Dogma's on Youtube and I'll get to it sooner than later, I'm sure. That I don't think I've seen since I was maybe 16.
Chasing Amy is legit more than ever, but man. If anything how good it is now puts more holes in Affleck's performance, which was already the weakest part. The character had issues at the time but looking at the scope of what the movie is now vs then, but now it's just such a maturity difference that it feels like he was from a way earlier draft of a script. Joey Lauren Adams should've blown up, man. I can't say it's my favorite but it's definitely his best script.
--Joey Lauren Adams should've been Laura in High Fidelity, I realize now. I love High Fidelity, and the novel is one of my personal favorites, but the casting in the movie is atrocious for no reason. The character has shit to do and needs facial expressions as well as a conversational knowledge of the English language.
--Stand By Me is one of my favorite movies of all time. First rated R movie I ever saw. Maybe top two Stephen King adaptations. It always gets me, every time, at the same things. That said I just don't like Wil Wheaton and sometimes it becomes distracting how Wil Wheaton he is, even though he wasn't Wil Wheaton yet. Also Bradley Gregg is in this and it was driving me crazy where I'd seen him, given that he looks like a fake Astin, but I was very happy to remember he was the dude who gets puppeted by his veins in Dream Warriors. Good.
--I got some big issues with Forrest Gump that get bigger more and more, but when it hits it knocks it out of the park. Some parts are fucking amazing, many others are atrocious, and it's hard to figure out the middle ground for me because of it. I also think it has aged horribly on a production level, which does not help no matter how much of a Zemeckis simp I find myself. I always go back to when I was in my teens and every year bought those giant Leonard Maltin guides and loving that he rated Forrest Gump **1/2 but gave Evil Dead 2 ***. There's absolute merit for that.