this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2025
254 points (99.2% liked)

Asklemmy

48587 readers
1338 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy πŸ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I'll start: "Happy Death Day"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5308322/

(page 4) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

Star Trek First Contact

My proof reading has failed me yet again (original fuck up: Star Trek First Conact)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I disagree. This both looked and was awesome.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Exactly. It was one of my top three ST movies, and by all accounts. Ebert reviewed it positively, as one of the best of the franchise.

I wonder why they put it in the "looks like it'd suck" category?

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I think people are missing that this movie is spelled differently than "Star Trek First Contact".

Star Trek First CONACT was a cheap, B-movie knock-off straight to DVD movie that should have sucked, but didnt.

Angela Lansbury was not nominated for an Oscar for her preformance as the Captain, but Brooke Shields notably was also in the movie as an alien.

/s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

Wait, what are you saying. There is.a.dooferent movie named "first conact"? (Google didn't help me)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

My God, I did not expect someone was going to steal my comment.

Great movie, ahead of its time

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Although to me it didn’t look like it would suck, Hellboy: The Crooked Man got panned by critics, but it was fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The critics on this over were pretty funny to me.

"They made me watch another Hellboy film, and it's a Hellboy film, and I'm angry."

Some of those critics need to learn when to call in sick.

It's a great Hellboy film. Haha.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Arguably the most Hellboy Hellboy film.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

Yeah I just watched it and really enjoyed it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Not sure if this exactly fits the assignment, but most people think Silent Hill (first one) was a garbage movie that made no sense. And it was if you never played the games. If you did play the games though, you can see the movie is incredibly faithful to the atmosphere. They used a lot of the OST by Akira Yamaoka too, which is an amazing soundtrack. I really liked the acting as well (except for the little kid, but it’s rare to find convincing child actors anyway). Monster design was great. I think they combined cg and practical effects so it made some things a lot more convincing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I liked the movie when it came out and can still enjoy it today. I think the monsters are some of the creepiest in any horror movie. The janitor scene gives me nightmares. However, there was a lot of fan service that didn't need to be included. Yes Pyramid Head is the most recognizable character in the series, but he really served no purpose being in the movie. Also, the design of the nurses being "sexy" doesn't make sense. They were designed that way for James in the second game. That was how he saw them. I think they did a really good job for what they managed to pull off from that movie though. I hope they do well with the new one.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Disco Polo

It's a very unserious movie and that's what makes it work. It's just pure Polish nostalgia-based comedy with nothing to prove

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

The Ice Pirates.

Ron Perlman and one of the funniest fight scenes from the 80s.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

Mr. Brooks, it has Dane Cook in it but that doesn’t stop it from being amazing.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Bottoms.

The script feels terrible and they don't even try to make you like the characters. But the jokes always land perfectly. It's a great movie to have a laugh and nothing else.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

"Decoy Bride" looks like once of those cheap, filler movies that actors do between big roles, and it probably was, but David Tennant, Kelly MacDonald, and Alice Eve gave great performances, the jokes really hit, soundtrack was good, and the romance didn't feel forced at all.

load more comments
view more: β€Ή prev next β€Ί