Submitted 2 weeks ago by Blaze@lemmy.cafe to movies@lemm.ee
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There’s lots of them but one that hasn’t been mentioned is Sucker Punch. It’s 6.1 on IMDB and 22% on Rotten Tomatoes and I loved the visuals.
Also, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is terrible but everyone needs to watch the opening sequence
I remember Sucker Punch being visually pretty, it was the story and overall vibe that was awful.
Valerian was pretty cool, I have given it 7 in imdb. Seems like it globally has mediocre rating. For comparison I have given 3 for Sucker Punch.
Yeah, the writing wasn’t good and the vibe was real bad, dealing with extreme mental illness and sexual abuse. But for the visuals and the fight scenes it’s great.
We are probably a decade apart, but sucker punch made me walk away. All of the anime CGI faces and action scenes just had me bored. Maybe I wasted all of my Suspension Of Disbelief on pulp sci Fi novels back in the 90s.
Great thread … now I have a new movie list … thanks
One thing I had to learn quickly was that my preference towards anything cultural was not in line with what my peers found good/cool, so I strode down the road of enjoying what I enjoy and let others enjoy whatever they enjoy.
Here’s a short list:
Roadhouse
The 13th Warrior
Both Ewoks movies
Roadhouse
Open up your heart and let the Patrick Swayze Christmas in
Both Ewok movies
I remember seeing the first one in the theater when I was a kid and I later saw a letter my Mom was writing where she said it was a dumb movie, but the kids liked it. I was offended!
My tastes may be questionable but that is too much even for me.
I remember seeing the first one in the theater when I was a kid and I later saw a letter my Mom was writing where she said it was a dumb movie, but the kids liked it. I was offended!
The movies can be considered bad, for today’s standards but for what I care, it was a great way to spend some time. Where else could we se cannibal Care Bears?
Wait people didn’t enjoy the 13th warrior? I loved that one as a child!
I still enjoy the movie today.
And I once found it in book format but the text was too riddled with errors and typos to be enjoyable and worth the asking price.
Roadhouse is a classic! I don’t think it counts here.
I very much liked 13th warrior, just watched it again last week! It’s on YouTube free with ads right now
It may be considered as such today but it panned as not worthy of the time for many years.
The 13th Warrior was another of those movies that got thrown into the grinder by critics and cinephiles for being not worth the effort just to develop a cult following in response.
Which remebers me of another panned movie: Pathfinder
And while we’re at it, let’s add both Dredd movies (the second is the best) and the Demolition Man.
This was 16-year-old me with The 13th Warrior. Thought it was pretty good. I have never watched it again, so I wonder if today’s me would say the same.
It isn’t bad actually.
It has Antonio Banderas in it, how could it not be good?
Watched it a few months ago, still a great movie.
I thought Battlefield Earth had a cool concept when I was like 13. I watched it again a few years ago and it’s hilariously bad. 90% of the movie is Dutch angles
I had no idea what a “Dutch angle” was, so I googled it and was pretty tickled to find that it triggered a Google easter egg :)
Maybe I am one of today’s 10,000 but I had never heard of that particular one!
I’ve known about the Easter egg for years, but I honestly assumed it wouldn’t work in the mobile app.
Turns out it does!
Hey man like what you like. Most reviews are done by people who are WAAAAY to into cinema.
It’s like the first time I saw the movie Trash Humpers (2009), I was thinking to myself: is this a good movie? It isn’t. But, the beauty of that movie is that it exists. There’s no deep hidden symbolism, it’s a bunch of old people in long awkward scenes where they literally hump trash. The lack of a coherent plot adds to the question why they do that. In this world of endless choices and struggling, these people are trash humpers. And that’s respectable in a whole aspect.
2003’s the core. I always loved the semi friendly rivalry between Zimsky and Brazz. And how Keys (the main character) is sort of the glue that holds the team together and I think the cast has a good energy together as a whole. Combine that with genuinely enjoyable yet ridiculous 90’s style end of the world action / world destruction scenes and you got a 10 / 10 in my book.
