- TVA ( @TVA@thebrainbin.org ) 44•18 days ago
Super Mario Bros (1993) is this movie for me … it’s weird as hell and it’s adherence to the source material is … iffy at best … but god damn if it wasn’t a fun ride!
Then you read about how everyone hated the directors so much they literally got drunk on set and openly wore custom made shirts with slogans about how bad the directors were AND Bob Haskins was in a cast for most of it for an injury on set and it gets even more fascinating! The Directors poured hot coffee on people and just openly belittled everyone. It’s insane!
- criitz ( @criitz@reddthat.com ) English14•18 days ago
I love this movie. It’s gloriously cheesy and fun. I can see the poor ratings overall, but for 90s kids who were just pumped to see their favorite game on the big screen, this was an amazing moment in cinema.
- discoplasm ( @discoplasm@piefed.social ) English7•18 days ago
yes, this is my answer as well! as much of a nightmare the filming process was for everyone i think it’s a legitimately good movie, not even “so bad it’s good”. it’s utterly bonkers & the production design is absolutely off the chain and i love it.
- JoYo ( @JoYo@lemmy.ml ) English1•17 days ago
- modifier ( @modifier@lemmy.ca ) English40•17 days 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.
- Dragonstaff ( @Dragonstaff@leminal.space ) English11•17 days 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.
- ditty ( @dditty@lemm.ee ) English4•17 days ago
Agreed. It came across as preachy instead of entertaining, but it seemed like it was trying really hard to be entertaining.
- shinratdr ( @shinratdr@lemmy.ca ) English7•17 days 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).
- WanderingVentra ( @WanderingVentra@lemm.ee ) English5•17 days ago
I really liked that movie. Great example for me, too.
- dalekcaan ( @dalekcaan@lemm.ee ) English5•17 days 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 ( @MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ) English1•17 days ago
Or, in the Homerian fashion, ‘It’s Funny Coz It’s True’, really not in some cases, but laughter may help some people cope. Agreed. I also hate prattfall comedy for similar reasons, empathy, self-reflection, rational fear, those things…
- thepreciousboar ( @thepreciousboar@lemm.ee ) English4•17 days 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
- Trainguyrom ( @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ) English2•17 days ago
I just loved the pacing of Don’t Look Up so much. Just constant subversion of expectations that I really enjoyed
- edric ( @scytale@lemm.ee ) English23•18 days ago
I loved Equilibrium and was surprised it wasn’t rated as good.
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) English2•17 days 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.
- Spacehooks ( @Spacehooks@reddthat.com ) English2•17 days ago
Lol my mom watched every version on the DVD. Probably watched more times than me. Amazing movie.
- _____ ( @_____@lemm.ee ) English1•17 days ago
Equilibrium is great but it’s hard to see it as something else than a b-movie even with my rose tinted glasses
- Trainguyrom ( @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ) English1•17 days 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!
- BmeBenji ( @BmeBenji@lemm.ee ) English22•17 days 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.
- Trainguyrom ( @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ) English7•17 days 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
- NigelFrobisher ( @NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ) English3•17 days 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.
- Moobythegoldensock ( @Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee ) English2•17 days ago
Yes, but at least this one has 91% critic rating on RT.
- Spacehooks ( @Spacehooks@reddthat.com ) English18•17 days 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.
- absGeekNZ ( @absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ) English5•17 days ago
I was surprised by the reaction to this movie. I really enjoyed it.
I saw it in the cinema, left with mixed feelings. I should probably rewatch it
- noseatbelt ( @noseatbelt@lemmy.ca ) English12•17 days 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!
- Atherel ( @Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•17 days ago
It want’s to be cheesy and not serious like the newer Batman movies. It’s like the series with Adam West. People not liking it are expecting something other.
- slurpeesoforion ( @slurpeesoforion@startrek.website ) English11•17 days 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.
- JillyB ( @JillyB@beehaw.org ) English10•17 days ago
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.
- Welt ( @Welt@lazysoci.al ) English3•17 days ago
Art is subjective (and most people are philistines)
- SkaveRat ( @SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ) English2•17 days ago
It’s definitely a movie that you either absolutely love or absolutely hate. No in between
- NeroC_Bass ( @NeroC_Bass@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•17 days ago
I remember when I watched it years ago on Netflix. Its been on mh rewatch list for a while.
- Teppichbrand ( @Teppichbrand@feddit.org ) English1•17 days ago
Didn’t watch it yet, but Wrong Cops by the same director is super strange and silly. Turn it up so the music bangs, great experience, 9/10.
- bricklove ( @bricklove@midwest.social ) English9•17 days ago
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
- dmention7 ( @dmention7@lemm.ee ) English5•17 days ago
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!
- Trainguyrom ( @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ) English7•17 days ago
At first I went “what easter egg?”
Also, kudos for the AI Overview for getting it entirely wrong while the easter egg at least knows what’s up
- pearsaltchocolatebar ( @pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ) English9•18 days ago
Boondock Saints is such a movie, which is a crime
- IninewCrow ( @ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ) English8•18 days ago
Great thread … now I have a new movie list … thanks
- Fontasia ( @Fontasia@feddit.nl ) English8•17 days 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 in 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
- realcaseyrollins ( @realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ) English6•17 days ago
A movie can have a good message and still be bad though.
- psivchaz ( @psivchaz@reddthat.com ) English4•16 days ago
This is legit the movie I shit on most. I hate it so very much. It’s not the plot exactly, it’s two things:
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The tech accuracy is so bad. I won’t go into everything but they go out of their way to say shit that doesn’t make sense. My favorite example is that the AI is just a big floating orb and they feed it data through infrared, the slowest communication method available. Like they didn’t have to say infrared, they chose that.
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The product placement. Again, a lot of examples but my favorite is how at the end he shows up with Guitar Hero and the kids are like “Yay Guitar Hero that’s the best game ever.”
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- tyler ( @tyler@programming.dev ) English8•17 days ago
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 0-35% 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.
- Smith6826 ( @Smith6826@sopuli.xyz ) English2•17 days ago
Don’t forget Beverly Hills Ninja: 13% critics, 53% audience. /s
(still a great movie for this list, though)
- BigBananaDealer ( @BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ) English6•17 days ago
apparently critics hated baseketball but thats one of the funniest movies of all time
- xeekei ( @xeekei@lemm.ee ) English2•17 days ago
It is! Critics’ sisters must be going out with Squeak.
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) English6•17 days ago
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.
- ditty ( @dditty@lemm.ee ) English4•17 days ago
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.
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) English2•17 days ago
For us the infamous moment was Banshees of Inisherin. I thought it was mid. My wife hated it. Everybody else loved it.
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) English2•16 days ago
Well, you’re wrong. But I forgive you and wouldn’t refuse you a Halloween invitation over this opinion. 💜
- ditty ( @dditty@lemm.ee ) English1•17 days ago
Yeah that film was bizarre; I liked aspects of it but overall thought it was too weird
- Smith6826 ( @Smith6826@sopuli.xyz ) English1•17 days ago
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.