I’m asking because an IMDb rating cutoff above 6.5±5 seems to generally do a good job making sure I don’t regret watching something. But what am I missing among the sub-6? I know they exist, but it is hard to select among seas of…bad movies.
Idiocracy. Has stood the test of time surprisingly well for a movie containing so many fart and sex jokes.
My wife and teenage step son had never seen this before, so we all tried watching it last year. Every single one of us fell asleep. It wasn’t nearly as funny and entertaining as I remembered.
But that won’t stop me from saying “IT’S GOT WHAT PLANTS CRAVE!” at least once a month.
Brought to you by Carl’s Jr. 😉
Why do you keep saying that?
I wouldn’t say it was prophetic, because most of it was already there in 2000, but less virulent. But yeah, Mike Judge had to push against the industry to get it out, so at least some corpos were aware of what he was saying too. That is why it wasn’t higher, because Fox tried to neglect-kill it.
Fox. Imagine that.
It’s the greatest movie ever made and people who don’t think so are inferior to me
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
Mate, I was fully prepared to create alt accounts and review boost it past 6, but it’s already 6.2. Crisis averted.
Now the RT score though, critics got it so SO wrong.
Only 1 of 2 movies I have ever walked out of in the theatres. It’s so bad.
Philistine.
What was the other movie?
Everything everywhere all at once
E: and I nearly walked out of the first LOTR in theatres but pushed through.
Holy shit, that has got to be the most disappointing answer you could have given.
To couldn’t get into this either. Kung pow was good though, but I saw it as a kid.
I was in high school when Kung Pow was in theatres and I went with my friends. Half way through I just got up and waited outside for them. It just wasn’t for me.
This is definitely one of those movies you either hate or love. And I was just the right age /immaturity to love it. Showed it to some 12 year old cousins and only like 2 of 4 liked it.
I’ve always been sad that the sequel fell through.
I don’t think they ever were planning a sequel. Pretty sure that was just a meta joke in the movie and all of the “preview” scenes were just deleted scenes.
Oh I had forgotten about that one. A gem
IDK about “rated higher” but I love Jet Li’s The One
There’s exactly 127 universes in the multiverse. Why? Never discussed. And if one version of you kills another, every other version gets that much stronger. So Jet Li plays both the hero and the villain as well as an assortment of the villain’s victims. Jason Statham is in it too, as the hotheaded junior partner multiverse cop out to bring the villain down.
Weird guns! Weird tech! A prison universe! Super powered martial arts! A climactic fight in a foundry where you can tell the hero from the villain by the color of their shirt! Man I love this movie!
It’s when they go through the pictures of Jet Li’s victims that gets me every time. It’s just him with different wigs. The one with dreadlocks is hilarious.
I genuinely love this movie. Very entertaining. Soundtrack isn’t half bad either.
The ending scene of the film reminds me of the cover for the OG DOOM. But instead of a green armored space marine fighting a swarm of demons, it’s Jet Li beating up a swarm of dirty prison inmates.
I am Yulaw! I am nobody’s bitch!
the only thing I remember about that movie apart from the fact that I watched it with my high school best friend with whom I’ve long since cut all ties
but I do remember we both quite enjoyed it!
I actually thought this movie was a sequel to The Matrix when I saw it advertised and saw it in theaters as a result. It was okay.
I unironically love Rubber. Not a single person I’ve shown has shared that sentiment haha
It’s about a tire that blows things up with It’s mind
Edit: doesn’t anyone know how to make spoilers hidden? I wanna type something but dont want to just put it out there
I had no idea it was rated so low. Such a cool movie.
I think a lot of the Quentin D movies will be hit or miss depending on the person. It is such a strange concept for a film I quite liked but overall not his best work IMO. For more weirdness I gotta recommend Smoking Causes Coughing which I liked a whole lot more
I’ll check it out!
But imma just go and say the spoilers cause I want to talk about it
::: spoiler The reason Rubber continues for so long is because you are the old man who refuses to die. The movie was supposed to end when they all ate the poison, but continues because the old man was stubborn. The movie literally asked you to turn it off, but youre just as stubborn so it has to continue. It begs you to stop, but you have to see what happens so the show must go on. :::
I love it
Made an extra comment by mistake cause im a little tipsy.
Yes! My family could not get into it, I thought it was a riot
I saw that on the festival circuit. Still a highlight of my moviegoing career.
Why?
No reason.
Ohhh. I have to make the end ::: a diffrent line
::: spoiler The old man is you. The movie has to continue because you didnt eat the poison and turn the movie off. :::
Honestly though. Thank you so much cause I was trying multiple different methods.
It took me a couple of edits, but I did it.
I hated the movie at first but it grew on me by the end of it. It might be pointless and wacky but it’s well done for what it is.
Its the only movie I know that
::: spoiler begs you to stop watching :::
Its the only movie I know that
spoiler
begs you to stop watching
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
I need to get around to reading the comic, I love this movie and I love its premise even more.
I haven’t read the comic either!
The comic was good, very different from the movie though
Not to shame your taste or anything, but I’ve loudly chuckled when I’ve read this one. That’s the only movie I’ve walked out of the theater from. Not joking. IMHO it is _over_rated, even a 0/10 is too high of a rating for that clusterfuck.
It’s definitely a clusterfuck lol
I just found it to be kind of fun!
