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What movie is in your top list despite its absolute shit rating? (lemmy.world)

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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.

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[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (9 children)

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.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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."

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

I saw part of Cats, but I refuse to watch it until they release the butthole cut.

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week 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.

[–] 5tation@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Gentlemen Broncos

[–] Chef@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

YEAST LORDS!

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have two:

Chalet Girl - Romcom meets 1980s style Aspen Ski Challenge, Felicity Jones, Bill Nighy, Brooke Shields, and Ed Westwick. I personally love it. It's a great movie to throw on for a boring day, it has some feels, it's story is predictable but fun - it's not winning an Oscar but I enjoy it. 5/5 personal scale, 3/5 general rotten tomatoes

21 - Very lame smart guy meets Vegas, not a heist, not the social network - Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey. Didn't know this was that high up except for I have multiple plays of it. I watched it after having surgery and remember thinking it was amazing - and then watched it later on less pain killers and thought "Oh, well, it's fine." 3/5 personal scale, 1/5 general rotten tomatoes.

Shoutout to !showsandmovies@lemm.ee if you want more discussion like this!

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

21 was a letdown for me because I read the book first. It’s a great read, fast, light, and fun. The movie just felt thin in comparison.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I remember seeing 21. I honestly didn't know it got bad reviews. It seemed fine for what it was.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 8 points 1 week ago

The Green Hornet with Seth Rogan was my favourite film for a long time. I did not understand why people didn’t love it as much as I did.

[–] Onionguy@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

Has anyone mentioned "the room"? Im gonna reccommend it. It's so bad, it's good.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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

My favorite movies with absolutely ridiculus plots are:

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? 🤣
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? 🧐
Moonfall
spoiler
The moon falls towards earth, because... Aliens... lol 🌚

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Miami Connection

Discovering it has brought me so much joy (pretty sure someone posted it here, actually). My jaw literally dropped at times as I adjusted to what I was seeing--like pure parody, but it was attempted so whole-heartedly and earnestly. The best kind of bad movie, the one that tries so hard. If it isn't peak 80's, PLEASE tell me what is so I can literally watch it tonight (if within the next ~6 minutes before I get in my jammies).

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You'd probably enjoy Hard Ticket to Hawaii.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I'm familiar with one Frisbee scene I love, but never watched the whole thing.

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[–] Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'm uncertain of what the ratings are in general, but there's probably some horror movie I love that's been dragged.

Maybe Insidious? Paranormal Activity 2? As Above, So Below? The Cleansing Hour?

One of those probably has a shit score somewhere lol.

EDIT because I realized how lazy I was being:

Insidious has a 66% on rotten tomatoes Paranormal Activity 2 has a 57% As Above, So Below has a 29% The Cleansing Hour has a shocking 73%

So my answer is As Above, So Below. Lol But I'm startled about The Cleansing Hour having such a high rating

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As above, so below having 29% seems a bit crazy. That shit freaked me out.

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[–] Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Okay. Unrelated and it's driving me insane.

How do I do line breaks for lists like that? If I do two hits of Enter, it acts like a new paragraph in total. But I can't get it to just jump down to the next line, it just follows after the one above it as if it were continuing a sentence. Bwah!

[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In Markdown, if you want a paragraph break, then whack Enter twice. That is, this:

foo

bar

Gives this:

foo

bar

If you want a line break, then add a backslash or two spaces at the end of the line, and then hit Enter. That is, this (you can't see it, but two spaces after "foo"):

foo  
bar\
baz

Gives this:

foo
bar
baz

When I'm doing an actual list, I generally prefer to do either an unnumbered or numbered list, though.

* foo
* bar

Gives this:

foo

bar

And for numbered lists:

1. foo
2. bar

Gives this:

foo

bar

It doesn't look from that like Markdown is buying you much with the numbered lists (traditionally in Markdown, numbered lists were auto-renumbered, which is IMHO a bad idea and is one feature of Markdown that is not implemented here), but this gets useful if you want to do lists with multiple lines, which is done with a four-space prefix on successive lines:

1. foo\
    My dog adores foo.
2. bar\
    Some cats fancy bar.

Gives this:

foo
My dog adores foo.

bar
Some cats fancy bar.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

I just press enter

Leave a space in the blank line here then press enter

There you go, break in the paragraph.

[–] maniel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I liked Battlefield Earth

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[–] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Perhaps "The Missing Postman" - not sure if it actually got canned or is just unknown though.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Alaska. That movie with Dirk Benedict, Thora Birch, a yellow Piper Cub and northern nature.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I always go by audience. The fact that they are critics seems like a type of selection bias.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

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