I’m asking because an IMDb rating cutoff above 6.5±5 seems to generally do a good job making sure I don’t regret watching something. But what am I missing among the sub-6? I know they exist, but it is hard to select among seas of…bad movies.

    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
      22·
      9 months ago

      My wife and teenage step son had never seen this before, so we all tried watching it last year. Every single one of us fell asleep. It wasn’t nearly as funny and entertaining as I remembered.

      But that won’t stop me from saying “IT’S GOT WHAT PLANTS CRAVE!” at least once a month.

    • Gsus4@mander.xyzOP
      15·
      9 months ago

      I wouldn’t say it was prophetic, because most of it was already there in 2000, but less virulent. But yeah, Mike Judge had to push against the industry to get it out, so at least some corpos were aware of what he was saying too. That is why it wasn’t higher, because Fox tried to neglect-kill it.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
    32·
    9 months ago

    IDK about “rated higher” but I love Jet Li’s The One

    There’s exactly 127 universes in the multiverse. Why? Never discussed. And if one version of you kills another, every other version gets that much stronger. So Jet Li plays both the hero and the villain as well as an assortment of the villain’s victims. Jason Statham is in it too, as the hotheaded junior partner multiverse cop out to bring the villain down.

    Weird guns! Weird tech! A prison universe! Super powered martial arts! A climactic fight in a foundry where you can tell the hero from the villain by the color of their shirt! Man I love this movie!

    • fluxan@lemmy.world
      10·
      9 months ago

      It’s when they go through the pictures of Jet Li’s victims that gets me every time. It’s just him with different wigs. The one with dreadlocks is hilarious.

      I genuinely love this movie. Very entertaining. Soundtrack isn’t half bad either.

    • SlothMama@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      I actually thought this movie was a sequel to The Matrix when I saw it advertised and saw it in theaters as a result. It was okay.

    • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      I am Yulaw! I am nobody’s bitch!

      the only thing I remember about that movie apart from the fact that I watched it with my high school best friend with whom I’ve long since cut all ties

      but I do remember we both quite enjoyed it!

  • lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    21·
    9 months ago

    I am a so-bad-it-is-good movie enjoyer. If you want to view some genuinely entertaining schlock, I’d highly recommend:

    • Miami Connection
    • Samurai Cop
    • Killing: American Style
    • Space Mutiny
    • Money Plane
    • Paradise Motel
    • I am Here, Now (any Neil Breen tbh)
    • Timecop
  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    9 months ago

    The David lynch version of Dune. I find it much more enjoyable than the recent version(s). The art direction and casting are amazing.

    The only clunky part is in the TV cut where they use storyboards and voiceovers to give some back history about the Mentats. Pretty sure this was not in the theatrical release though it’s been a while since I’ve rewatched it. Oh and the human close ups of riding the worms is showing its age in the special effects department.

  • ShadowRam@fedia.io
    17·
    9 months ago

    Robocop 2014

    I think its extremely underrated.

    I thoroughly enjoyed it, because out of all the sci-fi movies I’ve seen in the last two decades, this one has a very high likely chance of playing out exactly as indicated in the film.

    We will blur the line between man and machine, and eventually have a identity crisis.

    We will very likely see autonomous drone platoons being coordinated by a few or single human operator.

    Those drones will likely be deployed in a military fashion first with push-back on deploying on home soil as a police force.

    Until they will inevitably be deployed and used against civilians.

    Also kudo’s to the scene where he is stripped down to the bare parts, and the entire theater went quiet. There’s a level of existential dread, when your ‘being’ is laid bare that the reality is… you… everything about you… is just a small clump of grey matter.

    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      9 months ago

      This movie’s main issue is that given the choice, I’d still rather watch the 1987 release. Like most remakes, it didn’t exceed its predecessor enough to justify its own existence.

      Gimme that 2012 Dredd though, that was sick.

      • ShadowRam@fedia.io
        5·
        9 months ago

        Yeah, the original was way more entertaining, agreed.

        But the original didn’t really touch on the Ghost in the Machine-esque nature of blurring that line between man/machine.

        Also the premise that they did it just to have a ‘mobile tank’ on the streets of Chicago was meh…

        The premise of the newer movie, where they had to have a hybrid person in to push the narrative to achieve public opinion/support to allow robotic drones to roam the streets so they can make that sweet military industrial complex money and keep the plebs in place?

        Yeah… way more believable, if not a direct prediction of exactly what is to come.

  • BallShapedMan@lemmy.world
    15·
    9 months ago

    Robot Jox, I watched the hell out of this as a kid… And no it shouldn’t be rated any higher than it already is.

  • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
    12·
    9 months ago

    Hudson Hawk - 5.7 - It’s so dumb, but I love it. Richard E. Grant and Sandra Bernhard chewing the scenery with abandon steal every scene they’re in.

  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    9 months ago
    • Brüno - 5.9
    • The Ringer - 5.8
    • MacGruber - 5.5
    • Jingle All The Way - 5.6

    I’m not gonna defend them as super great movies but I do feel they are underrated by a point. If Bruno dropped before the world saw Borat I think it would have been better recieved.

  • VerilyFemme
    9·
    9 months ago

    Freddy Got Fingered! The joke is on the studio and audience, and most did not want to laugh along…

  • impudentmortal@lemmy.world
    8·
    9 months ago

    Wouldn’t say I love it but I really liked Not Another Teen Movie when I first saw it. Not sure how it holds up but the parody it makes of those high school romcoms was good.

    In a similar vein, Scary Movie 2 and 3 were also really funny to me as a kid.

    • burrito@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      9 months ago

      That movie was great. I love Marilyn Manson’s Tainted Love music video he made with the cast of that movie.

      • impudentmortal@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        Didn’t know he did that; pretty funny that Jaime turned goth though the constant zoom onto his grills made me laugh. So glad that fad is no longer a thing