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[-] [email protected] 90 points 3 weeks ago

The recent Dungeons and Dragons.

'Upgrade' is an excellent sifi B movie.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Upgrade was not a "B" movie by any stretch. Low budget doesn't mean B. Upgrade was more well done than much of the "A" stuff that's put out.

But obviously this is opinion and depends how you define B movies.

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[-] [email protected] 74 points 3 weeks ago

A Knight's Tale. Not only is it a good movie but it was my introduction to Paul Bettany and Alan Tudyk and they were brilliant in it.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago

And it left its mark on renaissance jousts everywhere. Always hear We Will Rock You at so many different ren fairs.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Alan Tudyk is a gem! There's a scene that I love from a doc about the voice acting on Moana. Cuts to Tudyk doing chicken sounds (he played the chicken), when he slyly looks into the camera and says "I went to Julliard".

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Danny Boyd wrote an excellent video essay on A Knight's Tale. I too always wonder why there's always someone cutting onions when I choose to watch.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

That movie has perfect casting. Everyone in it is exactly right for their parts. There is a B movie feel that I can't quite put my finger on but it is an outright excellent film, one of my personal favorites.

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[-] [email protected] 64 points 3 weeks ago

Clue - A movie based on a board game sounds terrible, but it's really funny.

For more of a movie that visually looks bad.

Primer - Very low budget time travel movie that gets better every time you watch it.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

Clue didn't work in the theater because they did this gimmick where they made three versions with three different endings. So because it had to be consistent with three contradictory endings, you CAN'T solve it as you go; it doesn't function as a mystery movie. And, it was kind of short.

The TV cut crammed all three endings at the end with the "Here's what REALLY happened" cards inserted, so one ending is now canonical while the others are plausible alternatives, it runs longer, especially the frantic, energetic ending plays longer, so while it still doesn't function as a mystery movie, it is now an excellent farce.

I think it also found its audience in young millennials on television; it was made for and by my parents' generation but they don't like it, while a lot of people my age love it.

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[-] [email protected] 59 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Moon. Fantastic mostly 1 man show.

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[-] [email protected] 55 points 3 weeks ago

What we do in the shadows. The movie, not the show. If you like mockumentaries it's a must watch. Looks like garbage at times but it works very well for what they were going for.

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Yeah it's really good in its own right but it feels a lot more polished

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

OMG YES +100 for What We Do in the Shadows

I still need to watch the latest season of the show though lmao

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[-] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago

The Jumanji remake was FAR better than I expected

[-] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

Jack black is obnoxious but really nailed the high school girl impression.

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[-] [email protected] 45 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

We were having a movie night in our neighborhood a few years back where we got a bedsheet and a cheap projector. We hooked it up to a laptop to project a movie on someone's garage for the neighborhood kids.

We ended up projecting The Lego Movie and most of the kids lost interest about half an hour in - and were falling asleep and ready to go home.

I'll be damned if it wasn't one of the best animated movies I've ever seen. I sent my wife home with our youngest just so I could stay and finish the movie.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

Lego movie is brilliant. It's not a kid's movie. It's so good.

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[-] [email protected] 45 points 3 weeks ago

Swiss Army Man - Daniel Redcliffe with farting as a superpower. Sounds ridiculous but really fun to watch.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Daniel Radcliffe while dead the entire movie flexes his ass cheeks as a superpower.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago

Probably not the answer you're looking for, but Puss In Boots 2. The second Shrek spinoff about the cat? Who honestly expected that to be such a banger

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Just saw this a few months ago. And gotta agree. It's a solid flick. Nothing crazy ambitious, but told a story that seems pretty haunting in the past few months.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I thought it would be a parody of Barbie but its actually a parody of Mattel and shows how men can be confused in this world. It's a real movie for all the bros out there. Its the kind of movie I'll watch again later because its good.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago

Alita: Battle Angel.

The film looks stupid because they gave the main character giant anime eyes.

In the context of the film it makes sense and I think the look is meant to mirror the anime it is from... but for the film it still makes the film look stupid. Now the film itself is far from perfect, there is at least one storyline that is utter dogshit. However! The film ultimately was solid.

Sadly it ends setting up future films that will never happen, but I think it's still enjoyable overall.

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago

The Lost City with Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, and Daniel Radcliffe. It seems like a tropey romance-action flick, but is more a parody of genre clichés. The writing, acting, and humour are pretty good.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago

I have heard that Speed Racer from the late 2000s kind of kicks ass but haven’t investigated myself

[-] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago

I recently saw it after thinking it was bad since release. Holy crap it’s literally live action anime. There’s not a lot (if any) depth of field so it takes a little bit to get used to but a few minutes into the movie and it feel normal. There’s shots are all bright or colorful and just ughhh… chefs kiss

[-] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

I will vouch for Speed Racer. Don't get me wrong, it's corny as heck, but still also rad. The race scenes are fantastic! Kind of like a Godzilla movie though, you're not there for the dialogue.

