Movies Overhated movies

[Zerpina]

If one man's gonna praise something like Your HIGHness... I'm gonna praise JASON X!
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Yes, it's the ridiculous tenth entry in the famously trashy but fun Friday the 13th series. Yes, it's Jason Voorhees in Space. But it's aware of all of these things and it simply aims to provide a fun, rollicking film and by god it succeeds, with a strong wit and sense of humour, some of the most creative kills in any slasher film, let alone the Friday the 13th series, and some pretty creepy scenes here and there.

I have no idea why most Friday the 13th fans, who were possibly okay with Tina and her psychic powers in F13 Part VII: The New Blood and Jason becoming a vengeful revenant in Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI before that, would be up in arms at this. Even as someone who only watched Part 1 god knows when as a teen, this movie is pure fun.

You know, I don't get it either.

Yes, it's a dumb slasher movie, but all of them are dumb slasher movies. Hell, Freddy vs. Jason was pretty mediocre, but it was still badass to finally see Jason and Freddy duke it out on the big screen. Jason in space is no worse than Jason Lives or Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday with the body swapping gimmick in the movie.

Those all, in their own right, are shockingly dumb horror movies, and they are freaking awesome.
Like Halloween 3: Season of the Witch. Yes, it didn't have Michael Myers in it, but the Halloween movies were originally going to be an anthology series. The first one just happened to make a great slasher villain, and it kind of stuck.

Like with Evil Dead, it's another dumb slasher horror movie, albeit one of the best ones, with the OG Chad horror hero Ash Williams. Hail to the king, baby. And we all know the Evil Dead movies are just an autobiography of Bruce Campbell's real life adventure, and no one can convince me otherwise. XD

And as for overhated movies, mine has to go to Mortal Kombat Annihilation. It's bad, I agree, but not as bad as some video game movies at the time. <Cough double dragon cough> It was fairly decent as action movies go, despite some terrible CGI. But again, it was from 1997... so I'll cut it some slack on the bad CGI.

The characters are pretty faithful to the game, and even with the small amount of story the Mortal Kombat games have, it would be hard for anyone to make a full coherent well done story from them. Well, at least in 1997 mind you.

Now, the Mortal Kombat games have almost movie-length scripts as video games.

 

[Nickakyoin]

Star Wars Episode I wasn't that bad IMO. Aside from every Jar Jar Binks scene, sure. Also Waterworld was a banger.

 

[NobodyHere]

The Children (1980) / The Children Of Ravensback, no idea why it’s rated so poorly. I honestly think it’s a rather good movie, especially considering how clearly low budget it is and it chose to centre around using child actors. It managed to avoid having the ‘kids can’t act’ issue by having the kids act unnaturally on purpose.

The story had it’s strange (not in a good way) parts, and the characters were rather bland, but those barely effected the experience for me since that wasn’t the main focus of the film.

The cinematography was truly great, with some really stand out eerie moments throughout, with great pacing. Really recommend giving it a watch this spooky season.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Star Wars Episode I wasn't that bad IMO. Aside from every Jar Jar Binks scene, sure. Also Waterworld was a banger.

Ironically SW always had a younger audience in mind and C3PO was in a way the comic relief characters of its time.

But yeah, Jar Jar has aged less well.

Waterworld was good, people were tired of Costner.

 

[Nickakyoin]

Ironically SW always had a younger audience in mind and C3PO was in a way the comic relief characters of its time.

But yeah, Jar Jar has aged less well.

Waterworld was good, people were tired of Costner.

Costner was the 90s equivalent of nowadays Pedro Pascal.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Costner was the 90s equivalent of nowadays Pedro Pascal.

Basically.

Or Zendaya (if I spelled it correctly).