Things You Like About Movies You Hate

[Sawyer]

Been meaning to put this one together for some time now, so here goes...

Spoiler Alert: Some movies aren't good. It happens, but I feel like it has to be a very rare thing for a movie to be a complete ****show from every department involved, top to bottom. Someone has to be pulling their weight. Whether it happens to be a performance or the score or production design or the costume work, etc.

So what was that for you? What movie didn't work for you overall, but had an element that still got you to sit up straight and take notice?

I only have one rule, and that's: No "Assassin's Creed sucked, but I always like Fassbender" or "I hated Baywatch, but Alexandra Daddario is hnnnngh" (you know who you are). If it's about a performance, make it specific to the film.

I'll start: Schumacher's Gotham City in Forever and B&R. Truthfully, it was as over the top as everything else in his Batman movies, but I dig it nevertheless. It had character.

 

[B]

Everything Mark Strong did & said as Sinestro in Green Lantern.

 

[psylockolussus]

I liked the space mission in Dark PhoeniX.

Gambit in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Psylocke in comic accurate costume in X-Men: Apocalypse.

 

[B]

I don't strictly hate the film, but TAS2, Gwen Stacy's death sequence & in fact the ending of that film in general.

 

[Pink Ranger]

The funny Senate hearing scene in Iron Man 2.
Trevor Slattery in Iron Man 3.
The costumes in Dune.
The Darth Maul duel in Phantom Menace.
The introduction of Vision in Avengers 2.
Superman vs. the rest of the JLA in Justice League.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Guy Pearce's overall performance in the trashy Escape from New York ripoff, Lockout.

Colin Farrell''s over-the-top Bullseye character in Daredevil.

Brad Pitt's hair in Johnny Suede.

 

[Kane52630]

or "I hated Baywatch, but Alexandra Daddario is hnnnngh" (you know who you are).

You said everything but type his username. lol

 

[Deck Rickard]

I didn't hate 47 Ronin, but it was a bad movie. That said, I really enjoyed Keanu Reeves and Rinko Kikuchi.

Speaking of Rinko, she was the only good thing about Pacific Rim, a film I did hate.

 

[STARMAN]

Jerry's Goldsmith's King Solomon's Mine is a good score in a bad movie.

 

[Schlosser85]

I like the opening Metropolis Superman vs. Zod battle flashback in Batman v Superman.

 

[3rdstone]

I don't hate Superman Returns, but it was a bit underwhelming for me. But I do love (yeah, apart from that airplane scene) when he flies up close to the sun to regain his powers. A great (and kinda poetic) Superman moment IMO.

 

[Sundancer]

Silent Hill: Revelations tied the game mythos with the previous movie

The Smallville aspect and junkyard fight of Superman III

The re-vamped imperial droid in Rogue One

 

[-JKR-]

Yep, "Batman & Robin" has some wicked establishing shots, production design (not all of it, some of it is just TOO much) and visual effects. And some of Clooney's shots in the Batcave, lit from the ground, are badass. Clooney's scenes with Michael Gough were great, and I liked the scene in which Bruce is trying to stop Dick from going out after the "Robin-signal."

 

[Silvermoth]

I will really admit the music in xmen the last stand was actually quite good

 

[Sawyer]

One I just remembered:

The make-up in Burton's Planet of the Apes. That **** was legitimately fantastic. The Serkis-era mocap is terrific, but I do kind of wish we could've seen how that already great make-up might have evolved in almost two decades.