I’ll start: “Happy Death Day”
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot.
Dumbest movie title ever, but the best thing I’ve ever seen Sam Elliott do.
Star Trek First Conact
I disagree. This both looked and was awesome.
Exactly. It was one of my top three ST movies, and by all accounts. Ebert reviewed it positively, as one of the best of the franchise.
I wonder why they put it in the “looks like it’d suck” category?
Haters gonna find a way to hate? 🤷♂️
Well, by including it they imply they liked it, so I’m guessing not a hater. Just curious why they said it “looked like it would be bad”.
I was assuming they were knee-jerk reacting like “It’s Star Trek, so it must be terrible,” and then found out otherwise. I could be wrong though.
As a Trekkie it looked awesome to me but to my civilian friends it looked like made for TV garbage, then they saw it and loved it
I think people are missing that this movie is spelled differently than “Star Trek First Contact”.
Star Trek First CONACT was a cheap, B-movie knock-off straight to DVD movie that should have sucked, but didnt.
Angela Lansbury was not nominated for an Oscar for her preformance as the Captain, but Brooke Shields notably was also in the movie as an alien.
Wait, what are you saying. There is.a.dooferent movie named “first conact”? (Google didn’t help me)
Mile 22. Died at the box office and I’d heard nothing but bad things about it. Saw a DVD at the library and a stranger suggested it to me.
Seriously good thriller with action, intrigue, and some great acting.
Population 436, kind of a revamp of The Lottery but it does things a bit different along the way. It actually has Fred Durst as a cast member and he killed his role I think.
I watched Running Scared with Paul Walker at like 3am probably over fifteen years ago. I thought it was brilliant, really dark but fun.
Tremors
Looks like a B movie, cheesy horror flick.
It’s got a great cast with supurb acting. The script is easily one of the tightest ever written. Every line is important to the overall story. And it’s just fun to watch.
Came here to say exactly this. Only commented cause I can’t upvote twice.
There’s also Tremors 2: Aftershocks.
Plus there’s Tremors 3: Back to Perfection.
Followed by Tremors 4: The Legend Begins.
Then Tremors 5: Bloodlines.
Don’t forget Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell.
One might think Tremors: Shrieker Island, AKA Tremors 7: Island Furry (I spelled that wrong on purpose, it has nothing to do with furries) would be enough for Michael Gross to quit his acting career but how else was he going to pay for his ludicrous railroad memorabilia obsession and also the railroad he owns and the ‘safety first when crossing railroad tracks’ campaign?
So no, it didn’t end there. They kept the franchise going, choo! choo! with the imaginatively titled television series, Tremors: The Series.
If you skip the credits, you can watch all of it in less than 24 hours.
If you skip the credits, you can watch all of it in less than 24 hours.
LMAO, any Tremors fan around here?
The first sequel is so so, but the others that are all centered around Burt Gummer are plenty of silly fun too.
April Fool’s Day
Clerks. It should be some stoner Seinfeld flick but it actually lines up pretty well with La Divina Comedia and the dialogue, although sometimes a bit clunky, is very well written.
I’m not even supposed to be here today.
I assure you we’re open.
37?! Like, in a row?
“Try not to suck any dicks on your way to the parking lot!”
There are so many movies I could list but for now I’ll go with About Time. Everything about it makes it seem like it would be a dumb sappy romcom but it manages to hit hard.
This was a great one.
I’ve only ever watched it once, but this movie will haunt my mind until the day I die. Fucking amazing movie.
Absolute stealth hit. The last table tennis game… Man that hits hard.
This is my favorite movie. It’s the best that was ever written about mindfulness.
VVitch (=witch) Logan Eklavya (Hindi)
I’m going to have to make a list of the movies recommended here that I want to watch. Lots of interesting picks. Cool idea for a post.
A few that come to mind
2022 - Lovecraftian Horror/Dark Comedy/Fantasy - Glorious
2019 - Mystery/Horror/Thriller/- The Colour Out Of Space (or Color Out Of Space)
2015 - Action/Violence/Scifi - Hardcore Henry
2010 - Action/Violence - Machete
2010 - Action/Comedy/Romance - Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
2009 - Zombie Horror/Dark Comedy - George: A Zombie Intervention (or George’s Intervention)
2009 - Adventure/Fantasy/Scifi - Ink
1999 - Adventure/Comedy/Fantasy - Dogma
1997 - Action/Adventure/Scifi - The Game
All were really good movies that I myself initially passed over (numerous times even) before coming back a while later to be blown away on the first watch. Most of these I ordered on dvd as the credits were still rolling. I can list some more if you like any of these.
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
I didn’t think the trailer looked good and it felt meh, but I ended up loving the movie a lot.
It was super attentive to d&d details such as almost all the classes of the party using intelligence as dump stats or the specifics of the spells mechanics while also not needing the audience to know any of that to have a good time and understand what was going on.
And the use of d&d lore and mechanics were woven into the characters and narrative, it wasn’t just hey remember this thing from d&d. Way underrated, probably bad marketing.
Osmosis Jones.
A half-and-half cartoon and live action film with Chris Rock as the titular character from the late-90s/early-00s. The movie was a flop, but I think it had more to do with lousy marketing. It was actually pretty good and a fun way to look at how things affect the human body.
David Hyde Pierce as the enormous Pill was a great choice, and Bill Murray was hilarious.
I love this movie!
And Laurence Fishburne as Thrax. He was pretty horrifying when he would let loose and make people explode.
Around the time this came out, I, having had no idea about the movie or its premise, wrote a story that was along similar lines in creative writing. Specifically, it featured the immune system and other cells as characters and whatnot.
I was accused of ripping off the idea.
It was fantastic. The spin-off show was good too
The Ice Pirates.
Ron Perlman and one of the funniest fight scenes from the 80s.
