Hackers

TV, but same idea…

I didn’t particularly hate Dexter season 5. The later seasons were worse, and of course it doesn’t hold a candle to season 4… But I just don’t get the flat out hate. It was fine, and I kinda liked it.

Vanilla Sky

I’m not even going to call it a guilty pleasure, but Josie and the Pussycats was a movie that I genuinely adored long before people started to appreciate it for the satire that it is.

As a CIS male I got endlessly mocked, but I stuck to my guns.

I thought Waterworld was fine.

Lucy.

It’s a really fun action/sci-fi flick. I don’t know why people dismiss it for being scientifically inaccurate. Who went into it thinking it was realistic? LoL.

Norm MacDonald’s Dirty Work is actually pretty funny.

Wouldn’t say really enjoyed, but Cats didn’t deserve the hate it got. I saw it with my (then) girlfriend about five years ago when Frozen 2 was sold out and we had the choice of seeing this, Star Wars Episode IX, or Jumanji: The Next Level instead. We chose Cats.

I’m gonna ignore the elephant in the room that’s the atrocious CGI, and say that Tom Hooper didn’t do a terrible job besides that. Most of the movie adaptations of each song were at least on-par with the musical. ‘Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats’, ‘Bustopher Jones’ and ‘Skimbleshanks The Railway Cat’ were the three that stood out as the movie’s best songs.

Only three songs were far worse than the musical, and they were big ones…

The Old Gumbie Cat was awful. Rebel Wilson absolutely butchered Jennyanydots by portraying her as a fat lazy glutton, complete with awful voice, awful ad-lib jokes thrown around the song and a part where she literally starts munching on CGI humanoid cockroaches marching around the dinner table. I mean… as much as I hate James Corden, he at least played the role of Bustopher Jones (a literal aristocratic fat-cat) really well, and unlike Wilson, his ad-libs were actually funny. I’d keep him in the cast, 100%.

The Rum Tum Tugger is another bad one. Jason Derulo’s vocal performance was really weak, but I don’t have much else to say about it.

Magical Mr Mistoffelees was the worst though. Hooper legitimately took the most iconic song from Cats and massacred it by portraying the titular musician who ultimately saves Old Deuteronomy as a nervous wreck. This is one that the Rum Tum Tugger should have sang, like in the original West End/Broadway musical. I got what he was trying to do with this decision but it just didn’t work.

If I were in Tom Hooper’s shoes, there are four things I’d change:

1. Redo the CGI
2. Replace Rebel Wilson with Lea Michele. She is probably one of the best actresses who could play Jennyanydots.
3. Replace Jason Derulo with Brendon Urie. Imagine Panic! At The Disco’s frontman singing the Rum Tum Tugger and Magical Mr Mistoffelees. 'Nuff said…
4. Redo the three bad songs listed above to make them more like the musical.

As a non-fan, I thought the JJ Abrams Star Trek movies were well received. All the casual trek fans around me seemed to like them, at least

Batman v Superman and Justice League (I didn’t watch original versions though).

The Prince of Persia movie. Also God’s of Egypt.

Super Mario Bros. with Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo. I don’t care how bad it is. It’s in the campy so-bad it’s good pool of movies and nothing anyone says can change my mind. The fact that they were drunk off their asses just makes it even funnier in my opinion.

The Postman. Compared to other post apocalyptic cheese fests it feels like a more nuanced display of societal breakdown and the re-emergence of the barter economy.

Not sure if it was HATED, but Hook if we’re going by reviews. I can’t imagine any kid seeing that movie and not loving it though.

Waterworld and Robin Hood Prince of Thieves.

Waterworld is ocean Fallout and RHPoT is fucking meme central. Plus RH is my childhood nostalgia movie, I’ve probably watched it over a couple hundred times just on VHS.