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We all have that one guilty pleasure movie. The one that in our heart of hearts know is bad but love it anyway. And no matter how many times you hear why people hate it you stand your ground and love it regardless. I wanna hear which movies those are for you and why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxANWqgmsFc Blair Witch 2 Book of Shadows - it's a complete departure of style, none of the actors from the first are involved, in fact it treats the first movie as just that - a movie that the characters in the sequel went and saw and became obsessed with. By all rights it's not that good of a movie - but I love it! It's interesting. Movie sequels are usually not as good as the first and sometimes just the same movie again but worse or different location. This one goes in a completely different direction, and by the end of it it has you asking if what you saw is what actually happened. And when you watch it again you can find a lot of little hints as to what is actually happening. I love this terrible movie.
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Star Trek: Nemesis It's a fun examination of the nature vs nurture argument, plus Shinzon's ship is bad rear end.
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Hudson Hawk. Watched it a bunch on HBO, then took a risk years later and still liked it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xrVwG3AsPs The trailer really does not help.
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\/\/\/ The Red Elvises, who feature in that movie play in my town like twice a year, but they only do so on a fuckin awful monday night when absolutely nobody is out. I go to every show, but I'm only ever like one of eight people 
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Six String Samurai It's just dumb and fun and has a unique vibe to it.
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I have an eternal soft spot for Equilibrium. It's just so earnest and self-serious despite being utterly silly, and the action still owns.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfklP_tyagQ Perestroika has a new favorite as of 17:06 on Dec 30, 2023 |
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Dec 30, 2023 11:28
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widefault posted:Hudson Hawk. Watched it a bunch on HBO, then took a risk years later and still liked it. I never understood why nobody seemed to like this movie, it's great! Same goes for the Last Action Hero and Mystery Men. What's not to love?!
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Beezle posted:I never understood why nobody seemed to like this movie, it's great! Last Action Hero rules and feels like it's ahead of its time. My wife bought it for me at Play and Trade in the mall and the dude working there made fun of me through my wife. gently caress that guy.
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Beezle posted:I never understood why nobody seemed to like this movie, it's great! Mystery Men was loving awesome and I look forward to watching it with my niece and nephews when they're older.
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widefault posted:Hudson Hawk. Watched it a bunch on HBO, then took a risk years later and still liked it. Hudson Hawk was awesome. Me and my best friend at the time saw it in the theater. Later that year we went on a high school trip to Europe and would recognize locations from the movie while we were there. We would then point them out when we watched it over and over on VHS after that. 
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I loved Howard the Duck as a kid. Hot Rod is one of the greatest comedies of the 21st century. I've seen A Night at the Roxbury more than a few times and even made a friend watch it.
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Eclipse12 posted:made a friend watch it pervert poo poo
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Beezle posted:I never understood why nobody seemed to like this movie, it's great! Saw Last Action Hero in the theater and loved it, then was super confused when it became obvious people didn't get the satire. Eclipse12 posted:I loved Howard the Duck as a kid. Having seen it again recently, I think I like it more now.
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widefault posted:
The Dark Overlord creature design is badass
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Star Trek V. "What does God need with a starship?" Is a cheese classic.
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Lots of people love Dark Star. Me included.
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Eclipse12 posted:I loved Howard the Duck as a kid. wait do people not like Hot Rod? It rules!
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Well, I'm pretty sure it flopped in theaters and the RT score is pretty rough. That said, anyone I've shown it to loves it
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I think a lot of people have it as a guilty pleasure at this point but Southland Tales is amazing and terrible. I cannot get the scene where leslie knope and avon barksdale get blasted by Jay Sherman in front of Stiffler and Dwayne The Rock Johnson out of my head. Or the scene where Justin Timberlake gets really high, and the movie basically stops while he looks right at the camera and has a song and dance number to All the things I've done by the killers.
