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Starship Troopers 1 (2 was laughable (lolololol tiitties); not seen 3, but apparently it's basically recycled bits of 1 and 2.
Stardust; for what it looks like, it's not really that bad of a film.
Van Wilder: Party Liason. I love this film, but people either haven't heard of it or think it's crap. (There is one hilarious scene, and I mean side-splittingly funny. Any old cream-cake who's seen it should know which one i'm on about.)
EDIT: Word to the wise. Anyone who trawls the internet for the Van Wilder scene I mean whilst at work does so at their own risk. It is really, REALLY NSFW.
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Van Wilder: Party Liason. I love this film, but people either haven't heard of it or think it's crap. (There is one hilarious scene, and I mean side-splittingly funny. Any old cream-cake who's seen it should know which one i'm on about.)
There are a lot of scenes in the movie like this. Which one? The one with the old lady? The one with the dog and the pastries? Or perhaps you're referring to the laxatives towards the end?
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Ok I guess this topic is on guilty pleasures as well (or is it the same thing?) in that case:
"The Rock"
The only Michael Bay film I can stand mostly because it's hilariously bad but in a tolerable cheesy way. Plus me and my friends like watching it for some reason.
"Air Force One"
Not sure if this counts in this category but it holds a special place in my heart because it holds my all-time favorite Harrison Ford one-liner "GET OFF MY PLANE!" Lol I like it mostly because Mike Nelson likes to riff on that line a lot in rifftrax.
"300"
This is more of just a guilty pleasure for me because I'm usually a stickler for movies based on historical events but for a change I through that out the window and I enjoyed this moved in an effed up kind of way lol.
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300 is a good example of, if your taking something from history, and NOT going the historical route, thats how you do it. Either be accurate or be 300 about it, thats the only ways IMO
Oh god, I forgot all about Con Air. The best terrible movie ever made. It's unrelentingly awful, but just try to turn away if you come across it while channel surfing.
You've got steve buschemi being creepy as all get out. You've got nick cage doing the world's worst accent for the first half of the film, then forgetting it for the rest. You have the least plausible manslaughter conviction in history. You have an ending that manages to be even dumber, bigger, and more preposterous than the other two hours of the film. and most importantly: you have John Malkovich, who clearly realizes that he's in a terrible movie but decides to have fun with it anyway.
The Kilted Samurai wrote:There's a few on my list that people will probably hate me for but here it goes:
"Shutter Island"
I'm not sure what people hated so much about it.
Shutter Island is a bad movie because it is pointless.
Spoiler:
The movies' big reveal is that the main character is crazy and the investigative mystery side of the movie which attracted audiences is a ruse to tell you about the crazy guy.
I remember thinking: "Oh so the point of this movie is to show you how this guy gets better". Cue the final dialogue between him and the guy he thinks is his partner... "Or not.". The ending made the whole movie meaningless.
One movie that pleasantly beat my low expectations for it was The Rocker. Surprisingly decent.
Yeah, that's totally correct, I was going to say something for a second there because I thought maybe I got it wrong, but I'd just forgotten how it ended. Cool flim...
For my vote, I pick that one with the guy that lands on earth in a spaceship in the middle ages and chases an alien monster with the help of some vikings...It was just a bit better than I thought it would be, and yet, not quite good enough to remember the title...
Yeah, the ending obviously went over your head.
Spoiler:
He's not insane. He just doesn't want to live with the knowledge that he killed his wife.
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Well, I never thought the Star Wars Prequels were that bad. I mean, they weren't the best, but people on the internet always act like certain parts are just intolerable, but I can live with them really.
What about the last 2 Alien movies? They weren't bad either.
Spider man 3. At least I've heard some people don't like it. Why? Again, not the best, it could have been better, but terrible? No way.
Transformers Revenge of the Fallen. Why do people hate it more than the first? I've never really got that, its at least decent.
Watching one now, Outland, 1981 Sean Connery is a Marshall on a space mining colony.
