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I'll start: "Happy Death Day"

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

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[–] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week 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.

I enjoyed it with a mindset of "This is an unofficial Crysis 1 (PC Game) movie adaption without the power-suit".

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I actually liked Rhianna in that film

Edit: downvotes? Is my personal experience somehow incorrect?

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[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] TastyWheat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

The Ice Pirates.

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

[–] mostNONheinous@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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

[–] JWBananas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It also gratuitously uses scenery from Shreveport, Louisiana which is a very real place.

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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Mile 22. Died at the box office and I'd heard nothing but bad things about it. Saw a DVD at the library and a stranger suggested it to me.

Seriously good thriller with action, intrigue, and some great acting.

"Decoy Bride" looks like once of those cheap, filler movies that actors do between big roles, and it probably was, but David Tennant, Kelly MacDonald, and Alice Eve gave great performances, the jokes really hit, soundtrack was good, and the romance didn't feel forced at all.

[–] mostNONheinous@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Population 436, kind of a revamp of The Lottery but it does things a bit different along the way. It actually has Fred Durst as a cast member and he killed his role I think.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bottoms.

The script feels terrible and they don't even try to make you like the characters. But the jokes always land perfectly. It's a great movie to have a laugh and nothing else.

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[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

The Sweetest Thing came off as a pretty saccharine rom-com. It was more like American Pie for late-20s.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

April Fool's Day

[–] rikudou 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No idea, but Happy Death Day looked interesting enough that I went to see it in the cinema.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

#50 box office that year, 4.8M to produce, so pretty good.

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