this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2024
500 points (98.4% liked)

movies

1717 readers
966 users here now

Warning: If the community is empty, make sure you have "English" selected in your languages in your account settings.

πŸ”Ž Find discussion threads

A community focused on discussions on movies. Besides usual movie news, the following threads are welcome

Related communities:

Show communities:

Discussion communities:

RULES

Spoilers are strictly forbidden in post titles.

Posts soliciting spoilers (endings, plot elements, twists, etc.) should contain [spoilers] in their title. Comments in these posts do not need to be hidden in spoiler MarkDown if they pertain to the title’s subject matter.

Otherwise, spoilers but must be contained in MarkDown.

2024 discussion threads

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
500
submitted 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) by Blaze@lemmy.cafe to c/movies@lemm.ee
 
(page 4) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 13 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Oh my God you guys you need to watch The Naked Man

I'm telling you it's fucking hilarious. I swear. Look:

Estranged pharmacist's son who is a savant at chiropractor by day/underground pro-wrestler by night goes on a murderous rampage to avenge his father's murder at the hands of a quadriplegic pharmacutical ceo and his elvis impersonator bodyguard.

He uses his knowledge of wrestling and the human skeleton to commit devastating chiropractic attacks on his enemies.

He's chased by a detective who's a genius but also clinically depressed and....You must watch this movie. I'm not crazy! It's amazing!

Please!

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Stop, you had me at the first paragraph.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Er, uh... wow.

The writer must've been on some serious hallucinogens! Haha

(off to find a copy...)

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Not as bad as watching a movie with friends when everyone else loved it and you were the only one who hated it lol. It feels so much more visceral.

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yep this is the downside of being a discerning film lover with a friend group that watches movies together. I had this experience recently when we saw Longlegs (2024) in theaters. One friend LOVED it (he has notoriously bad taste), two friends thought it was decent, and I thought it was mediocre.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

For us the infamous moment was Banshees of Inisherin. I thought it was mid. My wife hated it. Everybody else loved it.

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Yeah that film was bizarre; I liked aspects of it but overall thought it was too weird

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

My problem is that most movies I like were never universally panned, they were just sort of so so. Movies like Fandango. I really liked it but I think it got like a 5.5 on IMDB.

[–] aaaa@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I thought Speed Racer was visually fantastic, and did a good job capturing some of the feel of the original show while putting a more modern spin on it. John Goodman feels like he can do no wrong. I just had a good time with it the whole time through.

It seems most people didn't feel the same way I did

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I watched the Last Airbender movie before seeing the cartoon.

It's not a bad kung fu movie, except for the casting. Not great, but it was a fun watch. Now that I've seen the cartoon, I understand why the folx who grew up with it refuse to acknowledge it's existence.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Watch the netflix version!

And Korra!

Also. The Earth King has invited you to Lake Laogai.

[–] LotrOrc@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Your Highness for me

Universally got trashed but I honestly enjoyed it and still do on a rewatch

It's stupid and it's fantasy but it doesn't try to be anything else

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 20 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

Wagons East was one of my favourite movies growing up and my fam would watch it many multiple of times.

It has a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 8 hours ago

In a similar vein, I absolutely love John Candy's last film, Canadian Bacon. Every time I rewatch it I go "man I forgot how funny that film is!"

Checking rotten tomatos its not quite as badly panned as Wagons East! (0% critics / 33% audience vs 17% critics / 52% audience) but seems like a good candidate for this thread nonetheless

Brief synopsis:

The president of the United States has successfully ended every war the country is involved in and is facing abysmal odds of re-election, so his team decides to start a second cold war, this time against Canada. John Candy plays a former weapons factory employee now sheriffs deputy in Niagara Falls NY, laid off with his friends due to the plant closure, and seeing the propaganda, they decide sneak across the border to stir trouble in Canada, losing one of their team who's caught and taken for a free mental health evaluation in Ottawa, so now they must take a trans-canadian road trip to "save" her

[–] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, people don't like that movie?

That's like not liking Tommy Boy. Or Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] JoMiran@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago

Wagons East...

/thread

Pack it up y'all. We have a winner.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 16 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

I'm one of those people that thought Wet Hot American Summer was in the same league as Anchorman. Great cast, great music, littered with one-liners, just irreverant enough. It did eventually come out from under the radar but back in the early 2000s it was a total dud most people hadn't heard of

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] tyler@programming.dev 8 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

All of the 3 ninjas movies. I was telling my wife about them and was talking about how great they were (this was like a decade ago) and went to look them up. Like 0-35% on rotten tomatoes depending on which one.

3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain is particularly bad at 0% critic score, 29% audience score, and a 3 on IMDb.

I loved all the 3 ninjas movies so much though.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar 13 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Boondock Saints is such a movie, which is a crime

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 4 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Going to give an old example and a new example.

I remember liking the Aeon Flux movie. Don't remember too much about it, but I remember enjoying it, and favorably comparing it to Ultraviolet which came out around the same time. Recently I heard someone bring it up in a podcast as a terrible movie and it turns out it's pretty universally panned lol.

A more recent example is The Watchers. I thought it was pretty good and kept my interest the whole time, but seems pretty middling from reviews. A lot of people especially didn't like the ending, which I guess was kind of sudden, but still alright imo. Not noteworthy in being especially bad or anything.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I love Reign of Fire. And honestly I think the CGI has held up surprisingly well for a 2002 movie (although not at all perfect).

6.2/10 IMBD, 41% critic/49% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

One of McConaughey's most iconic characters. The fact he is introduced as a crazy evil antagonist but transitions to badass bro of the protagonist by the end of the movie is genius.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 10 points 14 hours ago

Great thread .... now I have a new movie list ... thanks

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 7 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Happen to me recently with "I saw the TV glowing" I tough it was a good movie, not 9 but maybe 8.5, apparently not, 5.5 by the IMDB voters.

That’s a lot of A24 stuff tbh. A lot of disagreements between critics and moviegoers, but that’s usually a sign that they’re doing something interesting

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments
view more: β€Ή prev next β€Ί