I think for me it’s alien: covenant. I was really interested in the ideas explored in prometheus and covenant just expanded on them. I don’t get much into the details of why it is or isn’t a good movie.

Luckily, though, HBO ran raised by wolves which really delved into ideals about AI and planet seeding etc. So that itch got way scratched even if the run was cut short.

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    4 days ago

    Although usually spoofs don’t get any good rating I think this one should be an exception:

    Scary movie 3

    It honestly did it better than the movies it was making fun of. And it was truly about a scary movie (the tape from the ring).

    Also, crack high voltage is way more fun than the rating lets on.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    7·
    5 days ago

    Not sure if this is what you are asking for, but:

    My favorite movies with absolutely ridiculus plots are:

    1. Olympus Has Fallen
    spoiler

    The USA is under attack by a plane that somehow got in the borders without getting shot down, while enemy ground teams posing as tourists attacks the white house, while the plane above provides support. And the country behind it is… NORTH KOREA? 🤣

    –

    1. London Has Fallen
    spoiler

    Similar to before but now its some middle eastern “terrorist” that wants to kill all world leaders, with some of the Queen’s Guard turning out to be terrorists? 🧐

    –

    1. Moonfall
    spoiler

    The moon falls towards earth, because… Aliens… lol 🌚

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      The best thing about London Has Fallen is when Gerard Butler has a conversation with a fellow Scot, and you can almost see his natural accent tearing a hole in his face to get out.

      The first one was violent fun though. Kind of 80s.

      • leonard@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 days ago

        Thank youI haven’t come across that podcast before. I will definitely check that out. It is a wonderfully silly film.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      I had totally forgotten about solarbabies… and tonight I’m gonna make sure to drink enough to forget it again.

      the 80s man… phew

      • leonard@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 days ago

        Great! :D Good to hear that this weird niche from the trash-heap of cinematic history may yet claim another victim.

        • volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee
          3·
          5 days ago

          Funnily enough, the day before you posted this, I was reminded of Return To Oz (I was at the zoo and someone… Scared the crap out of me). That’s probably not exactly post apocalyptic or solarpunk, but definitely takes place after a societal collapse of Oz and has creepy weirdos on something like rollerblades. Just in case you want to expand - or dare I say, roll towards the horizon.

          • leonard@lemmy.world
            2·
            5 days ago

            Oh you mean these fucking guys? They went out of their way to make them especially scary. The whole film is infamous for being basically a kids horror film. Like the bit with the corridor with the disemmbodied heads of the witch all screaming as Fairuza Balk runs through it? Yea…

            There seemed to be an era where traumatising children was part of the draw for the audience and I wonder if it has kind of died out. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was another one that my parents had to switch off.

            I’m not the film police and your argument for its inclusion as ‘post-apocalyptic but fantasy’ is all cool. So yes I will take it and roll, awkwardly across sand and gravel, mud and debris, into tomorrow’s ongoing dystopia.

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      Even though it’s not apocalyptic, Airborne (1993) is one of my all time favorite movies. The main character is great, Seth green is in it, Britney Powell, Chris Conrad, young Jack black, Alanna ubach (from Waiting). It’s about a high school surfer from Cali who gets shipped to Ohio for 6 months and has to fit in. Hilarious and just amazing. I’m not gay, but Shane McDermott… It’s also amazing he went into real estate, I thought he played a great character on screen. All about rollerblading since nowhere to surf.

      • leonard@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 days ago

        Thank you for that recommendation. I do remember watching it on video, probably about the time it came out. Then absolutely wrecking myself on a hill after I took the brake off my own skates. Fun times indeed. Did not remember Jack Black or Seth Green being in it though. Also you are totes not gay for 90s Shane McDermott. Understood.

      • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        Oh my god I saw that a long time ago, I just checked the trailer and it is what I remember.

        Even as a teenager I remember thinking that the final race was absolutely unhinged. Like what about the enormous pile of dead or maimed teenagers that the camera cut away from just in time to maintain its G rating?

