The pacing gets clunky in some spots, production quality is a bit off in some sections... honestly not really worse than say Escape from New York... its honestly overall pretty damn good.
I can't like that movie because it was so insulting for the culture at the time. Tacky and stupid. No self respecting 90s technology person respects that movie.
Dude, Where's My Car? is so much better than it had any right to be. And while the main characters are stoners, most of the humor isn't stoner humor. Not that there's anything wrong with stoner humor, but movies that consist entirely of stoner humor tend to drag after a while.
Last Action Hero. I know the editing is pretty bad and the rhythm is a bit messed up in the last part but it's the most meta movie ever and an homage/parody to classic action movies. Having Arnold play the main part is the cherry on top.
I blame the marketing for that movie not doing well. People went expecting a "wacky Jim Carrey flick" and what they got was a surreal and frightening thriller.
Eddie Murphy's "Holy Man" suffers that bad marketing issue as well. They plastered so many ads making it out to be a loony Eddie Murphy film and the movie itself is more of an uplifting drama about believing in one's self and not seeking external validation, with a few gags in it making fun of television shopping networks and the stupid shit people buy from them cause yeah, it's Eddie Murphy of course they're gonna have fun with it. But that's only like 1/3rd of the film.
oh also TRON Legacy. "tHe PlOt iS sTuPiD" yeah no shit it's TRON, the original was a glorified feature length CG animation test reel. I came here for pretty lights, cool motorcycles, Daft Punk, Jeff Bridges, and Olivia Wilde being hot, not for prestige cinema lmao
Saw it in theaters when I was a kid, great 90's flick. Pauly Shore was the shit back then. All his movies were great except that In the Army Now that one was bad. But the rest good.
Son in Law is one of my partner's favorite movies, and even being introduced to it in the late 2000's, I can see the appeal. Peak Pauly Shore. Plus, there really aren't that many Thanksgiving movies, so it's right up there with Planes, Trains, and Automobiles for the Mount Rushmore of Thanksgiving movies.
Chronicles of Riddick. Not sure it's considered a "bad" movie, but I definitely like it more than most. Just a crazy entertaining world and system they build in a short 2 hour long movie.
I unironically love Armageddon and The Core. Yes, they're both stupid and unrealistic movies, but that works in their favor about as often as against. Something about the way they play with the core concepts makes me love them.
The most unbelievable thing about these movies is the competent government that makes the plot happen. In real life the astroid would kill the planet before they admit it exists. That's actually why these are comfort movies for my spouse and I, it's nice to believe in a world where people aren't stupid.
I unironically enjoy the old 2005 Fantastic 4 movie. It was cheesy as fuck, I don't deny that. But it was fun. And the comics themselves can be as bad or worse sometimes.
I unironically enjoy the old 2005 Fantastic 4 movie. It was cheesy as fuck, I don't deny that.
I hated it when it came out, because all super hero movies were cheesy as fuck, and it felt bad seeing another.
But in hindsight, Fantastic Four movies are better when they're cheesy as fuck, because so was/is the comic (more often than not).
My only remaining complaint is that the sequel was too chickenshit to give Galactus a giant purple fork hat. I noticed happily that the shadow of the fork hat made it into the trailer, for the new movie.
I’ve always enjoyed them, but my one complaint specifically for the first one is that everything feels SO MUCH like a set. Every exterior city scene feels like an SNL sketch
Mine's gotta be "The Brothers Grimm" starring Matt Damon and Heath Ledger. It's the same camp vibe as the "Van Helsing" movie starring Hugh Jackman, but there's no badass super hero to save the day - there's just a bunch of imperfect people trying their best, and it's almost entirely by luck or destiny that they snatch victory from the clutches of defeat. It's also one of the most morbid depictions of childish horror i've seen on-screen, where it gives no fucks about being realistic.
I put Ultraviolet next to this too. I'm not here for cohesive world building, I'm here for gratuitous sci-fi action perpetrated by a woman with a bad haircut.
The film was better than the old MTV series it was based on. They built a compelling world in the animated version, but the film delivered on that vision.
Without clicking the link, just imagine what it might be.
::: spoiler Got it pictured?
Yes. It is exactly what you imagined.
It's Star Wars and Space Balls splashed across Trucker stereotypes. It's affordably made, except when it's trying to be gross - when no expense is spared.
But somehow it's also... just all around...good? It's good. I can't explain it. But... it's just... a pretty good movie.
The characters are relatable. The acting is professional and effective. It's easy to root for the main cast, and against the badguys. All the story beats land where and how they should.
I want to see someone do one of those high minded film making analysis on "Space Truckers", because I suspect it is better on every level than it has any right to be.
Come on that don't belong here great movie based on the same writer behind Jurassic Park, both books I own. This movie has the legendary Tim Curry not a bad movie.
What heck man that is an awesome movie! Based on a Carl Sagan book (which I own) and got Jodie Foster in it (my first movie star crush) this doesn't belong here.
For me its Mallrats. and Jersey Girl, don't care what Kevin Smith says those are both great movies.
No your wrong it was well cast and fucking great rom com. Better than any fucking rom com I seen and I seen plenty. I downvote you but your entitled to your opinion even if it's wrong.
If you mean the '98 one, hell yeah! That metal helmet scene is so cool, Gary Oldman kills it all the way through, and itty bitty me had a huge crush on Penny Robinson.
It relies on familiarity with the source show while being stand-alone and released too late. (Well, maybe it realizes that "Swiss Family Robinson in space" isn't rocket science.)
Various wild science fiction elements are slammed together, some very late with little foreshadowing.
But - the cast carries it off (particularly Garry Oldman and Lacey Chabert).
