Films you would like to see on Movie Defense Force

[Olas]

Ang Lee's Hulk.

The story was unnecessarily convoluted, the comic panel style was a giant blunder, and some of the acting was cringeworthy to a fault. Yet I still kind of like it, and most definately prefer it over The Incredible Hulk.

I 100% second this. Ang Lee's Hulk is a spectacle to behold, in both a good and bad way. If you can let some of the crazy silliness slide, you have a truly entertaining and emotional action epic. The fight scene in the desert is one of the best in any movie I can remember. Really, it's sequel is a flat formulaic bore by comparison.

Star Trek: Nemesis. It's been almost universally panned by everyone and I have no clue why. It's a fun movie with an interesting villain, some clever twists, and a sweet final battle sequence. Sure it takes a few too many obvious cues from Wrath of Khan, like...

Spoiler: Double Spoiler

Data sacrificing himself the way Spock did.

But there are a lot worse movies it could be taking inspiration from.


Pirates: At World's End Ask anyone what they hated about that movie, they'll say it's plot was too convoluted and hard to follow. Nevermind the fact that this could also be said of most Christopher Nolan movies, the plot really isn't even that complex, and you don't need to completely understand every detail of it to enjoy the movie either. The third pirates movie has more action, more humor, and more drama than either of the first two. And it's musical score is simply beautiful, probably one of the best soundtracks period.

Matrix Reloaded: People say the 2 Matrix sequels are bad, but really it's Revolutions that they're thinking of. Reloaded, in it's own right was a decent, I'll even say worthy, successor to the original. It maintains the level of action and mystery that made the original good while introducing creative and interesting new concepts, characters, and lore. It's only because Reloaded leads directly into Revolutions that people have trouble separating them, but if Revolutions had been good Reloaded wouldn't be getting the shit it is today.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

The Wachowskis' Speed Racer. I think it's a structurally flawed but brilliant movie, with a unique and trippy visual style and huge entertainment value.

Saying this on the Internet, however, tends to result in long tirades about live action anime adaptions, even longer tirades about how this movie represents everything wrong with humanity, and uncreative insults regarding my mother's character.

So it'd be nice to hear Jim give one of my favorite movies some love.

Oh no, quite the opposite, i liked Speed Racer. It was fun. Some scenes were a bit too "kid movie" for my taste but if some one made the effort to edit out all the scenes that have the kid brother in them it would be one of my favourite action movies.

Other than that? MovieBob already did Sucker Punch, Southland Tales would be nice. Not sure if The Lovely Bones is unpopular enough for the show but i think it needs more love. The Cell too. It was everything i wanted Inception to be.

 

[teebeeohh]

wait a minute... this is a stealth thread, this is a "movies i liked but nobody else did" thread claiming to be something else.and i hate those threads since they usually revolve around people telling me why i didn't like a movie and why i am stupid because of that.
and Movie defence force has a certain number of episodes in it, movies Jim thinks are better than their reputation and if he is done with those the show will stop

 

[Scarim Coral]

I too vouch for Litter Nicky. I shouldn't be ashame for owning it on DVD!

Also I throw in The Butterfly Effect aswell, sure it didn't had a list cast but I like the message in the film!

 

[Leemaster777]

Also, Little Nicky. It always mystified me that alot of people hate this movie, I think it's funny as hell, and easily my favorite Adam Sandler movie.

What about the rest of you? Remember, it's gotta be movies that you LEGITIMATELY like (not ironically, or "so bad it's good" movies).

Wait...really? People legitimately dislike that movie? It was fucking great!

Yeah dude, I was surprised too. It's got an IMDb rating of 51%, and a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 22%.

Also, seeing so many people on this site vouching for the movie warms the cockles of my heart. I don't think I've ever seen this many people who like Little Nicky together in one place.

 

[Orks da best]

The star wars prequels, That is all I would want from Jim.

Enough beating them already. They not bullies that took ya money, they just decent to good films.

 

[soren7550]

Maybe Pocahontas? * shrugs* I mean yeah, it's probably the weakest of the Disney Renaissance, it doesn't really follow history, it's a bit dumb (I'm looking at you animal sidekicks), but holy shit it looks good, the songs are awesome, the instrumentals are equally good, and the acting is nice and solid. Not to mention it's probably one of the few Disney movies that has an on screen death, so that may count for something.

 

[Cabisco]

Final Fantasy; Spirits Within: Now this one is a more universally hated movie so this is probably a better example. I swear, if you remove the Final Fantasy name, I think the movie would have been much better received. I liked it a lot and never really got the hatred.

I agree, I have fond memories of seeing that in the cinema thinking it was all very pretty and such but then again I was quite young at the time so perhaps I didn't see all the apparent problems others did.

For my contribution I'd say Waterworld, it was an alright movie with a pretty cool idea and I don't think I've seen another movie quite like it. Again though I was pretty young so anything that had a badguy with a submarine was pretty decent in my eyes.

I feel as though I should go watch this series, it sounds pretty interesting.

 

[Jazoni89]

Heavy Metal

The plots convoluted, and it's juvenile and sexist as all hell, but god damn isn't it fun as hell to watch.

It's sad that most prudish people take it far too seriously, and totally miss the point of it. The animation itself was way ahead of it's time, and it makes me feel that the film was made much later than it was. Considering Nausicaa came out three years later.

Also, Kung Pow would make a good Movie Defense Force, as it is also another cult classic that get's unjustified hate on it from time to time.

