# Guilty Pleasures: Movies you like but are/were widely panned as a bad movie

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** movies\
**Created:** [December 11, 2021, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-movies-you-like-but-are-were-widely-panned-as-a-bad-movie/955884 "2021-12-11T13:10:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-movies-you-like-but-are-were-widely-panned-as-a-bad-movie/955884/201 "2021-12-17T23:44:20Z")

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> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> I preferred the version of “Prophesy” that had Talia Shire vs. a mutant bear.

He might have been a little shaggy in that flick, but I wouldn’t call Robert Foxworth a bear. 😉

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-movies-you-like-but-are-were-widely-panned-as-a-bad-movie/955884/204 "2021-12-20T15:57:43Z")

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> [@Whack-a-Mole](#):
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> I think this review of The 13th Warrior sums it up well:

I couldn’t disagree more.

In the first place, changing the title from _Eaters of the Dead_ – which sounds like a zombie flick, not a Beowulf film – to _The 13th Warrior_ clearly gives a better idea of what the film is about (and makes you wonder why the 13th part is important). The film didn’t remove anything relevant to the Beowulf story (it doesn’t have the dwarves in it, but that’s not part of Beowulf). The indications and the stakes seemed perfectly clear to me. The film didn’t emphasize the relationship to Beowulf, but neither does the book (except in that overblown afterword). A great flick, and one of the better beowulf-inspired movies to come out of that Beowulf-saturated period.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2021, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-movies-you-like-but-are-were-widely-panned-as-a-bad-movie/955884/205 "2021-12-21T09:38:23Z")

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Peter Cushing’s two Doctor Who movies.

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**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-pleasures-movies-you-like-but-are-were-widely-panned-as-a-bad-movie/955884/206 "2021-12-29T00:46:21Z")

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I liked that one too.

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