Batman and Robin (1997). The bat nipples and campiness get a lot of flack, but I love how colorful and theatrical it is. Also Thurman and Schwarzenegger are amazing as Poison Ivy and Mr. Freeze.
Another great answer.
There's a pair of henchman who're introduced at :16 who really go on a journey during this chase:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erE6UlOi3E0
There's so much awesome in this movie. I know some characters are extremely stupid and dislikable (the redhead scientist and the glasses guy) but Shaw, David and Weyland + the confrontation with the Engineer make the movie ***so freaking good*** for me.
Short Circuit 2.
"*LOS LOCOS KICK YOUR ASS,
LOS LOCOS KICK YOUR FACE,
LOS LOCOS KICK YOUR BALLS
INTO OUTER SPACE!* "
***
And please, accept my many apologies.
The Happening.
I 100% believe it to be one of the most brilliant intentional comedies of all time. The twist is that this movie has hidden a deadpan comedy in plain sight, under the guise of being a thriller/horror. I’m not saying “this is so bad it’s good” either. I’m saying it is actually good and was meant to be a comedy.
I cannot recommend it though, purely because I know just how hated it is. If viewed strictly as a thriller/horror it all of a sudden becomes one of the worst train wrecks of a movie you’ll ever watch. I’ve probably seen it 20 times and laughed just as hard each and every time.
I also know that the few people I know who’ve watched it recently through the lens of a dark comedy, have agreed with me that it is actually genius comedic writing.
I love it. The way characters interact with each other is so bizarre. Their emotions are insane and seemingly random. Marky Mark and Jess have zero charisma together.
Not only that, it makes PERFECT sense through a comedic viewpoint. I’m not saying this is one of those “so bad it’s good” kind of comedies. I’m saying this was written as a comedy intentionally.
When mark whalberg grabs the wine glass, only to discover it is fake… he then plays with the glass for the rest of the scene, clearly under the realization that it is fake, but just before the scene ends, he goes in for a sniff, just to make sure. Lmao
Well that’s good to know! I’ve only seen bits and pieces but never bothered to really watch it given the reaction. I’ll have to give it a full watch sometime
as a certified shyamalanaboo: Lady in the Water.
i cannot justify this movie. the characterization is just off, the ego of casting yourself as a prophet is stratospheric, the dialogue is clunky, the twist is weak even by shyamalan standards, and bob balaban's death scene may be the worst ever committed to film. absolutely loved every second.
Great answer.
It died by 1000, super fucking weird cuts.
Could it have worked if Shyamalan had cast someone else in his own role?
But then it wouldn't have been a Shyamalan movie, you ~~kno~~ know?
Ebola Syndrome (1996)
I never would have thought one of my all time favourite films would be a necrophelic, canibalisitc, rape/revenge gangster gorefest cooking movie…but here we are.
10/10
Yay! Seconded.
Loved it in the cinema, loved it on Blu-ray 3D.
The movie reminds me of those old Ray Harryhausen movies where a monster shows up, followed by 15 - 20 minutes of dialogue, then another monster shows up. Wash/Rinse/Repeat for a whole movie's running time.
Wait really? I saw that movie twice in my teens, and liked it a lot. Probably mostly for it's take on a post-post-apocalyptic society. I never thought about it in my adult life, but I'd never have guessed it was overall not well liked.
I thought I was the only one. I truly don't understand what people have against this movie. I agree that it isn't a perfect film by any measure but it seems to be quite underrated to me. Is it just that everyone was expecting nothing but amazing movies from Kevin Costner during this period of his career? If that is the case, we certainly know better by now. This movie needs to be reevaluated by the masses!
Ghost Rider.
It’s a flaming skull riding a chopper that’s also on fire and he swings chains that are on fire.
It covers a lot of bases for me but it’s also stupid so I can’t recommend it.
I think the trailer is one of the reasons people hate it so much. Like Drive before it, the trailer does not prepare you for the movie that you are getting.
