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Wagons East was one of my favourite movies growing up and my fam would watch it many multiple of times.

It has a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Wagons East…

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Pack it up y’all. We have a winner.

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I thought the scene washing up in the river was pretty funny.

“Huh, cold water usually does the opposite to me.”

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See, I actually think a lot of it was funny! I just watched it a few months ago after learning it had a 0%. I hadn’t seen it at that point in at least a decade, probably more. I also watched it with my partner, who had never seen it so she wasn’t blinded by nostalgia for it.

It’s not the greatest comedy ever produced or anything, but it’s not 0% worthy.

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I remember my parents renting it when it came out on VHS. I think the river scene was too much for them and they turned it off at that point.

I think I tried watching it again at some point but didn’t really give it a shot. Put it on while doing something else maybe. I’ll try one more time for you TheTot.

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Wait, people don’t like that movie?

That’s like not liking Tommy Boy. Or Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid

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1 point

Preaching to the choir!

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In a similar vein, I absolutely love John Candy’s last film, Canadian Bacon. Every time I rewatch it I go “man I forgot how funny that film is!”

Checking rotten tomatos its not quite as badly panned as Wagons East! (0% critics / 33% audience vs 17% critics / 52% audience) but seems like a good candidate for this thread nonetheless

Brief synopsis:

The president of the United States has successfully ended every war the country is involved in and is facing abysmal odds of re-election, so his team decides to start a second cold war, this time against Canada. John Candy plays a former weapons factory employee now sheriffs deputy in Niagara Falls NY, laid off with his friends due to the plant closure, and seeing the propaganda, they decide sneak across the border to stir trouble in Canada, losing one of their team who’s caught and taken for a free mental health evaluation in Ottawa, so now they must take a trans-canadian road trip to “save” her

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Slam Dance

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Super Mario Bros (1993) is this movie for me … it’s weird as hell and it’s adherence to the source material is … iffy at best … but god damn if it wasn’t a fun ride!

Then you read about how everyone hated the directors so much they literally got drunk on set and openly wore custom made shirts with slogans about how bad the directors were AND Bob Haskins was in a cast for most of it for an injury on set and it gets even more fascinating! The Directors poured hot coffee on people and just openly belittled everyone. It’s insane!

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I love this movie. It’s gloriously cheesy and fun. I can see the poor ratings overall, but for 90s kids who were just pumped to see their favorite game on the big screen, this was an amazing moment in cinema.

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yes, this is my answer as well! as much of a nightmare the filming process was for everyone i think it’s a legitimately good movie, not even “so bad it’s good”. it’s utterly bonkers & the production design is absolutely off the chain and i love it.

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Back in the day before RT, it was Ishtar. My parents loved that movie.

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There is nothing wrong with Ishtar as a film. It’s not perfect, but it’s actually a decent comedy. The problem is that the production ran over budget by such a huge amount that it killed Elaine May’s directing career and it became a meme even before memes were a thing.

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Memetics predate language.

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Wow is that article ever terrible. They stated the same thing several different ways for the word count.

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I’m one of those people that thought Wet Hot American Summer was in the same league as Anchorman. Great cast, great music, littered with one-liners, just irreverant enough. It did eventually come out from under the radar but back in the early 2000s it was a total dud most people hadn’t heard of

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Anchorman is good, but HWAS is even better and I didn’t see it till it showed up on netflix.

The HWAS spinoffs are just as good too!

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7 points

I always dissolve into laughter at the ‘going into town for supplies’ scene. It’s just perfect.

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It’s always fun to get away from camp, even for an hour!

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WHAS has an amazing cast. Hats off to whomever managed to get them all together.

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