Movie Hot Takes

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:I don't think it is, but is it controversial that I think Nacho Libre is the best Jack Black movie?(SOR is second)

StevenCressler wrote:

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:I don't think it is, but is it controversial that I think Nacho Libre is the best Jack Black movie?(SOR is second)

I enjoyed Nacho Libre much more than I expected

Superjuice wrote:Shawshank Redemption is the most overrated movie I've ever seen.  It's good. but the highest rated movie of all-time on IMDB?  Nah.

WildWorld wrote:The IT movies (both the 1990 mini series and the 2010s films) are better than the book. Yeah, I went there.

BaleMaster wrote:Not really.  King has way too much bloat in his books.  

StevenCressler wrote:Hate to say it, but my search engine for super specific questions like that is always ChatGPT. If it gives the wrong answer, you'll easily find out

seth wrote:The Iron Giant is a good movie. I actually recently watched it after having remembered seeing it as a very young kid, but not remembering the name, and looking up “kids movie with giant robot” to find it.
Speaking of childhood memories of movies, there is another one that I haven’t been able to find to this day, and my dad (who I swear watched it with me as a kid) has no memory of it ever existing. I don’t remember all the details, but the movie was animated, had insectoid aliens, and an evil old man who sat in a mechanical mobile chair with metal spider-like legs. He could shapeshift, and at one point said to the kid protagonists “I am your master.” Does this ring any bells for anyone?

Kerrick wrote:

seth wrote:The Iron Giant is a good movie. I actually recently watched it after having remembered seeing it as a very young kid, but not remembering the name, and looking up “kids movie with giant robot” to find it.
Speaking of childhood memories of movies, there is another one that I haven’t been able to find to this day, and my dad (who I swear watched it with me as a kid) has no memory of it ever existing. I don’t remember all the details, but the movie was animated, had insectoid aliens, and an evil old man who sat in a mechanical mobile chair with metal spider-like legs. He could shapeshift, and at one point said to the kid protagonists “I am your master.” Does this ring any bells for anyone?

I remember seeing The Iron Giant in theaters when it came out with my grandma.     That's a good'un for sure.

Well shoot, now you got me curious about that movie too!  It wasn't a movie, but I have in my mind that the bad guy from the Sonic The Hedgehog cartoon walked around in a robot spider thing at some point.  Does this guy look familiar?


I too have a mystery movie from my childhood:  I remember renting this movie multiple times from a long-defunct video store as a kid, but have since never been able to figure out what it was.  It was anime, probably 1980s, and the only bits I remember from it were a) there were these ant-looking robots flying around in outer space and if they got blown up, the head could fly off to escape, and b) at some point the good guys travel to this underground city where everyone drives around in cars with square wheels haha and they're like, "why don't you use round wheels" which was a totally novel idea to the people in the city.