I like The Core but omg it’s objectively terrible. “Unobtanium” is just a buckyball. The random kid drawing in the notebook just for heartstrings. Them welding power connectors right next to each other on the hull so that even IF their nonsense theory was correct they’d only be 0.01% efficient. Oh, and if the core stopped spinning it wouldn’t get the planet roasted anyway.
But hey, it’s a B movie so I give it some slack.
Batman V Superman from 2016.
My local theatre had an early early show: an early morning premiere, a day earlier than the official release date.
In spite of the, frankly, stupid trailer #2, I was still excited to see the first live action movie with Batman and Superman with my fellow nerds.
We came out of the theatre thinking it was a good movie, with Lex Luthor’s shenanigans aside (mannerisms, maintaining tabs on meta humans with well designed logos, etc.).
I specifically remember appreciating and talking about the movie’s score (Hans Zimmer), cinematography (Larry Fong), and costumes (Michael Wilkinson and Ironhead Studios).
While driving back, one of us checked the reviews and box office indications, and it was abysmal. It was so horrible that there was unspoken agreement between to never talk about it again in public.
I still like the movie, and like the Ultimate Edition even more. But strongly disliked all the movies that followed in that franchise.
as a standalone work, divorced of all context, BvS was a perfectly serviceable movie. I had fun watching it.
Van Wilder
Soundtrack is incredible, it’s one of Tara Reid’s best roles, the cast is absolutely stacked, and IMO it’s basically Deadpool without the costume. It’s Ryan Reynolds best movie to date, and if he doesn’t return for a second (the sequel doesn’t exist) his career afterwards is ultimately pointless.
Fun fact: the character of Van Wilder is based on the comedian Bert Kreischer who also went to college for way too many years. You might know him for accidentally joining the Russian mafia
Was a junior/senior in high school when that came out. Me and my dudes definitely wanted to be that guy that never graduated and lived on school grounds forever, without realizing how pathetic that life would be .
I’m British, and I’d say that this was probably my first time acknowledging what college is like in America. We can legally drink at 18, but we’ve usually got a year or so of drinking behind us already, so university for us is basically just studying between drinking sessions at a time when it’s legal (and encouraged).
Van Wilder seemed absolutely wild to me, especially the idea of dorms outside of a first year, and all the events that US colleges have for people. The basketball scene especially is wild, because university sports are (again) an excuse to drink with people that like playing basketball. It kinda seemed amazing to me, but yeah, being an older guy around students would be my idea of hell nowadays…
Not as bad as watching a movie with friends when everyone else loved it and you were the only one who hated it lol. It feels so much more visceral.
Yep this is the downside of being a discerning film lover with a friend group that watches movies together. I had this experience recently when we saw Longlegs (2024) in theaters. One friend LOVED it (he has notoriously bad taste), two friends thought it was decent, and I thought it was mediocre.
For us the infamous moment was Banshees of Inisherin. I thought it was mid. My wife hated it. Everybody else loved it.
Oh man, an old group of friends didn’t look at me the same after they invited me to see Bohemian Rhapsody, but I said I wasn’t interested. I just despise musicals. The Joker 2 is a perfect example why. They fucking ruin everything.
Kangaroo Jack (2003) for me. It’s not objectively good but I found it silly and fun, and it’s one of my dad’s favorite movies. Never really understood why it’s so panned (9% critic and 29% audience on Rotten Tomatoes)
Haha that movie was showing as a demo at the wholesale store my family would go to as a kid. I watched it in segments whenever I was there- I thought it was super cool + funny. So much so that when I was in college I convinced my girlfriend to watch it with me and wow that movie sucks I’m sorry to say :;( Although I do still quote “I see this is Flying Dingo IV. What happened to Flying Dingos 1 2 and 3?”
The Ice Pirates is a damn fun movie. Very camp 80s sci-fi.
The fucking time machine sequence at the end, oh my God.
Great movie!
The first Silent Hill movie and the Tim Burton Charlie and the Chocolate Factory stand out for me. The consensus seems to be that they suck, but I like 'em.
All of the 3 ninjas movies. I was telling my wife about them and was talking about how great they were (this was like a decade ago) and went to look them up. Like 0-15% on rotten tomatoes depending on which one.
