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]

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]

Costner was the 90s equivalent of nowadays Pedro Pascal.

Basically.

Or Zendaya (if I spelled it correctly).

 

[Adrastia]

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.

I just wish Jason spent more time in space.Go big or go home.

 

[Ephemera1_]

Is it GOOD? No. I also agree that its a disappointing way to end the trilogy at the time, but its just your run of the mill sci-fi action film in the 2000s. Yes its a far cry from what the first movie and to a lesser extent the second movie are, but its not HORRIBLE like people make it out to be.

Also if anyone was wondering/going to ask, i dont like Resurrections either

 

[Neb Lleb]

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Is it GOOD? No. I also agree that its a disappointing way to end the trilogy at the time, but its just your run of the mill sci-fi action film in the 2000s. Yes its a far cry from what the first movie and to a lesser extent the second movie are, but its not HORRIBLE like people make it out to be.

Also if anyone was wondering/going to ask, i dont like Resurrections either

I LOVE The Matrix Revolutions. I actually find that the resolutions it provides to the plot threads from Reloaded are really satisfying, and its explorations of unity and conjunction is a nice way to compliment and round off the trilogy's main exploration of beliefs. I even consider it the better of the two Matrix sequels (Resurrections didn't happen).

But that's just me.

 

[BrawlMan]

Not over hated, but Megan 2.0 didn't gel with most audiences. Whatever, and their own lost and foolishness. This movie has great action and character development between all three female leads. Especially the title character, and Gemma. Not to mention, having an actual definitive ending. I don't need 4 or 5 more of these that turn into another mindlessly milked slasher. We got more than enough of those already. Going the action route was for the best.

Ninja Assassin. Critics were either indifferent or passive agressive about it. Audiences found it decent, but got a long cult following. I consider it one of the best ninja films ever made, and it sucks we never got a sequel. Granted, at least movie has an open ending that can work in either direction.

Legion (2009) got hate on by a lot of people at the time, but movie is fine, and not the level of Revenge of the Fallen. It's main issue is that the scope was too big for its budget, and is basically a glorified zombie movie with angles possessing humans, yet acting like fucking Deadite Demons. They should have been just demons from the start. The angel fights, the few that do show up, are cool and are at least creative. The film is an entertaining 6/10.

 

[Mopeybloke]

I've just remembered Waterworld. It was a cool movie.
The guy drank his piss before Bear Grills made it cool.
Also Jim Sterling made a video on it.

 

[Ikagura]

I've just remembered Waterworld. It was a cool movie.

People were apparently tired of seeing Kevin Costner everywhere but I kinda like him (not as much as the other stars but still).

Also it just did Mad Max Furiosa's plot decades before.

 

[Leon]

People were apparently tired of seeing Kevin Costner everywhere but I kinda like him (not as much as the other stars but still).

Also it just did Mad Max Furiosa's plot decades before.

I was around back then, it wasn't just that, the marketing for the movie was also off base to the point most people didn't even know what the movie was about, add to that that moviegoers had just watched braveheart come out in theaters and apollo 13 came out a few weeks after and waterworld was kinda doomed to fail not because of the quality of the movie (can't comment on that, i fall asleep watching it) but because it was competing in a already stacked box office year.

 

[Pseudo64]

Since it has been 4 years and the conversation has died down, I think I can safely say now that I found Blonde to be a really engaging film.

Sure, not every aspect comes together well, but I still think it is a really well made and well acted film, and as long as I don't try to attach or compare real life facts with it (like the best way to enjoy a biography film is to treat it as speculative fiction or better yet, complete fiction), it is a really enjoyable if yet a bit emotionally draining ride about a woman who life and mental health goes down as her stardom rises.

 

[Spyrone]

I ended up watching the Barbie movie, and was pleasantly surprised. It seems that movie got a lot of hate in some circles for how "weird" and avant-garde it is, but it is exactly what you'd expect to see from the perspective of toys. I have no idea what some people's problem is with the movie's presentation, other than the obvious refrain that the movie clearly wasn't meant for them.

 

[BrawlMan]

I ended up watching the Barbie movie, and was pleasantly surprised. It seems that movie got a lot of hate in some circles for how "weird" and avant-garde it is, but it is exactly what you'd expect to see from the perspective of toys. I have no idea what some people's problem is with the movie's presentation, other than the obvious refrain that the movie clearly wasn't meant for them.

Movie still made all that money, and the haters couldn't handle. Not my kind of movie, but i'm glad I did well. Don't let assholes who's spend their entire lives on social media fool you. It's a quality film that made big numbers and got great reception from actual people, and not just angry mobs with nothing better to deal with their lives.

 

[BrawlMan]

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. I left both movies, but there's just something more fun and entertaining about the sequel. I find the sequel slightly better than the first. It definitely has the best design for Ghost Rider.