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The recent Dungeons and Dragons.

'Upgrade' is an excellent sifi B movie.

What we do in the shadows. The movie, not the show. If you like mockumentaries it's a must watch. Looks like garbage at times but it works very well for what they were going for.

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.

The Jumanji remake was FAR better than I expected

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.

Moon. Fantastic mostly 1 man show.

Swiss Army Man - Daniel Redcliffe with farting as a superpower. Sounds ridiculous but really fun to watch.

I have heard that Speed Racer from the late 2000s kind of kicks ass but haven’t investigated myself

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

Barbie (2023)

Clueless.

The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen, it's like a Monty Python movie but with American actors and an evil Robin Williams.

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 Looks quite a bit outdated (and I wonder if it looked that even then when it was new :)), but still a lot of fun, and even a message about artificial intelligence: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

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

Tank Girl. It may just be a guilty pleasure but I'll defend it.

I guess Starship Troopers is THE movie for this, although I'm always suprised to find out people used to like it unironically.

Due date, with Robert Downey Jr and Galifianakis is a surprisingly earnest soft remake of Planes, Trains and Automobiles and nobody remembers it exists.

Speaking of unexpectedly fun raunchy comedies, Booksmart.

I want to say The Long Kiss Goodnight, but man, the action in that is janky in exactly the ways modern action movies get right, so it can be a rough watch if you're not ready. It also reads worse now that there's a million John Wicks. Still, ahead of its time and actually well written.

Does Slither count? I feel like it's on that Tremors territory where everybody knows it's cool and ironically that thing, so it may not count. Somebody said Cabin in the Woods below, so... maybe it does count.

Oh, Ready or Not. It's actually really funny and kind of a looser take on Knives Out as a horror movie. Good stuff.

The original TMNT movie should have sucked. How they snuck that tone into a whole movie before they made them tone it down for censorship and toyetic tie-ins is anybody's guess.

Brick doesn't count. Does Brick count? I think it doesn't look like it'd suck, it's just people don't know about it. I mean, if I tell you "film noir by way of high school drama" you may get the wrong impression, so... maybe?

And I mentioned it below, but 2001 Metropolis is awesome despite a lot of people not being able to get past the designs or even being aware of what it is.

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.

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

Dude, Where's My Car?

I thought it was gonna be a dumb stoner movie, but it is actually amazing and hilarious.

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.

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

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

Honestly, princess bride. I'm usually not all that into rom com type movies, but princess bride is a masterpiece

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

Mean Girls (2004) a masterpiece

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.

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.

• Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
• Run Hide Fight
• Get Out
• American Mary
• Grosse Pointe Blank
• A Family Affair
• Cabin in the Woods
• Wrath of Becky

We were having a movie night in our neighborhood a few years back where we got a bedsheet a cheap projector and hooked it up to a laptop to projevt a movie on someone's garage for the neighborhood kids.

We ended up projected The Lego Movie and most of the kids lost interest about half an hour in - and were falling asleep and ready to go home.

I'll be damned if it wasn't one of the best animated movies I've ever seen. I sent my wife home with our youngest just so I could stay and finish the movie.

Real steel. Its about boxing robots

The Lost City with Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, and Daniel Radcliffe. It seems like a tropey romance-action flick, but is more a parody of genre clichés. The writing, acting, and humour are pretty good.