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Okay, I've got one that no one has mentioned.
Without clicking the link, just imagine what it might be.
Got it pictured?
Yes. It is exactly what you imagined.
It's Star Wars and Space Balls splashed across Trucker stereotypes. It's affordably made, except when it's trying to be gross - when no expense is spared.
But somehow it's also... just all around...good? It's good. I can't explain it. But... it's just... a pretty good movie.
The characters are relatable. The acting is professional and effective. It's easy to root for the main cast, and against the badguys. All the story beats land where and how they should.
I want to see someone do one of those high minded film making analysis on "Space Truckers", because I suspect it is better on every level than it has any right to be.
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Dredd (2012) is a near perfect 80s/90's style, over the top action movie made 25 years too late.
Well shot action scenes.
Excellent soundtrack.
Pretty darn well paced.
Good helping of action hero one liners.
Plot is simple enough for idiot, explosion go boom, brain to follow, but also takes itself seriously enough to present the horrors of its world via interactions with minor characters.
Karl Urban manages to do more acting with only his mouth and chin, and line delivery, than many other actors do with their whole face.
Olivia Thirlby is also very, very good, I do not understand why some other director has not cast her in an action oriented role since... now that Nintendo seems to actually allow their IP in films: Make her blonde again and she is Samus Aran.
EDIT:
In case you haven't seen it... this is a bit spoilery, but here's a decent 4 minute representative sample to give you an impression of the movie.
7.1 on IMDb, 80% RT ("certified fresh")... this isn't a shitty movie. Like, we all believe it's actually good, and it needs no defending.
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Hot Rod! I can quote pretty much the whole movie. It’s such a fun ride.
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Ice Pirates (1984): A bunch of A-Listers before they were big. Great practical effects. Spaceships, Pirates, Time Travel, 'robots' It was magnificent.
Close second: The Cat from Outer Space (1978). It was a Disney flick, but really great for the time.
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Mortal Engines!
Elrond commanding motorized london for the win
Making a film so bland and forgettable but still one of the coolest things I've ever seen is a feat.
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Half the reason I love Drop Dead Fred so much is because my wife hates it so much.
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Not a movie, but Konosuba. Yeah, the show is trash, but it's my trash. I will ride Aqua until the day I die
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Star Trek IV: The Journey Home is way the hell better than any movie with "IV" in its title has any right to be.
I'm going to get impaled for this but The Rise of Skywalker. It's my guilty pleasure.
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Wild Wild West baby! You know, the movie Will Smith turned down being Neo in The Matrix for lol
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Chocolate. Taiwanese movie about an autistic girl who goes around beating up gangsters in the styles of famous martial artists she saw on TV, followed by her repeatedly demanding they give her an unspecified amount of money.
Superman 3 beats almost ANY action movie out there. It literally has everything you could want in a movie... it doesn't take itself too seriously so it's funny as hell, has actual character development unlike anything we've seen before or since in an superhero movie, cool but believable fight scenes, morally grey characters, and RICHARD PRYOR.
Velocipastor and Alien vs. Predator
“Who Framed Roger Rabbit”.
An absolute masterpiece in terms of blending and transitioning between live action and animation; plus the whole Disney/Warner Bros character crossovers.. just 👌🏼
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There's a movie called Unstoppable (2010) with Denzel Washington, Chris Pine and Rosario Dawson. It's about a runaway train causing trouble in Pennsylvania.
I've watched it no less than 30 times.
It's not like I'm into trains or anything. I just think it's a really good movie and every single actor in it is giving 100%.
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Violent Night, for 90's kids who thought Home Alone went harder and want the same high from back in the day