Also, Little Nicky. It always mystified me that alot of people hate this movie, I think it's funny as hell, and easily my favorite Adam Sandler movie.

What about the rest of you? Remember, it's gotta be movies that you LEGITIMATELY like (not ironically, or "so bad it's good" movies).

Wait...really? People legitimately dislike that movie? It was fucking great!

Yeah dude, I was surprised too. It's got an IMDb rating of 51%, and a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 22%.

Also, seeing so many people on this site vouching for the movie warms the cockles of my heart. I don't think I've ever seen this many people who like Little Nicky together in one place.

I find that most people on Rotten Tomatoes are sheep who can't form their own opinions on films anyway.

 

[Techno Squidgy]

Also, Little Nicky. It always mystified me that alot of people hate this movie, I think it's funny as hell, and easily my favorite Adam Sandler movie.

What about the rest of you? Remember, it's gotta be movies that you LEGITIMATELY like (not ironically, or "so bad it's good" movies).

Wait...really? People legitimately dislike that movie? It was fucking great!

Yeah dude, I was surprised too. It's got an IMDb rating of 51%, and a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 22%.

Also, seeing so many people on this site vouching for the movie warms the cockles of my heart. I don't think I've ever seen this many people who like Little Nicky together in one place.

Little Nicky is one of my favourite films, probably because it's one of the earliest films I can really remember watching. I never used to be all that into movies and my cousin showed this to me and kind of got me into movie watching instead of spending ALL my time playing games.

 

[anthony87]

Also, Little Nicky. It always mystified me that alot of people hate this movie, I think it's funny as hell, and easily my favorite Adam Sandler movie.

What about the rest of you? Remember, it's gotta be movies that you LEGITIMATELY like (not ironically, or "so bad it's good" movies).

Wait...really? People legitimately dislike that movie? It was fucking great!

Yeah dude, I was surprised too. It's got an IMDb rating of 51%, and a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 22%.

Also, seeing so many people on this site vouching for the movie warms the cockles of my heart. I don't think I've ever seen this many people who like Little Nicky together in one place.

One more for the Little Nicky train. Used to watch that film multiple times a month.

OT: I'd like to see what Jim would have to say about Toxic Avenger. Kung Pow would also be a good one like someone already mentioned.

 

[Toilet]

Cloverfield, Tower Heist and Cube²: Hypercube; I love those movies.

OT: Event Horizon..

It's stupid. Achingly, achingly stupid. But it's the sort of go-for-broke bravado stupidity that I can appreciate. And really, most of its better ideas were no more silly than the original Hellraiser, which it owes a great deal to.

Event Horizon wasn't bad or not well received, it was fantastic. One of my favorite horror/gore movies that breaks the mold by having the snarky black guy live.

 

[UBERfionn]

Get Smart, - a lot of hate when you check imdb
Van Helsing (as someone mentioned above),
GI Joe, - it's good for what it is
Quantum of Solace,- same
Howard the Duck, - same

It seems like people get upset when a movie is a genre they were not expecting....like when some can't appreciate street fighter as some good random epic fun because they were expecting some sort of serious 'blood sport' type film

Have to disagree with your quantum of solace choice. Bad action bad story and pacing. Wasn't a good action movie or Bond movie. I wouldn't say it was terrible but it was utterly forgettable.

Also, Little Nicky. It always mystified me that alot of people hate this movie, I think it's funny as hell, and easily my favorite Adam Sandler movie.

What about the rest of you? Remember, it's gotta be movies that you LEGITIMATELY like (not ironically, or "so bad it's good" movies).

Wait...really? People legitimately dislike that movie? It was fucking great!

Yeah dude, I was surprised too. It's got an IMDb rating of 51%, and a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 22%.

Also, seeing so many people on this site vouching for the movie warms the cockles of my heart. I don't think I've ever seen this many people who like Little Nicky together in one place.

One more for the Little Nicky train. Used to watch that film multiple times a month.

OT: I'd like to see what Jim would have to say about Toxic Avenger. Kung Pow would also be a good one like someone already mentioned.

Also liked little nicky. Easily as good as some of Sandlers other movies.
Also I don't think Toxic Avenger or Kung Pow need defending as they were meant to be bad. Toxic was a troma movie and Kung Pow was a spoof of old hong kong import movies.

 

[Sir Shockwave]

My suggestions?

- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Most of the hatred I can find towards the movie originates out from the fact it's "In Name Only" and doesn't follow any any of the games. Yet somehow it's considered one of the worst animated movies ever made. I really don't think it's that horrible a movie, and I've certainly seen way, way worse movies in my lifetime.

- Terminator Salvation. Seems to be a victim of "They Changed it, now it sucks" more than anything else.

- Van Helsing. Following in the vein of Final Fantasy above, it's commonly bashed as a terrible movie, though this time on some very slightly more solid ground. Still, people dislike it more than they really should.

- Don't be Afraid of the Dark - the reboot. I'll admit, I've not seen the original, but the remake is commonly seen as one of Del Toro's weakest movies. Only, I don't think he had much to begin with.

 

[Marik2]

I think the Star Wars prequels would be interesting to see on Movie Defense Force. I have heard people say both good and bad things about them. The person that choreographed the lightsaber fights is pretty talented in my opinion. I think his name is Nick Gillard.

Yeah I really liked the choreography as well

And I think episode 3 is the best of the prequels imo