Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. The story is sometimes questionable and the production values are shit. However, of all the
Star Trek films, this is the one that best takes advantage of the Kirk/Spock/McCoy triumvirate. Plus, the scene where Dr. McCoy relives his father's death is heartbreaking.
Superman Returns. It's a shame that Bryan Singer didn't go for more of a post-Crisis Lex Luthor. However, his love for the Superman character is unquestionable. The film is a masterpiece of visual storytelling, especially when it comes to capturing that elusive feeling of being in love with someone who doesn't love you back, with all of the stolen glances when she's not looking. Warner Bros., stop dicking around with reboots and just let Singer make a damn sequel!
Super Mario Bros. It's not actually a good movie. However, I love how crazy it is, trying to fit the round peg of the video game into the square hole of a live action movie format.
Super Mario Bros. the video game is totally unfilmable in live action, so they just keep warping it beyond all recognition until it is filmable. It helps that Bob Hoskins & Dennis Hopper both turn in excellent, campy performances.
Troy. This was the film that helped me through my
Lord of the Rings withdrawl. It's epic battle scenes rendered in advanced CGI with lots of great British actors hanging around to add gravitas. What more do you want?
The Star Wars prequels. The dialogue is painfully stilted, as are some of the acting performances from Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, & Hayden Christensen. However, if you're able to tune that out, what you're left with is one of the largest epics in cinema history, with some of the most inventive production design I've ever seen.
No matter what anyone else says, I'll always love the
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies,even that terrible 3rd one.
For nostalgia's sake, I think I enjoy
Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: Insurrection, & Star Trek: Nemesis more than most. (Hell, listening to the Braga/Moore commentary track on
Generations, I've realized that I like that movie more than they do.) Whatever the circumstances, I love seeing the Next Generation cast on the big screen.
Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom. I think I'm the only one that would rank this movie on the same level as
Raiders of the Lost Ark &
The Last Crusade. I think what I like best about it is that it feels the most authentically like a 1930s serial, complete with lots of politically incorrect bits.
Daredevil. And not just because of the Director's Cut either, though it is much better. I think the story, atmosphere and supporting cast more than rescue the film from the lacklustre performance of the leads.
Glad to find a kindred spirit.
Daredevil is one of my all-time favorite movies and the first thing I thought of when I saw the thread title. The plot isn't perfect but the atmosphere is spot on, capturing the physical & emotional difficulties of being a superhero. I even like some of the most disliked elements of the film. I still don't quite understand why it's so fashionable to rag on Ben Affleck. I've liked him in everything I've seen him in.
Paycheck &
Smokin' Aces were a lot of fun. He showed a lovely, self-deprecating sense of humor in
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back. And
Reindeer Games is one of the most underrated action movies ever. In
Daredevil, I think he perfectly captures the agony of being a superhero who only does what he does because he can't conceive of being anything else. And then we get to the romance between Matt & Elektra, two equally wounded souls who flirt by fighting. Plus, Jon Favreau is a hoot as Foggy Nelson!
People who liked Signs, I raise you Lady in the Water. A touchingly offbeat modern fairy tale, and essentially a story about telling stories. I adore the scene where the film critic deconstructs his own death.
I liked
Lady in the Water a lot too. I love all the characters and performances in it (except for Shyamalan casting himself as the savior of humanity
).
"Mars Attacks"
My all-time favorite sf comedy. I generally loathe Tim Burton, but he has accidentally made 3 good movies in his life. (The other two are "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" and "Beetlejuice".)
You don't like
Ed Wood!?!?!? Everyone needs to like that one. "We lost the octopus motor. So when you get in there, just wrap its legs around you and act like it's trying to kill you."
The ending [of
The Matrix Reloaded], taken in isolation, is technically one of the greatest shock endings of all time, because it is pretty much impossible to reasonably interpret it in any way but the manner the next film spends three hours denying. It's weird when the end of a movie presents an earth-shattering revelation that is totally awesome, but the real revelation is actually that the filmmakers had no idea what they were doing the entire time.
It's probably been too long since I've seen the sequels. To what revelation are you referring and how did
The Matrix Revolutions deny it?
The first three are just all so very close together, and I do admit Skull is an outlier. 
