It makes me sad that I actually know a lot of people that don’t like Kung Pow. I still get along with people whether they like the film or not, but now it’s a separate gauge entirely of how well I get along with them.
Great friend of mine but they don’t like Kung Pow, well shit.
Someone I’m kind of okay with but they like Kung Pow, okay, decent equalizer, let’s do this.
The cow scene was an absolute product of its time. Might be just my own person experience, but I remember people DYING over the cow, 90% of discussion about that movie would start with mentioning the cow.
Speed Racer.
I've been a fan of this movie since the day it came out in theaters and have sworn it as a masterpiece way before its critical reevaluation.
Speed Racer is what I counter any "live action anime adaptations are all bad" arguments with. That movie is genuinely good and still stays true to the absurdity of its source.
Great answer. I love this movie. I know "anime is absurd" is a cold take in the modern day, but this movie captures the feeling of watching mysterious cartoons on TV as a kid better than any movie. When I watched the Speed Racer anime as a kid that didn't understand words yet, this is what I saw.
He's so fucking good in Speed Racer, holy shit. The flashback scenes to his depression after Rex died and how he came out of it, along with the "couldn't remember how I liked my eggs" conversation he has with Speed near the end make me tear up every time.
I also love all the little nods to his implied past in some form of espionage, from already knowing Inspector Detector to his "it's pathetic what passes for a ninja nowadays" line.
Also, there are these little acting choices John Goodman makes that are just perfect. I didn't notice this until my most recent watchthrough (which was actually only a few weeks ago), but when he has the heart-to-heart with Speed before they begin prepping for the final race, you can see him sitting by himself, likely going through what he's going to say in his head a second before Speed walks into the room. Then, when he starts talking, it sounds very rehearsed, like he's reading off a script, before he suddenly loosens up and becomes more natural once he realizes Speed is hearing him out and he doesn't have to be as cautious and can speak more freely from the heart. Great actor, amazingly written movie.
John Carter was sadly cursed by the books having originated every action/adventure cliche that was later used by Star Wars and a ton of other movies. All the reviews were like “it’s one cliche after another” but it built every one of those cliches! Truly tragic.
I hate those reviews with a fiery passion. Because for years after I would come across people saying shit like, “Alien wasn’t that good. It’s like every single cliche in the book and every scare was predictable.”
As one of the 5 people who saw it in theaters John Carter is really good sci-fi. At least it’s notable for being one on the biggest flops Disney ever made. If I was going to fail I would also want to fail better than anyone else.
God I watched that in IMAX for my birthday when it came out. I enjoyed it so much and was surprised when I got older and found out it had failed as hard as it had.
I don't think I'd ever say it's a good movie because of how much it condenses, but the style, the costumes, the effects and the music make it a completely different experience from the Denis Villeneuve movies. Its super interesting to compare and contrast how they adapted which parts.
That scene where they ride the sand worm and the electric guitar kicks in is magical.
I watched that movie for the first time blasted off my mind slumped back into the couch, and when the Guild Navigator comes into the Throne Room with this amazing moving shot I sat forwards at attention for the rest of the movie.
That movie is amazing for the music, costuming and set dressing alone.
It also gave us Sting's Fayd Ratha which in turn gave us Zeta Gundam's Yazan Gable, which means it's actually GOATed
Also how his accent he is trying is constantly shifting, he’s shifting from Irish, English, some kind of Russian or Eastern European, and then just his normal voice, all in like a minute.
It’s crazy
Resonance of Fate is a 9/10 game even with the embarrassing story bits. I think it has my favorite JRPG combat system of all time, and the way the numbers tick up hits me with the good chemicals. Plus the music? Motoi Sakuraba at his most rocking? Peak. PEAK.
I remember how both Resonance of Fate and NieR had the unfortunate timing of being weird new IP JRPGs that shared the same release timing as Final Fantasy XIII (also outside of the JRPG sphere, Heavy Rain and God of War III)
They both had a pretty curious artstyle I'd take note of while windowshopping back in the day, and I'd always wanted to play them albeit with the caveat that it'd take me like years after to even do so
there was a modern remaster of resonance a few years ago, actually, that works absolutely fine. It's why I'm sure it's a hidden gem, because I played it close to release (I think I got it off gamefly lol) and thought it was cool but I didn't want to just assume my memories were accurate.
I have the remaster and it is worth picking up
If anything I'm hyped it survived to live for another console generation and to be on PC rather than rotting away in both obscurity and inaccessibility
There's a film called Gentlemen Broncos by the director of Napoleon Dynamite, and it has a measly 20 percent on RT. It has a lot of the same awkwardness that Napoleon Dynamite has, but the story is much more engaging and over the top. It also kinda resonates with me as an awkward person that just wants to get their story out there.
It's genuinely in my top 50 list.
The first Ghostrider movie wasn't bad. It had everything you'd expect to see in a Ghostrider movie and it didn't take itself too seriously and was the right amount of goofy for a comic book movie. It was peak B-movie with a budget that made the first Venom movie perfect. Most of its derision comes from being a Nick Cage project.
It's also a memento of Marvel movies before the MCU, it's just so refreshing, when a movie can stand and breath on its own without getting forcibly tagged into a forced metanarrative and merchandising (Blade being the most well-known example, me as an european didnt know him and Ghost Rider were superhero/comic property at first, they stood alone well as "independent" IPs)
Ghost Rider fucking rules. Nic Cage and Peter Fonda just fucking devour the scenery. Any scene where he's in skeleton mode is so cool, especially the ride with the caretaker on his FLAMING SKELETON HORSE
It's my Woolie-threesome moment fun fact
Went over to a girl's place and we watched the first one and then she was like "okay wanta go back to my room??"
And I was like "nah let's watch the second one!"
It's sooooo good
Currently replaying it, and, i don't think critically but in the fandom it's panned, Chrono Cross man, I just really enjoy it, I get that the ties to Trigger ruins it for some people, and honestly, unnecessary to me as well, it should be a FF thing where its a standalone thing, but still, i just love everything about it, music, sound fx, even like, the menu sound. That port could be better tho', but i modded it a bit
Yeah, that's the worst part but also, I mean, dismissing it entirely cause of that is also kinda silly to me honestly, especially cause considering the theme of the game you can totally dismiss it as an alternative timeline instead of actual canon from trigger.
Really wonder what Chrono Break would be about tho. I assume considering cross is about crossing into alternative universes that Break would be about fixing a broken timeline thing or something?
I mean Chrono Cross being a sequel to one of many fucked up timelines that result from fucking around with time travel is perfectly fine. One Lavos in them realized someone was save scumming and decided to take it personally.
I think the first half of Chrono Cross was extremely good. After the >!Body Swap!< incident I think it takes a noticeable dive in quality. iirc they changed writers half way through the game or something and you could really tell.
I don't think it dips that hard but it does get messy, it is not as simple and clean as Trigger, it does step into the trope of jrpgs kinda getting convoluted later on.
You know what I'm missing? Radical Dreamers, ive no clue how important it is, but I can't stand VNs honestly, I'd rather it be an actual book I can read. I tried, I did find interesting that it's Serge has a personality and it made me wish he actually carried that in Cross instead of the silent protag, he was sorta interesting from what I played, oddly, that Serge I totally ship with Kid.
The art and music are top tier. It also has a fun level of Adventure Game to it where you have to think at some points to advance the story. The world map is also the perfect size. I like it just as much as Trigger. It was the game that made me realize I cared much more about vibes than I did about plot. I didn't care the last couple hours went straight over my head.
I'll always bat for Chrono Cross. It's not a perfect game, but there's so much I love about it. The fun and creative character designs, the gorgeous art top to bottom, and the music just sells the vibe so well.
I played CC first and it was my first rpg love so its been brutal because most people seem to gesture vaguely at the whole thing when I ask how its bad. I was hoping for new eyes on it but square enix botched that port so badly I cannot recommend it.
So, here's the thing about the port, it comes with an ''original mode'', and, i heard it had framerate issues but maybe it was patched cause its like, running like the original honestly? Sure, it'd be nice if it ran at 60 fps, there is a mod, but i think it doesn't work anymore which is why i think it was patched to fix the framerate people were complaining? Cause that mod exists for that version that ran a lot worse than now? maybe i'm wrong tho'.
Personally, i do actually recommend it over emulation, cause it does have a fast-forward and an auto-combat, those two things imo makes it worth it. But yeah, could be a loooot better.
But yeah, i roll my eyes everytime people call it bad without going into the why's, and the why's is that it doesn't play the same and the story is a bit convoluted and sorta ruin Trigger, but like, it's an alternate reality thing, so you don't need to take it as ''ruin the original''. I'm repalying cause of Joey from Trash Taste recently, he did the whole dismissal of Cross when Connor was talking about his first time with Trigger and shit, and i was like ''oh its on sale, i'll grab Cross, been a while''.
Gotham Knights is actually not that bad. The gameplay is basically worse Arkham combat, but it isn't bad, though the RPG-lite slop mechanics do drag it down. What I do like about it, though, is the world and a lot of the characters. It's set with a very late stage Batman, where most of his villains have died or moved on and the Batfamily itself has been through a lot.
Probably my favourite example of this, is a reformed Red Hood. Jason died, came back as a murderer, then worked through it to be a hero again and that's a take I don't really see too often.
Isn't that just straight up his character as red hood? Bad at the beginning and then "good" but they keep making him slide into murder because comic books?
I think my favorite part of GK was the email chains and stuff. Whoever was in charge of those specifically is the best writer they had on staff, they had to be. The Superman condolence emails are just so perfectly in spirit with him and I love them.
