Inspired by the linked XKCD. Using 60% instead of 50% because that’s an easy filter to apply on rottentomatoes.
I’ll go first: I think “Sherlock Holmes: A game of Shadows” was awesome, from the plot to the characters ,and especially how they used screen-play to highlight how Sherlocks head works in these absurd ways.
I just looked up Event Horizon and it only got a 33%. I love that movie. It genuinely really creeped me out. Few horror films do.
Just goes to show you some people (critics) have no taste. That movie was awesome!
As always, it has to be kept in mind how the RT scores work. It doesn’t aggregate scores, it just aggregates if the review is positive or negative.
A movie with hundred critics saying “Yeah, the movie is fine I guess” will score higher than a movie with 90 of those critics saying “This is the best movie I’ve ever seen!” and 10 of them not really feeling it.
The concept of mass critic aggregation also just has fundamental problems compared to following and learning the tastes of a specific critic, in order to evaluate their review.
Right? It also got a 61% audience score, which I found surprising. I always hear good things about it from people.
It is a horror movie so that could put a lot of folks off, especially with some of the imagery. That’s one of my favorites but just a theory on why others may not like it.
I watched that thinking it was just sci-fi while high as a kite in my teens.
I’m still not over it.
A+
My bro-in-law and I sat down to watch it thinking we’d get a good laugh out of it. After it was done, we just sat there for a while in silence.
What? I still hold that movie as the scariest thing I’ve ever seen. It grips me just thinking about some scenes. It’s an amazing movie. Can’t believe the score
That is absurd! Event Horizon is the only legit Doom movie. That was the idea all along and they even used the sound clip from the spawn cube in the movie.
Also, although I am not a 40k fan, I know some people see this as a prequel to Warhammer 40k as the moment in which humans first get to use the Warp.
It was ruined by execs, but it is a masterpiece, especially in the production design.
Good choice. For all the flaws the film might have, it perfectly accomplishes what it sets out to do: it genuinely fucking scares you.
I remember feeling like that about “the Sphere” which came out the year after and has 13% on rotten tomatoes. I really liked it.
Check out Pandorum if you haven’t already. I think about that movie a lot.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Sure it’s campy and way over the top. But I kinda like it for that. Plus the characters are awesome, the designs were pretty cool, and Sean Connery was great. Currently at 17% on rt.
Grandma’s Boy is a perfect stoner comedy. Featuring Nick Swardson in a hilarious breakout performance. RT can kiss 15% of my ass.
Fuck RT, imdb it’s over 7. That’s really high for a comedy to be honest. One of my favorites and has rewatchability.
I find imbd more reliable in a way than RT. If you view the 10 to 1 rating system as a percentage chance of you enjoying a movie, then it’s extremely trustworthy. Letterbox is pretty good as well.
I’m thinking about getting metal legs. It’s a risky operation but it will be worth it.
That movie is hilarious sober!
GB is a classic! I love that movie so much. I don’t really even smoke weed.
I vote Freddie got Fingered as the only better stoner comedy.
Or comedy overall.
It’s one of the best movies.
This one of my all-time favourite movies
Constantine - 46%
Predator - 34%
Ghost in the Shell - 43%
Hellboy - 17%
Robocop (2016) - 49%
Well, it seems like I have poor taste in movies after all.
I unironically like Sucker Punch. And no, it’s not only because of scantily clad women.
90 minutes of music video montage. I liked it back then too. It looked very video-gamey and edgy.
Yes exactly! The only thing that would make it better was if it was a music video album like Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories
Have you watched it recently? I would’ve said the same thing but I rewatched it like a month ago for the first time in years and that movie is a mess. Like there is a lot not working. Even the action is a bit meh. The whole structure still just begs more questions than answers. Zach really should’ve just been like “oh no we are in a video game, time for the robot samurai level” instead of girls imagining fighting samurai as they grind on a guys lap in a stripper prison inside of the reality of a psycho ward
Soundtrack still slaps though
tbf I have not watched it in a while. I did see it in theatres and the director’s cut a few times at home.
Damn, came here to say the same thing. I do like heavily stylized movies though… I guess not too many people do, 47% audience score on rotten tomatoes
I didn’t understand the hate Sucker Punch got until I found out that the theatrical release was cut down to a PG-13 movie. To make it PG-13 they had to cut the core themes from the movie since they were not PG-13 appropriate.
I had only watched the unrated directors cut and never saw the theatrical version so any time I talked about this movie people had no idea what I was talking about. The story and supporting scenes were completely gutted and that’s why people say the movie didn’t have a good story - it was removed.
This was a cool movie to watch. The visuals were really interesting.
It wasn’t perfect but I hated how it was written-off superficially as high-school male fantasy. I really took it as the opposite of that.
I know my username doesn’t make this a terribly credible opinion.
Definitely helps tho 👀
I’m with you. I thought this movie was cool.
Chappie (32%)
I love that movie and have seen it several times. Directed by Noel Blompkamp (District 9) and starring Die Antwoord.
It’s extremely original and entertaining sci fi.
Rotten Tomatoes has both a critic score and an audience score.
If your pick has a low critic score but high audience score, that means it was formulaic or unoriginal but probably lots of fun.
Movies with a high critic score and low audience score are usually more artsy, film-festival stuff.
