# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/41 "2003-02-27T13:42:29Z")
Death to Smoochie… Lord help me… ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/42 "2003-02-27T14:00:06Z")
I also like **Dutch**. The (now) panned movie that I like is **Jurassic Park** and **The Lost World: Jurassic Park**. What can I say? I love dinosaurs! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/43 "2003-02-27T14:07:16Z")
I’m sure I’ll think of many films that fit this category eventually, but the one that comes to mind now? I thought Sylvester Stallone’s “Oscar” was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/44 "2003-02-27T14:25:14Z")
Forgot about **Dante’s Peak** and **The Last Action Hero**. I paid to see Dante 5 times! hrh ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/45 "2003-02-27T14:30:30Z")
I didn’t even realize that Stallone’s **Oscar** was panned. I _loved_ that movie, but I suppose movie critics have it in for Stallone in general. Along that same line, I don’t think that anything that Norm MacDonald does will ever be be praised by critics. For instance, I _loved_ **Dirty Work** , but it was one of the few movies I liked that got a 0% from Rotten Tomatoes. Norm is a pretty funny guy, but not a box office draw. I also liked **Romeo is Bleeding** , but this got savaged by critics too. It was kind of dark and surreal, which threw off some reviewers, but I thought the story and soundtrack were fantastic. I became a jazz fan because of this movie. Also, **Stargate** was a movie that I liked which scored 0% on Rotten Tomatoes (and I usually agree with these guys!). And, sue me, but **Ace Ventura 2** cracked me up! ---
**Author:** ![Woeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Woeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Woeg)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/46 "2003-02-27T14:32:42Z")
I enjoyed most of the movies that everyone has posted. To add a few others, I also really liked: Mallrats (why this has such a bad rep, I don’t know) Return of the Killer Tomatoes (Really cheesy, but funny) Mr Deeds (Adam Sandler version…I know, I know…shoot me now) ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/47 "2003-02-27T14:54:51Z")
iginally posted by Max Torque \* \*\* 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? \*\* [/QUOTE] I kept asking myself that during the whole movie: “How can I dislike a movie with a raging ship-to-ship cannon battle”? But I managed it easily. I think it had to do with the leaden way every single piece of dialog plunged to the ground like a 24 pound round shot dropped from the mizzen. I will second Return of the Killer Tomatos. Not only because the female lead was incredibly cute, but because the final shaggy dog joke was so horrible: Once she’s been gassed, she’ll never be a real tomato again. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/48 "2003-02-27T15:14:03Z")
\*Would you like to swing on a star? Carry moonbeams home in a jar? And be better off than you are? … You can be better than you are You could be swingin’ on a star\* Another vote for **Hudson Hawk** ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/49 "2003-02-27T15:54:22Z")
If “Three Amigos” wasn’t panned it should have been. (IMHO) On the other hand, just watched the video of “Spies Like Us” and it had some really funny bits. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/50 "2003-02-27T15:54:59Z")
ahem … McHale’s Navy, with Tom Arnold and Bruce Campbell just pit me now. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/51 "2003-02-27T16:06:13Z")
Although it wasn’t panned across the board I notice a distinct hatred for it on this board: I really liked **Titanic** , no so much for the story or anything, but I thought it was a fantastic looking film. And the oily bad-guy is the role Billy Zane was born to play. (Although if memory serves, he already played it in **The Rocketeer**.) I also loved **Stuart Saves his Family** and **North**. I HATED **Hudson Hawk** when it came out (mainly because Sandra Bernhard was in it.) I’d probably like it if I saw it now though. ---
**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, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/52 "2003-02-27T16:19:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by voguevixen \* > \*\*I really liked **Titanic** , no so much for the story or anything, but I thought it was a fantastic looking film. And the oily bad-guy is the role Billy Zane was born to play. (Although if memory serves, he already played it in **The Rocketeer**.) > \*\* Timothy Dalton was the bad guy in the Rocketeer. ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/53 "2003-02-27T16:26:18Z")
**The Avengers** , and not just for Uma Thurman’s outfit. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/54 "2003-02-27T16:26:19Z")
I liked Costner’s **The Postman**. I can’t make up my mind if I like it straight-up or for its campiness, but hardly anyone i know likes it in either of those ways. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/55 "2003-02-27T20:10:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Priceguy \* > Was _Pushing Tin_ panned? Why? It had both John Cusack _and_ Billy Bob Thornton, what’s not to like? It also had Angelina Jolie looking better than she ever had before and ever has since, IMNSHO. ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/56 "2003-02-27T20:14:00Z")
I have a thing for tongue-in-cheek movies - so I will second/third/whatever the following: - \*\* Monkeybone\*\* - \*\* Bedazzled \*\* (yeah, I got a thing for Brendan Fraser) - \*\* Last Action Hero\*\* - \*\* Top Secret\*\* (Val Kilmer before his ego-trip) - \*\* Oscar \*\* One of my personal favorites that noone seems to know about: [Toys](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0105629) - almost TOO whimsical. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/57 "2003-02-27T20:53:55Z")
**Hysterical** (1983). It’s _supposed_ to be a comedy. It stars the Hudson Brothers, if anyone remembers them, and boasts a supporting cast inexplicably rich in star power-- Julie Newmar, Richard Kiel, John Larroquette, and others. Charlie Callas does a cameo as Dracula. No one I’ve ever met has found this movie even the least bit amusing–and yet, I am unaccountably delighted by it. I have no explanation for this. _“Pull your pants up, Fritz.”_ ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/58 "2003-02-27T21:23:09Z")
Put me down for another shameless fan of _Death to Smootchie_ and _Stuart Saves His Family_. I’m not sure that _Pushing Tin_ was panned-I think it just didn’t do that great at the box office. ---
**Author:** ![Erik\_the\_Viking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Erik\_the\_Viking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erik_the_Viking)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/59 "2003-02-27T21:26:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by adamant \* > **Erik the Viking ROCKS!** Why, thank you! Thank you very much! I didn’t realize I’d made such an impression on this board that quickly . . . ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810/60 "2003-02-27T21:40:18Z")
It kind of annoys me sometimes that so many people will condemn a movie as being bad (or praise it as being genius) JUST BECAUSE of its popularity, or because of reviews. or even worse, because of popular belief. There is no shame in liking or disliking a movie that other people say the opposite about. Really. I love _North_, I hate _The Big Lebowski_. Can’t we all just get along? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panned-movies-that-you-actually-like/157810.md?page=4)