Easily one of the worst movies ever. How does it have such a high rating? A 5.5! Wtf.
"It's Minnie Pearl's murder weapon."
lots of hippy hippy shake fans is my guess! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5YbjzztYb Uo#t=10s yeah! wooooooooooooooooo!
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The qualities you listed make it one of the worst films ever made. 80s culture was sh*t, a time where America truly had its head up its ass, culturally.
I do rate this in my top-10 worst films of all-time, seriously.
Who's High Pitch?
Did you think the eighties were *beep* during the eighties?
No?
Then shut the hell up.
Seriously.
The movies was made during that time, for that time.
In 30 years from now, people will probably saying the same thing about the twenty-teens culture and how it was *beep* and such and such movieglorified it and therefore sucked harder than the nearest black hole.
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Exactly.
OP is just mad. Can't have some care-free fun/enjoyment.
What about my post indicated I was mad? I'm not at all mad--and in fact I do watch this movie every time it is on TV. I never said it was not entertaining or not fun. But it's a terrible movie even so.
Dick, I am VERY disappointed.
i want a prequel called 'coughlin's law'.
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If I had a choice to watch the ACTUAL worst movie ever (Plan 9 From Outer Space) or Cocktail - I'd choose Cocktail. It's not Oscar-worthy by a mile, but it's just a fun popcorn flick filled with unrealistic scenes/lines/plots, lots of goofs, beautiful people (except the Brits) and a cheesy soundtrack to boot. Reading the goofs on this site for this movie is interesting, but there are worse movies out there that have pages and pages and pages of goofs making Cocktail look quite good in comparison. And I always wonder what this film would have been like if Michael Caine played the bartender partner. LOL I know, I know...Michael Caine would not have come within 100 feet of this film, but still...it's fun to explore the possiblities.
I specifically reminded her - bedside table! On the Kangaroo!
Plan 9 is definitely not the worst movie ever made and while it is a much worse movie than cocktail, it has entertainment value that cocktail does not.
Movies that could compete for worst movie ever made:
Manos, The Hands of Fate
Hobgoblins
The Beast of Yucca Flats
Monster A Go-go
Red Zone Cuba
Troll 2
The Room
and the one I consider the worst ever:
Birdemic!
I've always loved Cocktail, I first saw it in 1989, the OP is a bit of a twat really, probably wouldn't know a good film if it crawled up his Harris and came out his ear.
Here are some right 5h1t films::
Severance (Danny Dyer had a large leccy bill to pay)
Terminator 3 (give up Arnold, the horse is dead, no amount of computer graphics is gonna make it get up old boy)
Freddy got fingered (a completed W4NK3R being exactly that for 90 mins or so)
Resident evil (all of them, cos they're just repetitive, re-hashed crap)
Open water (no budget, 2 actors, 2 life jackets and no story)
Sweeney (Plan B as a Met cop- and Carter of all characters- with that fake LA/North London accent- yeah right, didn't no one tell him his records are 5H1T and his acting is f&@ki&G 5H1T)
I could go on if I could be bothered.
There are some P155 poor movies out there and Cocktail isn't one of them.
Open Water (no budget, 2 actors, 2 life jackets and no story)
Are you kidding? Michael Caine was in Jaws the Revenge just a year before this. A far inferior movie to Cocktail (and almost any other movie). I don't think his standards were that high.
shareLOL, Michael Caine has notoriously been in some bad movies. I think he just likes making movies and doesn't take himself too seriously. I would have loved to see him as Doug instead of that Michael Caine wannabe who played him.
OK, so I stumbled on this movie last night while channel-surfing and decided to watch. Call it misplaced nostalgia. I started right at the point where Brian and Jordan are having their conversation about the guy who invented tiny cocktail umbrellas.
My reaction? It really is terrifically entertaining in its badness. Oh, the memories. The 80s clothes and hairstyles! LMFAO. My hair looked just like Elisabeth Shue's when I was in high school: I had curly hair and I rocked the big-hair-with bangs look. I can't even look at pictures of myself from then.
But the worst was the Sugar Mama he picked up in Jamaica. What was her name? JFC, she was soooo unattractive. She looked like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction, only less pretty. That awful hair, the shoulder pads, the horribly 80s-style-tacky apartment. And she looked old enough to be his MOTHER! Was I the only one who noticed this?
I blush to admit I thought this movie was romantic when I saw it back then. Hey, I was a dumb adolescent. The cocky poor guy gets the rich girl with the jackass father who tries to bribe him and kick him out of the house….it was like a Taylor Swift song. I mean, that scene where she leaves with him? Seriously, soooo cheesy. I LOVE HIM DADDY! I'M SORRY!
And of course you have to have the fisticuffs with the doorman who then grabs Jordan. Seriously, the father was such a cartoonish jerk. He just lets that happen?! Oh right, so Brian can look like a hero: SHE'S PREGNANT FOR GOD'S SAKE!!! *saves daughter from Evil Doorman and Big Bad Daddy*. So we can actually see she's better off with him and he really loves her.
And Brian's final line to the father….it didn't have to be this way. Hahahahahahaha! So earnest, so intense, so……Tom Cruise. I laughed so hard.
And the poem at the end!!! I did think it was cheesy back then, but I also thought it was romantic. Again, dumb teenager. They've opened a bar and he's tossing bottles and everyone's clapping and cheering and she's glowing and having twins! THOSE CRAZY KIDS! *sob*.
Those crazy, fertile kids. I predict five children within three years. Then the domestic and alcohol abuse starts…..
Just for the record, I enjoy this movie. I just find it hilariously cheesy. But it brings back some good memories. And I couldn't help but root for Brian and Jordan in the end. Root for them, but be afraid things were going to go terribly wrong.
Its obvious badness is what makes it so entertaining. But even when it was released I don't think people were thinking it was supposed to be Oscar-bait.
'When there's no more room in Hollywood, remakes shall walk the Earth.'
I'll agree that it wasn't much good, but if it's one of the worst movies you have ever seen, you haven't seen some of the nastiest clunkers Hollywierd has produced.
shareIt is a fun, average movie. Watch the Pest, or Bright Lights Big City for some truly bad films. Or anything put out by Trama or John Waters. (Only those two put out movies that are so bad they good: and are fun to watch.)
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Its pure '80s fluff, a guilty pleasure. Its basically silly crap, but I still tend to enjoy it.
What I do wonder about is Tom Cruise's attitudes about his '80s films.
He refuses to discuss the visually-wondrous "Legend". He seems terribly embarrassed about making that film.
Yet he is NOT ashamed to have made this fluff?! Or the snore-a-minute "Color of Money"?
Well, what should we expect from a snobbish, high-voiced Scientologist who verbally abuses Brooke Shields.
"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."
being ashamed of this movie would be breaking one of coughlin's laws.
The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.-James Madison
The only time I saw him mention Legend was years ago on Larry King when asked about the most difficult shoot he had. This was around may be the late 90s, but because of the special effects and the set burning down, etc., it was a real trial.
"Jesus, does anyone?"
This from somebody that gave Speed a 9, and Gone Girl a 5.
Congratulations, you're the oracle of crap movie reviews. 
For the love of god, you're seriously one of those people who goes through other people's ratings to argue their opinion? That is truly pathetic and it's what people do only when they have zero legitimate debate or defense for the issue at hand.
At any rate every time Cocktail is on I do watch it because it IS entertaining. That does not make it a good film!
Dick, I am VERY disappointed.
But if it IS entertaining it probably have some qualities as well. Don´t get me wrong here, I only want to know what you mean. Or you can put it like this. Did the movie had any qualities? Yes, I was entertained, so I guess so :)