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Congo is one of my favorite movies of all time I can recite every line in it. It’s only got a 23% on RT and like a 5/10 on IMDb but I don’t care. I still love the fuck out of that movie
Usually the opposite is true for me these days.
I thought the Percy Jackson movies were pretty cool. I was very wrong
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was my jam as a little girl… but it might just be because I ended up being bisexual and there’s a lot of beautiful and badass people in it.
Fun movie! Idk if I ever bought the DVD but I would always watch it when it was on TV.
Yes I remember enjoying this movie. I loved all of the characters from legends and stories, as well as all of its steampunk elements. It’s totally underrated.
Have you ever read the comics? Quick read, and vol 2 is a straight up banger.
Just had this experience with The Men Who Stare At Goats. Thought it was a good watch, like 6.2 on IMDb. Would recommend
I also highly recommend the book (and all of Jon Ronson tbh)
6-7 on IMDB is a pretty decent score, plenty of good movies in that range. If it’s 5 and below it means it’s right proper schlock.
I’ll never not like Waterworld
It’s definitely a spectacle.
Death to Smoochy, my dark comedy about the mafia world inside of children’s TV show is utterly fantastic and I will not be taking questions.
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.
I still can’t decide if it’s a brilliant retelling of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest or schlocky trash, but it sure is fun.
I saw it in the cinema, left with mixed feelings. I should probably rewatch it
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
The Thing.
Critically panned when it came out, and my favorite horror movie of all time. Of course critics feel differently now, but far after its following grew.
Oh, same. Absolute favorite.
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.
apparently critics hated baseketball but thats one of the funniest movies of all time
It is! Critics’ sisters must be going out with Squeak.
Steve Perry!
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
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.
It’s been a long time I got as visceral of a feeling as I got when watching that film and Leo’s character’s meltdown as the impending doom is happening an noone seems to be giving a fuck
Yeah, in my case this one was too close to home for me to love it. 10 or 20 years ago I probably would’ve felt differently. Similar for Idiocracy, I don’t think I’d feel the same way about it if it came out today. Kinda chilling when I think about that, honestly.
Being so on the nose, to me, is part of the joke.
So obvious its blinding, and unrealistic. Just like reality lol.
I just loved the pacing of Don’t Look Up so much. Just constant subversion of expectations that I really enjoyed
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).
In hindsight its kind of understatement.
I’ve gone over it again and again and again in my head and I still can’t make sense of it. He’s a three-star general. He works at the Pentagon. Why would he charge us for free snacks?
This part had me absolutely rolling. I loved that movie.
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.
That’s what I saw on reddit only for a week later to see someone argue that it’s not about climate change because it’s literally about a meteor.
So there you go, you probably weren’t the target audience
Agreed. It came across as preachy instead of entertaining, but it seemed like it was trying really hard to be entertaining.
I really liked that movie. Great example for me, too.
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
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 and I don’t understand how 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.
It feels like the Star Wars fandom. Maybe even more extreme.
Good point! That’s definitely treated as not acceptable, at least beyond criticisms of the first season.
Season one had some problems trying to find its place, but that’s also pretty common for a lot of shows. Season three had serious pacing issues due to the writers’ strike. I’d be interested in seeing what season 2 criticism is like.
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