I have the hardest time explaining why anyone should watch it, but it's solidly enterainting, and all the bits that shouldn't work still somehow work.
Dredd (2012) is a near perfect 80s/90's style, over the top action movie made 25 years too late.
Well shot action scenes.
Excellent soundtrack.
Pretty darn well paced.
Good helping of action hero one liners.
Plot is simple enough for idiot, explosion go boom, brain to follow, but also takes itself seriously enough to present the horrors of its world via interactions with minor characters.
Karl Urban manages to do more acting with only his mouth and chin, and line delivery, than many other actors do with their whole face.
Olivia Thirlby is also very, very good, I do not understand why some other director has not cast her in an action oriented role since... now that Nintendo seems to actually allow their IP in films: Make her blonde again and she is Samus Aran.
EDIT:
In case you haven't seen it... this is a bit spoilery, but here's a decent 4 minute representative sample to give you an impression of the movie.
I loved everything about that move but the main two. It's like this highschool dweeb has an uncle that owns a movie studio and talked him into using it to woo his hot crush by casting her in a realization of love plot. Every character other than the horny dweeb and the chick that really doesn't want to bang him rocks their part and the plot is such a great concept and the graphics are tearjerkingly beautiful, and somehow none of it makes up for the two dinguses that hog the screen.
I had a crush on Jordana Brewster after that movie. I love that movie.
I've also been keeping an eye on Josh Harnett and he kinda disappeared off the face of the Earth and then started in a few random flicks again all of a sudden.
I haven't really had time or enough commitment to listen to a podcast in a long while, but if I can find either I'll give this a shot, as it sounds interesting. Thank you!
My mother used to call me a mean name and tell me she was quoting the movie. She thought it was funny. I've never seen that movie, but I don't like it.
Superman 3 beats almost ANY action movie out there. It literally has everything you could want in a movie... it doesn't take itself too seriously so it's funny as hell, has actual character development unlike anything we've seen before or since in an superhero movie, cool but believable fight scenes, morally grey characters, and RICHARD PRYOR.
An absolute masterpiece in terms of blending and transitioning between live action and animation; plus the whole Disney/Warner Bros character crossovers.. just 👌🏼
One I love and haven't seen mentioned is Equalibrium, I've probably seen it 5 times, which is a lot of times for me. I see its ham fisted metaphors and raise you gun karate.
There's a movie called Unstoppable (2010) with Denzel Washington, Chris Pine and Rosario Dawson. It's about a runaway train causing trouble in Pennsylvania.
I've watched it no less than 30 times.
It's not like I'm into trains or anything. I just think it's a really good movie and every single actor in it is giving 100%.
Chocolate. Taiwanese movie about an autistic girl who goes around beating up gangsters in the styles of famous martial artists she saw on TV, followed by her repeatedly demanding they give her an unspecified amount of money.
Interstate 60 - a cute quirky B movie with some hella famous actors. Gary Oldman, Christopher Lloyd, Michael J Fox, James Maraden, Chris Cooper, Amy Smart, Kurt Russell. It is a fun and imaginative ride along a made up highway. My favorite scene was the town of Morelaw.
Big Trouble - a great movie shut down by circumstance. It was set for release in late 2001, the end of the movie involves hijacking a plane with a nuclear bomb, but then 9/11 happened so they sent it straight to video and stopped advertising it. Based on a Dave Barry novel, it’s a hilarious story involving a crazy cast of characters you may meet in Florida. Another star studded cast including Tim Allen, The Tooch, Martha Stewart, Janine Garofalo, Zoey Deschanel, Omar Epps, Jason Lee, Johnny Knoxville, and many more.
I have only met a couple people ever who have seen either of these movies.
My wife's family loves The Princess Bride, but I love telling them that Stardust is better. It might not be correct, but it's a pretty fun hill to die on.
Super Mario Bros. No, not the new CGI one, the old live action one. I know I’m not alone in loving this movie, but man is it divisive— those that don’t like it, HATE it, and I think that’s the majority opinion.
I unironically love this movie. It’s not just nostalgia either, though I did watch it as a kid. I also watched the old Zelda cartoon as a kid when it first came out, and I loved it then but I can’t stand it now. No, I’ve watched this movie recently and it still rocks. It’s perfect for what it is, I think.
It's The Running Man except twelve years earlier and a media satire instead of an action movie. It comments on TV phenomena that wouldn't exist in Germany until two decades later (like scripted "reality" TV). Also, it has early appearances of one of Germany's most famous TV hosts (as the show's host, fittingly) and one of Germany's most famous comedians of the 70s to 90s (in a completely serious role, unfittingly). And unlike the Schwarzenegger movie it doesn't construct a dystopian future to introduce public bloodsports but merely gives a terse reference to a "law on active recreation" dated three years after the movie first aired.
To make it even more odd, it's actually a good movie despite being from Germany and made for TV.
Abraham Lincoln vs Zombies. No, not Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, the parody of that film made on the budget of the "plot" portion of a porn flick. I don't know why I like it, but it's some good dumb fun
I just watched this for the first time about 3 months ago and it became my spouse's absolute favourite for those 3 months. It honestly feels like it should have been a videogame. The Musk praise is so fucking funny given the current state of the US, the premise makes less than no sense, but it's just so freaking good.
"I'm not a real doctor
I just put a doctor's title on my business card because it looks cool." — wack as fuck conspiracy theorist who happens to be right.
I get that the Venn diagram of people who want to watch a robot/monster punch-out movie and viscerally hate three concept of a teen and/or female protagonist is so very close to being a circle, but I actually love every bit of that movie and I'm genuinely upset that the characters are what everyone wanted to talk about there. Charlie getting high off monster brain and turning out to be evil? The secret monster brains in all the robots? The idea that controlablility correlates to mass? There's so much to work with here! The only negative mark I give it is for the lack of Ron Pearlman.
