# Panned Movies that You Actually Like **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810 "2003-02-27T03:39:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/21 "2003-02-27T07:21:22Z")
One of my favorite movies is _Dutch_, starring Ed O’Neill. I saw it in theaters 14 times, which is quite a trick when you realize it only lasted 10 days or so. 🙂 The irony is that I only went to see it because the L.A. Times gave it a good review. Apparently that was the _only_ good review it got. Roger Ebert gave zero stars to _North, Erik the Viking_ and _The Doom Generation_, all of which I liked. Already mentioned (but worth mentioning again): _Joe vs. the Volcano_ and _Last Action Hero_. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/22 "2003-02-27T07:21:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ranchoth \* > \*\*I like David Duchovny’s _Playing God_. > > There, I said it. Tear me apart if you wish, but I still hold to it. \*\* * * * That was a pretty good movie. I also liked _Pushing Tin_. ---
**Author:** ![SadTomato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@SadTomato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SadTomato)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/23 "2003-02-27T07:33:26Z")
Going back a bit here–but **Marooned**. I don’t know if this was panned when it came out, but considering it was savaged by Mystery Science Theater, the popular consensus must be that it’s a dog. I like the film and have never watched MST3K’s version. ---
**Author:** ![beajerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@beajerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beajerry)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/24 "2003-02-27T07:41:10Z")
I liked North. Kill me, now. ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/25 "2003-02-27T07:49:15Z")
Another fan of the new Shaggy and Velma, here. Lillard _is_ Shaggy. Mrs. Skeezix and I nearly had to be physically restrained, during the scene where Shaggy and Scooby are in the van, with smoke billowing out of the sun roof/vent. I thought I ruptured something. **Captain Ron** and **Monkeybone** are both fun flicks, in my eyes, as well. I don’t recall if this was _panned_, or just ignored, at the time, but I still have a big ole’ soft spot for **Tron**. [sub]And I miss my Intellivision, now, too. Discs of Tron, and the Solar Sailer voice-module game sucked up a whole bunch of my free time, years ago.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/26 "2003-02-27T07:53:31Z")
Oh yeah, I forgot **Night of the Comet**. [sub]I know, you wish you could forget it, too.[/sub] And, just to show my masochistic streak, I really dug **Escape From L.A.** , too. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/27 "2003-02-27T07:54:49Z")
Another one for Monkeybone, Hudson Hawk (I LOVE Bruce Willis singing “Swinging on a Star”), and Cabin Boy. And then throw my vote in for **Escape from L.A.** Aside from the surfing scene, I consider it to be an amazingly stylistic movie with some really cool visuals and great characters. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/28 "2003-02-27T08:05:00Z")
Hey, **Skeezix** , shout out for ya: “Daddy would have gotten us Uzis.” ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/29 "2003-02-27T08:15:16Z")
Yep, I kinda liked **Scooby Doo** too. And I own **Kung Pow** and **Daylight** on DVD. My addition to the list: **Cutthroat Island**. It’s just got some of the coolest stuff ever put on film. How can you dislike a movie with a raging ship-to-ship cannon battle? ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/30 "2003-02-27T08:43:43Z")
I like _Waterworld_. There. I said it. I even bought the DVD not long ago. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/31 "2003-02-27T08:58:04Z")
I, too, liked _Death to Smoochie_, _Final Fantasy_, _Stuart Saves his Family_, _Last Action Hero_, and _Cabin Boy_. I loves me some _Cabin Boy_. I’ll add _The Chase_. Charlie Sheen. Henry Rollins, Flea, and wossisname from Red Hot Chili Peppers make cameos. I got a copy of _Lost in Space_ with my DVD player, and it’s not all that bad. The CGI monkey is evil and must die, but it was pretty neat over-all. I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for _Gymkata_. Not a good movie, by any means, but I couldn’t get enough of it when I was twelve. One of the finest karate gymnsat v. mob of crazy people fight scenes in Amercan cinematic history. I’m going to make a prediction here that _Pirates of the Carribean_ is going to be a bad movie that I’ll love. [sub]Zombie pirates! HOW CAN IT MISS![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/32 "2003-02-27T09:06:09Z")
Well, **Treasure Planet** got ignored by audiences and even the reviews suggesting you see it were tinged with distress at so many things you wonder why they recommend it in the end? But I absolutely loved it. It was funny. It was moving. It was very inventive, I loved the way they combined ships with sails with space travel. Morph was perfect. I generalize it that they were looking forward to ravaging this unconventional setting for **Treasure Island**. I feel so lucky I got to see it in an IMAX and I am waiting desperately for the DVD. Come on ABC, Jim at the Naval Academy would be a great series for prime time in the same vein as Star Trek. I also really enjoyed **Hudson Hawk** and often sing that song. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/33 "2003-02-27T09:08:26Z")
