forced my partner to rewatch Kate & Leopold based on nostalgia from when i was a kid..... and man.... they don't make bad movies like that anymore it was wildly bad but such a piquant flavor
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It's one of my favourite "no effort" movies 🤭 It's incredibly goofy but ngl whenever I have to deal with shit at work that is making me miserable all I have in my head is "I'm tired, and I need a rest, and if I have to peddle a little pond scum to get one, then so be it."
That movie was so fun. For some reason the line that really sticks with me is just the tone the police officer uses when she calls him Leonard while ticketing him for refusing to pick up after the dog
As an adult, I’ve added this movie to the collection of bad makeovers for the female protagonist like Breakfast Club. Kate’s business outfits were iconic! They were supposed to make her look unfeminine but does she ever look good with a bit of androgyny
Yes I can’t believe I ever liked. I’d need to be seriously sedated to ever watch it again. It’s got so many levels of wrong in it including the annoying damsel in distress. But I do like the line about a lady or a gentleman (=any decent person) is someone who puts others at ease. It would be nice
Once I realized I didn’t have the soundtrack, and then looked that it wasn’t available on Apple Music - I just went and ordered it. I figured it must have a track or two I can add to my Film Score Fantasia playlist. (It’s now 13 hours long.) Thank you for inspiring this impulse eBay buy today. 💋
I mean it was just fun. Sure it’s flawed and silly. But damn. It certainly scratched some romance cliches that were perfectly acceptable at the time. I’ll happily watch it anytime to escape this evangelical hellscape. 💅🏻
don't know why so many people have been talking about it lately but it only makes me want to watch it again. love that for a movie that's not really that great anyway
I was (accidentally) in that! Me my mom and sis were walking down Madison Ave and saw they were filming - my sister who is deaf signed “that’s Hugh Jackman!” I signed “who?” and she was in the middle of frantically signing/explaining when a small person in black w a mic asked us if we could move
I remember when that movie came to cable. I asked my wife if she wanted to watch it. She said “Oh, the perfect man appears from the past? That’s stupid.”
So much time asking the viewer to invest in whether Meg Ryan gets the big marketing promotion that they forgot to write a plot that makes any sense, lol.
The only time I've seen this movie was during the Vomit Comet incident of 2002.
It was the in-flight movie during the worst air turbulence I've ever seen. I have a permanent memory of Hugh Jackman saying the words "sweet creamery butter" as the person next to me puked into an airsickness bag.
It is a classic example of a movie that follows entirely the wrong main characters. Liev Schreiber steals the show as the ex-boyfriend/genius. That scene where he says it would be like explaining color to a dog is gold. I'd watch that guy's movie.
im just like, why do the corporate executive and seemingly unemployed (?) inventor live in the same building?? did she move out to the floor directly below him after she moved out?? why did they break up
See, there is a far more interesting story in there than time traveling rich dandy. Each of those could be key plot points to a more satisfying narrative.
I watch the Frampton/Bee Gees Sergeant Pepper’s (ok, just the tunes) the other day, and it gave my daughter a needed shot of faith maybe we have been just this dumb the whole time
Star Wars Christmas special or the Brady Bunch variety hour are good examples of the 70's being what happened when you come down off cocaine by taking quaaludes.
The things that are bad about it have nothing to do with movie making and are entirely based on writers not thinking about the logic of narrative. We don't have that anymore!
And it's bad logic from a human standpoint, not because they threw together hundreds of scripts into a word calculator to spit out a half ass word salad (Fuck you, AI)
It's really something watching 90s movies that aren't good exactly but they get over on looking like real movies. Like they're lit well and have cluttered production design and well tailored clothes, because why wouldn't they?
I've not seen Kate and Leopold, but Mangold made another film that i thought was just outright bad and shut it off after 20 minutes. Then for some reason i rewatched it and found it to be glorius goofy trash with a wicked sense of humor.
I tried rewatching his Indiana Jones movie, but no dice. All it did was make me relearn that it was outright bad and i quit sooner during the second try than i did during the first.
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The harder one types the more skilled a hacker one is.
I did enjoy the old magnetic tape storage.
“It’s Hugh Jackman.”
“I’ll get the popcorn.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V-4JHT2q3w
Yes, it was very stupid, but it had Meg Ryan and was fun.
Pffft to you.
that’s actually why i loved the recent movie Argylle
it’s not GOOD, but it had me cackling and clapping like a seal
but forgivable, bc it’s such a riot
it is however very fun
BritBox is the best.
"I'm suggesting you better pick the poop up."
It was the in-flight movie during the worst air turbulence I've ever seen. I have a permanent memory of Hugh Jackman saying the words "sweet creamery butter" as the person next to me puked into an airsickness bag.
So many of them were at the top of their careers. They did not need to set themselves on fire
I tried rewatching his Indiana Jones movie, but no dice. All it did was make me relearn that it was outright bad and i quit sooner during the second try than i did during the first.
One of me mum's favourites.
Not Schindler's List, sure, but, don't see it as wildly bad.