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Blade Runner 2049 is a masterpiece.
Edge of Tomorrow didn’t do great when it was in theatres but turned into something of a ‘cult classic’ years later. I didn’t know what to expect going in but enjoyed it quite a bit.
Such a horrible title for a decent movie. Then they tried to rename it for home video and just made it worse! It’s like they hired the team that names Microsoft products.
I have a problem with that movie: a read the book before seeing it. In the book the story is about a 20ish y.o. soldier, Vrataski is a teen and the ending is completely different.
They’re actually, finally working on a sequel!
Dredd
That movie was killed by poor marketing that played up nothing but the 3D aspect of it. They even named it in the trailers as Dredd 3D.
All they had to do is air the first 30 seconds of the movie as a trailer and it would have been off to the races…
John Carter didn’t deserve the hate it got. It wasn’t a masterpiece, but it got done dirty.
One of the biggest issues was possibly dropping the “of Mars” from the title.
Idiocracy
Treasure Planet
Event Horizon
Evolution. The David Duchovny one
Did that flop? Think it did ok here in the UK.
IIRC it did “okay” here too but had a bloated budget and unrealistic expectations because of all the big names involved.
Big Trouble in Little China. Was expected to be the smash hit of 1986, but poor marketing killed it. Perhaps it was also a decade or three ahead of its time.
Watched it very recently, the whole concept of Kurt Russell’s character was so fucking funny.
Spoilers
He’s just some random white dude somehow blundering into this mess, running around and being mostly useless. Lost my shit when he shot the roof in the final battle and dropped unconscious from falling debris.
I recently watched an analysis of “2010 The Year We Make Contact” and I have to agree with the premise that this is actually an interesting movie. It’s got a stellar cast that put in good performances.
I also love the retro futurism vibe with CRTs and Apple IIc’s. This has to be a conscious choice to make the audience relate more to the situation by bringing in some current day tech. The future feels less far off, and less sterile.
Its sin is in trying to unravel and ground some of the mystery of 2001. But the HAL of this film feels a lot more like the creepy AI of today, and less like magic.
Tomorrowland (2015), it’s a bit all over the place with pacing/story but still a really fun movie.
This was indeed a fun film. That jet age futuristic asthetic.
Kubo And The Two Strings. It’s legitimately beautiful, well done, tells a heart wrenching story, and the owner of the studio does it for the art, not to make money.
So many movies that are panned by critics and people searching for the next Citizen Kane dont deserve their reputations.I liken it to food, if the chef set out to make Pepperoni Pizza then you have to review it as Pepperoni Pizza. If you review it as “the worst soup I ever had” then its not a bad pizza, you’re a fucking idiot.
Some movies are just “good fun” they arent trying to be something they arent or break new ground in cinema. I love the White Men Cant Jump remake because its fun.
Alita battle angel!!
Yeah, that movie definitely deserves a sequel
Donnie Darko
