I think for me it’s alien: covenant. I was really interested in the ideas explored in prometheus and covenant just expanded on them. I don’t get much into the details of why it is or isn’t a good movie.
Luckily, though, HBO ran raised by wolves which really delved into ideals about AI and planet seeding etc. So that itch got way scratched even if the run was cut short.
I still think League of Extraordinary Gentlemen got unfairly dragged. 16% on Rotten Tomatoes.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/league_of_extraordinary_gentlemen
A lot of people were confused about Dorian Gray, but adding him was pretty inspired.
I still think League of Extraordinary Gentlemen got unfairly dragged. 16% on Rotten Tomatoes.
It is a pretty mediocre movie overall, but it is just a lot of fun and I have watched it a dozen times.
Definitely not a 16%'er.
For critics, yeah I think it is 16%er but that is because critics are looking for different things in movies than the audience who wanted to see the movie.
Surprised it hasn’t come back as a streaming channel series of films like “Knives Out”. It’s got a lot of potential.
Watched it not long ago. Didn’t realize the people rating it have no appreciation for decent movies.
It wasn’t phenomenal by any means but it was quite entertaining for the duration of it.
I remember screening league of extraordinary gentleman and all I could think is it was probably not for me. Not to say someone else wouldn’t like it. I feel like not everything should be rated based on its wide spread appeal.
I absolutely enjoy this movie as well! Nemo kicking ass is a joy to watch
16% on Rotten Tomatoes.
That crictic rating though, that’s a useless measure. And 44% audience score isn’t that bad.
Ebert’s big beef with it was “You can’t drive a car in Venice!” and I’m like “You’re OK with 1800s nuclear submarines, an immortal vampire victim, an invisible man, and a dude who can’t be hurt because his painting takes the damage for him, but driving a car in Venice is a bridge too far?”
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. Yes it’s utterly ridiculous. I don’t care, it’s still a masterpiece of absurdity to me. That 13% on RT is a shame.
Also how has it been 23 years since its release.
My girlfriend got me plastered and showed me this fever dream of a movie. 10/10 experience
Kung Fu Hustle is Kung Pow, but good.
That movie rules. Shaolin Soccer is also pretty good.
You’re thinking of Kung Fu Hustle, which is brilliant in every way.
Yes, that’s the one! Now I guess I have to watch Kung Pow as well.
Hell yea!
I’m sure on some planet this movie is impressive, but its weak link is: this is Earth.
13th Warrior. Solid action. Antonio Banderas and Vikings. Dudes taking care of business.
Was that the one loosely based on Beowulf? I saw it in the theater and didn’t have a problem with it.
Aha!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_13th_Warrior
“based on Michael Crichton’s 1976 novel Eaters of the Dead,[5] which is a loose adaptation of the tale of Beowulf combined with Ahmad ibn Fadlan’s historical account of the Volga Vikings.”
Crichton, man. His influence was just astounding. Obligatory “fuck cancer”.
I enjoyed it for the most part, but the scene that’s always stuck with me is when Antonio Banderas’s character learns to speak the Viking language. Hearing the way he said “I listened” made me want to listen more to see what I could learn.
That was a great line
When you die can I give that to me sister?
This is one of those that HBO or something played non-stop for no apparent reason. It took me like 20 times clicking past it to finally watch it all but in the end I was ok with it.
Bears?
IS THERE A CAVE?
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Tron Legacy
Guyver: Dark Hero
Strange Days (get the ultimate extended edition fan edit if you can.)
Wild Wild West
Demolition Man
Judge Dredd
Highlander II
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Jacob Barlow vs the Demonic Toys
There are a lot of fun movies that are considered garbage.
Highlander II
Liking Highlander II is so far out of my worldview that I didn’t realise it was an option. What was it you enjoyed about the film?
Keep in mind i am not at all going to claim it is… Good. or logical… or any of that, but it had the almighty BALLS to go big with being WEIRD.
Judge Dredd was quite good even though Stallone took the helmet off a bunch. IIRC he was willing to do the whole thing in helmet, but I bet the money guys needed to see his face.
Never thought I’d see the Angel Family on film, that was wild!
Bonus: The actor playing psychotic cannibal Pa Angel would go on to be the kindly farmer Herschel on Walking Dead.
Damn, never made that connection about herschel. I like Stallones dredd just because it’s so quotable.
Eat recycled food. It’s good for the environment and okay for you.
The Day After Tomorrow - It’s campy but underrated
Had one gag that made me literally LOL… intentionally…
They’re trapped in a library, debating the morality of burning books in the fireplace to stay alive.
