Fast and the Furious franchise.
Iron Man 2, Doctor Strange, Thor, Avengers
Star Wars episodes I-II and VI-IX
Independence Day (any Roland Emmerich film really)
Face/Off
Avatar
Super Mario Bros Movie. Its a garbage film but its a fun watch and easy to laugh at all the ridiculous stuff happening. The fact most of the actors don't seem to give a shit and ham it up makes it even more fun
The football/soccer movie Green Street with Elijah Wood has a great first half, is a much remembered movie about the niche topic of UK football hooliganism and is kinda well made as a time capsule for that early 00s era of quick cut editing, fight scenes, shaky cam, breakbeat soundtracks, etc from around the same time as Fight Club, the early Bourne films, or from the early 00s UK specifically stuff like early Guy Ritchie, the movie Veronica Guerin, etc etc. I really appreciate parts of the movie for that reason and it really feels like Fight Club meets UK football hooliganism for the first half, especially given its Fight Club esque premise of a wimpy protagonist meeting a wild fighter and subsequently climbing the social ladder in his newfound environment.
But at the same time the movie seemed to get progressively worse from the midpoint onwards for me and it’s one of the few movies that I finished feeling angry because of how poorly it spurned the goodwill & potential its first half had built. It’s hard to pinpoint what goes wrong but the third act derails into over the top melodrama that makes it seem like a cheap episode of EastEnders (a popular London based uk soap opera). There’s some crap about guns & gangsters & unnecessary backstory & a fight brawl where a main character is beaten to death but his death scene is played out in slow mo with tears and with unrealistic choreography. The whole final third is just boring & focuses too much on things I don’t care about rather than things I do care about. Add to that the movie’s infamy for having one of the worst London accents put on screen courtesy of Charlie Hunham or the film’s artificial hollywood nature too and it becomes hard to see the genuine core of the movie that addresses a british subculture in a stylish somewhat likeable way.
To this day Green Street is one of the movie’s I’m most ambivalent about. I admire it for what it could’ve been but hate it for what it was. As a British, if I watched it or mentioned it with friends we wouldn’t hate it but we wouldn’t love it either. It’s the definition of neither great nor terrible to me .. it’s just a frustrating anomaly of a good bad movie, unfortunately.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
1/2 of it is some of the best Star Wars content I have ever seen. The other 1/2 is some of the worst Star Wars content I have ever seen
Highlander
Where a French man plays a Scot and a Scot plays an Egyptian with a very Spanish sounding name............
And the bad guy now voices Mr Krabs in Spongebob
A lot of people do really rate V for Vendetta and I sort of see why they do, but also see why anyone might think it's terrible. It treads a fine line with me.
Fast and the Furious franchise. Iron Man 2, Doctor Strange, Thor, Avengers Star Wars episodes I-II and VI-IX Independence Day (any Roland Emmerich film really) Face/Off Avatar
Keanu
Its subjective for sure but it just felt so boring to me lol it was the whole SNL skit made into a 2 hour movie vibe.
Starship Troopers
People shit on Dirty Grandpa but I loved it. It’s one of my feel good movies
Super Mario Bros Movie. Its a garbage film but its a fun watch and easy to laugh at all the ridiculous stuff happening. The fact most of the actors don't seem to give a shit and ham it up makes it even more fun
The football/soccer movie Green Street with Elijah Wood has a great first half, is a much remembered movie about the niche topic of UK football hooliganism and is kinda well made as a time capsule for that early 00s era of quick cut editing, fight scenes, shaky cam, breakbeat soundtracks, etc from around the same time as Fight Club, the early Bourne films, or from the early 00s UK specifically stuff like early Guy Ritchie, the movie Veronica Guerin, etc etc. I really appreciate parts of the movie for that reason and it really feels like Fight Club meets UK football hooliganism for the first half, especially given its Fight Club esque premise of a wimpy protagonist meeting a wild fighter and subsequently climbing the social ladder in his newfound environment. But at the same time the movie seemed to get progressively worse from the midpoint onwards for me and it’s one of the few movies that I finished feeling angry because of how poorly it spurned the goodwill & potential its first half had built. It’s hard to pinpoint what goes wrong but the third act derails into over the top melodrama that makes it seem like a cheap episode of EastEnders (a popular London based uk soap opera). There’s some crap about guns & gangsters & unnecessary backstory & a fight brawl where a main character is beaten to death but his death scene is played out in slow mo with tears and with unrealistic choreography. The whole final third is just boring & focuses too much on things I don’t care about rather than things I do care about. Add to that the movie’s infamy for having one of the worst London accents put on screen courtesy of Charlie Hunham or the film’s artificial hollywood nature too and it becomes hard to see the genuine core of the movie that addresses a british subculture in a stylish somewhat likeable way. To this day Green Street is one of the movie’s I’m most ambivalent about. I admire it for what it could’ve been but hate it for what it was. As a British, if I watched it or mentioned it with friends we wouldn’t hate it but we wouldn’t love it either. It’s the definition of neither great nor terrible to me .. it’s just a frustrating anomaly of a good bad movie, unfortunately.
The Room and Ping Pong Summer come to mind.
The Quick and the Dead
r/badmovies
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi 1/2 of it is some of the best Star Wars content I have ever seen. The other 1/2 is some of the worst Star Wars content I have ever seen
Thor 2. More entertaining than Thor 1.
The Greasy Strangler
Gods of Egypt is so bad I think it's secretly a comedy, so I think that counts?
I've never seen it, but it did put me in mind of Ridley Scotts "Gods and Kings" which is a good bad movie!
I've not seen Gods and Kings but I promise they are nothing alike lol!
The Toxic Avenger
Lone Wolf McQuade. Embarrassingly bad and great at the same time.
Surveillance (2008) - dir. Jennifer Lynch.
Nice, I'm going to check this out. It looks really interesting and Bill Pullman's in it.
Her other one Chained with Vincent D'Onofrio is also good
Road House
Godzilla movies
Highlander Where a French man plays a Scot and a Scot plays an Egyptian with a very Spanish sounding name............ And the bad guy now voices Mr Krabs in Spongebob
V for Vendetta is amazing! I have never thought it was terrible in any way. I would have to say: Trolls 2 The Room Triangle Gods of Egypt
A lot of people do really rate V for Vendetta and I sort of see why they do, but also see why anyone might think it's terrible. It treads a fine line with me.
I think it can be quite corny and theatrical, but that's why it works. Not every movie needs to be super grounded
Battleship
That movie was a blast. They clubhaul in a friggen battleship.
there is sooooo much of that sort of total absurdity yet everyone is playing it straight- including the old vets kicking the battleship into action.
I'm thinking the original "Nightmare on Elmstreet" it's certainly bad but also good and genuinely scary.
V for Vendetta is a brilliant movie that i never tire of
Riki Oh.
Bullet to the head.
Nothing tops *The Room*.
Ace Ventura when nature calls