Nice try Disney.
Big Hero 6
Big Hero 7
Do I need to have seen Big Hero 1 thru 5 to appreciate this one?
Buckaroo Banzai
Big Trouble in Little China
I was so ready to see Buckaroo Banzai take on the World Crime League.
There is a book, but it wasn’t very good. :(
1st book adapts the movie:
Freaking loved big trouble in little China. Cult classic to the max. I thought the magic was so cool!
Big Trouble in Little China
The problem was the story itself was so self-contained any sequel they tried would have clearly been nothing but a huge cash grab.
But they supposedly are making a sequel, starring The Rock 🫤
Is this the one where he plays the physically fit, yet somewhat goofy protagonist with corny jokes and facial expressions?
If they cast the rock in a Big Trouble sequel, I’m becoming a terrorist. He will ruin any franchise with his ego.
Freddy Got Fingered. Absolute masterpiece.
♫ Daddy would you like some sausage? ♫
I got around to watching it a few years ago, and holy shit is it ever better than everyone says it is. It’s SO FAR ahead of its time—it feels like an early-to-mid 2010’s Adult Swim movie. Ebert can fuck right off, it’s a comedic MASTAPIECE.
I never saw it back in the days where it was sooooo critically panned. It seems to have aged swimmingly.
Wow. I caught it on a channel recently and watched the first 20 minutes and had to turn it off. That style of humor is so outdated imo. Tom Green’s comedy is just being awkward and repeating the same thing(s) over and over.
I’m glad you still enjoyed it though. I know it’s highly regarded as a cult classic. I just couldn’t stand it myself. I’m in my 40s btw, so I grew up during the Tom Green era of popularity.
I’m a bit younger, in my 30s. I also enjoyed the Tom Green show growing up. I think I might be biased because I love his antics and I was tripping acid when I saw it.
District 9
I might be in the minority but Chappie was a really good movie. It’s a real bummer Die Antword were so horrible to work with that the director kinda gave up on it.
I never understood why they thought it would be a good idea to have them in it. It’s not like they are known well enough to have a huge pull
I actually watched the movie because of them.
Stumbled upon the band on youtube, and I’d never heard anything like it before.Plus, their music videos are fucking sick!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcXNPI-IPPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXlZfc1TrD0I used to love them until the stories of them being fucking horrible people came out. They’ve been accused of rape, human trafficking and slavery.
so, average Cape Town citizens
I saw Chappie for the first time last week and was moderately devastated to find out there isn’t going to be sequels. It had so much style, humor and personality!
Bloody prawns!
I remember reading that they were trying to get District 10 done?
Yeah, but before the director made several more movies that were all bad. I don’t know how he keeps getting work.
And yet people keep giving Snyder money to make movies for stupid teenage boys.
I mean, stupid teenage boys will spend what money they have to hang out with their friends… So, it’s a viable audience.
Teenage boys deserve some love and movies!
Yeah, I was too harsh.
Yeah, that’s another that makes no sense to me. People largely dislike all his recent works. “Let’s give him a huge budget for a two part star wars fan fic!”
Snyder has an amazing eye for action. Sucker Punch, 300, and Watchmen were all amazing visual/auditory feasts. Everything else about his movies is just average to below average, though.
Giving him a Star Wars makes perfect sense when you consider what Disney thinks of the Star Wars audience. “Just give them laser sword and space ships and explosions and they’ll be happy.”
Blomkamp is better in every way. I think he got blacklisted because the money guys didn’t like his social commentary.
Blokamp is great at effects and story ideas, he’s not a good director. Even District 9 is a bit of a directorial mess but there’s enough interesting story there to overcome that. The rest of his films? Not so much.
Any moderately successful one that people remember.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Crimson Skies and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow have somewhat-similar settings, if you’re jonesing for Sky Captain dieselpunk American alt-history interwar air-carrier content and are not aware of it. Was just talking about Crimson Skies with someone on here the other day.
Funny story. I happen to have a bunch of Crimson Skies toys sitting in a box, all unopened. There was a comic shop near my job and they had a clear-out table that sold unpopular items at a steep discount. I got a bunch of T-shirts and other stuff, and liked the Crimson Skies stuff. For a buck each, why not?
The Golden Compass. I know it’s being done as a series instead but expected movies following the first.
