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[Même] Which movie was this for you?
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FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Plum@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It did not hold up well.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I think it did.
But I grew up watching the TV show, and others like it (Get Smart), and appreciate the style of humor.
I think the divide on this is knowing what that genre is about, and some people just don’t appreciate that kind of humor.
I get it, I like these movies/shows, but don’t like the 3 Stooges.
errer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I still think the movie slaps
xpinchx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So I just watched it for the first time earlier this year and honestly it wasn’t bad. It’s cheesy (and by most measures not a great film), but it was genuinely fun to watch.
Sylvartas@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Eh, I never saw it as a kid, and I watched it recently… imo it’s a decent action flick. It barely makes sense in more than one way but I still enjoyed the ride
BertramDitore@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Me too! I saw it in theaters and cracked up the whole time. Haven’t watched it again since then, but I did listen to an interview with the director who essentially disowned the movie. He said something to the effect of: “the couple of moments that were cute were not worth the overall quality of the film.” He said Klein and Smith had no chemistry. He also basically confirmed the Will Smith MIB fart rumor in the same interview.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
He also basically confirmed the Will Smith MIB fart rumor in the same interview.
Say what now?
scytale@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I loved Equilibrium and was surprised it wasn’t rated as good.
Panron@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve never met a person who I know has seen it but doesn’t like Equilibrium.
…And it’s at a 7.3 on IMDb. That’s a pretty good rating.
scytale@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Huh that’s interesting. I kinda remember it not being that well received at the time. It did get a cult following over the years so maybe the IMDb rating has gone up since then?
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I nearly literally started a friendship based on showing the other person this movie. It’s a fantastic movie and apparently why Christian Bale was chosen as Batman.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I cried harder at that dog scene in that movie than any other movie ever. Even right now I’m tearing up thinking about it. It may have been in part because I watched it alone so I didn’t feel the need to filter myself at all and there wasn’t anyone to comfort me. Fuck, man. Fuck.
But yeah, apart from that, I liked it too. It’s a bit cheesy, sure, but I really enjoyed a lot of it. I thought the gun stuff was cool. I forget the name they have it. Gun Kata or something? Like when they’d slide into a pitch black room and just shoot all around them. That was cool. It’s such a cheesy thing but so cool lol.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Back when Netflix had everything I watched that one thinking it would be a cool scifi film, but turns out its a kong fu movie and I was not in the mood for a that so I was disappointed. The sound track slapped though!
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Lol my mom watched every version on the DVD. Probably watched more times than me. Amazing movie.
_____@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Equilibrium is great but it’s hard to see it as something else than a b-movie even with my rose tinted glasses
angrystego@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s one of the films I keep going back to in my mind. So clever. The way it makes one root for the main character and the emotional uprising, only to be, in the end, made aware of the awful things emotions can do. The ending makes you reconsider whether the unnatural emotionless society at the beginning could actually be a preferable solution despite the imperfection. It’s so good.
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
I saw it the day it came out and thought it was a brilliant departure from the macguffin-based plots that had come before, and it showed so many different things that had never been in a Star Wars movie before.
Turns out all Star Wars fans want is more of the exact same that had been in the previous 7 movies.
kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I agree with the other guy somewhat - take out a lot of the casino scene and it’s the best star wars movie so far.
I’m pissed Johnson isn’t going to get the trilogy he was promised. Instead, we got Abrams making the most corporate star wars to date, and that’s saying something
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
The casino scene is the crux of the movie. The main character - Rose - is a loyal soldier who stops a deserter ‘or her sister died for nothing.’ Planet Capitalism is where she’s disillusioned by war profiteers and makes the unsubtle decision to free their animals. By the end she prevents said deserter from repeating her sister’s sacrifice.
The Last Jedi is an anarchist critique of of Star Wars where a rebel soldier rejects the old lie.
I have no fucking idea how Disney decided to produce it as an actual Star Wars film.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Honestly I loved both the direction that Rian Johnson clearly wanted to take the sequels and I loved the direction that JJ Abrams clearly wanted to take the sequels and I honestly wish Disney had just stuck with one of them for the entire trilogy and let the other do a trilogy as well. We all know how badly Disney wanted to pump out a Star Wars film every year during that timeframe so that way they could’ve had their cake and eaten it too
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The original trilogy is over-rated.
There, I said it.
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
First movie is 100% forgettable by today’s standards. Empire Strikes Back is a great sci-fi movie by any standard, and Return of the Jedi is totally a lackluster finale. I think I agree with you
neo2478@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
If you remove the whole space casino bit, I would agree with you.