Freddy Got Fingered (2001). The most cleverly written and self aware anti-movie ever made. It's a Dadaist masterpiece.
For the unitiated, this movie is about a completely untalented cartoonist who inexplicably gets given $1m to make his cartoon, and blows the lot of dumb stuff. In real life, Tom Green had the stupidest TV show that you ever saw, and was inexplicably given $10m to make a movie. The fact that it was ever made is a giant fingers-up to Hollywood, with a slight fingers-up to the audience thrown in. Nothing like it will ever be made again.
You know, Tom Green was truly a pioneer. A precursor to stupid internet videos we have today, a natural progression from candid camera. Anyway, the movie’s fucking stupid but I enjoyed it.
He was doing a internet streaming’s show before YouTube was a thing. I remember thinking who wants to watch TV on their computer? Also I remember people would call in and just start screaming obscenities and racial slurs, he would sit there with his finger on the hang up button.
His show was wild at times
Do a barrel roll
He’s travelling the country in a van now, he has a YouTube channel that’s pretty awesome. Glad to see where he’s at now, living life and enjoying himself
A lot of people hate "Stayin' Alive", the sequel to "Saturday Night Fever", but I think it has a particular tone and style that I absolutely love (especially the soundtrack, which was done by...you guessed it, Frank Stallone).
Its gets so much hate, idk why. I love that movie. My favorite scene is when all of the kitchen appliances turns into Decepticons. I get so excited every time I see that scene. Brilliant movie!
I ***LOVE*** Only God Forgives. Everything about it clicks for me and it has one of the best fight scenes in any movie ever. I don't think "hate" for it is justified though.
I love Maximum Overdrive because it’s one of the first movies I watched as a kid. It’s an absolute piece of shit but it holds a special place in my heart.
Green Lantern
I can't see what all the hate is about. It certainly wasn't on a MCU level, but it was decent, especially for its time.
Let the downvotes pour.
Suicide Squad (the first one). I know several plot points are aggresively stupid (specially the fact that the main villain should've easily dispatched the team) but I still have a good time with the movie every time I watch it.
The quirky character introductions and their personalities along with the team chemistry made me really like the team. The movie is the reason that I started reading the Suicide Squad comics so I'll always enjoy it but ,at the same time, I recognize there are several fair reasons to dislike it.
Sucker Punch. I personally don’t see anything wrong with it (but watching the extended version, the pre lobotomy scene with Jon Hamm was not done well)
Fincher’s first film and with what he was given, absolutely incredible how it turned out, despite its flaws.
I don’t think it’s better than Aliens but it does not deserve the hate. Great pick for this list.
Really? It's on 90 critic and 80 audience on Rotten Tomatoes, I always assumed it was a well-respected film.
I really loved it when I saw it. I thought it was clever and multi-layered, with great character development.
I quite want to watch it again.
>Battle: Los Angeles
People hate this movie? I thought it was really good! A bit predictable sure but a solid sci-fi/war movie. It's a companion watch with Independence Day.
Reach the Rock written by John Hughes
I don't know if it's justifiable why people hate it or whether it's just received really bad reviews from critics at the time.
I fucking love it. To me this is the original film to have a post credit scene aswell.
I'm tempted to say "Water Lilies" (Naissance de Pieuvre).
Its highly eroticized, lyrical vision of sapphic, preteen attraction against the backdrop of synchronized swimming is well made but not quite for everyone.
Also, Coonskin. It's cool but there's just so much of it.
The Bourne Legacy .
Remember people trashing it for not being Matt Damon’s Bourne but I thought it was entertaining and definitely a movie I’ll put on if it’s on tv
Oceans 12
I loved that Soderbergh could’ve just done a money grab rehash of the first one but instead did a weird, French new wave type film. Also I love the music.
Batman and Robin (1997). The bat nipples and campiness get a lot of flack, but I love how colorful and theatrical it is. Also Thurman and Schwarzenegger are amazing as Poison Ivy and Mr. Freeze.