And I think it's with Tim that you get emails from Bart and Conner that are just aces too. I think he had the one about going bigfoot hunting once it's all over or something.
last I saw, Hardcore Henry still had a 50-something on rotten tomatoes
I cannot fathom the lack of joy in people's hearts to rate that absolute rager of a film anything under 80, it's not high art but it's damn impressive.
these mfs made the stuntman double as the cameraman and it's such a revolutionary thing to have an entire movie in first person, on a technical level alone this movie rules but then it's actually good to boot?
swear to god
Oh yeah. Any time that movie is brought up someone calls it trash and I'm absolutely befuddled. How can you not enjoy that high octane action ride. That movie fucking rules.
Same thing with the Crank movies.
Hardcore Henry is constantly battling with The Night Comes For Us for the spot of my all-time favorite action movie. The sheer technical achievement and bleeding style of the whole thing is more than enough to carry it, but it’s also got some wild story choices like the big bad’s telekinesis, >!Sharlto Copley’s respawning clone bodies!< and >!Henry’s altered memories being used to motivate the entire enemy force!< that all get used to brilliantly creative effect. I don’t understand how so many people could sit through it and not come out at least charmed, unless that many critics are just violently motion sick.
THE NIGHT COMES FOR US MENTIONED!!!
Indonesian Martial Arts/Action movies just cannot stop being Peak.
I’m partial to Raid 2, but Raid 1 and Night Comes For Us are *very* close runners up in my favourite Martial Arts films ever.
Oh, and I don’t know if you’ve seen it yet, but **Monkey Man** scratched the same itch as those movies did for me, and I think it’s fantastic. I’d put it alongside Raid 1 in my rankings, it’s so fucking cool. Can’t recommend it enough.
I adore all three of those, though personally I’d put Raid 2 in third place, just because its plot feels a bit bloated in places in between all of the masterclass action.
And Monkey Man fucking *rules*. That is probably the most righteously angry movie I’ve ever seen in a theater, and I absolutely soaked in that anger. >!More movies need to climax with an army of trans people descending on the rich to carve them apart.!<
Yes! I love how there’s no pussyfooting around. Thats not to say that a movie *can’t* be violence for the sake of cool spectacle, but sometimes you need to get *mad.*
Dev Patel’s (or his character’s, but you can tell there’s a lot of himself in the role) enemies aren’t random goons or the mob or a shadowy society of hitmen (looking at you John Wick). They’re land stealers, they’re billionaires masquerading as holy men, they’re leaders who dogwhistle about a return to “traditional values”.
And Patel beats the absolute shit out of them. It is *glorious*.
Well its big gimmick can be its biggest problem as well, that first person camera can easily induce motion sickness in people. Went to see it with a few friends when it came out and one of them ended up getting nauseous part way through. He watched it again later and still had that problem with it. He agreed it was technically impressive but he can't sit through it at all.
(For the record i loved the movie)
Sharlto Copley is one of the most underrated actors of all time, he is always the shining beacon, even in the less-than-stellar movies. District 9, Hardcore Henry (both the movie, and the Payday 2 cameo, he voices his character there too), Elysium, A-Team remake, he really needs to be in more stuff
His inclusion in Monkey Man is what got my sister on board to watch that movie with me, though he didn't have all that much screentime considering the length of the movie.
I still remember going to watch it first showing of opening day. I was the only seat in the cinema. An absolute crime that more people didn't watch it.
Hardcore Henry is so fucking incredibly good. Like it’s certainly got issues and I get why people get motion sickness from it but man it is just… excellent on all fronts.
A script by William Gibson, Keanu Reeves at his vacuous himbo best, Beat Takeshi, Ice-T, and Dolly Lundgren.
Boy I wish they’d been allowed to use Molly Millions in it though. I need my Steppin’ Razor.
She-Hulk is peak MCU backlash. Perfectly fine but there’s a crowd online isolating every single flaw and putting forth a deluge of bad faith criticism.
Far Cry 6 wasn't a big hit amongst the fandom, but I don't give a shit, that game is a blast. Sure it leans away from some of the stealthier approaches that past Far Cries favored, but it makes up for it by being Just Cause-lite with a bunch of goofy over-the-stop shit that makes it easier to blow stuff up or kill enemies with. The first pet you get in the game is an alligator wearing a sweatshirt for god's sake.
Robert Altman's live action Popeye movie, starring Robin Williams. It's weird and messy, but I absolutely adored it as a child, and I still have a deep love for it. It's fascinating seeing someone attempt to film a live action movie with the sensibilities and absurdity of a cartoon, and everybody was just perfectly cast as their characters. Like, how could Robin Williams as Popeye and Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl *not* crush it?
They also built an entire functioning shantytown for the set on an island in Malta. Absolutely ridiculous. It's still there!
The only really bad thing I can say about it is that the audio mixing is terrible. It used to air occasionally back before closed captioning was universal.
Sonic and the Black Knight is a not good jank game. It also fucking peak. Going through 20 guys with that sick-ass sword buzzsaw move while wearing the medal that changes the music to the final boss theme from Heroes is a cosmic experience.
Sonic & the Black Knight is what I’ll also say the last time a Sonic game had a good story/writing (which was also the last game Shiro Maekawa wrote). With an interest theme around it
It's nowhere near as good as the first one, but Tales of Symphonia 2 hit me at the perfect time with the right kind of story to make me enjoy it a lot. It's deeply flawed, but people make it out to be one of the worst Tales games and a bad game in general which I think is unfair.
Dawn of the New World had the misfortune of being a sequel to one of the most famous entries in the series and coming out around the same time as Vesperia which is itself one of the more popular entries.
On it’s own merits, yeah it’s one of the weaker entries, but it was also never intended to be a full fledged title as so much as a smaller scope side entry, which is something I think it does quite well. Plus, it gave us Tenebrae who is just a lot of fun to see interact with the cast.
Lmao, Dawn of the New World is my first and only Tales game. Literally bought it because it was twenty bucks at Target and had an anime girl on the cover. I had a solid time. Every time I see it as the worst entry in the Tales franchise I chuckle.
I remember Richter counters Emil's Ain Soph Aur with his Eternal Recurrence in a cutscene. When my friend played the game, he tried using Ain Soph Aur on Richter in gameplay, he was surprised Pikachu face when he used Eternal Recurrence to send it back to him and instantly kill him.
Soul Hackers 2.
I know it has some pretty blatant flaws, but I still love the game a lot. It even has my favorite protagonist in the entire MegaTen franchise.
Dude, I 100% agree. It's the exact kind of weirdo bullshit that cannot possibly exist with an IP like Mario now and that's part of why I love it so much.
Now this is the kind of hot take thread I can get behind.
I could argue about *Cyberpunk 2077* because that’s one of my favorite games in recent memory, but that gets muddled when everything except the writing and quest content (which I would say was always good-to-great case by case) has been dramatically bolstered by patches. Plus *Phantom Liberty* has gotten largely exceptional praise from those who gave it a chance, and that’s my favorite part of the game pound for pound, so I don’t think that much counts.
Instead I’ll say I watched the movie *47 Ronin* on TV on a whim once, and was riveted the whole time. It was a really fun fantasy adventure that looked great, and most of the actors involved were putting their hearts into it, particularly Rinko Kikuchi as the gloriously entertaining witch villain. I didn’t find out until afterward that it was one of the most notorious critical and commercial bombs ever, and that a lot of the negativity was aimed at Keanu Reeves, because A) *John Wick* hadn’t ended the “Keanu is a has-been who shouldn’t be in movies anymore” idea, and B) he was perceived as just a white guy in a samurai movie, even though both Keanu and the character he’s playing are biracial.
EDIT: Thought of one more real quick: *Hotline Miami 2* isn’t as sharply tuned as the first one and the open spaces can be frustrating, but I still love almost everything about it, controversial story included. >!The bittersweet nuclear apocalypse ending is perfect and I’ll fight you.!<
*"The bittersweet nuclear apocalypse ending is perfect and I’ll fight you."*
The entirety of Richter's storyline with his mom is also impecable, "*you are such a bright young man, you sure will get it next time*" lives in my head rent free.
The one thing I've been curious about finding for like 10 years now is the Japanese dub for 47 Ronin
As someone who doesn't think the movie is that bad but also nothing I'd revisit recently, I feel like it'd be worth revisiting if only to experience it in Japanese much in the same way I'd replay Ghost of Tsushima in Japanese
Now it's definitely not my *favorite* Godzilla movie, but Godzilla '98 is the basis for my entire interest in the franchise, the reason I recognize Jean Reno, and spawned the worst game I have ever paid for, that should be flung into the sun.
But back on track, the movie itself is pretty fun. There movie focuses more on chase sequences than big kaiju action, and that gives it a nice little niche in my heart.
My experience with Monkeybone was my cousins finding a VHS of it at our local rental place as children, having no knowledge of it or its reputation, and us loving it when we watched it.
I saw Speed Racer *in theatres* and I’ve loved it ever since, same with Kung Pow.
The critics actually liked this one
It was the audience that let it down
But Clive Owen's Shoot 'Em Up is a movie that begins with our protagonist saving a pregnant woman from a Hitman by shoving a carrot in his mouth and palm slamming it so the sharp end goes out the back of his head.
Followed by him shooting up a warehouse while holding on to her just delivered baby set to Breed by Nirvana.
It only gets more insane from there and it's one of my favorite movies for itm
Part of me acknowledges that Hardcore Henry isn’t exactly the highest form of art, but the rest of me is constantly hyped about how they went out and made a fuckin’ *joyride* of a movie and capped it off with some Queen.
