The reverse of that post I’ve made a week ago…

Rules: pick one movie or series and explain why you actually enjoyed it despite the criticism.

For me: The JJ Abrams Star Trek movies, by far the best ST stuff ever made, I couldn’t take seriously the original universe with the dated effects and stiff acting, same goes for NG… These movies did ST actually great looking and much more believable, not just the effects.

  • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz
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    6 months ago

    Dare Devil, directors cut. I thought it was as good a super hero origins movie as any of the others.

  • dukeofdummies@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I won’t say it’s hated but I feel like it completely fell under the radar because of covid.

    Ron’s Gone Wrong

    I really liked it. It came out of 20th century studios, I suppose it’s technically under Disney now. It got released and no one gave it the time of day.

  • brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Breakin’

    Breakin’ 2 Electric Boogaloo

    Surf Ninjas

    All arguably bad. All enjoyable and I have a good time watching them.

  • Rakonat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Terminator Genesys. It’s loathed by terminator fans for a variety of reasons and I won’t defend any of the writing or casting decisions, but I do give it credit for trying to do something new with the story and time aspect. I think it could have been a lot better if they took a bit more time with it and recast a few characters, but overall it’s a popcorn flik to me, turn your brain off and enjoy.

  • psion1369@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Johnny Mnemonic. Keanu cannot act for shit in it, the story isn’t exactly gripping, hell the action in it is somewhere in the shitter. Oh, and Henry Rollins is a nerdy doctor. All if it adds up to a campy trip of slop that triggers my guilty pleasure.

  • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Jupiter Ascending. It was a low writing effort but big budget high fantasy with a slightly too perfect protagonist, “science” that makes absolutely 0 sense, and a cartoonishly evil villain just absolutely chewing the scenery which is pretty common, except most most of the time the protagonist is male. I loved seeing the equivalent of my 13 y/o mary sue fanfiction on a movie screen with a massive budget. Just this once. More than that would get as tired just as quickly as the male equivalent. But just this once it was delicious. I have the poster framed actually, the real poster from the theater, my friend who worked there saved it for me.

  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    Freddie Got Fingered was completely panned when it came out, but I absolutely loved it! It was so ahead of its time, Tim and Eric-style comedy.

  • AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Wild Wild West has a 16% on Rotten Tomatoes but I genuinely enjoy that film. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen also at 16% and also a movie I enjoyed

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 months ago

      League of Extraordinary Gentlemen aka How audiences unjustly bullied Sean Connery out of acting.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Wait, really? That was an excellent movie. I wanted them to build a franchise around it

        • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Indeed.

          Sean Connery’s agent had scored him the roles of Gandalf for Lord of the Rings and Morpheus in The Matrix, but turned them down due to feeling the plot was too complicated for audiences to follow. After both of these became money-printing machines, he picked League of Extraordinary Gentlemen despite still having problems with the script believing it would be as big as the other two films and that he wasn’t going to miss out on a solid payday three times in a row…

          League of Extraordinary Gentlemen would go on to be a box office bomb, and Sean Connery felt he was too “out of touch” with modern audiences to be an actor.

          There is good news though, if you want more from the franchise you’re in luck. As the movie itself was based off of a comic book which has pretty much the same plot.

          The only difference is the movie added “Tom Sawyer” to the group, he isn’t in the comic book and had been requested by executives so that there was a token American in the group, fearing audiences wouldn’t be able to relate without a member from the good ol’ US of A.

          • AA5B@lemmy.world
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            6 months ago

            Tom did seem kind of tacked on there, rather than fitting with the rest. But of course the executives were right, my American pride liked the symbolism of the ending

    • Landless2029@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Fun fact. Will Smith passed up playing Neo in the Matrix for WWW. I think we got the better deal but it’s fun to picture it.

    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      No way ! WWW is a treasured childhood memory of mine, this rotten tomato guy can suck ass