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.

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[–] 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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!

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    The ending scene of the film reminds me of the cover for the OG DOOM. But instead of a green armored space marine fighting a swarm of demons, it's Jet Li beating up a swarm of dirty prison inmates.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year 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!

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    Only 1 of 2 movies I have ever walked out of in the theatres. It’s so bad.

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    Everything everywhere all at once

    E: and I nearly walked out of the first LOTR in theatres but pushed through.

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    I wanted to recommend The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, but it's sitting at 6.2 on IMDB, which is higher than I expected. I'm still going to, because it's great. Jeff Goldblum plays the most normal person in the film.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

    I unironically love Rubber. Not a single person I've shown has shared that sentiment haha

    It's about a tire that blows things up with It's mind

    Edit: doesn't anyone know how to make spoilers hidden? I wanna type something but dont want to just put it out there

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think a lot of the Quentin D movies will be hit or miss depending on the person. It is such a strange concept for a film I quite liked but overall not his best work IMO. For more weirdness I gotta recommend Smoking Causes Coughing which I liked a whole lot more

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I'll check it out!

    But imma just go and say the spoilers cause I want to talk about it

    ::: spoiler The reason Rubber continues for so long is because you are the old man who refuses to die. The movie was supposed to end when they all ate the poison, but continues because the old man was stubborn. The movie literally asked you to turn it off, but youre just as stubborn so it has to continue. It begs you to stop, but you have to see what happens so the show must go on. :::

    I love it

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not to shame your taste or anything, but I've loudly chuckled when I've read this one. That's the only movie I've walked out of the theater from. Not joking. IMHO it is _over_rated, even a 0/10 is too high of a rating for that clusterfuck.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I literally have never met someone that even knows this movie. It’s one of my all time favorites. I watch it from time to time. Crash 🤜 and 🤛 Burn!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Hell yeah! I made my kids watch it, they questioned my taste for a long time after. It was sweet!

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    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.

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    I actually like the Tom Cruise War of the Worlds good sound mixing too.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That had a bad rating? I thought it was a decent movie, decent acting, decent story, decent special effects, like most of Cruise's movies.

    Hate the person love the actor, he had a long string of good movies

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I think with a few changes it would be a better movie. Less screaming, a bit of a different ending and who survives. There's some good parts though. I've seen people complain that the one scene with the birds is convenient and forced to make Cruise's character important, but the soldiers were busy trying to get people out of the place and wouldn't have necessarily noticed what he did. Note that once they understood, they took action. Also RIP the one guy who almost made it.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Captain Ron

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Idiocracy. Has stood the test of time surprisingly well for a movie containing so many fart and sex jokes.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    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
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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Haven't watched it, but I read it's pretty much a take for take remake of the original which was WAY better. The original is awesome.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Not sure where you heard that, it hardly has anything in common with the original besides the main character, general premise, and some themes. The tone, dialogue, most characters, and subplots are totally different.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    In the army now!

    5.0. Pauly Shore, Andy Dick, David Alan Greer, Lori Petty

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)
    • The Long Kiss Goodnight - retcon it as a prequel to the Bourne trilogy and it's 10 times better. It's already top quality late 90's action cheese.

    • Spice World is madcap mania. Recent Flop House episode about it. It's the only movie I ever watched, rewound, and watched again.

    • VHF, staring Weird Al Yankovick. It's a genuine shame no one else said this. Are people OK?

    • Josie and the Pussycats. Replace "sell CDs" with "Spotify" and literally nothing changes.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    UHF was a goddamned cinematic masterpiece.

    Three O'Clock High is the quintessential 80s movie. Seriously, it's like someone said, hey, let's make an 80s movie. It's also got surprisingly good cinematography.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I enjoy pretty much every movie in some respects, but if you haven’t watched Deadly Prey (1987) you’re missing out.

    It’s the worst story tropes of Rambo, The Room, and a 2AM cable access TV show and it’s somehow so utterly horrible that I couldn’t stop watching and laughing.

    It definitely shouldn’t be rated higher. But it is almost must-watch for how bad it is. Easily one of the five worst movies I’ve ever seen.

    If we’re not talking about horribly shot and scripted movies, then I’d have to say Passenger 57. Sure, it’s an overly simplistic 90s formulaic movie, but I liked it. Plus it’s got Elizabeth Hurley, Bruce Greenwood, and Tom Sizemore, as well as Ernie Lively (Blake’s dad), before they all went on to larger careers.

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