Warcraft
Like the video game. It was actually a pretty good introduction to the lore, (which I only know surface level from playing the games and not digging real deep. So there may have been mistakes) and it was just about to get good, but, there just wasn’t enough interest to sink more money in the franchise.
I think going back to warcraft 1 was ultimately a mistake. If they did a part closer to where the wow story was it would have done better.
I thought the exact same thing after I watched it. Sadly, that same thought made me especially excited for the sequel… that never came.
I understand why they did it, but there’s just too much to absorb. I was a fan, and although I recognized some of the names, I wasn’t familiar with any of the characters besides Gul’dan.
The entire first movie should have been a 5-10 minute exposition. “It’s been X years since we came through the portal…” And instead we follow Thrall and Grom, and Uther while two factions battle for dominance! (and it’s been a while, so I forget what all happens in Warcraft 2)
Now that I’ve typed it all out, I’ve decided that if they could only make one Warcraft movie, but I got to pick which era, it would definitely be Arthas and the Lich King. That’s a good story.
Kind of a downer ending though for mainstream audiences
I recently watched this and was surprised how much I enjoyed it, I expected it to be terrible based on the reviews.
I saw Warcraft in theaters when it came out. I left the theater thinking that it was 6/10 at best.
Fast forward to 2021. I Saw that it had gotten better reviews since years ago, and I was thirsty for some nostalgia and was willing to give it another try. Turns out, I liked it more this time around. I believe that I had my expectations really high when I went to see it. Seconded watch, I gave it a 7.5/10.
I really liked how neither the Orcs or Humans were the bad guys. They painted both teams as equally sympathetic.
When we were following the Humans I was like “Yeah! Let’s crush those Orcs!” But then we start following the Orcs and I’m like “Watch out! Those asshole Humans are coming for you!”
I just watched it this weekend and it was far better than I expected.
Now Borderlands… That’s a different story.
I find this comment reassuring as I have said movie on my watchlist.
(My Warcraft knowledge is about almost finishing Warcraft III, for some reason I always leave it close at the end, or at least I think I am close.)
I got hooked on the franchise in Warcraft 2, played everything since.
We’re like evil twins! I haven’t played any Warcraft SINCE Warcraft 2!
But did you put the disk in a CD player for bitchin’ driving tunes?
Only for the secret disco track
What what what what what do you want?
Why do you keep touching me?
I said that on my wedding night.
My bride, “Zug zug”.
I’m way too late on this one but I’m going with Battle Angel Alita.
Jonn Dies at the End
Salt (Angelina Jolie)
I thought it was a pretty decent film…
Fight Club
Flash Gordon.
Dredd. Karl Urban absolutely nailed that role, and all without ever showing the top half of his face.
Sadly Dredd didn’t make enough money to recoup their production costs, while it was in theaters. It’s been estimated that Dredd made around $20 million in the Home Market. This means how many DVD and Blu-ray sales they made. I wasn’t able to find any info on streaming numbers unfortunately.
I still hold out hope that a sequel is made and released before the end of the decade.
If Dredd is the movie I’m thinking of, I would assume VHS sales outpaced both Bluray and dvd sales combined! Didn’t that movie come out in 1995?
That was Judge Dredd. They’re talking about the remake, I think.
Aye, the 2012 movie staring Karl Urban, not the 1995 dumpster fire starring Stallone.
It’s probably because I was drunk when I watched Judge Dredd in the theater, but I seem to remember liking Stallone in that. I thought that Dredd was just a worse rip-off of The Raid, but then I read somewhere that they basically co-evolved to a similar thing.
Judge Dread was a fine movie for people who are into that sort of movie (and I am) but it was a pretty terrible adaptation of the comics.
As a Stallone movie it’s entertaining in a “brain off eat popcorn” way, same sorta feel as Demolition Man (which was fun). It’s only once you understand the material that it’s supposed to be adapting that you feel like you were cheated.
That makes sense. I enjoyed the first Tom Cruz Reacher movie. Then I read a handful of the books, and was just very disappointed in the casting.
I can’t see anyone mentioning Titan A.E. man I love that movie, the mix of hand drawn animation and CGI was great for the time and I really enjoyed the world building.
Oh wow I would have loved that
