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Another vote for Hudson Hawk.
And I liked Daredevil with Affleck. It wasn't the best thing ever but it was a completely fine super hero film.

 Lance845 wrote:
Gremlins 2 is almost universally considered better than 1. Its a parody of gremlins 1 which is itself a parody. Its great.

Maybe now, but it wasn't always so. Like Clue and Starship Troopers, it seemed to be dismissed by an entire generation.

I can't say I like "catwoman' with Halle berry, but it was not as bad as critics make it out to be. The premise of a cosmetic that makes you look younger but literally turns your skin to *&%#ing stone in the process was oddly believable. I mean, people inject their faces with botulinum toxin to look younger. People dissolves layers of their face with acid to look younger.

So a new cosmetic comes along that makes you look younger but turns your skin to stone. I imagine peolle asking "How much younger? "

Catwoman is (mostly) unintentionally hilarious and quite bad, but I think some of the backlash was that somehow Ms Berry was a proper actor and somehow shouldn't be doing silly films that is a whole rabbit hole of wrong thinking, and her willingness to pick up her Razzie in person shows she knew too, but bills need playing, or a new house, car, whatever

I honestly really enjoyed Ghost in the Shell.
I knew going into it Hollywood wouldn't care at all about the source material.
But I still fully enjoyed it.

Screw everybody. I liked "Superman returns".

 Techpriestsupport wrote:
Screw everybody. I liked "Superman returns".

I'm sort of fond of it too but think it suffered from a little too much reverence to the Reeves films from Singer but really thought Brandon should have got another go prior to the recent debacle(s),

I'm usually not impressed by all the american high budget blockbusters, some of them are fun but they never really "hit" me, even the most successful ones like the MCU episodes. And yet I liked Pacific Rim: Uprising a lot, lol.

I also enjoyed Pacific Rim Uprising a lot. It captured the feeling I'd get watching old Godzilla movies.

Well, let's face it. Some of those old Godzilla movies belong in the other thread, not this one. They really WERE that bad, even though we love them anyway.

(Memo to self: Mention some of the old Godzilla movies in the other thread.)

Some were, sure, but not so many as people insist. I get tired of people who think there is only one way to judge the quality of a movie, or that all movies are made with the same aims creatively. Look at all the people in the other thread who called Infinity War mediocre; just because a film was not made for their particular tastes they assume it is of poor value.

Well, sure, but you're on that slippery slope...because the inverse is exactly the same. You say X is of a particular value....so it's so? That knife cuts both ways.

True. But this is the thread for movies people dump on, not movies we consider outright bad and enjoy anyway, so .... Yeah.

John Carter (2012) got a lot of unecessarily harsh criticism IMO. It’s not great, and it falls short of the epic tentpole Disney must have hoped for, but it has an pretty excellent sense of balancing fun with action.

Last Action Hero
Matrix Reloaded
Matrix Revolutions
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Pirates of the Caribbean 3
Pirates of the Caribbean 5
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

I’ll agree with John Carter and the Matrix sequels, I really liked them. Also AvP and the Prometheus movies.

Prometheus is a frustrating watch but it us certainly better than is often said.

The funniest movie I ever saw was Brain Donors.

I really liked Ang Lee’s Hulk.

In school I give out timed quizzes and I time them by song lengths just like Hudson Hawk!!

AvP-R. For some reason people like the first AvP and crap all over AvP R and I cannot figure out why on any level.

Don't the Predators in AvP2 kill an unarmed pregnant woman?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Don't the Predators in AvP2 kill an unarmed pregnant woman?

The Predator in AvP 2 isn't on earth for a hunt collecting trophies. Any "Rules" about the hunt don't apply. He's a cleaner who is wiping out Aliens that got out of control and picking up after the mess made by the idiot Predators from AvP 1. He's there to kill everything and everyone who gets in his way or compromises his mission.

Also no, doesn't kill any pregnant people. The Premature Queen Pred-Alien does use the pregnancy ward to breed a lot of drones quickly.

I say this as someone who doesn’t hate AVP:R ...

AVP feels like someone seriously wanted to make a great movie where aliens and predators fight.

AVP:R feels like someone made a movie to make fun of the people who seriously wanted a great movie where aliens and predators fight.

Lol. Thats awesome. I can agree that AvP R feels like they were making fun of the people who failed to make a great movie where aliens and predators fight.

My only sore spot for AvPR is that it takes place in a universe where AvP happened and is actually a direct consequence of it.

Pacific Rim Uprising.

If you like Kaiju movies it's one of the beat ever made. I think movie goers expected too much from a giant robot and monster film made for 10 year old kids.
The non stop action and amazing effects are worth a lot more to me in this genre than a story without plot holes.

 Ghool wrote:
Pacific Rim Uprising.

If you like Kaiju movies it's one of the beat ever made. I think movie goers expected too much from a giant robot and monster film made for 10 year old kids.
The non stop action and amazing effects are worth a lot more to me in this genre than a story without plot holes.

I sadly missed this one and Rampage and need to correct that. I do often find myself wondering how the Kaiju formula needs to change. Everyone wants to see the big battle but there's still another hour or so of movie to fill up and that seems to where most of them let people down.

Skull Island filled that time with wacky characters and 'Nam. Uprising fills that time with wacky characters and...

Tank Girl, loopy animated sequences, trippy characters, comic-bookey to the core.

 Turnip Jedi wrote:


Hobo with a Shotgun, folks bemoan its schlocky unpleasantness and ikky violence but as an ode to all things 80's cinema its a masterpiece

Oh thats a solid one.

 LordofHats wrote:
I kind of like Alien vs Predator Requim. I'll never call it a good movie, but I think it got more hate than it really warranted.

I literally walked out of that movie in the theatre it was so bad.

I got in to see it for free, but wanted a refund on my time

Have a real weak spot for the Crow movies. It such a great premise and there's always a few good one-liners. I was also a fan of the TV show, which is really hard to find now in days.

I hated Lucy, but it is fun to show to new people just for the facial expression they get when the scene where the actress calls up her mother and says 'I remember what your breast milk tasted like'. That's a hell of a drunk call and the mere idea has broken a couple people so far.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Skull Island filled that time with wacky characters and 'Nam. Uprising fills that time with wacky characters and...

Kong was clearly not a kids movie. Or at least it was clearly not targeted at 10 year olds.
Uprising was. Hence why there is such a huge critical difference in how they were received. One was edgy and dark, with 'Nam (which no kid is going to have any real good idea about) , vs. a bunch of kids fighting big monsters in giant robots. One was clearly for kids and the other wasn't.

Like some others on here I also really enjoyed John Carter, Lucy and the Scar-Jo Ghost in the Shell.

The Golden Compass was a blast, and I remain disappointed that movie didn't strike a chord with audiences and get the sequels that were clearly set up in the film. The setting and characters in that movie really engaged my imagination and I would have loved to see more.

I also get flak from some of my friends for enjoying most Will Ferrell movies, especially Anchorman and Talladega Nights. Haters can hate, I love those movies and they make me laugh even after the 100th viewing.