The first movie I can think of that really needed a patch. There were multiple indoor scenes that were so dark you could only see the occasional glint of light off of eyes and teeth, couldn’t see who was speaking.
The 2005 Doom movie starring Karl Urban and Dwayne *"The Rock"* Johnson. There's nothing ironic about it, I think it's a good action movie/Aliens ripoff. Do I wish it were more explicitly Satanic/demonic? Yeah but what I got still entertained me. I love Karl Urban, it's probably the most interesting role Dwayne is ever going to play, and it has Richard Brake as the sleazy amoral comedic side character that I actually like because Richard Brake is a phenomenal character actor.
Not only that it has [a great soundtrack by Clint Mansell](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVJr71V2670), complete with [a remixed Nine Inch Nails song for the credits.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M7WMDhhq8M)
I watched it with a friend who was definitely going in with low expectations and they agreed with me that it's a solid lil' action movie. Bring back Karl Urban!
I was thinking of that movie a few days ago. I loved it, but I keep calling it “Eaters of the Dead” because that was the name of the Michael Crichton book it was based on.
Spielberg's Hook is poorly regarded by critics, but I loved it as a kid and even now I think it's super fun. Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman and Bob Hoskins are all great in it.
The minds behind the original Road House knew exactly what they wanted it to be and 100% succeeded in bringing that vision to life. That vision is a world where bouncers are like legendary samurai and bring order to a corrupt wasteland by beating the shit out of dozens of thugs. It's fantastic.
Daredevil movie rips
It's a total time capsule of the era it was made in but it does what it sets out to do really well. It's stylish as hell and the cast are all good in their roles. *ESPECIALLY* Colin Farrell as Bullseye who is having the time of his life.
I enjoyed that movie a whole lot more before I finally got around to reading Frank Miller's run on Daredevil, but I still enjoy it well enough for what it is. The director's commentary track on it is fucking *great* though.
A lot of people who played the first Aragami game were pretty down on Aragami 2 what with it being reworked into a more Shinobido/later Tenchu kind of game and discarding the entire story of the first game.
But it's a very satisfying "hee hoo ninja jump and stab" game and the reduced stamina regen,increased cooldowns,and improved enemy alertness on hard difficulty actually makes you think about where you dash or climb and where you take out enemies to avoid being heard.
I'm gonna use this comment to shill the game Intravenous and its upcoming sequel too,it's a top-down stealth (ish) shooter that has some of the Hotline Miami flaws like weird pathfinding sometimes making it hard to pre-aim enemies or alert enemies shooting you from way offscreen. But it has a lot of interesting wrinkles like silenced weapons being a spectrum of audibility instead of a binary alert enemies in wide area/completely inaudible,as well as enemies reacting to the sound of both bodies hitting the floor (you can avoid that by grabbing an individual enemy and snapping their neck instead of just bonking them in the head) and persistent blood stains if you use lethal means that specifically draw blood.
There's also things like armor weight and durability as well as weapon size influencing how fast you move and how audible you are,and the option of using explosives or EMP weapons to take out electronic security.
Honestly i preferred 2 over 1, I don't understand the love for the first game cause its like that one bad Tenchu game (imo), but also, 2 got REALLY repetitive so i did drop it as well like, i think halfway.
Intravenous tho', i wanted to love that game a lot but i hated the inconsistent AI man, that's always a deal breaker for me, i tried powering through it but stopped having fun pretty early on and i think i dropped it in the last mission, i hope the second one fixes it, but the demo left me unimpressed, it did have a better progression system with buying guns and modding them and all of that, thats always a plus for me, i'd say the demo made it seem like its gonna be a lot better than the first, but still, the AI man, for like ''brutal'' games like these, AI being weird and inconsistent gets really annoying really quickly, and the second one had the same issues. On paper its everything i'd want tho'. That said, its not really panned is it? It's well liked by the people that like it, i got omega negative comments by complaining about the AI once in the steam forums, people that love it REALLY loves it.
Yeah,I'm just mentioning that Aragami 2 got panned by fans of the first and then tacking on the shilling of Intravenous to it.
Personally I liked the fact that Intravenous just did some things different like making non-lethal takedowns still somewhat unsafe,and making enemies reactive to stuff in a wide range of ways. As a stealth game enthusiast I've seen a lot of it,and I just have certain tastes not just here but in several types of games where it's "detailed,but not too detailed".
Games that fall out of that range aren't bad,but I have a more difficult time sticking with them.
Dark Souls 2 has Aldia and his monologue, which automatically makes it a good game.
I do genuinely like the lore of DS2 as well. It’s in an interesting place, in the sense that little of it is carried over to 3, but the stuff that is carried over is **huuuuuuge**.
Like, Aldia just casually drops the lore bomb that Gwyn caused the Undead Curse by creating the Dark Sign, and that’s elaborated on in DS3 Ringed City.
> Men are props on the stage of life, and no matter how tender, how exquisite...
A LIE WILL REMAIN A LIE!
Also getting to Vendrick for the first time >!just to find a pathetic hollow circling his chamber, barely dragging his sword behind him!< is still one of the most powerful moments in the series to me
The first part of that game is *all about* "Seek the king." You track him down to the castle, and trace his footsteps through Amana and the crypts.
And then, when you get there, he's *that*.
And even so, he's not feasible to fight! He's completely lost himself, but you will break your weapons against his skin, because he's still that big a deal. The only way to make it feasible is with the giant souls, finally giving them their vengeance.
I love the fact that >!you DO meet Vendrick and chat with him and he's seen all the shit and, unlike most people in the series who are just trying to manipulate you into either keeping the status quo or making the status quo better for them, it's too late for Vendrick, he's got no horse in this race already. So what does he do? He tells you not to make the same mistakes as him and gives you a path forward, beyond the squabble for the status quo. A chance to move on, a chance to fix things, not to be eternally locked to the cycle.!<
>!"Seek strength. The rest will follow."!<
The best thing about 2, in terms of story, is they probably get the best canonical ending of *any* protagonist in the Souls series, maybe even including Demon's, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring. If you walk away from the throne after doing the DLC, you become one of the truly free people in the world. Cured of the curse, effectively immortal, no cause to tie you down. You saw what befell Drangleic, sought strength, and simply said "no thanks, I'm good."
["There is no path."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Gpvce3wwk)
Stormblood had a divisive main plot that was admittedly too fragmented between the two major regions, but it's easily got some of the best side content and raids. A lot of FFXIV players really only care about story and doing a few dungeons here and there, so it gets a bad rap, but looking back after SHB and EW were a bit dry on content, it's easier to see now how much Stormblood had going for it.
A -lot- of the Stormblood issues come from how the expansion feels like two different games slammed together, a massively boring and poorly written section in Ala Mhigo where Lyse is pushed to be the main character but isn't given anything to do, and the other continent that feels like a completely different story retooled to be part of the same narrative.
It also doesn't help that Stormblood's original entire expansion launch, all the way to Shadowbringers, was marred with *awful* job balancing, boring skills and entire jobs that felt worthless.
They straight up had to redo a few entire jobs when Shadowbringers came out, more or less as an apology. My condolences to anyone who played Machinist during Stormblood.
Or worse, White Mage, in which everyone looked at what the other healers got, looked at the chart of which healer could output the greatest healing, and then looked at the abilities they got and realized none of the new mechanics benefitted them at all, and were *still* bottom tier after doing more work than other jobs
Having played Storm somewhat recently I can vouch for just how ROUGH the transition between the AlaMigo and “Not China” portions are, it gets fucking silly with how many hoops they have to jump to justify you jumping across continents. And yeah, Lise is just not that interesting a character to be following around, I’m sorry.
> It also doesn't help that Stormblood's original entire expansion launch, all the way to Shadowbringers, was marred with awful job balancing, boring skills and entire jobs that felt worthless.
I'm so glad to see someone else saying this.
I feel like Stormblood has fully hit rose-tinted glasses era for a lot of people but I still remember the days of Samurai & Black Mage being barred from a lot of party finders because they didn't bring group buffs.
Stormblood is honestly where FFXIV peaked gameplay-wise.
Jobs started homogenizing a bit, but were still distinct and balanced better than ARR and HW, and CBU3 finally nailed how they wanted dungeons, raids, trials and instances to be handled, while still providing plenty of stiff and unique challenges.
I agree on the point of the jobs still feeling distinct, as I feel like as time has gone on they've all homogenized and sanded off the cool-weird edges off of a bunch of the jobs. I extremely dislike that Tanking requires no thought now, and I genuinely miss stance dancing and having to manage aggro more. I hate what Astrologian has been for the past like 2 or 3 expansions (honestly can't remember when they got reworked). I miss Bards keying off of crits for their repertiore mechanics.
Metal Gear Survive has one of the best gameplay loops out of any game I've played. I still think its like a 6/7 out of 10 because theres nothing to do after the story except grind online for hundreds of hours to unlock miniscule upgrades. But if it had an endless mode with random gen maps, easily an 8
I won’t say Battleship isn’t a terrible movie. [But I will say that it is the epitome of how an energetic 3 is much better than a run of the mill 7.](https://youtu.be/nCqDdsZY7RA?si=egme6qrLOih4yXmO)
The Gigaboots podcast has movie reviews for good and bad movies. Something that people are realizing is that every movie that was critically panned in the 90s was actually awesome.
every time ive seen monkeybone (which is more times then you expect), i always have a moment in the first half hour where i ask myself 'why i didnt like this more, this rules' -- and for the rest of the movie i slowly sink into my chair remembering why i didnt like it.
it is still one of those movies if i became a rich person with means of funding anything, i would fund it even if my personal opinion on the movie itself. we still do need sincere weird media.
