Alright timeline cleanser time:
What are some bad movies that you unironically love? I don’t mean like MST3K love here. It’s not a good movie, but you enjoy it on its own merits anyway
I am starting with The Accountant
Don't listen to them, it is bad and I also love it. One of the only movies I think could actually use a modern remake that could do more with a fantastic premise in the hands of the right people
One of the best bits of advice I ever saw about comic book movies (but could be applied to many adaptations) is that you'll enjoy it more if you look at it as an homage to the source material instead of an attempt to reproduce it.
(Also, at the time? I absolutely raged against Constantine. 😂)
I can't really enjoy it. It didn't even homage very hard imo but a lot of people sure did like it and I tried to be understanding of that. I am better at it now lol.
I feel like what happened there is it's a good movie that's a terrible adaptation. Comics nerds are never happy with change but that was unrecognizable.
Krull. You get glimpses that they found a writer who envisioned this elaborate world with magic and political intrigue between kingdoms and the director was like, "Yeah we're not gonna use any of that"
I still remember Lysette Anthony being on the cover of a bridal magazine, and that there was a replica of her dress sold by a major bridalwear company.
That role was supposedly for Isabella Rossellini, who I can only think of in a throwaway Letterman bit. She was supposed to appear on his show one night, but had to cancel. He spent the whole show doing a non sequitur impression of her agent "Eesa-bella, she canna come, Mr. Dave. She have da flu."
I adore the movie but she didn't work for me. She was absolutely a Cutie but that dolphin princess scene just felt like Tom Green try-hard absurdity. I don't know if anyone could have made it work.