Loads of classics in this thread, worth bookmarking to revisit later. Let me add one of my own that I haven't seen mentioned:
Babe: Pig in the City (1998) - The first movie I saw in the theater by myself, because nobody could be arsed to come along. In the end I was glad, because I cried so much.
Mars Needs Moms, no idea why, I like it against my will. I have a friend that's hyperfixating on The Electric State, which got something like a 14% on Rotten Tomatoes.
I seriously doubt that it would count as 'shitty', but it wasn't very well received and is not widely known either, for me rather a kind of comfort movie I'll defend till the edges of the earth: the Cohen brothers' 'A Serious Man'
I saw a YouTube video about crappy movies and they had Congo on there, I had such a visceral reaction to seeing it on that list. Congo is one of my favourite movies ever, i can recite every line of that movie, from Tim curry to Earnie Hudson to Joey pants, I will die on the hill that Congo is a great movie
There's a somewhat obscure Robin Williams vehicle called Club Paradise. Critics panned it but it's a favorite in my family, we quote it all the time.
"Mr. Gundy: As the official represenatative of Her Britannic Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Second, I order you to withdraw at once or I shall be forced to shoot you between the eyes with a rather large bullet." -Peter O'Toole
I’m just going to drop selections from the Troma catalog in here:
The Toxic Avenger
Surf Nazis Must Die
Class of Nuke ‘em High
Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD
Tromeo and Juliet
These are objectively shitty movies. Most of these movies are irredeemable; hell, some of them are down right an exercise in poor taste. A lot of it hasn’t aged well, and I’m not talking about the cinematography. I haven’t kept up with Troma in the 21st century, though, so maybe Troma has gotten worse-better or better-worse?
However, I find joy in these movies because they are like a time warp back to New Jersey and New York in the 80s and 90s. They were so low budget and always filmed around New York (except for Toxic Avenger II which somehow was filmed in Japan), that they used a lot of family members of the cast and crew or random locals as extras. It is obvious that a lot of people on screen probably didn’t know they were being filmed (or if they did, didn’t realize what type of movie they were in). There’s bad hair and makeup (but not from the effects department), and thick accents and regionalisms that have faded. There are mainstreets and skylines that don’t exist anymore, or if they do, are wildly different. It is amazing to catch a glimpse of an era that doesn’t exist anymore. This exists in all old movies, but the low-budget realness hits differently.
Most of these movies are trash, but they’re my trash. Apologies to Mr. Kaufman.
It's a pretty funny romantic comedy if you ignore the romance.
in regions with extremely long history like in middle east, you will often have old villages that were never documented. Or documeneted like 5 governments ago, lost to breucracy.
Literally the most interesting setting for a movie. A village that doesn't exist on the map. There is one single person with an ID in entire place.
Also comedy is basically some modern people from Colorado having culture shock for a whole hour. It works well.
The English first Digimon movie. Well, I won't defend it. But I will quote and reference it probably more than any other movie. I think it's been a couple days since I've done that though.
It's like someone set it to make the stereotypical '80s movie. It has surprisingly good cinematography and a soundtrack by Tangerine Dream.
Like most '80s movies, it has some things that have not aged well culturally, so be warned. I don't think it's too egregious, but it's definitely of it's time.
CGI filled brainless action with demons and gargoyles fighting a secret war. Aaron Eckhart as Frankenstein is stuck in the middle. The whole thing tries to copy the vibe of Underworld and mostly fails. Somehow I still love watching it. It's just the right kind of bad for me.
Out Cold.
Hackers. Till the day I die…
They're trashing our rights! TRASHING them!
In the same vein:
Johnny Mnemonic is unironically pretty damn good.
The pacing gets clunky in some spots, production quality is a bit off in some sections... honestly not really worse than say Escape from New York... its honestly overall pretty damn good.
This one deserves its own thread fr. Keanu Reeves worked his ass off to try and pull this together and it works in its cheesy way.
Uhm, but Hackers is not shitty.
i love that shit.
Hacker is the best !
Movie made me get into IT. I hate and love it at the same time.
Hackers is a legitimately great film.
I can't like that movie because it was so insulting for the culture at the time. Tacky and stupid. No self respecting 90s technology person respects that movie.
Self-respect is for people with class
How dare you?!
Oh...wait. "self respecting". Okay. Fair enough.
Evolution.
Is that the one with David Duchovny?
Yes and Orlando Jones
And Seann William Scott
And Julianne Moore
Dan Akroyd, too.
That is a good one.
"can we get you anything?"
"ice cream..."
"okay, what flavor?"
"it doesn't matter... It's for my ass"
'Wayne, I think we've established that "Ca-Caw Ca-Caw" and "Tookie Tookie" don't work.'
Ah, I'm glad I was reminded that this movie exists.
"you are so beautiful...."
incredulous stare
"to me..."
monstrous roar from the other side of the mall
Well I know what I'm watching tonight.... No joke my sister and I used to watch that multiple times a week as teens
They said shitty not awesome
Underrated movie IMO.
It's not a movie, it's an ad for Head&Shoulders.
Haven’t you noticed how shiny and flake free our hair is?
Dude, Where's My Car? is so much better than it had any right to be. And while the main characters are stoners, most of the humor isn't stoner humor. Not that there's anything wrong with stoner humor, but movies that consist entirely of stoner humor tend to drag after a while.
Dude! What does mine say?
*See half baked
It's an incredibly dumb movie. And I love it.
