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“You never get a second chance to make a first impression.” The ad wizards who wrote that copy were certainly onto something when they created this memorable tagline — for anti-dandruff shampoo, no less! — but Decider’s “Take Two” series was specifically formulated in a laboratory by the world’s foremost pop culture scientists to provide a second chance for movies that made a less than stellar first impression upon their original release.
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Theater of Cruelty: Reconsidering 'Hostel,' the Masterpiece of the Torture Porn Era
Hostel is film about suffering, about our compulsion to inflict it in ways both large and small, political and personal, extravagant and intimate. -
Make no mistake, this is very much a B-movie, but its lo-fi charms still linger.
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'Planet Terror' Was Overshadowed By 'Death Proof', But Robert Rodriguez's Clarion Call of Carnage Endures
It’s a dicey game, trying to do the so-bad-it’s-good thing on purpose. -
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1981's 'Neighbors' is John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd's Tragically Underappreciated Anarchist Comedy
Everybody but Aykroyd and Belushi hated the idea of them playing against type. -
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Growing Up With The 'Grown Ups' Movies: A Deep Dive Into The Nostalgia Of Adam Sandler's Comedies
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The Village People Disco Musical 'Can't Stop The Music' Is An Infamous Flop — But A Flop That's Infused With Pure Queer Joy
“You’re going to be doing a lot of things you’ve never done before in the Eighties.” -
"You need them for experience. To develop leather skin."
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'Aloha' Had Emma Stone Apologizing and Nearly Got Cameron Crowe Canceled — But This Hawaii-Set Rom-Com Is Not Misbegotten, Just Misunderstood
Aloha sees Cameron Crowe operating primarily in a romantic comedy register of the ‘30s screwball variety. -
In a word... YES!
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'Staying Alive' Probably Deserves Its 0% Rotten Tomatoes Rating — But It's Also An Endlessly Fascinating Glimpse Into Sly Stallone's Worldview
Staying Alive is special because the sequel to Saturday Night Fever is, in a sense, the ne plus ultra of auteurist films. -
A Very Brady Sequel is a camp classic, honey.
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We All Know Lindsay Lohan's Greatest Hits, But Her Chris Pine Rom-Com 'Just My Luck' Is An Underappreciated B-Side
Just My Luck had the misfortune of arriving just as Lohan's substance abuse and her reputation as a "party girl" started to overshadow her professional work. -
Justice for Channing Tatum!
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And why are those same rom-coms viewed more favorably today?