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Super Mario Brothers: The Movie from 1993 is a movie that I couldn't get enough of as a kid and still enjoy today. I didn't grow up playing the Mario games (we could only afford a Genesis), so I pretty much went into the movie with no expectations. It's just such a bizarrely entertaining experience between the lighthearted music, braindead characters, and the dystopian pseudo-cyberpunk setting that I had a blast the first time I watched it. I'm pretty sure every time we would go to Blockbuster it was always in our pile of tapes to rent.
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Alien: Covenant is not especially well-rated but it's one of my favorite Ridley Scott films. The pure nastiness and misanthropy that pervades the entire piece is simply delightful, and Michael Fassbender turns in one of his best performances as David. It's an entertaining movie to watch for whenever you have a rather low opinion of humanity and need a good giggle at the same time. I love it.
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Barbarella rides a wavering line between campy sexploitation and artful, inspired cult classic. It's an encapsulation of the wildness of the 60's, the thought experiment of guilt-free or post-sexuality of the distant future, wild sets and imagery, and a weird earnestness from Fonda playing the innocent, who bounces from situation to situation with wide-eyed wonder, drawing the viewer in to experience it all alongside her (though 'innocent' is an unlikely word here). It is a futuristic fetishy fashiony fairy tale, wonderfully and weirdly unique, and we will never see its like again. It was one of those right-time right-place right-people filmings. Any attempt to remake it would probably trod heavily over the line in one or another direction - too campy, too much focus on the sexual element, visuals that are garish without the cohesive vision. The plot is admittedly choppy, and feels cheap at times, but it's almost like that's part of the fun, an episodic fever dream. It's easy to see its artistic influence on subsequent 'wild comic-book future' movies like The Fifth Element and Valerian, and a lot of campy sci-fi music videos. The acting is delightful to me - digging into the roles with abandon, without overt winks about how over the top it is. Marcel Marceau has his first speaking role. John Phillip Law as a rigidly insane blind birdman/angel. Pallenberg/Greenwood combining to give the Black Queen role shades of seduction and death simultaneously. And Fonda, who surfs seemingly effortlessly across the top of the waves. It's not even that I love this movie and others hate it or don't understand it or lump it in with sensationalist schlock - I just mourn that there aren't more movies that come close to what this one does.
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Cats. No, I'm not talking about a different movie called Cats, I'm talking about the one you're thinking of. I saw it at the cinema twice. People seemed to hate it for one of two reasons:
James Corden is loving awful though. The movie would be perfect if they'd just cut him out of it.
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Not a movie but I LOVE the album Chinese Democracy by GnR. Better Street of Dreams There Was a Time Catcher in the Rye IRS This I Love Prostitute All awesome. History will vindicate Axl Rose
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Battlefield Earth. I rented it a couple of times on vhs back in the days and liked it because it has the underdog humans kick the dumb alien overlords' asses. Also the cavemen ride harriers and in the end they nuke an entire planet!  The wikipedia article says the movie was panned for pretty much anything. I'm sure that's true but I don't remember it at all and that's fine with me.
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10,000 BC I am a sucker for any media which purports that the pyramids of Giza were built long before the rise of the ancient Egyptian civilization.
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I’ve seen all the Mila Jovovich Resident Evil movies multiple times. I love that practically each one ends with a reveal that the next movie just throws away in the first five minutes. Whoa, Mila has an army of clones now? Can’t wait to see how the next movie deals with oh wait they’re all dead already, okay.
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I don't know if it's quite hate/love, but I like the John Carter movie and if other people even know it exists all they know is that it was a massive flop.
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Splint Chesthair posted:I’ve seen all the Mila Jovovich Resident Evil movies multiple times. I love that practically each one ends with a reveal that the next movie just throws away in the first five minutes. The Goosebumps strategy. Each chapter ends on a cliffhanger that is walked back in the very next sentence.
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I love Freddy Got Fingered.
