What is a movie that "looks like" it would suck, but actually is well written and acted and a good time?
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Original question by @[email protected]
Cocaine Bear (2023) is surprisingly good. You think it's gonna be one of those overly campy movies like Sharknado, but it's pretty well written. I mean, don't expect too much, it's still a very solid 7/10. But the thing it understands best is it actually takes enough time at the beginning of the film to develop extensive cast of weird characters so once they all get thrown into the blender (cocaine bear) you actually care enough about them and what's going on to care about the outcome.
So many movies these days forget you really need to care about those characters.
Fun time, give it a go some night when you're bored and got nothing else to do.
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Dude, Where's My Car?
I thought it was gonna be a dumb stoner movie, but it is actually amazing and hilarious.
While simultaneously being a dumb stoner movie. Don't tell me it wasn't, cause I still am!
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Cocaine Bear (2023) is surprisingly good. You think it's gonna be one of those overly campy movies like Sharknado, but it's pretty well written. I mean, don't expect too much, it's still a very solid 7/10. But the thing it understands best is it actually takes enough time at the beginning of the film to develop extensive cast of weird characters so once they all get thrown into the blender (cocaine bear) you actually care enough about them and what's going on to care about the outcome.
So many movies these days forget you really need to care about those characters.
Fun time, give it a go some night when you're bored and got nothing else to do.
Can I ask you an honest question. I got loose definition in my head of what "campy" means. But could you break it down without Google fucking it up for me?
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Can I ask you an honest question. I got loose definition in my head of what "campy" means. But could you break it down without Google fucking it up for me?
Camp is when a movie maybe isn't good, but you still want to give it a gold star for trying. It's making a joke and you're laughing with it more than you're laughing at it (but you're still laughing at it). Even stuff like The Room by Tommy Wiseau which I think most people agree is a pretty bad movie; it still comes from a place of sincere vision.
This is in contrast to stuff like Epic Movie where it is trying so hard to be camp that it is just terrible instead. And this is all obviously subjective.
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Original question by @[email protected]
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.
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A Knight's Tale. Not only is it a good movie but it was my introduction to Paul Bettany and Alan Tudyk and they were brilliant in it.
Alan Tudyk is a gem! There's a scene that I love from a doc about the voice acting on Moana. Cuts to Tudyk doing chicken sounds (he played the chicken), when he slyly looks into the camera and says "I went to Julliard".
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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.
How comes they won't be making more?
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Can I ask you an honest question. I got loose definition in my head of what "campy" means. But could you break it down without Google fucking it up for me?
Campy is all about exaggeration and being self-aware at how ridiculous it is. 1960s Batman TV show is the epitomy of camp. Classic comedy styles like slapstick also get thrown into camp.
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How comes they won't be making more?
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.
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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.
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Original question by @[email protected]
The live action Chip N' Dale Rescue Rangers remake on Disney+ is SOOOOOO much better than it has any right to be.
It should be terrible, unwatchable, irredeemable garbage.
It is probably one of the best "kids" movies I've seen in the last decade.
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A Knight's Tale. Not only is it a good movie but it was my introduction to Paul Bettany and Alan Tudyk and they were brilliant in it.
It didn't click until I'd finished watching it that they'd tricked me into loving a sports underdog movie.
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Alan Tudyk is a gem! There's a scene that I love from a doc about the voice acting on Moana. Cuts to Tudyk doing chicken sounds (he played the chicken), when he slyly looks into the camera and says "I went to Julliard".
If you haven't, watch Resident Alien.
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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.
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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.
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That movie has perfect casting. Everyone in it is exactly right for their parts. There is a B movie feel that I can't quite put my finger on but it is an outright excellent film, one of my personal favorites.
I think it's that it doesn't take itself too seriously, while still remaining carefully in the world/rules they set.
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I think it's that it doesn't take itself too seriously, while still remaining carefully in the world/rules they set.
Well, that'll piss some folks off I think. I actually appreciate things like the crowd at the opening joust rocking out to We Will Rock You. The banquet dance scene is better executed; they start out with the old time dance and then fade into modern club dancing, as if to say "Here's what's actually taking place" versus "Here's how the characters feel about it in terms a modern audience can understand."
I think I'm more talking about how a lot of the sets look like styrofoam? Especially castle interiors or other masonry? There's just something very 80's Gragthar The Destroyer about it.
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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.
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While simultaneously being a dumb stoner movie. Don't tell me it wasn't, cause I still am!
It was a genius stoner movie.
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If you haven't, watch Resident Alien.
I must watch the new season of that. And Con Man is so good, too.
