I do put some stock in movie reviews, but sometimes a movie comes a long that you just love despite getting poor reviews/bad box office.
My number one movie is “Joe Dirt”. Whenever this movie is on tv (usually TBS) I always watch it. I don’t really think it’s even all THAT particularly funny…Mostly I just think the overall story is sweet and it’s a good movie. The same can be said for a lot of movies out there…which are yours?
Pitch Black did not receive very positive review, nor did its sequel, but I love both of them and consider them nearly perfect.
I also adored both Pirates of the Caribbean sequels, even considering the middle one the best one.
Heck, my wife and I like Daredevil with Ben Affleck.
Freddy Got Fingered. Loved it.
Joe vs the Volcano.
Sahara.
Tommy Boy. Universally panned, but one of the funniest movies ever made. Did I detect a niner in there…you calling from a walkie-talkie? No, it was cordless…
Roger Ebert’s review of this movie is absolutely hilarious. I can’t ever bring myself to see it though.
I really liked “The Postman” with Kevin Costner despite fairly universal derision. Maybe it was just the kind of person I was when I saw it, but it seemed to be effective in what it was trying to do and I never understood the heaps of bile thrown at it.
I really liked Repo: The Genetic Opera - I was surprised to see how widely reviled it is.
“Toys” with Robin Williams. It’s a visually beautiful fantasy film with quirky characters and an interesting allegorical plot. Critics (including Siskel and Ebert) hate it. I watch it anytime I see it on.
“Nothing But Trouble” with Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, and Demi Moore. A great black comedy.
Starship Troopers.
We love Toys too.
My favorite is Death to Smoochy. Now that I think of it, I don’t know why we don’t own both of them…
Caligula
I never understood why this got bad reviews. Saw it when it came out and watched it again just the other day. I laughed my ass off both times.
Stargate. Loathed by Siskel & Ebert, whose opinions I used to put too much stock in; but one of the best treatments of extraterrestrial contact I have seen, especially in its use of language.
ETA: Both Joe Vs. the Volcano & Costner’s The Postman have been favorite movies of mine. Their strengths are in theme more than in execution, sure, but what themes! First Knight, with Richard Gere, Julia Ormond, & Sean Connery, might fall in this category as well (but I think it’s well executed too).
Hmmm, most people I know (who like Chris Farley) thought Tommy Boy was great. The ones everyone hates are Black Sheep and Beverly Hills Ninja.
“A Stranger Among Us” where Melanie Griffith goes underground in the Chasidic community in Brooklyn to solve a murder. Sill don’t like he much but love this movie.
Ishtar is hilarious!
I was going to mention Ishtar Vastly underrated, though a critical reevaluation is going on now that people are looking at the movie and not its price tag.
K-19 didn’t do well, I think because a lot of people were distracted by Harrison Ford’s Russian accent. It didn’t bother me, and I thought the film was excellent. It was about a nuclear submarine undergoing a reactor problem, with some absolutely chilling scenes of men going in to fix the problem knowing that they’d never survive.
Got to be National Treasure. I mentioned it here once before in a thread about movies that you always watch when they come on TV. Yes, it’s a Nick Cage film, and it’s a fairly stupid Nick Cage film that involves conspiracy theories about the Freemasons, but it’s just so much fun.
foolsguinea, I love Stargate too!
The first live action Transformers movie.
NOT the second. Just the first.