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.
The Fountain is my favorite movie of all time, and it has a 52% critic score on RT. Audience Score is better-ish though at 77%, so maybe it’s just the critics who didn’t get it.
Mine is Stealth from 2005. Not high art by any means, but a fun action movie with some pretty cool special effects. Also written by the guy who wrote Big Trouble in Little China and directed The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension so bonus there.
I fucking love that movie and think it's criminally underrated. It's got everything! Badass pilots, sick planes, sci-fi, massive explosions, existential stakes, quality bad guys, cool shoot-outs, an awesome climax. I even love the music, but I'm sure that's controversial.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets - The opening sequence is pretty amazing actually.
Sex Drive (esp the directors cut)
This is harder than I thought it would be. I was also surprised at the ratings for Mars Attacks and Sex Drive. Mars Attacks is a legit great movie but admittedly very odd. Sex Drive is just stupid fun… Kinda peak teen sex comedy. Not perfect but funny in it’s own way.
Sex Drive Directors cut is ridiculous. Just plain ridiculous. I love the character of Ian’s older brother when he realizes his Judge has been taken and he’s visualizing his younger brother driving around in it eating a jelly donut LOL. Also when he’s just sitting in his driveway depressed that his cars been taken and is wearing his motorcycle helmet for no reason.
And in the end, the big twist about Lance (was this his bros name?) at his family’s Christmas.
Mars Attacks, like most of the options I can l think of, is not post 2000 so it fails requirement 2. I think I’m going to throw out Bulletproof Monk as my unpopular like.
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.
Funny story about that movie. My husband reached about it for weeks. So I got on Facebook and found Seth Rogan’s page and wrote him an email at 3 am drunk ripping him a new one for making that movie because my husband had been relentless in his disappointment. I naturally assumed this would be an account run by a social media team.
It was not. He apologized and friended me. Nicest fucking guy. Got to see a glimpse into his life. He still heavily restricted who could see what he posted, but I still got to see things like wedding photos before they were published in the papers. I held onto my fb account for 2 extra years because I felt shitty about that email.
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.
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
They're definitely fun "I want an excuse to go to the theater" movies. I remember going to 1 through 4, having a good time, but I don't remember a thing about them. In fact, the best part about the Lindsay Ellis videos was watching reviews and going "Oh wait, yeah that did happen didn't it."
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