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Tron: Legacy

I still think League of Extraordinary Gentlemen got unfairly dragged. 16% on Rotten Tomatoes.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/league_of_extraordinary_gentlemen

A lot of people were confused about Dorian Gray, but adding him was pretty inspired.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray

Bladerunner 2049.

I know a lot of people disliked it compared to the first one, even Ridley Scott himself. But I love the direction Denis Villeneuve took this film in.

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. Yes it's utterly ridiculous. I don't care, it's still a masterpiece of absurdity to me. That 13% on RT is a shame.

Also how has it been 23 years since its release.

Sucker Punch. Objectively, it's not really that great of a movie. But it's one of the most fun movies I've ever seen. It's got over-the-top action sequences, an amazing soundtrack, and a genuinely unique idea for a story that I haven't really seen done before.

The final cut ended up removing a very key scene that ties a lot of the story together, which I honestly feel is part of why the movie was so poorly-received, because the theatrical release just doesn't make sense and ends abruptly. If you decide to watch it, try to find a version that has the deleted scene with the High Roller near the end. It's a full five minutes of dialogue that ties the entire story together and Warner Brothers scrapped it and it drives me so crazy. It's like an "I Am Legend's deleted ending" level of directorial blunder, IMO.

Last action hero. I think the people don't understand that the film does it all on purpose.

It is a love letter to action movies while acknowledging that those are stupid.

Jupiter Ascending is, in my opinion, a masterpiece. Bees can sense royalty? Fantastic. The bureaucracy android having to bribe his way through the system he was literally created to navigate? Marvelous. Don't even get me started on the air roller skates. Eddie Redmayne's four million year old teenager was perfection too. Two volume levels: harsh whisper or screaming.

It was marketed as some kind of amazing epic, so people approached it wrong I think. It was a Wachowski film. What were they expecting? I went in there assuming it'd be like their Speed Racer movie, but in space. I was not disappointed.

Second vote would be for Speed Racer, lol.

The Day After Tomorrow - It's campy but underrated

13th Warrior. Solid action. Antonio Banderas and Vikings. Dudes taking care of business.

Well it's not a shit rating but I do think A Knight's Tale is way better than its mediocre scores. Perfect comfort movie.

Super Mario Bros (1993)

It was objectively a trainwreck but it was awesome when you were 8 and It brought video games to the big screen for the first time. I will always love it.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Tron Legacy

Guyver: Dark Hero

Strange Days (get the ultimate extended edition fan edit if you can.)

Wild Wild West

Demolition Man

Judge Dredd

Highlander II

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Jacob Barlow vs the Demonic Toys

There are a lot of fun movies that are considered garbage.

What constitutes a "shit rating?"

Big Trouble in Little China is 7.2/10 on IMDB, and it got positive reviews; it was, however, a commercial failure, making only half what it cost to produce. Great movie.

Wizards rates only 6.3/10 on IMDB, although it did well at the box office. That may be my favorite movie of all time.

Dredd failed at the box office but gets a 7.1 from IMDB. I think it's grossly underrated.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a 6.4 and generally gets poor reviews; it did fine at the box office. But I love that film.

If you want you get esoteric, Lord Love a Duck (1966) was a financial failure and gets only 6.3 from IMDB, but it's wonderful.

Disney's 1979 The Black Hole gets a 5.9 and didn't do well. It's a lot of fun and the ending is an acid trip.

The Prophesy (1995) got really bad reviews and 46% on Rotten Tomatoes, proving there's no accounting for taste. Absolutely worth watching.

Hawk the Slayer (1980), 5.3, is in the "it's so bad it's good" category. This includes Zardoz (1974), and Krull.

And, Dune (1984). 6.3 IMDB, total loss at the box office, and one of the best movies of all time. I kinda think Herbert might have hated it where he'd have liked 2021, but the cast, the atmosphere, the music, the hyperbolic representations of the characters; it is a masterpiece. And it features a young, mostly naked Sting (which is the lure I used to use to get my girlfriends to watch it).

S.O.B. (1981). 6.4 IMDB, but 81% RT. Box office failure. Hilarious, and a topless Julie Andrews (sigh).

Red Dawn (1984). 6.3/48%. Not my favorite movie, but worth a watch. Surprising decision to not utterly vilify (unhumanize) the Russian antagonists.

Any film where people ride around on rollerskates in a post-apocalyptic society.

I'm especially partial to SolarBabies (1986), but I'll also accept 'Roller Blade' and 'Prayer of the Rollerboys', where young Patricia Arquette and downsloping Corey Haim don the skates. Rollerball from 1974 is the Citizen Kane of this genre. The 2002 remake with LL Cool J is its red headed step-child.

Boondock Saints. It's so bad, but I love it.

Great recommendations in here. One thing that surprised me personally was

civil war (2024)

great movie, had a blast. Was surprised rotten tomatoes / IMDb seemed to hate it.

Howard the Duck!

I think everyone should see the 2019 Cats. I was not bored, and I had a strong emotional reaction to the movie. Was it shit? Oh absolutely, in ways that I didn't even know movies could be shit. But it was not boring! So if I were going to recommend a movie to someone who hadn't seen it yet, Cats would be near the top of that list.

Movies that I actually love despite them having poor ratings...

• Event Horizon - 6.6 IMDB / 35% RT - Haunted house in space. Great performances from a great cast. Properly fucked up. Love seeing blue collar workers in scifi.

• Death to Smoochy - 6.3 IMDB / 42% RT - See Robin Williams go hard on the R-rating playing a children's show host on a downward spiral. One of my favorite Williams performances.

• Legend (1985) - 6.3 IMDB / 41% RT - Shot entirely inside of a huge bag of cocaine. All vibes, don't question any of it, logic has no place here. Watch the theatrical cut with Tangerine Dream, because the director's cut with Jerry Goldsmith is honestly just vague fantasy noodling, and the 80s power jams are at least 40% of the charm.

No idea what the actual ratings are, but the live action remake of Aladdin was absolutely shat on by most of the internet. The original Aladdin was one of my absolute favorites as a kid, so I was gonna see the remake good or bad, and... honestly, fucking loved it.

I'm guessing the main breaking point for people was the lack of Robin Williams' Genie, but Disney had the option of trying recreate that genie without Robin Williams or completely remake that character's personality. Had they gone with the former, it 100% would have 1) flopped, and 2) been kinda disrespectful to Robin Williams imo. Starting fresh was the correct choice. And Will Smith did awesome with his version of Genie.

Beyond that, it introduced just enough new shit to make it not just feel like a frame-by-frame copy/paste of the original; but overall kept the same fun mystical vibe of the original.

It earns its spot on the shelf, imo.

Rise of Skywalker. I loved it :-)

EDIT - I should say, I didn't properly read the thread title, and I wouldn't put RoS in my "top list". I just gave it as an example of a movie that's generally disliked but that I enjoyed.

Gentlemen Broncos

I have two:

Chalet Girl - Romcom meets 1980s style Aspen Ski Challenge, Felicity Jones, Bill Nighy, Brooke Shields, and Ed Westwick. I personally love it. It's a great movie to throw on for a boring day, it has some feels, it's story is predictable but fun - it's not winning an Oscar but I enjoy it. 5/5 personal scale, 3/5 general rotten tomatoes

21 - Very lame smart guy meets Vegas, not a heist, not the social network - Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey. Didn't know this was that high up except for I have multiple plays of it. I watched it after having surgery and remember thinking it was amazing - and then watched it later on less pain killers and thought "Oh, well, it's fine." 3/5 personal scale, 1/5 general rotten tomatoes.

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