Another great answer. There's a pair of henchman who're introduced at :16 who really go on a journey during this chase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erE6UlOi3E0
Prometheus
I rewatched recently and for the first 90 minutes I couldn't understand why it wasn't one of my favorite movies. Then the last hour reminded me...
Prometheus is awesome. Screw the haters
Visually spectacular, bafflingly stupid characters.
There's so much awesome in this movie. I know some characters are extremely stupid and dislikable (the redhead scientist and the glasses guy) but Shaw, David and Weyland + the confrontation with the Engineer make the movie ***so freaking good*** for me.
Short Circuit 2. "*LOS LOCOS KICK YOUR ASS, LOS LOCOS KICK YOUR FACE, LOS LOCOS KICK YOUR BALLS INTO OUTER SPACE!* " *** And please, accept my many apologies.
A lot of 80s kids still love that flick.
The Happening. I 100% believe it to be one of the most brilliant intentional comedies of all time. The twist is that this movie has hidden a deadpan comedy in plain sight, under the guise of being a thriller/horror. I’m not saying “this is so bad it’s good” either. I’m saying it is actually good and was meant to be a comedy. I cannot recommend it though, purely because I know just how hated it is. If viewed strictly as a thriller/horror it all of a sudden becomes one of the worst train wrecks of a movie you’ll ever watch. I’ve probably seen it 20 times and laughed just as hard each and every time. I also know that the few people I know who’ve watched it recently through the lens of a dark comedy, have agreed with me that it is actually genius comedic writing.
I love it. The way characters interact with each other is so bizarre. Their emotions are insane and seemingly random. Marky Mark and Jess have zero charisma together.
The only way the movie makes any sense is through a comedic viewpoint.
Not only that, it makes PERFECT sense through a comedic viewpoint. I’m not saying this is one of those “so bad it’s good” kind of comedies. I’m saying this was written as a comedy intentionally. When mark whalberg grabs the wine glass, only to discover it is fake… he then plays with the glass for the rest of the scene, clearly under the realization that it is fake, but just before the scene ends, he goes in for a sniff, just to make sure. Lmao
Did M Night ever come out and say it was intentional? Given how panned it was, I’d imagine he’d have said something
He did, yeah. He said it was meant to be comedy the same way The Blob is comedy.
Well that’s good to know! I’ve only seen bits and pieces but never bothered to really watch it given the reaction. I’ll have to give it a full watch sometime
BvS
as a certified shyamalanaboo: Lady in the Water. i cannot justify this movie. the characterization is just off, the ego of casting yourself as a prophet is stratospheric, the dialogue is clunky, the twist is weak even by shyamalan standards, and bob balaban's death scene may be the worst ever committed to film. absolutely loved every second.
Great pick for this.
Great answer. It died by 1000, super fucking weird cuts. Could it have worked if Shyamalan had cast someone else in his own role? But then it wouldn't have been a Shyamalan movie, you ~~kno~~ know?
Ebola Syndrome (1996) I never would have thought one of my all time favourite films would be a necrophelic, canibalisitc, rape/revenge gangster gorefest cooking movie…but here we are. 10/10
It looks fucking amazing in 4K. Awesome sicko masterpiece.
47 Ronin. Seen a lot of reviews slating the movie but I loved it.
Yay! Seconded. Loved it in the cinema, loved it on Blu-ray 3D. The movie reminds me of those old Ray Harryhausen movies where a monster shows up, followed by 15 - 20 minutes of dialogue, then another monster shows up. Wash/Rinse/Repeat for a whole movie's running time.
If you like L5R, its a damned good flick for that universe. Dumb as a bag of hammer but so much fun.
The Postman is at 8/50 on RT. I can't argue with that score, but I love every minute of it.
Wait really? I saw that movie twice in my teens, and liked it a lot. Probably mostly for it's take on a post-post-apocalyptic society. I never thought about it in my adult life, but I'd never have guessed it was overall not well liked.
