re: Perennially underrated movies

“Half-Baked”

Dave Chappelle’s first movie. Very enjoyable, well written, by Chappell himself. Several cameos by celebrities throughout the movie.

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“Half-Baked”

Dave Chappelle’s first movie

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Not even close.

He was awesome in RH:Men in Tights in 1993, and also had a pretty big part in Con Air in 1997. Half Baked was in 1998.

Half Baked is awesome, however.

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Dave Chappelle’s first movie. Very enjoyable, well written, by Chappell himself. Several cameos by celebrities throughout the movie.

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Written by Dave and Neal Brennan.

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TLDR / Dark City is criminally underrated, and was an unfortunate victim of Hollywood frickery/ theft.


ETA: Also this would explain why The Matrix sequels were so bad and why every single movie The Wachowski's have done has sucked. They are a one hit wonder, and their one hit is a ripoff.

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This. I always thought the matrix ripped dark city off.

Rat Race - hilarious ensemble movie

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ETA: Also this would explain why The Matrix sequels were so bad

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the Matrix wasn't that revolutionary b/c of its story. it was just the first really well done cyber punk movie. the music, visuals, sound, etc. are what set it apart. the reasons the sequels sucked is b/c the movie should have ended with 1. there aren't many good sequel opportunities when you think about it

I own it on DVD ( ) so no need for YT here

The Nice Guys with Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe. Legit one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time

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the reasons the sequels sucked is b/c the movie should have ended with 1.

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Well that and CGI.

Apocalypto was a good movie with pretty solid reviews, but it doesn't get talked about all that much. I think this is at least partly due to the fact that it was almost never available to stream.