Movies you like, that are widely panned.

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TVBForever said:
By the time the first Saw movie became a huge hit for Lionsgate, and in the next year when the second Saw movie made it to number one at the box office, the studio knew they have a yearly horror event in their hands the same way as either Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street in the 80s. Once Saw fizzled out for being realized as nothing more than a joke, America turned their faces to the likes of Paranormal Activity, and then The Purge, only for the latter two to also be trendy jokes. Nowadays, these movies have been more watched due to nostalgia and the good times audiences had in theatres.
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Christ, can anyone even tell me the overall story of Paranormal activity ? It's clear it wasn't meant to be a franchise but they had to make it more needlessly complex and yet still move at a snail's pace.

I just recall there was a demon, witches, Micah being called a lot, some random Hispanic entry, one with an actor from a nickelodeon sitcom and a 3D one.

It's just fragments of memories but I doubt it would make much more sense even if I pieced it all together.

Also apparently there was a reboot on streaming services that had no connection to the originals and no one liked.
 
The handsome tard said:
Christ, can anyone even tell me the overall story of Paranormal activity ? It's clear it wasn't meant to be a franchise but they had to make it more needlessly complex and yet still move at a snail's pace.

I just recall there was a demon, witches, Micah being called a lot, some random Hispanic entry, one with an actor from a nickelodeon sitcom and a 3D one.

It's just fragments of memories but I doubt it would make much more sense even if I pieced it all together.

Also apparently there was a reboot on streaming services that had no connection to the originals and no one liked.
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At one point, it was popular until The Purge came out (both of which were Jason Blum produced). See, once Paranomal Activity was quietly released in a couple cities, it received more attention from either high school or college students, resulting Paramount to pick up the rights and expand it for its Halloween weekend release (and on the same weekend as the sixth Saw), resulting people to turn their heads over it. But then by the Summer of 2013, The Purge ended up being a premiere yearly horror event, at least for a while until The Conjuring franchise slowly became a huge horror hit series. Paranormal Activity did not have the same longevity of audiences as Saw as that one was more of a product of the post-recession late-2000s/early-2010s.
 
I will never understand the so-called "Odd-number curse" that exists in the Star Trek film franchise.

I mean okay, Star Trek V is not good (or at best is enjoyable as a look into Shatner's psyche or even as a campy action film masquerading as a Star Trek film).... but I will never understand critics of The Motion Picture or The Search for Spock, especially the latter which is damn near necessary viewing since it forms part of an almost perfect trilogy with II and IV.

Motion Picture I sometimes think just has the problem of people watched it when they were young and they wanted lots of action, but MP wanted to be more cerebral. Granted its themes weren't exactly deep.... but tell me you don't feel good when it says "the human adventure is just beginning."
 
skykiii said:
I mean okay, Star Trek V is not good (or at best is enjoyable as a look into Shatner's psyche or even as a campy action film masquerading as a Star Trek film).... but I will never understand critics of The Motion Picture or The Search for Spock, especially the latter which is damn near necessary viewing since it forms part of an almost perfect trilogy with II and IV.
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In terms of original Star Trek movies, I'd rank it as follows:

1. IV
2. VI
3. III
4. II
5. The Motion Picture
6. V

Only the fifth movie is godawful, even though I would be missed if I didn't enjoy Shatner's cheerfully hammy acting that made me entertained through and through. Motion Picture gets a bum rep and I can understand why, but I enjoyed it as is, despite being just an extended, yet typical Star Trek episode. For me, IV and VI are tied together as the best, while III is criminally underrated and II is great.
 