Tujio@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If they had completely scrapped the casino arc it would fix so many problems. Not only would that shitty, worthless sequence not exist, but they would’ve had screen time to put in more quality stuff. Imagine if at the end of the movie the big reveal was that Palpatine was alive. Instead, they had to put that into a messy scroller at the beginning of the third movie.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I’d say it’s quite annoying in its imperfections, as they make it quite an easy target and that undermines what it was trying to achieve. Washed-up, beaten Luke Skywalker drinking blue milk? Great. Reframing the Force as a cryptic balance that goes far beyond the Jedi Order’s sacred tomes? Great. Undoing the obsession with the special noble bloodlines. Also great.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Honestly its especially annoying to those of us who have a good grasp of the old lore. Hell half of what you listed is kinda done in KOTOR 1 & 2.
Beaten washed up Jedi, heres the exile and to a degree Kreia.
The force is esoteric force deconstruction heres fucking Kreia and her goddamn thesis.
No obsession with bloodlines and shit, might I introduce you to the Mando killer, the Malacor evaporator, Darth motherfucken Revan.
But seriously the Sequels really did just retread old ground, hell in Dark Empire we atleast got evil Luke Skywalker and a Droid army.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I thought it was alright. One thing that really bugged me is that if you’re chasing someone in space why not call another ship to cut them off, or just… fly faster. Idk it didn’t make a lot of sense to me lol
Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Yes, but at least this one has 91% critic rating on RT.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
It’s easily the best of the sequel trilogy, and most popular criticism is total nonsense.
It’s still a hot mess.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
I actually liked sucker punch.
Seems like alot of people didn’t get the A B C B A style of story telling that it did. I get on so many arguments with IRL people over it.
A) real world beginning and end of movie. she is in an asylum.
B) In her mind she is elsewhere dancing to get items to escape.
C)her dancing is shown as boss battles because her dancing is her fighting for her life in her mind.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I still can’t decide if it’s a brilliant retelling of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest or schlocky trash, but it sure is fun.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
A little of both. I mean they ended the same.
Blaze@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
I saw it in the cinema, left with mixed feelings. I should probably rewatch it
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
I was surprised by the reaction to this movie. I really enjoyed it.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I have a friend who recommends literally every single thing he watches. He’ll watch the stupidest movie in the world and be like “wow, that was awesome!”. I envy how much enjoyment he can receive from terrible things.
Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was my jam as a little girl… but it might just be because I ended up being bisexual and there’s a lot of beautiful and badass people in it.
CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ll never not like Waterworld
affiliate@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
i feel like it’s much harder when you finish a movie, and you hate it, and then find out it’s one of the most critically acclaimed movies of all time. this was my experience watching taxi driver. to this day, i have not been able to find a single other person who disliked that movie as much as i did
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fuck ‘em.
A good movie is a movie you enjoyed watching. Full stop.
kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Constantine. I’ve seen it dozens of times and it never gets old. Tilda Swinton as Gabriel and Peter Stormare as Satan are a big part of why.
treesapx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is your regular reminder that a 20% on Rotten Tomatoes means that 20% of reviewers liked the movie. The RT score represents chance that a reviewer liked it, not overall weighted score or how much they enjoyed it.
Sarmyth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I watched Last Action Hero a few years ago for the first time, and it honestly didn’t even feel that dated. It held up!
someguy3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is actually why I like rotten tomatoes, breaks apart the critics and the fans.
I recall going to a movie with friends, walking out and saying “that was terrible” and my friend saying “what, that was good”. Debate ensued in the group.
Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Congo is one of my favorite movies of all time I can recite every line in it. It’s only got a 23% on RT and like a 5/10 on IMDb but I don’t care. I still love the fuck out of that movie
marzhall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just had this experience with The Men Who Stare At Goats. Thought it was a good watch, like 6.2 on IMDb. Would recommend
noseatbelt@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Batman and Robin. I KNOW it’s cheesy as hell but I was a kid and I loved it. I loved the aesthetic of Gotham but found the previous Batman villains too scary (Penguin, Two Face) but Mr Freeze and Poison Ivy weren’t scary at all. It was a romp!
_bcron_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m one of those people that thought Wet Hot American Summer was in the same league as Anchorman. Great cast, great music, littered with one-liners, just irreverant enough
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Wagons East was one of my favourite movies growing up and my fam would watch it many multiple of times.
It has a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The butterfly effect.
I saw it when I was rather young but I thought it was pretty good, apparently people thought it’s edgy.
Should watch it again now and see if it holds up.
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Death to Smoochy, my dark comedy about the mafia world inside of children’s TV show is utterly fantastic and I will not be taking questions.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Historically, this was The Thing.
Critically panned when it came out, and my favorite horror movie of all time. Of course critics feel differently now, but far after its following grew.