My partner talks about that movie on the regular. She loves it and finds everything quite charming and carefree.
I’m so clueless I’m not even sure I’m thinking of the right movie
I also found it entertaining. It’s so bad that it is fun.
I am a so-bad-it-is-good movie enjoyer. If you want to view some genuinely entertaining schlock, I’d highly recommend:
- Miami Connection
- Samurai Cop
- Killing: American Style
- Space Mutiny
- Money Plane
- Paradise Motel
- I am Here, Now (any Neil Breen tbh)
- Timecop
I spy a fellow MST3K/RLM fan!
I’m going to throw in Time Chasers and Manos: The Hands of Fate, if I may… 😁
Another Castleton alum I see 😆
😁
Those just reminded me of another one I like and has a sub 6 score: Beverly Hills Ninja :D
The great white ninja!
Added to the queue, thanks!
Went to a showing of Cade: The Tortured Crossing and it changed my life.
Hell yeah! Any Wiseau/Breen/YKKim screening is always an incredible time.
Super Mario Bros Movie.
The Bob Hoskins / John Leguizamo one? I love it.
Thats the one.
The David lynch version of Dune. I find it much more enjoyable than the recent version(s). The art direction and casting are amazing.
The only clunky part is in the TV cut where they use storyboards and voiceovers to give some back history about the Mentats. Pretty sure this was not in the theatrical release though it’s been a while since I’ve rewatched it. Oh and the human close ups of riding the worms is showing its age in the special effects department.
Check out the extended director’s cut sometime, you’d probably like it
stupid sexy Sting
I would kill to be that limber.
I wanted to recommend The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, but it’s sitting at 6.2 on IMDB, which is higher than I expected. I’m still going to, because it’s great. Jeff Goldblum plays the most normal person in the film.
It’s BigbooTAY!
Robocop 2014
I think its extremely underrated.
I thoroughly enjoyed it, because out of all the sci-fi movies I’ve seen in the last two decades, this one has a very high likely chance of playing out exactly as indicated in the film.
We will blur the line between man and machine, and eventually have a identity crisis.
We will very likely see autonomous drone platoons being coordinated by a few or single human operator.
Those drones will likely be deployed in a military fashion first with push-back on deploying on home soil as a police force.
Until they will inevitably be deployed and used against civilians.
Also kudo’s to the scene where he is stripped down to the bare parts, and the entire theater went quiet. There’s a level of existential dread, when your ‘being’ is laid bare that the reality is… you… everything about you… is just a small clump of grey matter.
This movie’s main issue is that given the choice, I’d still rather watch the 1987 release. Like most remakes, it didn’t exceed its predecessor enough to justify its own existence.
Gimme that 2012 Dredd though, that was sick.
Yeah, the original was way more entertaining, agreed.
But the original didn’t really touch on the Ghost in the Machine-esque nature of blurring that line between man/machine.
Also the premise that they did it just to have a ‘mobile tank’ on the streets of Chicago was meh…
The premise of the newer movie, where they had to have a hybrid person in to push the narrative to achieve public opinion/support to allow robotic drones to roam the streets so they can make that sweet military industrial complex money and keep the plebs in place?
Yeah… way more believable, if not a direct prediction of exactly what is to come.
DAMN that movie kicked ass. Definitely out did the Stalone ones and deserves a sequel or two for sure.
Haven’t watched it, but I read it’s pretty much a take for take remake of the original which was WAY better. The original is awesome.
Not sure where you heard that, it hardly has anything in common with the original besides the main character, general premise, and some themes. The tone, dialogue, most characters, and subplots are totally different.
Robot Jox, I watched the hell out of this as a kid… And no it shouldn’t be rated any higher than it already is.
I literally have never met someone that even knows this movie. It’s one of my all time favorites. I watch it from time to time. Crash 🤜 and 🤛 Burn!
Hell yeah! I made my kids watch it, they questioned my taste for a long time after. It was sweet!
Have you seen the unofficial sequels?
No, but I will now! Hell yeah!!!
Brother, im here with you.
Titan AE
Absolutely agree. Love the movie so much and in a world that loves incredible scales for sci-fi tech I haven’t ever seen anything else like the Titans function in anything else.
Hudson Hawk - 5.7 - It’s so dumb, but I love it. Richard E. Grant and Sandra Bernhard chewing the scenery with abandon steal every scene they’re in.
Agreed!
I actually like the Tom Cruise War of the Worlds good sound mixing too.
That had a bad rating? I thought it was a decent movie, decent acting, decent story, decent special effects, like most of Cruise’s movies.
Hate the person love the actor, he had a long string of good movies
I think with a few changes it would be a better movie. Less screaming, a bit of a different ending and who survives. There’s some good parts though. I’ve seen people complain that the one scene with the birds is convenient and forced to make Cruise’s character important, but the soldiers were busy trying to get people out of the place and wouldn’t have necessarily noticed what he did. Note that once they understood, they took action. Also RIP the one guy who almost made it.
I think pretty low for what it is
6.6 imdb
The one with the alien tube and the red webbing across the floor?
One of my childhood movies lolThis is a horror movie masquerading as science fiction. Straight up horrifying.
Kinda like coraline masquerading as a kids movie.
The brother’s storyline is ridiculous and ruins the movie.
He’ plays a type of person that happens in real life and unfortunately they’re usually annoying. His opposational defiance was developed earlier.
Captain Ron