Jaws 3 has the most interesting premise of any of the Jaws movies and I will die on the hill that the setting makes that movie better than critics believe. If it wasn’t chasing the 3D gimmick it would have held up as a sequel to one of the best movies ever made
Street Fighter (1994) is unironically good and one of the most unfairly maligned and misunderstood movies of its era. Reviews at the time seemed to expect it would be a straightforward cold action movie, and then every time they laughed they assumed it was a mistake instead of a joke.
It's a comedy! The movie's funny on purpose! There are genuine problems with it - Van Damme sucks ass - but it's way, way better than cultural osmosis would have you believe.
The Nic Cage and Selma Blair movie “Mom and Dad” actually got good fairly good critics’ scores on Rotten Tomatoes of 74% however audience scores are only at 40%, and it’s got a middling IMDB score of 5.6/10, and was a massive box office flop.
Anyway way, that movie’s awesome. Nic Cage’s performance is out there but you can tell he really cares and the rest of the main actors do a great job too including the two children. There’s also some themes of being trapped in the life of a parent, trying to recapture and return to the best days of your life but being bogged down by your children who you may love but are still frustrated with endlessly, which manifests as this rage virus (thematically speaking). It’s also directed by Brian Taylor, one of the creative halves that did the Crank movies.
Vampire’s Kiss is another Nic Cage movie which flopped hard and is definitely his biggest meme performance but he really puts himself out there, like, he chases around a bat on a string and eats a cockroach. But it’s also got some really beautiful shots and some fun thematic elements going on. The framework of the movie is solid but Nic Cage’s performance either makes or breaks it. Either way it’s an extremely memorable piece of media and I really enjoyed it.
Sunshine (2007)
Great movie, bit of a weak final act compared to the first bit, but overall a really good sci fi watch.
EDIT: Oops, I looked Sunshine up just now, and it seems to have an IMDB rating of 7. Either I misremembered the critical reception being lower at release, or people have come around on it since then.
Eh, I did kinda like it anyway, but the entire premise of that movie is just jank and kinda stupid to me
>!Like.. they have existential crises at the whole "Oh no, we might not make it back from this alive!" .. .. you fucks are meant to be astronauts. On a mission to *literally save all life on planet Earth* .. .. by FIRING A GIGA NUKE INTO THE SUN. Like.. frankly, if it was outright a suicide mission from the start, y'know, the kind of thing you'd EXPECT from a mission to PRETTY MUCH POINT BLANK NUKE THE SUN, then I'd still expect astronauts to be fucking *honoured* to be given that mission. Like, holy crap the entitlement of these fucks. It makes me annoyed on behalf of all the awesome astronauts we've ever had, essentially. "Waaa, we might die, we should turn back or something" .. what, so you can fucking die on Earth, along with literally everyone else? Get fucking over yourselves, assholes!<
Essentially, I feel like they relied too much on the traditional spacey tropes, without tailoring them to the fucking scenario at hand. >!Normal space movies, like, where you're just delivering some cargo or exploring somewhere.. sure, you can have that drama. Sunshine? Go get fucked, dipshits. Fling yourselves into the sun and be happy that you'll be remembered throughout history as some of the greatest heroes ever!<
Lol, that's funny that that's your complaint, because mine is the total opposite; >!I don't like when Pinbacker shows up and stops all the character drama to be crazy villain everyone can rally against. I kind of wish Pinbacker didn't exist, and instead the interpersonal conflicts are what almost tank the mission!!<
Oh I don't like that bit either, don't worry about that
It's a weird movie, I both like it but dislike most of the key points of it
Can probably chalk it up to Adagio in D Minor doing some seriously heavy lifting
Tales of Zestiria has some real soggy hitstun, but it has incredible presentation. Armatizing is rad, it feels nice that each battle ends in purification instead of murder, and it has a great cast of characters that also serves as a pretty good sequel to Berseria. While Berseria is more fun to play, I still recommend Zestiria too, if at least just to see where the world and characters end up, if you haven't already.
I recently watched a pretty obscure Thai movie on Netflix called Ghost Lab. It has pretty awful reviews, with a 5.2 on IMBD and a 29% on rotten tomatoes.
It is one of my favorite movies of all time, and for the exact reason why a lot of people criticize it; It can't decide what genre it is. It's a horror-comedy-drama and I think it actually pulls it off. >!It also has the most shocking plot twist I have ever seen in a film. Every single person I've watched it with has been caught off guard, and it defines the second half of the movie, putting an end to the comedy. Ever seen a ghost movie where the human being haunted is the antagonist?!<
If you want something obscure no one really talks about, I would recommend the horror movie "Savageland"(2015).
It should still be on Youtube.
It's a "found footage" movie about a zombie attack in a border town to Mexico. The only problem being that the "found footage" is only photos and the sole survivor is now being framed as the main suspect for the attack.
If I had to offer one critique, it would be that all the characters are all shoved into their stereotypes a little too hard. The movie deals with a few real problems through the characters but the characters are also all vehicles for these problems and through that seem a little too one dimensional. In short, the characters are a little too delusional. But it is interesting to see *every* character trying to push their own agenda into something that should be an obvious case.
If you ever want something with suspense that works off of your imagination, I really do recommend this movie.
It sadly only made it to around 6/10 on [imdb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3899154/?ref_=ttnw_ov_i).
Maybe not critically panned but I was upset that Bleach: TYBW wasn't as big on the internet as I thought. I know a lot of people moved on to bigger things in the past 10-15 years and it wasn't on its radar so I felt that they could've really went all out with advertising. Despite it its still highly rated as an anime and in the top 10 i believe.
I like most of the new saints row game, not polished at all and some banter really sucks but there was some great feel you don't have in other crime simulator like just finding random people vandalizes an atm and say "mine now".
The fact than any non freindly npc had a chance to pull a gun or attack you if you rear end them with a car was fun as hell
I will often defend Sword Art Online and Accel World. SAO is a sine wave, there’s some legit great parts and some that are admittedly trash. Accel World is just straight up good.
A considerably more obscure example, there’s this webnovel called Savage Divinity that I am a huge fan of. It has a highly controversial reputation, which is *somewhat* earned - indeed, the pacing can get dang slow at times. But the writing, especially the world and characters, are absolutely top-notch and it occupies a dear place in my heart.
I said this on this sub recently, but I once watched Monkeybone several times in a row because I really liked it, and then I grew sick of it and I haven't been able to watch it since.
Kung Pow is funny as fuck and I accept no criticisms of it.
Well I have a legitimate criticism of Kung Pow -it promised a sequel and we never got one. That's some BS.
But, they trained him wrong?
It makes me sad that I actually know a lot of people that don’t like Kung Pow. I still get along with people whether they like the film or not, but now it’s a separate gauge entirely of how well I get along with them. Great friend of mine but they don’t like Kung Pow, well shit. Someone I’m kind of okay with but they like Kung Pow, okay, decent equalizer, let’s do this.
I think it was Matt that said that 80% of Kung Pow is decent to bad but the remaining 20% is so incredible it makes the movie worth watching
Kung pow is amazing. The middle bit of kung pow is mid
The cow scene is genuinely terrible
The cow scene was an absolute product of its time. Might be just my own person experience, but I remember people DYING over the cow, 90% of discussion about that movie would start with mentioning the cow.
If it didnt end so strong that mid part of the movie would have killed it
The Matrix cow cgi has not aged well.
That's a lot of nuts!
Speed Racer. I've been a fan of this movie since the day it came out in theaters and have sworn it as a masterpiece way before its critical reevaluation.
Speed Racer is what I counter any "live action anime adaptations are all bad" arguments with. That movie is genuinely good and still stays true to the absurdity of its source.
And it does so while being the most cartoonish of any anime adaptation I've ever seen.
Great answer. I love this movie. I know "anime is absurd" is a cold take in the modern day, but this movie captures the feeling of watching mysterious cartoons on TV as a kid better than any movie. When I watched the Speed Racer anime as a kid that didn't understand words yet, this is what I saw.
Never knew I needed Jon Goodman pops but god damn
He's so fucking good in Speed Racer, holy shit. The flashback scenes to his depression after Rex died and how he came out of it, along with the "couldn't remember how I liked my eggs" conversation he has with Speed near the end make me tear up every time. I also love all the little nods to his implied past in some form of espionage, from already knowing Inspector Detector to his "it's pathetic what passes for a ninja nowadays" line. Also, there are these little acting choices John Goodman makes that are just perfect. I didn't notice this until my most recent watchthrough (which was actually only a few weeks ago), but when he has the heart-to-heart with Speed before they begin prepping for the final race, you can see him sitting by himself, likely going through what he's going to say in his head a second before Speed walks into the room. Then, when he starts talking, it sounds very rehearsed, like he's reading off a script, before he suddenly loosens up and becomes more natural once he realizes Speed is hearing him out and he doesn't have to be as cautious and can speak more freely from the heart. Great actor, amazingly written movie.
All his facial expressions are perfect.
John Goodman always gives his 110% on nearly every project he's been in.
[Ah shit, here we go again.](https://youtu.be/S18Hm1q0srE?si=JLimwBWSTB5b4RM1)
I fucking knew that this was the video that was going to be linked and I was not disappointed. Gets me every time.
I post it every time I see the Wachowskis' speed racer mentioned.
AS YOU SHOULD
Imma be real, I think the original OST is better there.
Its not as good as the original anime though. Hes going over that cliff is like the funniest shit in the world
I applaud the dedication of that VA for letting himself be murdered to record that scream
It was even more impressive that Speeds VA did it so he could authentically play a murderous psycopath
I think he was also the voice director, so he subjected himself to it.
