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.
Tommy boy got shit on by siskel and ebert, which is why I never trust their reviews. That movie is a 10.
Last action hero. I think the people don’t understand that the film does it all on purpose.
It is a love letter to action movies while acknowledging that those are stupid.
It’s a fantastic movie that was just a bit late for the spoof movies of the late 70s/80s and too soon for the torrent of them in the 2000s.
‘I am the famous comedian Arnold Braunschweiger’ is not only something I say to my wife without context but also makes me laugh uproariously.
I don’t know how people couldn’t understand it was poking fun at all the ‘80s action heroes, especially Schwarzenegger himself. It’s a fun movie.
One could argue it is a demonstrative of every 80’s action movie trope, then going straight into the 90’s tropes list, and it does so with a smile.
That movie is so highly underrated.
The Hamlet trailer is worth watching it for alone.
The movie, and the ACDC song wasn’t received well either, maybe because of the movie? Big Gun rocks.
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.
You’re thinking of Kung Fu Hustle, which is brilliant in every way.
And I think it doesn’t qualify, because it was fairly well reviewed and did quite well at the box office.
Yes, that’s the one! Now I guess I have to watch Kung Pow as well.
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
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.
Hell yea!
Tiger
Bird
it’s an interesting and funny concept, but its just too much in the format of a whole film for me. I think its funny for the most part but its too much at like the 25% mark
I’m sure on some planet this movie is impressive, but its weak link is: this is Earth.
my answer for this is always BASEketball
one of the funniest movies of all time yet only has 41% on RT
I hear your sister’s going out with Squeak!
I swear if you guys rip on me 13 or 14 more times, I’m outta here dude.
Dude.
Dude. No said no more journey psych outs
You kids and your Dan Fogelberg and your Zima (I may be misremembering)
What’s a bajoina?
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.
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.
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.
Really, cool. I’ll have to watch it one of these days, if it ever comes up on streaming
Cancel all your subscriptions and look into Stremio + Torrentio + Real-Debrid. For $3/mo you could have any show or movie you want, streamed directly to your TV, without having to wait for it to “come up on streaming”.
Literally the opening scene of the movie.
Thanks, that certainly makes it seem like a fun movie. I wonder how many ren faires did that back then
Dude Where’s My Car is one of my favorite movies with the worst rating of all time.
This used to be one of my favorites. I tried watching this again, high as a kite, with my wife the other day and we made it 35 minutes in before going back to rewatching I Think You Should Leave for the 100th time.
I hope there’s gonna be another season of that. It’s so fucking good.
Check out the movie Friendship. Gonna be so fuckin good.
Itysl memes have become the way my wife and I communicate. It’s wild the impact that that show has had on us lmao
And then?
Sweet! What does mine say?
Its mystery is exceeded only by its power.
That was going to be my answer too. I enjoy that movie and don’t care what people think.
That movie is so dumb. I LOVE 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.
Little Nicky, with an IMDB rating of 5,3 lol. I guess it’s a nostalgia thing.
Little Nicky is the shiznit!
The deep south.
I still quote that movie to this day. Especially if I eat Popeyes Chicken
Release the evil
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.
I JUST rewatched Gone in Sixty Seconds on a whim, on like Thursday, and spotted that it apparently has a 38% critic rating from Rotten Tomatoes. Fuck that noise, that movie is a materpiece of filmography.
This is the movie we use to test our systems. Soundtrack rocked, it’s my fiances favorite.
Agreed! I love to hate gone in sixty seconds, I feel the same way about the need for speed movie as well. If you haven’t seen it I recommend watching the NFS movie.
Super Mario Bros (1993)
It was objectively a trainwreck but it was awesome when you were 8 and It brought video games to the big screen for the first time. I will always love it.
There are dozens of us who agree. Dozens.
Shout-out to the fansite: https://smbmovie.com/
My friend Garrett Gilchrist has bee trying to restore that movie to something closer to Morton and Jankel’s original vision for years now. I keep meaning to watch it because I do think that the movie had a lot of good ideas even if it was a mess.
https://archive.org/details/super-mario-bros-1993-the-morton-jankel-cut-extended-vhs_202207
People also forget that what most Americans knew about Mario at the time was that he jumped on mushrooms and turtles to rescue the princess.
But Morton and Jankel made both versions of the Max Headroom TV series. I absolutely give them credit.
Maximum overdrive. 1986, coked up actors, campy as hell but taking itself very seriously, 14% rotten tomatoes score.
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.
I never knew I wanted to see a vending machine assault children before that movie came into my life.
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!
This guy just won the thread. 🥇
Gee, thanks!
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.
Great choices, I gotta watch the ones you mentioned I haven’t seen yet.
I just ignore imdb all together. The ratings they give are not useful and seem almost random.
Yeah, normally I do. It just happened my quick-n-dirty web searches were returning mostly IMDB and rarely Rotten Tomatoes, so that’s what I used.
Wizards was awesome!
That was such a fantastic ending.
Yeah. I don’t know if I’d claim it is the best movie ever made, but it’s certainly my favorite movie.
And, hey! We now have an IRL Blackwolf; we only need an Avatar.
Titan A.E
Grandma’s Boy
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
