Well, I’m glad I’m not alone in loving Hudson Hawk, so that’s happy happy. It is one of my favorite movies to put on in the background so I’m just hearing various one-liners, kind of like listening to MST3k while gaming.
My other film of note in the category is The Shadow (1994). It suffers from being really tonally uneven, 90% of the time it is almost too self-aware of being a cheesy movie, but I still love the visuals and enjoy the soundtrack. I probably watch it at least twice a year still.
Citizen Kane, The Godfather and Star Wars. I don’t care what everyone thinks, I like them.
Very edgy of you to admit to liking those movies.
Let’s see…
‘Detroit Rock City’
‘Wayne’s World’
‘The Jerky Boys’
Did you mean Last Action Hero? Another vote for that.
Yes, that was actually a pretty good movie where Rambo is dealing with war trauma and all the violence traces back to assholes who won’t just leave him the hell alone.
D’oh! I knew that!
Was Wayne’s World ever considered a bad movie? I consider it a good movie.
I see that Zorro, The Gay Blade is down at a mere 43% on Rotten Tomatoes; does that mean I can count it, or does George Hamilton earning a Golden Globe nom put it out of the running?
You can count whatever you want…even Casablanca. Just expect some will question whether it was a widely panned movie.
I liked Zorro.
Zorro, The Gay Blade was a great movie.
As others have mentioned, quite a few movies mentioned so far weren’t actually widely panned.
However, Last Action Hero scores a solid 40% on the Tomatometer, and even the Audience Score, which tends to be much higher for movies like this, is only 47%. But I’m thirding (or whatever we’re on now) it as a movie I like. I thought it was a genuinely funny deconstruction of action movie cliches while still being a pretty solid action movie itself, and I thought Schwartzenegger hit just the right balance of funny-Ahnold and serious-action-Arnold.
I remember thinking that it was very funny when I saw it in the early '80s. I haven’t seen it since then, and I’m not sure how well the humor (particularly the gay stereotypes) has aged.
I’ve always enjoyed the Super Mario movie. Hudson Hawk, as well.
And Oscar…
In general, I think that general audiences just don’t like friendly comedies. They want a comedy where something gross happens, someone is picked on, and/or someone is hurt.
I don’t really feel guilty about any of these, for the record.
For my own contribution, Armegeddon, the 1998 Bruce Willis movie. I’m with the audience (73%) rather than the critics (38% Tomatometer). It was big and loud and dumb and fun.
My GF is very picky about movies. Downright snooty about them.
But Armageddon is an admitted guilty pleasure of hers. She loves that movie (she has a few other stupid movies she really likes too).
I think Big Trouble in Little China may have been waaay underrated when it was first released - it was a pastiche of and homage to a genre that barely even existed at the time, wuxia, and of which mainstream American critics and audiences were largely ignorant. I don’t think it did too well at the box office, and I think contemporaneous critics were none too kind. It’s apparently aged into a classic though - 74% Critics/82% Audience on Rotten Tomatoes. Even at that, though, I personally agree it’s underrated - it’s one of my all time favorites.
The Ice Harvest with John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Randy Quaid and Oliver Platt. Rotten Tomato ratings in the 40s, but I liked it well enough to watch it twice.
Holy cow…I had completely forgotten about that movie. In my teens and early twenties this was a go-to comedy for me. I really need to re-watch this. Great movie.
It’s been ages since I watched it, and my opinion might be different now, but I remember really enjoying Oscar with Sylvester Stallone, and being surprised at how many people hated it.
It gets 12% from critics on RT, but 63% from audiences and 6.5/10 on IMDb.
I’ll add my voice to those who like Hudson Hawk and Last Action Hero.
Siskel & Ebert gave it 2 thumbs up calling it original, funny, and clever.
My movie is The Lone Ranger (2013). It got mostly negative reviews and bombed at the box office. But I enjoyed the hell out of it.
Maybe it’s because as a kid in the early 60’s I had the full LR get up with the blue pants/shirt, mask, even pearl gripped cap guns. And I’d watch the show on the local TV station before heading off to school every morning.