The Lost City with Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, and Daniel Radcliffe. It seems like a tropey romance-action flick, but is more a parody of genre clichés. The writing, acting, and humour are pretty good.
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Alien vs. Predator... Lance Henrickson and a cast of nobodies with an intersting plot. I went in expecting full-on crap and got a real banger instead.
Real steel. Its about boxing robots
We were having a movie night in our neighborhood a few years back where we got a bedsheet a cheap projector and hooked it up to a laptop to projevt a movie on someone's garage for the neighborhood kids.
We ended up projected The Lego Movie and most of the kids lost interest about half an hour in - and were falling asleep and ready to go home.
I'll be damned if it wasn't one of the best animated movies I've ever seen. I sent my wife home with our youngest just so I could stay and finish the movie.
Alien Resurrection is low key great and philosophically engaging movie.
Last year's The Beekeper starring Jason Statham was honestly the best action movie I've seen in years. Phenomenal movie
Honestly, princess bride. I'm usually not all that into rom com type movies, but princess bride is a masterpiece
Hey, that's the metaplot of the movie!
Mean Girls (2004) a masterpiece
Barbie (2023)
I thought it would be a parody of Barbie but its actually a parody of Mattel and shows how men can be confused in this world. It's a real movie for all the bros out there. Its the mind of movie I'll watch again later because its good.
Just saw this a few months ago. And gotta agree. It's a solid flick. Nothing crazy ambitious, but told a story that seems pretty haunting in the past few months.
Haunting?
I am trying not to sound disrespectful. But Allow my to gesture vaguely to current events.
Swiss Army Man - Daniel Redcliffe with farting as a superpower. Sounds ridiculous but really fun to watch.
Daniel Radcliffe while dead the entire movie flexes his ass cheeks as a superpower.
The movie Battleship based on the board game is far better than I ever expected. It's not a masterpiece, but it's a solid action flick.
It was super dumb and full of action and I enjoyed the hell out of it.
Dude, Where's My Car?
I thought it was gonna be a dumb stoner movie, but it is actually amazing and hilarious.
While simultaneously being a dumb stoner movie. Don't tell me it wasn't, cause I still am!
The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen, it's like a Monty Python movie but with American actors and an evil Robin Williams.
A Knight's Tale. Not only is it a good movie but it was my introduction to Paul Bettany and Alan Tudyk and they were brilliant in it.
Danny Boyd wrote an excellent video essay on A Knight's Tale. I too always wonder why there's always someone cutting onions when I choose to watch.
Because you have been judged, and likely not found wanting if you don't suppress feelings.
And it left its mark on renaissance jousts everywhere. Always hear We Will Rock You at so many different ren fairs.
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Clue - A movie based on a board game sounds terrible, but it's really funny.
For more of a movie that visually looks bad.
Primer - Very low budget time travel movie that gets better every time you watch it.
Clue didn't work in the theater because they did this gimmick where they made three versions with three different endings. So because it had to be consistent with three contradictory endings, you CAN'T solve it as you go; it doesn't function as a mystery movie. And, it was kind of short.
The TV cut crammed all three endings at the end with the "Here's what REALLY happened" cards inserted, so one ending is now canonical while the others are plausible alternatives, it runs longer, especially the frantic, energetic ending plays longer, so while it still doesn't function as a mystery movie, it is now an excellent farce.
I think it also found its audience in young millennials on television; it was made for and by my parents' generation but they don't like it, while a lot of people my age love it.
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The recent Dungeons and Dragons.
'Upgrade' is an excellent sifi B movie.
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Cocaine Bear (2023) is surprisingly good. You think it's gonna be one of those overly campy movies like Sharknado, but it's pretty well written. I mean, don't expect too much, it's still a very solid 7/10. But the thing it understands best is it actually takes enough time at the beginning of the film to develop extensive cast of weird characters so once they all get thrown into the blender (cocaine bear) you actually care enough about them and what's going on to care about the outcome.
So many movies these days forget you really need to care about those characters.
Fun time, give it a go some night when you're bored and got nothing else to do.
The honesty and realism that they wrote into the scene where that dude was trying to find a way to climb down from the roof of that gazebo was moving and inspiring.
Can I ask you an honest question. I got loose definition in my head of what "campy" means. But could you break it down without Google fucking it up for me?
Camp is when a movie maybe isn't good, but you still want to give it a gold star for trying. It's making a joke and you're laughing with it more than you're laughing at it (but you're still laughing at it). Even stuff like The Room by Tommy Wiseau which I think most people agree is a pretty bad movie; it still comes from a place of sincere vision.
This is in contrast to stuff like Epic Movie where it is trying so hard to be camp that it is just terrible instead. And this is all obviously subjective.
I'm gonna say Cruella. I'm sure lots of people always thought it was gonna be great, but not me. I absolutely expected it to be mediocre at best and I was so wrong. It's now one of my favorite movies.
I didn't expect it to have such a compelling story arc. It's amazing how they show the creation of a "villain" that you then sympethise with.
I also love the whole 70s punk style.
What we do in the shadows. The movie, not the show. If you like mockumentaries it's a must watch. Looks like garbage at times but it works very well for what they were going for.
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Probably not the answer you're looking for, but Puss In Boots 2. The second Shrek spinoff about the cat? Who honestly expected that to be such a banger
Lol now that you mention it, I didn't see the first Puss in Boots, but took my kids to see the 2nd in the theater. I distinctly remember thinking "God damn, this movie is fucking good for a sequel to a spinoff to a movie that had two mediocre sequels."
Clueless.
As if!
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