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[-] [email protected] 1 points 12 minutes ago

Mean Girls (2004) a masterpiece

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour 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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Dude, Where's My Car?

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour 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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

Barbie (2023)

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

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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours 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] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

"The Grey" is the first thing to pop into my head.

The stupid meme worthy part is the way wolves are presented as a threat in the movie is so over the top like old childrens folklore level omnipresent coked out superwolves with a 100 mile killing radius stripping the territory all threatening life larger than a squrrel and enough intelligence for tactical strategizing to pick an entire group of men 1 by 1.

The way everything else is executed is what turns it around. The cinematography and the emotional human story of the main character guys motivations and interactions with the res5 of the group is fun. It makes it a good watch to spend an hour or two of your life on. The cast has some bangers and the acting is great.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours 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.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 4 hours 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] 2 points 34 minutes 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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

Thank you for posting this so I didn't have to.

Just a gem of a movie.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours 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.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 5 hours 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] 8 points 3 hours 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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

There's a particular character arc twist in Clue that made me jump out of my seat.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 5 hours 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

[-] [email protected] 46 points 6 hours ago

The recent Dungeons and Dragons.

'Upgrade' is an excellent sifi B movie.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours 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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

The question was does it look like it would suck, at face value. I think Upgrade qualifies.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 6 hours 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] 12 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

OMG YES +100 for What We Do in the Shadows

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago

I have nightmares about baby Colin Robinson. Great show though!

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Moon. Fantastic mostly 1 man show.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

I was surprised by how Mickey 17 used a similar plot point.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

The effects of the rider are amateurish, but the story and acting are awesome.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 6 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours 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] 13 points 6 hours 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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

Man Bites Dog (C'est arrivé près de chez vous)

A mockumentary made by student filmmakers. The plot is that they are doing a documentary following the life of a serial killer.

The dark humor of this movie is incredibly disturbing but it's really a movie to watch.

The movie is available on archive.org : https://archive.org/details/man-bites-dog

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Alaska. SW prequels. There's also the Soviet movie "Until first blood", where kids play "Zarnitsa" and learn something.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 7 hours 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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Dark Star was fucking nuts but it was fun to watch with friends. Also the music won't be new to anyone who has ever seen a John Carpenter film. I think I remember the same music in They Live and Vampire$.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours 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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Gosh I remember watching Brick when it first came out and thought it was overrated and pretentious but I feel like I deserves another chance.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I guess it depends how you go into it? To me it always read trashy. Like a pulp detective novel by way of Degrassi.

I don't know that it has much to say beyond that pitch, but man, do I like it saying it. And if you slot it alongside the Knives Out movies as a detective trilogy it all kind of works.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours 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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

In the same b movie realm, I have a favorite that is so horrible, it's good.

Dead snow

Basically about Nazi zombies, but it's hilariously bad. And the best part? There's a sequel, dead snow 2, which is phenomenal! Like a total 180 from the first one.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Hey Dead Snow is amazing! Norwegians having fun with American teen-slashers tropes and nazi zombies, what not to love?

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago

I watched Pig just recently almost as a joke. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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