We got free tickets to DWmC after Shaft burned in a slow dialogue scene. So we saw this for free.
I'm reminded of the reviewer differences between this and The Emperor's New Groove when I mention we still wanted a refund.
I will die on the hill that Kung fury is peak cinema
I’ve literally never heard a bad word uttered about Kung Fury.
Hackerman hacked into my heart.
Any movie where the protagonist is offing nazis is a great movie.
I'd agree, if the movie were half as long.
Did you mean... twice as long?
Lol. Nah, man. I got tired of laughing by about halfway through and by then their schtick was predictable.
Last Action Hero. I know the editing is pretty bad and the rhythm is a bit messed up in the last part but it's the most meta movie ever and an homage/parody to classic action movies. Having Arnold play the main part is the cherry on top.
Mystery Men is a phenomenal send up of the superhero genre. It's simultaneously extremely 1999 and decades ahead of its time.
The cable guy. Scary Jim Carey is scary. And the ending was visionary.
I feel this way about 23 as well. Jim Carey as a normal guy who's absolutely losing it just hits different.
I blame the marketing for that movie not doing well. People went expecting a "wacky Jim Carrey flick" and what they got was a surreal and frightening thriller.
Eddie Murphy's "Holy Man" suffers that bad marketing issue as well. They plastered so many ads making it out to be a loony Eddie Murphy film and the movie itself is more of an uplifting drama about believing in one's self and not seeking external validation, with a few gags in it making fun of television shopping networks and the stupid shit people buy from them cause yeah, it's Eddie Murphy of course they're gonna have fun with it. But that's only like 1/3rd of the film.
Rubber. An anthropomorphic car tire. If that doesn't describe a masterclass in directing I don't know what does.
The Last Starfighter is not a shitty movie. Now go back to sleep, Louis, before I tell ma about your Playboys.
The Last Starfighter, Flight of the Navigator, and Batteries Not Included: the trifecta of 80s kids scifi
Oh wow, this kicked up some memories
“I don’t leak, you leak.”
I might swap in Explorers as the third to complete the "kids flying spaceships" theme. But BNI was a classic too.
I’d get ‘explorers’ in there too
Wait, people think it is?
How do... YOU do?
Killer Klowns From Outer Space needs no defending. It's just a terrible great time.
It’s worth it for the theme alone!
https://youtu.be/IQeTZKI43rY
What are you gonna do, knock my block off?
Absolutely masterful movie! Soundtrack is (big)tops too!!!
Tremors 2 is peak cinema IMHO. I only wish they had spent a little more on the CGI, or replaced it all with practical effects.
Sucker Punch and D.E.B.S.
no, it's not cuz I'm a lesbian!
...ok maybe it's cuz I'm a lesbian
oh also TRON Legacy. "tHe PlOt iS sTuPiD" yeah no shit it's TRON, the original was a glorified feature length CG animation test reel. I came here for pretty lights, cool motorcycles, Daft Punk, Jeff Bridges, and Olivia Wilde being hot, not for prestige cinema lmao
Void, yes; absolute perfection.
I never liked those quilting bees or the bingo parlours. I wanted to live life to the extreme.
—-
The sound track and voice acting punched well above the movie’s aesthetics.
Treasure Planet. There's weird plot choices, but I loved the mixed animation, the music, the characters.
An actually bad but amazing movie would be Miami Connection. Karate rock band sings about friendship fights motorcycle drug ninjas. Fuck yeah bro.
Big Trouble in Little China
PCU
No war but class war.
Genuinely love this movie. So weird to see a lot of the actors in really early roles lol
Right? Who could have predicted that Gutter would go on to lay the foundations for Marvel’s decades-long cinematic dominance?
Lol he is a force to be reckoned with for sure
Gutter is a tool!
Can you blow me where the pampers is?
It's like.... if you're nice to them... they bring you things?
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and/or Time Bandits.
BIODOME
Saw it in theaters when I was a kid, great 90's flick. Pauly Shore was the shit back then. All his movies were great except that In the Army Now that one was bad. But the rest good.
I’ll be honest I like In the Army Now too haha
Cuz I'm a CAH-RAZY boy
Son in Law is one of my partner's favorite movies, and even being introduced to it in the late 2000's, I can see the appeal. Peak Pauly Shore. Plus, there really aren't that many Thanksgiving movies, so it's right up there with Planes, Trains, and Automobiles for the Mount Rushmore of Thanksgiving movies.
Purple sticky punch
How’d you know what I’m doing right now!?
Iron man, iron man, does whatever an iron can
Stop! That's Spiderman.
What are you some kind of rocket scientist or something?
Well, yeah
Chronicles of Riddick. Not sure it's considered a "bad" movie, but I definitely like it more than most. Just a crazy entertaining world and system they build in a short 2 hour long movie.
I unironically love Armageddon and The Core. Yes, they're both stupid and unrealistic movies, but that works in their favor about as often as against. Something about the way they play with the core concepts makes me love them.
The most unbelievable thing about these movies is the competent government that makes the plot happen. In real life the astroid would kill the planet before they admit it exists. That's actually why these are comfort movies for my spouse and I, it's nice to believe in a world where people aren't stupid.
Don't Look Up is the real Armageddon lmao
+1 for The Core, seeing Rat’s antics in that movie sparked my passion for computers that blossomed into a tech career
I remember the audio commentary on The Core, where the director acted like the movie was very serious. I loved that.
I'm just here for Core support.
Heh. Core concepts. That one hits deep.
Armageddon > Deep Impact
Kung pow enter the fist. Screw what the critics and rotten tomatoes score says. The movie is goated!
