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Coming from the other thread, I love Krull and can't understand how anyone can hang gak on that movie.

Loads of them that really enjoyed but "critics" hated

Rampage
Predators
John Carter of Mars
Underworld (all of them)

Of course I hated some of those that the critics worshiped and claimed were gods gift to creation. F them.

Scream
Inception
Last Jedi

AVP - R

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.

There was some really dark stuff in that movie - I really enjoyed it,

So, am I the only guy on these boards who thought that, fethed up and flawed as it is, and man, that's one seriously fethed up, flawed movie, The Predator was great fun ?
It's the only movie in 2018 that I walked out of with a big smile.

 HudsonD wrote:
So, am I the only guy on these boards who thought that, fethed up and flawed as it is, and man, that's one seriously fethed up, flawed movie, The Predator was great fun ?
It's the only movie in 2018 that I walked out of with a big smile.

We three of us went to watch it and mostly enjoyed it - the end scene was BAD, but the rest was disjointed but fun so no you are not alone.

Its certainly better than crap like Last Jedi in pretty much all respects.

 Mr Morden wrote:


We three of us went to watch it and mostly enjoyed it - the end scene was BAD, but the rest was disjointed but fun so no you are not alone.

Its certainly better than crap like Last Jedi in pretty much all respects.

The late reshoots and rewriting are painfully obvious, what little plot there remains is all over the place, but at the same time, it's the attitude that sells the movie to me.
Lots of series and movies going for that good ol' 80s vibe these days, but "The Predator" is the only movie I've seen in a long while that might as well have been released in the 80s, and people would have loved it back then. It's dirty, mean, crass and unapologetic !
The only thing I don't understand, is why they called if "The Predator". It should have been the "The A Team". Another studio interference, I guess...

I also enjoyed John Carter. I did not know anything about what I was going to see when I went into the cinema (I had not at that stage come across the character before) and I was very entertained.

I liked the Ultramarines movie. Still do!

Tron : Legacy... Awe inspiring visuals and music. Solid Directing and performances.

I liked John Carter enough to buy it and read some of the books, but I wouldn't say I loved it. It feels like a movie that should have been better than it was, like it's less than the sum of its parts, although still enjoyable as it is.

The Ultramarines movie makes me happy. I'm not sure if the movie itself is what does it, or if it's the way the movie treated chaos marines (like 3rd or 4th edition Chaos marines, a total joke of a threat), or if I just enjoy imagining big name British Actors in tiny sound booths screaming For The Emperor!

I like Xanadu.

I liked john Carter but it suffers from the same thing as all the 1930s pulp characters in film. It doesnt matter how good the movie is they all tank in the box office.

John Carter lacks a sense of proportionality. It was fine as a fish out of water adventure. But by the end the movie is completely out of control, scale-wise, and it’s pretty hard to care about what’s going on in this visual cacophany.

I have discussed at length on this forum how bad I think TLJ is but TLJ is a much, much better movie than The Predator.

 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 thoroughly enjoyed Pacific Rim but it´s successor failed big time because the giant bots moved too fast and the pilots were snotnosed green teenagers like in a Power Rangers show. Also one of the brats designed a mech on her own. Really? That alone took me out of the movie. Another stupid thing was that they included the female lead protagonist from the first movie only to kill her off. The people responsible for that crime need to go back to school in order to learn what Fan Service means.
The only good thing about this movie was the role one of the scientists played. This was nice and unexpected. At least the movie got me motivated to paint my third IK. Still one to go, though.

I really liked the 2013 Lone Ranger movie; Pirates of the Caribbean felt like the writers/director had lost control of it pretty quickly and it became about Johnny Depp being silly, Lone Ranger felt like it managed to harness Johnny Depp being silly as a force to make the movie entertaining without letting him derail it.

Last Jedi felt like about 70% of a good movie buried inside a bad movie to me. There were a lot of good scenes and good ideas that got buried inside bad framing; they explore bits of the universe we don't usually get to see, and consider the logistics of running a rebellion way more than I ever expected Star Wars to do, but it gets buried in the stern-chase gibberish and all the angry-buzzword-shouting about the purple-haired admiral. I wouldn't say I liked it when everyone else hated it or hated it when everyone else liked it, but I'm way more indifferent about it than everyone else seems to be.

 AnomanderRake wrote:
Last Jedi felt like about 70% of a good movie buried inside a bad movie to me.

That's one of the things about it that annoys me the most. We had a thread about salvaging TLJ with minimal changes, and there were a lot of good ideas there that would have turned the whole movie around.

Of course, there were also suggestions along the lines of 'start over from the beginning of TFA' too, which hardly qualifies as 'minimal' changes, but some people think DisneyWars is just that unsalvageable....

 Strg Alt wrote:

 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 thoroughly enjoyed Pacific Rim but it´s successor failed big time because the giant bots moved too fast and the pilots were snotnosed green teenagers like in a Power Rangers show. Also one of the brats designed a mech on her own. Really? That alone took me out of the movie. Another stupid thing was that they included the female lead protagonist from the first movie only to kill her off. The people responsible for that crime need to go back to school in order to learn what Fan Service means.
The only good thing about this movie was the role one of the scientists played. This was nice and unexpected. At least the movie got me motivated to paint my third IK. Still one to go, though.

