I’m asking because an IMDb rating cutoff above 6.5±5 seems to generally do a good job making sure I don’t regret watching something. But what am I missing among the sub-6? I know they exist, but it is hard to select among seas of…bad movies.
Idiocracy. Has stood the test of time surprisingly well for a movie containing so many fart and sex jokes.
I wouldn’t say it was prophetic, because most of it was already there in 2000, but less virulent. But yeah, Mike Judge had to push against the industry to get it out, so at least some corpos were aware of what he was saying too. That is why it wasn’t higher, because Fox tried to neglect-kill it.
Fox. Imagine that.
My wife and teenage step son had never seen this before, so we all tried watching it last year. Every single one of us fell asleep. It wasn’t nearly as funny and entertaining as I remembered.
But that won’t stop me from saying “IT’S GOT WHAT PLANTS CRAVE!” at least once a month.
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I am a so-bad-it-is-good movie enjoyer. If you want to view some genuinely entertaining schlock, I’d highly recommend:
- Miami Connection
- Samurai Cop
- Killing: American Style
- Space Mutiny
- Money Plane
- Paradise Motel
- I am Here, Now (any Neil Breen tbh)
- Timecop
I spy a fellow MST3K/RLM fan!
I’m going to throw in Time Chasers and Manos: The Hands of Fate, if I may… 😁
Went to a showing of Cade: The Tortured Crossing and it changed my life.
Those just reminded me of another one I like and has a sub 6 score: Beverly Hills Ninja :D
The great white ninja!
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
Mate, I was fully prepared to create alt accounts and review boost it past 6, but it’s already 6.2. Crisis averted.
Now the RT score though, critics got it so SO wrong.
Only 1 of 2 movies I have ever walked out of in the theatres. It’s so bad.
What was the other movie?
Everything everywhere all at once
E: and I nearly walked out of the first LOTR in theatres but pushed through.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
I need to get around to reading the comic, I love this movie and I love its premise even more.
I haven’t read the comic either!
The comic was good, very different from the movie though
Not to shame your taste or anything, but I’ve loudly chuckled when I’ve read this one. That’s the only movie I’ve walked out of the theater from. Not joking. IMHO it is _over_rated, even a 0/10 is too high of a rating for that clusterfuck.
It’s definitely a clusterfuck lol
I just found it to be kind of fun!
I also found it entertaining. It’s so bad that it is fun.
I unironically love Rubber. Not a single person I’ve shown has shared that sentiment haha
It’s about a tire that blows things up with It’s mind
Yes! My family could not get into it, I thought it was a riot
Robocop 2014
I think its extremely underrated.
I thoroughly enjoyed it, because out of all the sci-fi movies I’ve seen in the last two decades, this one has a very high likely chance of playing out exactly as indicated in the film.
We will blur the line between man and machine, and eventually have a identity crisis.
We will very likely see autonomous drone platoons being coordinated by a few or single human operator.
Those drones will likely be deployed in a military fashion first with push-back on deploying on home soil as a police force.
Until they will inevitably be deployed and used against civilians.
Also kudo’s to the scene where he is stripped down to the bare parts, and the entire theater went quiet. There’s a level of existential dread, when your ‘being’ is laid bare that the reality is… you… everything about you… is just a small clump of grey matter.
This movie’s main issue is that given the choice, I’d still rather watch the 1987 release. Like most remakes, it didn’t exceed its predecessor enough to justify its own existence.
Gimme that 2012 Dredd though, that was sick.
DAMN that movie kicked ass. Definitely out did the Stalone ones and deserves a sequel or two for sure.
Yeah, the original was way more entertaining, agreed.
But the original didn’t really touch on the Ghost in the Machine-esque nature of blurring that line between man/machine.
Also the premise that they did it just to have a ‘mobile tank’ on the streets of Chicago was meh…
The premise of the newer movie, where they had to have a hybrid person in to push the narrative to achieve public opinion/support to allow robotic drones to roam the streets so they can make that sweet military industrial complex money and keep the plebs in place?
Yeah… way more believable, if not a direct prediction of exactly what is to come.
Titan AE
Absolutely agree. Love the movie so much and in a world that loves incredible scales for sci-fi tech I haven’t ever seen anything else like the Titans function in anything else.
Super Mario Bros Movie.
Robot Jox, I watched the hell out of this as a kid… And no it shouldn’t be rated any higher than it already is.
Paul (2011) IMHO Frost and Pegg’s best movie. Not sure why it’s not rated higher, it is simply brilliant.
The Last Starfighter (1984) Epic sci fi flick that was the first to use 3D rendered computer animation. The effects do NOT hold up, but the story sure does.
Chronicles of Riddick (2004) Sequel to Pitch Black and I personally like it much better. Admittedly, that’s due to I like that Riddick aims more to sci fi and Pitch Black toward horror. If you like horror more, then you’d probably like Pitch Black better.
I didn’t dislike Paul but better than Shaun and Hot Fuzz? Idk man that’s really saying something. Agreed on your other movies tho :)
Yes and I will stand by that statement.
Yes, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are also brilliant movies. Both movies are also in Frost and Pegg’s exact wheelhouse, Britain.
Paul is another step above, because they so perfectly encapsulated the stupidity of a completely different country and culture. That’s why I like it a bit better. Name US writers/ actors that could do the same thing for Britain? I certainly cannot.
IDK about “rated higher” but I love Jet Li’s The One
There’s exactly 127 universes in the multiverse. Why? Never discussed. And if one version of you kills another, every other version gets that much stronger. So Jet Li plays both the hero and the villain as well as an assortment of the villain’s victims. Jason Statham is in it too, as the hotheaded junior partner multiverse cop out to bring the villain down.
Weird guns! Weird tech! A prison universe! Super powered martial arts! A climactic fight in a foundry where you can tell the hero from the villain by the color of their shirt! Man I love this movie!
It’s when they go through the pictures of Jet Li’s victims that gets me every time. It’s just him with different wigs. The one with dreadlocks is hilarious.
I genuinely love this movie. Very entertaining. Soundtrack isn’t half bad either.
The ending scene of the film reminds me of the cover for the OG DOOM. But instead of a green armored space marine fighting a swarm of demons, it’s Jet Li beating up a swarm of dirty prison inmates.
Freddy Got Fingered! The joke is on the studio and audience, and most did not want to laugh along…
Darkness Falls 5.0 on imdb. A ok horror film. I like it because it’s pretty decently thought out. The minor characters do start to listen to the guy in the know once he is shown to know what’s going on.
- Brüno - 5.9
- The Ringer - 5.8
- MacGruber - 5.5
- Jingle All The Way - 5.6
I’m not gonna defend them as super great movies but I do feel they are underrated by a point. If Bruno dropped before the world saw Borat I think it would have been better recieved.
