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Event Horizon
Dredd
That movie was killed by poor marketing that played up nothing but the 3D aspect of it. They even named it in the trailers as Dredd 3D.
All they had to do is air the first 30 seconds of the movie as a trailer and it would have been off to the races…
I recently watched an analysis of “2010 The Year We Make Contact” and I have to agree with the premise that this is actually an interesting movie. It’s got a stellar cast that put in good performances.
I also love the retro futurism vibe with CRTs and Apple IIc’s. This has to be a conscious choice to make the audience relate more to the situation by bringing in some current day tech. The future feels less far off, and less sterile.
Its sin is in trying to unravel and ground some of the mystery of 2001. But the HAL of this film feels a lot more like the creepy AI of today, and less like magic.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
That was such a fun watch
So many movies that are panned by critics and people searching for the next Citizen Kane dont deserve their reputations.I liken it to food, if the chef set out to make Pepperoni Pizza then you have to review it as Pepperoni Pizza. If you review it as “the worst soup I ever had” then its not a bad pizza, you’re a fucking idiot.
Some movies are just “good fun” they arent trying to be something they arent or break new ground in cinema. I love the White Men Cant Jump remake because its fun.
Edge of Tomorrow didn’t do great when it was in theatres but turned into something of a ‘cult classic’ years later. I didn’t know what to expect going in but enjoyed it quite a bit.
Such a horrible title for a decent movie. Then they tried to rename it for home video and just made it worse! It’s like they hired the team that names Microsoft products.
They’re actually, finally working on a sequel!
Big Trouble in Little China. Was expected to be the smash hit of 1986, but poor marketing killed it. Perhaps it was also a decade or three ahead of its time.
Babylon. Everybody hated it, I loved everything about it. The excess, the color, the sprawling epic, the acting, the music. Underrated, underappreciated masterpiece, there will be a re-appraisal at some point.
Evolution. The David Duchovny one
Did that flop? Think it did ok here in the UK.
The Star Wars Solo movie. They barely marketed for it, iirc, which is a shame, because I thought it was pretty good! And it set up stories that I’ll be bummed we don’t get to see play out. Plus Donald Glover as Lando was beautiful casting
I avoided it for a long time, finally watched it, and loved it. Why do I ever listen to anyone else?
I found the other person who liked the Solo movie besides me!
There are
dozensones of us!
My kid and I argue about this. He hates it, but I think you gotta come at it like Han is telling the story. Not my favorite SW movie, but way better than a lot of the other filler we got. Its a fun movie told by an outrageous liar.
That movie was terrible.
Naaah, hard disagree. I saw it some time ago finally, it was bad. Not as terrible as the latest trilogy, mind you, but not much better either.
Yeah, I know a lot of people didn’t like it. I thought the sequel trilogy wasn’t very good, especially the third. I think it suffered a lot from changing directors. I would have liked to see a trilogy wholly directed by Rian Johnson
Treasure Planet
Idiocracy
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Huge loss in cinema, big win when it get out in DVD. It make so little money that universal changed how they write movies after that
“He punched the highlights out of her hair!”
John Carter didn’t deserve the hate it got. It wasn’t a masterpiece, but it got done dirty.
Blade Runner 2049 is a masterpiece.
i thought that of the first one too. for that matter, i also loved 1980s dune and don’t care who knows it
Yeah I like the original Dune very much too. But it’s not a masterpiece. Just an underrated flick full of great actors.
But I will say this: even if you think 1984 Dune was meh, go watch Villeneuve’s version with the most unconvincing Paul Atreides in the history of unconvincing actors (Timothy Chalamet), the appalling Lady Jessica with zero expressions and zero acting skills (Rebecca Ferguson), and Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto who manages the incredible feat of being as shit in Dune as he was in Star Wars.
Then watch David Lynch’s again: you’ll enjoy it all the more.
yea, i saw the villenuve dune and wasn’t nearly as impressed as i was with 2049. aside from your points that i agree with, jason momoa turns every character into a goofy knucklehead, which is expected, but i wasn’t expecting to be let down by josh brolin who was awesome as cable and agent K. maybe i was just spoilt by patrick stewart’s gurney halleck
@U7826391786239 @movies I actually liked the movie, but you have a point with Patrick Stewart.
i didn’t mean to imply it was bad, just had some missteps i think. it’s definitely leagues better than the sci fi channel miniseries whose “selling point” was william hurt as duke leto, who dies right away