Meh, it depends. I don’t use either as a solid indicator of anything because Morbius fits your first description and that movie was hot ass. Same with 2016 Suicide Squad and the Mortal Kombat reboot. All of those movies had low or mixed critic scores with moderately high to high audience scores and they all suck.
Morbius isn’t a great one to point at as an example where this rule of thumb fails because the reviews were brigaded. It was a huge meme and would have been flooded with meme user reviews.
I think Morbius is a great example. People enjoyed the he’ll out of that movie, they just didn’t enjoy watching it.
Mortal Kombat was fucking amazing dude.
Nah. It STARTED out amazing in the first act with subzero and scorpion in the Japanese village, but once that scene is over, the entire second act drags and is by far the biggest act in the movie. Then when things finally start picking up again in the third act, its almost over. Plus theres stupid stuff like Subzero speaking english in 1400 japan when he was speaking chinese for the majority of the film and then a little japanese plus much more. I guess it wasn’t absolutely horrible, but definitely not amazing.
The second act is when Kano talks the most which makes it the best act.
Which then it’s bogged down by cole young, who shouldn’t have been the human surrogate for the audience. Honestly, it should’ve been Kano, which would’ve improved this movie by a lot.
I support any opinion that results in me seeing more Kano
Kano was a big positive in this movie, so yeah I’m in the same boat
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Ha ha!
At first glance none of the critics we’re fans of the original TV show so they thought the adaptation waa harmless fun. Reviewers who we’re fans of the original show hates it.
we’re = we are
You mean were
Idiocracy is one of my favorite movies. When it came out, it was far below 50%, but after some of the things on the movie started becoming true, it became popular.
Kung Pow only has a 13% critic rating and I love that movie. 69% audience score though so that might disqualify it.
I remember quite liking Slackers when I saw it (haven’t rewatched it though, so my opinion might have changed). I think if this movie every time I hear the song “She’ll be comin’ 'round the mountain”.
The Big Hit
Movies I saw 20 years ago it seems when maybe my tastes (and me too let’s face it) were a little immature. Still love Kung Pow though
Kung Pow is fucking amazing in short, memey snippets, but it was agony to watch as an actual movie.
This is unfortunately an accurate description of that movie.
Think of something like Airplane! or Ghostbusters. There are so many memorable and/or silly parts and lines that people remember well and will repeat over and over. But of course, each also has a real movie to go along with it.
All the clips and lines and other zany parts of Kung Pow can be hilarious, but the movie itself is pretty bad.
That movie (Kung Pow) was so ahead of its time in terms of jokes and set ups.
I rewatched Kung Pow recently and I don’t think it’s held up as well as I remember, but its still great fun and I continue to quote it constantly.
Kung Pow is a fucking delight and I still love it as much as it was the day it was released.
That’s a lot of nuts!
Tank Girl. No one liked that movie when it came out. I left the theater with the biggest grin on my face. Absolutely awesome. Still one of my favorites.
It was completely different than the comics but it was still very fun. Especially in 1995.
I just re-watched it with my teenage daughter who really enjoyed it. So at least one kid today sees value in it.
You’re not supposed to watch it sober.
I’ll have to remember that; I only saw it just after its release and don’t remember being anything other than indifferent. I’ve never read the comic though; the author/artist of the comic is part of the duo of the Gorillas, correct?
You’re not supposed to watch all of it; you’re supposed to be noisily and lewdly snogging your date through most of it.
Possibly Stings best villian. I love that film.
Iron Sky!!
Who doesn’t love a movie about Nazis hiding for 60 years in a secret base on the dark side of the moon?!?!
“Eine Beförderungsplattform für duale ultra-schwere relativistische kinetische Atomhaubitzen” made my day, back then, …
That whole movie was so bad that it became awesome.
Love it. The sequel is even more whacky.
I enjoyed the Iron Sky, but couldn’t make it more than 15 minutes into the sequel.
I’m impressed you could take your eyes off of it.
When I see it, there were important things I needed to do, but I had to accept that those things were going to have to wait.
Death to Smoochy is a fucking masterpiece.
I actually like Riddick, all three of them! Haven’t checked but am pretty sure they would’ve gotten less than 60%
Hook (29% TomatoMeter).
But it was released in 1991, so it wouldn’t count for the XKCD version. Also the audience score is 76%, so not really an unpopular opinion I guess.
Okay, so I hit rotten tomatoes, checked movies that were both critics rotten AND audience rotten, and started perusing titles for stuff I thought rocked.
abraham lincoln: vampire hunter
waterworld
hellboy (how is this in here? I thought this was universally loved)
mars attacks! (56 and 53, I also feel like this shouldn’t be on the list. It’s too good, and not in a bad way)
x-men origins: wolverine (again, is this not considered awesome? I thought it was great)
daredevil/elektra (I enjoyed both movies)
and now for stuff I’ve watched at least five times:
the ninth gate
planet of the apes (2001)
avp
prince of persia
green lantern
van helsing
I’m dead serious, I was looking forward to MORE green lantern movies along the lines of that first one. I bought it on amazon having heard nothing about it (I was in a societal black hole for a few years there), watched it, loved it, and was like “sweet, when’s the sequel coming out? I wanna see sinestro do his thing…wow, this did not do well. Fuck.”
I wasn’t super happy with ALL of the writing, but that’s comic stuff in general and I thought the whole thing was still quite enjoyable. Like, multiple rewatches enjoyable. Seeing Hal Jordan on screen and having Ryan Reynolds do it was great.
