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Space Truckers (1996)

This one flew under the radar because it apparently never got a proper US marketing campaign or something, but it’s an easy contender for cult classic. It’s campy, it’s colourful, it’s got some truly great practical fx work, it’s got Charles fucking Dance in it for some reason… it’s like a budget Fifth Element, but they pay attention to space physics, sorta. There’s also pigs in the shape of cubes, for easier stacking. Anyway, kinda blew me away when I stumbled upon it. YMMV, but I highly recommend.

Paul (2011) IMHO Frost and Pegg's best movie. Not sure why it's not rated higher, it is simply brilliant.

The Last Starfighter (1984) Epic sci fi flick that was the first to use 3D rendered computer animation. The effects do NOT hold up, but the story sure does.

Chronicles of Riddick (2004) Sequel to Pitch Black and I personally like it much better. Admittedly, that's due to I like that Riddick aims more to sci fi and Pitch Black toward horror. If you like horror more, then you'd probably like Pitch Black better.

Titan AE

• The Long Kiss Goodnight - retcon it as a prequel to the Bourne trilogy and it's 10 times better. It's already top quality late 90's action cheese.

• Spice World is madcap mania. Recent Flop House episode about it. It's the only movie I ever watched, rewound, and watched again.

• VHF, staring Weird Al Yankovick. It's a genuine shame no one else said this. Are people OK?

• Josie and the Pussycats. Replace "sell CDs" with "Spotify" and literally nothing changes.

The Dark Backward (1991) - Judd Nelson and Bill Paxton play garbage men buddies in a trash-infested, dystopian city where everything pretty much sucks.

Hudson Hawk - 5.7 - It's so dumb, but I love it. Richard E. Grant and Sandra Bernhard chewing the scenery with abandon steal every scene they're in.

The David lynch version of Dune. I find it much more enjoyable than the recent version(s). The art direction and casting are amazing.

The only clunky part is in the TV cut where they use storyboards and voiceovers to give some back history about the Mentats. Pretty sure this was not in the theatrical release though it’s been a while since I’ve rewatched it. Oh and the human close ups of riding the worms is showing its age in the special effects department.

Anaconda has like a 4. Shits at least a 6. Opened doors for a lot of actors and was pretty damn decent.

Idiocracy. Has stood the test of time surprisingly well for a movie containing so many fart and sex jokes.

IDK about "rated higher" but I love Jet Li's The One

There's exactly 127 universes in the multiverse. Why? Never discussed. And if one version of you kills another, every other version gets that much stronger. So Jet Li plays both the hero and the villain as well as an assortment of the villain's victims. Jason Statham is in it too, as the hotheaded junior partner multiverse cop out to bring the villain down.

Weird guns! Weird tech! A prison universe! Super powered martial arts! A climactic fight in a foundry where you can tell the hero from the villain by the color of their shirt! Man I love this movie!

I wanted to recommend The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, but it's sitting at 6.2 on IMDB, which is higher than I expected. I'm still going to, because it's great. Jeff Goldblum plays the most normal person in the film.

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist

I unironically love Rubber. Not a single person I've shown has shared that sentiment haha

It's about a tire that blows things up with It's mind

Edit: doesn't anyone know how to make spoilers hidden? I wanna type something but dont want to just put it out there

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Wouldn't say I love it but I really liked Not Another Teen Movie when I first saw it. Not sure how it holds up but the parody it makes of those high school romcoms was good.

In a similar vein, Scary Movie 2 and 3 were also really funny to me as a kid.

The sparkly vampire movies. I watched them with my daughter and loved them. She made fun of them and critiqued everything.i it at wanted to find out what happened next.

Imprinted on a child and now life long lovers? I'm in, where does this wild ride end?

I am a so-bad-it-is-good movie enjoyer. If you want to view some genuinely entertaining schlock, I'd highly recommend:

• Miami Connection
• Samurai Cop
• Killing: American Style
• Space Mutiny
• Money Plane
• Paradise Motel
• I am Here, Now (any Neil Breen tbh)
• Timecop

Robocop 2014

I think its extremely underrated.

I thoroughly enjoyed it, because out of all the sci-fi movies I've seen in the last two decades, this one has a very high likely chance of playing out exactly as indicated in the film.

We will blur the line between man and machine, and eventually have a identity crisis.

We will very likely see autonomous drone platoons being coordinated by a few or single human operator.

Those drones will likely be deployed in a military fashion first with push-back on deploying on home soil as a police force.

Until they will inevitably be deployed and used against civilians.

Also kudo's to the scene where he is stripped down to the bare parts, and the entire theater went quiet. There's a level of existential dread, when your 'being' is laid bare that the reality is... you... everything about you.... is just a small clump of grey matter.

Super Mario Bros Movie.

Doonie darko

Robot Jox, I watched the hell out of this as a kid.. And no it shouldn't be rated any higher than it already is.