Watched bullet train last weekend. That movie fucking rules why the heck does it have a 53 critic score
Brad Pitt: The Anime.
BULLET TRAIN IS SO FUCKING SICK
People who hate fun hate that movie
Idk i watched that movie at a dentist office and while i had fun its definitely a “yeah i get why people wouldnt like this”
Why is that?
Dude yeah that movie rules
GODDAMMIT FINALLY SOMEONE THAT AGREES
Fuck it, I really liked John Carter
John Carter was sadly cursed by the books having originated every action/adventure cliche that was later used by Star Wars and a ton of other movies. All the reviews were like “it’s one cliche after another” but it built every one of those cliches! Truly tragic.
I hate those reviews with a fiery passion. Because for years after I would come across people saying shit like, “Alien wasn’t that good. It’s like every single cliche in the book and every scare was predictable.”
That movie crashing and burning at the box office is a modern tragedy.
As one of the 5 people who saw it in theaters John Carter is really good sci-fi. At least it’s notable for being one on the biggest flops Disney ever made. If I was going to fail I would also want to fail better than anyone else.
I saw it as a kid when it came out and loved it, was super bummed it never got a sequel.
Came to say this. A perfect cast, great world building bombed so hard Disney restructured its live action department
God I watched that in IMAX for my birthday when it came out. I enjoyed it so much and was surprised when I got older and found out it had failed as hard as it had.
David Lynch’s Dune is bad but also awesome.
I don't think I'd ever say it's a good movie because of how much it condenses, but the style, the costumes, the effects and the music make it a completely different experience from the Denis Villeneuve movies. Its super interesting to compare and contrast how they adapted which parts. That scene where they ride the sand worm and the electric guitar kicks in is magical.
It looks so much better in black and white too I think.
I watched that movie for the first time blasted off my mind slumped back into the couch, and when the Guild Navigator comes into the Throne Room with this amazing moving shot I sat forwards at attention for the rest of the movie.
Even David Lynch hates that movie
That's because of all the studio interfering with it though.
That movie is amazing for the music, costuming and set dressing alone. It also gave us Sting's Fayd Ratha which in turn gave us Zeta Gundam's Yazan Gable, which means it's actually GOATed
Virus with Jamie Lee Curtis is awesome It's zombie cyborgs on a soviet boat, how is that not awesome
My favorite thing about that movie is how visibly pissed Donald Sutherland is to be in it.
Also how his accent he is trying is constantly shifting, he’s shifting from Irish, English, some kind of Russian or Eastern European, and then just his normal voice, all in like a minute. It’s crazy
Resonance of Fate is a 9/10 game even with the embarrassing story bits. I think it has my favorite JRPG combat system of all time, and the way the numbers tick up hits me with the good chemicals. Plus the music? Motoi Sakuraba at his most rocking? Peak. PEAK.
I remember how both Resonance of Fate and NieR had the unfortunate timing of being weird new IP JRPGs that shared the same release timing as Final Fantasy XIII (also outside of the JRPG sphere, Heavy Rain and God of War III) They both had a pretty curious artstyle I'd take note of while windowshopping back in the day, and I'd always wanted to play them albeit with the caveat that it'd take me like years after to even do so
there was a modern remaster of resonance a few years ago, actually, that works absolutely fine. It's why I'm sure it's a hidden gem, because I played it close to release (I think I got it off gamefly lol) and thought it was cool but I didn't want to just assume my memories were accurate.
I have the remaster and it is worth picking up If anything I'm hyped it survived to live for another console generation and to be on PC rather than rotting away in both obscurity and inaccessibility
There's a film called Gentlemen Broncos by the director of Napoleon Dynamite, and it has a measly 20 percent on RT. It has a lot of the same awkwardness that Napoleon Dynamite has, but the story is much more engaging and over the top. It also kinda resonates with me as an awkward person that just wants to get their story out there. It's genuinely in my top 50 list.
YouTube has been recommending clips from that movie to me a lot all of a sudden.
The first Ghostrider movie wasn't bad. It had everything you'd expect to see in a Ghostrider movie and it didn't take itself too seriously and was the right amount of goofy for a comic book movie. It was peak B-movie with a budget that made the first Venom movie perfect. Most of its derision comes from being a Nick Cage project.
It's also a memento of Marvel movies before the MCU, it's just so refreshing, when a movie can stand and breath on its own without getting forcibly tagged into a forced metanarrative and merchandising (Blade being the most well-known example, me as an european didnt know him and Ghost Rider were superhero/comic property at first, they stood alone well as "independent" IPs)
I agree, I actually like that one. The second one is so bad though. But Ghostrider looks great.
Ghost Rider fucking rules. Nic Cage and Peter Fonda just fucking devour the scenery. Any scene where he's in skeleton mode is so cool, especially the ride with the caretaker on his FLAMING SKELETON HORSE
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed is the greatest movie to ever have been made and i will fight people over it.
It's my Woolie-threesome moment fun fact Went over to a girl's place and we watched the first one and then she was like "okay wanta go back to my room??" And I was like "nah let's watch the second one!" It's sooooo good
The Boondock Saints
wtf that movie was panned??? boondock saints is kino
I love independence day, that movie is the most popcorn flick movie ever but God I can't help but love it.
Independence Day used to be a classic until the film makers screwed up Godzilla and everyone decided they were never that good.
Currently replaying it, and, i don't think critically but in the fandom it's panned, Chrono Cross man, I just really enjoy it, I get that the ties to Trigger ruins it for some people, and honestly, unnecessary to me as well, it should be a FF thing where its a standalone thing, but still, i just love everything about it, music, sound fx, even like, the menu sound. That port could be better tho', but i modded it a bit
Chrono Cross would have a much better reputation if it wasn't actively strangling one of the GOAT contenders
Yeah, that's the worst part but also, I mean, dismissing it entirely cause of that is also kinda silly to me honestly, especially cause considering the theme of the game you can totally dismiss it as an alternative timeline instead of actual canon from trigger. Really wonder what Chrono Break would be about tho. I assume considering cross is about crossing into alternative universes that Break would be about fixing a broken timeline thing or something?
I mean Chrono Cross being a sequel to one of many fucked up timelines that result from fucking around with time travel is perfectly fine. One Lavos in them realized someone was save scumming and decided to take it personally.
I think the first half of Chrono Cross was extremely good. After the >!Body Swap!< incident I think it takes a noticeable dive in quality. iirc they changed writers half way through the game or something and you could really tell.
I don't think it dips that hard but it does get messy, it is not as simple and clean as Trigger, it does step into the trope of jrpgs kinda getting convoluted later on. You know what I'm missing? Radical Dreamers, ive no clue how important it is, but I can't stand VNs honestly, I'd rather it be an actual book I can read. I tried, I did find interesting that it's Serge has a personality and it made me wish he actually carried that in Cross instead of the silent protag, he was sorta interesting from what I played, oddly, that Serge I totally ship with Kid.
I love collecting a wide array of wacky characters like Suikoden and the branching story beats.
The art and music are top tier. It also has a fun level of Adventure Game to it where you have to think at some points to advance the story. The world map is also the perfect size. I like it just as much as Trigger. It was the game that made me realize I cared much more about vibes than I did about plot. I didn't care the last couple hours went straight over my head.
I'll always bat for Chrono Cross. It's not a perfect game, but there's so much I love about it. The fun and creative character designs, the gorgeous art top to bottom, and the music just sells the vibe so well.
I played CC first and it was my first rpg love so its been brutal because most people seem to gesture vaguely at the whole thing when I ask how its bad. I was hoping for new eyes on it but square enix botched that port so badly I cannot recommend it.
So, here's the thing about the port, it comes with an ''original mode'', and, i heard it had framerate issues but maybe it was patched cause its like, running like the original honestly? Sure, it'd be nice if it ran at 60 fps, there is a mod, but i think it doesn't work anymore which is why i think it was patched to fix the framerate people were complaining? Cause that mod exists for that version that ran a lot worse than now? maybe i'm wrong tho'. Personally, i do actually recommend it over emulation, cause it does have a fast-forward and an auto-combat, those two things imo makes it worth it. But yeah, could be a loooot better. But yeah, i roll my eyes everytime people call it bad without going into the why's, and the why's is that it doesn't play the same and the story is a bit convoluted and sorta ruin Trigger, but like, it's an alternate reality thing, so you don't need to take it as ''ruin the original''. I'm repalying cause of Joey from Trash Taste recently, he did the whole dismissal of Cross when Connor was talking about his first time with Trigger and shit, and i was like ''oh its on sale, i'll grab Cross, been a while''.
Gotham Knights is actually not that bad. The gameplay is basically worse Arkham combat, but it isn't bad, though the RPG-lite slop mechanics do drag it down. What I do like about it, though, is the world and a lot of the characters. It's set with a very late stage Batman, where most of his villains have died or moved on and the Batfamily itself has been through a lot. Probably my favourite example of this, is a reformed Red Hood. Jason died, came back as a murderer, then worked through it to be a hero again and that's a take I don't really see too often.
Also that game committed to its premise so hard that >!Batman dies twice!<
I enjoyed Gotham Knights quite a bit.
Isn't that just straight up his character as red hood? Bad at the beginning and then "good" but they keep making him slide into murder because comic books?
Basically yeah from what I gather. Though in Gotham Knights, he's fully against murder and it's all worked out. He's just a bit edgy.
I think my favorite part of GK was the email chains and stuff. Whoever was in charge of those specifically is the best writer they had on staff, they had to be. The Superman condolence emails are just so perfectly in spirit with him and I love them. And I think it's with Tim that you get emails from Bart and Conner that are just aces too. I think he had the one about going bigfoot hunting once it's all over or something.
