Movies you like, that are widely panned.

I liked Mary Reilly. As an adult I realise it's creepy in ways I didn't see then.
 
I think King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is the chad movie of this generation and anyone who disagrees is big gay. It's got problems, notably a lack of violence and tits, but damn it's manly.
 
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Frank D'arbo said:
congratulations being the only person in history to like that movie
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I dunno, I think I liked the idea of it, the Korean War is very rarely depicted in film, and most of the ones that were made were done while Korea was still going on. Got almost no Korea video games either (I remember some strategy games for 80s computers, that was about it). I saw Inchon on TV a long time ago (the only way you could see it, never got a VHS release) and don't remember any of it.

My entry for this thread, I liked the 2005 movie 'Stay' which was sort of a modern re-imagining of Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, but critics hated it.
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I liked Nightmare on Elms Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, a lot of people hated it but I liked how it was a big allegory of repressed homosexuality and aids/HIV fear during the 80s. As funny as how super gay the movie was, I did care a lot about Jessie.
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I am with you there, I think of all the non Craven sequels, it was the best one.
 
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I dunno, I think I liked the idea of it, the Korean War is very rarely depicted in film, and most of the ones that were made were done while Korea was still going on. Got almost no Korea video games either (I remember some strategy games for 80s computers, that was about it). I saw Inchon on TV a long time ago (the only way you could see it, never got a VHS release) and don't remember any of it.
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Did you know it was made by a cult?
 
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Not so much widely panned as obscure, but Student Bodies is a pretty funny horror spoof that predates stuff like Scary Movie about 20 years. Richard Belzer doing the voice of The Breather is a riot. Joe Bob Briggs and USA Up All Night used to air it all the time in the 90s

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Autumnal Equinox said:
Not so much widely panned as obscure, but Student Bodies is a pretty funny horror spoof that predates stuff like Scary Movie about 20 years. Richard Belzer doing the voice of The Breather is a riot. Joe Bob Briggs and USA Up All Night used to air it all the time in the 90s

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Autumnal Equinox said:
Not so much widely panned as obscure, but Student Bodies is a pretty funny horror spoof that predates stuff like Scary Movie about 20 years. Richard Belzer doing the voice of The Breather is a riot. Joe Bob Briggs and USA Up All Night used to air it all the time in the 90s

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I remember watching that movie on demand one night when I was a teenager, and I remember it being pretty funny in a goofy sort of way. Also, the bit Bruno Mattei mentioned.
 
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I also enjoyed 2012 on a big screen, because I like seeing volcanoes and pictures of shit being destroyed. I wasn't there for the storyline.
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What I wondered about that movie, was given the scale of the disasters and destruction in the film, why didn't they go all-out on showing places around the world get destroyed? NYC was a missed opportunity, because of the scene where the President addressed that the World will end. And despite having the volcanoes in Hawai'i erupting scene, it was a let down because it was in the dark, so you couldn't really see much of the scale of the destruction, aside from the buildings burning down by the lava. And given how China was part of the plot, wouldn't it have been an opportunity to show parts of China, both Koreas, Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, getting destroyed too? There were some mentions about Japan being destroyed, i.e. the phone call, but it's not shown on-screen for the most part. And if you included more destruction, at least it could have made the boring plot parts slightly more bearable to watch through. Also, was the Three Gorges Dam already built in China when the movie was being produced? Now that would have been an awesome destruction sequence to witness, but the CCP would have prevented the filmmakers from making that scene.

Another thing that bugged me was that given all of the focus on Curtis's family trying to escape to safety, why weren't there any other scenes of other families or individuals trying to escape, i.e. loading up a full airplane and flying away, or even something small like a group of people getting on a boat or a raft to try to swim away from LA.

I also found the cruise ship capsizing scene to be funny in a way, as if they were trying to rip-off the capsizing scene in the 2006 Poseidon movie, which was a remake of The Poseidon Adventure. It's as if they could have copy-pasted that said capsizing scene from Poseidon, into 2012.

It was also a shame that Sasha, Tamara, and Gordon, had to be killed off, as they were some of the less annoying characters that were somewhat likeable.

Also, given how that there was originally going to be a sequel TV show, 2013, that would follow up to the ending of the film, but was cancelled, I saw that as a missed opportunity. Maybe they could have made that said 2013 into a movie, where humanity tries to rebuild, but inevitably starts cannibalizing itself to extinction. Although in that case, it would have made the original movie pointless.

On a side note to mentioning Poseidon, I liked the ship capsizing and sinking scenes, even though the characters were dull and boring, and it felt like that they had blatantly obvious plot armor. It got to the point that I wanted to see them all die, just to make the pain of seeing all of that plot armor go away. And the captain's order to have everyone stay in the ballroom would not age well, when the Sewol Ferry Disaster occurred 8 years later, and the captain said the same order, for all the passengers to stay put, leaving them all to die, so he can save his own ass.
 
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