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It has time travel and it's one of the few adaptations from a Stephen king book

Dude Where's My Car.

Shit has 1 star and only 47% audience score (17% on the other score).

Doesn't break 60 as it has 63, but I think it still counts. Ang Lee's The Hulk. Ok listen, Abomination isn't great, and the hulk stuff is a snoozer. But I think it's the first and only movie with the Hulk in it that actually GOT the hulk. It's more a cerebral picture about Bruce Banner dealing with all of this, rather than an action movie. The Hulk is Bruce's failure, not his super hero. Edward Norton did a great job with the role, and honestly it really is worth a watch, just focus on the Bruce more than the Hulk and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Edit: Lol. Both replies are right, Louis Leterrier's Hulk Movie. Which sits at... . 67. The post remains!

I really like Hardcore Henry, it was just a fun movie to watch but apparently the audience disagrees

I liked Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019).

I thought it was a fun movie and I liked Rey as a character

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. I absolutely adore the movie, but I'm actually content it didn't get all the recognition I think it deserves. The entire vibe of the movie is one of contentment; no need to force higher achievements.

This is a lot easier if we're talking about the Tomatmeter and not the Audience Score. But if we can go with the average of the two, then...

The Man who Knew too Little

I love that movie. I completely unironically enjoy every minute of it. Is it good? No. Do I care? Hell no. I love that movie.

Absurdist and slapstick comedies are often a good answer to this question. I would argue that movies like Step Brothers and Wet Hot American Summer have some comic actors doing some of their best work. But people who aren’t a fan of the genre are going to shit on those movies.

Venom (2018). I thought the action was exciting, it had a great sense of humor (I even liked some of the gross jokes), and I liked all of the character dynamics. Honestly, most of the complaints I hear about it boil down to "this movie isn't for me", or "this doesn't fit my interpretation of the character". Which are fine opinions to have, but I'm not sure it's fair to call the movie bad because of it. Then again, that's just the complaints I've heard. I'm sure there are people out there who hate it for fairer reasons, and I've just never met them.

Battleship, its not groundbraking but worth more than 33% in my eyes.

The Time Traveler's Wife is a good movie.

It's currently rated 38 for critics and 59 for audience.

The 13th Warrior.

Yes, it doesn't follow the book 100%. Yes, there are some goofy or cheesy moments. For a 90s viking adventure though, I think it's fun.

People might take issue with Banderas playing a Muslim, but Spain was once part of the caliphate that conquered northern Africa. Having a viking who speaks Greek, considering the Kievan Rus had explored the Mediterranean and fought for the Byzantines by now, added to the historical aspects of the story.

Even the original manuscripts get a bit fantasy, so I like to think of it as the movie reeled it back to a more historically accurate story over the greater fantasy on the book.

After a lot of searching on Rotten Tomatoes, Venom? Fun and kinda goofy suoerhero comedy. I definitely liked it enough to watch the sequel

Judge Dredd (1995) Judge as you will :)

Ghost rider bruh

The Super Mario Bros movie. It was really good but for some reason has a 59% rating on the tomato-meter, despite a 95% audience score. Very strange and it's why I just don't trust Rotten Tomatoes.

Speed Racer is my favortie movie of all time and i have been made fun of multiple times because of it.

Audience score or critics score?

Netflix made that movie "Bright" and I thought it was pretty incredible.

Looks like the audience put it at 83% but critics have it as 26%

Battle: Los Angeles (37/48). I think it's a fun take on the "alien invasion of Earth" trope. Maybe that's because I play historical tabletop wargames (think Warhammer 40k, but with for example US paratroopers vs German panzer grenadiers).

Also if I can just flip the question a bit, one movie I didn't expect to love as much as I did (though it got deservedly good tomato ratings) was:

• Prey (2022)

I expected another in a long line of good action movies. Not the best, probably even just mediocre relative to the rest of the collection.

But I've found myself rewatching that one more than any other Alien/Predator movie, it's a truly great film.

One of if not the best Alien/Predator films ever made imo.

I personally like Doom (2015). I understand the hate but I got a special edition dvd

Out Cold. It's a dumb snowboarding comedy movie, but I think it's dumb in a really funny way. It only has an 8% on rotten tomatoes but I think thats way incorrect.

If you go in expecting stupid humor it's actually got a lot of funny lines and moments.

I go with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Just like The Polar Express (which also has not the best rating) I really enjoy this movie around Christmas. Love the exaggerated characters and the absurd story :D

For me it's:

• Terminator 3 with 46% audience score and 70% tomatometer
• Gone in sixty seconds with 25% tomatometer and 77% audience score

Not even gonna front, I actually like the Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern movie.

This was way easier than I thought it'd be. I really like the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. It's Rotten Tomatoes score is 44%.

I love the Underworld movies, and was very shocked to see they had less than 40% on rotten tomatoes.

I unabashedly love the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, On Stranger Tides. It's my second favorite after the first. I guess I just never liked the Turner/Swann story lines so ditching them was refreshing. It's just a fun and silly adventure with beautiful visuals and cool supernatural stuff. Only has 57% audience rating but whatever I appreciate it.

Æon Flux, from 2005. 9% on RT. I'm not sure if it's nostalgia from seeing it as a teen or if the masses weren't ready for it or what, but it was just so unique and had such a cool vibe.

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I wasn't a big fan of 3 or Salvation, so I'm trying to resist getting my hopes up too much for Dark Fate, but it's hard. I'm just a sucker for humans and robots traveling through time to try to drive trucks into each other, apparently.

Cube Zero (2004)

That's right, the prequel to the 1997 horror film Cube. Where people are trapped inside a cube that keeps killing them.

I feel like I'm cheating because it got some positive reviews, just not enough to even have a critic score. Audience score is in the 20's. I don't know why! It's a great follow up. Much better than the sequel, Hypercube. It gives us some much needed backstory on why the cubes exist and what their purpose is.

Solo (Star Wars) comes close at 69%. It was absolutely a story that didn't need to be told and I really didn't like them trying to explain everything like, "Here's how Han got his trusty gun, here's how Han got the name "Han Solo", here's how..." blah blah blah, like I really didn't need any of that stuff, BUT I actually liked the movie regardless. It was a low-stakes movie that barely had a hint of any Sith or Jedi, it was just underworld business people doing underworld business things, it was great. Young Harrison Ford was always going to be a huge stretch for anyone, but I thought Alden Ehrenreich carried it well, and Paul Bettany was awesome in his role.

Also, Primer only having a 73% is a goddamn travesty.