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[–] 71 points 7 months ago* (7 children)

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010)

A horror movie all about a big misunderstanding leading to absolute chaos.

And it's got Alan Tudyk in it. You just know you're gonna have a good time when he's involved.

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  • [–] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The old one you never heard of.

    "Report To The Commissioner" 1970s Time Square movie about a police involved shooting leading to a hostage situation. Has one of the most hair raising chase scenes ever filmed.

    "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" I get that everyone was sick of Brangelina by the time the movie came out, but it's got enough comedy for a comedy movie, enough action for a thriller, and enough romance for a dozen rom-coms.

    "Honey, please don't undermine me in front of the hostage."

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (10 children)

    The Man From UNCLE (2015)

    Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer chewing up the scenes, nice fast paced plot, fun and engaging. A real shame it's a Guy Richie film, but since I don't pay him when I watch it I really don't mind 🏴‍☠️

    Mea culpa edit: I confused Guy Richie and Russell Brand. I'm dumb and Guy didn't deserve that. Sorry for the confusion and also go watch The Man From UNCLE. While your at it, go find Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, where (funny era) Steve Martin does a film noir mashup movie flawlessly

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    If you don't mind me asking, what's wrong with Guy Ritchie?

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Wondering the same...I love his films so hopefully nothing too crazy

    Eta: I would've thought armie hammer would've been the problem person in this movie

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Oh crap, I'm so glad you asked, because I went back to Wikipedia to see why he's such a bastard.

    Turns out I was thinking of Russell Brand. My memory for names/faces is…less than ideal. I'll edit my original post with a clarification and apology

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    Best spy movie since pre-Craig Bonds for sure. Nobody likes funny spy movies anymore :(

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    i can definitely recommend the new OSS 117 movies if you want more of that.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Ford

    That movie is a legitimate work of art in which every performance is understated and every frame could be hung on the wall of any gallery. But because it's quite long, and because nothing gets blown up, no one really paid any attention to it.

    I genuinely only know about three people IRL who have seen it, and I'm one of them.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Pontypool, great concept and execution for a low budget horror, Canadian zombies with a twist

    The Man from Earth low budget sci-fi about a guy who's been alive for thousands of years, mostly just character development and story telling through actually story telling.

    Deep Blue Sea 3, 1 was great b movie shark horror, 2 was garbage, but 3 knew it was on the back foot and just goes all in, not a great movie but after 2 definitely underrated.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The Man from Earth low budget sci-fi about a guy who's been alive for thousands of years, mostly just character development and story telling through actually story telling.

    Seconded. It's also an indie film that they want people to see, so it's probably somewhere for free. The sequel was a torrent on their site iirc.

    The Man From Earth is at least on YouTube as a 720p movie. For free. Recommended. (The sequel wasn't as good but I enjoyed it somewhat as well.)

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I often think about John/J'aan. Is he the embodiment of humanity, or the complete rejection of it, given all that happened throughout his life.

    Also, do his skills decay if he does not use them for a period? e.g. did he learn to juggle and then forget

    Are his memories just a general vague flattened blur of too familiar human patterns, and all he experiences is the present?

    Great concept

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Are his memories just a general vague flattened blur of too familiar human patterns, and all he experiences is the present?

    I mean if you're over the age of 20, you can probably imagine this.

    You can't really remember all the things you did. Especially not for the first years when you were shitting yourself and sucking tits. But that's more for psychological protection I feel like. My point being that from like 3-5 you start having some memories. The more vivid the connection, the better it stays. I can't remember most of my childhood, but I can definitely remember parts of it. And especially if someone reminds me of a thing. Or a smell or something else familiar. But like yeah, the limits of memory on someone that old would be interesting. I just think it's a sort of prioritised order for him as well. Might not remember lots of specifics but does remember lots of vague ideas.

    I think skills stay longer than non-vivid memories.. I'm not sure if he could just juggle, but doing so would prolly come back fast from muscle memory. Idk

    This whole comment is me just guessing. But that's what the movie makes you do, and it's what I love about it.

    Even I remember (now we've been over this a bit) on how he was asked if he ever got seriously ill. And John remembered getting like pneumonia in the stone age or smth. Would prolly remember who cared for him more vividly than someone they met at a grocery store a few weeks before telling the story.

    Human minds and memories are fascinating.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Sneakers message still resonates strongly today

    Better Off Dead outside the band of most 80s teenager comedy movies

    Paycheck I thought it was a fun sci-fi that most people missed

    The Great Escape not underrated back in the day, but not very well known now

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Seconding Paycheck. One of the few Affleck movies I like.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I'll third it. The premise alone is awesome; they invent a time machine, but you don't travel in time, it's more like a telescope that lets you observe the future.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Sneakers is a lot of fun, but there’s one scene that just irks me. In the beginning of the film, the main character is picking up a check from a bank teller after their “white hat” elite team stole (then returned) untold millions from the same bank. The teller cuts him a check and asks what he does. He gives a short explanation and he says “it’s a living”. She looks at the check and back at him saying “not a very good one”. It’s clear that she’s a low level employee and there were 4 or 5 people on the crew, and she’d have no idea how much work went into the job. Even at minimum wage, it would have been a pretty nice paycheck and she would have had no idea whether it was a good amount, nor whether it was just one guy getting paid the amount on the check. The comment makes no sense.

