# "Bad" (or badly reviewed) movies that you love **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 11, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-or-badly-reviewed-movies-that-you-love/563788 "2010-12-11T15:56:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-or-badly-reviewed-movies-that-you-love/563788/1 "2010-12-11T15:56:01Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-or-badly-reviewed-movies-that-you-love/563788/2 "2010-12-11T15:58:29Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-or-badly-reviewed-movies-that-you-love/563788/3 "2010-12-11T16:00:53Z")
**Freddy Got Fingered**. Loved it. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-or-badly-reviewed-movies-that-you-love/563788/4 "2010-12-11T16:09:17Z")
Joe vs the Volcano. Sahara. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-or-badly-reviewed-movies-that-you-love/563788/5 "2010-12-11T16:48:34Z")
**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… ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-or-badly-reviewed-movies-that-you-love/563788/6 "2010-12-11T16:54:44Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > **Freddy Got Fingered**. Loved it. Roger Ebert’s [review](http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20010420/REVIEWS/104200304/1023) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-or-badly-reviewed-movies-that-you-love/563788/7 "2010-12-11T17:00:05Z")
I really liked _Repo: The Genetic Opera_ - I was surprised to see how widely reviled it is. ---
**Author:** ![statsman1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@statsman1982](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statsman1982)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-or-badly-reviewed-movies-that-you-love/563788/8 "2010-12-11T17:05:31Z")
“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. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-or-badly-reviewed-movies-that-you-love/563788/9 "2010-12-11T17:05:38Z")
_Starship Troopers._ ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-or-badly-reviewed-movies-that-you-love/563788/10 "2010-12-11T17:08:36Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-or-badly-reviewed-movies-that-you-love/563788/11 "2010-12-11T17:19:27Z")
**Caligula** ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-or-badly-reviewed-movies-that-you-love/563788/12 "2010-12-11T17:30:49Z")
> [@singular1](#): > > My favorite is Death to Smoochy. 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. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-or-badly-reviewed-movies-that-you-love/563788/13 "2010-12-11T17:37:42Z")
_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). ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-or-badly-reviewed-movies-that-you-love/563788/14 "2010-12-11T18:06:33Z")
> [@fusoya](#): > > **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… 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**. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-or-badly-reviewed-movies-that-you-love/563788/15 "2010-12-11T18:41:33Z")
“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. ---
**Author:** ![RhapsodyInBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RhapsodyInBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RhapsodyInBlue)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-or-badly-reviewed-movies-that-you-love/563788/16 "2010-12-11T19:06:17Z")
_Ishtar_ is hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-or-badly-reviewed-movies-that-you-love/563788/17 "2010-12-11T19:34:48Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-or-badly-reviewed-movies-that-you-love/563788/18 "2010-12-11T19:34:49Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-or-badly-reviewed-movies-that-you-love/563788/19 "2010-12-11T20:33:08Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-or-badly-reviewed-movies-that-you-love/563788/20 "2010-12-11T20:39:30Z")
The first live action Transformers movie. NOT the second. Just the first. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-or-badly-reviewed-movies-that-you-love/563788.md?page=2)