        In the trailer there’s a bunch of kids that slide under a moving semi trailer but lose too much momentum to make it out the other side, or it looks like they do. We never see what happens to them. Main character even looks back at them for a second, just long enough to see that they’re still on the ground and not moving but fuck them because our hero made it and he’s on his way! Huzzah!

        I mean the movie is memorable, it’s fun and all, but that scene just lost me so hard. Like actually maybe fuck everyone who thinks this race is a good idea and worth winning. They can have their race, and I will win the broader game of natural selection.

  • Singletona082@lemmy.worldEnglish
    272·
    5 days ago

    League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

    Tron Legacy

    Guyver: Dark Hero

    Strange Days (get the ultimate extended edition fan edit if you can.)

    Wild Wild West

    Demolition Man

    Judge Dredd

    Highlander II

    …

    Jacob Barlow vs the Demonic Toys

    There are a lot of fun movies that are considered garbage.

    • spittingimage@lemmy.world
      4·
      5 days ago

      Highlander II

      Liking Highlander II is so far out of my worldview that I didn’t realise it was an option. What was it you enjoyed about the film?

      • Singletona082@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        Keep in mind i am not at all going to claim it is… Good. or logical… or any of that, but it had the almighty BALLS to go big with being WEIRD.

    • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      5 days ago

      Highlander two? Man, you do you, but that’s an acquired taste. I’d have a hard time picking to place it above or below Rise of Skywalker.

      If you enjoy so bad it’s good: In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.world
      6·
      5 days ago

      Judge Dredd was quite good even though Stallone took the helmet off a bunch. IIRC he was willing to do the whole thing in helmet, but I bet the money guys needed to see his face.

      Never thought I’d see the Angel Family on film, that was wild!

      Bonus: The actor playing psychotic cannibal Pa Angel would go on to be the kindly farmer Herschel on Walking Dead.

      • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOP
        21·
        5 days ago

        Damn, never made that connection about herschel. I like Stallones dredd just because it’s so quotable.

        Eat recycled food. It’s good for the environment and okay for you.

        • jordanlund@lemmy.world
          3·
          5 days ago

          Oh, he definitely did, but I think the Stallone version better captured the absolute bonkers feeling of the comics.

          I just hope the next time someone tackles it we get the Dark Judges storyline, but that might be too expensive to pull off outside full animation.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
      3·
      5 days ago

      Wait… Stallone Dredd, or Urban Dredd? Because the Stallone one was awful and a crime against the source material, while the second should have had an immediate sequel.

      League I can’t even put into the “so bad it’s good” category, as much as I’d like to. I think I can’t forgive them for wasting such a cast and such a source on the result.

      I hated Legacy, but entirely for reasons having to do with loyalty to the original; it isn’t faithful to the original vision, IMO. That aside, I can grant it was better than it was received.

      🤝 on Strange Days. Fantastic soundtrack, too. Did it get bad reviews? I thought it did reasonably well.

      Same for WWW - didn’t it do well? I thought it was brilliantly irreverent of history. Fun times. Same for Demolition Man!

      Highlander II, though… No. Just no. A running joke with a couple of my friends is that they insist we all saw it together in the theater, but I insist I’ve never seen it. They say it was so bad that I just blacked out my memory to avoid the emotional trauma of having seen it. Honestly though, I have no memory of the film yet a deep revulsion at the idea of watching it.

      • Singletona082@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        Stallone Dreadd.

        I am in complete agreement with everything you said about it being a crime against 2000 AD Dreadd, yet if one can excize rob schnider from it? It’s popcorn. I’ve asked a few fan editors to have a crack at it because for me it has the same issue as Constantine. It is its own thing I can both appreciate it for being its own thing while also being a crime against the source material…

        Urban Dredd? I kept hoping netflix would pick that up as the pilot to a mega city one police proceedural. that was just some solid movie making and wish we’d gotten more, though conceed ‘what would you do for a sequel?’ thus the idea of direct to stremaing platform show giving any of a number of plots time and space to breathe.

