The list I was looking at: from the Rotten Tomatoes home page, click “DVD” at the top, then in the “DVD finder” pick “0% only” from the “Tomatometer” drop-down (then “GO”), then in the “Browse Movies” box on the next page, “On Video|DVD” then “0% only” and leave the rest alone. That should bring up all the 0% movies.
There are different kinds of “bad” movies: those that are “so bad, they’re good” that make you laugh at the general ineptitude, and the kind of bad movie that’s just boring and asinine. I personally think movies that make you laugh at their silliness are, by definition, better those that are kind of bad movies that are just unpleasant. Individual taste varies on which movies are entertainingly bad and those that are shitty and boring.
The Master of Disguise (2% at Rotten Tomatoes) works in the context of what Dana Carvey intended: an homage to Inspector Clouseau’s disguises that the whole family can watch.
Rotten Tomatoes rates all reviews they think are favorable as “Fresh” and all reviews they deem unfavorable as “Rotten”. Sometimes these are vague - a “Fresh” review might seem like a “Rotten” one depending on the reader. There’s also no difference between a movie an individual reviewer thinks is a 4-star masterpiece, and a serviceable 2 1/2 star flick - both are labeled “Fresh”. The RT rating is simply the ratio of Fresh to Rotten - anything 60% Fresh or higher is labeled “Fresh”.
I agree. The film was pretty good, if not as good as the first and third films (it’s comparable to the second). And hiding in the refrigerator was a clever idea, perfectly in tune with the type of films that inspired it.
The Man Who Loved Women was critically derided because it was marketed as a comedy, but really wasn’t one.
Another movie I liked that is terrible: Judge Dredd.
Two that spring to mind that I enjoyed but nobody else seemed to: I, Robot and Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
Going back a ways, I thought Executive Decision was freaking great. I’d watch that again over, say, Crash, Gladiator, The Hurt Locker, etc.
The movie that leapt to mind for me is Godfather 3. When compared to the sheer genius of the first two, the third movie is lousy. But as a standalone picture, it’s not that bad and certainly not as gawdawful as most would insist it is. It’s by no means a masterpiece, but it doesn’t deserve all the flak it has received over the years. Some of the flak, certainly, but not all.
Well, I guess Mulholland Drive wasn’t a truly bad movie then, because it was mostly technically competent.
But I preferred Plan 9 From Outer Space.
You had the perfect line break and you didn’t call it Attack of the
the Eye Creatures?
Just saw the Luc Besson written Lockout this weekend with Guy Pierce.
It’s been getting a ton of hate on different message boards, but I kinda liked it. It didn’t take itself too seriously, and was a great popcorn delivery system for a couple of hours.
Hellboy 2? Heck, it’s at a very high 87% positive on Rotten Tomatoes. I think most people liked it quite a bit.
For me, those three perfectly describe the third Bourne movie.
Agree here. The only really bad thing about Waterworld was the ending, the last, oh, 30 minutes or so. I thought the beginning of the movie was quite entertaining, exciting, well-filmed, lavish sets, etc.
Unless you had read the book. Judged purely on its own, the movie wasn’t a total stinker. But of the movies-from-book that I’ve seen, it has hands down the biggest gulf between great book and crappy movie.
White Noise currently holds a 9% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with most people citing poor characterization and just straight boredom. I’ll agree that the characters weren’t as good as they could have been, but it’s got a good atmosphere and a really interesting story.
I actually thought that Battlefield Earth was a pretty good fun and light space opera. It’s not that realistic and there are some elements that are just cheesy, but its fun with cool weapons and vehicles.
Stuart Saves his Family (Al Franken’s Stuart Smalley movie) has a 27% rating on RT but I thought it was actually pretty good. Not very funny, but it had a lot of heart and had some good performances in it (especially Vincent D’Onofrio).
Did anyone see the Adam Sandler movie that swept the Razzies? I’ve been tempted to watch it, but most of his flicks suck hard.
I thought I read somewhere that that reviewers themselves picked the Fresh/Rotten designation? I could be wrong.
About 15 years ago I watched North, with Elijah Wood. I really liked it, but I think I understood its tone a lot better than the
reviewers did.
I also liked Nothing But Trouble.
It’s quite possible I wouldn’t like them so much if I watched them again now. Maybe I should find them on DVD.
I dug that movie.