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Not as extreme as the case in the OP, but I'm often surprised how "meh" a reaction Don't Look Up got. Maybe people think it was heavy handed? Too on the nose? I don't know but most folks seem to think it was at best merely "okay".

For me, I place it next to Idiocracy as one of the most prescient films about what is in store for us. I think after this last election day, it seems even more prescient. On top of that, it is legitimately funny with really good performances, especially from Jennifer Lawrence.

As a kid, I couldn't believe how funny Wild Wild West is

I loved Equilibrium and was surprised it wasn't rated as good.

I have a friend who recommends literally every single thing he watches. He'll watch the stupidest movie in the world and be like "wow, that was awesome!". I envy how much enjoyment he can receive from terrible movies and TV shows.

I actually liked sucker punch.

Seems like alot of people didn't get the A B C B A style of story telling that it did. I get on so many arguments with IRL people over it.

A) real world beginning and end of movie. she is in an asylum.

B) In her mind she is elsewhere dancing to get items to escape.

C)her dancing is shown as boss battles because her dancing is her fighting for her life in her mind.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was my jam as a little girl.... but it might just be because I ended up being bisexual and there's a lot of beautiful and badass people in it.

I'll never not like Waterworld

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

I saw it the day it came out and thought it was a brilliant departure from the macguffin-based plots that had come before, and it showed so many different things that had never been in a Star Wars movie before.

Turns out all Star Wars fans want is more of the exact same that had been in the previous 7 movies.

i feel like it’s much harder when you finish a movie, and you hate it, and then find out it’s one of the most critically acclaimed movies of all time.

this was my experience watching taxi driver. to this day, i have not been able to find a single other person who disliked that movie as much as i did

Fuck ‘em.

A good movie is a movie you enjoyed watching. Full stop.

This is your regular reminder that a 20% on Rotten Tomatoes means that 20% of reviewers liked the movie. The RT score represents chance that a reviewer liked it, not overall weighted score or how much they enjoyed it.

I watched Last Action Hero a few years ago for the first time, and it honestly didn't even feel that dated. It held up!

Constantine. I've seen it dozens of times and it never gets old. Tilda Swinton as Gabriel and Peter Stormare as Satan are a big part of why.

This is actually why I like rotten tomatoes, breaks apart the critics and the fans.

I recall going to a movie with friends, walking out and saying "that was terrible" and my friend saying "what, that was good". Debate ensued in the group.

Just had this experience with The Men Who Stare At Goats. Thought it was a good watch, like 6.2 on IMDb. Would recommend

Wagons East was one of my favourite movies growing up and my fam would watch it many multiple of times.

It has a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Congo is one of my favorite movies of all time I can recite every line in it. It's only got a 23% on RT and like a 5/10 on IMDb but I don't care. I still love the fuck out of that movie

I'm one of those people that thought Wet Hot American Summer was in the same league as Anchorman. Great cast, great music, littered with one-liners, just irreverant enough. It did eventually come out from under the radar but back in the early 2000s it was a total dud most people hadn't heard of

Death to Smoochy, my dark comedy about the mafia world inside of children's TV show is utterly fantastic and I will not be taking questions.

Batman and Robin. I KNOW it's cheesy as hell but I was a kid and I loved it. I loved the aesthetic of Gotham but found the previous Batman villains too scary (Penguin, Two Face) but Mr Freeze and Poison Ivy weren't scary at all. It was a romp!

The butterfly effect.

I saw it when I was rather young but I thought it was pretty good, apparently people thought it’s edgy.

Should watch it again now and see if it holds up.

The Thing.

Critically panned when it came out, and my favorite horror movie of all time. Of course critics feel differently now, but far after its following grew.

apparently critics hated baseketball but thats one of the funniest movies of all time

For me it was Alice in Wonderland (2010). I really enjoyed the whole "I do six impossible things before breakfast" thing. I was also really drunk when I watched it.

Boondock Saints is such a movie, which is a crime

Conan the Destroyer. I absolutely love it and won't apologize for it.

Oh my God you guys you need to watch The Naked Man

I'm telling you it's fucking hilarious. I swear. Look:

Estranged pharmacist's son who is a savant at chiropractor by day/underground pro-wrestler by night goes on a murderous rampage to avenge his father's murder at the hands of a quadriplegic pharmacutical ceo and his elvis impersonator bodyguard.

He uses his knowledge of wrestling and the human skeleton to commit devastating chiropractic attacks on his enemies.

He's chased by a detective who's a genius but also clinically depressed and....You must watch this movie. I'm not crazy! It's amazing!

Please!

I thought the Percy Jackson movies were pretty cool. I was very wrong

In 2006, a movie was released in which an evil AI is defeated by Shia LeBouf.

The evil AI's plan? Kill the president!

Why does the AI want to kill the president? he has too much unchecked power and bombed village of innocent people in the middle east and the AI told him not to because it could not confirm if there was actually a terrorist there.

How does Shia LeBouf defeat the evil AI? Opening fire at the capitol to cause a panic.

The war in Iraq was ramping up at the time, how was there not rioting at screenings? How is this not a controversial movie?

The acting is not great, but it deserves better than 27% on Rotten Tomatoes when the message of the film is the government does bad stuff and should be persecuted for it

Eagle Eye | Rotten Tomatoes

Yeah... I don't care. I watch a movie and accept it for what it is. If I'm entertained for a few hours, great. If not, meh. I don't need critical opinion.

I thought Battlefield Earth had a cool concept when I was like 13. I watched it again a few years ago and it's hilariously bad. 90% of the movie is Dutch angles

Great thread .... now I have a new movie list ... thanks

One thing I had to learn quickly was that my preference towards anything cultural was not in line with what my peers found good/cool, so I strode down the road of enjoying what I enjoy and let others enjoy whatever they enjoy.

Here's a short list:

Roadhouse

The 13th Warrior

Both Ewoks movies

This was 16-year-old me with The 13th Warrior. Thought it was pretty good. I have never watched it again, so I wonder if today's me would say the same.

2003's the core. I always loved the semi friendly rivalry between Zimsky and Brazz. And how Keys (the main character) is sort of the glue that holds the team together and I think the cast has a good energy together as a whole. Combine that with genuinely enjoyable yet ridiculous 90's style end of the world action / world destruction scenes and you got a 10 / 10 in my book.

Hey man like what you like. Most reviews are done by people who are WAAAAY to into cinema.

Joker 2. Laughing my ass of to all the people complaining about how it ruined the image of the joker for them.