Dog Soldiers.
It is known as the British Predator. You can see the low budget on the screen, but my god it’s excellent. Do not watch the trailer, it’s shit and will give you a bad impression of the film.
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Nacho Libre
Napoleon Dynamite
Brain Candy
“Did you tell them they were the orphans’ chips?”
Nacho Libre rules.
Alita: Battle Angel.
The film looks stupid because they gave the main character giant anime eyes.
In the context of the film it makes sense and I think the look is meant to mirror the anime it is from… but for the film it still makes the film look stupid. Now the film itself is far from perfect, there is at least one storyline that is utter dogshit. However! The film ultimately was solid.
Sadly it ends setting up future films that will never happen, but I think it’s still enjoyable overall.
Love the universe but the whole anime eyes thing was just way too silly. They should’ve pulled a Sonic and made her look more normal.
Oh I completely agree. The anime eyes did not add to the film. It also sucks because the actress who played Alita, Rose Salazar, did a great job, but it’s such an uncanny valley type look that I didn’t recognize her anywhere else.
It’s one thing when it’s Andy Serkis playing Gollum or something but she was just playing a robot girl, but she looks like a throwaway CGI character.
Also she was the only one with the eyes! That’s the most inexplicable thing. Maybe if other people had the eyes it’d be ok, maybe there a thing people do. But she’s the only one so it’s extra weird.
How comes they won’t be making more?
It still looks goofy as f
Because no one saw the first one.
Now some very influential people who were involved in the first one want to make a second one, so maybe just maybe it will happen one day… But I doubt it.
I saw it. There’s at least two of us.
It’s funny I saw it completely randomly.
I was chatting with a coworker and just off handedly mentioned how bad Alita looked and they jumped on to defend the film and series harder than I’d ever seen anyone defend anything before. It was a true, “I’ve waited all my life for this moment” for them.
My evening was free and it was one of those $5 Tuesday type movie nights so I figured what the hell.
So there was at least another that convinced me, got to pay it forward.
There are dozens of us!
Three
I’m gonna say Cruella. I’m sure lots of people always thought it was gonna be great, but not me. I absolutely expected it to be mediocre at best and I was so wrong. It’s now one of my favorite movies.
I have to agree, the film is MUCH better than it looks, with one exception early on (see below) the rest of the film works well.
Cruella spoilers
Dalmatians running into the party and killing Cruella’s mother is hilariously stupid. Just have her be cold hearted. Let her view animals as disposable for other reasons. You don’t need to be so over the top with it.
I didn’t expect it to have such a compelling story arc. It’s amazing how they show the creation of a “villain” that you then sympethise with.
I also love the whole 70s punk style.
Real steel. Its about boxing robots
I watched it yesterday for the 2nd time (first time with my son). We laugh, we cried, we danced, we were shouting out loud and watched final battle standing on our feet. I unironically think it’s an excellent sport movie.
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Daniel Radcliffe while dead the entire movie flexes his ass cheeks as a superpower.
Alaska. SW prequels. There’s also the Soviet movie “Until first blood”, where kids play “Zarnitsa” and learn something.
Mystery Men
I don’t understand why this one isn’t better known. It’s great.
The recent Dungeons and Dragons.
‘Upgrade’ is an excellent sifi B movie.
Upgrade was not a “B” movie by any stretch. Low budget doesn’t mean B. Upgrade was more well done than much of the “A” stuff that’s put out.
But obviously this is opinion and depends how you define B movies.
I totally thought Upgrade would suck. I’ve watched it 10 times now, and every time it gets better. Just stellar work.
The question was does it look like it would suck, at face value. I think Upgrade qualifies.
Tucker and Dale vs Evil.
It has a silly/dumb sounding name, a premise with every likelihood of being schlocky garbage, and no budget or marketing to speak of. And some of the cast certainly act like they know they’re in a low budget flick just phoning it in. Yet Tyler Labine as Dale and Alan Tudyk as Tucker bring so much humor and endearing energy to it as a couple of misunderstood sweethearts, that it is one of my all-time favorite films.
Definitely a great film worth watching.
Honestly I like its message too. If nobody told stories about crazy homicidal hillbillies, none of the movie would’ve happened.
I honestly thought Wonka was going to suck, but it turned out to be a pretty good film!
Mean Girls (2004) a masterpiece
100% agree. I think its a modern classic.
Honestly, princess bride. I’m usually not all that into rom com type movies, but princess bride is a masterpiece
Hey, that’s the metaplot of the movie!
The Lost City with Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, and Daniel Radcliffe. It seems like a tropey romance-action flick, but is more a parody of genre clichés. The writing, acting, and humour are pretty good.
Last year’s The Beekeper starring Jason Statham was honestly the best action movie I’ve seen in years. Phenomenal movie
From a story point of view its horrible but the action is so juicy
