I think for me it’s alien: covenant. I was really interested in the ideas explored in prometheus and covenant just expanded on them. I don’t get much into the details of why it is or isn’t a good movie.
Luckily, though, HBO ran raised by wolves which really delved into ideals about AI and planet seeding etc. So that itch got way scratched even if the run was cut short.
I’d be in the 9% that rated Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus 10 on imdb.
I had to buy the DVD a second time as someone stole my first one it is that good.
Although usually spoofs don’t get any good rating I think this one should be an exception:
Scary movie 3
It honestly did it better than the movies it was making fun of.
Also, crack high voltage is way more fun than the rating lets on.
Please tell me you’ve seen Scary Movie 1 & 2?..
Oh for sure, the first 3 are great, and I’ll even give some credit to 4.
But 3 was peak, there is no scene that feels half baked. Even the subtle gags like the hat getting bigger became a classic.
Freddie Got Fingered. SOOOO ahead of its time. I love Tom Green.
Daddy would you like some sausage?
Oh yes, that fucking leg break tonguing.
The movie was filmed down the street from where I grew up, so maybe for that reason or just for whatever lack of parenting reason, I watched this movie multiple times at the age of like 8 or 9.
I turned out okay, everything is fine. I think I need to rewatch it to check exactly in which ways it fucked me up.
I understand praising the movie, but what about it was “ahead of its time”?
You’re probably being sarcastic but the two guys that already commented on here are totally Fanboys of Freddy got fingered which is you know probably not good.
I’ve always thought percy jackson and the Olympians was alright. Sure it’s not exactly a 1:1 with the books but I enjoyed them
Sure it’s not exactly a 1:1 with the books but I enjoyed them
Lol. Agreed.
The weird part is that it’s nearly a perfect remake for like the first 40 minutes. You can almost call out almost the exact moment when they ran out of budget and decided to CGI bullshit their way through remaining minutes of runtime.
- Michael Mans ‘Miami Vice’ 2006. Absolute shit rating is probably to hard, but the reviews back then were underwhelming (I remember ‘style over substance’ as a quote)
- The original XXX with Vin Diesel. It feels that nobody got the joke, that it is a parody of the James Bond movies, although a James Bond look alike literally gets killed within the first scenes of the movie…
Bloodsport.
What a great movie! It was also well received by the audience not critics 0, was a financial success and kickstarted Jean-Claude Van damme’s career.
Let’s not even talk about the soundtrack conceivably one of the best pieces of written music ever made.
(Anybody who’s actually ever listen to the soundtrack is currently nodding their heads)
Weekend at Bernie’s, I really like it.
Not the worst rating at around a 60% on Rotten Tomatoes and around a 6.5 on IMBD, but I absolutely without question love An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.
Definitely a fun “sequel” with a lighter tone than the original. Though I will definitely say the Native American mice scenes are definitely outdated and a product of their time if you ask me.
Reminiscence - gotta admit the story kinda fell on flat note, especially with all the potentials in their world building, but I think it’s a work of art
Ad Astra - yes, it’s like Apocalypse Now (i.e. Into The Heart of Darkness) with a zest of daddy issue, but visually, they got some absolutely magnificent cinematography
Josie and the Pussycats.
Rated 5.7 by people who had no clue what it was saying at the time. I feel like if it was released in today’s pop culture environment it would fare far far better.
It’s far more satirical, clever and funny than an Archie adjacent bubblegum pop movie has any right to be.
You are not the first person I have read say it about that movie, so I am definitely going to have to check it out.
I’m your back door lover
Dr Suess The Cat in The Hat with Mike Myers
Any film where people ride around on rollerskates in a post-apocalyptic society.
I’m especially partial to SolarBabies (1986), but I’ll also accept ‘Roller Blade’ and ‘Prayer of the Rollerboys’, where young Patricia Arquette and downsloping Corey Haim don the skates. Rollerball from 1974 is the Citizen Kane of this genre. The 2002 remake with LL Cool J is its red headed step-child.