TVBForever said:
In terms of original Star Trek movies, I'd rank it as follows:

1. IV
2. VI
3. III
4. II
5. The Motion Picture
6. V

Only the fifth movie is godawful, even though I would be missed if I didn't enjoy Shatner's cheerfully hammy acting that made me entertained through and through. Motion Picture gets a bum rep and I can understand why, but I enjoyed it as is, despite being just an extended, yet typical Star Trek episode. For me, IV and VI are tied together as the best, while III is criminally underrated and II is great.
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I would basically agree with your rankings. It's just for me, the only Trek movie (besides the Next Gen ones) I find genuinely hard to watch is V. So I always feel a little weird when I hear people describe I and III as if they're on the same level as V.
 
skykiii said:
I would basically agree with your rankings. It's just for me, the only Trek movie (besides the Next Gen ones) I find genuinely hard to watch is V. So I always feel a little weird when I hear people describe I and III as if they're on the same level as V.
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Although I do get why the first was panned, I cannot say the same with the third as it didn't really deserve to get that much of a bum rep in terms of classic Trek movies.

In case of TNG movies (as I implied in the actual Star Trek thread), Generations has a shit load of problems, but I still enjoyed it for what it is, even better than the fifth one, while First Contact was surprisingly good. Insurrection and Nemesis have always been hot garbage.
 
I like The Mummy 2017. It's a little boring and by-the-numbers at times, it's written and directed by a man who's 95% soy, and it's completely sexless because of China, but it wasn't a terrible movie and Russell Crowe was the best part despite the team-up Avengers stuff being really fucking gay.

More importantly, its failure leaves us with a massive "what if" because we know there were several other movies in production with real directors and actors that were just flat out cancelled because Universal is run by the same kind of spineless cowards who run WB's capeshit division.

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TVBForever said:
In terms of original Star Trek movies, I'd rank it as follows:

1. IV
2. VI
3. III
4. II
5. The Motion Picture
6. V

Only the fifth movie is godawful, even though I would be missed if I didn't enjoy Shatner's cheerfully hammy acting that made me entertained through and through. Motion Picture gets a bum rep and I can understand why, but I enjoyed it as is, despite being just an extended, yet typical Star Trek episode. For me, IV and VI are tied together as the best, while III is criminally underrated and II is great.
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Khan should be 3 and Search should be 4. 2, 3, and 4 are best watched as a trilogy.

Agreed on TMP. It's a perfectly fine movie but the 4 in front of it are just more enjoyable and warmer.
 
I've never really seen bad things said about it online or critically but every time I mention to someone that Pee Wee's Big Adventure is one of my all-time favorite movies, I get incredulous looks.
 
Quarterback Rex Grossman said:
I like The Mummy 2017. It's a little boring and by-the-numbers at times, it's written and directed by a man who's 95% soy, and it's completely sexless because of China, but it wasn't a terrible movie and Russell Crowe was the best part despite the team-up Avengers stuff being really fucking gay.

More importantly, its failure leaves us with a massive "what if" because we know there were several other movies in production with real directors and actors that were just flat out cancelled because Universal is run by the same kind of spineless cowards who run WB's capeshit division.

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I remember that Kurtzman basically threw the blame on Tom Cruise, but anyone with a brain, knowledge of part experiences with Kurtzman & Orci, & a little research can figure out that Kurtzman tried to make his goyslop, but Cruise was the one who had to tard-wrangle him, being the 2nd person to do so since Michael Bay (except Bay also tard-wrangled Orci).

Funnily enough, the best parts of this film is from Tom turning on his Cruise Control. Also, his Sofia Boutella leak was very based.
 
I fully admit it’s a dumb movie that absolutely reeks of early 2000s horror tropes, but I kinda like the 2001 remake of Thirteen Ghosts. The ghosts themselves have an interesting look (the special feature about their backstories on the dvd is worth a watch) and it just reminds me of a bygone era where you could just have good stupid fun seeing a movie and not everything had to have some kind of hidden social commentary or agenda attached to it.
 
Patrick Bait-man said:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal is a good film, goddamnit.

