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.
Dirty Grandpa.
It’s much funnier than it has a right to be. Also, Aubrey Plaza really, really wanted to fuck Robert De Niro, and fought to get the role for that reason. Its ending sex scene is one of the most genuine in Hollywood because of that. Of course, Aubrey Plaza makes things better just by showing up.
Critics who hate it need to lighten up.
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
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.
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 don’t disagree that it’s a terrible movie, it’s just a terrible movie that I happened to really like.
Surprised it hasn’t come back as a streaming channel series of films like “Knives Out”. It’s got a lot of potential.
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.
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?”
Tron: Legacy
Also Ready Player One. I like the movie where the person go into the computer :)
That’s one where I really think they missed the mark compared to the book. I thought the book was really well done, and had a great premise. Idk the movie just left a sour taste in my mouth. I highly recommend reading/listening to the book
I saw somewhere on reddit recently calling the book worse than the movie. I liked the book only because I got to envision my version of all the nostalgic iconography. I’m not sure why reddit was hating.
Reddit is full of idiots who don’t have opinions and just jump on the bandwagon
I’m glad that you enjoyed it, but listening to the audiobook was one of the most aggravating reading experiences I’ve had. There were cool bits, but every chapter or two my eyes would glaze over for a minute as Wil Wheaton read off a list of things from the 80’s for a paragraph or two, interrupting whatever flow the book had going on at the time to cram ‘memberberries down my throat. I prefer the movie because I can look at the ‘memberberry references without them interrupting the other cool bits.
Okay that’s fair lol, I didn’t know wil read it. I listened to him in Third Eye and he got… Annoying
Lol, I really like premise too. It can be done better, tho.
That’s why I support all sorts of sci-fi that is complete garbage. I want the genre to thrive and if we stop showing up Hollywood stops giving money.
I like the movie where the person go into the computer
Have I got an MST3K for you then… Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
It’s a work of art.
A simple tropey story to hang some amazing visual and aural art off.
I watch it often.
I’ve watched it when I was younger a couple of times but for me personally it was just a movie I watched amd the idea of rewatching it feels boring to me
The Daft Punk soundtrack against the hyper-electronic visuals is a fantastic blend for the senses.
Give me the soundtrack, that’s all I need.
Titan A.E
Grandma’s Boy
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Dude I fuckkkkking Loved Titan AE. Such a good movie for its time when adult cartoons weren’t everywhere. Cartoons at the time were all hand hold-y and made for kids; it was such a breath of fresh air.
Well, I believe Pixar was around, but this was a great scifi epic, too, with a fantastic soundtrack, cast, and just everything. I too adore it to death. Long live Planet Bob.
Lincoln fucking rocks!
No, that was the lame one by some hack, that didn’t even have any vampires in it. This was the true masterpiece.
Grandma’s boy has a really high rating for a comedy. And for good reason. I loved it.
For horror, 6+ is great, comedy generally 7+. Harder to make everyone laugh or be scared.
It has a 15% critic rating on RT.
6.9 on IMDb. Hmm.
Well, good, at least everyone isn’t completely insane.
Haven’t seen Titan A.E. in a long time. Great film. Definitely need to rewatch it.
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.
The girl ghost busters was rated pretty good though, wasn’t it?
Mystery Men & Hackers are among my guilty pleasures.
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Ice Pirates (1984) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087451/
Anjelica Huston
Ron Perlman
Mary Crosby
John Matuszak
John Carradine
Well it’s not a shit rating but I do think A Knight’s Tale is way better than its mediocre scores. Perfect comfort movie.
A Knight’s tale is a cult classic. That it’s not well rated is absurd.
Edit: it’s 1% shy of a fresh rating on rotten tomatoes and has an audience score of 79%.
woah
they made a white version of Black Knight (2001)?
They came out the same year.
‘but it’s not historically accurate!’
Y’get to see heath ledger in armor win the girl, bust heads, and have a grand time doing it! All to a solid soundtrack.
