John carter
Alita battle angel!!
Kubo And The Two Strings. It’s legitimately beautiful, well done, tells a heart wrenching story, and the owner of the studio does it for the art, not to make money.
Donnie Darko
Dredd
That movie was killed by poor marketing that played up nothing but the 3D aspect of it. They even named it in the trailers as Dredd 3D.
All they had to do is air the first 30 seconds of the movie as a trailer and it would have been off to the races…
Event Horizon
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
The movie was fine, but damn, all i could see was that they tried to be a marvel movie so bad. People love quips, everyone needs to have quips. Has anyone said: thank god he’s on our side yet? Shit that’s brilliant, put that in.
That was such a fun watch
And so clever in the way it Easter eggs the game.
Josie and the Pussycats
I recently watched an analysis of “2010 The Year We Make Contact” and I have to agree with the premise that this is actually an interesting movie. It’s got a stellar cast that put in good performances.
I also love the retro futurism vibe with CRTs and Apple IIc’s. This has to be a conscious choice to make the audience relate more to the situation by bringing in some current day tech. The future feels less far off, and less sterile.
Its sin is in trying to unravel and ground some of the mystery of 2001. But the HAL of this film feels a lot more like the creepy AI of today, and less like magic.
Edge of Tomorrow didn’t do great when it was in theatres but turned into something of a ‘cult classic’ years later. I didn’t know what to expect going in but enjoyed it quite a bit.
I have a problem with that movie: a read the book before seeing it. In the book the story is about a 20ish y.o. soldier, Vrataski is a teen and the ending is completely different.
Such a horrible title for a decent movie. Then they tried to rename it for home video and just made it worse! It’s like they hired the team that names Microsoft products.
The original name was live, die, repeat. And i think it goes way harder.
The original was called All You Need Is Kill, which also happens to be what the new animated movie is called. I always liked the weird name, but I can definitely understand needing to change it for a wider english-speakong audience.
They’re actually, finally working on a sequel!
Big Trouble in Little China. Was expected to be the smash hit of 1986, but poor marketing killed it. Perhaps it was also a decade or three ahead of its time.
Watched it very recently, the whole concept of Kurt Russell’s character was so fucking funny.
Spoilers
He’s just some random white dude somehow blundering into this mess, running around and being mostly useless. Lost my shit when he shot the roof in the final battle and dropped unconscious from falling debris.
So many movies that are panned by critics and people searching for the next Citizen Kane dont deserve their reputations.I liken it to food, if the chef set out to make Pepperoni Pizza then you have to review it as Pepperoni Pizza. If you review it as “the worst soup I ever had” then its not a bad pizza, you’re a fucking idiot.
Some movies are just “good fun” they arent trying to be something they arent or break new ground in cinema. I love the White Men Cant Jump remake because its fun.
Babylon. Everybody hated it, I loved everything about it. The excess, the color, the sprawling epic, the acting, the music. Underrated, underappreciated masterpiece, there will be a re-appraisal at some point.
Babylon is easily one of my top 3 of all time. It was a ride from start to finish.
Exactly, I don’t understand why more people don’t love it. Mostly because they haven’t seen it, probably.
I did catch the NBA using the party music to promote the draft one year. I was like “What is that music, it sounds familiar…,” then I realized it was from the party scene at the beginning of Babylon.
The music honestly sold the movie in and of itself. The party scene music (“Voodoo Mama”) is just a straight up banger!
Treasure Planet
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Huge loss in cinema, big win when it get out in DVD. It make so little money that universal changed how they write movies after that
It was kind of the last in a long line of Universal movies that bombed at the box office and then went on to become cult classics after home video release.
My four favorites, in roughly five year increments:
Tremors Mallrats Josie and the Pussycats Scott Pilgrim vs the World
I am so, so glad that it has found cult classic status. It’s one of my absolute favourite films.
“He punched the highlights out of her hair!”