Realistic tech, good, pragmatic-looking designs, but a paint by numbers plot and it's set in the future era when we have interplanetary mining but have not yet developed color computer monitors.
I mean 1981, I'm not expecting anyone to forsee the internet and mobile computing but... no color monitors? Seriously?
Still decent enough and you can see how informs later SF like Aliens.
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Apparently Outland is basically High Noon in space. In point of fact, it inspired a song by Star One called "High Moon".
On topic, I have to go with the original Dune movie. Apparently it got a lot of flak back in the day, but I thought it was a fairly epic film. On a similar note, I'm going with Avatar. Despite what people say about it, I thought it had a really amazing, epic feel to it, especially near the end when nature fights back.
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I don't think Avatar really fits the bill on this topic. The few people with good taste didn't lather it with fan boy love but the vast number of mouth-breathers thought it was pretty good.
Spoiler:
MWAHAHAHAHA
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
I concur with Stardust. I thought it was a really good movie though and vastly underrated.
To add to the list, The Scorpion King and Prince of Persia.
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The Kilted Samurai wrote:There's a few on my list that people will probably hate me for but here it goes:
"Shutter Island"
I'm not sure what people hated so much about it.
Shutter Island is a bad movie because it is pointless.
Spoiler:
The movies' big reveal is that the main character is crazy and the investigative mystery side of the movie which attracted audiences is a ruse to tell you about the crazy guy.
I remember thinking: "Oh so the point of this movie is to show you how this guy gets better". Cue the final dialogue between him and the guy he thinks is his partner... "Or not.". The ending made the whole movie meaningless.
One movie that pleasantly beat my low expectations for it was The Rocker. Surprisingly decent.
Yeah, the ending obviously went over your head.
Spoiler:
He's not insane. He just doesn't want to live with the knowledge that he killed his wife.
Spoiler:
At what point is he not insane? He was clearly insane up to the end. (Seeing things that are not there, fighting with random strangers for reasons in his head, believing he had a loaded gun, etc).If you'r'e saying that he was cured at the end that was your take on it since we were no longer in his head at that point
Took a brilliant franchise and gutted it to B grade all the way.
Watchable, but reluctant to stay watching if distracted by something going on in my house.
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I completely forgot to add "Big Trouble in Little China" in my first list.
Another movie that had one scene in it that absolutely made the movie for me was "Open Range" (not really a Kevin Kostner fan either). I loved the final shoot out and how it started. That was classic.
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This is more of just a guilty pleasure for me because I'm usually a stickler for movies based on historical events but for a change I through that out the window and I enjoyed this moved in an effed up kind of way lol.
The film was an adaptation of a graphic novel. All in all an enjoyable film.
Another vote for Chronicles of Riddick. I've got loads of mediocre films, I like something not too complicated. Shooter, Bulletproof Monk, King Kong, all those sorts of thing.
8mm is actually a really good movie, that everyone disliked because of seven coming out just before.
Any movie with talking animals in I like. Not animated or cgi or weird moving mouths though.
Brother got bad reviews but I like it.
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You'll have to explain that to me.
Amaya wrote:
Wraithlordmechanic wrote:
The Kilted Samurai wrote:There's a few on my list that people will probably hate me for but here it goes:
"Shutter Island"
I'm not sure what people hated so much about it.
Shutter Island is a bad movie because it is pointless.
Spoiler:
The movies' big reveal is that the main character is crazy and the investigative mystery side of the movie which attracted audiences is a ruse to tell you about the crazy guy.
I remember thinking: "Oh so the point of this movie is to show you how this guy gets better". Cue the final dialogue between him and the guy he thinks is his partner... "Or not.". The ending made the whole movie meaningless.
One movie that pleasantly beat my low expectations for it was The Rocker. Surprisingly decent.
Yeah, the ending obviously went over your head.
Spoiler:
He's not insane. He just doesn't want to live with the knowledge that he killed his wife.
Ignoring the truth for what you'd rather believe, that dominates your life, is the definition of insane. Although I understand how somebody could think they are different. He is in the exact same state at the end of the movie as the beggining.