The lack of historical accuracy also isn’t due to a lack of research, but a deliberate style and tone choice, as demonstrated at the very beginning of the movie when the trumpeters play We Will Rock You and the crowd claps and stomps along.
Really, cool. I’ll have to watch it one of these days, if it ever comes up on streaming
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Tell me about it. Anybody who saw the first few minutes of the film and still expected the rest to be historicaly accurate should probably get tested for autism. The director made it clear from the very start that A Knight’s Tale is satire.
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.
That movie rules. Shaolin Soccer is also pretty good.
Shaolin Soccer is the greatest masterpiece ever created with film.
The mistreatment of the female lead was a little too over the top, but otherwise 10/10 good film
You’re thinking of Kung Fu Hustle, which is brilliant in every way.
Hell yea!
What constitutes a “shit rating?”
Big Trouble in Little China is 7.2/10 on IMDB, and it got positive reviews; it was, however, a commercial failure, making only half what it cost to produce. Great movie.
Wizards rates only 6.3/10 on IMDB, although it did well at the box office. That may be my favorite movie of all time.
Dredd failed at the box office but gets a 7.1 from IMDB. I think it’s grossly underrated.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a 6.4 and generally gets poor reviews; it did fine at the box office. But I love that film.
If you want you get esoteric, Lord Love a Duck (1966) was a financial failure and gets only 6.3 from IMDB, but it’s wonderful.
Disney’s 1979 The Black Hole gets a 5.9 and didn’t do well. It’s a lot of fun and the ending is an acid trip.
The Prophesy (1995) got really bad reviews and 46% on Rotten Tomatoes, proving there’s no accounting for taste. Absolutely worth watching.
Hawk the Slayer (1980), 5.3, is in the “it’s so bad it’s good” category. This includes Zardoz (1974), and Krull.
And, Dune (1984). 6.3 IMDB, total loss at the box office, and one of the best movies of all time. I kinda think Herbert might have hated it where he’d have liked 2021, but the cast, the atmosphere, the music, the hyperbolic representations of the characters; it is a masterpiece. And it features a young, mostly naked Sting (which is the lure I used to use to get my girlfriends to watch it).
S.O.B. (1981). 6.4 IMDB, but 81% RT. Box office failure. Hilarious, and a topless Julie Andrews (sigh).
Red Dawn (1984). 6.3/48%. Not my favorite movie, but worth a watch. Surprising decision to not utterly vilify (unhumanize) the Russian antagonists.
You just listed a bunch of great films. All of them reason to ignore the reviews and ratings. I love Big Trouble. One of Russel’s campiest and most fun films.
Thanks!!
Big Trouble may be one of the Great Movies. Honestly, I think it’s just about perfect; for being so over-the-top, the characters are both imperfect and utterly believable. Even Lo Pan.
I think (my own personal opinion) is that Big Trouble in Little China did something so crazy and wacky that no one actually recognised it at the time.
If you look at the film from a certain perspective, Jack Burton was the sidekick, and Wang was the main character. And they just filmed it from the perspective of the sidekick who thinks he’s the main character, which is a conceit I’ve always adored.
Excellent! I love that perspective. Seriously, it’d be a shorter film, but you could actually do a cut with Wang as the lead, and it’d work. Although, Gracey makes that a little harder; there isn’t much to work with on the Miao Yin romance angle; there are almost no scenes with her and Wang, except at the end, and she’s not a very active character.
Regardless, that’s a great view!
Wait what? Big trouble in little china got- Pardon I’m gonna need to process that for a moment as that’s one of the few things me and my stepdad will call time out on arguments on. It’s a great carpenter adventure movie. It’s literally a sendup of the modenr john wayne archatype. Hell, jack isn’t even stupid, he’s just, to borrow a tv tropes term, wrong genre savvy. Also I recommend the boom comics when/if you can.
it contextualizes him refusing to kiss Grace Law at the end and… it is utter heartache in the best way.