See it through a 10 year old boys eyes and not an adults.
When you start looking at it as a kid would, those 'snot nosed Power Rangers' make you realize why it was done that way. Honestly, I think nerds take their entertainment way too seriously.

Yeah like why even care about movies? That’s for nerds!

Pacific Rim 2 is a piece of gak. I feel bad for John Boyega.

The Dark Crystal.

The responses I get are “Oh the creepy muppet movie.”

... people can’t apreciate a good Jim Henson classic!

I would say the Last Jedi. I personnaly think it was one of the best Starwars movie made. I prefer it to the Return of the Jedi ranking at fourth best movie in the franchise (to me its basically Empire Strikes Back, A New Hope, Rogue One and the Last Jedi). While the movie received good critique from many movie critique, it was panned by many adult fans of the franchise. Come to think of it, I also enjoyed the animated Clone War movie and it spawned an excellent TV show.

I also liked Pacific Rim 2. I wanted giant robots fight giant monsters and I saw lots of giant robots fight lots of giant monsters thus I got what I asked for. The first one was better though. In the same way, the Power Ranger movie was kinda good probably way better then its source material would normally allow it to be.

The latest Pirates of the Caribbean was also very good, probably the second best of the bunch.

I don't even know if the movie was translated in english (it's a Tai movie that was co-produced by a French guy so it was also released in French) called Le Sabre du Tigre. It's the greatest worst movie of all time. Seriously, I have watched a LOT of very gakky movie for laughs and this thing is so bad it sits in the same place then the Room except the Room is very borind drama while Le Sabre du Tigre is an action movie with a descent pace (but oh so bad). If you speak French you got to find this one. Every line out of three and every plot point of the movie can be transformed into a meme. It's bad in an extraordinary way.

 Jjohnso11 wrote:
The Dark Crystal.

The responses I get are “Oh the creepy muppet movie.”

... people can’t apreciate a good Jim Henson classic!

Really? I grew up on that movie. I think I had 2-3 copies on VHS. I cannot recall ever meeting a person that hated it.

My movie is Underworld. I don't know why, but I really like the first one. It was just, good. Enjoyable. Nothing felt forced and the movies flow felt right. Plus, Kate Beckinsale. However, I am the only person I know that likes it.

 Manchu wrote:
Yeah like why even care about movies? That’s for nerds!

Pacific Rim 2 is a piece of gak. I feel bad for John Boyega.

I can say the same about SW 7 and 8 actually, or the even more terrible The Circle. With Pacific Rim 2 he redeemed himself.

But I wouldn't feel bad for John Boyega because I'm sure shooting movies like those ones should be fun anyway and the salary is decent enough

Predator 2. It's just so fun. I love Danny Glover in it and it fleshes out predators in a cool way while not being stupid.
And most Importantly the predator is actually in most of it and I'm not watching 5 hours of people going through the jungle.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Predator 2. It's just so fun. I love Danny Glover in it and it fleshes out predators in a cool way while not being stupid.
And most Importantly the predator is actually in most of it and I'm not watching 5 hours of people going through the jungle.

I loved it, including seeing mort downey get punched in the mouth and the predator's showing honor at the end.

DarthDiggler wrote:
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!!

Ang Lee's The Hulk is better than the subsequent Incredible Hulk. If you disagree, you're just wrong. Also, I quite like Battleship; an hour and change of enjoyable nonsense.

 Dreadwinter wrote:


My movie is Underworld. I don't know why, but I really like the first one. It was just, good. Enjoyable. Nothing felt forced and the movies flow felt right. Plus, Kate Beckinsale. However, I am the only person I know that likes it.

You're not alone man, I really dig Underworld as well. I actually thought each film was better than the one that came before until we got Blood Wars. That one just wasn't good.

 creeping-deth87 wrote:

 Dreadwinter wrote:


My movie is Underworld. I don't know why, but I really like the first one. It was just, good. Enjoyable. Nothing felt forced and the movies flow felt right. Plus, Kate Beckinsale. However, I am the only person I know that likes it.

You're not alone man, I really dig Underworld as well. I actually thought each film was better than the one that came before until we got Blood Wars. That one just wasn't good.

It helps that Kate Beckinsale is just so gorgeous but I love the overall look and style of the Underworld films - Bill Nighy and Derek Jacoby seemed to be having great fun as well.

 AndrewGPaul wrote:

DarthDiggler wrote:
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!!

Ang Lee's The Hulk is better than the subsequent Incredible Hulk. If you disagree, you're just wrong. Also, I quite like Battleship; an hour and change of enjoyable nonsense.

Agreed on The Hulk, not with you on Battleship.

I friggin' LOVED Pandorum, though it got poor reviews.

Ditto with Boondock saints, though everyone I've ever met who has seen it loved that movie.

Twilight.

Yeah, you heard me.

 Kap'n Krump wrote:
I friggin' LOVED Pandorum, though it got poor reviews.

Ditto with Boondock saints, though everyone I've ever met who has seen it loved that movie.

I hated Boondock Saints. So did my wife. But it's cool that there are people with different tastes making movies.


Er, I mean, Liking something I hate is wrong.


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 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Twilight.

Yeah, you heard me.

The friend who introduced me to Game of Thrones swears by Twilight (the book). I bought a copy but never worked up the nerve to read it.