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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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[-] jargoggles@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

I enjoyed Bullet Train and Equilibrium.

A much harder stipulation is that it needs to be below a 60% audience score, too. I haven't found any there, yet, but it feels like it's more in line with the idea that the movie needs to be unpopular.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Dude Where's My Car.

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

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[-] FuglyTheBear@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Automata 2014

Oblivion 2013

Jupiter Ascending 2015

Evolution 2001

There might be a pattern in there somewhere...

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[-] m3adow@feddit.de 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Knight and Day is a light feel-good action comedy.

What's up with RT ratings though? A lot of movies I'd deem okayish have ratings < 50%.

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[-] FrankFrankson@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Freddy Got Fingered

It's sitting at 11% on Rotten tomatoes

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[-] TwanHE@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] TheWozardOfIz@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago

I watch Joe Dirt more times than I like to admit.

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[-] Karza@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 years ago
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[-] Nefara@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

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.

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[-] TheCannonball@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] AndreyAsimow@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

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

[-] DharkStare@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

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%.

[-] Rootiest@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

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[-] starman@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

For me it's:

  • Terminator 3 with 46% audience score and 70% tomatometer
  • Gone in sixty seconds with 25% tomatometer and 77% audience score
[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 10 points 2 years ago

From Paris With Love. It's fast-paced, has funny quotes.

Warcraft - I loved that movie and hoped it would become a new franchise. The weirdest thing is there was a huge anti-campaign, like the "critics" gave it 29%, while audience gave it 76%. I still don't understand what exactly happened here.

[-] Bumblebb@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

Most of the fans had prior experience with the franchise

The movie does not explain at all who sargeras is and he basically shows up randomly. Critics expect a high fantasy plot but it's basically a monster movie in a high fantasy setting with this setup.

I liked it. But it's not what people expect from high fantasy

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[-] 99nights@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

The internet has ruined ratings for me. I don't even read reviews or ratings before watching something and I make my own opinion of it, usually through the trailer. Everyone is a keyboard warrior these days and everyone thinks they're experts.

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[-] CannedTuna@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

XKCD Alt-Text:

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.

[-] Sproux@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago

House of 1000 corpses, 21% on rotten tomatoes and a perfect 10/10 for me, the soundtrack and the visuals are incredible, with super fun villains to match.

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[-] cmhickman358@thelemmy.club 9 points 2 years ago

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

[-] MothBookkeeper@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Guapomole@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

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.

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[-] nac82@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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%

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[-] tomkatt@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] abraxas@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hold My Beer.

Silent Hill sits at 32%. I've watched it tons of times. I understand why it's not popular, in terms of its mediocre raw quality. But I love it unironically and not in an Evil Dead 2 kind of way.

Half the issue with finding movies <50% that I liked is how hard it is to just get a list of movies by year... and yeah, the year range. The Toy is only 3% and I LOVED it growing up, but yeah it breaks the post-2000 rule.

Actually, hell. I apparently only have to jump into superhero movies. I thought Black Adam was the best DC movie we've had... sub-50. I liked Quantumania...sub-50. I enjoyed Shazam 2... sub-50. I REALLY liked Eternals... sub-50. Venom is sub-50 and has an honorary place in my family's marvel marathons... Boy, this is easier than I thought! I must have a terrible sense of taste!

Still going just on recent "rotten". I liked Gray Man... Sub-50. Suicide Squad...they gave it 26%???

Yeah, I'm out :)... And I think ya'll drank my beer.

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[-] Apalacrypto@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

The core with Aaron Eckhartt. I can watch that movie repeatedly and enjoy it every time

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[-] Sputnik34@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I unironically think that Crystal Skull is better than Last Crusade

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