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I'll start: "Happy Death Day"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5308322/

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[–] pixelkitty@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Not sure if this exactly fits the assignment, but most people think Silent Hill (first one) was a garbage movie that made no sense. And it was if you never played the games. If you did play the games though, you can see the movie is incredibly faithful to the atmosphere. They used a lot of the OST by Akira Yamaoka too, which is an amazing soundtrack. I really liked the acting as well (except for the little kid, but it’s rare to find convincing child actors anyway). Monster design was great. I think they combined cg and practical effects so it made some things a lot more convincing.

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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Spot@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago

Combs just brings a captivating presence wherever he goes!

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Teknolust (2002)

CW: y2k aesthetic, Tilda Swinton in multiple roles.

Do not read wikipedia's synopsis of it first unless you want to spoil it. you can find it here on archive.org.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] xylol@leminal.space 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My God, I did not expect someone was going to steal my comment.

Great movie, ahead of its time

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[–] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Battleship.

Yeah, the movie based off the board(?) game.

Feel free to fire up the torches and start handing out the pitchforks, because I'm not playing by the rules.

It doesn't just look like it will suck, it looks like a 'so bad it is bad' type of movie, an overbudgeted 'this is what is wrong with movies these days' sort of unmitigated hot wet trash from a dumpster fire in the bad part of town.

It isn't well written.

It isn't well acted.

I honestly can't even promise a good time.

These are the thoughts that went through my mind when I read about it before watching: "This is going to be awful and a waste of my time. These actor names kinda look familiar but I don't know who any of these people are. Is Rihanna her first name or last name? Isn't she just a singer. It better not have that stupid umbrella song. Wait, Liam Neeson is in this? Is he doing okay? Did he lose a bet? Does he need money? I bet that evil Jar'jar forced him to to do this. Wait, running time over 2 hours?! How is that even... the board never took more than like 15 minutes... except cheaters moving their... fuck me, I already need a drink."

Go into the movie with that mindset. Be angry at it before it starts.

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[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

I'll start: "Happy Death Day"

Wait, I didn't know Re:Zero had a live action!

[–] mostNONheinous@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Mr. Brooks, it has Dane Cook in it but that doesn’t stop it from being amazing.

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[–] Comrade_Cat@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Event Horizon. The trailers made it seem like just another 90s sci-fi horror flick trying to ride the Alien high, but it ended up being such a good movie with a tight script, beautiful set design, actually smart characters, and great acting.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

I will forever mourn the movie we could have had. The theatrical cut ended up being a Disney movie compared to the original. Alas, all footage is lost to time.

[–] TastyWheat@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

The Ice Pirates.

Ron Perlman and one of the funniest fight scenes from the 80s.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Kripendorf's Tribe. That thing is pure gold.

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