What movie had no right to be that good?
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Emperor’s New Groove.
Tremors.
I know it’s a cult classic now but they originally set out to make a B movie and made a masterpiece instead
“ But you HAVE heard of me.”
Possibly one of my favorite lines in all of cinema
Galaxy Quest
Dredd
The Lego Movie.
Tropic thunder. RDJ needed to be perfect to pull off that role and the writing had to be perfect for the jokes to make fun of racist ppl and not black people, and they all pulled it off. So much could have and should have went wrong but it didn’t.
*Edge of Tomorrow* (2014)
Man, that film surprised the hell out of me, and it reminded me just how FUN a Tom Cruise film can be.
21 Jump Street. Didn’t know until then how Channing Tatum could be funny.
The Pirates of the Caribbean has always been a comfort movie for me. I’m glad I’m not the only one who loves it.
The Mummy
A Knight’s Tale
Iron-Man.
Back in 2007, there were very few Marvel comic book movies that had been truly successful that didn’t involve Spider-Man or the X-Men . The MCU wasn’t a thing yet. Iron-Man was a B-list hero that mainstream didn’t really care about and Robert Downy Jr. had a pretty lousy rep.
There was so much that could have gone wrong with the early MCU that could have killed it before it got off the ground, but they managed a hit with Iron-Man that proved other Marvel heroes could be marketable to the mainstream, pretty much revitalized RDJ’s career and made him a name that could headline films and put butts in the seats.
I remember people thinking the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie was gonna be garbage, including teenage me.
Boy were we proven wrong lol.
Dungeons and Dragons
Princess Bride
Big Trouble in Little China.
Funny when you’re not even sure it’s supposed to be, badass fight scenes, acting that doesn’t take itself seriously that ends up being enduring, a story so random ai wouldn’t be able to come up with it.
Oh yeah, best quotable lines.
Taken
The first John Wick movie, I remember thinking it was just some direct to video garbage the first time I was even aware of it. Glad to have been so wrong.
Clue.
A movie about a board game. Yet it is one of the greatest comedic movies ever.
The incredible cast is what makes that movie work when you consider some of the talent they had.
Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Michael McKean, Christopher Lloyd are all legendary actors in their own right. Every one else is doing a fantastic job too. I don’t think you could have casted it better in all honesty.
Lego Movie
Treasure Planet and Titan A.D
Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse
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Puss in Boots The Last Wish
If Jarnathan were here, I could explain how good dungeons and dragons was.
District 9
Taken was a junker an aging Neeson did for the money. It’s formulaic stuff but he elevates it and it kickstarted his successful career as the geriatric action hero.
I have seen some low budget films made by inexperienced people that were pretty good. If you poke around and look at a lot of stuff you will find some rough diamonds.
Honestly, I would say The Dark Knight. I expected a good superhero film, not one of the greatest cinematic masterpieces of the decade.
Hot Tub Time Machine.
Shrek was scene as the Throw away film by the studio. Same with lion king .
Both out grossed their respective ” good films” .
The entire Planet of the Apes trilogy.
Mad Max: Fury Road… If you had told me beforehand that a two hour long continuous car chase would end up being one of my favorite movies of the year (if not ever), I would have told you that you were out of your f*cking mind.
Napoleon Dynamite
If you’re not old enough to remember when it came out you can’t understand how this movie came out of nowhere and completely took over pop culture for awhile, it was weird and different and not like any other movie out there, it’s one of those cultural moment things you can’t replicate sort of like Barbieheimer
The Wrestler
Top Gun: Maverick
When I heard they were actually doing this I rolled my eyes so hard they should’ve fallen the fuck out. Boy, I was wrong.
Bedazzled. Went in not expecting much. Came out with tears of laughter. Fraser was great in it.
Paddington 2
I thought the Jumanji film was pretty decent.
Boondock Saints
For me, Stranger Than Fiction (2006). I was really expecting just another Will Ferrell movie, but it was probably one of his best roles just because it was so different.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Click.
… I thought I was going into any old naughties era, Adam Sandler comedy shlock movie. What I actually watched was a sporadically funny but deeply moving film about how quickly life can pass you by. The only thing I’ve seen since that captures the same mood is About Time.
Get Out
I mean who would have thought Jordan Peele wrote and directed this.
*Galaxy Quest* (1999).
*sigh* What a savings! 😐
Kingdom of Heaven (2005), especially the director’s cut. That theatrical is great, but the extended director’s cut is ridiculously OP.
Don’t judge me but I thought Red One was funny and entertaining.
A fish called Wanda
The Butterfly Effect (2004) with Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart. It’s one of the few times I went into a theater not knowing what it expect and it blew me away. The theatrical ending with him seeing that the love of his life, who he had to drive away in order to save, was okay after so many years still gets to me.
Ninja Turtles 1990