I love this movie, I remember I was on a business trip in Kentucky it was raining hard, bored at the motel I watched this on Showtime. Even though it is not a great film, or even a mediocre film, watching it still makes me feel good.
Some movies are like that.
Couldn't agree more, I like it. The premise is unique (and of course absurd) but that's its appeal.
my god its full of stars
Totally agree. I remember watching this movie when I was eight or nine (in the height of my Candy obsession) and thinking it was the best movie ever. Bought it ... ouch. Not so much. It doesn't matter, though. I watch it once a week, and have gotten my fiance hooked.
Democrats think the glass is half full. Republicans think the glass is theirs.
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"It's kind of like Funny Farm. I would never rent or buy it, but whenever it comes on TV I just have to watch"
So true, I would never rent it or even buy it, but god forbid it's on TV and I don't watch it... Strange.
I loved it too even though I watched it with a black bar on two and sometimes on 7.
shareThis movie seemed to come on hbo all the time when I was at my grandmas house (just basic cable at the home making a trip to grandmas not so painful). It's just one of those fun guilty pleasure movies that you didn't really care for but would still watch every time it came on.
shareI became a John Candy fan at a young age - and only a couple of years before his unfortunate passing. I inherited my love for comedy and John Candy from my Dad, who picked up a couple of Candy's movies on VHS for us to watch at home while I'd visit him on weekends. Delirious was one of them. Between 1992 and 1995 I probably watched this a couple dozen times, also on rainy or lazy days, kind of like the OP. John Candy's warmth, my enthusiasm for his work, which started in childhood, and the fact this movie was part of rare times I got to spend with my Dad, make it much more of an experience than just a film, and that's how I judge it now even as an adult. I think it stands on it's own as a lighthearted, kind of quirky, pretty funny run of the mill comedy if you didn't have good memories attached to it. I'm not sure how people can see it in such a negative light. Maybe it's just those who expect to only spend movie time on Oscar winners. I feel kinda sorry for them.
I've re-watched it another half dozen or so times as an adult, and it still makes me feel good too. It's also kind of cool that this thread is still alive about six and a half years after it was started :)