I’m surprised no one’s mentioned Team America: World Police yet. That one has highly innovative puppetry behind it as well as brilliant engineering… all for a horrible film with a badly written plot as well as (shudder) horrible depiction.
Then again, almost every Trey Parker movie is tasteless.
Pacific rim. Plot is fucking stupid but it doesn’t matter. Only one robot has guns. They don’t use the sword until the end. They never attack the rift that spawns the kaiju.
I got to see giant robots do wrestling moves on giant monsters. It’s my favorite movie.
And the soundtrack. MAN.
That CG Netflix series was actually pretty rad in expanding the universe, too. I thought it was neat.
Depends upon your perspective, but The Rocky Horror Picture Show might qualify.
It depends how high you set the bar, and how broadly you interpret “taste” but I really want to say most. (I want to include the sense of how humans actually talk, interact, and how the world works, and count following conventionalized but shallow ideas of those as bad taste.) Production technology and skills have gotten very high.
- Borderlands
- The Beach Girls
- Malibu Bikini Shop
- Revenge of the Cheerleaders
- Atilla Flagello di Dio
- Malibu High
- Savage Beach
- Miracle Beach
- Ski School
- Screwball Hotel
- Valley Girl
- Up the Creek
- Hamburger: the motion picture
- The Van
- Gator Bait
- Picasso Trigger
- Snack Shack
- Bottoms
- Weekend at Bernie’s
I’m thinking you just read the titles off your DVD collection
The first one that leaps to mind is The Phantom Menace. World-class score, Duel Of The Fates alone is utterly epic. Casting is almost perfect, probably don’t ruin that poor child’s life. Get a teenager to play Anakin. Set and costume design are great, the plot is ridiculous. The boys at RedLetterMedia articulated it better than I ever will, but, you could fix it with a script rewrite or two.
Popeye also jumps to mind. The 1980 live-action movie starring Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall. Paramount lost the bid to make Annie, the studio had their hearts set on making a broadway musical adaptation of a depression-era IP, and the first thing that occurred to anyone was they had the rights to Popeye. Of all things. Annie is a broadway musical, so songs complete with dance numbers were already built in. Popeye is a cartoon wedged somewhere between Betty Boop and Bugs Bunny. They decided to make a Popeye musical. And commenced principal photography before writing any songs. They ADR’d songs over top of scenes they shot before the songs were written. Which is why it’s…not really remembered as a musical. Directed by Robert “I directed MASH” Altman very much in his style, much of the film consists of characters blathering over each other incessantly. The collision of the cartoon physics and character proportions with the very grounded Altman style is uniquely jarring. AND YET. The set design, cinematography and costume design are excellent. It’s a badly conceived stupid idea executed by consummate professionals.
I might have to watch that. I could tell at first glance that it was bad, but I didn’t know it was bad XD
The Star Wars sequel trilogy. What a waste of money and time.
The plot of Yellow Submarine is basically “the Beatles have a contractual obligation to make a movie but they can’t be bothered, so let’s get impressionists to voice cartoon Beatles and draw a bunch of drug-addled fuckery to illustrate some of their songs for an hour and a half.”
In execution, it’s a bizarrely compelling and beautiful piece of work that I enjoy a great deal despite not being into either the Beatles or drugs.
“John! Don’t pull that lever!”
“Can’t help it. I’m a born leverpuller!”
Dazed and confused. Really no plot, but it’s great.
The Big Lebowski is sort of like this too I think. I actually can’t remember if he even gets his rug back lol, but also it doesn’t matter.
Leon: The professional
The sexual dynamic between the two characters makes me more uncomfortable the older that movie gets, and it makes me very uncomfortable that such a young actor is playing the role The way they do. The plot too is silly, nobody, not even an emotionless assassin would try to teach a kid to be an assassin for any reason. Kids are impulsive idiots and there’s literally no upside to it. But holy hell does Gary Oldman absolutely rule in that movie.
Having just finished Event Horizon, I’m gonna go with that. Great cast, very interesting practical effects, silly plot, senseless gore.
I recently saw a video essay that argued that Event Horizon should be considered WH40K. They made some decent points.
The unofficial trilogy is Event Horizon (1997), Sunshine (2007), and Pandorum (2009). Three entirely different takes. But, Ironically, I watched The Black Hole (1979 Disney response to Star Wars) and Event Horizon back to back. It’s the same damn plot.
Yep, the first time humanity flew through the Warp and realized the necessity of a Gellar field.
I thought they had confirmed that they intended it to be a 40k movie but never got the rights to the name so they made it a “generic” future but kept the script essentially the same.
Maybe. I never looked into it, just kinda went “huh, that’s neat,” when I ran into the video.
One of my favorite movies.
ATBGE? I missed that subreddit.
It’s hard for me to pin down to be honest because good execution hides a lot. I’ve found the Ocean Twelve movie really dumb but enjoyed it … not sure if it’s horrible taste though?
/c/atbge@lemmy.world exists and could be nudged back into activity if folks here are into it.
Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift
Fantastic cars, driving scenes, stunts. Great sets, locations, lighting, cinematography. Genuinely interesting soundtrack. Some good acting.
The plot is suitably silly and culturally relevant to Japanese themes.
BUT, the one woman with more than two lines of dialogue is willingly treated as an object by both the protagonist and antagonist. Anything else could have been used as a point of contention between them, but no, we have to have 1950s level sexism thrown in.
Tokyo Drift starts with a street race with a girl as the prize, too.
Anyway, Donut Media’s video on ranking best and cringiest FaF movies/scenes/lines is excellent. Might be two videos
The run down
I actually really like it for the very simple narrative. The natives win against the colonial slavers. Kind of sucks they needed outsiders, but still, it is the rise up and finally beat these assholes story generally only dreamt of in showers.
Solid listing here. Funny and some killer fight scenes. Roger Workman gets a busted nose, too.
Sean William Scott is such a good “lovable scoundrel” in that movie, too. So many good moments lol.
“FIERCE GAZE! I know Portuguese, I’ll talk to them.” 😂
Also I later learned there was like, 4 seconds of Capoeira the rebels were using, so, that was neat.
There’s a movie called Crime 101, it’s got pretty good actors, it’s shot very well, the writing is even decent but it’s the most cliche boring heist/crime plot I’ve ever watched. You can guess basically everything the entire movie. Afterwards it was very clear that everyone involved was capable of making a far better movie but the plot was so terribly predictable
The clue was right there in the name
