thebestaquamanJul 24, 2023

Opinions: What is a movie you genuinely like, that is rated below 60% on rotten tomatoes?

https://lemmy.world/post/2085432

Opinions: What is a movie you genuinely like, that is rated below 60% on rotten tomatoes? - Lemmy.world

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.

Show threadKiernianJul 25, 2023

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.

Show threadCaptainappropriate
+1 for having the courage to share that list. Some of those movies are just awful.
Jul 25, 2023 at 5:44amWeb
Show threadKiernianJul 25, 2023

Some of those movies are just awful.

LOL

That’s fair (and generally the prevailing opinion from what I can tell)

I think I just missed the boarding call for this decade’s nitpicky bus because I can’t even stomach reading most reviews anymore. They’re all too negative for my taste.

Maybe my internal critic just gave up and retired with the advent of midichlorians as a plot device way back in my late teens. That’s the last time I recall being truly disappointed in a movie that I sat all the way through. In retrospect I can’t even blame the star wars extended universe novels at the time for setting the bar too high.