It's been relentlessly shit on for the last 15 years, and I just don't get it. People are far too stuck-up about it and it'll never get it's due process unless Dial of Destiny turns out to be a genuinely awful film and people look back on it just as Star Wars fans did with the prequel trilogy as the sequel trilogy was releasing.
I believe much of the hatred for it can be summarized into three reasons:
  1. It was released after The Last Crusade which already wrapped up the franchise (understandable).
  2. It was a new sequel released after nearly 20 years which made fans very skeptical (also understandable).
  3. Red Letter Media's video (which was a terrible analysis of the film that nitpicked it to death, for which many of the arguments against it can be applied to the original films), amongst the other reviews that absolutely dumped on it despite most people liking it when it initially released in theaters.
All in all, I will continue to defend this film to the end of time. I thoroughly enjoyed it (the fridge scene is cool, btw).
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I do put it in the same category with Mummy 3, it us just fun for me
 
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I do put it in the same category with Mummy 3, it us just fun for me
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Thank you! Finally someone is on the same exact page. The third Mummy movie was really fun, but people shat on it for being too campy and too goofy, when realistically, that's the entire point of the Brendan Fraiser Mummy trilogy, yet are only expecting the Mummy to be scary again.

I do have to put in the first Jolie Tomb Raider movie from 2001 as a good movie that people hated, even though I've been on this site gushing over it haha. It's one of the better video game movies, yet there are still people who shat on it because "muh Jolie cannot act" and even some consoomers preferred the godawful failed 2018 Vikander movie (ha!) over this. Angelina Jolie was the perfect Lara Croft and it surprisingly followed the first couple games to a T amazingly.
 
TVBForever said:
Thank you! Finally someone is on the same exact page. The third Mummy movie was really fun, but people shat on it for being too campy and too goofy, when realistically, that's the entire point of the Brendan Fraiser Mummy trilogy, yet are only expecting the Mummy to be scary again.

I do have to put in the first Jolie Tomb Raider movie from 2001 as a good movie that people hated, even though I've been on this site gushing over it haha. It's one of the better video game movies, yet there are still people who shat on it because "muh Jolie cannot act" and even some consoomers preferred the godawful failed 2018 Vikander movie (ha!) over this. Angelina Jolie was the perfect Lara Croft and it surprisingly followed the first couple games to a T amazingly.
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Finally another AnJo Tomb Raider enjoyer. I knew I'm not the only one.
 
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Jonah Hill poster said:
I’m going to get some flak for this but Death Wish 2 and Death Wish 4 were not really that bad. It gets lumped with the 2018 remake with Bruce Willis, and to be honest, it’s a little unfair.
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None of them are as good as the first movie. That one is a legit, quality film. But as far as all the remakes go, of course I'll say that three is my favorite because it's so silly. Two had good scenes, like when Lawerence Fishborn gets shot in the face through a giant radio, or when Bronson sends the thug wearing the Crucifix to go meet Jesus. Also, in the same scene where Fishborn gets shot in the face, there's that ugly thug with the blonde jheri curl and the side hat, who makes that funny face while shooting a giant machine gun. I liked that too. I think people don't like part two because it was so unpleasant that the random cleaning lady gets brutalized in the beginning, and the fact that Bronson's poor mute daughter, who's already been through a bunch of nonsense, has to die in a very unsatisfactory way.

Four is the crack one right? I didn't care for it but it was still fun to watch once. Never saw the remake in 2018 but I do you remember when Jodie Foster made that Death Wish-like movie in the mid 2000s? I wanted to see that one but never did. The preview even had a sort of recreation of the subway scene from the first Deathwish.

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I just watched that scene from Deathwish 2. One of the thugs is wearing rainbow suspenders.


The Jodie Foster movie was called "The Brave One" and the subway scene is even better. She shoots two niggers like a female Bernard Goetz.
 
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Its been too long since I've seen it so I don't remember if I liked the 1990s Super Mario Bros. movie or not, but one impression that sticks with me is I recall actually finding its take on the mushroom kingdom and its reinvention of several iconic aspects of the Mario mythos (such as their jump height being because of some sort of sci-fi boots and Bob-Omb being a literal wind up toy) actually kind of compelling.

A friend of mine told me there was a Mortal Kombat series that did something similar, where it put then in a more realistic environment and Shang Tsung was like a crime lord or something. Anyone know what he was on about?
 
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