I’ve recently played Resident Evil 6 for the 1st time after playing Resident Evil 4 (an absolute masterpiece) & Resident 5 (a pretty good game). I was already aware of the hate this game got over the years. But after experiencing it, it’s only bad in an artificial way. Like yeah, it’s nothing like the classic games and it’s too much in the action category.
Otherwise, as someone who loves action games, it’s a pretty fun game. Especially in Mercenaries Mode, where it’s fun to mow down body-horror themed enemies. As a Resident Evil game, it’s pretty bad. But…as an action third person shooter with splatter punks, it’s quite well executed
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In my opinion, I will state that co-op RE5 is my favorite way to judge compatibility with someone. I know it sounds silly but playing Army of Two is kind of the same. I played RE5 with my ex-fiance, we beat the game on the highest difficulty, got all the achievements, and she wasn’t a gamer–actually didn’t touch video games until we were together. Now the person I last dated was a gamer, yet I don’t why we struggled so much. So in a way, I had to tolerate that we couldn’t work together.
Spider-Man 3 (Tobey Maquire). It’s not the objectively best movie of the trilogy, but it’s the one I had the most fun watching
I really enjoy the original live action Super Mario Bros movie from the early 90s. The production was an absolute mess from beginning to end, but somehow, an actually watchable movie came out of it, and the story is actually somewhat entertaining, even if it has nothing to do with the actual games.
Lol the “deevolution” ray that turns a dude into a monke. 😂
That movie was bizarre and wild. I like it too. I firmly file it under “Task failed successfully.” Lol
I have to say I enjoy that movie a lot too. I’m not denying that it’s a terrible movie, but it’s terrible in a very watchable and enjoyable way.
It was silly like a cartoon. It was deeply flawed on nearly every critical metric but it made us laugh, with it or at it.
Civ VII. Every version makes changes and people scream and shout - and I’m sure many legitimately don’t like the changes. But I do. I started with Civ IV and I liked V, VI, and now VII.
I hated Civ VII when it first came out. If I start out as Rome, then I will play through to the end of the game as Rome. I tried several times to go through the empire change, but my options were always countries that I have never heard of or ones that I really had no interest in playing.
Now that they updated it, I haven’t tried playing again. I did like the game other than that.
I should try again. I really do like the franchise.
I usually stick with the same civ, but not always. The variety is fun.
And I have mixed feelings about the two main options on keeping your stuff or not. Both are actually fun.
But I do play with some mods - including cheat ones, although I usually just cheat enough diplomacy so as to be able to participate with all the incoming diplomatic requests, and some limited gold, and sometimes to cheat unit movement (like if I want to adjust my starting area, or if I’m just frustrated with an enemy and I’m like “fuck it, you’re out” lol)
I like the Super Mario Bros movie, I don’t care how loosely connected it is to the games.
The old Super Mario Bros movie is a fantastic B scifi movie, it’s just a terrible Mario Bros movie. I still love it!
I’d watch Bob Hoskins read the phone book.
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There was actually a deleted scene originally in the movie where an executive from Nintendo met with Mario and Luigi to buy the rights to their story and that the movie was actually what happened and the games are the ones that changed things, which I’ve always thought was a fun tongue in cheek nod at the source material (or lack thereof).
I know a lot of films and TV pilots start as a writers original idea, sometimes even a great idea, but for one reason or another never get picked up. Or even worse it does get picked up. But in both cases someone says, “This won’t sell, can you make it Super Mario themed?”
The writer, creative as they are and just happy to get work, then mashes the two together.
I think a film featuring a parallel New York ruled by evolved dinosaurs and deevolution guns is a wild but potentially interesting film. What it has to do with Mario… I have no idea.
There’s so many movies / shows that feel like “They just pulled a generic plot off the shelf and branded it with this popular franchise.”
I think that’s why Paramount Halo was painful. :(
I was fine with Waterworld.
Waterworld, Sahara, and John Carter are all amazing movies that BOMBED… but by what metric? Tons of money in production and/or inept expensive marketing and it didn’t make it back.
That’s all. It wasn’t a “market success.” But I’m glad they’re a part of culture.
Sahara is the Uncharted movie we deserved. I wish we got more Clive Cussler movies. One of my favorite films.
John Carter is the reason I will never properly pronounce “Virginia” again.
