Goon and Goon 2 immediately sprang to mind when I saw Stifler in your pic.

The entirety of the "Marvel Cinematic Universe".

Hollywood doesn't bother with medium budget films like Evolution anymore. Turbokid is daft but fun, but I only watch BBC4 docos about the history of the envolope usually so I'm not a good one to ask.

Ben Wheatley's films are usually a good shout.

Someone on Facebook mentioned The Final Girls earlier today. That might fit your needs. Otherwise, I recommend you remove your "past ~10 years" requirement and check out the 1994 Street Fighter film. It's criminally underrated. It's like Flash Gordon.

>>23659

The Final Girls is great. Not really a 'stupid' film as such, but a good horror parody.

Mortal Kombat (2021) is a perfectly decent martial arts film with winks to fans of the franchise thrown in.

This is the End (2013) might be up your street.

The Lobster (2015) and the Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) are serious drama films rendered daft by their premises and the delivery of dialogue

Mad Max: Fury Road (2013)

Baywatch (2017)

Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World (2010) just beyond the 10 yr mark but a good film nonetheless.

Idk, there are a lot of fun/dumb films out there but Evolution is a bit of a unique one.

We just had Godzilla vs. Kong. I know it's not quite the comedy-genre of Evolution but it is fun.

>>23654
Fast and Furious 7
And maybe the other Fast and Furious Films, I don't know, I only saw 7

Central Intelligence was on the other night, I found it surprisingly amusing.

Dude, Where's My Car? is pretty good. It's basically a stoner movie that doesn't involve a lot of pot.

>>23661
>Evolution is a bit of a unique one.

It's largely "Ghostbusters but not Ghostbusters."

>>23665

It makes a lot more sense when you learn that it was originally written as a Beavis and Butthead movie.

>>23665
Detroit: Rock City is pretty good. It's basically a stoner movie that has a great soundtrack.

Grandma's Boy is my favourite dumb film. Really fun and not a lot of people seem to have seen it in the UK.

>>23669
I feel the same way about Sex Drive.

It's a shame we don't make dumb movies in this country. I know it sounds daft but we can pull off all the ingredients.

>>23669
I always recommend this to people who are complaining they don't have anything to watch, as it will make you giggle.

They clearly had input at some point from someone who either worked for a game dev or another software engineering company, because it's far too self aware to be coincidence.

>>23671

Presumably they had the people who made Demonik involved.

>>23661
>Mortal Kombat (2021) is a perfectly decent martial arts film with winks to fans of the franchise thrown in.

I had a ridiculously good time watching this. This is the kind of film eleven-year-old me would have wanted to make, playing the whole thing totally straight and treating it as a proper martial arts film.

Wait, when was there a new Morkat Kombat? Is it in cinemas? Netflix?

TEST YOUR MIGHT

>>23674
It's already out in America on HBO Max. It should be released here in a couple of weeks but I don't think it has been announced where you can (legally) watch it.

>>23675

>HBO Max

So it's on the internet, then. Cheers.

>>23674
>Meerkat Kombat

>>23673

I may have made this post a little bit too soon. I hate to blow it for anyone that likes this stupid series as much as I do, but I really wish the entire film were like the first scene. Genuinely, the first scene is like a different film, almost classy. I strongly suspect that's where most of the thought went -- kind of wish I'd just stopped watching there.

I don't know how they managed this, but I honestly prefer the structure of the 1995 film. The 1995 one had loads of locations, interesting set pieces, setups and payoffs. Fights occurred as the protagonists explored the other world. In this one, many characters are sort of introduced out of nowhere, and are often killed just as quickly as they arrive. Raiden has deus ex machina powers, which is fine, but then uses a contradictory set of rules about when he uses them, which reeks of lazy writing.

Finally, a few obvious points: Cole is a bland audience insert character, the "superpowers" didn't need to be explained (it's a fantasy martial arts film, it's okay to let some things be a mystery), the cheesy 90s quippy lines are mostly just replaced with equally embarrassing swearing/mumbly quippy lines, and the 1995 animatronic Goro looked cooler.

A few positives, the casting in the 2021 film is far, far better for the most part. Everyone looks the part, I just wish they'd spent another year working on the script so that it didn't end with Raiden sending everyone to different locations to have simultaneous fights. The gore is fine as well, if you're into that kind of thing.

To close out this sweaty nerd post, here's the best fight from the 1995 film, set to bouncing techno as it should be:

>>23678
I watch both those films for the first timer today, the 1995 film I found very charming, better than I would have thought the problems are glaringly obvious but I over looked them because of the charm.

The new film was duller in every respect other than as you say the first scene. It is a film about a martial arts tournament where no martial arts tournament ever takes place.

>>23679
The 1995 film is one of my favourites, but that list also includes Big Trouble in Little China and Starship Troopers so make of that what you will.

>>23680
That you have excellent taste in cinema?

>>23679
>It is a film about a martial arts tournament where no martial arts tournament ever takes place.

I think you hit the nail on the head, there.

They also missed a trick with the Cole character. Even a bit of lip service could have given the film a fun theme about contrasting modern rough-and-tumble MMA with ancient and mysterious martial arts. Instead he just sort of blithely accepts everything.

The superpowered melee was too Marvel-esque, things become so much less interesting for me when people turn into darting CGI figures.

Not to keep banging the drum, but that first scene was just the perfect balance. Really well co-ordinated martial arts and stuntwork, wonderfully shot, inventive with props, with just a touch of mysticism and strange supernatural powers on top.

Bi-Han was also effectively the main villain, and it was amazing. Why not keep Shang Tsung as a shadowy sorcerer pulling the strings behind the scenes? Why don't we just capture glimpses of an old wizened man becoming younger as he feeds off the souls of fallen combatants? Have Bi-Han bring his assassinated victims to something that looks like the crypt keeper? It's a film for Christ's sake, we're meant to fear the Big Bad, be creative, don't just have him stand there like a lemon behind walls of electricity.

>>23670 That were dead brilliant.

It's almost screaming out for a cornetto trilogy adaptation.

Is Kano in the new film any good? He was by far the highlight of the 1995 film.

>>23684

Yeah, he's vulgar and gives the film a lot of personality. His winking to the audience gets a bit tiresome at points ("u wot m8 u shoot fire out of ur hands???") but the actor gets the spirit of the character perfectly. Even better than the 1995 one, I'd say.

Scottish Mad Max.

I watched Waiting (2005) this weekend. It has a lot of big seppo comedy types and is a mist see for any of you who have ever worked in hospitality.

Operation: Endgame is fucking fantastic if you're looking for a shit, but entertaining film. Without giving too much away, it's a secret underground base in which the US controls everything that goes on in the world via two teams, one which makes chaos and the other which swoops in to save the day to preserve the idea that America is on top of things. The project gets cut, hilarity ensues.

It also has a few of my all-time favourite movie murders. Highly recommend just for that.

I think Ghosts of Mars is in this category. A deliberately shit film. Ice T, Jason Statham. I don't think they realised it was meant to be shit, Ice T complained about it afterwards, I guess he didn't notice how all the sets looked like they were porn-film quality.

>>23761
Of course, Mr Carpenter, it was supposed to be awful, sure.