I think for me it’s alien: covenant. I was really interested in the ideas explored in prometheus and covenant just expanded on them. I don’t get much into the details of why it is or isn’t a good movie.
Luckily, though, HBO ran raised by wolves which really delved into ideals about AI and planet seeding etc. So that itch got way scratched even if the run was cut short.
Reminiscence - gotta admit the story kinda fell on flat note, especially with all the potentials in their world building, but I think it’s a work of art
Ad Astra - yes, it’s like Apocalypse Now (i.e. Into The Heart of Darkness) with a zest of daddy issue, but visually, they got some absolutely magnificent cinematography
Any film where people ride around on rollerskates in a post-apocalyptic society.
I’m especially partial to SolarBabies (1986), but I’ll also accept ‘Roller Blade’ and ‘Prayer of the Rollerboys’, where young Patricia Arquette and downsloping Corey Haim don the skates. Rollerball from 1974 is the Citizen Kane of this genre. The 2002 remake with LL Cool J is its red headed step-child.
I love every stupid minute of SolarBabies.
“You are Chikani!” is one of my favorite badly-delivered bad movie lines.
If you have not heard the episode of How Did This Get Made about it, you should definitely give it a listen: https://www.earwolf.com/episode/solarbabies-live/
Thank youI haven’t come across that podcast before. I will definitely check that out. It is a wonderfully silly film.
I had totally forgotten about solarbabies… and tonight I’m gonna make sure to drink enough to forget it again.
the 80s man… phew
Not roller skates but I’m sure you’d dig Turbo Kid if you haven’t seen it.
Even though it’s not apocalyptic, Airborne (1993) is one of my all time favorite movies. The main character is great, Seth green is in it, Britney Powell, Chris Conrad, young Jack black, Alanna ubach (from Waiting). It’s about a high school surfer from Cali who gets shipped to Ohio for 6 months and has to fit in. Hilarious and just amazing. I’m not gay, but Shane McDermott… It’s also amazing he went into real estate, I thought he played a great character on screen. All about rollerblading since nowhere to surf.
Oh my god I saw that a long time ago, I just checked the trailer and it is what I remember.
Even as a teenager I remember thinking that the final race was absolutely unhinged. Like what about the enormous pile of dead or maimed teenagers that the camera cut away from just in time to maintain its G rating?
In the trailer there’s a bunch of kids that slide under a moving semi trailer but lose too much momentum to make it out the other side, or it looks like they do. We never see what happens to them. Main character even looks back at them for a second, just long enough to see that they’re still on the ground and not moving but fuck them because our hero made it and he’s on his way! Huzzah!
I mean the movie is memorable, it’s fun and all, but that scene just lost me so hard. Like actually maybe fuck everyone who thinks this race is a good idea and worth winning. They can have their race, and I will win the broader game of natural selection.
Thank you for that recommendation. I do remember watching it on video, probably about the time it came out. Then absolutely wrecking myself on a hill after I took the brake off my own skates. Fun times indeed. Did not remember Jack Black or Seth Green being in it though. Also you are totes not gay for 90s Shane McDermott. Understood.
Seth had shoulder length red hair lol
I’m… At a loss for words but I’ll screenshot this and put everything on my bucket list
Great! :D Good to hear that this weird niche from the trash-heap of cinematic history may yet claim another victim.
Funnily enough, the day before you posted this, I was reminded of Return To Oz (I was at the zoo and someone… Scared the crap out of me). That’s probably not exactly post apocalyptic or solarpunk, but definitely takes place after a societal collapse of Oz and has creepy weirdos on something like rollerblades. Just in case you want to expand - or dare I say, roll towards the horizon.
Oh you mean these fucking guys? They went out of their way to make them especially scary. The whole film is infamous for being basically a kids horror film. Like the bit with the corridor with the disemmbodied heads of the witch all screaming as Fairuza Balk runs through it? Yea…
There seemed to be an era where traumatising children was part of the draw for the audience and I wonder if it has kind of died out. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was another one that my parents had to switch off.
I’m not the film police and your argument for its inclusion as ‘post-apocalyptic but fantasy’ is all cool. So yes I will take it and roll, awkwardly across sand and gravel, mud and debris, into tomorrow’s ongoing dystopia.
The Last Dragon and Bloodsports.
Attack of the killer tomatoes!
Sucker Punch. Objectively, it’s not really that great of a movie. But it’s one of the most fun movies I’ve ever seen. It’s got over-the-top action sequences, an amazing soundtrack, and a genuinely unique idea for a story that I haven’t really seen done before.