Has nobody in Hollywood ever noticed that pirate movies just haven’t made it since Captain Blood? They seem to try every few years. It’s kind of depressing. I suspect a conspiracy among overworked and underappreciated script readers, but that’s probably just paranoia on my part. I’m not sure if these qualify, but I’d like to get a mention in: “Up the Creek” “Top Secret” ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lodoen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@Jeff\_Lodoen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lodoen)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/34 "2003-02-27T11:04:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SadTomato \* > \*\*Going back a bit here–but **Marooned**. > > I don’t know if this was panned when it came out, but considering it was savaged by Mystery Science Theater, the popular consensus must be that it’s a dog. > > I like the film and have never watched MST3K’s version. \*\* They used a recut version from Film Ventures International called “Space Travelers”. Chunks of plot are missing. It was not savaged they just ‘riffed’ on the actors and situations. It’s the best known movie ever on there by far. For the OP… UHF. ---
**Author:** ![False\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@False\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/False_God)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/35 "2003-02-27T11:15:19Z")
_Spies Like Us_, and it’s gotten funnier since I’ve been working for the government. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/36 "2003-02-27T11:20:02Z")
I’ll second _North_ (Elijah Wood rules the world, and Bruce Willis is his second-in-command), _Last Action Hero_, _Waterworld_ and _Pushing Tin_. Was _Pushing Tin_ panned? Why? It had both John Cusack _and_ Billy Bob Thornton, what’s not to like? ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/37 "2003-02-27T12:01:04Z")
The aforementioned Joe Vs The Volcano Clean Slate: for some reason I just found it very funny Dante’s Peak: I’m a sucker for a disaster film Armageddon: sure, the plot was idiotic, the science was made up and the schmaltz was palpable, but there was something about that one guy’s kid finding out who he was that made me like the movie. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2003, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/38 "2003-02-27T12:23:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tangent \* > \*\*The Robin Williams thread made me think of this one: > > _Popeye_ > > I love this movie! I think it captures the spirit of the cartoons as well as a live-action feature-length movie could while still having a plot. The actors were well-cast, the island village (Sweethaven) was perfect. I even liked the songs! Lots of funny little gags, too. (the picture of “Me Pappy”) I’m going to check right now to see if it’s out on DVD… \*\* I liked _Popeye_ too, although the songs drag something fierce. And face it, Shelley Duvall was _born_ to play Olive Oyl. Last time I watched it I noticed Dennis Franz in a bit part as well. I dunno if this was panned, but I’ll mention _Krull_. Apart from a silly ending, I really enjoyed this film, especially the special effects and the bizarre alien castle. Liam Neeson has a minor role, as does Todd Carty (from _Eastenders_). And I own _Death to Smoochy_ on DVD. :o ---
**Author:** ![adamant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@adamant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adamant)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/39 "2003-02-27T12:53:19Z")
Erik the Viking ROCKS! The scene when the horn of the gods or whatever is finally correctly “blown” was a classic all by itself, plus the great scene when the king keeps refusing to believe the island is sinking into the sea was wonderful. Also “Baron von Munchehousen” was fantastic. Watching this again I realized how much went into this fairy tale story, both in humour (Robin Williams in particular was really funny) and pathos. The death scenes were pretty fierce. I also enjoyed Waterworld, The Postman, Dutch, Spies like us to mention some already brought up. Has anyone seen the comedy “Once upon a Crime” - it got panned but I thought it was hilarious (especially John Candy as “Augie Morosco” and all the pointless lying to the police by every character (and the police guy pointing out the proof of the lie immediately thereafter). Another strange comedy with Ed Oneil was “Disorganized Crime” - again not much at the box office but me and my crowd loved it - the scene where he loses his clothes crossing the river was classic! ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/40 "2003-02-27T13:35:41Z")
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