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Chip McFuck posted:Super Mario Brothers: The Movie from 1993 is a movie that I couldn't get enough of as a kid and still enjoy today. I didn't grow up playing the Mario games (we could only afford a Genesis), so I pretty much went into the movie with no expectations. It's just such a bizarrely entertaining experience between the lighthearted music, braindead characters, and the dystopian pseudo-cyberpunk setting that I had a blast the first time I watched it. clicked here to post this. classic schlock. adore it. Everybody walk your dinosaur.
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i love the robert altman weird ham handed attempt at an 80s teen comedy "o.c. and stiggs". fans of teen comedies hate it because it's robert altman style. fans of robert altman HATE it because it's a weirdo teen comedy. i think it's great
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Tank Girl (1995) was a B-budget comic book adaptation that managed to get a pretty decent cast together with Lori Petty as the titular tank girl, Naomi Watts as the sidekick and Malcolm McDowell as the main antagonist. It also stars Ice-T in a kangaroo suit as one of the mysterious Rippers who turn out to be a bunch of horny dorks. It absolutely bombed. The plot is dumb, most fans of the comic hate it. The humor is full of very crass jokes, but at least it's true to the source material in that regard. Its only saving grace is the comic book style animated clips spliced in between scenes. I've read that Naomi Watts refuses to talk about the movie. And I love it. It's the perfect movie to just turn your brain off and enjoy the spectacle.
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Xanadu (1980) was the film that was supposed to capitalise on the success of Grease and propel Olivia Newton John to mega-stardom by cashing in on the hip new dance sensation, Roller-Disco. But it took so long to pull together they were still rewriting the script when it came to shooting and only kept ahead by locking Joel Silver in a room with a load of cocaine and not letting him out until they had pages to shoot. By the time it came out the craze had long passed, nobody could work out why Gene Kelly also appeared in the film, the whole thing was barely held together camp nonsense and was instantly killed by the one word review "Xana-don't". It later went on to inspire the creation of the Razzies. Possibly BECAUSE it was so notorious the tie in 10 inch promotional picture disk of the main theme is now one of the rarest and most expensive records on the collector market. But, but. It wears it heart on its sleeve, any time Olivia Newton John is performing she just radiates joy, the ELO-provided soundtrack is a time capsule of a less cynical era, and who doesn't love camp nonsense? Well, lots of people. But I saw this when I was 6 and fell in love with it, believed in muses, and even though on a rewatch I can't defend it on just about any level, I still kinda love it. It's trash, but I love it.
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Collateral Damage posted:Tank Girl (1995) was a B-budget comic book adaptation that managed to get a pretty decent cast together with Lori Petty as the titular tank girl, Naomi Watts as the sidekick and Malcolm McDowell as the main antagonist. It also stars Ice-T in a kangaroo suit as one of the mysterious Rippers who turn out to be a bunch of horny dorks. When the crew of Expedition 6 made it to the International Space Station the first thing they did was watch Tank Girl. Some fun Tank Girl trivia for you.
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Isomermaid posted:Xanadu (1980) was the film that was supposed to capitalise on the success of Grease and propel Olivia Newton John to mega-stardom by cashing in on the hip new dance sensation, Roller-Disco. But it took so long to pull together they were still rewriting the script when it came to shooting and only kept ahead by locking Joel Silver in a room with a load of cocaine and not letting him out until they had pages to shoot. By the time it came out the craze had long passed, nobody could work out why Gene Kelly also appeared in the film, the whole thing was barely held together camp nonsense and was instantly killed by the one word review "Xana-don't". It later went on to inspire the creation of the Razzies. Possibly BECAUSE it was so notorious the tie in 10 inch promotional picture disk of the main theme is now one of the rarest and most expensive records on the collector market. Loved it as a kid, love it now. The introduction of the muses really holds up considering the state of the effects industry at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1DhJdGNuu8 Thought of another, Dream a Little Dream (1989) starring The Coreys, Meredith Salenger, and Jason Robards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBzIXPVt1bY Corey Feldman pretending to be Jason Robards, ridiculous 80s music covers, and a surprise Harry Dean Stanton. And, of course Corey in the early part of his Micheal Jackson phase. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIvq1ObEOrs
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widefault posted:Loved it as a kid, love it now. The introduction of the muses really holds up considering the state of the effects industry at the time. And the song "I'm Alive" makes more sense when you see the movie.