I unironically enjoy the old 2005 Fantastic 4 movie. It was cheesy as fuck, I don't deny that. But it was fun. And the comics themselves can be as bad or worse sometimes.
Also I like Julian McMahon.
Also also, Chris Evans towel scene.
I hated it when it came out, because all super hero movies were cheesy as fuck, and it felt bad seeing another.
But in hindsight, Fantastic Four movies are better when they're cheesy as fuck, because so was/is the comic (more often than not).
My only remaining complaint is that the sequel was too chickenshit to give Galactus a giant purple fork hat. I noticed happily that the shadow of the fork hat made it into the trailer, for the new movie.
Now imagine that.... but all over
I’ve always enjoyed them, but my one complaint specifically for the first one is that everything feels SO MUCH like a set. Every exterior city scene feels like an SNL sketch
Flight of the Navigator
Mine's gotta be "The Brothers Grimm" starring Matt Damon and Heath Ledger. It's the same camp vibe as the "Van Helsing" movie starring Hugh Jackman, but there's no badass super hero to save the day - there's just a bunch of imperfect people trying their best, and it's almost entirely by luck or destiny that they snatch victory from the clutches of defeat. It's also one of the most morbid depictions of childish horror i've seen on-screen, where it gives no fucks about being realistic.
That era of movies is what everyone wants their D&D campaigns to be.
If you remember the 80s at all, then "Hot Tub Time Machine" is the greatest comedy ever created.
If you don't remember the 80's, then " Hot Tub Time Machine" is the greatest comedy ever created.
I don't think League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was that bad.
Aeonflux, except I don't actually bother trying to defend it.
I put Ultraviolet next to this too. I'm not here for cohesive world building, I'm here for gratuitous sci-fi action perpetrated by a woman with a bad haircut.
Mirror’s Edge was if both of these movies merged into one and made something actually good.
I jest, but I’ve seen both and while they’re gorgeous, I basically ended up ignoring plot.
My brain puts Equilibrium in the same universe.
The movie, or the show?
The movie. Didn't know there was a show.
🤦 The movie is based on shorts that aired on MTV's Liquid Television in the mid 90's.
It eventually got its own full show as well.
The film was better than the old MTV series it was based on. They built a compelling world in the animated version, but the film delivered on that vision.
Hudson Hawk. Criminally underrated.
Death to Smoochy
This is a fantastic movie, and not in a "it's so bad it's good" way. Great writing, hilarious acting, phenomenal cast.... It's just underappreciated.
Psychotic Robin Williams
He was magnificent
I love this fucking movie and noone else understands why, it's nearly perfect. Even John Stewart is there with truly terrible acting.
Crank."5mls? no 0.5mls! Elevator explodes"
Peak ADHD movie
The first one was a masterpiece. The sequel was horrible.
I loved them both so much. Super self-aware movies. Best action movies ever.
Agree, left a real sour taste.
Six String Samurai. It's not good. But it's soooo quotable!
Holy crap. I haven't thought about that movie in 20 years.
Have this movie on the to watch list,my other half is not so interested
Titan A.E. Is a masterpiece.
Reign of Fire.
Buckaroo Banzai
Okay, I've got one that no one has mentioned.
Space Truckers.
Without clicking the link, just imagine what it might be.
::: spoiler Got it pictured?
Yes. It is exactly what you imagined.
It's Star Wars and Space Balls splashed across Trucker stereotypes. It's affordably made, except when it's trying to be gross - when no expense is spared.
But somehow it's also... just all around...good? It's good. I can't explain it. But... it's just... a pretty good movie.
The characters are relatable. The acting is professional and effective. It's easy to root for the main cast, and against the badguys. All the story beats land where and how they should.
I want to see someone do one of those high minded film making analysis on "Space Truckers", because I suspect it is better on every level than it has any right to be.
:::
Congo? Congo...
Love this movie, nothing like the book, but Tim curry with a stupid accent is all it takes to please me.
Come on that don't belong here great movie based on the same writer behind Jurassic Park, both books I own. This movie has the legendary Tim Curry not a bad movie.
Look you don't have to sell me on it, I absolutely love it, but we are not in the majority on this...
I'm shocked that we are not.
“Hirkemer Himulka”
Stop eating my sesame cake!
I quote this so much, so so much...
Amy Good Gorilla
Contact
I know but that's why I like it
What heck man that is an awesome movie! Based on a Carl Sagan book (which I own) and got Jodie Foster in it (my first movie star crush) this doesn't belong here.
For me its Mallrats. and Jersey Girl, don't care what Kevin Smith says those are both great movies.
The carl sagan : contact
The movie is good but the book is better
Book great.
Srsly. I can't believe they went with "the alien looks like dad" bs and skipped the math thing
Yeah with just here in the book four went into the machine.
Mall rats is widely beloved, but Jersey girl is hated appropriately
No your wrong it was well cast and fucking great rom com. Better than any fucking rom com I seen and I seen plenty. I downvote you but your entitled to your opinion even if it's wrong.
Contact is amazing. there's no way it could be considered a "shitty lil movie"
It's science fiction done properly.
Lost in Space
If you mean the '98 one, hell yeah! That metal helmet scene is so cool, Gary Oldman kills it all the way through, and itty bitty me had a huge crush on Penny Robinson.
Same here. Crushed hard on her. <3
This is a perfect example for this thread.
So much of that film officially cannot work:
The pacing is frantic and weird.
It relies on familiarity with the source show while being stand-alone and released too late. (Well, maybe it realizes that "Swiss Family Robinson in space" isn't rocket science.)
Various wild science fiction elements are slammed together, some very late with little foreshadowing.
But - the cast carries it off (particularly Garry Oldman and Lacey Chabert).