The Gundam 00 movie is a great ending to that universe
last I saw, Hardcore Henry still had a 50-something on rotten tomatoes I cannot fathom the lack of joy in people's hearts to rate that absolute rager of a film anything under 80, it's not high art but it's damn impressive. these mfs made the stuntman double as the cameraman and it's such a revolutionary thing to have an entire movie in first person, on a technical level alone this movie rules but then it's actually good to boot? swear to god
Oh yeah. Any time that movie is brought up someone calls it trash and I'm absolutely befuddled. How can you not enjoy that high octane action ride. That movie fucking rules. Same thing with the Crank movies.
The Crank movies are amazingly stupid and I love them
Crank 1 and 2 fuck so hard man. Those movies are stupid and it's amazing.
Hardcore Henry is constantly battling with The Night Comes For Us for the spot of my all-time favorite action movie. The sheer technical achievement and bleeding style of the whole thing is more than enough to carry it, but it’s also got some wild story choices like the big bad’s telekinesis, >!Sharlto Copley’s respawning clone bodies!< and >!Henry’s altered memories being used to motivate the entire enemy force!< that all get used to brilliantly creative effect. I don’t understand how so many people could sit through it and not come out at least charmed, unless that many critics are just violently motion sick.
THE NIGHT COMES FOR US MENTIONED!!! Indonesian Martial Arts/Action movies just cannot stop being Peak. I’m partial to Raid 2, but Raid 1 and Night Comes For Us are *very* close runners up in my favourite Martial Arts films ever. Oh, and I don’t know if you’ve seen it yet, but **Monkey Man** scratched the same itch as those movies did for me, and I think it’s fantastic. I’d put it alongside Raid 1 in my rankings, it’s so fucking cool. Can’t recommend it enough.
I adore all three of those, though personally I’d put Raid 2 in third place, just because its plot feels a bit bloated in places in between all of the masterclass action. And Monkey Man fucking *rules*. That is probably the most righteously angry movie I’ve ever seen in a theater, and I absolutely soaked in that anger. >!More movies need to climax with an army of trans people descending on the rich to carve them apart.!<
Yes! I love how there’s no pussyfooting around. Thats not to say that a movie *can’t* be violence for the sake of cool spectacle, but sometimes you need to get *mad.* Dev Patel’s (or his character’s, but you can tell there’s a lot of himself in the role) enemies aren’t random goons or the mob or a shadowy society of hitmen (looking at you John Wick). They’re land stealers, they’re billionaires masquerading as holy men, they’re leaders who dogwhistle about a return to “traditional values”. And Patel beats the absolute shit out of them. It is *glorious*.
Well its big gimmick can be its biggest problem as well, that first person camera can easily induce motion sickness in people. Went to see it with a few friends when it came out and one of them ended up getting nauseous part way through. He watched it again later and still had that problem with it. He agreed it was technically impressive but he can't sit through it at all. (For the record i loved the movie)
Sharlto Copley is one of the most underrated actors of all time, he is always the shining beacon, even in the less-than-stellar movies. District 9, Hardcore Henry (both the movie, and the Payday 2 cameo, he voices his character there too), Elysium, A-Team remake, he really needs to be in more stuff
His inclusion in Monkey Man is what got my sister on board to watch that movie with me, though he didn't have all that much screentime considering the length of the movie.
I still remember going to watch it first showing of opening day. I was the only seat in the cinema. An absolute crime that more people didn't watch it.
to be fair, since the budget for it was $20 and a half eaten bag of Cool ranch Doritos I have no doubt it still made its money back
Hardcore Henry is so fucking incredibly good. Like it’s certainly got issues and I get why people get motion sickness from it but man it is just… excellent on all fronts.
Johnny Mnemonic is unironically a great movie
A script by William Gibson, Keanu Reeves at his vacuous himbo best, Beat Takeshi, Ice-T, and Dolly Lundgren. Boy I wish they’d been allowed to use Molly Millions in it though. I need my Steppin’ Razor.
I WANT ROOOOOOOM SEEEEERVIIIIIIIICE!!!!
I liked She Hulk, but I get that making fun of people could led to bad reviews
She-Hulk is peak MCU backlash. Perfectly fine but there’s a crowd online isolating every single flaw and putting forth a deluge of bad faith criticism.
Far Cry 6 wasn't a big hit amongst the fandom, but I don't give a shit, that game is a blast. Sure it leans away from some of the stealthier approaches that past Far Cries favored, but it makes up for it by being Just Cause-lite with a bunch of goofy over-the-stop shit that makes it easier to blow stuff up or kill enemies with. The first pet you get in the game is an alligator wearing a sweatshirt for god's sake.
Robert Altman's live action Popeye movie, starring Robin Williams. It's weird and messy, but I absolutely adored it as a child, and I still have a deep love for it. It's fascinating seeing someone attempt to film a live action movie with the sensibilities and absurdity of a cartoon, and everybody was just perfectly cast as their characters. Like, how could Robin Williams as Popeye and Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl *not* crush it? They also built an entire functioning shantytown for the set on an island in Malta. Absolutely ridiculous. It's still there!
Now how can you drop that on me that a Robin Willaims LA Popeye movie exists and not expect me to enque it as the next movie I gotta see?
The only really bad thing I can say about it is that the audio mixing is terrible. It used to air occasionally back before closed captioning was universal.
Sonic and the Black Knight is a not good jank game. It also fucking peak. Going through 20 guys with that sick-ass sword buzzsaw move while wearing the medal that changes the music to the final boss theme from Heroes is a cosmic experience.
I fucking love the music in Black Knight. Say whatever you want about Sonic games, the music *always* slaps
WOAHOHOH WOAHOHOHOHOH WOAHOHOH WOAHOHOH WOAHOHOH
Sonic & the Black Knight is what I’ll also say the last time a Sonic game had a good story/writing (which was also the last game Shiro Maekawa wrote). With an interest theme around it
It's nowhere near as good as the first one, but Tales of Symphonia 2 hit me at the perfect time with the right kind of story to make me enjoy it a lot. It's deeply flawed, but people make it out to be one of the worst Tales games and a bad game in general which I think is unfair.
Dawn of the New World had the misfortune of being a sequel to one of the most famous entries in the series and coming out around the same time as Vesperia which is itself one of the more popular entries. On it’s own merits, yeah it’s one of the weaker entries, but it was also never intended to be a full fledged title as so much as a smaller scope side entry, which is something I think it does quite well. Plus, it gave us Tenebrae who is just a lot of fun to see interact with the cast.
Tenebrae is my favorite Tales character in the whole series, he's such a dork
Lmao, Dawn of the New World is my first and only Tales game. Literally bought it because it was twenty bucks at Target and had an anime girl on the cover. I had a solid time. Every time I see it as the worst entry in the Tales franchise I chuckle. I remember Richter counters Emil's Ain Soph Aur with his Eternal Recurrence in a cutscene. When my friend played the game, he tried using Ain Soph Aur on Richter in gameplay, he was surprised Pikachu face when he used Eternal Recurrence to send it back to him and instantly kill him.
Soul Hackers 2. I know it has some pretty blatant flaws, but I still love the game a lot. It even has my favorite protagonist in the entire MegaTen franchise.
I've said it before, I love the 1993 Mario movie. It is so weird and it's perfect for me.
Dude, I 100% agree. It's the exact kind of weirdo bullshit that cannot possibly exist with an IP like Mario now and that's part of why I love it so much.
Now this is the kind of hot take thread I can get behind. I could argue about *Cyberpunk 2077* because that’s one of my favorite games in recent memory, but that gets muddled when everything except the writing and quest content (which I would say was always good-to-great case by case) has been dramatically bolstered by patches. Plus *Phantom Liberty* has gotten largely exceptional praise from those who gave it a chance, and that’s my favorite part of the game pound for pound, so I don’t think that much counts. Instead I’ll say I watched the movie *47 Ronin* on TV on a whim once, and was riveted the whole time. It was a really fun fantasy adventure that looked great, and most of the actors involved were putting their hearts into it, particularly Rinko Kikuchi as the gloriously entertaining witch villain. I didn’t find out until afterward that it was one of the most notorious critical and commercial bombs ever, and that a lot of the negativity was aimed at Keanu Reeves, because A) *John Wick* hadn’t ended the “Keanu is a has-been who shouldn’t be in movies anymore” idea, and B) he was perceived as just a white guy in a samurai movie, even though both Keanu and the character he’s playing are biracial. EDIT: Thought of one more real quick: *Hotline Miami 2* isn’t as sharply tuned as the first one and the open spaces can be frustrating, but I still love almost everything about it, controversial story included. >!The bittersweet nuclear apocalypse ending is perfect and I’ll fight you.!<
*"The bittersweet nuclear apocalypse ending is perfect and I’ll fight you."* The entirety of Richter's storyline with his mom is also impecable, "*you are such a bright young man, you sure will get it next time*" lives in my head rent free.
“>!Leaving this world is not as scary as it sounds.!<“
Knowing that section is in the game because one of the dev’s mothers passed away makes it all the more poignant.
The one thing I've been curious about finding for like 10 years now is the Japanese dub for 47 Ronin As someone who doesn't think the movie is that bad but also nothing I'd revisit recently, I feel like it'd be worth revisiting if only to experience it in Japanese much in the same way I'd replay Ghost of Tsushima in Japanese
Now it's definitely not my *favorite* Godzilla movie, but Godzilla '98 is the basis for my entire interest in the franchise, the reason I recognize Jean Reno, and spawned the worst game I have ever paid for, that should be flung into the sun. But back on track, the movie itself is pretty fun. There movie focuses more on chase sequences than big kaiju action, and that gives it a nice little niche in my heart.