The final cut ended up removing a very key scene that ties a lot of the story together, which I honestly feel is part of why the movie was so poorly-received, because the theatrical release just doesn’t make sense and ends abruptly. If you decide to watch it, try to find a version that has the deleted scene with the High Roller near the end. It’s a full five minutes of dialogue that ties the entire story together and Warner Brothers scrapped it and it drives me so crazy. It’s like an “I Am Legend’s deleted ending” level of directorial blunder, IMO.
Came here to post this. It’s a super fun movie.
Agree. I don’t think Snyder can make good movies, but he makes fucking epic music videos. And that’s how I view Sucker Punch.
I’d like to add that their soundtrack is amazing!
The Day After Tomorrow - It’s campy but underrated
Had one gag that made me literally LOL… intentionally…
They’re trapped in a library, debating the morality of burning books in the fireplace to stay alive.
“How about all these tax books, can we burn these?”
Also:
“Is there a chance that it will run…” grabs a bottle “…on this?”
“Are you mad? That’s a twelve years old scotch!” reveals cups
Despite not rewatching this movie in over a decade, I think about it monthly.
How is this movie underrated?? It’s popular af!
Titan A.E
Grandma’s Boy
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
I think everyone should see the 2019 Cats. I was not bored, and I had a strong emotional reaction to the movie. Was it shit? Oh absolutely, in ways that I didn’t even know movies could be shit. But it was not boring! So if I were going to recommend a movie to someone who hadn’t seen it yet, Cats would be near the top of that list.
Movies that I actually love despite them having poor ratings…
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Event Horizon - 6.6 IMDB / 35% RT - Haunted house in space. Great performances from a great cast. Properly fucked up. Love seeing blue collar workers in scifi.
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Death to Smoochy - 6.3 IMDB / 42% RT - See Robin Williams go hard on the R-rating playing a children’s show host on a downward spiral. One of my favorite Williams performances.
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Legend (1985) - 6.3 IMDB / 41% RT - Shot entirely inside of a huge bag of cocaine. All vibes, don’t question any of it, logic has no place here. Watch the theatrical cut with Tangerine Dream, because the director’s cut with Jerry Goldsmith is honestly just vague fantasy noodling, and the 80s power jams are at least 40% of the charm.
Shit, I forgot about Legend! I didn’t consider it because I thought it did OK, critically.
Shot entirely inside of a huge bag of cocaine.
I’m saving that one; it’s funny, because it’s true. You can also say that about Caddyshack, except that the latter was literally fueled by cocaine - I think it’s been confirmed that almost everyone involved was high during filming.
I’ve seen two versions of the film; one I don’t like as much only because small differences cause cognitive dissonance - I have the first version I saw mostly memorized line-by-line, and the other version is just enough off to feel awkward. I thought they were just different cuts for different media - film vs VHS, for instance - but now I wonder which is “my” original. Probably not the director’s cut, since I’m pretty sure I first saw it in the theater, and then repeatedly on cable which was probably just the theatrical release.
Are you sure no Tangerine Dream is in the theatrical release?
Post-production
Scott’s first cut of Legend ran 125 minutes long. He then believed there were minor plot points that could be trimmed and cut the film down to 113 minutes, so he tested this version for an audience in Orange County. However, it was decided that the audience had to work too much to be entertained, and another 20 minutes was cut. The 95-minute version was shown in Great Britain and then the film was cut down even further to 89 minutes for North America.
At the time, Scott said, “European audiences are more sophisticated. They accepted preambles and subtleties whereas the U.S. goes for a much broader stroke.” He and Universal delayed the North American theatrical release until 1986 so that they could replace Jerry Goldsmith’s score with music by Tangerine Dream, Yes lead singer Jon Anderson, and Bryan Ferry.
Scott allowed Goldsmith’s score to remain on European prints and the composer said, “that this dreamy, bucolic setting is suddenly to be scored by a techno-pop group seems sort of strange to me”. Normally, Goldsmith would spend 6–10 weeks on a film score, but for Legend, he spent six months writing songs and dance sequences ahead of time.
The Goldsmith score is… fine, I guess, but it doesn’t convey the intense 80s-ness of the movie as well as Tangerine Dream. It’s like Flash Gordon or Highlander without the Queen songs.
I think the thing with Cats is that it’s totally OK if a broadway musical has no plot and doesn’t make sense, you’re going for the experience.
Film has a history of narrative and you just can’t drop in a word like “jellicle” and expect to get away with it.
OTOH complaining about jellicle in Cats would be a lot like walking out of a Smurfs movie complaining about “Man, they sure do say ‘Smurf’ a lot.”
