ATBGE? I missed that subreddit.
It’s hard for me to pin down to be honest because good execution hides a lot. I’ve found the Ocean Twelve movie really dumb but enjoyed it … not sure if it’s horrible taste though?
Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift
Fantastic cars, driving scenes, stunts. Great sets, locations, lighting, cinematography. Genuinely interesting soundtrack. Some good acting.
The plot is suitably silly and culturally relevant to Japanese themes.
BUT, the one woman with more than two lines of dialogue is willingly treated as an object by both the protagonist and antagonist. Anything else could have been used as a point of contention between them, but no, we have to have 1950s level sexism thrown in.
Wild Wild West.
Batshit crazy plot, appallingly unfunny script - clearly masterminded by deeply disconnected madmen. But well executed - great effects and technical filmmaking.
I remember Kevin Smith in one of his talks discussing Jon Peters, the producer of WWW, coming up with ridiculous suggestions and demands for a superman project they were both involved in, including a giant mechanical spider. Kevin was dropped from the project (it never got made) and then later he sees a giant mechanical spider in WWW and was like ‘well that’s all Jon’.
Smith’s story is pretty epic. Probably wasn’t the first time he told it, of course. And it became quite famous: in the end, Nicolas Cage, who was supposed to play Superman in Burton’s film, had a cameo as Supes in 2023 ‘The Flash’ (iirc) fighting a giant spider.
It’s also kinda funny that Silent Bob is rather chatty in real life, and toured colleges with these talks, releasing six of them, like three hours each. Whereas, whenever he brought Jason Mewes with him, the latter was mostly quiet.
The run down
I actually really like it for the very simple narrative. The natives win against the colonial slavers. Kind of sucks they needed outsiders, but still, it is the rise up and finally beat these assholes story generally only dreamt of in showers.
Solid listing here. Funny and some killer fight scenes. Roger Workman gets a busted nose, too.
There’s a movie called Crime 101, it’s got pretty good actors, it’s shot very well, the writing is even decent but it’s the most cliche boring heist/crime plot I’ve ever watched. You can guess basically everything the entire movie. Afterwards it was very clear that everyone involved was capable of making a far better movie but the plot was so terribly predictable
Oh I saw that movie. It was hilariously boring.
Worst film I have seen this year hands down.
The writing is awwwwful! The love interest has to be the least curious character to have ever existed in all of cinema.
I have so much to say about how bad this movie is it’s making me upset all over again.
Every Wes Anderson movie.
runs
I once told a woman on a dating app that I can’t stand Wes Anderson films, and she immediately unmatched with me.
Fair.
His career really took a weird turn after Nightmare on Elm Street
I really like American Hustle (2013). The plot is kind of ridiculous. The emotional abuse amongst the characters should make me hate everyone, but there’s so much star power charisma, and it was shot well enough, that it’s a fun watch that I find myself going back to despite not being a remarkable film.
While a lot of the plot is embellished, cause it’s a movie, the base premise is based on actual events. The Wikipedia has a good section on the historical accuracy - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Hustle(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Hustle)
Bad Santa?
Everything single thing about you is ugly. Your soul is dog shit.
That was my yearly Christmas watch for many years. It has a surprisingly heartwarming ending, and what a cast!
Pleasantville looks like a cheap gag in the preview, but honestly one of my favorite movies.
I remember when my wife and I watched Morbius, we were pretty impressed with the sound mixing. We could hear what everyone was saying without our ears getting blown out by the explosions and such.
I feel like the effects and such were all petty solid too, but there’s no saving the fact that the story, writing, and acting were just trash.
I mean they weren’t THAT bad… They weren’t at the level of most stuff on !bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world . They were just kinda bland and not worth the price of a movie ticket.
The first Transformers by Micheal Bay … think of it most of Bay’s work before 2010
Nice try “how did this get made”.
The first one that comes to mind was Avatar
Avatar has horrible taste?
Live action Fern gully is pretty meh?
The Creator
Relatively small budget, but looks better than basically anything else that landed in cinemas at the time, or since.
Guess they saved on the script…
Under the Boardwalk
2023 American animated musical romantic comedy.The animation, sound - all the production was there. The plot and characters were just bad. (I haven’t finished it so maybe it gets better?)
