Unless it’s the word “other”, I’m not sure.
Holy Crap, I can’t believe this movie scored 88/87 on Rotten Tomatoes. I totally second your opinion on this!
I have found The Shawshank Redemption (91% on RT) to be overly dull. I never got what everyone else liked so much about it.
That’s a pretty astonishing score. Who was the bonus reviewer?
Edit: oh, those are two percentages, not a fraction. Never mind!
I have mentioned, before, my contempt for the frozen turd called Snowpiercer.
I was absolutely gobsmacked to see it has a 95% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Inversely, although it doesn’t fit the parameters of the OP, I can’t really understand why Cars 2 gets ragged on so much.
I thought it was an enjoyable and well-made animation. Solid 3 out of 5 I’d say.
I think you’re right about this. Your age at the time of viewing definitely can play a part in whether you like it or hate it.
I saw both Heathers and The Breakfast Club in my teens, and loved them.
Not sure what I’d think of them now.
(Can’t remember how old I was when I first watched Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, but I think I’d still love that movie if I went and watched it again at age 90.)
Not entirely. Jake Sully’s story may have been taken from Call Me Joe but Anderson didn’t write anything that was the equivalent of the Na’vi. Cameron stole that from Dances with Wolves.
I came on this thread to post exactly this.
It got redundant, no character development and frankly I had no sympathy for anyone in it.
Also, the stupidest villans this side of a Storm trooper.
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I have mentioned, before, my contempt for the frozen turd called Snowpiercer.
I was absolutely gobsmacked to see it has a 95% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
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So freaking true. Terrible movie, and I heard so many good things about it.
I liked Alien 3 a lot - it’s my favorite of the series.
Yep, that was it. Totally managed to miss that on several readings. :smack:
I had to read the quotes a couple of times to see it myself, which is how I figured out what you meant :).
I like Alien 3 very much too. It seemed half the viewers were mad because it wasn’t a haunted house story like Alien and the other half was mad because it wasn’t a sci-fi action movie like Aliens.
I think it was stolen by Harry Harrison’s Death World trilogy.
It’s truly amazing just how many different stories Avatar was 100% plagiarized from.
Heh. I thought it was basically Dances with Wolves with blue cat aliens. And yes, I think it sucked.
Speaking of which, I didn’t care for Dances with Wolves either. Sorry, Mr. Director, but I reject your attempt to make me feel guilty about something I had nothing to do with because it happened a hundred years ago.
If there is a movie about stealing plots from other movies, it stole that plot too.
They have both a tomatometer of critics and an audience aggregator.
I think it falls short of the first two movies, but I agree, Alian 3 is a good movie that got some undeserved hate.
Like Scumpup suggests, I can only assume it’s “rotten” rating is due to backlash from fans not getting what they wanted. Perhaps a case of a sequel suffering from having the bar set too high.
But I thought it was a very good movie, both as a sci-fi action horror and as an addition to the series.
Thirteen Ghosts is great, I agree.
I hated Ex Machina. HATED it. Was baffled when it was on a lot of year end best lists because I truly thought it was garbage.
I also didn’t like It Follows or Goodnight Mommy, and think that they both tricked people into thinking they were watching high brow horror instead of boring movies with glaring plot holes.
Chappie, however, was just what I wanted it to be. A silly sci fi shoot 'em up that didn’t aspire to be anything more. I see that it fares better on IMDB than on RT, which makes me feel a little better.