I think the thing with Cats is that it’s totally OK if a broadway musical has no plot and doesn’t make sense
As a lover of musicals, HELL no! Cats is probably the worst musical I’ve ever seen and that’s INCLUDING every amateur production. Yes, school play originals too.
Apart from the not making sense, it has ONE great song (the others ranging from awful to meh), which it repeats so many times that you’re on the verge of getting tired of it by the time the Elder Kitty reveals that cats aren’t dogs.
-10/10, would force Trump, Musk, and Netanyahu to watch on repeat until they die as punishment for their crimes against humanity.
-10/10, would force Trump, Musk, Putin, and Netanyahu to watch on repeat until they die as punishment for their crimes against humanity.
OnlyESPECIALLY if it’s “the butthole version”. :)
complaining about jellicle in Cats would be a lot like walking out of a Smurfs movie complaining about “Man, they sure do say ‘Smurf’ a lot.”
Thing is, there’s a lot about the source material that, if you’re not there for it, then you shouldn’t even be in the theatre. No plot, sexy cat monsters, absurd lyrics, that’s all there from the beginning. No, the 2019 movie is fucked up in ways that have nothing to do with T. S. Eliot or Andrew Lloyd Webber.
If Event Horizon has bad ratings that is my answer, love that movie, I thought it was universally considered good though.
I saw part of Cats, but I refuse to watch it until they release the butthole cut.
Wait. Event Horizon has bad ratings.
That movie rocked.
I really like the fanon that it’s a prequel to Warhammer 40k before the Gellar Field was invented.
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Although usually spoofs don’t get any good rating I think this one should be an exception:
Scary movie 3
It honestly did it better than the movies it was making fun of.
Also, crack high voltage is way more fun than the rating lets on.
Freddie Got Fingered. SOOOO ahead of its time. I love Tom Green.
The movie was filmed down the street from where I grew up, so maybe for that reason or just for whatever lack of parenting reason, I watched this movie multiple times at the age of like 8 or 9.
I turned out okay, everything is fine. I think I need to rewatch it to check exactly in which ways it fucked me up.
You’re probably being sarcastic but the two guys that already commented on here are totally Fanboys of Freddy got fingered which is you know probably not good.
I’m not being sarcastic, I legit fucking love that movie and all of Tom Green’s comedy.
Darn it! Sarcasm just doesn’t come through in text… But you’re probably dripping with it! There’s no way a real person can say “I like Tom greens comedy” with a straight face.
Hahaha I’m serious! I didn’t see the movie until recently, after it was critically panned from basically every reviewer. I watched it tripping with my partner and it was the fucking hardest we’ve laughed in a long time. Absolutely batshit. Love it.
I understand praising the movie, but what about it was “ahead of its time”?
It’s “Tim and Eric” style humor before Tim and Eric existed.
That style of humor became popular 10-20 years after it was made.
Tom Green was at his peak there and had his own show though.
It’s Tom Green show humor, at the time that existed.
Daddy would you like some sausage?
MY HOOVES
Oh yes, that fucking leg break tonguing.
Super Mario Bros (1993)
It was objectively a trainwreck but it was awesome when you were 8 and It brought video games to the big screen for the first time. I will always love it.
There are dozens of us who agree. Dozens.
Shout-out to the fansite: https://SMBMovie.com
My friend Garrett Gilchrist has bee trying to restore that movie to something closer to Morton and Jankel’s original vision for years now. I keep meaning to watch it because I do think that the movie had a lot of good ideas even if it was a mess.
https://archive.org/details/super-mario-bros-1993-the-morton-jankel-cut-extended-vhs_202207
People also forget that what most Americans knew about Mario at the time was that he jumped on mushrooms and turtles to rescue the princess.
But Morton and Jankel made both versions of the Max Headroom TV series. I absolutely give them credit.
Death Race 2050
I’ve always thought percy jackson and the Olympians was alright. Sure it’s not exactly a 1:1 with the books but I enjoyed them
Sure it’s not exactly a 1:1 with the books but I enjoyed them
Lol. Agreed.
The weird part is that it’s nearly a perfect remake for like the first 40 minutes. You can almost call out almost the exact moment when they ran out of budget and decided to CGI bullshit their way through remaining minutes of runtime.
Bankok dangerous
Dirty Grandpa.
It’s much funnier than it has a right to be. Also, Aubrey Plaza really, really wanted to fuck Robert De Niro, and fought to get the role for that reason. Its ending sex scene is one of the most genuine in Hollywood because of that. Of course, Aubrey Plaza makes things better just by showing up.
Critics who hate it need to lighten up.
