My friends from the fencing team in a Milwaukee, WI suburban catholic high school were bored. We wanted to watch a movie, but didn’t want to spend theater prices. So we went to Blockbuster (!!) in search of something…. else.
No, not that you gooner.
We invented the rules on the car ride there:
- None of us could have seen or even be aware of the movie
- None of us can recognize any of the main actors in the film
- Sci-fi or fantasy since those seemed to have the cheese we wanted
As we strolled along the shelves where most patrons don’t bother, there it was. Like a (scuffed) diamond in the rough: Cube
And it was glorious. lol
Bonus points: Two friends and I moved out to Denver, CO in the middle of college to go snowboarding and finish school (in that order). One of us became a manager at Blockbuster right at the beginning of the switch from VHS to DVDs. For whatever reason, his store started with the least rented titles they had, and their solution was to just throw all the VHS in the garbage.
One day he just showed up from work with ~ 4 or 5 huge garbage bags filled to the brim with the crappiest VHS films Blockbuster deemed unworthy to return to a distributor.
Around a week later he did it again.
It was the absolute (free!) jackpot of gloriously bad films.
I'm not sure you know what a "bad movie" is, if you think Cube is one.
Cube was great! I gave it a 6/10, enjoyed it. Fun concept that was pretty novel at the time.
Cube 2: Hypercube was not great. 3/10
Cube 3: Cube Zero was very bad. 2/10.
Would Velociraptor Island count? Or Mega Shark versus Giant Octopus? 😆
I haven't seen them. But if you said Cube² Hypercube, might count. Should check that out, since you've seen the first.
Cube Zero isn't the worst? Sounds like a marathon night!
I completely forgot that Cube: Zero existed. Yeah, it is even worse than Hypercube.
Low budget movies with cheap special effects and awful dialogue absolutely count. I don't know if those two fit that description, but I'm guessing they do.
Cube is a good movie because it tried something new on a low budget, pulled off a decent script, and there were a lot of subtle details that made it thought provoking and not just gore for the sake of gore. The sequel was terrible though, because it had a terrible plot with stupid plot twists.
I think it was a really bad movie, people moving between 2 boxes for 1 hour, using cheap stereotypes (IIRC the "autist" cracks the code and can leave, sigh).
I'm not sure you watched the movie. Or maybe you weren't paying attention. He's not the one who cracks the code. And that's not even why he gets to leave.
So why is it then, it was like 20 years ago 🙄
He got to leave because the others were too busy fighting each other. He was the only one that wasn't intentionally antagonizing anyone else.
The first guy with the shoe didn't antagonize anyone IIRC
Agreed. Cube was a terrible movie. That doesn't mean it's not popular though, as demonstrated by the endless stream of Marvel barf coming out of Hollywood.
A "bad" or "terrible" movie isn't simply a movie you don't like.
I can acknowledge the talent, skill and quality craft, that went into Top Gun: Maverick. But I still didn't enjoy it much, and thought it was all too obvious and predictable a story. Which made it boring.
Nothing with a $200M budget and wide theater release is a "Bad Movie".
Well... Other than Megalopolis. But that's a special case.
I would nominate Batman v Superman as a genuinely bad $200M movie.
The story wasn't very good. But the rest of the film making was top notch, like all Snyder's movies.
I actually disagree. The script was a disaster, which you pointed out, but super basic stuff like coherent editing was missing too. There were constant jarring cuts after scenes would end abruptly for no apparent reason. Sound and particularly dialogue mixing was atrocious too, which isn't a problem unique to BvS (looking at you Christopher Nolan) and doesn't on its own disqualify a movie from being good, but as part of a whole picture it deserves a mention. The acting was comically bad in many places. Overblown post processing made some scenes look muddy even though that effect worked well for other scenes. A lurching, uneven pace is often more a fault of the director than the script itself, and this movie suffered from it in spades.
Yeah Marvel/DC is the fastfood of movies.
Only utterly deranged class movies by how much money they make, it's like lauding mcdonalds because they gain lots of money.