I have the hardest time explaining why anyone should watch it, but it's solidly enterainting, and all the bits that shouldn't work still somehow work.
One of the first movies available on DVD that we had. In the old paper and clamp case, not the plastic ones that became synonymous.
I think I always say it young enough and the sci-fi captured me so I always loved it.
Useless fact: the first DVD I ever bought was Antitrust. Another stupid fun movie.
Dredd (2012) is a near perfect 80s/90's style, over the top action movie made 25 years too late.
Well shot action scenes.
Excellent soundtrack.
Pretty darn well paced.
Good helping of action hero one liners.
Plot is simple enough for idiot, explosion go boom, brain to follow, but also takes itself seriously enough to present the horrors of its world via interactions with minor characters.
Karl Urban manages to do more acting with only his mouth and chin, and line delivery, than many other actors do with their whole face.
Olivia Thirlby is also very, very good, I do not understand why some other director has not cast her in an action oriented role since... now that Nintendo seems to actually allow their IP in films: Make her blonde again and she is Samus Aran.
EDIT:
In case you haven't seen it... this is a bit spoilery, but here's a decent 4 minute representative sample to give you an impression of the movie.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AUJkwWkyX70
The Core. The perfect dumb movie that's fun to watch.
Hot Rod! I can quote pretty much the whole movie. It’s such a fun ride.
Mortal Engines!
Elrond commanding motorized london for the win
Making a film so bland and forgettable but still one of the coolest things I've ever seen is a feat.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets was like that.
I loved everything about that move but the main two. It's like this highschool dweeb has an uncle that owns a movie studio and talked him into using it to woo his hot crush by casting her in a realization of love plot. Every character other than the horny dweeb and the chick that really doesn't want to bang him rocks their part and the plot is such a great concept and the graphics are tearjerkingly beautiful, and somehow none of it makes up for the two dinguses that hog the screen.
It was impressive how bad the Romance was. And how bad at acting the two leads were.
I suggest it to people strictly on that lol
Oh, that was one I meant to watch at some point. Adding to the queue.
what was the plot around the protagonists about? dunno. something stupid
doesn't matter, the rest was excellent
Was good books.
oh it didn't occur to me that there would be a book it's based on. im putting the first book on my wish list
usually the books hollywood puts through the grinder have much better stories and make me appreciate the films less
notable exception is lord of the rings, where the films were better than the books and maybe the new dunes as well
I’ve never watched the movie but I’ve probably seen most of the big action moments in clips on YouTube lol
Robot Jox
Hudson Hawk
Hudson Hawk is just great. Everyone else is wrong.
It's one of my most favorite movies to quote. And of course no one ever gets the references, which is even better somehow.
My cat is named Courtney and I'm fond of telling her "Stop it, Courtney, you're embarrassing your country!"
I know Richard E Grant fucking hates that movie but I don't care, he is iconic in it.
"How's my driving? 1-800-I'm gonna fucking die!"
Bunny. Ball ball.
1-900 hotdog just did a robot jox ep recently you might enjoy
Ice Pirates (1984): A bunch of A-Listers before they were big. Great practical effects. Spaceships, Pirates, Time Travel, 'robots' It was magnificent.
Close second: The Cat from Outer Space (1978). It was a Disney flick, but really great for the time.
The faculty? Oh that's a good one.
2012
i think the 1998 movie launched me into puberty.
I had a crush on Jordana Brewster after that movie. I love that movie.
I've also been keeping an eye on Josh Harnett and he kinda disappeared off the face of the Earth and then started in a few random flicks again all of a sudden.
Office Space all day
Wild Wild West baby! You know, the movie Will Smith turned down being Neo in The Matrix for lol
Half the reason I love Drop Dead Fred so much is because my wife hates it so much.
I haven't really had time or enough commitment to listen to a podcast in a long while, but if I can find either I'll give this a shot, as it sounds interesting. Thank you!
Cobwebs
That Aged Great (YouTube channel) does a two part video on that one. It's fantastic.
My mother used to call me a mean name and tell me she was quoting the movie. She thought it was funny. I've never seen that movie, but I don't like it.
That's plausible (lots of mean names are bandied about in the movie) and your reaction is understandable. I'm sorry for bringing up the memory.
Buddy of mine grew up on it and loves it, so we watched it. No idea what the fuck I watched lol weird movie
No disagreement here! I watched it a few times as a kid. I probably would feel similarly to how my wife does if I had first seen it as an adult.
Not a movie, but Konosuba. Yeah, the show is trash, but it's my trash. I will ride Aqua until the day I die
I would also like to ride Aqua until the day I die
It's way funnier than it has any right to be
It starts out pretty decent but obviously gives in to the fan service demons
Kung Pow
George and the Christmas Star
Superman 3 beats almost ANY action movie out there. It literally has everything you could want in a movie... it doesn't take itself too seriously so it's funny as hell, has actual character development unlike anything we've seen before or since in an superhero movie, cool but believable fight scenes, morally grey characters, and RICHARD PRYOR.
“Who Framed Roger Rabbit”.
An absolute masterpiece in terms of blending and transitioning between live action and animation; plus the whole Disney/Warner Bros character crossovers.. just 👌🏼
Office Space.
One I love and haven't seen mentioned is Equalibrium, I've probably seen it 5 times, which is a lot of times for me. I see its ham fisted metaphors and raise you gun karate.
So I married an axe murderer.
I'm going to get impaled for this but The Rise of Skywalker. It's my guilty pleasure.
Once Bitten, Joe vs the Volcano, and Mortal Kombat are all way better movies than they should have been.
