. Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
. Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)
. Inbetweeners 2 (2015)
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Titan A.E. isn’t great, but for some reason i enjoyed it.
Ditto Battle: Los Angeles
I’m still waiting for the adventure to continue. Remo Williams was a great pilot that should have set up a series or at least some sequels
Speed Racer (2008, written and directed by the Wachowskis) captured the bizarre energy of the animated series perfectly. I watched the cartoon as a kid, so I “got it”. Apparently, a lot of people didn’t.
i like all of M Night Shyamalan’s movies prior to The Happening. Signs, The Village, and Lady in the Water are some of my favorite movies.
The Village is a great example of marketing killing a movie. It was a good film, but the way it was marketed, people were expecting a horror movie, or at least a storyline that centered around scary monsters in the woods. No wonder people were disappointed.
Would you care to make a case for Lady in the Water? I don’t recall a huge amount of that movie, but what’s there is not positive. Admittedly, his gall in writing a character who is destined to save the world through his art, and then casting himself in said role, left a pretty sour taste in my mouth, but I shouldn’t let that affect the other aspects of the film.
Signs especially is so good. Really great performances from the core characters. The payoff at the end of all the threads coming together is great. All the criticisms against it are valid, but I still love it.
exactly. I feel like after 6th Sense MNS got pigeonholed as the “twist” guy and that’s all most people judged his movies on, but there’s so much more good stuff going on in them. Even The Happening had some redeeming qualities but that’s when he really started slipping.
Joker 2 Electric Boogaloo. I thought it was well made, thought provoking, and a good critique of all the chuds who idolised the first film for the wrong reasons.
Two movies come to mind:
Alita Battle Angel (2019) might be the best Anime adaptation to date. It has become one of my favorite movies of all time. I guess it wasn’t received badly, it has been barely received at all. This should have been a blockbuster, but most people aren’t even aware the movie exists! It’s such a shame, I really hope we get the follow up movies, because this one was great!
John Carter (2012) wasn’t great, I have to admit. I can’t argue with it’s 6.6 rating on IMDb. It’s a flawed movie, but it is so much fun! It’s an epic pulp adventure! If you go in expecting just that, turn off your brain and just enjoy the ride, you will have a great time! People were really too hard on it, when it came out!
+1 to both of these!
John Carter was accused of being too derivative, but hilariously its source material (the book A Princess of Mars) was the great-grandaddy of science fantasy as a genre. So JC is derivative of a bunch of movies that got their ideas and inspiration from APoM.
Super Mario Bros (1993) is one of my favorite movies of all time.
It’s a bizarre mess of a film, full of counter-culture icons in a weird sci-fi dystopian setting. Despite being objectively awful, there isn’t another movie quite like it, and it’s a fun watch.
It’s a shame that the nightmarish production took such a heavy toll on everyone involved in the project because I’d like to see more screwball adaptations of things
Death to Smoochie (2002) is my #1. It has an insane cast, dark absurd humor, and is honestly beautifully shot and has great pacing. I mean, Robin Williams played a spiraling psychopathic technicolor disgraced childrens’ TV show host, opposite a native optimistic idealistic purple rhino played by Ed Norton. 🤌There’s children’s TV networks, the mob, murder, Nazis, meth, ice shows, soy hotdogs, merchandising, brain damaged boxers, and sing-alongs! The only thing it doesn’t have is explicit sex - I guess because that would be too much.
Solo, It is probably my favorite Star Wars movie honestly
Jason X is rated pretty bad even for a Friday the 13th film. I think it’s just pure fun. It has everything a Friday the 13th film needs and puts it on another level. It’s mostly dumb but it doesn’t really try to be taken serious.
Guy Ritchie’s OG cut of Revolver (not the shit “director’s” cut).
Epic film.
“Hi, I’m a banana and want a job as a telephone repair guy”
“You want the job? You got the job buddy!!!”
Megalopolis. Flew way over peoples heads, I didn’t really feel I fully understood it until the 2nd or 3rd viewing.
Big Trouble with Tim Allen was a modern American classic and I’m tired of pretending it’s not.
Crazy I just thought of this movie today. “Was that a goat?”
I didn’t actually really care for it. Sorry
