The reverse of that post I’ve made a week ago…

Rules: pick one movie or series and explain why you actually enjoyed it despite the criticism.

For me: The JJ Abrams Star Trek movies, by far the best ST stuff ever made, I couldn’t take seriously the original universe with the dated effects and stiff acting, same goes for NG… These movies did ST actually great looking and much more believable, not just the effects.

  • sgibson5150@slrpnk.net
    31·
    9 months ago

    Me and about a dozen other people thought John Carter was great. To me, it was just a fun sci-fi/fantasy movie. Never undestood the hate.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.world
      8·
      9 months ago

      John Carter was only hated by people who follow box office numbers instead of watching movies.

      It was great!

      • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
        6·
        9 months ago

        My gal hates it because she’s a huge fan of the book and apparently they did the whole of it pretty dirty. One of those, “it’s fine if you weren’t hoping to see anything that made the book unique” type movies.

        • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
          31·
          9 months ago

          My go to for that criticism is that it’s a different medium, so it must be different.

          It’s like complaining that a photo of Statue of David doesn’t show the whole statue.

          • Wrufieotnak@feddit.org
            3·
            9 months ago

            Counterpoint: if I sell you a photograph which I advertised as of the statue of David and it’s just a zoomed in picture of his back, you would be in your rights to complain about leaving out the important parts.

      • smokebuddy [he/him]@lemmy.today
        2·
        9 months ago

        I went to see it at noon after dropping the car off for work and was literally the only one in the theatre. I thought it was pretty good.

    • jacksilver@lemmy.world
      4·
      9 months ago

      Yeah I thought it was a fun movie too. It would have been nice to have gotten another scifi series that was more focused on fun.

    • Erasmus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Me and my wife went to see it and really liked it. Unfortunately I think we were the only couple in the theater at the time. I don’t think it was marketed very well at all by Disney.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    19·
    9 months ago

    For me: The JJ Abrams Star Trek movies, by far the best ST stuff ever made, I couldn’t take seriously the original universe with the dated effects and stiff acting, same goes for NG… These movies did ST actually great looking and much more believable, not just the effects.

    Just kidding… but not really.

    • Acamon@lemmy.world
      6·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, I wasn’t that excited about the idea of sequel in the first place, mostly because I didn’t think there was much point to one. So when I saw Resurrections I was actually pleasantly surprised, and genuinely enjoyed the different tone and lamposting of the dumbness of unnecessary sequels.

    • finley@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      I thought it was absolutely hilarious satire, and I laughed at the entire movie. Everyone told kept telling me to be quiet, but I just couldn’t stop laughing.

      It was wonderfully self-aware, and it tore it itself to shreds.

    • burgersc12@mander.xyzEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      The parts where its clear they were forced to make the video game movie or someone else would is great. The rest is… not good imo. Neo uses the force push every 30 seconds and solves all of his problems.

    • steeznson@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      This movie did not work with me at all. I kinda understand the satirical elements but as a fan of the first film I couldn’t stomach it.

  • Skyrmir@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    9 months ago

    Green Lantern. I went in expecting cartoony quips and got what I expected. Everyone calls it a stupid movie like they went in expecting Shakespeare and found the Muppets. I went in expecting a live action comic book, and yeah that’s pretty much what I got. Fun show, watched it a few times now.

    • meyotch@slrpnk.net
      3·
      9 months ago

      No matter how nice you are about Green Lantern, Ryan Reynolds still won’t call you. Don’t ask how I know, it’s a touchy subject.

      • Skyrmir@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        I know why he’s mad, it was a box office disaster. Nothing can fix that short of a time machine.

  • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.orgEnglish
    15·
    9 months ago

    A million ways to die in the west is a solid dumb comedy. The movie has dogshit reviews on every review site but I enjoyed it.

  • ch00f@lemmy.world
    14·
    9 months ago

    I don’t think Red One deserved the hate it got. I know everyone is getting tired of Marvel and the Rock, but I thought applying a Christmas theme to the tropes was actually refreshing.

    Like not a great movie, but way more watchable than the last few Capeshit flicks I’ve seen.

    • HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world
      4·
      9 months ago

      I did not know anyone really hated that movie, watched it and recommended it to some people. Yeah, the rock not doing it great, but it was a solid film imo, it was an interesting and funny twist on winter mythos. Not great, not worthy of a sequal, but solid.

    • EvilBit@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      The Rock decided that Republicans buy too much of his shitty tequila to risk taking a stand against things like Actual Fascism right around the same time I got fucking exhausted of seeing him everywhere. I’m done with that meathead.

  • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    9 months ago

    The original super Mario bros movie from the 90s. If I come across it I always get the urge to watch it. Its so weird and interesting, love it. Noone in my family will watch it though they hate it :(

  • databender@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    9 months ago

    I like all the Terminator movies. All of them. Time travel, killer robots, Arnold; I know it’s wrong but I can’t help myself.

    • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.orgEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      Weren’t the terminator movies insanely popular?

      Edit: i was thinking just the original 2 or 3 movies my bad. I don’t even think I saw the ones after that.

    • burgersc12@mander.xyzEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      I can see liking everything up to Salvation, but the last two movies are mostly just lazy cash grabs.

  • SanguinePar@lemmy.world
    9·
    9 months ago

    This is kind of a cheat, as it’s been significantly re-evaluated since its release, so I’m not alone, but IMO Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is a masterpiece - it was HATED when it came out though, and even now I suspect there’s a lot of people who would say the same.

  • Sickday@kbin.earth
    8·
    9 months ago

    You asked for one, but I’ve got two hills to die on, sorry.

    1. Solo: A Star Wars Story was a lot of fun and I thought it was a solid entry. I didn’t really like the Sequels or Prequels, but Rogue One and Solo both stuck out as good titles to me.

    2. Lightyear was a good movie. I really enjoyed it and didn’t really understand why it got so much flak.

    • EvilBit@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      Solo is a great movie. I know it tried a little too hard to answer every question ever about Solo’s backstory, but apart from a clunk here and there, it’s exactly what the idea of “A Star Wars Story” should have been. I would have signed up for more.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    92·
    9 months ago

    So many. For an example, the Star Wars Sequels (and Prequels). I think they were fine. Okay, 8 dropped a bit and had a lot of bad moments, but altogether, they were enjoyable. I had fun watching them.

    Are they Oscar worthy? No. Not at all, not by a long shot, but I had fun.

    I think we as a society are way too polar, it’s either good or bad, trash or perfect. I think we’ve lost sight that things can simply be good, or fun. I had fun watching those movies. I don’t think Rise of Skywalker wasted my time. Could it have been better? Of course. Was the writing lazy? Definitely at times. Did I enjoy watching it? Yes.

    • Fondots@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      Overall, I tend to just be happy to be watching anything star wars. None of the movies are that deep, I’m just in it to watch space wizards with laser swords flying around in space ships with robot sidekicks battling evil. As long as most of those boxes get checked, I’m pretty happy with any star wars media, and in my mind I’m right back to being a little kid watching Star wars for the first time. Anything more is just icing on the cake.

      Now I can absolutely rank them and admit that some of them are better movies than others, and the sequels and prequels definitely drop the ball on that in a lot of ways

      And while on the whole, the sequels and prequels aren’t great movies (arguably the OT aren’t even great movies if we’re being totally objective) I think that in a lot of ways they do a better job at universe building by dropping hints at other parts of the galaxy that we don’t get to explore right then and there, they just do a shitty job of following through on them and tying them together into a coherent narrative.

      I think that just about any part of episode 8 for example could have been expanded out into a pretty cool movie or show, there was a lot to work with there, they just didn’t work together as the same movie

      The force dyad thing between Rey and Kylo is pretty fucking cool

      Casino heist or spycraft movies are a pretty tried and true movie formula, I probably would have saved it for something like a Solo movie, or maybe Andor. The stuff about the military industrial complex profiting off of selling weapons to both sides could work for either of them. Han is from Cornelia, where the arms dealers are building a lot of these battleships and such, and it’s also established that he’s a gambler so a casino makes sense for him, or Andor could work well with the gritty political side of things.

      Fucking broom kid! Let’s get more non-jedi non-sith force sensitives

      Finn was just criminally underutilized all-around

      The Holdo maneuver was pretty fucking badass

      You can argue about how the bombing run doesn’t make sense from a physics perspective, or was tactically stupid, but it was a cool scene nonetheless

      I could go on, I think you could build out a pretty decent movie, show, or at least an episode or two of a show from any of those ideas if they just committed to the idea

  • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
    6·
    9 months ago

    It’s not hated, it’s squarely in the middle of ‘video game movies’ (so probably lower than middle to the general public) but one of my favorite movies, far and away my favorite video game movie, is ‘Rampage’ with Dwayne Johnson and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

    I can’t fathom how anyone could not enjoy that flick.

    I also genuinely enjoyed ‘the crew’ (2002?) which most people seem to dislike (it was around 15% on rotten tomatoes last I checked)

  • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
    5·
    9 months ago

    “Freddy Got Fingered”. Not a masterpiece but I found it hilarious. Was surprised it was rated so low online 🤷‍♂️

    • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
      3·
      9 months ago

      I don’t think I’ve seen it since in came out, in that era when Tom Green was at the too of his career and i was a teenager. I’m curious how it holds up now, but I have a feeling that I won’t enjoy it anymore.

      • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        You gotta like dumb humor, and I mean a step down from the Seth Rogan and friends type of movies lol.

        If you don’t enjoy those, probably won’t enjoy FGF anymore.