Submitted 4 months ago by Blaze@lemmy.cafe to movies@lemm.ee
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Netflix’s Avatar the Last Airbender.
Not a movie, but it’s moving. Zuko/Iroh stole the show just like Book 1 of the animation, Lu Ten’s funeral legit made me cry. Yet it gets tons of hate!
I’m a huge Avatar fan, but few fandoms put the original on the pedestal as much as ours, and it’s only gotten worse with time. I feel like Korra got the same treatment, as I’m a massive Korra fan yet so much of the fandom treats it like garbage.
I think that both Korra and Netflix’s Avatar deserve a lot of criticism (Netflix more so than Korra), but it’s definitely overblown in many parts. Korra has a lot of good sides, those rarely get mentioned alongside the bad ones.
The biggest injustice to me is that no one dares criticize the original ATLA.
I’ve seen a few good critical essays and videos, honestly less contrived than a lot of Korra/NATLA criticism, and they get snuffed into oblivion.
I liked Korra, but Season 1 had trouble finding itself, and Season 2 was awful. 3+4 were masterful, but I think most people had made up their minds by then.
Strong disagree, I thought Book 1 was incredible. The animation, the art, the noir, fights, Korra’s whole “human husky” attitude, Amon, everything! Even the intro. The first two episodes of ATLA are so much slower.
Season 2 was very mixed, with some great episodes though. And not just Wan, I loved the alice-in-wonderland-esque Spirit World.
And to be even more oppositional, I loved 3, but it was too short. And Book 4 has some mixed bits too, lol.
I watched the Last Airbender movie before seeing the cartoon.
It’s not a bad kung fu movie, except for the casting. Not great, but it was a fun watch. Now that I’ve seen the cartoon, I understand why the folx who grew up with it refuse to acknowledge it’s existence.
Watch the netflix version!
And Korra!
Korra was good. TLA was one of the best animated series of all time, so nothing would fill it’s shoes. But Korra was a solid show.
I am a fan of the Netflix version and looking forward to the next season.
I am honored to accept the Earth King’s invitation. 😛
Oh man there’s a movie with Paul Bettany dressed up like a priest, and it’s this post apocalyptic cowboy western, but very horror manga in style, and he has a deeply goofy fight with Daywalker Vampire Karl Urban on top of a moving maglev train.
It’s called Priest. I’ve seen it four times at least. It’s real bad.
I loved The Chronicles of Riddick! It’s bombastic space opera, of which we have much too little that isn’t Star Wars tripe, and Vin Diesel is perfect in this role.
Pitch Black is a solid (if very 2000s) horror movie. Riddick is a bit more camp than it thinks it is and makes some eyebrow-raising dialog choices. Still fun, though. At worst it’s a good bad movie.
I guess if people expected it to be like Pitch Black they were disappointed. I didn’t see Pitch Black until later (and didn’t find it very memorable), but they are very different movies.
I think the thing I like so much about Chronicles is that it’s unabashedly fantastical and epic. It reminds me of Warhammer 40k and Conan the Barbarian, really fine cheese.
Hot take, I enjoyed Chappie. I don’t care that there’s some self-insert band in there, it’s just a funny robot movie
Both Pacific Rim movies!
Bro pacific rim is hella fun! Sure, it’s a bit dumb, like how they pull the most powerful weapon out of their ass at the end, but it’s dumb fun!
I thought the first one is great
I filtered in IMDb movies where I have voted 7+ while user rating is up to 6 and these jumped out seemingly panned by both critics and users.
Iron sky was created after someone played through all the wolfenstein games and then decided to play stellaris. This applies even more heavily to the second one.
Iron Sky is one of those movies that was great the first time I watched it, but when I watched it the second time knowing the plot and where all the jokes were going I realized it was actually pretty terrible.
If you don’t actually remember any of it, you might enjoy the rewatch.
Basically any movie-adaptation of a book. I know I’m in the minority on this, but if I wanted the story of the book, I’d be reading the book, not watching a movie that’s often merely based on it. A new spin on an existing tale is the best of both worlds imo.
Generally yes, but sometimes…
The Martian was a great book and a GREAT movie. Ridley Scott made visuals better than my imagination.
The Aubrey-Maturin series of novels can be a bit impenetrable, because you kind of have to arrive to the series already able to speak 18th century British technobabble. The movie Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The World is kind of a Greatest Hits compilation of the book series, much more accessible to a general audience and just an excellent film.
Agree. Also they cut out enough of the book to make a movie of reasonable length without absolutely butchering the entire point and plot of the book.
Ok but ready player one could have tried alot harder
I have a bit of a soft spot for a movie called Club Paradise starring Robin Williams. It doesn’t review well but it’s fun enough. I also love some of the lines from it.
“What the hell kind of a name is ‘Moniker?’” (Robin Williams’ character’s name is Jack Moniker)
“Just seeing that all is well.” “Is it?” “No.”
“On behalf of her Britannic magesty Queen Elizabeth The Second, I order you to disperse this mob at once or I shall be forced to shoot you between the eyes with a Rather Large Bullet.”
“Say hello to Hat.” “Possible.” (An excellent cook with VERY long dreadlocks was kicked out of the kitchen by the chef because his hair is unsanitary. Jack’s solution? A 3 foot tall chef’s hat.)
Your Highness for me
Universally got trashed but I honestly enjoyed it and still do on a rewatch
It’s stupid and it’s fantasy but it doesn’t try to be anything else
Yellowbeard has a similar appeal for me.
Meet the Feebles
Oof.