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Isomermaid posted:Xanadu (1980) was the film that was supposed to capitalise on the success of Grease and propel Olivia Newton John to mega-stardom by cashing in on the hip new dance sensation, Roller-Disco. But it took so long to pull together they were still rewriting the script when it came to shooting and only kept ahead by locking Joel Silver in a room with a load of cocaine and not letting him out until they had pages to shoot. By the time it came out the craze had long passed, nobody could work out why Gene Kelly also appeared in the film, the whole thing was barely held together camp nonsense and was instantly killed by the one word review "Xana-don't". It later went on to inspire the creation of the Razzies. Possibly BECAUSE it was so notorious the tie in 10 inch promotional picture disk of the main theme is now one of the rarest and most expensive records on the collector market. I also own it on DVD and have the soundtrack. Which fuckin' slaps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCm0_93WCCA
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Eclipse12 posted:Hot Rod is one of the greatest comedies of the 21st century. I'll lob The Day After Tomorrow onto the table, and will take this whole post to make the same point Roger Ebert made in one sentence: quote:What's amusing in movies like "The Day After Tomorrow" is the way the screenplay veers from the annihilation of subcontinents to whether Sam should tell Laura he loves her. He nailed it, as always. The tonal shifts in this movie kill me every time: [pretty consistently solid/realistic CGI of tornadoes shredding L.A. and people getting absolutely waxed left and right] - Oh man this is a little unnerving, I would not call this a joke [bunch of shamelessly stupid bullshit about the high school kids and Jake Hyllenhaal's puppydog eyes for Emmy Rossum] - OK nm this is silly, I guess the whole movie is pretty silly [classically-trained vet of Shakespearean theater Ian Holm cruises by and drops some really bad dialogue that is somehow rendered solemn and meaningful by his flawless delivery] - Oh wow, now I feel sad/bad, he's right this is very serious [hilariously bad science dialogue in the - haha this is ridiculous and I am watching a dumb movie that makes no pretense of being anything but dumb [wave of supercold wind freezes pilot dude solid in .8 seconds] - oh man that is crazy and even a little sobering, perhaps I should [running from the cold wave into the library, "quick burn more books! More books! Hurry!"] - okay what the actual gently caress is going on here, pick a lane goddamnit The end is unfiltered Emmerich where the camera gives us little four-second shots of every loose end - awww the dog survived! awww the old guy made it, that's great - awww nerdy kid got the girl, she's cuddling up to him in the rescue helicopter, what a happy ending - awww the dad w a friendly/fatherly grin at his son who is now a man, I guess everything's gonna be OK here for our plucky heroes pay no attention to the millions of corpses littering the Northern Hemisphere Welp, off to Mexico who has cheerfully accepted President Cheney's apology and has opened their borders to their good friends from the north There are times when the whole thing feels like one of those flicks with two different directors in charge at different times, like one got fired so the other one took over? Except no, it's just one director and this was clearly his plan the whole time. And yet for all of that dissonance, the movie is undeniably entertaining. It's like a trainwreck but if the conductor was like, "what's the problem, trainwrecks are badass!", and was kind of right. Couple of timeless quotes: quote:Physicist: The Canadians are reporting tremendous circulation moving from the Arctic. In Siberia, there's a low-pressure system unlike anything we've seen. And Australia just saw the strongest typhoon ever recorded. quote:Vice President (obvious dead-ringer for Cheney): Mr. President, Los Angeles has been devastated by a series of tornados. On top of that, the FAA wants your approval to suspend all air traffic. 
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