Movies you love that others hate?

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Wait, Supernova? You mean the one where Angela Bassett goes naked? Tbh, I only love it for that. She's so damned hawt! :D
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The Thirteenth Warrior is considered bad?
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Yeah, WTF bullshit is that? That was Teenage Me's favorite movie.
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Adjusted for inflation it's the biggest flop in movie history (or was until John Carter). Good movie, though.
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mathewgsmith wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2020 7:36 am The Conan the Barbarian movie with Jason Mamoa. Nice campy thud-and-blunder fun.

I'd include Waterworld and The Thirteenth Warrior, but those are both in that weird category where they're famously bad because they lost a lot of money but nobody actually seems to dislike them.
The only one of those I've seen is Waterworld, and it's entertaining enough. Not seen that Conan but I have seen the Arnie one, which seems to leave some peoples' eyes rolling. Amazing soundtrack, and Arnie on the DVD is entertainingly bad at it ("Ah, this is the scene where I fought this guy. Now it's the seen where I fought that guy. <a few scenes later> I get laid a lot in this movie!")

The 80s fantasy film Krull sometimes appears in bad movies lists but I love it, mostly for the scenery, music, and some interesting "before they were all that famous" appearances (most notably Liam Neeson).
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Another one that just came to mind I haven't seen in ages is Deep Rising. About the best late 90s monster B-movie made with a good mix of bad that makes it good, humour and action.
Yukaphile wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2020 8:36 am Wait, Supernova? You mean the one where Angela Bassett goes naked? Tbh, I only love it for that. She's so damned hawt! :D
Yeah the soft porn aspects are one of the sillier bits to it. Feels like a decent meal that had too much of a bunch of extra things added to the recipe.
Admiral X wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2020 7:07 pm The Thirteenth Warrior is considered bad?
It's good in spite of how terrible it is and it's terrible because of the problems it ran into with the script writing and production.

For Crichton himself it was a nightmare and he wound up having to take it upon himself to reshoot some parts he directed himself.
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Ok let's break us put the big guns - Waterworld.

Now... I'm not going to say that I love the film, the biggest barrier in getting me to say that is that really annoying child who sadly also happens to be the mcguffin. And Costner's character is poorly developed. He goes from a guy who assaults children into someone who is teaching her to swim within mere days. I know Doug Walker's name is mud around here nowadays but honestly his video neatly describes my thoughts on the film.

But despite it all I found it to be a fun romp. My advice would be to watch the directors cut. It adds somewhere near an hour of new content that fleshes out the film immensely.
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Ok so I only saw like half the movie, the middle half. But Jupiter Ascending was a whole lot of dumb fun
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thetrueelec wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:40 am Ok so I only saw like half the movie, the middle half. But Jupiter Ascending was a whole lot of dumb fun
The main two problems with that film being Mila Kunis's wooden acting (seriously, why does she still get work?) and Eddie ''Get Me A Cough Drop'' Redmayne. Whoever told him to interchangeably shout and whisper his lines (sometimes in the same sentence) did him a great disservice.
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