• GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip
    28 days

    Pacific rim. Plot is fucking stupid but it doesn’t matter. Only one robot has guns. They don’t use the sword until the end. They never attack the rift that spawns the kaiju.

    I got to see giant robots do wrestling moves on giant monsters. It’s my favorite movie.

    • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
      29 days

      That was my yearly Christmas watch for many years. It has a surprisingly heartwarming ending, and what a cast!

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
    29 days

    Pleasantville looks like a cheap gag in the preview, but honestly one of my favorite movies.

    • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29 days

      I remember my family going to that one expecting a silly “haha they’re trapped in old TV where stuff is old-timey” thing and unexpectedly getting something really genuinely special.

    • pipe@lemmy.world
      29 days

      Man, I wish Zouks was here just chillin’ and talkin’ tang.

    • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
      29 days

      If you ignore the anime series, and just watch the live action movie with zero expectations, it can be kinda fun. Realistically, pretty much nobody did that, and that’s why they hated it.

  • Fondots@lemmy.world
    29 days

    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.

  • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
    29 days

    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’.

    • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world
      29 days

      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.

      • someguy3@lemmy.world
        29 days

        I assumed he didn’t talk in the movies because he wanted to focus on directing.

      • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        29 days

        Kevin Smith is great at talking about his favorite subject, which is Kevin Smith movies.

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
    29 days

    Leon: The professional

    The sexual dynamic between the two characters makes me more uncomfortable the older that movie gets, and it makes me very uncomfortable that such a young actor is playing the role The way they do. The plot too is silly, nobody, not even an emotionless assassin would try to teach a kid to be an assassin for any reason. Kids are impulsive idiots and there’s literally no upside to it. But holy hell does Gary Oldman absolutely rule in that movie.

  • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29 days

    The plot of Yellow Submarine is basically “the Beatles have a contractual obligation to make a movie but they can’t be bothered, so let’s get impressionists to voice cartoon Beatles and draw a bunch of drug-addled fuckery to illustrate some of their songs for an hour and a half.”

    In execution, it’s a bizarrely compelling and beautiful piece of work that I enjoy a great deal despite not being into either the Beatles or drugs.