Kung Pow is a cinematic triumph
Edit: there's an animated cow so it counts
Kung Pow is a cinematic triumph
Edit: there's an animated cow so it counts
It may have a critical rating of 13% but it's audience rating is 69%.
Nice.
Yeah, but the audience is allowed to be high while watching.
"THAT'S A LOTTA NUTS!"
Rat Race is one of the funniest movies of all time, I didn't care what the ratings say.
Oh wow, it got bad ratings? 100% agree with you. Love that movie.
That's one of those movies that's better than it has any right to be. Remake "It's a mad mad mad mad world", and now we have Smashmouth? Nah.
Same with "Hot Tub Time Machine". Should be awful, is actually good.
Sometimes the reasons critics think movies are bad are actually features, not bugs.
I liked Thor Love and Thunder, something I've been clowned on for every time I say it lol. I get why a lot of people hate it but it was enjoyable to me.
The problem TL&T has is that it's in the MCU. Had it been a solo movie with no relation to anything else it would be better received... as a comedy.
Titan AE is at 61% on RT, but I fucking love it.
For me, Titan AE was the first Mandela effect. I clearly remember teaser trailers years before its release with a totally different art style. It looked like really good anime. Then once it dropped it was this weird amalgamation of Disney's Pocahontas and Fox The Simpsons. Still feels like a fever dream.
As I understand it, a couple hundred staff were laid off at the beginning of its final year of production. So a lot of the movie got outsourced instead of made by the people who started the film and did the trailers. Also, more than half the budget was spent before it went into full production. This may partially account for that bizarre discrepancy we had as kids looking at the trailer then seeing the full film.
Really? That's a classic.
The number of times I've watched a highly rated movie only to find it's not good. cough oppenheimer cough
watching oppenheimer felt like watching a 3 hour compilation of trailers for oppenheimer. everything was so dramatic, there was no downtime, and they always had some kind of music playing. it felt like every scene wasn’t allowed to last more than 5 minutes
I really enjoyed Oppenheimer and I'd say it's highly rated because it is good and lots of people enjoyed it, however nothing can please everyone and there's nothing wrong with that. You not enjoying the popular thing doesn't make it bad.
Nah, if I don't like it then it isn't good. /s
Loved RDJ in it though
My general personal rule is "If I'm entertained then it's good" hmrm I don't care what anybody says.
Not animated, but since you've hit the frontpage and everyone else seems to be ignoring that...
1994's Street Fighter. It's terrible, but Raul Julia hams his way out of the screen for you. It's Street Fighter: The Pantomime, and it's glorious.
Between that, Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers, and Alan Rickman in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, I can't decide which of them was best at saving a mediocre cocaine fuelled movie by playing a panto villain in the midst of undeserved po-faced seriousness.
Anything fourth wave Marvel, people were done after infinity wars and just shit on anything since because it's too much nerddom on their systems. I still loved she-hulk but people didn't.
This was Sucker Punch for me
I still can't tell if Sucker Punch is an ingenious retelling of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or an excuse to film scantily clad women while pretending you have something serious to say, but it's certainly fun to watch.
Tbh, from all the shit Snyder has released since. It's mostly just spectacle for spectacles sake, but I had fun watching it, and the story inside a story inside a story aspect was fun
My rule is that if the critic score is too high I won't like it, and the audience score needs to be higher than the critic score and we have a banger on our hands
The Aladdin live action remake was shat on mercilessly by the internet, but I thought it was a fun, true to the spirit of the original while introducing a few new ideas to keep it interesting, and (imo very respectfully) stayed out of Rob William's lane by not trying to recreate his genie. And Will Smith did a great job with his version.
/shrug
I didn't really follow the online conversations around the movie, but I did watch it and it's not entirely that long ago since I watched the animated movie either. If I was to try to judge the movie without the context of the orighinal, I'd say it was fine, nothing about it was terrible but I also didn't find anything about it particularly good or memorable. I think Will Smith did a fine job and I don't think he'd be anywhere near the top of the list of what I would criticise about the movie in that case.
But I do think context matters, and in context I think it comes out looking pretty poor. Genie as written for the live action movie pales in comparison to the animated one. In terms of craft I think the live action one feels like a soulless board-room directed husk, and I really miss the feeling of a creative voice in the whole thing.
If you're going to remake something, I it should be better, or enough of a reinterpretation to be considered distinctly different.
I am glad others liked it, but if I someone asked me which they should watch I would tell them the original animated movie because I think it is a better piece of entertainment, and that makes the modern one feel like an absolute waste of time, money, skills and effort that could have been spent so much better.
We're back: a dinosaur story
Rock-a-doodle
The Pagemaster
Once upon a forest
Aladdin 2 and 3
Jetsons: The Movie
I'm probably overrating these because I saw them as a kid.
I never saw The Pagemaster as a kid and my wife introduced me to it at 32 years old. It holds up!
You just remind me I should check Tales from Earthsea.
By the way, congrats for this post, getting nice traction!
I love Van Wilder. The soundtrack is top-notch, it has superstar talent, and quite frankly, it's basically Deadpool without the superhero stuff. Last I checked it was below 20% on RT.
It's what? That's an all-time great comedy that I still quote. I tell people that worrying is like a rocking chair unironically.
Write that down.
As it happens, I just discovered this nice chap: https://youtube.com/@CinemaWins "Because liking things is more fun than not liking things."
Not animated, but trust me, if you'd actually watched Manos: The Hands of Fate, you would not have enjoyed it in any capacity.
Horror movies is a completely different scale. Subtract 2 for horror, just because. Witch sounds like a good horror title.
Subtract 2 for Horror
The long awaited sequel to Dial M for Murder.
Which, unfortunately, wasn't the prequel to V for Vendetta
Are we talking about the Ghibli Earthsea movie? I actually enjoyed it, even though I read the books when I was younger. It was an interesting way to tell a large part of the story and doesn't deserve the hate it gets IMO. But it's also not an amazing adaptation either, it's in a weird spot.
Are you my friend? I've had to stop taking any of his movie or TV show recommendations without extra verification. He thinks that everything he watches is great. I kinda envy how he can enjoy literally any TV show or movie.
This was The Emoji Movie for my kids. I refused to watch it because of obvious reasons, but they insisted and totally liked it. I finally gave it a watch and... It was totally fine. Pleasant at times, even.
Exactly the same, I still love Tales of Earthsea. It has its issues compared to the book, but it's still great. My conspiracy theory is that it's a plot by Hayao Miyazaki fans to discredit his son since the father didn't like it.
I really liked Under Ninja recently. Everyone's been shitting on the adaptation because it looks weird, telling to read the manga, but the manga is just as weird. The adaptation is really keeping the same vibe.
I like the Vin Diesel film xXx. It's loud, dumb, and nothing like what I usually enjoy, but somehow it manages to scratch enough mental itches that I'll watch the whole thing through every few years.
Having different tastes than professional tv & movie critics isn’t a sin.
If you like something that Rotty Ts hates, that’s fine. If you despise something they adore, that’s fine too. It’s not like you’re being mean to someone’s puppy.
To be fair, sometimes we get lucky enough to get stuff made by Autistic artists for us Autistic people and it doesn't do well in the general audience, but we absolutely love it. Our tastes in some things are just a little different. Absurdist comedy, or left-field mysteries... and the emotional writing or acting might feel completely off for normal people, but we won't notice it. We like normal people stuff too, but I got a special place in my heart for stuff that was clearly made by another Autistic person.
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