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Original question by @Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'm gonna say Cruella. I'm sure lots of people always thought it was gonna be great, but not me. I absolutely expected it to be mediocre at best and I was so wrong. It's now one of my favorite movies.

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[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The movie Battleship based on the board game is far better than I ever expected. It's not a masterpiece, but it's a solid action flick.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

It was super dumb and full of action and I enjoyed the hell out of it.

[–] TinyLittlePuni@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

I honestly thought Wonka was going to suck, but it turned out to be a pretty good film!

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A movie made by a student of the film academy, and it was made with a ridiculously low budget of course, but still contains some wild special effects and a spaceship and an alien creature and a title song written especially for it. Looks quite a bit outdated (and I wonder if it looked that even then when it was new :)), but still a lot of fun, and even a message about artificial intelligence:

"Dark Star" by John Carpenter

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[–] audaxdreik@pawb.social 11 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Cocaine Bear (2023) is surprisingly good. You think it's gonna be one of those overly campy movies like Sharknado, but it's pretty well written. I mean, don't expect too much, it's still a very solid 7/10. But the thing it understands best is it actually takes enough time at the beginning of the film to develop extensive cast of weird characters so once they all get thrown into the blender (cocaine bear) you actually care enough about them and what's going on to care about the outcome.

So many movies these days forget you really need to care about those characters.

Fun time, give it a go some night when you're bored and got nothing else to do.

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[–] massacre@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Alien vs. Predator... Lance Henrickson and a cast of nobodies with an intersting plot. I went in expecting full-on crap and got a real banger instead.

[–] YoFrodo@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (3 children)

There's a B movie that I really like but it's name is off putting to say the least. It's a solid movie, its funny and silly but most of the cast play serious characters just dealing with something absurd. It's a cat and mouse detective story and the film is free to watch on places like Tubi.

It's called Butt Boy

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[–] executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Lars and the Real Girl. Seems like a dumb boner comedy. Actually a weirdly wholesome film.

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[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Dog Soldiers.

It is known as the British Predator. You can see the low budget on the screen, but my god it's excellent. Do not watch the trailer, it's shit and will give you a bad impression of the film.

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[–] lautre@jlai.lu 9 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Man Bites Dog (C'est arrivé près de chez vous)

A mockumentary made by student filmmakers. The plot is that they are doing a documentary following the life of a serial killer.

The dark humor of this movie is incredibly disturbing but it's really a movie to watch.

The movie is available on archive.org : https://archive.org/details/man-bites-dog

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[–] stinerman@midwest.social 9 points 4 days ago

I watched Pig just recently almost as a joke. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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