""""bad""""" films you actually like

[Beancatte]

yeag. I'll start.


-The 90s Mario movie is good. People really got an insane sci-fi picture where the cast gave some great performances despite the fact they hated working on it. But its not like the games so into the bin it goes, apparently?

-Freddy Got Fingered is a wild as hell middle finger to Hollywood that is very obviously intentionally wasting all the money of the hollywood bigwigs who funded it for its an entire runtime. I'm mixed on Tom Green overall but I think that rules. Every actor here obviously got the direction of "okay but do a line read that is INCREDIBLY fucking weird instead"

-Alien 3's Assembly Cut elevates the film to my series favorite. It constantly detests the idea of "franchise" while exploring really interesting themes like faith at the end of space, redemption, and dealing with ones one death. Beautifully shot throughtout

[StarlightNecromancer]

Repo! The Genetic Opera is a film that is Very Much of its time, and to quote a video that was very critical of it "it's not that it doesn't have enough bones for a plot, it's that it has enough bones for 3 skeletons and you don't know which one goes to which". The music is amazing, Paris Hilton is in it for some reason, it's about revenge and loss and addiction and hopelessness, it's an utter mess that needed another pass before going to filming

The Guyver, specifically the 90s American Adaptation of the 80s Manga and OVA. It was TERRIBLE. Mark Hamill was in it for some reason, Sean was re-cast to David Hayter in the sequel who to this day would still be down to reprise the role. It's wild, it's pg-13 for some reason. It's great

[sutter]

The '90s Super Mario Bros movie rules. Something I like to point out whenever it's brought up is the gorgeous set design. The art director from Blade Runner did the production design for SMB and it shows. Underneath the Mario branding it's just a fun Verhoeven-ish sci-fi adventure for kids, and I feel like it works great as that.

[flatwood]

I'm a sucker for Troll 2.

It's just so charming.

[Beancatte]

The Troll 2 is so fucking fun and funny lmao. Love that film.

[Cayman]

WILD ZERO

One of my favorite B-movies of all time, it's an absurd romp about love, zombies, and ROCK N' ROLL!! Staring the actual garage rock band Guitar Wolf, it follows the young wannabe punk Ace as he discovers the true meaning of love and rock in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. One of the best low budget horror comedies out there, it has a dedicated cult following to this day. The American DVD re-release actually came with an insert with an official drinking game on it, if that's any indication of the movie's vibes.

[Mandrake]

If Super Mario Bros had simply been a Ghostbusters-inspired fantasy adventure about two working-class brothers from Brooklyn who travel into a parallel world that's populated with dinosaur people and ruled by a fascist dictator whom they ultimately overthrow, it wouldn't have taken so long for it to become a cult classic. Unfortunately, the fact it was attached to the Super Mario franchise and then got completely butchered in the editing suite meant that everyone was left confused by what they had seen.

Highly recommend seeking out either the Morton-Jankel Cut or the Lasagna Workprint. They both restore some critical scenes that were removed and improve the overall pacing by allowing the scenes to breathe. Plus Spike and Iggy's anti-establishment rap is quintessentially early-90s.

[Faith]

-Alien 3's Assembly Cut elevates the film to my series favorite. It constantly detests the idea of "franchise" while exploring really interesting themes like faith at the end of space, redemption, and dealing with ones one death. Beautifully shot throughtout

Ooh, a genuinely contentious take! I still deeply dislike how it completely negates Alien 2 so casually, but I’ll hand to you that it has a fully unique aesthetic to the franchise. Is that complete obliteration of its prequel stakes what you mean by detesting/deconstructing franchise concepts? I’m curious!

[Enbyeon]

I honestly enjoy the first Mortal Kombat movie and Street Fighter the Movie. I know both have gotten a better reputation in the past few years, but back in the day, people hated that shit.

[StarlightNecromancer]

I honestly enjoy the first Mortal Kombat movie and Street Fighter the Movie. I know both have gotten a better reputation in the past few years, but back in the day, people hated that shit.

Same, and its pretty wild seeing what's getting a second look and people going "you know, it wasn't actually that bad"

I wonder why that is

[Beancatte]

The Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat movie(especially) are really good solid little fight scene centric films. Mortal Kombat overall understood the value of that adaption so much it spent several years taking entire characterizations from it.

I think a sad side effect of peoples reactions to those films is that it feels like a lot of adaptions are kinda scared to even, ya know, *ADAPT* a lot of the time.