The Star Wars sequel trilogy. What a waste of money and time.
The plot of Yellow Submarine is basically “the Beatles have a contractual obligation to make a movie but they can’t be bothered, so let’s get impressionists to voice cartoon Beatles and draw a bunch of drug-addled fuckery to illustrate some of their songs for an hour and a half.”
In execution, it’s a bizarrely compelling and beautiful piece of work that I enjoy a great deal despite not being into either the Beatles or drugs.
Leon: The professional
The sexual dynamic between the two characters makes me more uncomfortable the older that movie gets, and it makes me very uncomfortable that such a young actor is playing the role The way they do. The plot too is silly, nobody, not even an emotionless assassin would try to teach a kid to be an assassin for any reason. Kids are impulsive idiots and there’s literally no upside to it. But holy hell does Gary Oldman absolutely rule in that movie.
Having just finished Event Horizon, I’m gonna go with that. Great cast, very interesting practical effects, silly plot, senseless gore.
One of my favorite movies.
ATBGE? I missed that subreddit.
It’s hard for me to pin down to be honest because good execution hides a lot. I’ve found the Ocean Twelve movie really dumb but enjoyed it … not sure if it’s horrible taste though?
/c/atbge@lemmy.world exists and could be nudged back into activity if folks here are into it.
Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift
Fantastic cars, driving scenes, stunts. Great sets, locations, lighting, cinematography. Genuinely interesting soundtrack. Some good acting.
The plot is suitably silly and culturally relevant to Japanese themes.
BUT, the one woman with more than two lines of dialogue is willingly treated as an object by both the protagonist and antagonist. Anything else could have been used as a point of contention between them, but no, we have to have 1950s level sexism thrown in.
Wild Wild West.
Batshit crazy plot, appallingly unfunny script - clearly masterminded by deeply disconnected madmen. But well executed - great effects and technical filmmaking.
I remember Kevin Smith in one of his talks discussing Jon Peters, the producer of WWW, coming up with ridiculous suggestions and demands for a superman project they were both involved in, including a giant mechanical spider. Kevin was dropped from the project (it never got made) and then later he sees a giant mechanical spider in WWW and was like ‘well that’s all Jon’.
Smith’s story is pretty epic. Probably wasn’t the first time he told it, of course. And it became quite famous: in the end, Nicolas Cage, who was supposed to play Superman in Burton’s film, had a cameo as Supes in 2023 ‘The Flash’ (iirc) fighting a giant spider.
It’s also kinda funny that Silent Bob is rather chatty in real life, and toured colleges with these talks, releasing six of them, like three hours each. Whereas, whenever he brought Jason Mewes with him, the latter was mostly quiet.
I assumed he didn’t talk in the movies because he wanted to focus on directing.
Kevin Smith is great at talking about his favorite subject, which is Kevin Smith movies.
The run down
I actually really like it for the very simple narrative. The natives win against the colonial slavers. Kind of sucks they needed outsiders, but still, it is the rise up and finally beat these assholes story generally only dreamt of in showers.
Solid listing here. Funny and some killer fight scenes. Roger Workman gets a busted nose, too.
Every Wes Anderson movie.
runs
The one exception being his horror masterpiece The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders.
Hands down his best work.
I once told a woman on a dating app that I can’t stand Wes Anderson films, and she immediately unmatched with me.
Fair.
His career really took a weird turn after Nightmare on Elm Street
There’s a movie called Crime 101, it’s got pretty good actors, it’s shot very well, the writing is even decent but it’s the most cliche boring heist/crime plot I’ve ever watched. You can guess basically everything the entire movie. Afterwards it was very clear that everyone involved was capable of making a far better movie but the plot was so terribly predictable
The clue was right there in the name
Oh I saw that movie. It was hilariously boring.
Worst film I have seen this year hands down.
The writing is awwwwful! The love interest has to be the least curious character to have ever existed in all of cinema.
I have so much to say about how bad this movie is it’s making me upset all over again.
Bad Santa?
It is deeply satisfying to watch talented actors indulge in saying every shitty thing you wish you could ever say.
The level of debauchery is a goddamn delight.
It is a dirty treat to watch, and I think that anyone who likes movies should at least watch it once.
Jesus Christ… God damn it… Kid, are you fuckin’ with me?
Everything single thing about you is ugly. Your soul is dog shit.
That was my yearly Christmas watch for many years. It has a surprisingly heartwarming ending, and what a cast!
I really like American Hustle (2013). The plot is kind of ridiculous. The emotional abuse amongst the characters should make me hate everyone, but there’s so much star power charisma, and it was shot well enough, that it’s a fun watch that I find myself going back to despite not being a remarkable film.
While a lot of the plot is embellished, cause it’s a movie, the base premise is based on actual events. The Wikipedia has a good section on the historical accuracy - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Hustle(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Hustle)
Pleasantville looks like a cheap gag in the preview, but honestly one of my favorite movies.
I remember my family going to that one expecting a silly “haha they’re trapped in old TV where stuff is old-timey” thing and unexpectedly getting something really genuinely special.
The first one that comes to mind was Avatar
If you ignore the anime series, and just watch the live action movie with zero expectations, it can be kinda fun. Realistically, pretty much nobody did that, and that’s why they hated it.
Not The Last Air Bender, James Cameron’s big budget screen saver.
Avatar has horrible taste?
Live action Fern gully is pretty meh?
I remember when my wife and I watched Morbius, we were pretty impressed with the sound mixing. We could hear what everyone was saying without our ears getting blown out by the explosions and such.
I feel like the effects and such were all petty solid too, but there’s no saving the fact that the story, writing, and acting were just trash.
I mean they weren’t THAT bad… They weren’t at the level of most stuff on !bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world . They were just kinda bland and not worth the price of a movie ticket.
