Good things you remember from bad films, games etc.

Owl Ki

Owl Ki

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So for years I remembered this scene from a post apocalypse film where the main character used to be part of the antagonist's clan, used his past connection to challenge the antagonist for leadership of the bad guy army and prevent anymore death to the good guys. Also there were a bunch of horses. That is all that I accurately remembered.

I only caught the last 1/2 hour or less of this film on the TV and I couldn't remember the film's name. I was also about 7-9 years old when I saw it.

Lo and behold around 15+ years later, I'm mucking about on the internet and I come across The Postman.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Postman_(film)

I look up the plot synopsis, it sounds familiar look up the scene and finally my search (I never actually searched for it, the answer just landed on my lap) was over.
I can see why I remember this after so many years. The soundtrack goes hard, the scene looks cool and the actors deliver.

This scene being from a film that killed Kevin Costner's career is also why I probably don't remember the rest of what I watched cause I don't remember the ending, the final fight or the characters. It's literally just that scene that stuck with cause 7 year old me thought "that looks cool". Probably would have been less cool if I had watched the 2 and a 1/2 hour slog leading up to this scene but missing the mediocrity clearly has benefits.

7 year old me also thought Steel was metal af.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_(1997_film)

In my past self's defense, Mervyn Warren's soundtrack blaring in the background can and will make anything look cool to a 7 year old.
This soundtrack oughta be classified as propaganda because I have remembered this song and its accompanying film for the rest of my life since watching it all those years ago.

Heck, it still makes me like Shaq's televised 1 and a 1/2 hour crummy RoboCop cosplay even today. I don't care if the film is dog shit. It is goofy, cheesy, hilarious dog shit with a banging soundtrack that I still find entertaining to this day.

The opening credits with the active furnace works (which I can't find on YouTube anymore) with the main theme blasting away was also a memorable moment.

Anyway, what is something good you remember from a bad piece of entertainment?

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J

Just a member

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I remember that film with Kevin Costner, a very long, boring mess that indeed ruined Kostner career.

About the topic... The beginning and the ending of a short weird manga: Grashros.
I can't say this manga was bad, it could have been good actually, for sure it was weird when you look at the whole stuff after it ended.

The story is set in prehistoric age, there is this small human settlement, they have their hero hunter, also the shaman of the village, who is the most authoritative figure, hates the guy. The wife of the hero is giving birth to their son (who will be the MC of the manga), but the shaman says there is a curse and the hero must kill a fearsome beast. The hero manages to do that, his son is "saved" yet the hero hunter is crippled in the process. Some years pass by, the MC is a boy and the father now does some kind of menial secondary job and everybody in the village looks down on him, the MC is also seen as the son of a failure, there is also the usual bully in the village who is regarded as the best hunter now. An even more fearsome beast (a mammoth this time, the author had a fetish for mammoths) attacks the village, everybody is killed, the former hero hunter sacrifices his life and despite being crippled is the only one who manages to injure the beast and take out an eye, the MC is alone and wants revenge on this one eyed giant mammoth.. good story, good art (it is a bit like the beginning of the Leviathan manga). It was a very promising start and I was looking at what could be born from this work.

Yet as the weeks passed and the story developed weird stuff started to happen, if I remember correctly the series got axed after just some chapters (about 10 or so probably) the author didn't gave a damn anymore and went wild with everything. In just some chapters the focus wasn't anymore in killing some fearsome giant beasts in order to get stronger and favor from villages in order to know the whereabouts of the giant mammoth but sly the monster and bang some random girl from each village he travelled to. Eventually he fought with this giant mammoth and there was some weird stuff since he fought naked, then he banged the female heroine, the end (about 50 chapters). Weird but funny in its way, can't really say if it was bad or what, for sure not what the first chapter promised.



Another thing were the 7th, 8th and 9th star wars movies. They were bad and hilariously bad in many points. I remember one director (Abrams if I remember corrdctly) directed the first movie (the seventh) in a way then another dude took the spot and directed the second one in a completely different way, Ray parents weren't anymore some important people but merchants, a random kid by the end of the movie used the force just to say everybody could learn it and also used quite some time to expand the story of a black dude and a female asian character, also Snooke, the big bad guy, is killed like an idiot at some point (there is still a movie left to end this triology). The first director (Abrams) comes back to direct the third movie, he didn't like the fact the second director scrapped his story to do his own.. he does the same and tries to bring back the story to what he originally intended with the first movie.. that was funny. Ray becomes the nephew of Palpatine, Palpatine? He hadn't the time to introduce him properly in the 3rd movie so a secondary character at some point delivers the legendary line "somewhat Palpatine has returned", I laughed out loudly in the movie theater lol. The side plot about the chinese female character and the black dude simply disappear, you barely see the female asian character in the whole movie. Ah and then there was the ending which was memorable only because it totally shits on Anakin/Darth vader as the chosen one.
 
NikaInParis

NikaInParis

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The 2004 Around the World in 80 Days movie (with Jackie Chan). Panned by critics and audiences, but I'll always remember it fondly for Jackie's plotline and them arriving at his kung fu village in China.

In the same vein, Superhero Movie. A comedy that didn't really stand out among the dozens of "XYZ Movie" titled spoof films. But Christopher McDonald's and Drake Bell's whole performance was stellar, and the "I'm not wearing any diamonds" line make me lol to this day:
 
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