Now I will fall asleep thinking of a crack head rat dry humping a hippo. Truly the Real Garbage Pail Kids gross out movie, but it was too grown up for children and to basic for grown ups.
You’re not wrong
Well that’s certainly a take!
Prometheus. I don’t care how stupid the plot is, and how many holes it has. Its aesthetics are (for the most part) excellent in a way that tickles my brain. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t like it as much the second time though (especially since I saw it in a theater)
Really? I just couldn’t get past how stupid the characters were. It blew all immersion for me.
To be fair, it was very very pretty.
I rewatch it (and Concernant) at least once a year, and I think it holds up superbly. I actually wasn’t too sure if I liked it until I rewatched it.
I like comedies, dumb action movies and horror. So it’s almost everything, just like the person in the meme. lol
Going to give an old example and a new example.
I remember liking the Aeon Flux movie. Don’t remember too much about it, but I remember enjoying it, and favorably comparing it to Ultraviolet which came out around the same time. Recently I heard someone bring it up in a podcast as a terrible movie and it turns out it’s pretty universally panned lol.
A more recent example is The Watchers. I thought it was pretty good and kept my interest the whole time, but seems pretty middling from reviews. A lot of people especially didn’t like the ending, which I guess was kind of sudden, but still alright imo. Not noteworthy in being especially bad or anything.
Aeon Flux movie would have been fine as a normal action movie. It was a terrible Aeon Flux movie.
I agree. Kinda hard to make that movie true to the source material though when the whole point is that Aeon dies at the end every time.
I believe it. Coming in blind having never having seen the original probably helped a lot.
favorably comparing it to Ultraviolet
Damning with faint praise.
Really? I loved it! But, I know literally nothing about the source material.
Three O’Clock High is an all-time favorite. It’s like somebody set out to make THE stereotypical eighties movie. Budget Matthew Broderick? Check! Bratty little sister? Yes, sir! Nerdy best friend? We got you! And don’t get me started on how fantastic Buddy Revelle is. I feel like it’s got way better cinematography than it should, and the acting seems surprisingly good to me.
Skinamarink. It was truly terrifying for me.
It’s a polarizing one for sure. Every review is either 10/10 or 1/10.
I’m firmly in the latter camp, I see the gold and white dress, and I hear Yanny. Mileage may vary.
I can’t think of a recent movie that is more polarizing than Skinamrink. I felt it was just ok. Like it get what it was going for and I appreciate the atmosphere it creates, but at the same time it was way too long. The short it is based on is better and the film probably would have been more widely received if it cut half of the dark hallway scenes where nothing happened.
My case was with The Witcher’s Polish TV show. I was entertained and aware that, being a TV show from 2002, budget would’ve been slim, so I didn’t mind the “low quality” effects. I also watched with subs, so I couldn’t tell if some of vocal acting was good, bad or terrible
Alien Romulus. Me and my friends fucking loved that movie and were blown away so we were surprised to see how many people hated it
That movie has no originality. I just wanted something new and all we got was a rehash of the original alien movie, but with attractive kids.
I thought it did some cool stuff with making the Facehuggers scary again and the
Hybrid alien was cool. Although apparently that was a reference to an alien movie I haven’t seen yet or something?
That’s a fair assessment of that movie. I still liked it tho.
Blind Fury (1989) was my guilty pleasure. 6.3/10 on imdb.
Yeah, but critics always have to say shit films are good and good films are shit; that way we keep thinking they’ve got some amazing insight that’s worth them being paid oodles of cash. If they said good films were good and shit films were shit we’d all be like “no shit Sherlock” and kick them unpaid out of the building.
Sisters Brothers. it has decent reviews when i look now, but it seems to have flopped real bad at the theaters. I watched it free on YouTube and was amazed by it, and then I looked it up and saw it bombed. $38m budget, $13m box office. Oof
I really liked that movie. Last ¼ was a tough watch, i get why it wasn’t popular. But i loved the movie too
For me this is the matrix sequels and Indiana Jones 4. All of them are absolutely fantastic.
Slam Dance
Idle Hands is a very late-90s stoner comedy… horror movie. This turns out not to be a winning combination of genres. It works, as both, but the audience is the overlap of a Venn diagram instead of both circles. It’s a stoner movie you absolutely should not watch while stoned.
It’s also packed with now-recognizable names. Seth Green, Jessica Alba, Vivica Fox, Devon Sawa, Elden Henson.
Absolutely bombed.
There’s a ton of great horror-comedies (great if you’re in to that kind of thing anyway)
And Idle Hands is one of them.
Horror and comedy can blend perfectly because both are built on releasing tension through shock. It’s why Evil Dead 2 works so well.
But not all subgenres have compatible audiences. Combining a cartoon sitcom with torture porn to get Jigsaw Squarepants could work, technically, but it wouldn’t be a peanut butter and chocolate scenario. Idle Hands effectively meshes Can’t Hardly Wait with Donnie Darko and finds the crossover demographics are not enough to recoup a $10M budget. And they spent $25M to find that out.
Still, great stupid movie, if you’re into both ingredients. The circular saw. The cops. The bagel slicer. I’m just glad someone else remembers the damn thing, because its cultural impact seems limited to filling those kids’ rolodexes.
How it feels to possess reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.
Small Apartments.
Meet Joe Black. I’ve watch it far too many times. Love the acting, pacing the mystery and weirdness of ‘Death’ Falling in love. The hospital scenes are just a masteclass acting by the old lady.
Battlefield Earth
The Razor’s Edge (1984)
Ooh, the Bill Murray WWI film! Yeah, it’s good, but it is not a fun watch.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Usually the opposite is true for me these days.