Violent Night, for 90's kids who thought Home Alone went harder and want the same high from back in the day
There's a movie called Unstoppable (2010) with Denzel Washington, Chris Pine and Rosario Dawson. It's about a runaway train causing trouble in Pennsylvania.
I've watched it no less than 30 times.
It's not like I'm into trains or anything. I just think it's a really good movie and every single actor in it is giving 100%.
Chocolate. Taiwanese movie about an autistic girl who goes around beating up gangsters in the styles of famous martial artists she saw on TV, followed by her repeatedly demanding they give her an unspecified amount of money.
Velocipastor and Alien vs. Predator
The Descent
Not a shitty movie
I hate the fact that they made 'The Descent 2'. Totally (and unnecessarily) killed the ambiguous ending of the original.
Well, you're right, but it should have been.
Ok, then, circa early 2000s House on Haunted Hill
Interstate 60 - a cute quirky B movie with some hella famous actors. Gary Oldman, Christopher Lloyd, Michael J Fox, James Maraden, Chris Cooper, Amy Smart, Kurt Russell. It is a fun and imaginative ride along a made up highway. My favorite scene was the town of Morelaw.
Big Trouble - a great movie shut down by circumstance. It was set for release in late 2001, the end of the movie involves hijacking a plane with a nuclear bomb, but then 9/11 happened so they sent it straight to video and stopped advertising it. Based on a Dave Barry novel, it’s a hilarious story involving a crazy cast of characters you may meet in Florida. Another star studded cast including Tim Allen, The Tooch, Martha Stewart, Janine Garofalo, Zoey Deschanel, Omar Epps, Jason Lee, Johnny Knoxville, and many more.
I have only met a couple people ever who have seen either of these movies.
DarkStar
So stupid, but if I see it pop up on any of the streaming sites, I know what I'm doing for the next hour or so.
My wife's family loves The Princess Bride, but I love telling them that Stardust is better. It might not be correct, but it's a pretty fun hill to die on.
Showgirls.
Additionally the VH1 TV edit is even worse. (In a bad way)
But better in a Ms paint kind of way
The version with commentary by David Schmader is wonderful
Oh! I'll have to find it.
I never thought about a commentary track!
Surf Ninjas
Eurotrip ..."Scotty doesn't know.."
The need for speed movie. It's not bad. I feel like the game they chose to reference is the worst and best choice for it.
Hentai Kamen
No, I will not elaborate
Super Mario Bros. No, not the new CGI one, the old live action one. I know I’m not alone in loving this movie, but man is it divisive— those that don’t like it, HATE it, and I think that’s the majority opinion.
I unironically love this movie. It’s not just nostalgia either, though I did watch it as a kid. I also watched the old Zelda cartoon as a kid when it first came out, and I loved it then but I can’t stand it now. No, I’ve watched this movie recently and it still rocks. It’s perfect for what it is, I think.
Grandma's Boy. If you're a gamer, its a must watch.
Wing Commander
Suburban commando starring early 90s Hulk Hogan, best enjoyed on the original VHS .
Hackers
Das Millionenspiel.
It's The Running Man except twelve years earlier and a media satire instead of an action movie. It comments on TV phenomena that wouldn't exist in Germany until two decades later (like scripted "reality" TV). Also, it has early appearances of one of Germany's most famous TV hosts (as the show's host, fittingly) and one of Germany's most famous comedians of the 70s to 90s (in a completely serious role, unfittingly). And unlike the Schwarzenegger movie it doesn't construct a dystopian future to introduce public bloodsports but merely gives a terse reference to a "law on active recreation" dated three years after the movie first aired.
To make it even more odd, it's actually a good movie despite being from Germany and made for TV.
Scamper the Penguin.
The Feature Films for Families version, cuz I never saw the original Russian one called Lolo
Can I say a film franchise? If so then The Fast and The Furious movies.
Not just one, and DONT GO CALLING The Long Kiss Goodnight SHITTY YOU .. YOU .. MEAN PERSON!
Year One is fucking hilarious!
The Core (2003)
Abraham Lincoln vs Zombies. No, not Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, the parody of that film made on the budget of the "plot" portion of a porn flick. I don't know why I like it, but it's some good dumb fun
The Golden Child.
I I I I I want the knife...
Please...
Moonfall.
I just watched this for the first time about 3 months ago and it became my spouse's absolute favourite for those 3 months. It honestly feels like it should have been a videogame. The Musk praise is so fucking funny given the current state of the US, the premise makes less than no sense, but it's just so freaking good.
"I'm not a real doctor I just put a doctor's title on my business card because it looks cool." — wack as fuck conspiracy theorist who happens to be right.
I knew a guy who swore that Garbage Pail Kids The Movie was a goddamned masterpiece of cinema.
I can only watch it in 15 minute stints before the nausea takes effect.
I get that the Venn diagram of people who want to watch a robot/monster punch-out movie and viscerally hate three concept of a teen and/or female protagonist is so very close to being a circle, but I actually love every bit of that movie and I'm genuinely upset that the characters are what everyone wanted to talk about there. Charlie getting high off monster brain and turning out to be evil? The secret monster brains in all the robots? The idea that controlablility correlates to mass? There's so much to work with here! The only negative mark I give it is for the lack of Ron Pearlman.
SleepwalkersShit wrong movie. Same era. It was about aliens taking over a group of 4 friends.
Dreamcatcher
The Cat From Outer Space
Mystery Men
Apparently mine is The Long Kiss Goodnight.
I love it. My family hates it.
Loads of classics in this thread, worth bookmarking to revisit later. Let me add one of my own that I haven't seen mentioned:
Babe: Pig in the City (1998) - The first movie I saw in the theater by myself, because nobody could be arsed to come along. In the end I was glad, because I cried so much.
