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Batman Forever is actually much worse than Batman and Robin. Batman and Robin is stupidly hilarious.

Ha! In the shot for Firestarter, Barrymore looks exactly like my 8-year-old nephew. He even makes the same face when he's serious.

Poison Ivy: Sure, this was the movie that brought Drew back into Hollywood’s consciousness after her teenaged exile years. That doesn’t change the fact that it was a predictable, soft-core mess.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Her rom-com crapfest aside, the way she talks with her lisp annoys the shit out of me and she ALWAYS place the same character in ALL her movies (even the halfway decent ones). I only liked her in The Wedding Singer, and just barely. But hey, I even liked Adam Sandler in that movie, so it worked on the level that it made these two horrible actors actually likable. Go figure.

Really? Not the low budget acid trip that is Babes in Toyland?

Only 12? Like Gigi says, she's the same character in every movie. I haven't seen all of these, on purpose, so maybe I'm the wrong person to comment.

What about Doppelganger? Did everyone simply erase that suspenseful crapfest from their collective memories or am I the only one who's seen it (on late night TV)?

I don't know that I've ever heard of Mad Love, but seems like Barrymore is rocking a Melanie Griffith look.

Yeah, Doppelganger's gotta go on there.

I actually was mildly charmed by Music & Lyrics, so how about throwing 50 First Dates on there instead? I haven't seen 50 First Dates, but I'll take mildly spastic but occasionally charming Hugh Grant over Adam Sandler any day.

Also, didn't none other than Pajiba itself say Going The Distance wasn't half-bad?

Having seen both, I prefer 50 First Dates to Music and Lyrics. They're both in that so banal and just charming enough that I can't really hate them camp though.

or vice versa (since Poison Ivy was a 1992 release and two of the three Amy Fishers were 1993).

Ok...wait a minute. Batman Forever worse than Batman & Robin?!!? Allow me to make a case against that conclusion.

B&R remains the only movie I've actually gotten my money back for. (Ok, it was because the sound kept shorting out through the entire film, but still.)

In BF, Drew was basically scenery. It almost should be excluded from the list on that fact alone.

At least BF characters were amusing to watch. Tommy Lee and Jim were taking cues from Jack's performance from the first film. This was back when these were still "comic book" movies, and Hollywood thought that "comic book" equaled "funny pages", so the performances were required to be over the top.

But in B&R you had that dull to enraging cast of:

• Uma "Golly my lips are pouty" Thurman as Poison Ivy - yawn. And what the hell is that growing out of your eyerows?
• Ahnold "Would You Like to Touch My Bicep" Schwarzzennneggggger as Mr. Freeze (which described his character and the effect of his performance on the audience)
• Chris O'Donnell. Ok, he was just as annoying in both films, I'll give you that.
• Alicia Fucking Silverstone. Really? Can't begin to express my hatred.
• And Clooney. Fucking Clooney. George, Bruce Wayne can't be a tortured soul if he's always smirking.

Val Kilmer may be wooden, but he was gloomy, brooding wooden. No smirking.

I rest my case.

Freddy Got Fingered was brilliant idiocy. Where's your Le Baron?

Drew Barrymore turned in one truly magnificent performance in her entire career -- E.T. -- and has been coasting on that ever since. That being said, Music & Lyrics wasn't half bad, although Hugh Grant had more to do with that than Drew. And I'll admit, I have a certain fondness for "Buddha's Delight." It's so bad, it's good. Om, shanti shanti ...

She was good in Grey Gardens.

A friend of mine absolutely hates her. I guess everyone has their Lea Michele.

She always makes fun of her "Carl" mouth.

(ie. Bill Murray's character in Caddyshack.)

First off, was Barrymore's appearance in Freddy Got Fingered even up to a level of a Cameo? She was the receptionist according to IMDB. I had to look that up, since I don't even remember her in it. That said, it is an awesome movie and I love almost every minute of it (except the parts that include Drew Barrymore which I apparently must have blacked out).

I think the harder list is naming 12 good ones.

Scream
E.T.
Donnie Darko
...?

Dude. ChristianH, you've been wrong about many, many things* before, but never as wrong as you are about that.

I mean, holy crap.

But oh, Mel. You break my heart.

*Yeees, I am exaggerating. But STILL!

What about Doppelganger? Did everyone simply erase that suspenseful crapfest from their collective memories or am I the only one who's seen it (on late night TV)?

Posted by: thenchonto at February 1, 2012 2:40 PM

Holy Crap!
I caught that movie in the middle of the night once after coming home very drunk and none of my friends remember watching it.
Try to explain to your friends that movie and that they actually saw it with you and see how quickly you no longer have any friends.

Oh, so little love for Music & Lyrics. _insert sad emoticon here_
I can't help it, I find it charming. It reminds me of endless hours of giggling, laughing and roaring with my sister, especially when watching the bloopers, and/or the PoP! music video that's also on the DVD... which I own, naturally. Please, do judge me. I also know "Pop! goes my heart" and "Way back into love" by heart. Feelings. Nothing more than feelings.

As to Firestarter and Home Fries: I'm happy they don't make that kind of movie poster any more. They do look trashy, aye? And is it just me, or does she look like Ashley Judd's younger sister in the Mad Love one? (Is it the hair? Is it the eyebrows?)

I'm with you Sam. Never Been Kissed is totally rufus.

And whilst she may do some godawful movies, you can't deny the woman is just gorgeous! I mean wow.

I love Firestarter as a horror film. It's psychological horror with explosions. That's enough to throw people off. It is not a film that will ever please everyone, but it works for me.

I liked Music & Lyrics - mostly for Hugh Grant. The Pop! sountrack/video was hilarious.

DON'T EVEN. Poison Ivy was sooo illicit and good and wrong all at the same time. I taped it and watched it so many times when my parents weren't at home. When I was 13.

I really enjoyed Going the Distance. Charlie Day helped of course.

Just a quick quibble - let's cut DM some slack for Firestarter. After all, she was just a kid and there are plenty of so-called adults continuously screwing up Stephen King adaptations.

The only Drew movies I liked are the ones she made with Adam Sandler. But I loves me some Never Been Kissed.

Drew Barrymore was Zoey Deschanel before Zoey Deschanel was Zoey Deschanel. Discuss.

@ComicBookMan 'Dark Knight Returns' is the most pretenious, overrated piece of shit comic that has ever been attached to the Batman name. 'Year One' is good for what it is, but ends as soon as it starts to get interesting.

Anyway, the only Drew Barrymore movie I've ever enjoyed was 'Scream' and that's because she wasn't in it long enough to ruin it.

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The best one I ever saw was called (I think) Friday Night Lights, or something like that. I actually watched it on a screen that was set up on a football field, while I was in college.

The best football movie in terms of story lines is remember the titans because it shows true struggles the world had to live with at the time and how the game of football brought people from all races together.