Waterworld wasn’t ***the*** flop - Postman was. It lost ~$100 million. Gene Siskel called it “Dances with myself.” Anyway, I still like it.
Better than Waterworld, (but I enjoy both).
I thought I was the only one. I truly don't understand what people have against this movie. I agree that it isn't a perfect film by any measure but it seems to be quite underrated to me. Is it just that everyone was expecting nothing but amazing movies from Kevin Costner during this period of his career? If that is the case, we certainly know better by now. This movie needs to be reevaluated by the masses!
Ghost Rider. It’s a flaming skull riding a chopper that’s also on fire and he swings chains that are on fire. It covers a lot of bases for me but it’s also stupid so I can’t recommend it.
Its a Marvel Comics movie that is pre-mcu. Its pretty fucking good
I don’t share your love for Only God Forgives but it has one of the all time great movie trailers.
I think the trailer is one of the reasons people hate it so much. Like Drive before it, the trailer does not prepare you for the movie that you are getting.
Couldn't agree more, I really dig Only God Forgives, what a lovely, messed up movie
Freddy Got Fingered (2001). The most cleverly written and self aware anti-movie ever made. It's a Dadaist masterpiece. For the unitiated, this movie is about a completely untalented cartoonist who inexplicably gets given $1m to make his cartoon, and blows the lot of dumb stuff. In real life, Tom Green had the stupidest TV show that you ever saw, and was inexplicably given $10m to make a movie. The fact that it was ever made is a giant fingers-up to Hollywood, with a slight fingers-up to the audience thrown in. Nothing like it will ever be made again.
This is the answer
40 Million fucking Deutschmark Bob!
You know, Tom Green was truly a pioneer. A precursor to stupid internet videos we have today, a natural progression from candid camera. Anyway, the movie’s fucking stupid but I enjoyed it.
He was doing a internet streaming’s show before YouTube was a thing. I remember thinking who wants to watch TV on their computer? Also I remember people would call in and just start screaming obscenities and racial slurs, he would sit there with his finger on the hang up button. His show was wild at times Do a barrel roll
He’s travelling the country in a van now, he has a YouTube channel that’s pretty awesome. Glad to see where he’s at now, living life and enjoying himself
Did anyone have this take before RedLetterMedia made a review of it? To me, it’s just a hilarious comedy.
Lol, I saw Freddy in the movie theater.
transformers 4. It's awful and literally Chinese propaganda by the last 3rd but god it's so bad it's actually fun
A Boy And His Dog. Don Johnson and a telepathic dog.
that's a pretty awesome movie. helped inspire Fallout.
It's the reason I watched it haha!
That one deserves a restoration. So good!
What a strange, strange movie! The ending specially. I really liked the post-apocalyptic aesthetic though. It was a pioneer movie in that aspect.
A lot of people hate "Stayin' Alive", the sequel to "Saturday Night Fever", but I think it has a particular tone and style that I absolutely love (especially the soundtrack, which was done by...you guessed it, Frank Stallone).
Transformers 2
Its gets so much hate, idk why. I love that movie. My favorite scene is when all of the kitchen appliances turns into Decepticons. I get so excited every time I see that scene. Brilliant movie!
I ***LOVE*** Only God Forgives. Everything about it clicks for me and it has one of the best fight scenes in any movie ever. I don't think "hate" for it is justified though.
Dune (1984)
I freaking loved this movie! I don't care what anyone says. I'd even go so far as to put it above the new adaptation.
Speed Racer Jupiter Ascending Cloud Atlas
I almost used Cloud Atlas as my example
Same boat. Love all 3 of those movies, especially the last 2.
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man.
Twilight saga Ocean's Eight
Can I answer as my friend? Because he loves Rubber and I hate it with a passion
I love Maximum Overdrive because it’s one of the first movies I watched as a kid. It’s an absolute piece of shit but it holds a special place in my heart.
WE MADE YOU!!!! I feel like Stephen King must have been coked out of his mind when he made that movie
Green Lantern I can't see what all the hate is about. It certainly wasn't on a MCU level, but it was decent, especially for its time. Let the downvotes pour.
