I’ll start: “Happy Death Day”
The Long Kiss Goodnight
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Geena Davis and Samuel L Jackson. He said in 2019 that it was his favorite role. It was released after a flop for Davis and director Renny Harlin (then her husband), and may have had poor press related to that.
It has an unlikely hero, plenty of action sequences, some fun performances (I had to pause it after a funny line from Brian Cox cracked me up), and heart. Solidly entertaining. But low expectations might help.
I watched this movie when I was in middle school and thought it was badass. I completely forgot about it until your mention and now I gotta see if it holds up. All I remember is that it takes place in winter and Samuel L. says "Pussy is pussy " at some point.
Hilarious!
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“You’re gonna die screaming and I’m gonna watch” will never not be a badass line, and “I propose that whatever he is trying to dislodge is either gone for good or there to stay” will never stop amusing me.
I wouldn’t say those are definitely the best lines in the movie, but probably top 5, definitely top 10.
The dislodge line is where we had to pause for laughing. Delivered with such testiness.
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But that first line only gets better when she mows him down and punctuates it with, “Die screaming, motherfucker.”
That movie is so good, regardless expectations. One of my absolute favorites.
It holds up. Geena Davis is a straight up bad-ass boss mutha fucka!
There are so many movies I could list but for now I’ll go with About Time (2013). Everything about it makes it seem like it would be a dumb sappy romcom but it manages to hit hard.
EDIT: This is the type of image they used to market the film, which is really misleading.
This is my favorite movie. It’s the best that was ever written about mindfulness.
It’s such a good time, one of my favourite films that I actually rewatch! Bill freakin’ Nighy let’s go!!
Absolute stealth hit. The last table tennis game… Man that hits hard.
I’ve only ever watched it once, but this movie will haunt my mind until the day I die. Fucking amazing movie.
This was a great one.
Cop Land.
I didn’t have Sly Stallone outacting Robert Deniro as a possibility, but then that movie happened.
Cop Land is amazing. Most people forget that Stallone has been nominated for three academy awards.
VVitch (=witch) Logan Eklavya (Hindi)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Surprisingly good action and a decent plot to boot.
I’m giving away my age, but Benny & Joon. A story about two mentally ill people falling in love, and the script isn’t even that great, but all the actors really sell it and it is such a quirky heart warming and funny movie.
Where my fellow Spokane peeps?
Yes! One of my most favorite Johnny Depp roles.
Conan the Barbarian (1982) has no right to be as good as it is. On paper, it’s a dumb sword and sorcery flick with a body builder who could barely speak English in the lead. But everyone involved does an incredible job, from the acting to the directing, to the score. It’s a crime that Destroyer trashed up the formula, and we never got Conan the King.
Conan is a movie that teaches you what is truly best in life.
I watched it expecting the same campy tropes from other fantasy/sci-fi movies of the era and what I got was a movie deeper than it lets on. That score too, amazing.
It defined the genre in a lot of ways. There’s a reason so many 80s flicks tried to emulate it on the cheap. It’s the same as “Star Wars” to so many “Battle Beyond the Stars” movies that followed.
There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle… when the gold loses its luster… when the throne room becomes a prison… and all that is left is a father’s love for his child.
P.S. I love you.
When we were dating, my wife and I just went to the theater and picked a random movie and I left a blubbering fucking mess. We had to go directly to a bar to get a drink to take the edge off. We usually watch it once a year and it still destroys me.
I watched that when I had PMS and bawled through the whole thing, I was expecting a romantic comedy and I have never been so upset by a plot twist.
For what it is, it’s an emotional rollercoaster. Like you know that the letters can’t go on forever, but damn.
Although to me it didn’t look like it would suck, Hellboy: The Crooked Man got panned by critics, but it was fantastic.
Yeah I just watched it and really enjoyed it.
The critics on this over were pretty funny to me.
“They made me watch another Hellboy film, and it’s a Hellboy film, and I’m angry.”
Some of those critics need to learn when to call in sick.
It’s a great Hellboy film. Haha.
Arguably the most Hellboy Hellboy film.
I watched Running Scared with Paul Walker at like 3am probably over fifteen years ago. I thought it was brilliant, really dark but fun.