Waterworld’s stunt show is incredible and the world building was awesome.
Yes, which reminds me of another hated movie I love: The Cable Guy aka Cabo Goobla:
“Dry land is not a myth. I’ve seen it.” Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don’t know what the big fuss is about. I saw that movie nine times. It rules!
- Chip Douglas
So much so that I’m always surprised when they get the quote wrong in Waterworld itself! 😅
I watched that movie when I was a kid and genuinely liked it. (I do still have really broad taste, the question can be answered for me with “most media, apparently”)
It has a special place in my heart as one of a few dozen vhs we had that I could watch with no restrictions. (One of the banned movies was A clear and Present Danger, and I still don’t know why because I can’t stay awake through it because its boring. Another was Pulp Fiction. Maybe the first was a ruse!)
Is it a good movie? Idk. But smeat is still funny to me in ways that probably would have hit the same if I’d watched it today for the first time, so…
Iirc most of the press was just “this cost waaaaay too much to make” rather than “its a bad movie”
Thanks for reminding me I still need to actually watch it, though. And ive got a few hours to kill.
I was recently shown this hilarious Simpsons skit, but someone had to explain it to me haha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qause0z-9tM
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The arcade game is desperately trying to make back the movie’s budget, so it’s an extortionate quarter-muncher. Lol
Just watched it for the second time last month educating the youth of today. Deserves a sequel more than Moana did.
And The Postman.
But I tend to like post-apocalyptic movies anyway.
The Stunt show at Universal Studios was really cool tho
I enjoy Gods of Egypt, even have the Bluray. It’s a dogshit movie but good junk food entertainment. Kinda gives me The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vibes which is another crap movie I like.
Not sure why, I think I’m just a sucker for ancient Egyptian themes even when they’re butchered to the point of being insulting.
I love those pulpy swing-for-the-fences ideas too. Sometimes people forget not everything has to be high cinema or literature.
Sometimes we just want some imaginative adventure that takes us away from the mundane drudgery.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vibes which is another crap movie
Awwww man, I really liked that movie. I wanted to see more on their take of captain nemo
Captain Nemo is an absolute bad ass in that movie.
If some mad hatter gives Stephen Norrington a bag of money to direct again I’d watch a sequel lol.
sword art online, sure it doesn’t have a sensible plot or good writing but it has so much potential.
That’s one of those shows that I can’t even remember anymore because Abridged just overwrote it in my brain.
I watched it fresh back in the day and I liked it too.
The one thing that really gets me is that in a world that loves gaming, they didn’t have a regulating body or at least Gamers’ Nexus to look over the headset and say, “this could fucking kill someone.” I get that it would kill the entire franchise but I feel like they could have tried harder.
I could never tell you why, but the hate SAO gets is really obxious and is the reason why I hate the anime community
Different entertainment genre, but Nickelback.
Although I’m reasonably certain that 99% of people who hate on NB would sing along if it came on the radio.
The big problem, at least to me, is that they were massively overplayed on the radio and I grew tired of hearing the same song over and over again.
Now hearing them again after a long break, I can recognize that they made some decent - not great, but still decent songs.
That’s how I feel about Adele. Rolling in the Deep might even be objectively good but it GRATES on me because you’d hear it EVERYWHERE. ALL THE TIME.
I think a lot of decent artists are foisted upon the public so forcefully they become loathed.
I am not ashamed to admit that I have their first album, and it’s a solid one with quite a few solid tracks on it. However, I always hated that song, which by far became the most popular one.
I don’t know much about their later stuff, though.
It’s the ultimate “pop” rock. It really works for a lot of people but anyone who doesn’t like formulaic music designed with the broadest appeal will absolutely dislike it.
I have a friend, whom I typically respect, who surprised me with that hot take one day. He had similar things to say about Creed and Taylor Swift.
Hes also been known to cheat at DnD, though. I love the guy but…
Nickelback, Daughtry, i don’t get what the hate tbh.
I don’t mind their one song. But that’s the thing, they only have one song. (They all sound the same.)
I enjoyed both Battleship and Battle: Los Angeles. They were fun movies to turn your brain off to.
Battle: Los Angeles was actually a brilliant ayylmao invasion movie, I think, blatant cringeworthy video-gamey rah-rah Marine recruitment propaganda aside.
