I’m bewildered by the hatred of this movie.
Here a few lists of the stinkest movies ever made:
Rotten Tomato’s worst of the worst:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides/worst_of_the_worst/
Imdb’s Bottom 100:
If we are not restricting ourselves to movies that came out in the past ten years or so, I liked *The Silver Chalice *which got such terrible reviews the star, Paul Newman, took out an ad in the newspaper apologizing for being in it.
Heh, I don’t like any of the movies on those two lists.
You sure it’s not Rumble in Hong Kong? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124836/
RiHK got 2.9 at imdb.
Both star Jackie Chan, but Rumble in the Bronx is far superior. Also, RiHK co-stars the impeccable detective, Charlie Chin…oh wait.
Agreed.
I loved that movie as a kid, and I think I’d still like it.
I really, really liked One from the Heart. It has great music, a great atmosphere, and I even liked the central romance. I admit I teared up a little when he sang “You Are My Sunshine”.
I liked Wanted enough to buy the DVD. It’s a brain-dead action movie but it’s a fun brain-dead action movie, and Angelina Jolie manages to look hot while eating a burger in a factory cafeteria.
Please don’t kill me. I liked Ishtar, saw it in the cinema way back when, watched it a couple of times on tv.
Yeah, me too, except for the Lea Thompson thing. And I was 39.
Seconding Lady In The Water, The Prophecy and Newsies and adding my own, 13th Warrior. It’s one of my all time favorite movies, and a top pick for “having a bad day/feel sick and want to curl up on the couch with a movie.” I even said the Northman prayer as a mantra while in labor with my Gothlette. A friend of mine also enjoys it and once called into a radio station asking for “You’re favorite movie that everyone hates” and cited it. Don’t get the hate, really.
I don’t think I’ve seen any of imdb’s bottom 100, or at least not more than random snippets. Working upward through RT’s list, the first movie I’ve seen that I genuinely kinda liked was Serving Sara at #62.
I’m yet another fan of Hudson Hawk.
And having taken the time to go through the entire list, Serving Sara is it for me.
I’ve never seen it, but have read a couple of different movie people (I can’t remember if they were critics, actors, directors, or what) who say that Ishtar is a much better movie than is generally thought. I know this is a uselessly vague statement, but that’s all I remember.
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It wasn’t critically panned. I liked it.
Definitely The Prophecy, although I found Christopher Walken lost a lot of his creepy appeal when he opened his mouth and started loudly chewing scenery. Virginia Madsen looks amazing. There was a lot of great humor too for such a dark movie. (“Study your math kids, it’s the key to the universe!”) I loved the beginning where Eric Stoltz comes down to Earth and we see him for a split second, eyeless. Then he blinks and he’s got eyes. Creepy!
I loved The Great White Hype, which I don’t think has ever won any popularity contests.
I will never understand why more people don’t love Harlem Nights. Who can’t love a movie with an exchange like this:
Red Foxx: I love to see shit like that!
Della Reese (!!): You’d love to see anything, you blind muthafucka!
Harlem Nights, according to Wiki, was “savaged” by most critics.
Oh, here’s a cinematic turd in the lovely punchbowl we’ve got here. I loved Alien Vs. Predator. Yes, that right, you heard me. Loved it.
I also enjoyed Terminator 3 and 4.
Star Trek: Insurrection is my favorite of the TNG movies.
I love The Boondock Saints, which critics universally hate. I will love BDS 2, despite the current 22% at RT.
I thought Lady in the Water was interesting, and saw a couple ways to improve it just by trimming a couple of scenes a bit [sometimes a scene that was dragging when shortened can make a huge difference] and I though the internal mythology good. I really do think if magic was in the real world that something like a random group apparently being given D&D type roles in something that wasnt their cultural mythology would be confused about who is actually in which role.
And I ADORE 13th Warrior. I like the way they sort of work in the language learning, and the bit where he jumps the mounted guy is fantastic. I like the way Beowulf is set on the palisade in the final fight, all in all a very entertaining movie. We tend to watch it a lot when there is nothing else on. Excellent popcorn flick.
I also found Death to Smoochy hilarious and thought that Island of Dr. Moreau was trippy good fun.
I thought The Post Man had a lot of potential but failed to deliver. It was a long slow movie that needed a little more action. The ending was disappointing as hell. Instead of the epic battle that had been building up the whole movie, the hero and the villain engage in a wrestling match. The impregnate me because my husband’s sterile subplot was stupid and boring. It was completely unnecessary and made a long slow movie longer and slower. I find it hard to believe that post apocalypse there would be a shortage of orphans that needed adopting.
Popeye - I think the casting is spot-on (especially Robin Williams and Shelley Duval) and the whole look and feel of the town of Sweethaven is perfect. I like that it’s goofy and cartoony, but also a little bit gritty.
Reign of Fire - The second-best movie ever made about dragons (Dragonslayer is #1). The dragon special effects are great and are used judiciously for effect. The whole idea of setting it in the near future instead of a medieval setting was a good choice. The casting is pretty solid–Christian Bale, Gerard Butler, and Isabella Scorupco (one of my favorite Bond girls) are all good. Matthew McConaughey is a little grating, but it’s worth it to see him get eaten by a dragon.
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