“How about all these tax books, can we burn these?”
Despite not rewatching this movie in over a decade, I think about it monthly.
Freddie Got Fingered. SOOOO ahead of its time. I love Tom Green.
The movie was filmed down the street from where I grew up, so maybe for that reason or just for whatever lack of parenting reason, I watched this movie multiple times at the age of like 8 or 9.
I turned out okay, everything is fine. I think I need to rewatch it to check exactly in which ways it fucked me up.
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Daddy would you like some sausage?
MY HOOVES
Oh yes, that fucking leg break tonguing.
You’re probably being sarcastic but the two guys that already commented on here are totally Fanboys of Freddy got fingered which is you know probably not good.
I’m not being sarcastic, I legit fucking love that movie and all of Tom Green’s comedy.
Darn it! Sarcasm just doesn’t come through in text… But you’re probably dripping with it! There’s no way a real person can say “I like Tom greens comedy” with a straight face.
Hahaha I’m serious! I didn’t see the movie until recently, after it was critically panned from basically every reviewer. I watched it tripping with my partner and it was the fucking hardest we’ve laughed in a long time. Absolutely batshit. Love it.
Boondock Saints. It’s so bad, but I love it.
Oh damn that’s a perfect example of what OP was asking for. 23% rotten tomatoe rating with 92% audience rating
I had to go look it up, I couldnt believe it!
Such a good movie!
I only liked the first one. The ones after weren’t so good.
“THERE WAS A FIREFIGHT!!!” Willen Dafoe was brilliant.
There’s only one sequel with a 2nd supposedly in the works.
This shows how much I didn’t enjoy the second one - I couldn’t even remember if there was one or two sequels, but I do remember there was supposedly another instalment in the works.
Any film where people ride around on rollerskates in a post-apocalyptic society.
I’m especially partial to SolarBabies (1986), but I’ll also accept ‘Roller Blade’ and ‘Prayer of the Rollerboys’, where young Patricia Arquette and downsloping Corey Haim don the skates. Rollerball from 1974 is the Citizen Kane of this genre. The 2002 remake with LL Cool J is its red headed step-child.
Even though it’s not apocalyptic, Airborne (1993) is one of my all time favorite movies. The main character is great, Seth green is in it, Britney Powell, Chris Conrad, young Jack black, Alanna ubach (from Waiting). It’s about a high school surfer from Cali who gets shipped to Ohio for 6 months and has to fit in. Hilarious and just amazing. I’m not gay, but Shane McDermott… It’s also amazing he went into real estate, I thought he played a great character on screen. All about rollerblading since nowhere to surf.
Thank you for that recommendation. I do remember watching it on video, probably about the time it came out. Then absolutely wrecking myself on a hill after I took the brake off my own skates. Fun times indeed. Did not remember Jack Black or Seth Green being in it though. Also you are totes not gay for 90s Shane McDermott. Understood.
Seth had shoulder length red hair lol
I love every stupid minute of SolarBabies.
“You are Chikani!” is one of my favorite badly-delivered bad movie lines.
If you have not heard the episode of How Did This Get Made about it, you should definitely give it a listen: https://www.earwolf.com/episode/solarbabies-live/
Thank youI haven’t come across that podcast before. I will definitely check that out. It is a wonderfully silly film.
Not roller skates but I’m sure you’d dig Turbo Kid if you haven’t seen it.
I had totally forgotten about solarbabies… and tonight I’m gonna make sure to drink enough to forget it again.
the 80s man… phew
I think everyone should see the 2019 Cats. I was not bored, and I had a strong emotional reaction to the movie. Was it shit? Oh absolutely, in ways that I didn’t even know movies could be shit. But it was not boring! So if I were going to recommend a movie to someone who hadn’t seen it yet, Cats would be near the top of that list.
Movies that I actually love despite them having poor ratings…
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Event Horizon - 6.6 IMDB / 35% RT - Haunted house in space. Great performances from a great cast. Properly fucked up. Love seeing blue collar workers in scifi.
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Death to Smoochy - 6.3 IMDB / 42% RT - See Robin Williams go hard on the R-rating playing a children’s show host on a downward spiral. One of my favorite Williams performances.
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Legend (1985) - 6.3 IMDB / 41% RT - Shot entirely inside of a huge bag of cocaine. All vibes, don’t question any of it, logic has no place here. Watch the theatrical cut with Tangerine Dream, because the director’s cut with Jerry Goldsmith is honestly just vague fantasy noodling, and the 80s power jams are at least 40% of the charm.
