from the very late 70s and the very early 80s, which in itself is also a difficult period to delineate culturally with any distinction. For the life of me I've never been able to get any real insight into what sort of sensibility would flock to the theater to sit through Oh God!, with George Burns AND John Denver for Christ's sake, or glue themselves to the television set for another installment of Mama's Family. I mean when was that thing ever not a rerun on TBS, where much of the mass cultural detritus from 1981 ended up in the 1990s. Who were these people? What had the 60s taught them, or perhaps what were they reeling from in their insipid pop cultural decisions?

Add Same Time Next Year, Making Love, All Night Long, heaps of other Neil Simon plays, Ambrosia on the radio, and you've got the hangover before the eighties begin in 1983.

Holy shit, Nathan Rabin got axed!! Somebody hire this man immediately!!!

haven't seen Oh God! in 25+ years, but it WAS written by Larry Gelbart and directed by Carl Reiner.

tho likely not their finest hours

I have childhood memories of my mom really liking that movie. I'm afraid to watch it now.

Rabin got axed?

Yeah it was on facebook. i'd post a link but i dont know how.

http://thedissolve.com/news/6187-the-end/

surprised they held on as long as they did. (and that's not a reflection on the work they did)

Pretty disappointing. I've known those guys for a long time, and I think they did a great job with the site.

Been wondering if this book would be interesting or just depressing:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419aRd4GZRL._SX297_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

Probably the latter.

Well it uses the phrase "Creative Class" in the title so my money would be on suckitude.

bummer - my gripes with rabin's style upthread aside, this was a generally very readable and enjoyable site.

Rabin (his style as well as his subjects, often) was such an afterthought to this site. He was more of a personality. It's all the other stuff I will really miss. I'm sure they will land on their feet, but I don't know if the already massively constricted writing market can make room for half a dozen more tenured voices. I wonder how long this has been in the pipes? Hopefully long enough to give them time to devise some "what next?" scenarios.

Given the fact that they hadn't even finished this week's feature on Grizzly Man, I'd say they proabably weren't given much time.