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.

    • Whitebrow@lemmy.world
      152·
      2 months ago

      Watched it not long ago. Didn’t realize the people rating it have no appreciation for decent movies.

      It wasn’t phenomenal by any means but it was quite entertaining for the duration of it.

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      I still think League of Extraordinary Gentlemen got unfairly dragged. 16% on Rotten Tomatoes.

      It is a pretty mediocre movie overall, but it is just a lot of fun and I have watched it a dozen times.

    • reddig33@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 months ago

      Surprised it hasn’t come back as a streaming channel series of films like “Knives Out”. It’s got a lot of potential.

    • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOP
      7·
      2 months ago

      I remember screening league of extraordinary gentleman and all I could think is it was probably not for me. Not to say someone else wouldn’t like it. I feel like not everything should be rated based on its wide spread appeal.

    • otto@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      I don’t disagree that it’s a terrible movie, it’s just a terrible movie that I happened to really like.

  • Odo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 months ago

    Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. Yes it’s utterly ridiculous. I don’t care, it’s still a masterpiece of absurdity to me. That 13% on RT is a shame.

    Also how has it been 23 years since its release.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 months ago

      Had one gag that made me literally LOL… intentionally…

      They’re trapped in a library, debating the morality of burning books in the fireplace to stay alive.

      “How about all these tax books, can we burn these?”

      • pastermil@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        2 months ago

        Also:

        “Is there a chance that it will run…” grabs a bottle “…on this?”

        “Are you mad? That’s a twelve years old scotch!” reveals cups

  • Singletona082@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    2 months 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·
      2 months 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·
        2 months 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.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months 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·
        2 months 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.

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months 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·
        2 months 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.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months 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·
        2 months ago

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

    • 11111one11111@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 months ago

      Oh damn that’s a perfect example of what OP was asking for. 23% rotten tomatoe rating with 92% audience rating

  • GraniteM@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 months ago

    I think everyone should see the 2019 Cats. I was not bored, and I had a strong emotional reaction to the movie. Was it shit? Oh absolutely, in ways that I didn’t even know movies could be shit. But it was not boring! So if I were going to recommend a movie to someone who hadn’t seen it yet, Cats would be near the top of that list.

    Movies that I actually love despite them having poor ratings…

    • Event Horizon - 6.6 IMDB / 35% RT - Haunted house in space. Great performances from a great cast. Properly fucked up. Love seeing blue collar workers in scifi.

    • Death to Smoochy - 6.3 IMDB / 42% RT - See Robin Williams go hard on the R-rating playing a children’s show host on a downward spiral. One of my favorite Williams performances.

    • Legend (1985) - 6.3 IMDB / 41% RT - Shot entirely inside of a huge bag of cocaine. All vibes, don’t question any of it, logic has no place here. Watch the theatrical cut with Tangerine Dream, because the director’s cut with Jerry Goldsmith is honestly just vague fantasy noodling, and the 80s power jams are at least 40% of the charm.

    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 months ago

      If Event Horizon has bad ratings that is my answer, love that movie, I thought it was universally considered good though.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      I think the thing with Cats is that it’s totally OK if a broadway musical has no plot and doesn’t make sense, you’re going for the experience.

      Film has a history of narrative and you just can’t drop in a word like “jellicle” and expect to get away with it.

      OTOH complaining about jellicle in Cats would be a lot like walking out of a Smurfs movie complaining about “Man, they sure do say ‘Smurf’ a lot.”

      • GraniteM@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        complaining about jellicle in Cats would be a lot like walking out of a Smurfs movie complaining about “Man, they sure do say ‘Smurf’ a lot.”

        Thing is, there’s a lot about the source material that, if you’re not there for it, then you shouldn’t even be in the theatre. No plot, sexy cat monsters, absurd lyrics, that’s all there from the beginning. No, the 2019 movie is fucked up in ways that have nothing to do with T. S. Eliot or Andrew Lloyd Webber.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 months ago

    Breakfast of Champions - I don’t care if it totally bastardized Vonnegut, I really liked it.

    Mystery Men - Again, I don’t care if it totally bastardized Bob Burden.

    Titan AE

    The female version of Ghostbusters.

    Zardoz.

    Hackers. Fuck you if you say one bad thing about this movie. It is glorious.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    2 months ago

    No idea what the actual ratings are, but the live action remake of Aladdin was absolutely shat on by most of the internet. The original Aladdin was one of my absolute favorites as a kid, so I was gonna see the remake good or bad, and… honestly, fucking loved it.

    I’m guessing the main breaking point for people was the lack of Robin Williams’ Genie, but Disney had the option of trying recreate that genie without Robin Williams or completely remake that character’s personality. Had they gone with the former, it 100% would have 1) flopped, and 2) been kinda disrespectful to Robin Williams imo. Starting fresh was the correct choice. And Will Smith did awesome with his version of Genie.

    Beyond that, it introduced just enough new shit to make it not just feel like a frame-by-frame copy/paste of the original; but overall kept the same fun mystical vibe of the original.

    It earns its spot on the shelf, imo.

  • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 months ago

    Waterworld. I love that movie so much. I’ve watched the theatrical, TV, and Ulysses cuts. I’ve read the comics. I’ve played the games. I bought it on Blu-ray the day Arrow released it.

  • acchariya@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 months ago

    Maximum overdrive. 1986, coked up actors, campy as hell but taking itself very seriously, 14% rotten tomatoes score.

  • SanguinePar@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    Rise of Skywalker. I loved it :-)

    EDIT - I should say, I didn’t properly read the thread title, and I wouldn’t put RoS in my “top list”. I just gave it as an example of a movie that’s generally disliked but that I enjoyed.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.world
      21·
      2 months ago

      Rise of Skywalker wasn’t good, but I give it a pass because of the just awful situation they were in.

      Last Jedi shit the bed and painted them into a corner, then Carrie Fisher up and died when the 3rd film was supposed to be “hers”, the way Force Awakens was Han and Last Jedi was Luke, and the OG writer/director got bounced. :(

      I really don’t know what they could have done, but I’ll still die for Babu Frik.

      • SanguinePar@lemmy.world
        31·
        2 months ago

        Last Jedi shit the bed and painted them into a corner,

        Definitely agree with that. There was so much course correction needed after that mess.

        I enjoyed RoS a lot though - for me it did everything a Star Wars movie needed to do, great visuals, exciting battles, good and evil, ordinary people coming together to fight a fascist enemy.

        Ok, lots of it was very silly plotwise, but just as an experience I was left feeling pumped up, whereas TLJ left me feeling like I was done with Star Wars, it was just so awkward.

        • jordanlund@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          It’s like nobody told them Last Jedi was the middle part of the trilogy. Big bad? Meh, kill him off, not important. Resistance? Reduced to a size that can all fit in the Falcon. Luke? Oh, just forget him already…

          • SanguinePar@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 months ago

            Exactly - I’m all for subverting expectations, but not to the extent that what you’ve made barely coheres to that which came before.

            I like Rian Johnson films in general, Brick is a favourite of mine and Knifes Out is great, and so on. But this was just… horrible…