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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Maximum Overdrive

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Just goes to show you some people (critics) have no taste. That movie was awesome!

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How in the world is that 17%? TIL I also like unpopular movies.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Titan A.E. only got a 50% and it is incredible and still holds up!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only 50%?! Holy crap! I guess they really don't wanna live on Planet Bob.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Grandma's Boy is a perfect stoner comedy. Featuring Nick Swardson in a hilarious breakout performance. RT can kiss 15% of my ass.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Fuck RT, imdb it's over 7. That's really high for a comedy to be honest. One of my favorites and has rewatchability.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (24 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Constantine is an awesome movie.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I tend to like sci-fi in this category such as Stargate, Dune (1984), and the Riddick films.

TRON Legacy is my favorite of the bunch, however. Incredible soundtrack, gorgeous costume design, and plenty of character.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is way better than anyone gives it credit for. It's a really fun movie.

I also really like Vanilla Sky even though critics hate it. It's a weird but good movie.

How Equilibrium has a 40% RT rating is beyond me. It's amazing.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I liked Prince of Persia as well! It's nothing groundbreaking, but it's a fun movie.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I unironically like Sucker Punch. And no, it's not only because of scantily clad women.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (10 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I actually like Riddick, all three of them! Haven't checked but am pretty sure they would've gotten less than 60%

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I really enjoyed the concept and story of In Time, which apparently has a 37% tomato meter and 51% audience score. That was probably the first less than 60% one I saw I particularly liked.

Edit: I take it back, I choose Elysium. It has a 59% audience meter and I frickin LOVE that movie, all the way down to the villain being super crazy and virtually unintelligible.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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?!?!

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I like both of National Treasure movies. With 46% and 36% ratings

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I actually like:

  • Hackers (31%)
  • National Treasure (46%)
  • Bandits (64%)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hackers (31%)

This is absolute bullshit.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I, Robot, especially after reading the books. It functions as a combo of the books, but set roughly where the first book took place in, using a variant of the protagonist from the sequels. The robots taking over as they did, though, wasn't really accurate, even just regarding the laws of robotics, but it worked for the movie's conflict. In the books, they get a larger hold on humanity, but to help them go past Earth to become an intragalactic society. For a one-off, though, I can see the directions the movie took to give it that close-ended feeling. Also, the implications of robots and humans, and Spooner as a chracter were pretty faithful to the source material, IMO.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Disney's Atlantis.

God I love that movie.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I liked:

  • Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (48%)
  • Jupiter Ascending (28%)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Green hornet with Seth Rogen. I genuinely like it. It’s a good movie.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tron: Legacy

This is one of my favourite movies of all time. The story, atmosphere, and music are absolutely amazing!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The Book of Eli with Denzel Washington (who said his son got him to sign on to the movie) and Mila Kunis. It's 47% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Easy - Godzilla 1998. 28% audience score just goes to show the public has no taste

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hook with it's 29% tomatometer rating. Dustin Hoffman—sexual misconduct allegations aside—fucking nailed it as Hook, and I think the general concept of an adult Peter Pan returning was pretty cool. Also, who doesn't love Robin Williams? It was a movie I loved in my childhood so I am absolutely biased, but 29% seems absurd. I still find the "Don't try to stop me, Smee" scene hilarious to this day.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Rat Race is 45% and I don't know why. Audience score is 64%.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I like the Han Solo Movie. They fucking NAILED the character, and they took a LOT of inspiration from legends, and it shows! I think the only reason people dislike the movie is because Han Solo himself wasn't played by Harrison Ford, which uh, duh, of course he wasn't. He doesn't even like the character!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), starring Johnny Depp sitting at a blasphemous 50%

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Death to Smoochy is a fucking masterpiece.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Book of Eli (47% critic 64% audience). It's a good story, it's well produced, solid acting. It's not the best movie ever but I enjoy it.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Sucker Punch (2011) (technically not made in my 'adult' life, since I was still a teenager, but semantics)

I genuinely love this movie and don't understand how it's rated so poorly. Sure it's got that Zack Snyder-flair (but I think it actually works for this??) and it can seem a little gratuitous. but even then to me it seems like it's done to make a point instead of just 'hehehe hot girls in short skirts'. The action is awesome, the sets are cool af, the soundtrack is phenomenal, the cast is great, the plot is interesting, (and sure, maybe me being a mega gay means I'm giving this a higher rating then I otherwise might have) - it's just overall a great movie to me. I do wonder how much of the ratings is a symptom that all women lead films suffer from review bombs by some upsetti-spaghetti men, but even I think this movie is not generally liked by most.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Speed Racer has a 42% critic rating which i would consider a crime against culture. one of my favourite movies

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

"Judge Dredd" (1995)

It's fun, funny, entertaining, and while not well written, is well acted.

Honorable mention is "Demolition Man" (1993) for similar reasons. Though it's in the 60s when it comes to a rating.

It's like, sometimes I want to sit back turn my brain off for 2 hours, and just enjoy.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey

STATION!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Every person who likes horror movies can probably name a few examples. Horror movies are somehow really weirdly understood by a lot of people, including critics. Or perhaps I watch them for the wrong reasons, I don't know.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I really enjoyed Resident evil.

I love my zombie movies and there's quite a few that score very low on RT.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

The day after tomorrow is my guilty pleasure.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Don't know if it quite qualifies, since it's sitting at a 61% audience score, but my favorite horror film Event Horizon has only a 33% critic score. I find a lot of good horror movies sit at or below the 60% mark on Rotten Tomatoes though. If a horror movie is too well rated, it's probably not very scary and not interesting to me.

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