Movies considered bad, but you unironically like

[Zyklon C]

Curious about movies out there that are generally considered to be not very good -- whether by critics, the public, or both -- but you unironically enjoy.

For me, that would be Johnny Mnemonic (1995). Featuring the expressive acting talents of Keanu Reeves, a clothed Dina Meyer, Dolph Lundgren, Ice T and Henry Rollins, director Robert Longo somehow took a script from William fucking Gibson and turned it into a subpar cyberpunk movie that lost money at the height of hype for the early days of the Internet.

And I fucking love this movie. When it aired on television, I never missed it. I bought the physical media and watch it every once in a while. I love everything about the movie and I hope some dumb fuck never gets the idea of remaking it.

I want ROOM SERVICE! I want the club sandwich, I want the cold Mexican beer, I want a $10,000-a-night hooker! I want my shirts laundered... like they do... at the Imperial Hotel... in Tokyo.

 

[We Are The Witches]

Maybe Riki-Oh (with real actors), I don't know if people would consider it bad though, but is definitely not everyone's cup of tea.

It has certain ambience to it that I like, and it's gorey but in a comical way. So it has some spice, but not in a disgusting way, just laughable (you'll have a good time, specially now that everything is computer generated/AI/etc, this is old style made with real materials).

 

[Crabpuncher]

Lynch's Dune. Even though it bombed, I have found more Dune fans that like it then the super successful modern DUNC. I wonder if its and age thing, or book thing. Maybe neither.

 

[Lach]

Signs, I don't know why but I re-watch it like once every year, It's an incredibly flawed movie but I always came back to it.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Signs, I don't know why but I re-watch it like once every year, It's an incredibly flawed movie but I always came back to it.

That was always a weird one because it felt like so much of the movie had nothing to do with the actual plot. You could replace the alien invasion with just about any light horror plot and most of the character arcs and dialogue stuff (which was mostly very well written) would still work just fine.

 

[Preacher ✝]

Apparently people don't like the 2004 Punisher movie but I've always enjoyed it.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Apparently critics absolutely hated Hook. I genuinely cannot understand why.

 

[scallion]

Arnold movies, especially Conan

 

[Soup Sammiches]

Lynch's Dune. Even though it bombed, I have found more Dune fans that like it then the super successful modern DUNC. I wonder if its and age thing, or book thing. Maybe neither.

When that came out I was reading the books and by God I knew every character on site when I saw the trailer. When DUNC came out, I saw one trailer and wondered why they were showing Paul's Arakeen GF instead of Paul. Well fuck me that was supposed to be the Kwizats Haderach? No thanks.

 

[Beelzebub's Lawyer]

subpar cyberpunk movie that lost money at the height of hype for the early days of the Internet.

There is the holy trinity of 1995 movies about the internet and hacking that bombed - Johnny Mnemonic, Hackers and Strange Days.
My favorite is Hackers, it's a horrible piece of shit but no matter how many times I watch it, I can't stop watching.

Lynch's Dune. Even though it bombed, I have found more Dune fans that like it then the super successful modern DUNC. I wonder if its and age thing, or book thing. Maybe neither.

The presentation is what elevates this movie.
Aside from the shitty force field armor CG, the art design and music are classic, way better than in the new movies.

There is a modern "classic" that sadly is getting forgotten about and we need to preserve the memory of it.
I'm of course talking about Malignant by the visionary director James Wan, written by him and his wife.
It's incredible how much money and effort went into making a movie with that premise.

What premise?
A woman moves into a weird house with her husband, then has an argument with him, he hits her really hard and..... shit gets really fucking strange.
That's all I will say because any more will spoil at least some things, don't read anything about it, don't watch the trailer, just see the movie with no prior expectations.
You've never seen anything like this and by the end, you will either become a fan or want to strangle Wan and his bitch.

 

[Buckaroo]

Maybe Riki-Oh (with real actors), I don't know if people would consider it bad though, but is definitely not everyone's cup of tea.

It has certain ambience to it that I like, and it's gorey but in a comical way. So it has some spice, but not in a disgusting way, just laughable (you'll have a good time, specially now that everything is computer generated/AI/etc, this is old style made with real materials).

I've only ever met one person that didn't like that movie. Everyone else could at the very least appreciate it even if they didn't exactly love it.

 

[fartsnstuf]

Dracula 2000, such a dumb goofy shlocky movie; but man does it make me laugh

 

[Whatisgoingon]

Freddy got Fingered. I had tears in my eyes laughing at it. It feels like 4chan make a shitpost chain and it somehow got a multimillion dollar budget.

 

[Zyklon C]

My favorite is Hackers, it's a horrible piece of shit but no matter how many times I watch it, I can't stop watching.

Definitely a guilty pleasure watch for me as well.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

It is undeniably bad, but I like it.

 

[Disastrously Dumb]

Apparently people don't like the 2004 Punisher movie but I've always enjoyed it.

its my favourite.

 

[31 Black]

My best friend and I recently watched Nicolas Cage's "The Old Way." It was hokey and predictable, got terrible reviews, and isn't even on TV Tropes, but we both mocked and enjoyed it.

 

[BikeLock]

I like "The Wraith". Probably not the only autist here that likes it, too.

Apparently people don't like the 2004 Punisher movie but I've always enjoyed it.

People didn't like that? I can get comic nerds not liking it, but I didn't get that impression of it at the time.

 

[Whatisgoingon]

People didn't like that? I can get comic nerds not liking it, but I didn't get that impression of it at the time.

I've never seen the 2004 Punisher movie, but I remember my super religious Grandpa seeing it and hating it. Why the hell he went to see a super violent R-rated movie only to get butthurt about it is still unknown to me.

 

[Lach]

Apparently critics absolutely hated Hook. I genuinely cannot understand why.

It was kinda a weird movie, Robin Williams is peter pan but he leaves wendy to do peter pan shit he comes back and she's grown up and married and has children and he starts macking on her daughter and ends up staying and marrying her and getting amnesia about the peter pan shit(most of it is revealed later by a geriatric Wendy) and theres this weird thing with tinkerbell also macking on peterpan but also knowing him since he was a baby then a forever 12 year old and also as an adult man. The relationship dynamics to say the least are all very weird in that movie plus the lostboys have that annoying 90s skater lite-punk attitude and personality going on which is a bit of a drag, Captain Hook is fun and a lot of the set designs are done pretty well it's a very odd movie/10