I really liked that it doesn’t cut away to some scientists or The President who know exactly what’s going on and explain it to us. It doesn’t show the aliens being diabolical with subtitles in their mothership or something. It doesn’t expo-dump to make sure we’re following along comfortably. No.
You follow a bunch of Marines deployed straight into the claustrophobic fog of war after a whole ton of “WTF” just hit finally-not-New-York-for-once.
We the viewers only know what they know. They have to learn as they go, and so do we. And that’s actually pretty scary.
The aliens also had such a cool and unique design. I loved their tech and the “pop pop crackle” of their machinery sputtering thrusts to stay aloft.
Oh boy when they dropped anchor and spun that battleship around. Goofy as fuck but it was fun!
I watched both of those and you are right. Fun movies to just turn your brain off and go with the flow.
How I Met Your Mother. There’s a ton of hate, and it’s well deserved. Ted is annoying, Lily’s selfish, and Barney could never be a character on national TV now. It tapers off around season 5-6 and then fails in season 9.
However, it had a profound effect on me. I grew up in rural nowhere, Midwest USA, in a town with 2 bars and a gas station. Watching the group go out in the city going to bars and growing up there made me really connect, and made me feel a bit less isolated. I finally did move out and to a different city, and HIMYM did give me the hope to someday be like that, and now I am. I still re-watch every few years. It definitely hasn’t aged well, but it’s nostalgic for me.
This is kind of how I feel about Friends too. It gets hated on for very valid reasons. But I will always remember being a teen watching the episode where Rachel and Monica have 1 condom left in the apartment and compete over who gets it. Then Monica goes to tell Chandler (I think?) that they can’t have sex because Rachel won the condom. He whines a bit, but she holds her ground. It’s one of the earliest pieces of media I remember watching that emphasized the importance of safe sex.
I’ve always interpreted that show with Marshall as the main character. He goes through the most growth and also has the most altruistic intentions throughout. I see it as a demonstration that your friends and loved ones can be holding you back. Marshall deserved better than that friend group and he rarely if ever sacrifices his morals for the others.
I loved watching that show, but the premise is a bit off. “Hey kids, let me tell you about all the chicks I banged before your mom.”
Iirc Ted mosby (the real guy, not his character) asked if they were still doing that original ending.
To this day it still ranks up there with one of the worst final seasons ever for me.
Danganronpa. (the games, not the anime) It’s hard to defend in some places, with its abysmal minigames, nonsensical plot, and anime tropey story that gets very uncomfortable and insensitive at times. I am also of the opinion that to be cringe is to be free, but it’s one of those franchises with an online fanbase that turned me off of the entire thing for a long while.
But, when I was encouraged to actually give it a fair shake, I enjoyed it a lot. At its best moments, there’s some solid murder mysteries surrounded with entertaining characters and a tense atmosphere. Camp doesn’t excuse the worst parts, but it definitely makes them suck a little less.
The third game in particular gets a lot of flack for its ending and I get it, it’s not a very satisfying conclusion for the characters or universe and a little up its own ass. But as a reflection on the franchise, I do see what they were doing and thought it was interesting - probably more interesting than if we got actual answers for the worldbuilding questions it bypasses.
Definitely skip the anime covering the first game’s events, it’s way too compressed and just heinously awful in a lot of ways. Can’t speak for the other anime series, the movie, or the books, though I’m still interested enough to give em a try sometime.
“Some body once told me, the world was gonna roll me, I ainʻt the sharpest tool in the shed…”
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All Star is on my hate list because I’ve heard it too many times at this point. It joins
- Don’t Stop Believing by Journey
- Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
- Nevermind by Nirvana
- A few Red Hot Chili Peppers songs
You’ll probably hate this then
You forgot something that you’re going to start remembering very soon
you sonofabitch
I meant Mariah Carey, not The Game.
Oh right, that song I heard too much Last Christmas
Doom 2005. I’ve seen it plenty of times and I just love that movie! Rosamund Pike is leagues ahead of the other cast but her acting contrasts so nicely for instance with that of the Rock, who of course hams it up to the max
Rosamund Pike, Karl Urban, and The Rock all in one movie? I know what I’m going this weekend now
And a ridiculously haunted-house-like FPS sequence that was pretty freaking rad. It was a nice homage to the source material.
