# Critically Panned Movies That You Love **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 20, 2009, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critically-panned-movies-that-you-love/518264 "2009-11-20T05:58:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critically-panned-movies-that-you-love/518264/101 "2009-11-22T11:57:40Z")
> [@statsman1982](#): > > I love the Finucci Brothers! > > Finuccis–SIT! 🙂 Look .. Little Ant’ny and his imperial … ---
**Author:** ![Neptunian\_Slug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce7236/32.png) [@Neptunian\_Slug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neptunian_Slug)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critically-panned-movies-that-you-love/518264/102 "2009-11-22T14:52:16Z")
The Chronicles of Riddick - I had not seen Pitch Black and didn’t know anything about any other Riddick stuff, but it was fun to watch. I agree with the Jackal. I didn’t see the original before I saw this. The original is very good though. The Saint - I enjoy spy type flicks and it was entertaining for me. I think the critics and everyone else I know panned this one. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critically-panned-movies-that-you-love/518264/103 "2009-11-22T22:25:11Z")
Oh, Og, yes, _Dumb and Dumber_! The scene where the guys are suffering after eating some very, very hot sauce and are trying to “put out the flames” by squeezing ketchup up and catching it in their mouths in midair… jeez, I thought I would die. 😃 _The Matrix Reloaded_ definitely had its moments, and I wouldn’t mind seeing it again, but it fell quite a bit short of the original IMHO, and then the third was just a total mess. ---
**Author:** ![StoutHearted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@StoutHearted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StoutHearted)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critically-panned-movies-that-you-love/518264/104 "2009-11-23T00:07:06Z")
_Johnny Dangerously_ This critic panned \* Johnny Dangerously\* once. Once. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critically-panned-movies-that-you-love/518264/105 "2009-11-23T00:11:58Z")
Bicentennial man ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critically-panned-movies-that-you-love/518264/106 "2009-11-23T01:13:39Z")
> [@Kal](#): > > The feature length pilot for Buck Rogers in the 25th Century was shown in the cinema. The robot, [Twiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twiki), had a head shaped like a bell-end. Thank you! Yes–that is it. I never realized it was a pilot, though. I had a mad crush on Buck. And I remember Twiki’s going “ibby dibby dibby ibby” a lot. I guess I was a 16 year old girl disguising an 8 year old boy. I loved that movie. I will not go back and rewatch it–I don’t want to ruin what little memory I have of it. Re Momma Mia–yes, some of the cast could sing. But the cinematographer or the director had no clue how to film dance sequences or dancers. ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critically-panned-movies-that-you-love/518264/107 "2009-11-23T04:02:29Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > [It](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/intolerable_cruelty/?critic=creamcrop) wasn’t critically panned. I liked it. Wow. I’ve always had the sense that it was considered a disappointment (along with a few other people here, I see). Maybe early reviews were poor and those are the ones that stuck with me. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critically-panned-movies-that-you-love/518264/108 "2009-11-23T04:44:24Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > This is a film I’ll defend up and down. It’s one of me and my wife’s favorite films. We were distraught when the DVD release was re-edited. We’ll keep watching out LaserDisc version with the original edit. Dammit, I want a BluRay disc with the original theatrical cut! I’ve only seen the DVD. How is it different from the theatrical cut? > [@](#): > > Slowly but surely, **Lissener** is wining people over. I remember he predicted that a critical re-evaluation of Showgirls was going to happen and he got a lot of shit here for a long time for saying that, but I’ve noticed it starting to come true. The AV Club has a [mostly positive article on it](http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-new-cult-canon-showgirls,2403/). > [@planetcory](#): > > Wow. I’ve always had the sense that it was considered a disappointment (along with a few other people here, I see). Maybe early reviews were poor and those are the ones that stuck with me. A lot of people say that Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers are the only Coen Brothers movies they don’t like. Actually, I suspect Burn After Reading will go on that list, too. ---
**Author:** ![independentminded](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed8c4c/32.png) [@independentminded](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/independentminded)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critically-panned-movies-that-you-love/518264/109 "2009-11-23T08:10:40Z")
_The Brave One_, imo, definitely falls into this category. Although the overall message that’s conveyed by this particular movie is rather hard to take, I enjoyed it, in sort of a perverse way. ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critically-panned-movies-that-you-love/518264/110 "2009-11-23T10:20:31Z")
_The Cable Guy_ was hysterical and manic and awesome. Never understood the hate that movie got. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critically-panned-movies-that-you-love/518264/111 "2009-11-23T10:26:19Z")