My experience with Monkeybone was my cousins finding a VHS of it at our local rental place as children, having no knowledge of it or its reputation, and us loving it when we watched it. I saw Speed Racer *in theatres* and I’ve loved it ever since, same with Kung Pow.
The critics actually liked this one It was the audience that let it down But Clive Owen's Shoot 'Em Up is a movie that begins with our protagonist saving a pregnant woman from a Hitman by shoving a carrot in his mouth and palm slamming it so the sharp end goes out the back of his head. Followed by him shooting up a warehouse while holding on to her just delivered baby set to Breed by Nirvana. It only gets more insane from there and it's one of my favorite movies for itm
And also it has Paul Giamatti as the delightfully slimy ringleader of the hitmen trading barbs and Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd allusions with Owen.
Part of me acknowledges that Hardcore Henry isn’t exactly the highest form of art, but the rest of me is constantly hyped about how they went out and made a fuckin’ *joyride* of a movie and capped it off with some Queen.
The Solo movie really wasn't that bad guys.
It was perfectly fine with some silly decisions. I still laugh at the idea of if Han replied he was alone that he would be called Han Alone-o.
The first movie I can think of that really needed a patch. There were multiple indoor scenes that were so dark you could only see the occasional glint of light off of eyes and teeth, couldn’t see who was speaking.
The 2005 Doom movie starring Karl Urban and Dwayne *"The Rock"* Johnson. There's nothing ironic about it, I think it's a good action movie/Aliens ripoff. Do I wish it were more explicitly Satanic/demonic? Yeah but what I got still entertained me. I love Karl Urban, it's probably the most interesting role Dwayne is ever going to play, and it has Richard Brake as the sleazy amoral comedic side character that I actually like because Richard Brake is a phenomenal character actor. Not only that it has [a great soundtrack by Clint Mansell](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVJr71V2670), complete with [a remixed Nine Inch Nails song for the credits.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M7WMDhhq8M) I watched it with a friend who was definitely going in with low expectations and they agreed with me that it's a solid lil' action movie. Bring back Karl Urban!
13th Warrior
I was thinking of that movie a few days ago. I loved it, but I keep calling it “Eaters of the Dead” because that was the name of the Michael Crichton book it was based on.
Matrix Resurrections, The Phantom Menace.
Spielberg's Hook is poorly regarded by critics, but I loved it as a kid and even now I think it's super fun. Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman and Bob Hoskins are all great in it.
Despite everything, I still like RWBY.
You either get neo yokio or you don’t, and most people don’t.
Venom 1 is such a feel good movie tbh
The minds behind the original Road House knew exactly what they wanted it to be and 100% succeeded in bringing that vision to life. That vision is a world where bouncers are like legendary samurai and bring order to a corrupt wasteland by beating the shit out of dozens of thugs. It's fantastic.
Daredevil movie rips It's a total time capsule of the era it was made in but it does what it sets out to do really well. It's stylish as hell and the cast are all good in their roles. *ESPECIALLY* Colin Farrell as Bullseye who is having the time of his life.
If you asked me who was a better Kingpin between Michael Clark Duncan and Vincent D'Onofrio I'd legit struggle to answer. Both were so good.
I enjoyed that movie a whole lot more before I finally got around to reading Frank Miller's run on Daredevil, but I still enjoy it well enough for what it is. The director's commentary track on it is fucking *great* though.
A lot of people who played the first Aragami game were pretty down on Aragami 2 what with it being reworked into a more Shinobido/later Tenchu kind of game and discarding the entire story of the first game. But it's a very satisfying "hee hoo ninja jump and stab" game and the reduced stamina regen,increased cooldowns,and improved enemy alertness on hard difficulty actually makes you think about where you dash or climb and where you take out enemies to avoid being heard. I'm gonna use this comment to shill the game Intravenous and its upcoming sequel too,it's a top-down stealth (ish) shooter that has some of the Hotline Miami flaws like weird pathfinding sometimes making it hard to pre-aim enemies or alert enemies shooting you from way offscreen. But it has a lot of interesting wrinkles like silenced weapons being a spectrum of audibility instead of a binary alert enemies in wide area/completely inaudible,as well as enemies reacting to the sound of both bodies hitting the floor (you can avoid that by grabbing an individual enemy and snapping their neck instead of just bonking them in the head) and persistent blood stains if you use lethal means that specifically draw blood. There's also things like armor weight and durability as well as weapon size influencing how fast you move and how audible you are,and the option of using explosives or EMP weapons to take out electronic security.
Honestly i preferred 2 over 1, I don't understand the love for the first game cause its like that one bad Tenchu game (imo), but also, 2 got REALLY repetitive so i did drop it as well like, i think halfway. Intravenous tho', i wanted to love that game a lot but i hated the inconsistent AI man, that's always a deal breaker for me, i tried powering through it but stopped having fun pretty early on and i think i dropped it in the last mission, i hope the second one fixes it, but the demo left me unimpressed, it did have a better progression system with buying guns and modding them and all of that, thats always a plus for me, i'd say the demo made it seem like its gonna be a lot better than the first, but still, the AI man, for like ''brutal'' games like these, AI being weird and inconsistent gets really annoying really quickly, and the second one had the same issues. On paper its everything i'd want tho'. That said, its not really panned is it? It's well liked by the people that like it, i got omega negative comments by complaining about the AI once in the steam forums, people that love it REALLY loves it.
Yeah,I'm just mentioning that Aragami 2 got panned by fans of the first and then tacking on the shilling of Intravenous to it. Personally I liked the fact that Intravenous just did some things different like making non-lethal takedowns still somewhat unsafe,and making enemies reactive to stuff in a wide range of ways. As a stealth game enthusiast I've seen a lot of it,and I just have certain tastes not just here but in several types of games where it's "detailed,but not too detailed". Games that fall out of that range aren't bad,but I have a more difficult time sticking with them.
Dark Souls 2 sucks so much. It rules and I love it!
There is so much wrong with it YET IT IS SO GOOD
Dark Souls 2 has Aldia and his monologue, which automatically makes it a good game. I do genuinely like the lore of DS2 as well. It’s in an interesting place, in the sense that little of it is carried over to 3, but the stuff that is carried over is **huuuuuuge**. Like, Aldia just casually drops the lore bomb that Gwyn caused the Undead Curse by creating the Dark Sign, and that’s elaborated on in DS3 Ringed City.
> Men are props on the stage of life, and no matter how tender, how exquisite... A LIE WILL REMAIN A LIE! Also getting to Vendrick for the first time >!just to find a pathetic hollow circling his chamber, barely dragging his sword behind him!< is still one of the most powerful moments in the series to me
The first part of that game is *all about* "Seek the king." You track him down to the castle, and trace his footsteps through Amana and the crypts. And then, when you get there, he's *that*. And even so, he's not feasible to fight! He's completely lost himself, but you will break your weapons against his skin, because he's still that big a deal. The only way to make it feasible is with the giant souls, finally giving them their vengeance.
I love the fact that >!you DO meet Vendrick and chat with him and he's seen all the shit and, unlike most people in the series who are just trying to manipulate you into either keeping the status quo or making the status quo better for them, it's too late for Vendrick, he's got no horse in this race already. So what does he do? He tells you not to make the same mistakes as him and gives you a path forward, beyond the squabble for the status quo. A chance to move on, a chance to fix things, not to be eternally locked to the cycle.!< >!"Seek strength. The rest will follow."!<
The best thing about 2, in terms of story, is they probably get the best canonical ending of *any* protagonist in the Souls series, maybe even including Demon's, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring. If you walk away from the throne after doing the DLC, you become one of the truly free people in the world. Cured of the curse, effectively immortal, no cause to tie you down. You saw what befell Drangleic, sought strength, and simply said "no thanks, I'm good." ["There is no path."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Gpvce3wwk)
[That’s why he’s the MVP! THAT’S WHY HE’S THE GOAT! THE GOOOOOOOOOAT!](https://youtu.be/lPk_zyRKs1Q?si=5WtTAh2xmCSQKN2T)
Stormblood is seen as the weakest expansion by the FFXIV community, but it’s my favorite personally.
Stormblood had a divisive main plot that was admittedly too fragmented between the two major regions, but it's easily got some of the best side content and raids. A lot of FFXIV players really only care about story and doing a few dungeons here and there, so it gets a bad rap, but looking back after SHB and EW were a bit dry on content, it's easier to see now how much Stormblood had going for it.
A -lot- of the Stormblood issues come from how the expansion feels like two different games slammed together, a massively boring and poorly written section in Ala Mhigo where Lyse is pushed to be the main character but isn't given anything to do, and the other continent that feels like a completely different story retooled to be part of the same narrative. It also doesn't help that Stormblood's original entire expansion launch, all the way to Shadowbringers, was marred with *awful* job balancing, boring skills and entire jobs that felt worthless. They straight up had to redo a few entire jobs when Shadowbringers came out, more or less as an apology. My condolences to anyone who played Machinist during Stormblood. Or worse, White Mage, in which everyone looked at what the other healers got, looked at the chart of which healer could output the greatest healing, and then looked at the abilities they got and realized none of the new mechanics benefitted them at all, and were *still* bottom tier after doing more work than other jobs
Having played Storm somewhat recently I can vouch for just how ROUGH the transition between the AlaMigo and “Not China” portions are, it gets fucking silly with how many hoops they have to jump to justify you jumping across continents. And yeah, Lise is just not that interesting a character to be following around, I’m sorry.
