The Films You Watched Thread VI: The Undiscovered Movie

[Neon Ignition]

Can't Stop the Music
Steve Guttenberg is the most notable lead in the Village People focused movie from 1980 that was also the acting intro for at the time Bruce Jenner. Jenner got an award for terrible acting, to be honest he's far from the worst thing in this colourful explosion of terrible things on screen. A spectacularly bad film that reaches a level of fascination thanks to how good it is at being bad.

[Brad]

Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness

Mrs Brad wasn't a fan but I loved it! Some surprise guests in there. One in particular (consider who the director is).
Action all the way, a good bit of nonsense and I loved the antagonist, put in a really good performance I thought.

Saw it at a super posh cinema in Cheltenham, which you would think would only improve the experience, but all the fanciness of the massive seats and food brought to you was ruined by a not great screen, way too loud audio and what is either a budget sound system or not set up correctly. Really hard on the ears.

[Neon Ignition]

My missus yesterday:

-Livid at an entire scene of Top Gun Maverick being shown
-Voicing her issues with Avatar being trailered saying why does anyone want to see it again, then I explained it was for Avatar 2

[Brad]

YES! Avatar looked dreadful. WHY would anyone want to see that? It looks crap and boring.

[Lebowski]

My missus yesterday:

-Voicing her issues with Avatar being trailered saying why does anyone want to see it again, then I explained it was for Avatar 2

massively bemused why they are making a sequel to this rubbish, i wonder which film they will rip off this time. first film was Dances with wolves/ Ferngully / Last Samari / The Last of the Mohicans, I'm hoping they do a Riff on the 80s classic Twins this time.

[Atticus]

[randombs]

Dude, Where's My Car?

Such wonderful, silly nonsense.

[Dogg Thang]

I watched Insidious 2 last night. It wasn’t great. It confused loud noises with scares and told a story that wasn’t all that engaging and so mostly I didn’t care about it. And some of the scary scenes just looked really bad, like they were a kid’s idea of what’s scary rather than what’s actually scary. Patrick Wilson is good though. He should be in more things.

[Neon Ignition]

The Dark Knight Rises
Not as slow as I remember despite how long the film is. Still as dumb but it bothered me less this time. It's kind of fascinating how sloppy the film is, still much like Nolan had lost interest in the franchise by this point and was rushing the ending.

[QualityChimp]

The Wandering Earth (via Netflix).
Looked okay, but the concept was so ridiculous, combined with extreme melodrama for characters I didn't care about and a rolling list of disasters meant I really, really struggled to engage with this.

Metal Lords (2022 via Netflix)
However, I really clicked with this. It was proper cheesy, but I'm a real sucker for highschool loners stand up against the jocks and find themselves and love.
The lead trio were great, all trying to deal with their teen angst in different ways, but united in an appreciation of Metal.
The soundtrack is great (picked by Tom Morello) with some obvious tunes, but obvious because their classics.
There's a really good version of Sabbath's "War Pigs".
The hot tub scene is absolutely brilliant, but possibly not for the reasons you are thinking of...

[prinnysquad]

Back to the Future trilogy.
Excellent. Love them all. The only thing that grates is the horrendous paradox in the second one. I know there’s many, but the Biff returning to 2015 one is pretty terrible, especially since they use a blackboard to essentially show how it couldn’t happen.

End of Watch
Gritty and grimy, but engaging insofar as the characters are well-drawn and well-performed. The story isn’t really a story - it’s just a collection of loosely-connected documentary-style events. The two leads are absolutely spot on.

[Golgo]

I Want to Eat your Pancreas. Part II of my son's teen anime weepie phase. Not a patch on the brilliant A Silent Voice in terms of narrative, character or style, but it was alright...up to a point. The point being

->Open Spoiler<-

the needlessly - almost implausibly - cruel and abrupt murder of the terminally ill protagonist

, which pulled the rug out from under the film and was utterly unconvincing in terms of the responses of her loved ones, especially the mother. It felt like the biggest cheat since the ending twist of Dragon Quest: Your Story, which evidently I still haven't recovered from.

[Atticus]

L.A. Confidential - Safe to say I love pretty much everything about this film. Great story by James Ellroy set in the 1950s, knee deep in crime and police corruption. I just love the world it's set in. Curtis Hanson made one of the all-time greats here.

[Neon Ignition]

Friday the 13th
Missus wanted some films of her choice and the 2009 entry was the first one. Still a really solid entry and a shame we're here 13 years later and no further film has been made

My Bloody Valentine
The 2008 version, literally looks like a made for TV film. No suspense or real drive to it, not great

Star Wars Episode II: Attack the of Clones
Finally moved on to the second film and it is definitely better than Phantom Menace but the sheer scale of very dated and very often unnecessarily deployed CG really heavily detracts from the film. The performances are all wooden as hell too barring the every reliable Christopher Lee. It's definitely one of the joys of Star Wars that the quality improves when watched in narrative order.

[QualityChimp]

Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (2022 via the cinema)
Watched this as a family day out with a meal afterwards, but both were disappointing!
I remember quite liking the first film, but this was pretty poor. It had its moments and made me laugh, but it just seemed to go on and on with several Deus Ex Machina moments to push the story on. Loads of Easter Egg(man)s for big Sonic fans, but I wouldn't bother if you're not being coerced by young 'uns.
Carrey is great because he really doesn't care, so gives a real full-on performance.

Waterworld (1995 via Prime)
I've never seen this before because it's one of those films where it got slammed at the time and regarded as one of the biggest failures in cinematic history, but in recent years, it has been reappraised and the film has actually made a fair amount of money, so the claims it wasn't a hit are untrue.
However, having seen it, I think it's poor. It's a watery Thunderdome and everyone knows that's the worst Mad Max.
The various analogue contraptions make it feel like The Flintstones or Swiss Family Robinson.
There are some interesting moments, like the Mariner revealing what happened to the world or opening up a bit to his past.
The water batttles are explosive, but they do feel like you're at a waterpark's stunt show.
Biggest disappointment is that it's not Jeanne Triplehorn's butt, it's a butt-double.

I suspect the story of the making of the film is probably more interesting than the film itself.

https://www.filmstories.co.uk/podcast/waterworld-1995-and-wonder-2017/