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Having a deep affinity for horror films,the vast majority of the movies I watch could easily fit on this list,at least from a certain perspective.
For example,when I plop down in front of the television and watch "Friday the 13th"..I know going into it I won't be viewing "great cinema"...but at the end of the film..I've enjoyed the ride.
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Van Wilder: Party Liason. I love this film, but people either haven't heard of it or think it's crap. (There is one hilarious scene, and I mean side-splittingly funny. Any old cream-cake who's seen it should know which one i'm on about.)
There are a lot of scenes in the movie like this. Which one? The one with the old lady? The one with the dog and the pastries? Or perhaps you're referring to the laxatives towards the end?
Highlighted the bit that should've given it away
Eragon. It is indeed a bad movie, but I can watch it even if I have other options.
Ever since I saw it after reading it and Eldest (the only two out when the movie was made) umpteen times and knowing the ins and outs, I was horrified by the abortion of a movie they made the book into. Not only did they skimp out on so many small details (or get them wrong) but they skimped out on so many of the larger details that making Eldest into a film is now no longer possible (similarly so with Brisingr) unless the first film is re-made.
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Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
namegoeshere wrote:8mm is actually a really good movie, that everyone disliked because of seven coming out just before.
Any movie with talking animals in I like. Not animated or cgi or weird moving mouths though.
Brother got bad reviews but I like it.
chowderhead13 wrote:Don't mess with the Zohan. It works because it insults everyone equally.
You'll have to explain that to me.
Amaya wrote:
Wraithlordmechanic wrote:
The Kilted Samurai wrote:There's a few on my list that people will probably hate me for but here it goes:
"Shutter Island"
I'm not sure what people hated so much about it.
Shutter Island is a bad movie because it is pointless.
Spoiler:
The movies' big reveal is that the main character is crazy and the investigative mystery side of the movie which attracted audiences is a ruse to tell you about the crazy guy. I remember thinking: "Oh so the point of this movie is to show you how this guy gets better". Cue the final dialogue between him and the guy he thinks is his partner... "Or not.". The ending made the whole movie meaningless.
One movie that pleasantly beat my low expectations for it was The Rocker. Surprisingly decent.
Yeah, the ending obviously went over your head.
Spoiler:
He's not insane. He just doesn't want to live with the knowledge that he killed his wife.
Ignoring the truth for what you'd rather believe, that dominates your life, is the definition of insane. Although I understand how somebody could think they are different. He is in the exact same state at the end of the movie as the beggining.
No he isn't.
Spoiler:
The entire point of the end scene is the name that he calls his "partner" by while walking away, he refers to him by his real name, not the name he had as a marshal, which shows that he has realised that the entire marshal thing is a lie. The reason he supposedly "is in the exact same state" is because he cannot live with the knowledge that he killed his wife, and so convinces them, by talking as if he is still a marshal, to lobotomise him, so he doesn't have to live with the knowledge.
He isn't "ignoring the truth for what he'd rather believe" he has accepted the truth, but cannot live with it, and so engineers himself not having to live with the truth.
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I Know Who Killed Me. Everyone who I've mentioned it to calls it "that movie where Lindsay Lohan is a stripper." It's got a bit more going on than that, and I actually didn't catch what was going on til they revealed it.
This is more of just a guilty pleasure for me because I'm usually a stickler for movies based on historical events but for a change I through that out the window and I enjoyed this moved in an effed up kind of way lol.
The film was an adaptation of a graphic novel. All in all an enjoyable film.
Another vote for Chronicles of Riddick. I've got loads of mediocre films, I like something not too complicated. Shooter, Bulletproof Monk, King Kong, all those sorts of thing.
Yeah I know it was a graphic novel but that graphic novel is "based" on history. After I through out that part I just paid attention to the fact that it was a comic book movie and it was much more enjoyable.
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It's got a bit more going on than that, and I actually didn't catch what was going on til they revealed it.