Even though it’s not apocalyptic, Airborne (1993) is one of my all time favorite movies. The main character is great, Seth green is in it, Britney Powell, Chris Conrad, young Jack black, Alanna ubach (from Waiting). It’s about a high school surfer from Cali who gets shipped to Ohio for 6 months and has to fit in. Hilarious and just amazing. I’m not gay, but Shane McDermott… It’s also amazing he went into real estate, I thought he played a great character on screen. All about rollerblading since nowhere to surf.
Oh my god I saw that a long time ago, I just checked the trailer and it is what I remember.
Even as a teenager I remember thinking that the final race was absolutely unhinged. Like what about the enormous pile of dead or maimed teenagers that the camera cut away from just in time to maintain its G rating?
In the trailer there’s a bunch of kids that slide under a moving semi trailer but lose too much momentum to make it out the other side, or it looks like they do. We never see what happens to them. Main character even looks back at them for a second, just long enough to see that they’re still on the ground and not moving but fuck them because our hero made it and he’s on his way! Huzzah!
I mean the movie is memorable, it’s fun and all, but that scene just lost me so hard. Like actually maybe fuck everyone who thinks this race is a good idea and worth winning. They can have their race, and I will win the broader game of natural selection.
Thank you for that recommendation. I do remember watching it on video, probably about the time it came out. Then absolutely wrecking myself on a hill after I took the brake off my own skates. Fun times indeed. Did not remember Jack Black or Seth Green being in it though. Also you are totes not gay for 90s Shane McDermott. Understood.
Seth had shoulder length red hair lol
I’m… At a loss for words but I’ll screenshot this and put everything on my bucket list
Great! :D Good to hear that this weird niche from the trash-heap of cinematic history may yet claim another victim.
Funnily enough, the day before you posted this, I was reminded of Return To Oz (I was at the zoo and someone… Scared the crap out of me). That’s probably not exactly post apocalyptic or solarpunk, but definitely takes place after a societal collapse of Oz and has creepy weirdos on something like rollerblades. Just in case you want to expand - or dare I say, roll towards the horizon.
Oh you mean these fucking guys? They went out of their way to make them especially scary. The whole film is infamous for being basically a kids horror film. Like the bit with the corridor with the disemmbodied heads of the witch all screaming as Fairuza Balk runs through it? Yea…
There seemed to be an era where traumatising children was part of the draw for the audience and I wonder if it has kind of died out. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was another one that my parents had to switch off.
I’m not the film police and your argument for its inclusion as ‘post-apocalyptic but fantasy’ is all cool. So yes I will take it and roll, awkwardly across sand and gravel, mud and debris, into tomorrow’s ongoing dystopia.
I had totally forgotten about solarbabies… and tonight I’m gonna make sure to drink enough to forget it again.
the 80s man… phew
I love every stupid minute of SolarBabies.
“You are Chikani!” is one of my favorite badly-delivered bad movie lines.
If you have not heard the episode of How Did This Get Made about it, you should definitely give it a listen: https://www.earwolf.com/episode/solarbabies-live/
Thank youI haven’t come across that podcast before. I will definitely check that out. It is a wonderfully silly film.
Not roller skates but I’m sure you’d dig Turbo Kid if you haven’t seen it.
Weekend at Bernie’s
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The movie, and the ACDC song wasn’t received well either, maybe because of the movie? Big Gun rocks.
That movie is so highly underrated.
The Hamlet trailer is worth watching it for alone.
One could argue it is a demonstrative of every 80’s action movie trope, then going straight into the 90’s tropes list, and it does so with a smile.
I don’t know how people couldn’t understand it was poking fun at all the ‘80s action heroes, especially Schwarzenegger himself. It’s a fun movie.
It’s a fantastic movie that was just a bit late for the spoof movies of the late 70s/80s and too soon for the torrent of them in the 2000s.
‘I am the famous comedian Arnold Braunschweiger’ is not only something I say to my wife without context but also makes me laugh uproariously.