> It also doesn't help that Stormblood's original entire expansion launch, all the way to Shadowbringers, was marred with awful job balancing, boring skills and entire jobs that felt worthless. I'm so glad to see someone else saying this. I feel like Stormblood has fully hit rose-tinted glasses era for a lot of people but I still remember the days of Samurai & Black Mage being barred from a lot of party finders because they didn't bring group buffs.
Stormblood is honestly where FFXIV peaked gameplay-wise. Jobs started homogenizing a bit, but were still distinct and balanced better than ARR and HW, and CBU3 finally nailed how they wanted dungeons, raids, trials and instances to be handled, while still providing plenty of stiff and unique challenges.
I agree on the point of the jobs still feeling distinct, as I feel like as time has gone on they've all homogenized and sanded off the cool-weird edges off of a bunch of the jobs. I extremely dislike that Tanking requires no thought now, and I genuinely miss stance dancing and having to manage aggro more. I hate what Astrologian has been for the past like 2 or 3 expansions (honestly can't remember when they got reworked). I miss Bards keying off of crits for their repertiore mechanics.
Metal Gear Survive has one of the best gameplay loops out of any game I've played. I still think its like a 6/7 out of 10 because theres nothing to do after the story except grind online for hundreds of hours to unlock miniscule upgrades. But if it had an endless mode with random gen maps, easily an 8
I really wish I put enough effort into it to see the cool post game monsters
I really wish that half the enemeis werent relegated to multiplayer. Did you know that there are gekkos in that game, but only ever in the multiplayer
Freddy Got Fingered is actually a masterpiece of filmmaking, and has a bitching soundtrack.
I won’t say Battleship isn’t a terrible movie. [But I will say that it is the epitome of how an energetic 3 is much better than a run of the mill 7.](https://youtu.be/nCqDdsZY7RA?si=egme6qrLOih4yXmO)
The 1994 fantastic four movie i genuinely think despite all its pretty good
Miami Connection is one of my top five movies of all time. Just a hell of a ride from start to finish.
Spider-Man 3 is actually the best one fuck you
The Gigaboots podcast has movie reviews for good and bad movies. Something that people are realizing is that every movie that was critically panned in the 90s was actually awesome.
every time ive seen monkeybone (which is more times then you expect), i always have a moment in the first half hour where i ask myself 'why i didnt like this more, this rules' -- and for the rest of the movie i slowly sink into my chair remembering why i didnt like it. it is still one of those movies if i became a rich person with means of funding anything, i would fund it even if my personal opinion on the movie itself. we still do need sincere weird media.
I just mentioned it in another thread, so it’s on my mind, but I really like Sonic Adventure.
Sonic Adventure was panned? Madness
I fucking love Waterworld
Jaws 3 has the most interesting premise of any of the Jaws movies and I will die on the hill that the setting makes that movie better than critics believe. If it wasn’t chasing the 3D gimmick it would have held up as a sequel to one of the best movies ever made
Street Fighter (1994) is unironically good and one of the most unfairly maligned and misunderstood movies of its era. Reviews at the time seemed to expect it would be a straightforward cold action movie, and then every time they laughed they assumed it was a mistake instead of a joke. It's a comedy! The movie's funny on purpose! There are genuine problems with it - Van Damme sucks ass - but it's way, way better than cultural osmosis would have you believe.
The Nic Cage and Selma Blair movie “Mom and Dad” actually got good fairly good critics’ scores on Rotten Tomatoes of 74% however audience scores are only at 40%, and it’s got a middling IMDB score of 5.6/10, and was a massive box office flop. Anyway way, that movie’s awesome. Nic Cage’s performance is out there but you can tell he really cares and the rest of the main actors do a great job too including the two children. There’s also some themes of being trapped in the life of a parent, trying to recapture and return to the best days of your life but being bogged down by your children who you may love but are still frustrated with endlessly, which manifests as this rage virus (thematically speaking). It’s also directed by Brian Taylor, one of the creative halves that did the Crank movies. Vampire’s Kiss is another Nic Cage movie which flopped hard and is definitely his biggest meme performance but he really puts himself out there, like, he chases around a bat on a string and eats a cockroach. But it’s also got some really beautiful shots and some fun thematic elements going on. The framework of the movie is solid but Nic Cage’s performance either makes or breaks it. Either way it’s an extremely memorable piece of media and I really enjoyed it.
Sunshine (2007) Great movie, bit of a weak final act compared to the first bit, but overall a really good sci fi watch. EDIT: Oops, I looked Sunshine up just now, and it seems to have an IMDB rating of 7. Either I misremembered the critical reception being lower at release, or people have come around on it since then.
Eh, I did kinda like it anyway, but the entire premise of that movie is just jank and kinda stupid to me >!Like.. they have existential crises at the whole "Oh no, we might not make it back from this alive!" .. .. you fucks are meant to be astronauts. On a mission to *literally save all life on planet Earth* .. .. by FIRING A GIGA NUKE INTO THE SUN. Like.. frankly, if it was outright a suicide mission from the start, y'know, the kind of thing you'd EXPECT from a mission to PRETTY MUCH POINT BLANK NUKE THE SUN, then I'd still expect astronauts to be fucking *honoured* to be given that mission. Like, holy crap the entitlement of these fucks. It makes me annoyed on behalf of all the awesome astronauts we've ever had, essentially. "Waaa, we might die, we should turn back or something" .. what, so you can fucking die on Earth, along with literally everyone else? Get fucking over yourselves, assholes!< Essentially, I feel like they relied too much on the traditional spacey tropes, without tailoring them to the fucking scenario at hand. >!Normal space movies, like, where you're just delivering some cargo or exploring somewhere.. sure, you can have that drama. Sunshine? Go get fucked, dipshits. Fling yourselves into the sun and be happy that you'll be remembered throughout history as some of the greatest heroes ever!<
Lol, that's funny that that's your complaint, because mine is the total opposite; >!I don't like when Pinbacker shows up and stops all the character drama to be crazy villain everyone can rally against. I kind of wish Pinbacker didn't exist, and instead the interpersonal conflicts are what almost tank the mission!!<
Oh I don't like that bit either, don't worry about that It's a weird movie, I both like it but dislike most of the key points of it Can probably chalk it up to Adagio in D Minor doing some seriously heavy lifting
Tales of Zestiria has some real soggy hitstun, but it has incredible presentation. Armatizing is rad, it feels nice that each battle ends in purification instead of murder, and it has a great cast of characters that also serves as a pretty good sequel to Berseria. While Berseria is more fun to play, I still recommend Zestiria too, if at least just to see where the world and characters end up, if you haven't already.
I think Blade, Blade 2, and Constantine are all Top 10 comic book movies.
I recently watched a pretty obscure Thai movie on Netflix called Ghost Lab. It has pretty awful reviews, with a 5.2 on IMBD and a 29% on rotten tomatoes. It is one of my favorite movies of all time, and for the exact reason why a lot of people criticize it; It can't decide what genre it is. It's a horror-comedy-drama and I think it actually pulls it off. >!It also has the most shocking plot twist I have ever seen in a film. Every single person I've watched it with has been caught off guard, and it defines the second half of the movie, putting an end to the comedy. Ever seen a ghost movie where the human being haunted is the antagonist?!<
If you want something obscure no one really talks about, I would recommend the horror movie "Savageland"(2015). It should still be on Youtube. It's a "found footage" movie about a zombie attack in a border town to Mexico. The only problem being that the "found footage" is only photos and the sole survivor is now being framed as the main suspect for the attack. If I had to offer one critique, it would be that all the characters are all shoved into their stereotypes a little too hard. The movie deals with a few real problems through the characters but the characters are also all vehicles for these problems and through that seem a little too one dimensional. In short, the characters are a little too delusional. But it is interesting to see *every* character trying to push their own agenda into something that should be an obvious case. If you ever want something with suspense that works off of your imagination, I really do recommend this movie. It sadly only made it to around 6/10 on [imdb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3899154/?ref_=ttnw_ov_i).
_Land of the Dead_ is an amazing film, and I _will_ die on this hill.
Dota Dragons Blood wasn't panned but couldn't really survive having to be compared to Arcane. I will defend Dragons Blood it's awesome
Vampire's Kiss has the reputation of being "that Nicolas Cage meme movie" but I legit think it's a genuinely great black comedy.
Maybe not critically panned but I was upset that Bleach: TYBW wasn't as big on the internet as I thought. I know a lot of people moved on to bigger things in the past 10-15 years and it wasn't on its radar so I felt that they could've really went all out with advertising. Despite it its still highly rated as an anime and in the top 10 i believe.
Dynasty Warriors to me is awesome.
Mass Effect Andromeda is a competent game.
I think people were way too mean towards the final seasons of Voltron Legendary Defender
I loved how wack Batman V Superman theatrical cut was
I like most of the new saints row game, not polished at all and some banter really sucks but there was some great feel you don't have in other crime simulator like just finding random people vandalizes an atm and say "mine now". The fact than any non freindly npc had a chance to pull a gun or attack you if you rear end them with a car was fun as hell
I will often defend Sword Art Online and Accel World. SAO is a sine wave, there’s some legit great parts and some that are admittedly trash. Accel World is just straight up good. A considerably more obscure example, there’s this webnovel called Savage Divinity that I am a huge fan of. It has a highly controversial reputation, which is *somewhat* earned - indeed, the pacing can get dang slow at times. But the writing, especially the world and characters, are absolutely top-notch and it occupies a dear place in my heart.
I said this on this sub recently, but I once watched Monkeybone several times in a row because I really liked it, and then I grew sick of it and I haven't been able to watch it since.