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It's movie night. You don't know who's coming but you have to pick a movie everyone vibes with. What do you choose? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] stom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is a perfect time for the Christmas cracker approach - you're unlikely to be able to pick a movie that everyone agrees is good, so pick a movie that everyone agrees is bad, and bond over shared mockery.

Space Truckers (1996) - Dennis Hopper, Charles Dance. Terrible movie with some wacky bullshit, cube pigs, neon space twinks, and a cyborg love prosthetic.

Moonfall (2022) - another classic from Roland Emerick where most of the movie is nonsense but there is a seed of a brilliant idea buried in there.

Mega Shark Vs Mecha Shark (2014) - it starts with a giant shark catapulting a fishing boat from Manhattan to Giza, and gets more and more ridiculous as it goes on. Featuring Christopher Judge in one of his less believable roles.

[–] boogetyboo@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Moonfall was quite entertaining and simultaneously so bad. And the mooning (pun intended) over Elon must be making everyone who worked on that movie (presumably in 2020-21) absolutely cringe. I did.

[–] stom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would honestly love to see a series based on moonfall, like Stargate, where we fully explore who made the "moon" and what the implications of its true nature are.

[–] boogetyboo@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah I've always been a fan of the whole 'we're not alone in the universe, we're just one of the survivors' concepts