3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain is particularly bad at 0% critic score, 29% audience score, and a 3 on IMDb.
I loved all the 3 ninjas movies so much though.
Don’t forget Beverly Hills Ninja: 13% critics, 53% audience. /s
(still a great movie for this list, though)
How do you feel about Surf Ninjas?
I’ve never even heard of it. Sounds excellent though. 😂
The purpose of a Movie is to entertain. If i am entertained, It Is Good.
So much! Movies don’t have to be deep, or meaningful, or insightful, to be good. (Though, obvs, they can be those things, too)
All they need to be is entertaining.
That’s why I always stay away from Oscar best picture movies. I find most of them too deep for me. Of course there are exceptions.
Freddy got fingered is the most notorious example of a movie with very funny/memorable scenes that got hated.
Palm Springs should have had best movie oscar, much less nominated, is my biggest pet peave.
FGF came out when I was a teenager. Me and my mates would’ve watched that over a hundred times. I can quote pretty much the whole movie. It has its place.
Honestly I think freddy got fingered wouldve done better if released nowadays.
Dude Where’s My Car?
Nothing spectacular but I thought it was pretty funny. I still remember laughing my ass off at individual scenes. I read ten or eleven reviews of it, and all of them except one said it was the worst movie they had ever seen. Not just bad - the WORST movie they’d EVER seen. Wat?
and then?
I watched that again recently and thought it was still funny. Fuck the haters!
Don’t remember much of it besides the tattoo scene, but I recall it being alright for this type of movie. Weaker version of Dumb and Dumber maybe?
Besides the “and then?” speaker somebody mentioned I remember another scene where they have to walk somewhere because the car is gone, and the one guy is sick of walking, seemingly after a time lapse but you can still see their house like 30 ft away.
Beowulf (2007).
Yes, the cgi aged badly, but everyone panned it for the plot change, which was the thing I liked about it the most!
It has a soft spot in my heart because it was the movie me and husband went on our first date to.
It was enjoyable to yell at the screen with only one other person in the theater.
We had both read the original Beowulf. Although not in the original writing, but I have heard the entire thing read in the original, it was at an entire thing/concert/performance thing for it.
The very obvious 3D things were the best to make fun of.
I thought Speed Racer was visually fantastic, and did a good job capturing some of the feel of the original show while putting a more modern spin on it. John Goodman feels like he can do no wrong. I just had a good time with it the whole time through.
It seems most people didn’t feel the same way I did
To be fair, people are generally coming around to it and it’s kind of on it’s way to being a cult classic now. People say this about everything but it was actually ahead of its time in terms of its visual style and the way it deals with the serious elements within the wild cartoon visuals.
Weirdly, I kind of think Marvel movies like Guardians might have been the thing that tipped the scales. The breakneck editing is still way ahead of anything I’ve seen since though.
Same! I liked it. Like Willy Wonka with racecars.
I love Reign of Fire. And honestly I think the CGI has held up surprisingly well for a 2002 movie (although not at all perfect).
6.2/10 IMBD, 41% critic/49% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.
Happen to me recently with “I saw the TV glowing” I tough it was a good movie, not 9 but maybe 8.5, apparently not, 5.5 by the IMDB voters.
Speed Racer
I showed my friends Rubber. It’s a movie about a serial killer tire. I think it’s great. Everyone I’ve showed it to thought it was terrible.
Land of the Lost (2009)
Back in the day before RT, it was Ishtar. My parents loved that movie.
Deathstalker 1 & 2, although the second is far superior.
It’s completely tone deaf by any standards, let alone modern ones. Watch as a gang rape is interrupted and turned into what can only be described as a “heroic sexual assault”.
The second swaps out the main actor for a much funnier one, and has probably the catchiest out-of-place theme tune of any movie.
You know you’re watching a terrible movie, but they breeze along and you can’t help but be entertained by it.
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.
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!
corstian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Joker 2. Laughing my ass of to all the people complaining about how it ruined the image of the joker for them.
viking@infosec.pub 1 week ago
I liked it as well, they just did remarkably poor with the expectation management prior to screening it.
Or they knew what was coming and wanted to grab the money.