> [@Talon\_Karrde](#): > > A lot of people say that Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers are the only Coen Brothers movies they don’t like. Actually, I suspect Burn After Reading will go on that list, too. **Ladykillers** suffers greatly by comparison with the much-loved-in-Britain original. Those who only know Alec Guinness from Star Wars are encouraged to rent it. And **Harlem Nights** suffered because it wanted desperately to be the black version of **The Sting** , which it didn’t quite manage. What it was instead was an excuse to put a lot of extremely talented and sadly marginalized black comic actors onscreen, which is reason enough to watch it. Man, Della Reese is great. “You shot my pinky toe!” ---
**Author:** ![StoutHearted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@StoutHearted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StoutHearted)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critically-panned-movies-that-you-love/518264/112 "2009-11-23T15:46:59Z")
I also really enjoyed the Tom Hanks version of _Ladykillers_ and will quote it with the BF: “We will have waffles forthwith!” ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critically-panned-movies-that-you-love/518264/113 "2009-11-23T16:03:07Z")
> [@Maiira](#): > > **Newsies**. I know it’s not a good film, but goddamn if I don’t love it to pieces. The songs are catchy and the guys are hot. Also, Christian Bale can do no wrong. I loved Newsies as a kid. I rented it pretty recently, hoping I’d still love it, since you know some stuff just isn’t as good as you remember it. But it WAS. I still love it. From this thread, I also love Death to Smoochy, Hudson Hawk, the Riddick\* movies and Pootie Tang. \*I love Vin Diesel. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critically-panned-movies-that-you-love/518264/114 "2009-11-23T17:36:49Z")
> [@Talon\_Karrde](#): > > A lot of people say that Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers are the only Coen Brothers movies they don’t like. Actually, I suspect Burn After Reading will go on that list, too. Which I also liked. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critically-panned-movies-that-you-love/518264/115 "2009-11-23T18:03:08Z")
About _One From The Heart_ > [@Talon\_Karrde](#): > > I’ve only seen the DVD. How is it different from the theatrical cut? The first 20 minutes or so goes back and forth between the main couple with a series of practical and optical transitions - like a scrim wall, with the lights coming up behind the wall and coming down in front. The new edit broke that up. I think the original beginning is an extra on the DVD. We had grown the love the original so much that, when we saw this new cut in the theater, I actually went out to the lobby, convinced that they had assembled the reels incorrectly. > [@](#): > > I remember he predicted that a critical re-evaluation of Showgirls was going to happen and he got a lot of shit here for a long time for saying that, but I’ve noticed it starting to come true. The AV Club has a [mostly positive article on it](http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-new-cult-canon-showgirls,2403/). I wasn’t around here, but I thought it went much further than getting a lot of shit - I thought he had been banned and was officially prohibited from mentioning the film. > [@](#): > > A lot of people say that Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers are the only Coen Brothers movies they don’t like. Actually, I suspect Burn After Reading will go on that list, too. Really? I enjoyed all of those, _Burn After Reading_ especially. The Coen brothers are lucky in that they don’t have to keep producing critical or commercial successes to keep making movies. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critically-panned-movies-that-you-love/518264/116 "2009-11-23T18:22:07Z")
[Dutch](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dutch/) with Ed O’Neil. (19% on RT). I just do not understand how I’m seeing something totally different in this movie as the rest of the world. It’s not a masterpiece and has its share of cliches but I thought Ed O’Neil gave a truly original performance and there were some great, very heartfelt moments between him and the kid. I thought they had a lot of chemistry together. I can’t think of any other movie where my opinion is so at odds with the reviews I’ve seen. Loved **Joe vs. the Volcano** too. [Gung Ho](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1009058-gung_ho/) too. (43% RT). Yeah, full of 80s cliches, including one of the most formulaic, textbook montages ever, and also the Japanese and American stereotypes are distilled to absurd degrees, but again, great chemistry between Michael Keaton and the Japanese actor (whose name I think I should know, but can’t remember). It had a lot of great moments where these 2 guys find connections despite their cultural differences. I wanted to hear more of their conversations and arguments and a movie that creates characters where I want to hear more is a movie I like. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critically-panned-movies-that-you-love/518264/117 "2009-11-23T18:49:36Z")
> [@StoutHearted](#): > > I also really enjoyed the Tom Hanks version of _Ladykillers_ and will quote it with the BF: “We will have waffles forthwith!” You kids with your hippity hoppity music! ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critically-panned-movies-that-you-love/518264/118 "2009-11-23T19:27:33Z")
> [@torie](#): > > _The Cable Guy_ was hysterical and manic and awesome. Never understood the hate that movie got. I agree 100% with you. It’s my favourite Jim Carey movie. ---
**Author:** ![NJ\_Kef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/258eb7/32.png) [@NJ\_Kef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NJ_Kef)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critically-panned-movies-that-you-love/518264/119 "2009-11-24T00:19:32Z")
**Mahogany.** ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critically-panned-movies-that-you-love/518264/120 "2009-11-24T00:55:32Z")
Seconding Dumb and Dumber and The Last Action Hero. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critically-panned-movies-that-you-love/518264.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critically-panned-movies-that-you-love/518264.md?page=7)