Dredd … needed a netflix mega city one police proceedural followup. with Urban’s Dread showing up a couple times when thigns get above everyone’s heads both to prevent his overuse and to remind everyone WHY he is feared.
I’m gonna admit i saw the Dune novels as overrated, but i liked that the 80’s movie tried to have fun while telling the story.
Well at the point red dawn was made, we were starting to thaw on the russians, even as Regan kept juicing the Empire of Evil rhetoric. The message ‘war destroys everyone’ is a good one.
I really do not know why Dredd didn’t get a sequel. I thought it did pretty well in theaters.
It didn’t. It cost them $30-40M to make, and only grossed $41.5M at the box office. Studios don’t make sequels for break-even films.
It got good reviews, fans liked it - even John Wagner, the guy who created the character, liked it. I don’t know why it did so poorly at the theaters.
They filmed it in 3D, a BluRay of which I’m a proud owner, and it’s fantastic in 3D. It also explains some of the framing of many of the shots, even though (I think) they also work fine in 2D.
Bladerunner 2049.
I know a lot of people disliked it compared to the first one, even Ridley Scott himself. But I love the direction Denis Villeneuve took this film in.
Did people dislike it compared to the first one? It’s got an 88% on rotten tomatoes, and anyone I’ve talked with about the films prefers the second one.
I agree with you, by the way, I just don’t think that’s the unpopular take (Ridley’s opinion is meaningless at this point).
Ridley Scott is famous for his shit opinions. When he released The Last Duel in the middle of COVID, he complained that “them kids can’t even get off their phone for 2 hours to enjoy art” as thr primary reason it wasn’t making money.
One of the few sequels that did credit to the original. Like the original Alien trilogy, it’s best if you consider them movies in the same universe but different genres. Like, Aliens (I) was a suspense; II was a sci-fi action; III was a horror thriller.
Maybe the Blade Runners weren’t so very different in genre, but yeah - good sequel, and in its way faithful to the original.
Gorgeous film
I love BR2049. In fact I think I liked it more than the original, and that’s saying something.
This is my all time favourite movie, whereas the first probably isn’t in the top 5, low top 10 max.
Maximum overdrive. 1986, coked up actors, campy as hell but taking itself very seriously, 14% rotten tomatoes score.
I never knew I wanted to see a vending machine assault children before that movie came into my life.
The soundtrack alone is worth 20%
The entire soundtrack is an AC/DC album, it’s written by Stephen King, it has 80s era Emelio Estevez and the voice of Lisa Simpson AND that badass Green Goblin truck!
That movie is at least 50%, it’s just too fun to be any lower.
Jupiter Ascending is, in my opinion, a masterpiece. Bees can sense royalty? Fantastic. The bureaucracy android having to bribe his way through the system he was literally created to navigate? Marvelous. Don’t even get me started on the air roller skates. Eddie Redmayne’s four million year old teenager was perfection too. Two volume levels: harsh whisper or screaming.
It was marketed as some kind of amazing epic, so people approached it wrong I think. It was a Wachowski film. What were they expecting? I went in there assuming it’d be like their Speed Racer movie, but in space. I was not disappointed.
Second vote would be for Speed Racer, lol.
Dragonheart (1996)
Godzilla (1998)
Aeon Flux (2005)
Next (2007) - thought it was funny
3 Ninjas (1992) - classic
3 ninjas absolutely rocked. Especially when they went to Japan, they played a song during the montage training scene that sounded like Blondie’s rapture. Loved that movie growing up.
Me too! “Rocky loves… Emily… Rocky loves! Emily!”
Oh man I loved Dragonheart as a kid! I haven’t seen it in ages! Guess I know what I’m watching tonight!
Love to spark a Dragonheart watch! :D
Not the worst rating at around a 60% on Rotten Tomatoes and around a 6.5 on IMBD, but I absolutely without question love An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.
Definitely a fun “sequel” with a lighter tone than the original. Though I will definitely say the Native American mice scenes are definitely outdated and a product of their time if you ask me.
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