Each week on Best of the Rest we take a second look at a movie that was poorly received upon release, but challenge ourselves to only talk about what the movie does well. Maybe not every movie is great, but all movies have GREATNESS!
In the wake of Scream, another cast of young attractive people get killed one by one in a movie with a very long title. It may not have had the same cultural impact as the movie that influenced it, b…
SCREAM month begins with what many fans consider to be the first misstep of the franchise. But we're here to celebrate what we love about this slasher sequel! When your cast includes David Arquette, …
John Carpenter's filmography is chock full of genre classics like The Thing, Halloween, and Big Trouble In Little China. Not every movie he directs is regarded so highly though, and that's why this w…
Disney assembled an all-star cast for a movie based on their theme park attraction Mission To Mars. Unfortunately Gary Sinise's return to space was met with a much less enthusiastic critical receptio…
Two high profile Hollywood films released in the year 2000 about going to Mars, and neither managed to impress critics or become a hit. Today we look at the Val Kilmer one!
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In 1996 Tim Burton broke away from his usual quirky goth aesthetic to deliver a bright, campy, throwback alien flick, and much like in the movie itself, the world was simply not ready for theses Mart…
After being advertised for what felt like 5 years, Morbius finally hit theaters in 2022, and besides a strange meme-like fandom, it didn't make an impact with critics or audiences. This week we re-vi…
Much like the first film, Venom 2 made plenty of money at the box office and has a devoted fanbase singing its praises. However it still failed to win over critics. Today we're taking a second look a…
Just a year after Batman became one of the biggest blockbusters of all time, another pulp hero got the big screen treatment with Dick Tracy. Although the movie made plenty of money and even received …
Despite being one of the most expensive Superman films ever made, Superman Returns has been all but forgotten in the years since its release. Critics were kind to the film at the time of release, but…
After talk of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson playing Black Adam in a movie circulated online for years, we finally saw his performance come to life in a stand alone movie. Unfortunately it was not greeted…
Today, John Carter is the 18th most expensive film of all time. In 2012, it was one of the biggest bombs in cinema history. Now we revisit this classic sci-fi tale to discover what it got right!
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In a filmography full of visionary projects, The Wachowski's (and Tom Tyker's) Cloud Atlas is perhaps the most ambitious. Unfortunately this did not translate to box office success, and is one of the…
Six years after the success of Interview With the Vampire, the next two entries of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles were adapted into Queen of the Damned. The reception was far below its predecessor, b…
One of the most beloved space adventures of all time was finally adapted into a film in 2005. The results? Middle of the road reviews and a lukewarm box office. But today we're just talking about wha…
In 2019 the Terminator franchise finally got a proper legacy sequel. Linda Hamilton returned, Arnold Schwarzenegger was back, but audiences did not show up in the theater.
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After governing the state of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger returned to his iconic T-800 role. Despite this, the movie was a disappointment at the box office and received the lowest critical ratin…
For the first in the franchise, we get an entire story set in a post Judgment Day world. Despite the change in setting and mixing up the formula, critics were not impressed and the movie underperform…
We kick off Terminator month with the franchise's first (but certainly not last) attempt to follow up T2. The movie may not hold much love in die hard fan's hearts, but we still find plenty to celebr…
The highly anticipated sequel to Into the Spider-Verse has finally arrived, and we are talking about everything we loved in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse in this bonus episode!
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