Last year’s The Beekeper starring Jason Statham was honestly the best action movie I’ve seen in years. Phenomenal movie
Honestly, princess bride. I’m usually not all that into rom com type movies, but princess bride is a masterpiece
Mean Girls (2004) a masterpiece
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.
It was super dumb and full of action and I enjoyed the hell out of it.
Swiss Army Man - Daniel Redcliffe with farting as a superpower. Sounds ridiculous but really fun to watch.
Daniel Radcliffe while dead the entire movie flexes his ass cheeks as a superpower.
Barbie (2023)
Dude, Where’s My Car?
I thought it was gonna be a dumb stoner movie, but it is actually amazing and hilarious.
The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen, it’s like a Monty Python movie but with American actors and an evil Robin Williams.
A Knight’s Tale. Not only is it a good movie but it was my introduction to Paul Bettany and Alan Tudyk and they were brilliant in it.
Danny Boyd wrote an excellent video essay on A Knight’s Tale. I too always wonder why there’s always someone cutting onions when I choose to watch.
And it left its mark on renaissance jousts everywhere. Always hear We Will Rock You at so many different ren fairs.
That movie has perfect casting. Everyone in it is exactly right for their parts. There is a B movie feel that I can’t quite put my finger on but it is an outright excellent film, one of my personal favorites.
Thank you for posting this so I didn’t have to.
Just a gem of a movie.
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.
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.
I didn’t expect it to have such a compelling story arc. It’s amazing how they show the creation of a “villain” that you then sympethise with.
I also love the whole 70s punk style.
Clue - A movie based on a board game sounds terrible, but it’s really funny.
For more of a movie that visually looks bad.
Primer - Very low budget time travel movie that gets better every time you watch it.
Clue didn’t work in the theater because they did this gimmick where they made three versions with three different endings. So because it had to be consistent with three contradictory endings, you CAN’T solve it as you go; it doesn’t function as a mystery movie. And, it was kind of short.
The TV cut crammed all three endings at the end with the “Here’s what REALLY happened” cards inserted, so one ending is now canonical while the others are plausible alternatives, it runs longer, especially the frantic, energetic ending plays longer, so while it still doesn’t function as a mystery movie, it is now an excellent farce.
I think it also found its audience in young millennials on television; it was made for and by my parents’ generation but they don’t like it, while a lot of people my age love it.
There’s a particular character arc twist in Clue that made me jump out of my seat.
“The Grey” is the first thing to pop into my head.
The stupid meme worthy part is the way wolves are presented as a threat in the movie is so over the top like old childrens folklore level omnipresent coked out superwolves with a 100 mile killing radius stripping the territory all threatening life larger than a squrrel and enough intelligence for tactical strategizing to pick an entire group of men 1 by 1.
The way everything else is executed is what turns it around. The cinematography and the emotional human story of the main character guys motivations and interactions with the res5 of the group is fun. It makes it a good watch to spend an hour or two of your life on. The cast has some bangers and the acting is great.
The recent Dungeons and Dragons.
‘Upgrade’ is an excellent sifi B movie.
Upgrade was not a “B” movie by any stretch. Low budget doesn’t mean B. Upgrade was more well done than much of the “A” stuff that’s put out.
But obviously this is opinion and depends how you define B movies.
I totally thought Upgrade would suck. I’ve watched it 10 times now, and every time it gets better. Just stellar work.
The question was does it look like it would suck, at face value. I think Upgrade qualifies.
Probably not the answer you’re looking for, but Puss In Boots 2. The second Shrek spinoff about the cat? Who honestly expected that to be such a banger