        For me Tron Legacy was a case of ‘disney squandered what they had, then when that one airbrushed movie bombed and they got the MCU they shelved Tron’ … likely permenently. Had a fun soundtrack. Ya the father/son story is a cliche but it’s more an excuse to tour the world more than anything. I liked Legacy’s look as both Kevin’s use of late 80’s ‘money is no object’ hardware vs late 70’s likely PDP based hardware alongside software changes. After all by the end of the eighties the Unix Wars had happened and the landscape had changed. Plus Uprising, while flawed, had promise and showed what life was like in the early days of the regime when CLU kept a facad of normalcy.

        Strange Days feels like one of those movies a LOT of people sleep on and gloss over. I am seriously recommending finding the fan edit scene and seeking it out, because the work done just… elevates it.

        I can respect your opinions of Highlander II. again, fan edits do a lot to save this one for me but even at base ‘eh it’s in the slush pile of shit movies I can run in the background. It’s goofy it’s dumb… run with it.’ Then again I’ve kinda hated most of the highlander movies past the first one for having very little that interests me. Though I did love the show. It was a fun ride even when it got weird. Though I will admit it is guilty of helping popularize the ‘katanas are just better’ trope.

        • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
          3·
          5 days ago

          See, Constantine I had no issue with because I had never read the source. I thought it was fine, as a movie.

          Urban Dredd almost makes me cry. It was so good, in so many ways. Maybe it, too, wasn’t faithful to the source, which was pretty intentionally campy and Dredd was more grimdark than even the comics. But I just loved Urban’s Dredd; he is Dredd for me. An Urban-less Dredd is like imagining Deadpool without Reynolds. Sometimes the actor embodies a character so well it overshadows even the source.

          I agree completely with what you day about Legacy. Tron does and should reflect the technology of the times; computers have gotten more glossy and organic. I just love the inner universe and aesthetic of the original Tron, and it’s hard to compete with first love.

          Yeah, I think Strange Days was just too weird for the time. I think if it were released today it’d do better. The target audience was still too niche, maybe, back then. I need to watch it again; I haven’t seen it in forever.

          I think it’s best if we just not speak of Highlander. The first is among my favorite movies, and as you say the series was surprisingly not at all bad. But all of the sequel films (3, right? God let it be only 2 abominations)… best left in the oubliette of forgotten memories.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    11·
    5 days ago

    Costner’s Robin Hood. Rickman is awesome.

    Excalibur. Just an over the top film.

    Pretty much all of the shitty ‘80s action films, from Commando to Bloodsport. They’re awful fun.

  • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    5 days ago

    There are a ton of comedies where the critic ratings are low but the audience is high.

    Grandma’s Boy 15 critic 85 audience was the one that is at the top of my head. Hot damn that is a spread, and I am with the audience.

      • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        5 days ago

        The audience has its own self selection bias, as it is people interested in seeing the movie. That is the best group to rate whether the target audience is satisfied with the end result.

        I only look at audience for horror and comedy.

  • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    4 days ago

    Eye of the Beholder is still one of my old favorites. Nobody I’ve shown it to has ever appreciated it like I do and it’s not well rated. Most people appreciate my movie recommendations, but this is one of the outliers. It’s 9% on rotten tomatoes 32% audience score and a 5 on IMDB

    https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0120662/

  • mechoman444@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 days ago

    Bloodsport.

    What a great movie! It was also well received by the audience not critics 0, was a financial success and kickstarted Jean-Claude Van damme’s career.

    Let’s not even talk about the soundtrack conceivably one of the best pieces of written music ever made.

    (Anybody who’s actually ever listen to the soundtrack is currently nodding their heads)

  • Delphia@lemmy.world
    6·
    4 days ago

    I like the White Men Cant Jump remake.

    I actually think that theres some movies that SHOULD be remade every 15 to 20 years. I would watch Major League if it was remade every 5 to 10 years. New city, new cast, new jokes, new location, callbacks, subverting expectations… but same premise a shitty baseball team needs to get better or else. Give young up and coming actors an excuse to have fun, ham it up, play a wacky character.

    Hell make it a punishment for being the statistically worst team for the season that they make it. “Sorry Boston but… you really ate shit this year…”