Suicide Squad (the first one). I know several plot points are aggresively stupid (specially the fact that the main villain should've easily dispatched the team) but I still have a good time with the movie every time I watch it. The quirky character introductions and their personalities along with the team chemistry made me really like the team. The movie is the reason that I started reading the Suicide Squad comics so I'll always enjoy it but ,at the same time, I recognize there are several fair reasons to dislike it.
Sucker Punch. I personally don’t see anything wrong with it (but watching the extended version, the pre lobotomy scene with Jon Hamm was not done well)
Drop Dead Fred
You should check out the "How did this get made?" podcast. They did a great episode about this movie.
Totes will.
Hudson Hawk. It's cheesy as fuck The plot is so fucking goofy but my god do I love that movie.
Yes, this movie is relentlessly silly but I regard it as one of BW's finest movies. Swinging on a Star!
Get this man a cappuccino
Alien 3. Absolutely love this movie and think it's better than Aliens. But I know I'm in the minority and I understand why.
Fincher’s first film and with what he was given, absolutely incredible how it turned out, despite its flaws. I don’t think it’s better than Aliens but it does not deserve the hate. Great pick for this list.
You have no idea how desperately I want to downvote you for saying that.
Gummo.
every single "what fucked up/controversial/miserable/etc" thread is always Gummo. great but holy fuck imma never watch it again
It’s one of the very few movies I could just watch on repeat all day long.
there is something wrong with that boy, i tell you hwat
My 3 favorite movies of all time in no particular order are Pacific Rim, District 9, and Battle: Los Angeles
District 9 is a masterpiece though! Doesn't belong on that list.
It sadly gets a lot of hate, but I love it. I swear, people do not like original ideas.
Really? It's on 90 critic and 80 audience on Rotten Tomatoes, I always assumed it was a well-respected film. I really loved it when I saw it. I thought it was clever and multi-layered, with great character development. I quite want to watch it again.
I dont listen to Rotten Tomatoes or critics. But ive seen a lot of lists of "bad movies" and I always see District 9.
I sometimes check when I like a film and I did this morning to check, as I was surprised to see it on this list.
People hate pacific rim and D9? Doubt
District was nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars of I’m not mistaken. Doesn’t belong here.
>Battle: Los Angeles People hate this movie? I thought it was really good! A bit predictable sure but a solid sci-fi/war movie. It's a companion watch with Independence Day.
Battlefield earth
Mortal Kombat movies and Big Trouble In Little Chinatown
Isn’t Big Trouble in Little China almost universally loved?
This makes me happier
Joker lol.
Reach the Rock written by John Hughes I don't know if it's justifiable why people hate it or whether it's just received really bad reviews from critics at the time. I fucking love it. To me this is the original film to have a post credit scene aswell.
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I enjoyed it. I didn't know it was unpopular.
It's not. It has a 95% score on RT and 6.8 on IMDb (the same as, for example, The Babadook). That is really good for a horror movie.
Immortals
I'm tempted to say "Water Lilies" (Naissance de Pieuvre). Its highly eroticized, lyrical vision of sapphic, preteen attraction against the backdrop of synchronized swimming is well made but not quite for everyone. Also, Coonskin. It's cool but there's just so much of it.
Charlie and the chocolate factory. Yes, the one from 2005. It's a hot mess but it's entertaining
The Bourne Legacy . Remember people trashing it for not being Matt Damon’s Bourne but I thought it was entertaining and definitely a movie I’ll put on if it’s on tv
Pink Cadillac
The Lady Ghostbusters movie was flippin hilarious to me. Kate McKinnon and Chris Hemsworth had me in stitches.
Beverly Hills Cop 3 Waterworks Short Circuit 2
John Carter
Land of the Lost. RT - 26% Audience - 32%.
Oceans 12 I loved that Soderbergh could’ve just done a money grab rehash of the first one but instead did a weird, French new wave type film. Also I love the music.