Morbius is so fucking trash that I kinda love it
Mars Needs Moms, no idea why, I like it against my will. I have a friend that's hyperfixating on The Electric State, which got something like a 14% on Rotten Tomatoes.
I seriously doubt that it would count as 'shitty', but it wasn't very well received and is not widely known either, for me rather a kind of comfort movie I'll defend till the edges of the earth: the Cohen brothers' 'A Serious Man'
That's a great movie, though.
Do I though?
RV with Robin Williams came out at a good age for me, I was like 12 so poop jokes and mean spirited jokes that the movie is full of clicked with me.
I just rewatched Earth Girls are Easy last week and that'd be on my list.
90 minutes of prime Gina Davis in a bikini doesn't hurt either.
Pushing Tin
I saw a YouTube video about crappy movies and they had Congo on there, I had such a visceral reaction to seeing it on that list. Congo is one of my favourite movies ever, i can recite every line of that movie, from Tim curry to Earnie Hudson to Joey pants, I will die on the hill that Congo is a great movie
There's a somewhat obscure Robin Williams vehicle called Club Paradise. Critics panned it but it's a favorite in my family, we quote it all the time.
"Mr. Gundy: As the official represenatative of Her Britannic Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Second, I order you to withdraw at once or I shall be forced to shoot you between the eyes with a rather large bullet." -Peter O'Toole
Fool’s Gold. It’s so bad, but gets me in the feels.
Battlefield Earth
Which one?
that movie triggered my puberty
Is that usher?
Sure is!
I think of this movie every time I see a guillotine paper cutter.
Did you know Angels in the Outfield has a 31% on rottentomatoes? I'm scared to watch it again because I remember it as a perfect movie.
Monty Python and the holy grail
Empire Records.
I make references from that movie all the time and nobody ever gets it. Doesn't stop me.
Kalo. A low budget horror movie, available on YouTube for free.
I’m just going to drop selections from the Troma catalog in here:
These are objectively shitty movies. Most of these movies are irredeemable; hell, some of them are down right an exercise in poor taste. A lot of it hasn’t aged well, and I’m not talking about the cinematography. I haven’t kept up with Troma in the 21st century, though, so maybe Troma has gotten worse-better or better-worse?
However, I find joy in these movies because they are like a time warp back to New Jersey and New York in the 80s and 90s. They were so low budget and always filmed around New York (except for Toxic Avenger II which somehow was filmed in Japan), that they used a lot of family members of the cast and crew or random locals as extras. It is obvious that a lot of people on screen probably didn’t know they were being filmed (or if they did, didn’t realize what type of movie they were in). There’s bad hair and makeup (but not from the effects department), and thick accents and regionalisms that have faded. There are mainstreets and skylines that don’t exist anymore, or if they do, are wildly different. It is amazing to catch a glimpse of an era that doesn’t exist anymore. This exists in all old movies, but the low-budget realness hits differently.
Most of these movies are trash, but they’re my trash. Apologies to Mr. Kaufman.
Yellowbeard
You people don't KNOW delicious camp tripe.
"Roll, stagger, crawl, crawl, roll, crawl, stagger..."
Ay lav yu.
It's a pretty funny romantic comedy if you ignore the romance.
in regions with extremely long history like in middle east, you will often have old villages that were never documented. Or documeneted like 5 governments ago, lost to breucracy.
Literally the most interesting setting for a movie. A village that doesn't exist on the map. There is one single person with an ID in entire place.
Also comedy is basically some modern people from Colorado having culture shock for a whole hour. It works well.
Lady in the Water
It's a fantastic fairy tale.
The English first Digimon movie. Well, I won't defend it. But I will quote and reference it probably more than any other movie. I think it's been a couple days since I've done that though.
The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen. Peak Gilliam, and always a joy to watch. Wish I could find a higher resolution version.
Nacho Libre. Everything about that movie makes me giggle.
The Big Hit
The Ice Pirates is magnificent camp
Bunraku, easily. I don't even like noire movies normally.
The Ice Pirates!
Peak Ron Perlman.
Three O'Clock High
It's like someone set it to make the stereotypical '80s movie. It has surprisingly good cinematography and a soundtrack by Tangerine Dream.
Like most '80s movies, it has some things that have not aged well culturally, so be warned. I don't think it's too egregious, but it's definitely of it's time.
George of the Jungle!
Like? Yes, defend? Nahhh
Galaxina. Low budget space western comedy. Space cowboy wants to have sex with his robot pilot but they have to order the extra parts for her.
I see a few I haven't seen. Quite a few I have I also enjoyed.
Just Troma in general
King Fu Mahjongg, and all the rest of that troops movies.
McHales Navy, one of my favourite Tim Curry roles.
Cypher - 2002
Industrial spy movie that has some strange twists. I just loved the whole feel and atmosphere around the movie.
8 Heads in a Duffel Bag.
David spade and Joe Pesci. Amazing.
Nobody else has even heard of my favorite film.
A Pyromaniac's Love Story
Warrior with Tom Hardy.
Bawl my eyes out every time.
I, Frankenstein
CGI filled brainless action with demons and gargoyles fighting a secret war. Aaron Eckhart as Frankenstein is stuck in the middle. The whole thing tries to copy the vibe of Underworld and mostly fails. Somehow I still love watching it. It's just the right kind of bad for me.
Fiend Without a Face 1958
Vintage claymation
Hoodwinked!
The American Astronaut
Dirty Grandpa. The critics who didn't like it should be thrown into a river.
Aubery Plaza legit wanted to fuck Robert De Niro and it shows.
Dolph as he man
Beyond the black rainbow
Home Alone