Tron: Legacy
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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.
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I like the movie where the person go into the computer :)
Even Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace?
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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.
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It's a work of art.
A simple tropey story to hang some amazing visual and aural art off.
I watch it often.
Wait, people dislike Tron? I had no idea
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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.
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 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.
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.
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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.
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Sucker Punch. Objectively, it's not really that great of a movie. But it's one of the most fun movies I've ever seen. It's got over-the-top action sequences, an amazing soundtrack, and a genuinely unique idea for a story that I haven't really seen done before.
The final cut ended up removing a very key scene that ties a lot of the story together, which I honestly feel is part of why the movie was so poorly-received, because the theatrical release just doesn't make sense and ends abruptly. If you decide to watch it, try to find a version that has the deleted scene with the High Roller near the end. It's a full five minutes of dialogue that ties the entire story together and Warner Brothers scrapped it and it drives me so crazy. It's like an "I Am Legend's deleted ending" level of directorial blunder, IMO.
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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.
My biggest issue with that movie was the complete lack of chemistry between Mila Kunis and that beefy guy who was her love interest. I found that painful to watch.
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Lol about Jupiter ascending. I wanted so bad for that movie to be good just because mila kuntis. I cant call it a masterpiece.
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13th Warrior. Solid action. Antonio Banderas and Vikings. Dudes taking care of business.
I like that movie quite a bit. Watched it many times. Didn't realize it was so critically disliked. :(
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Shit, I forgot about Legend! I didn't consider it because I thought it did OK, critically.
Shot entirely inside of a huge bag of cocaine.
I'm saving that one; it's funny, because it's true. You can also say that about Caddyshack, except that the latter was literally fueled by cocaine - I think it's been confirmed that almost everyone involved was high during filming.
I've seen two versions of the film; one I don't like as much only because small differences cause cognitive dissonance - I have the first version I saw mostly memorized line-by-line, and the other version is just enough off to feel awkward. I thought they were just different cuts for different media - film vs VHS, for instance - but now I wonder which is "my" original. Probably not the director's cut, since I'm pretty sure I first saw it in the theater, and then repeatedly on cable which was probably just the theatrical release.
Are you sure no Tangerine Dream is in the theatrical release?
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No idea what the actual ratings are, but the live action remake of Aladdin was absolutely shat on by most of the internet. The original Aladdin was one of my absolute favorites as a kid, so I was gonna see the remake good or bad, and... honestly, fucking loved it.
I'm guessing the main breaking point for people was the lack of Robin Williams' Genie, but Disney had the option of trying recreate that genie without Robin Williams or completely remake that character's personality. Had they gone with the former, it 100% would have 1) flopped, and 2) been kinda disrespectful to Robin Williams imo. Starting fresh was the correct choice. And Will Smith did awesome with his version of Genie.
Beyond that, it introduced just enough new shit to make it not just feel like a frame-by-frame copy/paste of the original; but overall kept the same fun mystical vibe of the original.
It earns its spot on the shelf, imo.
Gentlemen Broncos
YEAST LORDS!
I have two:
Chalet Girl - Romcom meets 1980s style Aspen Ski Challenge, Felicity Jones, Bill Nighy, Brooke Shields, and Ed Westwick. I personally love it. It's a great movie to throw on for a boring day, it has some feels, it's story is predictable but fun - it's not winning an Oscar but I enjoy it. 5/5 personal scale, 3/5 general rotten tomatoes
21 - Very lame smart guy meets Vegas, not a heist, not the social network - Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey. Didn't know this was that high up except for I have multiple plays of it. I watched it after having surgery and remember thinking it was amazing - and then watched it later on less pain killers and thought "Oh, well, it's fine." 3/5 personal scale, 1/5 general rotten tomatoes.
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I remember seeing 21. I honestly didn't know it got bad reviews. It seemed fine for what it was.
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The Green Hornet with Seth Rogan was my favourite film for a long time. I did not understand why people didn’t love it as much as I did.
Not sure if this is what you are asking for, but:
My favorite movies with absolutely ridiculus plots are:
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Olympus Has Fallen
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The USA is under attack by a plane that somehow got in the borders without getting shot down, while enemy ground teams posing as tourists attacks the white house, while the plane above provides support. And the country behind it is... NORTH KOREA? 🤣 -
London Has Fallen
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Similar to before but now its some middle eastern "terrorist" that wants to kill all world leaders, with some of the Queen's Guard turning out to be terrorists? 🧐 -
Moonfall
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The moon falls towards earth, because... Aliens... lol 🌚
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Discovering it has brought me so much joy (pretty sure someone posted it here, actually). My jaw literally dropped at times as I adjusted to what I was seeing--like pure parody, but it was attempted so whole-heartedly and earnestly. The best kind of bad movie, the one that tries so hard. If it isn't peak 80's, PLEASE tell me what is so I can literally watch it tonight (if within the next ~6 minutes before I get in my jammies).
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I'm uncertain of what the ratings are in general, but there's probably some horror movie I love that's been dragged.
Maybe Insidious? Paranormal Activity 2? As Above, So Below? The Cleansing Hour?
One of those probably has a shit score somewhere lol.
EDIT because I realized how lazy I was being:
Insidious has a 66% on rotten tomatoes Paranormal Activity 2 has a 57% As Above, So Below has a 29% The Cleansing Hour has a shocking 73%
So my answer is As Above, So Below. Lol But I'm startled about The Cleansing Hour having such a high rating
Okay. Unrelated and it's driving me insane.
How do I do line breaks for lists like that? If I do two hits of Enter, it acts like a new paragraph in total. But I can't get it to just jump down to the next line, it just follows after the one above it as if it were continuing a sentence. Bwah!
I just press enter
Leave a space in the blank line here then press enter
There you go, break in the paragraph.
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As above, so below having 29% seems a bit crazy. That shit freaked me out.
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Perhaps "The Missing Postman" - not sure if it actually got canned or is just unknown though.
There are a ton of comedies where the critic ratings are low but the audience is high.
Grandma's Boy 15 critic 85 audience was the one that is at the top of my head. Hot damn that is a spread, and I am with the audience.
Can't believe the audience score for that is so high lol
I always go by audience. The fact that they are critics seems like a type of selection bias.
The audience has its own self selection bias, as it is people interested in seeing the movie. That is the best group to rate whether the target audience is satisfied with the end result.
I only look at audience for horror and comedy.