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago

The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen, it's like a Monty Python movie but with American actors and an evil Robin Williams.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago

Honestly, princess bride. I'm usually not all that into rom com type movies, but princess bride is a masterpiece

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Hey, that's the metaplot of the movie!

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago

Tucker and Dale vs Evil.

It has a silly/dumb sounding name, a premise with every likelihood of being schlocky garbage, and no budget or marketing to speak of. And some of the cast certainly act like they know they're in a low budget flick just phoning it in. Yet Tyler Labine as Dale and Alan Tudyk as Tucker bring so much humor and endearing energy to it as a couple of misunderstood sweethearts, that it is one of my all-time favorite films.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

Tank Girl. It may just be a guilty pleasure but I'll defend it.

I guess Starship Troopers is THE movie for this, although I'm always suprised to find out people used to like it unironically.

Due date, with Robert Downey Jr and Galifianakis is a surprisingly earnest soft remake of Planes, Trains and Automobiles and nobody remembers it exists.

Speaking of unexpectedly fun raunchy comedies, Booksmart.

I want to say The Long Kiss Goodnight, but man, the action in that is janky in exactly the ways modern action movies get right, so it can be a rough watch if you're not ready. It also reads worse now that there's a million John Wicks. Still, ahead of its time and actually well written.

Does Slither count? I feel like it's on that Tremors territory where everybody knows it's cool and ironically that thing, so it may not count. Somebody said Cabin in the Woods below, so... maybe it does count.

Oh, Ready or Not. It's actually really funny and kind of a looser take on Knives Out as a horror movie. Good stuff.

The original TMNT movie should have sucked. How they snuck that tone into a whole movie before they made them tone it down for censorship and toyetic tie-ins is anybody's guess.

Brick doesn't count. Does Brick count? I think it doesn't look like it'd suck, it's just people don't know about it. I mean, if I tell you "film noir by way of high school drama" you may get the wrong impression, so... maybe?

And I mentioned it below, but 2001 Metropolis is awesome despite a lot of people not being able to get past the designs or even being aware of what it is.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

Real steel. Its about boxing robots

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago

Dude, Where's My Car?

I thought it was gonna be a dumb stoner movie, but it is actually amazing and hilarious.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

I honestly thought Wonka was going to suck, but it turned out to be a pretty good film!

[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

The live action Chip N' Dale Rescue Rangers remake on Disney+ is SOOOOOO much better than it has any right to be.

It should be terrible, unwatchable, irredeemable garbage.

It is probably one of the best "kids" movies I've seen in the last decade.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

I'm gonna say Cruella. I'm sure lots of people always thought it was gonna be great, but not me. I absolutely expected it to be mediocre at best and I was so wrong. It's now one of my favorite movies.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

Mean Girls (2004) a masterpiece

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

A movie made by a student of the film academy, and it was made with a ridiculously low budget of course, but still contains some wild special effects and a spaceship and an alien creature and a title song written especially for it. Looks quite a bit outdated (and I wonder if it looked that even then when it was new :)), but still a lot of fun, and even a message about artificial intelligence:

"Dark Star" by John Carpenter

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

The movie Battleship based on the board game is far better than I ever expected. It's not a masterpiece, but it's a solid action flick.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Cocaine Bear (2023) is surprisingly good. You think it's gonna be one of those overly campy movies like Sharknado, but it's pretty well written. I mean, don't expect too much, it's still a very solid 7/10. But the thing it understands best is it actually takes enough time at the beginning of the film to develop extensive cast of weird characters so once they all get thrown into the blender (cocaine bear) you actually care enough about them and what's going on to care about the outcome.

So many movies these days forget you really need to care about those characters.

Fun time, give it a go some night when you're bored and got nothing else to do.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

There's a B movie that I really like but it's name is off putting to say the least. It's a solid movie, its funny and silly but most of the cast play serious characters just dealing with something absurd. It's a cat and mouse detective story and the film is free to watch on places like Tubi.

It's called Butt Boy

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Dog Soldiers.

It is known as the British Predator. You can see the low budget on the screen, but my god it's excellent. Do not watch the trailer, it's shit and will give you a bad impression of the film.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Lars and the Real Girl. Seems like a dumb boner comedy. Actually a weirdly wholesome film.

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