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago

    Gran Torino

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  • [–] 36 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Baby driver I know it’s decently well known, but honestly not even close to enough.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    Not sure if it's underrated or just not well known, but "The unbearable weight of massive talent" was so insanely good!

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Repo! The Genetic Opera

    The music is incredible. The Gothic setting is great. The father/daughter storyline is complex. I wish it was more popular.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

    Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox Story

    Great biopic parody that just keeps on giving. For me, Tim Meadows will always remain Sam, saying "not once." It helps that his other roles are also goofy, like the ARGUS dude in Peacemaker.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    The Fall, unless we draw a distinction between underrated and under-noticed

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Cowboys and Aliens is far more entertaining than it has any right to be.

    Street Fighter has survived to become a cult classic.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I saw Cowboys and Aliens in theaters and I loved it. It was such a unique movie at the time and it is very entertaining.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    Thankskilling (2008). Low budget horror movie about a talking turkey (a puppet) who murders college students. It's one of the most ridiculous and hilarious movies I've seen.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Sounds like that sloth slasher movie.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Predestination. Ethan hawk mind fuck.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Ronin. I don't know exactly why, the mood just feels right for a neo noir ish thing.

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    I feel in the minority on this. It felt like watching someone else play a video game as a plot.

    The ideas were OK, but the slapstick seemed crazy childish to me. I just did not get into it at any point.

    Like I didn't think it was just ok, I was pretty actively turned away by it.

    Could be just not in my style, but it was the first time I've watched something and completely misunderstood the hype. I can listen to music or watch movies & tv shows and not be that into it but understand it. Succession was that way. Wasn't for me, but could see the appeal.

    Hundreds of Beavers was just awful for me personally.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Mother!

    I found it really enjoyable trying to trace all of the symbolism and allegory. For whatever reason, audiences didn't like it so much.

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    Mom And Dad Save The World (1992)

    Stars Terri Garr and Jeffrey Jones as the Nelsons, an ordinary set of suburban boomer parents who routinely go on vacations/car trips. On such a trip, they are abducted station wagon and all by Emporer Todd (played by Jon Lovitz) of planet Spengo, a desert planet inhabited by a species of dog headed if male, fish headed if female creatures, and humanoid idiots. Ridiculousness ensues.

    It bombed at the box office and is poorly reviewed but I had fun with it.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Jeffrey Jones' making the news afterwards probably kept this one from becoming a cult classic.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    This is one I make people watch. It's so goofy and fun in all the right ways. The costumes, aliens, and sets are fantastic. I don't know why it's not considered cult classic.

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  • I think I can answer that: movies that form a cult tend to land with a demographic, often one it wasn't originally sold to. Clue, for example. Didn't really land with its intended audience of baby boomers in the mid-80's in large part due to the "one of three endings" theater gimmick. The movie found its audience with young millennials on Comedy Central, especially in its repaired "all three endings" format which increased the runtime and kept the frenetic farcical energy in the last act up longer.

    What demographic was going to form a cult around Mom And Dad Save The World? It's a movie by and about boomers, targeting the Gen X stupidity fad. Clue was ahead of its time, MADSTW is precisely OF its time. It's not what the secret cabal of gay theater kids always wanted like Rocky Horror Picture Show. And MADSTW is unfortunately competent, so the "so bad it's good" MST3K/Red Letter Media crowd won't touch it. That and Jeffrey Jones has been canceled so there's a bunch of people who won't watch it out of principle now. So there's no group this movie will land with.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Tusk 2014 (at 45/36 on RT, 5.4 imdb). Funny concept, funny effects, some of the dialogue a bit shit but overall very enjoyable

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago*

    I love The Net, it's a decent thriller even if janky by todays standards. I saw it as a kid some years after release, and the tech side of it was absurd even then. But the core plot is basically Hitchcock like, and Sandra Bullock is good in it. If you can let the silly tech side of things go (it was made when the Internet was a new concept even to users, so it does get things wrong), it's actually a decent enough plot.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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    It's from a time the new era started to take off while most ordinary people (and filmmakers) had no idea what was really coming. Nor did they really understand any of it. Like Hackers this makes The Net extremely interesting to watch, it's not good, but it just keeps on giving!

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Exit to Eden. Terrible rotten tomatoes score, but it's awesome and loved by the bdsm community. It's a 1990s film adaptation of the Anne Rice novella of the same name, which is more or less just classic her style erotica, this one of a man going to a femdom island retreat and falling in love with and impressing the head lady there. Cliche whatever, but pretty good representation of kink despite the outlandish setting. But some executives or someone involved in the movie had a brilliant idea: buddy cop b plot with Rosie O'Donnell. This takes it from a bold and interesting decision that would probably be well regarded by a small group of people, to a movie that's just kinda fucking nuts in a fun way. The b plot keeps the movie silly and light.

    So yeah, if this sounds up your alley I highly recommend it.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    https://youtu.be/lMunBozSxgI

    "Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer"

    Despite the anime ass long title it's a Steve Buscemi starring film nobody watched. I thought it was fucking hilarious. You will too if you like dark comedy.

    https://youtu.be/kJB2nac129A

    Tremors II: Aftershocks is a perfect comedic action horror film and a perfect sequel.

    https://youtu.be/jas8OABbn0Y

    Mad God is extremely disturbing and dark, probably impossible to watch for most people. I think it's a stop motion master piece.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    UHF - so many quotable lines.

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