Repo Men... I mean what's not to like about Jude Law harvesting organs and delivering his "own brand of justice" hmmmmm?
Critically Panned Movies You Will Defend to the Death
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I'm not sure if Suckerpunch counts but it seems to get a lot of hate around here so I'll go for it. I don't care what anyone says, a film with demon Samurai mini-gunners and the Imperial German Steam-Reich is simply awesome.
STEAM REICH!!!
STEAM REICH!!!
Sucker Punch suffered because it hid a compelling metaphor behind tits and asses to attract and shock the people who usually see those kinds of films by make them, in a way, accesories to the rape of it's protagonists. Problem is, Snyder and his wife overestimated the capacity of said audience to detect a complex metaphor, especially when they have a prejudice against the film being, figuring it's shallow nerd-bait. This is the reason critics hated it too. If they would've only thought about what they were watching instead of being so dismissive...Legion said:
Incidently, a similar fate was suffered by another movie starring Emily Browning, called "Sleeping Beauty".
I think Halloween 3 is legitimacy a great film made by complete accident. It did have some great ideas (such as making the Halloween films not related and all more connected by theme, which would have saved the franchise), but most of the film's greatness is from the accidental enjoyment of the ridiculous. I think it's the mark of a good kind of older film, hell Evil Dead basically jumped onto the same things that make Halloween 3 great and look how that franchise turned out.
Also the film is actually better than the remakes from a pure film standpoint, although I think most critics would probably agree with me there.
Also the film is actually better than the remakes from a pure film standpoint, although I think most critics would probably agree with me there.
Lets see.
Wild Wild West: The movie was awesome, funny, and absurd in that good way where you see a steam-punk mecha-spider and don't bat an eye that it could exist there. Also, steam-punk mecha-spider for Gods sake, how can you not love that? Could have done without Will Smith in a dress though.
Land of the Lost: Don't get me wrong, I know this movie is shit, but dammit to hell if it's lame gags don't make me laugh every damned time. Honestly, it's less of a movie than it is a series of gags haphazardly strung together, as there is no real plot, but the gags work for me so I will always like it. The only real con is, probably admitting that I liked it to be honest.
Event Horizon: This movie scared the ever-loving-shit out of me the first time I saw it. Seriously, and it was the good kind of scared, seeing as I immediately watched it again. It just has that psychological am-I-going-insane-or-not edge that it never needed a big monster to fight, it was awesome. I honestly keep it on par with, well, not Alien, but at least Aliens for good sci-fi horror. Only real bad thing here? You can never look at the Normandy SR-2's drive core and feel anything but terror after you watch this movie. Seriously.
Wild Wild West: The movie was awesome, funny, and absurd in that good way where you see a steam-punk mecha-spider and don't bat an eye that it could exist there. Also, steam-punk mecha-spider for Gods sake, how can you not love that? Could have done without Will Smith in a dress though.
Land of the Lost: Don't get me wrong, I know this movie is shit, but dammit to hell if it's lame gags don't make me laugh every damned time. Honestly, it's less of a movie than it is a series of gags haphazardly strung together, as there is no real plot, but the gags work for me so I will always like it. The only real con is, probably admitting that I liked it to be honest.
Event Horizon: This movie scared the ever-loving-shit out of me the first time I saw it. Seriously, and it was the good kind of scared, seeing as I immediately watched it again. It just has that psychological am-I-going-insane-or-not edge that it never needed a big monster to fight, it was awesome. I honestly keep it on par with, well, not Alien, but at least Aliens for good sci-fi horror. Only real bad thing here? You can never look at the Normandy SR-2's drive core and feel anything but terror after you watch this movie. Seriously.
I'm surprised no one brought this up, but DAVID LYNCH'S DUNE.
The monstrosity of its awfulness is very much real, and its not helped by the fact that it hasn't aged very well. I only watched it once, and that was about 5 years ago. But I read the book before I watched it and thought to myself, "This will make a terrible movie" and it did! The book was plodding, self-indulgent and weird, which the film captured so well I actually admired the effort.
I kind of wanted Game of Thrones to be as terrible as this movie was so only the fanboys could get into it. Because you know, dirty unwashed plebs don't deserve to be exposed to weird things that only we should like and make obscure jokes about.
The monstrosity of its awfulness is very much real, and its not helped by the fact that it hasn't aged very well. I only watched it once, and that was about 5 years ago. But I read the book before I watched it and thought to myself, "This will make a terrible movie" and it did! The book was plodding, self-indulgent and weird, which the film captured so well I actually admired the effort.
I kind of wanted Game of Thrones to be as terrible as this movie was so only the fanboys could get into it. Because you know, dirty unwashed plebs don't deserve to be exposed to weird things that only we should like and make obscure jokes about.
Is it too late to buy a ticket for the Suckerpunch train, or has it already left the station?
It was too intelligent for the cinema going public and far too dumb for the movie intelligentsia, stuck in the middle in a sort of no man's land between what those two disparate groups of cinema goers want in a movie. I was kind of puzzled when some reviewers complained that they had to see the film more than once in order to work out what was going on as it all seemed rather self-explanatory to me.
It was too intelligent for the cinema going public and far too dumb for the movie intelligentsia, stuck in the middle in a sort of no man's land between what those two disparate groups of cinema goers want in a movie. I was kind of puzzled when some reviewers complained that they had to see the film more than once in order to work out what was going on as it all seemed rather self-explanatory to me.
