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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.

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[-] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 157 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just looked up Event Horizon and it only got a 33%. I love that movie. It genuinely really creeped me out. Few horror films do.

[-] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Just goes to show you some people (critics) have no taste. That movie was awesome!

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[-] fadingembers 137 points 1 year ago

Titan A.E. only got a 50% and it is incredible and still holds up!

[-] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago

Only 50%?! Holy crap! I guess they really don't wanna live on Planet Bob.

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[-] khan_shot_1st@lemmy.world 129 points 1 year ago

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Sure it's campy and way over the top. But I kinda like it for that. Plus the characters are awesome, the designs were pretty cool, and Sean Connery was great. Currently at 17% on rt.

[-] asap@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago

How in the world is that 17%? TIL I also like unpopular movies.

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[-] LikeMike@lemmy.world 125 points 1 year ago

Grandma's Boy is a perfect stoner comedy. Featuring Nick Swardson in a hilarious breakout performance. RT can kiss 15% of my ass.

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Fuck RT, imdb it's over 7. That's really high for a comedy to be honest. One of my favorites and has rewatchability.

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[-] Quazatron@lemmy.world 92 points 1 year ago

Constantine - 46%

Predator - 34%

Ghost in the Shell - 43%

Hellboy - 17%

Robocop (2016) - 49%

Well, it seems like I have poor taste in movies after all.

[-] Agingtoofast@reddthat.com 28 points 1 year ago

Constantine is an awesome movie.

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[-] simple@lemm.ee 82 points 1 year ago

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is way better than anyone gives it credit for. It's a really fun movie.

I also really like Vanilla Sky even though critics hate it. It's a weird but good movie.

How Equilibrium has a 40% RT rating is beyond me. It's amazing.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 63 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I liked Prince of Persia as well! It's nothing groundbreaking, but it's a fun movie.

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[-] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

That shocks me that Equilibrium is only 40%.. it’s one of my favorite movies

[-] Raisin8659@monyet.cc 25 points 1 year ago

Equilibrium

Yeah, audience score: 81%, well deserved.

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[-] silentdon@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago

I unironically like Sucker Punch. And no, it's not only because of scantily clad women.

[-] another_lemming@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

90 minutes of music video montage. I liked it back then too. It looked very video-gamey and edgy.

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[-] Ashtear@kbin.social 80 points 1 year ago

I tend to like sci-fi in this category such as Stargate, Dune (1984), and the Riddick films.

TRON Legacy is my favorite of the bunch, however. Incredible soundtrack, gorgeous costume design, and plenty of character.

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[-] minorninth@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago

Rotten Tomatoes has both a critic score and an audience score.

If your pick has a low critic score but high audience score, that means it was formulaic or unoriginal but probably lots of fun.

Movies with a high critic score and low audience score are usually more artsy, film-festival stuff.

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[-] art@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago

Tank Girl. No one liked that movie when it came out. I left the theater with the biggest grin on my face. Absolutely awesome. Still one of my favorites.

It was completely different than the comics but it was still very fun. Especially in 1995.

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[-] improvisedbuttplug@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

Chappie (32%)

I love that movie and have seen it several times. Directed by Noel Blompkamp (District 9) and starring Die Antwoord.

It’s extremely original and entertaining sci fi.

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[-] jaschen@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

Idiocracy is one of my favorite movies. When it came out, it was far below 50%, but after some of the things on the movie started becoming true, it became popular.

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[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 53 points 1 year ago

Kung Pow only has a 13% critic rating and I love that movie. 69% audience score though so that might disqualify it.

I remember quite liking Slackers when I saw it (haven't rewatched it though, so my opinion might have changed). I think if this movie every time I hear the song "She'll be comin' 'round the mountain".

The Big Hit

Movies I saw 20 years ago it seems when maybe my tastes (and me too let's face it) were a little immature. Still love Kung Pow though

[-] Lemmylefty@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Kung Pow is fucking amazing in short, memey snippets, but it was agony to watch as an actual movie.

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[-] wolandark@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

I actually like Riddick, all three of them! Haven't checked but am pretty sure they would've gotten less than 60%

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[-] Xanvial@lemmy.one 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like both of National Treasure movies. With 46% and 36% ratings

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[-] Motavader@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

Iron Sky!!

Who doesn't love a movie about Nazis hiding for 60 years in a secret base on the dark side of the moon?!?!

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[-] atomWood@lemm.ee 45 points 1 year ago

Tron: Legacy

This is one of my favourite movies of all time. The story, atmosphere, and music are absolutely amazing!

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[-] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hook (29% TomatoMeter).

But it was released in 1991, so it wouldn't count for the XKCD version. Also the audience score is 76%, so not really an unpopular opinion I guess.