Con Air
It is absolutely not well written but I just love how the film and all the actors are completely aware of how dumb the entire thing is.
Oh, and casting Chief Engineer Miles O’Brien as the jerk that everyone hates is the icing on this guilty-pleasure cake.
Con Air is an amazing “Sunday evening after eating too much dinner” film.
I loved this movie when I was younger but it’s been a while… I’m sorry, WHAT?! O’Brien?! oh I need to see this one again
Battleship.
Yeah, the movie based off the board(?) game.
Feel free to fire up the torches and start handing out the pitchforks, because I’m not playing by the rules.
It doesn’t just look like it will suck, it looks like a ‘so bad it is bad’ type of movie, an overbudgeted ‘this is what is wrong with movies these days’ sort of unmitigated hot wet trash from a dumpster fire in the bad part of town.
It isn’t well written.
It isn’t well acted.
I honestly can’t even promise a good time.
These are the thoughts that went through my mind when I read about it before watching: “This is going to be awful and a waste of my time. These actor names kinda look familiar but I don’t know who any of these people are. Is Rihanna her first name or last name? Isn’t she just a singer. It better not have that stupid umbrella song. Wait, Liam Neeson is in this? Is he doing okay? Did he lose a bet? Does he need money? I bet that evil Jar’jar forced him to to do this. Wait, running time over 2 hours?! How is that even… the board never took more than like 15 minutes… except cheaters moving their… fuck me, I already need a drink.”
Go into the movie with that mindset. Be angry at it before it starts.
I actually thought adding the alien element probably saved it from being a boring movie about ship combat.
It’s quite a bad movie, but it did inspire the creation of my podcast, so I don’t hate it.
I love that premise! I am very good at doing that, turning mundane events into epic movie scenes with no shortage of hyberbole. I have frequently said that adding dramatic music to anything a cat or dog is doing, instantly makes it funnier.
Me and a friend used to do movie reviews but we had the added stipulation that we haad to get drunk while watching the movie and do the review immediately afterwards. A fan requested we do Battleship, which is the sole reason I watched this movie (and probably why I did not hate it outright).
I enjoyed it with a mindset of “This is an unofficial Crysis 1 (PC Game) movie adaption without the power-suit”.
I actually liked Rhianna in that film
Edit: downvotes? Is my personal experience somehow incorrect?
It’s what I love most about Lemmy.
For me, it’s the beans.
Also, I made beans this morning.
Breakfast beans? Damn. You’re a bean fiend!
And I woke my wife up just to put beans in her and she liked it
Dude, this is a SFW instance. lemmynsfw.com is that way 👉
Keanu Reeves holds two places on my list; Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure and Johnny Mnemonic.
Tucker and Dave vs. Evil. Looks like another dumb Netflix original, but it was one of the best horror/comedies I’ve seen.
Speaking of the genre, big nods to another one - Little Evil.
It Follows - just read the premise of the film and tell me it doesn’t sound dumb… Then go watch it
Oh and Colossal!!! Ann Hathaway stars in this bizarre and very deep movie about a giant monster that can be controlled from a playground. Amazing movie. Trust me
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil! Amazing movie! I put it on one day just so I could check it off my list of new things out and, figured if I love the Evil Dead series (and also, as someone else mentioned in the thread, the Re-Animator) how awful could this be… it wasn’t. It was fantastic.
Enjoyed Little Evil too. So, I’m putting Colossal on my list right now!
I think Colossal will surprise you. It’s not exactly a horror comedy, but a very serious film wrapped in a ridiculous story
Similar vein: Slaxx. I’m not sure how vampire pants fits into things but boy does it start a conversation about using cheap labor for profit and the cost of life for that profit.
Colossal was weird, but i liked it. I could see where people would be thinking, what is this and why am I watching it, but it felt like real life to me. For a movie about monster avatars unwittingly being controlled from half a world away, anyway.
It Follows… Amazing
I think I wtched it follows, fully expecting to be awestruck and it just ended.
Event Horizon… terror in space? Worse the Alien? can’t be.
but it is haunting and PTSD inducing, very well made
Solid film.
Alien is pretty good but Event Horizon is the best space horror movie.
