• Baphomet_The_Blasphemer
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    There was a Disney TV show back in 1991 called “The 100 lives of Black Jack Savage”. My brother and I were super into the show and then it was suddenly canceled. Turns out it’s considered one of the worst shows of all time.

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    Don’t listen to other people. They thought the Transporter series was good.

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    The real tragedy is believing a movie you loved is bad just because of what randos think of it.

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      11 hours ago

      It was swell, but… swellings gone down.

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    Not one mention of Battlefield Earth? Really?

    Yes, it’s a terrible movie. Nobody watching this (except maybe John Travolta) ever thinks its a good movie. But it is.

    You just have to shut your brain off entirely. Johnny alien (travolta) runs around like an English major high on bath salts. Thousand year old military tech works flawlessly. Humans are so dumb they literally cant tell gold ore and solid gold ingots apart. The dumb humans manage to build and deploy a nuclear weapon in 7 days. Its so horrifically, nut crushingly stupid that it swings all the way around to comedy.

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      I taught the guy who built miniature sets for that movie. I didn’t teach him how to build the sets, I taught him how to do multimedia presentations for hockey arenas.

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        You know, I can see a lot of hockey arena in the CGI stuff at the end. He must have talked about your set design to the rest of the set crew.

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        I don’t want to give you bad news, but I guess…well, he’s not behaving as if he’s all that clear on how to do multimedia presentations for hockey arenas, is he? I mean, it’s probably not your fault, but it sure looks like he’s missed the mark entirely, what a goof!

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      I try to avoid "Earth"flicks because they all have long backstory of why Earth is not the Earth we know.

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        That’s actually one of the few worthwhile “twists” from either the book or the movie in my opinion. I like the idea of a past “earth” in the sense of our modern one being so thoroughly beaten and destroyed that it is no longer recognizable. Taking a “primitive” human and showing them how great humanity once was is one of the cooler ways to reflect on the work of mankind, imo.

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    Really liked Lucky Number Slevin. I wasn’t a fan of Lucy Liu until that movie … then I looked it up later and was like “oh, thought the RT score on this would have been better …”

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      I enjoyed it as a kid when it came out. I don’t think I’ve watched it again as an adult. I just saw the “it was a shit show” episode on it a few days ago and that was interesting. I agree that a big fault is conflicting images and directions as well as all that was cut for length. We didn’t have the LotR movies being forever long back then to point to

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      I love Waterworld. It’s a classic. PPPPPPPPAPER.

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        It got a bad return, which is even worse from the perspective of the studio. It was just an absolute production clusterfuck. From stunt coordination in aquatic environments to building an entire goddamn aquatic environment when the weather refused to work with the filming schedule, it was just an absolute nightmare for everyone involved. The production costs ended up like triple the original amount and the opening box office weekend made back life half of it.

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    I usually have it the other way around. I’ll watch something, think it’s bad only to discover it has 90% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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      RT isnt how good a movie is. Its the chance you’ll like it if youre a movie critic, or audience if you use the audience score.

      Aiming for 100% RT score means aiming for a movie everyone likes, which really means not taking chances and using what works for test audiences. Rotten Tomatoes scores really pushed movies to be more average.

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      And it’s impossible to know if they’re artificial or if people actually like garbage.

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        Yes, that’s the other problem. Luckily I’m sailing the high seas so I don’t waste money.

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        I find fandoms on reddit to be a decent gauge. I’ve been in one that was torn in half after the final season. It was hot garbage, but IMDB would make you believe it was actually good. Rotten Tomatoes was also more realistic. I guess good thing IMDB locked reading reviews behind login. I’m not tempted to waste my time on it anymore.

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        I think that’s one where your relationship with your parents has a huge imoact on your experience.

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        I literally walked out of the theater like half way through.

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        That movie was so boring. It’s like Hollywood was trying to spoof multiverse movies, but every where I look was people speaking highly of it. Waste of time more like it.

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      That’s the fucking Barbie movie.

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      this happens to me. i had this for await further instructions. i thought it was garbage, everyone was unlikeable, and the moral is essentially shoced down your throat. 80% critic reviews. audience reviews were more reasonable.

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    Look at this guy who cannot think for himself and lives as a cellular autonama in the forces of peer pressure from those he sells his will to

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    For me it was people shitting on TRON:Legacy. I saw it opening weekend in 3D by myself. Fucking loved it. Saw it a second time the following weekend with my gf at the time. She was indifferent to it. I still loved it. Then other people would bash it and even The Big Bang Theory jumped on the tron bashing bandwagon. As far as I care, everyone else is wrong, that movie was amazing for a reboot.

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      That movie was amazing. And even if you don’t like the movie itself you’d have to admit the music is one of the best soundtracks ever made for a movie.

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        We can disagree on the movie rating, but you’re right that the soundtrack is amazing. It is something I still listen to today.

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    I like Super Troopers. It is sometimes just what you need.

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      The analogy I use is "If someone sets out to make Pepperoni Pizza you have to review it by the standards of Pepperoni Pizza. If you eat it and say “Its the worst soup I ever had” its not the chef who fucked up. "

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    From my first viewing in the theatre in 2013 in Singapore until this very second I really like the first Pacific Rim. It could have been really really bad but in the end it’s a movie with heart and you root for the characters. The CG is exceptional and the Robots and Monsters move extraordinarily well!

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      Nobody doesn’t at least like Pacific Rim. No, you too at least like Pacific Rim, person who is about to Um Ackchually me, you’re just in denial.

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      It’s a bit dated now, but if you like mech piloted fighting, check out this movie called ‘Robot Jox’. People shit on it but it’s a classic imo. I believe it’s free to watch on Tubi rn.

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        I think it found its audience after some time but when it was released many around me treated it as adult power rangers and thought it was corney. It’s not that they are/were wrong it’s just that those things didn’t make it a bad movie in my opinion. It’s probably more liked than I remember, but very few join my annual viewing party. 😆 Yeah PR2 I’m not a fan.

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          It is corny, but that’s not a knock against it. It’s exactly the right amount of stupid awesome. Like Independence Day.