Mercuri@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For me it was Alice in Wonderland (2010). I really enjoyed the whole “I do six impossible things before breakfast” thing. I was also really drunk when I watched it.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
apparently critics hated baseketball but thats one of the funniest movies of all time
Fontasia@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
In 2006, a movie was released in which an evil AI is defeated by Shia LeBouf.
The evil AI’s plan? Kill the president!
Why does the AI want to kill the president? he has too much unchecked power and bombed village of innocent people in the middle east and the AI told him not to because it could not confirm if there was actually a terrorist there.
How does Shia LeBouf defeat the evil AI? Opening fire at the capitol to cause a panic.
The war of Iraq was ramping up at the time, how was there not rioting at screenings? How is this not a controversial movie?
The acting is not great, but it deserves better than 27% on Rotten Tomatoes when the message of the film is the government does bad stuff and should be persecuted for it
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pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Boondock Saints is such a movie, which is a crime
jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Conan the Destroyer. I absolutely love it and won’t apologize for it.
the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Oh my God you guys you need to watch The Naked Man
I’m telling you it’s fucking hilarious. I swear. Look:
Estranged pharmacist’s son who is a savant at chiropractor by day/underground pro-wrestler by night goes on a murderous rampage to avenge his father’s murder at the hands of a quadriplegic pharmacutical ceo and his elvis impersonator bodyguard.
He uses his knowledge of wrestling and the human skeleton to commit devastating chiropractic attacks on his enemies.
He’s chased by a detective who’s a genius but also clinically depressed and…You must watch this movie. I’m not crazy! It’s amazing!
Please!
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I thought the Percy Jackson movies were pretty cool. I was very wrong
slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
Yeah… I don’t care. I watch a movie and accept it for what it is. If I’m entertained for a few hours, great. If not, meh. I don’t need critical opinion.
modifier@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Not as extreme as the case in the OP, but I’m often surprised how “meh” a reaction Don’t Look Up got. Maybe people think it was heavy handed? Too on the nose? I don’t know but most folks seem to think it was at best merely “okay”.
For me, I place it next to Idiocracy as one of the most prescient films about what is in store for us. I think after this last election day, it seems even more prescient. On top of that, it is legitimately funny with really good performances, especially from Jennifer Lawrence.
Benjaben@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, in my case this one was too close to home for me to love it. 10 or 20 years ago I probably would’ve felt differently. Similar for Idiocracy, I don’t think I’d feel the same way about it if it came out today. Kinda chilling when I think about that, honestly.
modifier@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Welcome to Costco; I love you.
Dragonstaff@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I’d call it heavy handed. It felt like it was a message first. Not as bad as the Daily Wire stuff, but going down that road. Even if I agree with the message, it felt contrived.
Just my two cents though.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s what I saw on reddit only for a week later to see someone argue that it’s not about climate change because it’s literally about a meteor.
So there you go, you probably weren’t the target audience
dditty@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Agreed. It came across as preachy instead of entertaining, but it seemed like it was trying really hard to be entertaining.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
This part had me absolutely rolling. I loved that movie.
DogWater@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I loved Jonah Hill in that movie so much
shinratdr@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It suffers from the “Reality is Unrealistic” trope. Seems so on the nose and heavy handed, yet is literally exactly how it would happen (and is arguably already happening).
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In hindsight its kind of understatement.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Being so on the nose, to me, is part of the joke.
So obvious its blinding, and unrealistic. Just like reality lol.
modifier@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Spot on. This thread got me to rewatch it tonight and I gotta say, it hits even harder this close to the election. Almost painfully plausible.
It’s not a true story, but it is a very high fidelity representation of reality.
dalekcaan@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I couldn’t watch it, not because it wasn’t good but because I was constantly getting unbelievably depressed about how accurately it mirrors the world today. Every scene had me thinking “this would be funny if it wasn’t exactly how it would actually pan out.” I think it might be hilarious a few decades after this all blows over but right now it hits way too close to home.
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Or, in the Homerian fashion, It’s Funny Coz It’s True. Agreed.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Up. You mean blows up.
WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I really liked that movie. Great example for me, too.
thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
It’s one of the least forgettable movie I’ve seen in a while (it’s a good thing) and the concept is just so good because it’s idiotic but at the same time completely true
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I tried watching that. But the wilful idiocy and mocking scene at the start just invokes such a rage in me i knew i was gonna stroke out if i kept going
kameecoding@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s been a long time I got as visceral of a feeling as I got when watching that film and Leo’s character’s meltdown as the impending doom is happening an noone seems to be giving a fuck
modifier@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Too fucking relatable and more every day.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
I just loved the pacing of Don’t Look Up so much. Just constant subversion of expectations that I really enjoyed