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not really sure how people view it (or even how i’d view it now nearly 30 years on) but i liked that weird Final Fantasy: Spirits Within movie when it came out. haven’t seen it since it was in theatres though so not sure what i’d think of it now; i just thought it was neat at the time (and age of 10)

Tommy boy got shit on by siskel and ebert, which is why I never trust their reviews. That movie is a 10.

Dirty Grandpa.

It's much funnier than it has a right to be. Also, Aubrey Plaza really, really wanted to fuck Robert De Niro, and fought to get the role for that reason. Its ending sex scene is one of the most genuine in Hollywood because of that. Of course, Aubrey Plaza makes things better just by showing up.

Critics who hate it need to lighten up.

Weekend at Bernie's

Ice Pirates (1984) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087451/

Anjelica Huston

Ron Perlman

Mary Crosby

John Matuszak

John Carradine

Titan A.E

Grandma's Boy

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Does Borat the original count?

Breakfast of Champions - I don't care if it totally bastardized Vonnegut, I really liked it.

Mystery Men - Again, I don't care if it totally bastardized Bob Burden.

Titan AE

The female version of Ghostbusters.

Zardoz.

Hackers. Fuck you if you say one bad thing about this movie. It is glorious.

Not the worst rating at around a 60% on Rotten Tomatoes and around a 6.5 on IMBD, but I absolutely without question love An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.

Definitely a fun "sequel" with a lighter tone than the original. Though I will definitely say the Native American mice scenes are definitely outdated and a product of their time if you ask me.

The live action Transformers movies. ALL OF THEM.

Shit blew my mind when the first one came out. Weird faces and all. I cannot get enough of these robots beating the tar out of each other and sometimes committing war crimes.

Dark of the Moon in the third act is still one of my favorite pieces of cinema.

Dragonheart (1996)

Godzilla (1998)

Aeon Flux (2005)

Next (2007) - thought it was funny

3 Ninjas (1992) - classic

my answer for this is always BASEketball

one of the funniest movies of all time yet only has 41% on RT

Tron: Legacy

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.

Waterworld. I love that movie so much. I've watched the theatrical, TV, and Ulysses cuts. I've read the comics. I've played the games. I bought it on Blu-ray the day Arrow released it.

Dude Where's My Car is one of my favorite movies with the worst rating of all time.

bright. absolutely garbage movie, super fun silly world building

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.

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.

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

I JUST rewatched Gone in Sixty Seconds on a whim, on like Thursday, and spotted that it apparently has a 38% critic rating from Rotten Tomatoes. Fuck that noise, that movie is a materpiece of filmography.

Freddie Got Fingered. SOOOO ahead of its time. I love Tom Green.

Little Nicky, with an IMDB rating of 5,3 lol. I guess it's a nostalgia thing.

Maximum overdrive. 1986, coked up actors, campy as hell but taking itself very seriously, 14% rotten tomatoes score.

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.

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.

Attack of the killer tomatoes!

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.

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.

The Day After Tomorrow - It's campy but underrated

Bankok dangerous

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.

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.

Empire Records is a 5 ⭐ film, yet holds a 35% rotten tomatoes score.