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[-] tram1@programming.dev 44 points 1 year ago

I actually like:

  • Hackers (31%)
  • National Treasure (46%)
  • Bandits (64%)
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[-] plutolink@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 year ago

I, Robot, especially after reading the books. It functions as a combo of the books, but set roughly where the first book took place in, using a variant of the protagonist from the sequels. The robots taking over as they did, though, wasn't really accurate, even just regarding the laws of robotics, but it worked for the movie's conflict. In the books, they get a larger hold on humanity, but to help them go past Earth to become an intragalactic society. For a one-off, though, I can see the directions the movie took to give it that close-ended feeling. Also, the implications of robots and humans, and Spooner as a chracter were pretty faithful to the source material, IMO.

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[-] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I really enjoyed the concept and story of In Time, which apparently has a 37% tomato meter and 51% audience score. That was probably the first less than 60% one I saw I particularly liked.

Edit: I take it back, I choose Elysium. It has a 59% audience meter and I frickin LOVE that movie, all the way down to the villain being super crazy and virtually unintelligible.

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[-] JakJak98@reddthat.com 38 points 1 year ago

Disney's Atlantis.

God I love that movie.

[-] crypticthree@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Death to Smoochy is a fucking masterpiece.

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[-] speff@melly.0x-ia.moe 37 points 1 year ago

Easy - Godzilla 1998. 28% audience score just goes to show the public has no taste

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[-] SankaraStone@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

The Book of Eli with Denzel Washington (who said his son got him to sign on to the movie) and Mila Kunis. It's 47% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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[-] Kiernian@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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[-] djsoren19@yiffit.net 35 points 1 year ago

Don't know if it quite qualifies, since it's sitting at a 61% audience score, but my favorite horror film Event Horizon has only a 33% critic score. I find a lot of good horror movies sit at or below the 60% mark on Rotten Tomatoes though. If a horror movie is too well rated, it's probably not very scary and not interesting to me.

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[-] Badass_panda@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Genuinely surprised Sherlock Holmes was rated that low, I really enjoyed it.

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[-] willis936@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Rat Race is 45% and I don't know why. Audience score is 64%.

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[-] Rootiest@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I liked:

  • Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (48%)
  • Jupiter Ascending (28%)
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[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Passengers is a pretty cool sci-fi movie. I like the first half in particular, the way it shows how "dumb" A.I. will be the bane of our existence feels very accurate as far as futuristic predictions go. I'm also a sucker for "lost on an island" stories, which this ultimately is. I will never understand how so much was made about the decision the main male character makes at a certain point, because the movie very clearly shows that a) he really struggles with the decision for a long time, knowing it's wrong and b) finally does it after almost killing himself and being heavily intoxicated, immediately regretting it. The only real gripe I have with the movie is that Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence have zero chemistry, which kind of kills the whole romantic element of the film.

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[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 year ago

Doing the exercise right now, surprised to see that the latest Mario Movie is 59%

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[-] legion@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Following the XKCD rules and keeping it in the 2000s and later makes it a lot harder. I could make an entire list of '90s movies that qualify.

But my answer is: Pitch Black.

Bonus answer, which doesn't quite qualify because it has an exact 60% rating: Love (2011, the space one)

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[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I enjoyed Waterworld (I know it's 90s, but I feel it gets too much hate). The premise and aspects of the screenplay were ridiculous, but the set design and effects were fascinating, and I was surprisingly invested in the characters. Kevin Costner and the kid had good chemistry. Dennis Hopper was a campy joy to watch as the villain as expected.

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[-] ramblechat@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

I, Robot - extremely disappointed that it didn't follow the books, but I've watched it several times and if you pretend it came out under a different title it's a good robot movie.

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[-] h34d@feddit.de 26 points 1 year ago

Reign of Fire only has a 42% (Critics), 49% (Audience) rating on RT, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. The visuals and sets create a nice moody post-apocalyptic vibe, and the actors deliver decent performances imo.

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[-] qwamqwamqwam@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago

This has always been easy for me because my favorite movie is "Speed Racer" which has like a 40% on Rotten Tomatoes.

A movie that was genuinely before its time. Would fit right in these days with "Barbie" and "Everything Everywhere All At Once".

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[-] ech@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

Jingle All the Way (the original, not the abomination with Larry the cable guy). 19% RT.

I think most people think it's too "weird", but I genuinely love it. It's got all the great 90s tropes, a cartoony core in a live action movie, an anti-consumerism message in a Christmas movie, and Phil Hartman. What's not to love?

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[-] wren@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 year ago

Sucker Punch (2011) (technically not made in my 'adult' life, since I was still a teenager, but semantics)

I genuinely love this movie and don't understand how it's rated so poorly. Sure it's got that Zack Snyder-flair (but I think it actually works for this??) and it can seem a little gratuitous. but even then to me it seems like it's done to make a point instead of just 'hehehe hot girls in short skirts'. The action is awesome, the sets are cool af, the soundtrack is phenomenal, the cast is great, the plot is interesting, (and sure, maybe me being a mega gay means I'm giving this a higher rating then I otherwise might have) - it's just overall a great movie to me. I do wonder how much of the ratings is a symptom that all women lead films suffer from review bombs by some upsetti-spaghetti men, but even I think this movie is not generally liked by most.

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