Movie 43
The Core
It’s so fucking stupid that it is like a Trainwreck you can’t look away from.
I wouldn’t describe The Core as a trainwreck. The premise is the dumbest shit imaginable but somehow they managed to make an enjoyable film. The cast is great. It makes for a solid background movie to help you get though house chores or other menial work.
And I love it. Its the core or the martian if you don’t know what to watch.
Godzilla vs Megalon
It’s been years since I saw it, but it was my jam as a kid. Some sea people are mad and send their giant beetle thing, Megalon, to attack the surface, the sea people (Seatopians) also get help from aliens that send their kaiju, Gigan, to assist. A size changing robot, Jet Jaguar, gets his ass beat but Godzilla comes to the rescue in the nick of time. The end battle is a straight up WWE tag team matchup with kaijus!
Plus the movie ends with Jet Jaguar’s bad ass theme song and a freeze frame!
I hate to break it to you, but those are just actors in suits. That isn’t even the real Godzilla!
Nooooooo! This is fake news. FAKE NEWS!
I once made a list of 7 movies that fit this criteria.
The Room, because duh. This movie is great because it is so terrible and sincerely thinks it is great. The story behind the movie is just as fantastic. If you must, get a hold of The Disaster Artist as an audio book. It is fantastic. Ignore and forget that piss tier James Franco movie that the book was based on. The book is so much better and it is hysterical to listen to in Greg’s own voice + his Tommy impressions are perfect.
Winter’s Tale - a supposed Adaptation of a Shakespeare play or something. In reality it is the most chaotic and hilariously terrible movie I can think of, complete with terrible Colin Firth haircut and Will Smith as an edge lord Devil. And so many more great things. I had a blast watching this one.
Jupiter Ascending. If I remember correctly, it was made by the siblings who made the Matrix and it is the most nonsensical sci-fi turd ever, but man is it funny. Unintentionally, might I add. I don’t remember much from this film other than laughing so hard I was crying.
The Wicker Man woth Nick Cage. I love the original. That one is genuinely great and terrifying. The Nick Cage one is a clown show and no one can tell me that it isn’t funny to see Nick Cage in a bear suit, punching women.
Show Girls. For obvious reasons. A total and utter mishandling of a very serious and at times horrific subject matter, but mishandled so poorly it surpasses being offensive and falls straight into hilarity.
Breaking Dawn Part 2. Martin Sheens laugh. Renesmee doll that was replaced with CGI horror. Grown man imprinting on a baby. Martin Sheen’s laugh. Fakeout fight scene that made all the dead serious fangirls scream and cry in the cinema on release. “You nicknamed my daughter after the loc nest monster??” Also, Martin Sheen’s laugh.
The Death Note Netflix Adaptation. I invited my anime friends to a watch along when this movie came out initially, because I knew what would happen when I did. The anger and outrage was interspersed with bewildered and hysterical laughter and replays of scenes that were so bad, nobody could believe their eyes. I was just there to sow the chaos at the time and harvest the reactions. It was wonderful.
Bonus movie: Velvet Buzzsaw, but it doesn’t count because I genuinely think this one is a great satire and I genuinely enjoy the movie. It’s just that almost everybody else who’s seen it, seem to loathe it with a passion. So it’s a reverse Killers of the Flower Moon for me, where everybody seem to love it, while I think it is total and utter ass. In both cases, I am left confused at the public opinion and I will stick with mine.
I think Jupiter ascending is a beautiful film, visually. Reincarnated princess falls in love with a space furry and Newt has mommy issues. Just mute it and play some music instead. There isn’t really a plot to miss.
I feel like Jupiter Ascending would have been such a good book
What do your friends think of Netflix’s One Piece? I liked the Avatar show, too, but One Piece I thought was excellent.
I think they liked that one. Only one of them was a one piece fan and she mentioned the Netflix one was decent. I haven’t seen it myself, so I trust her judgment.
Super Troopers. It is such a ‘I dont know how we got the money for this script but here we fucking go’ movie. Good fun, good laughs.
The first few minutes of that movie are comedic gold.
Demolition Man
I’ve loved this movie since I first saw it in the 90s. Thinking back on it, this movie really laid the blue print for Joss Whedon and James Gunn type MCU and DCU movies. Great action sequences, a good dose of humor, and decent story that doesn’t pretend to be anything more than a fun movie.
Battlefield Earth.
Travolta prancing around a B movie set high AF on scientology will never not be peak.
All the movies by Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill.
It doesn’t matter which one, because the plot is always the same.
Repo! The Genetic Opera. I stopped recommending it after five separate people all said they hated it lol
Struggling with whether to up vote or down vote, because Repo is an amazing movie. Its definitely not for everyone, though, so I would give a recommendation without knowing the person’s taste.
Fascinating, because I’ve watched this movie with multiple people and never had any of them dislike it. I can’t say it’s a good movie but it’s certainly a experience
I love this movie and I will never stop recommending it
One of my friends in college loved this movie! He showed it to me and I loved it too.
My other friends don’t like it.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man.
Pure. Fucking.
MagicInsanity.At first glance I thought this said “The Iron Giant” and I was about to throw hands
How is Tetsuo ‘objectively terrible’?
Personally, I think it’s a masterpiece. No notes. The people I’ve shown it to, on the other hand, have expressed different opinions.
Maybe it’s the movie equivalent of “acquired taste”. I loved it, even if the sound design gave me a headache, but I can’t imagine anyone who doesn’t already actively seek out strange movies enjoying it LOL
If it’s your thing then it’s perfection, top to bottom, but if it’s not your thing then it’s kind of a nauseating nightmare from what I’ve been told.
Reminds me of when I showed my ex Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place, the greatest tv event in world history, and her response was “I was waiting for it to be funny.”
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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance - one of the worst Marvel adaptations, but also one of the most unintentionally funny movies of all time.
Nic Cage trying to stop an old man from getting inside a little boy?
Establishing that any vehicle Ghost Rider drives gets a hellish makeover so they can have a flaming Bagger 288 for an action set piece?
Pure cinema.
Suicide Squad featuring Will Smith. Dog water movie but it gets my monkey brain somehow
They really had something there with Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. The aesthetic of the movie is cool, I didn’t hate watching it in theaters even though it’s pretty dumb.
Robot jox is hilariously irredeemable. I watched it again recently and it was horrible. I’m going to watch it again later in life when I forget that because I’ve convinced myself it is not.
I rented Doom with The Rock and Karl Urban when it went to video and proceeded to watch it like 6 times.
Ice Pirates, I know, I know. But I can’t help it.
The 1984 film? Wow. Haven’t thought about that in forever. Kid me loved it.
Yarp! We recorded it from HBO on VHS, back in the day and watched it a bunch.