If Event Horizon has bad ratings that is my answer, love that movie, I thought it was universally considered good though.
I think the thing with Cats is that it’s totally OK if a broadway musical has no plot and doesn’t make sense, you’re going for the experience.
Film has a history of narrative and you just can’t drop in a word like “jellicle” and expect to get away with it.
OTOH complaining about jellicle in Cats would be a lot like walking out of a Smurfs movie complaining about “Man, they sure do say ‘Smurf’ a lot.”
I think the thing with Cats is that it’s totally OK if a broadway musical has no plot and doesn’t make sense
As a lover of musicals, HELL no! Cats is probably the worst musical I’ve ever seen and that’s INCLUDING every amateur production. Yes, school play originals too.
Apart from the not making sense, it has ONE great song (the others ranging from awful to meh), which it repeats so many times that you’re on the verge of getting tired of it by the time the Elder Kitty reveals that cats aren’t dogs.
-10/10, would force Trump, Musk, Putin, and Netanyahu to watch on repeat until they die as punishment for their crimes against humanity.
-10/10, would force Trump, Musk, Putin, and Netanyahu to watch on repeat until they die as punishment for their crimes against humanity.
OnlyESPECIALLY if it’s “the butthole version”. :)
complaining about jellicle in Cats would be a lot like walking out of a Smurfs movie complaining about “Man, they sure do say ‘Smurf’ a lot.”
Thing is, there’s a lot about the source material that, if you’re not there for it, then you shouldn’t even be in the theatre. No plot, sexy cat monsters, absurd lyrics, that’s all there from the beginning. No, the 2019 movie is fucked up in ways that have nothing to do with T. S. Eliot or Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Death to Smoochy is such a good movie. It was just terribly marketed.
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Breakfast of Champions - I don’t care if it totally bastardized Vonnegut, I really liked it.
Mystery Men - Again, I don’t care if it totally bastardized Bob Burden.
Titan AE
The female version of Ghostbusters.
Zardoz.
Hackers. Fuck you if you say one bad thing about this movie. It is glorious.
I do love hackers.
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Rise of Skywalker. I loved it :-)
EDIT - I should say, I didn’t properly read the thread title, and I wouldn’t put RoS in my “top list”. I just gave it as an example of a movie that’s generally disliked but that I enjoyed.
Yeah, I thought the new trilogy were all pretty good tbh.
I wasn’t a fan of the middle one tbh, but the other two, definitely 😁
Rise of Skywalker wasn’t good, but I give it a pass because of the just awful situation they were in.
Last Jedi shit the bed and painted them into a corner, then Carrie Fisher up and died when the 3rd film was supposed to be “hers”, the way Force Awakens was Han and Last Jedi was Luke, and the OG writer/director got bounced. :(
I really don’t know what they could have done, but I’ll still die for Babu Frik.
Last Jedi shit the bed and painted them into a corner,
Definitely agree with that. There was so much course correction needed after that mess.
I enjoyed RoS a lot though - for me it did everything a Star Wars movie needed to do, great visuals, exciting battles, good and evil, ordinary people coming together to fight a fascist enemy.
Ok, lots of it was very silly plotwise, but just as an experience I was left feeling pumped up, whereas TLJ left me feeling like I was done with Star Wars, it was just so awkward.
It’s like nobody told them Last Jedi was the middle part of the trilogy. Big bad? Meh, kill him off, not important. Resistance? Reduced to a size that can all fit in the Falcon. Luke? Oh, just forget him already…
Exactly - I’m all for subverting expectations, but not to the extent that what you’ve made barely coheres to that which came before.
I like Rian Johnson films in general, Brick is a favourite of mine and Knifes Out is great, and so on. But this was just… horrible…
Tommy boy got shit on by siskel and ebert, which is why I never trust their reviews. That movie is a 10.
Who’s your favorite little rascal? Is it alfalfa? Or SPANKY?
I never got that as a kid lol
Maximum overdrive. 1986, coked up actors, campy as hell but taking itself very seriously, 14% rotten tomatoes score.
The soundtrack alone is worth 20%
I never knew I wanted to see a vending machine assault children before that movie came into my life.
Empire Records is a 5 ⭐ film, yet holds a 35% rotten tomatoes score.
But 85% audience score. Critics seems to love to hate on those types of teen movies. Can’t Hardly Wait has 43%.
Waterworld. I love that movie so much. I’ve watched the theatrical, TV, and Ulysses cuts. I’ve read the comics. I’ve played the games. I bought it on Blu-ray the day Arrow released it.
Lots of redeeming qualities about Waterworld. The stunt work, and score especially.
