# Unpopular Positive Movie Opinion **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [August 2, 2019, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-positive-movie-opinion/838082 "2019-08-02T20:04:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-positive-movie-opinion/838082/121 "2019-09-04T19:13:45Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Constantine - not only do I like it, I own it. Yes, this is so not my genre, but I loved this movie. If it’s playing when I’m channel surfing, I’ll often stop to watch. But it bugs the crap out of me that they often cut off that very last scene at the end of the credits. Chaz deserves his due! ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-positive-movie-opinion/838082/122 "2019-09-04T19:17:12Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I saw [EuroTrip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroTrip) for the first time on cable a few months ago, and was surprised how much I liked it. It’s got 47% on Rotten Tomatoes but I thought it was pretty good. This is a good bet to go over 50%. Perhaps a bit ahead of its time. Completely accurate portrayal of American students and European locales. Without any exaggeration, it’s really all you need to know. Nobody need ever leave their own country again! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-positive-movie-opinion/838082/123 "2019-09-04T19:21:17Z")
> [@mack](#): > > Also ‘Bedazzled’ - Brendan Fraser was great in that. (49%) > > [https://youtu.be/TVmCwmC5-kQ](https://youtu.be/TVmCwmC5-kQ) I think sometimes movies that don’t compare favorably with the original will be rated lower than they would have been if \*they \*had been the original. _Bedazzled_ is in this category, as is _Vanilla Sky_ – well, Tom Cruise’s “acting” didn’t help much with the latter. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-positive-movie-opinion/838082/124 "2019-09-04T19:43:28Z")
Started at 50% and went down the list. Post 2000 AD makes it tricky as I would defend Willow, Rooster Cogburn, and Kingpin. For kids movies I would defend Home and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. But for an adult movie: Green Street Hooligans ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-positive-movie-opinion/838082/125 "2019-09-05T01:49:00Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > I think sometimes movies that don’t compare favorably with the original will be rated lower than they would have been if \*they \*had been the original. _Bedazzled_ is in this category… Yeah, that’s me. I love the original with Peter Cook as the devil, with his pal Dudley Moore (they were half of _Beyond The Fringe)._ But I might love it too much… the remake could be half as good and it’d be great! Public Notice: I am NOT giving anyone permission to remake Casablanca or Citizen Kane or _(shudder)_ Harvey. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-positive-movie-opinion/838082/126 "2020-01-14T08:40:21Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > I was sure I would be able to go with the first movie that popped into my head. Who knew _ **Mother!** _ (69% at RT) was understood and enjoyed by so many?So I’ll go with the second movie that occurred to me- _ **Den of Thieves** _ (41%) an underrated heist movie with a nice twist. I liked both of those, although I don’t know how I’d react to _Den of Thieves_ now after seeing the recent _Rick & Morty_ episode that made all heist movies (up to that point a favorite genre of mine) seem silly. > [@erysichthon](#): > > _Red Sparrow_ (45/49 on Rotten Tomatoes). I thought it was terrific, and the bad reviews mystify me. I bought the DVD, and I even read the Red Sparrow novels (there are three of them). I couldn’t abide the Boris & Natasha Russian accents–in fact, I walked out of the theatre five or ten minutes in. > [@eunoia](#): > > Just looked up _Liquid Sky_ which seemed like it might have been handicapped by a similarly limited audience, but it’s at 95% (!). I’m guessing this is from a new generation that discovered it on the Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray reissue in 2017 and does not reflect what 1983 general audiences thought of it. Well, what would matter is what critics thought–and I could imagine them liking it. I saw this over and over on pay cable as a kid (before parents could set a maximum rating, as I do now for my younger kids). Really bizarre but I dug it. > [@Sleel](#): > > [Jennifer’s Body](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1131734/). I just got around to watching it last night. I have a list of recommended/controversial movies that I pull from when I don’t have anything specific I’m looking for, on the increasingly few occasions I go to a rental place.I have no idea why it’s rated as low as it is. While it wasn’t exactly perfect, it’s way better than many films of its kind. It was surprisingly smart and subversive, and both Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried play their characters with far more depth than I expected. You’d look at the cover and think of both of them as “eye candy with a gore topping” but you get actual bloody acting. They actually do better than actors in many higher-rated movies I’ve seen. Most movies like this I would never even think of re-watching because there’s no depth to them, but I honestly think I’d get more out of it a second time.Shitty marketing? A production team that had no idea what kind of movie they were making or how they were supposed to promote it? Too much comedy peanut-butter in the horror chocolate for some people’s taste? Anti-feminist backlash? ¯\_(ツ)\_/¯It’s actually a decent movie. Yeah, I like this movie, and the screenwriter Diablo Cody in general. Have you seen _Young Adult_? > [@Mahaloth](#): > > My wife and I thought Dark Phoenix, the latest X-men movie, was excellent. As did I! Actually, that’s what led me to this thread: I just watched it on Blu-ray and wanted to find a thread for it. But then I got sucked into the cool premise of the question, and made my own list: _Blindness_ (2008): This is made by a generally acclaimed filmmaker (Fernando Meireilles) and it’s not far below 50% at 44%, but all the same I think it’s a great film and it fits the criteria. _Brief Interviews with Hideous Men_ (2009): The “critics consensus” summary says it “tries hard but doesn’t match the depth of the book”. Well, maybe that’s the issue. I haven’t read the book, and just taking it as a film on its own terms, I thought it was amazing. \*Shrink \*(2009): Only 27%, yikes! Beg to differ. _Did You Hear About the Morgans_ (2009): Laugh-out-loud funny. _28 Hotel Rooms_ (2012): Fits a pattern I’ve noticed that American audiences (including critics) are uncomfortable with movies in which protagonists engage in marital infidelity without having “good reasons”, then don’t get caught, don’t fess up, and don’t have a crisis of conscience about it. (Whereas I kind of like that sort of thing, but then I’m proudly dissolute.) _Passengers_ (2016): I’ve talked about this one before. The only big budget, hard sci-fi story (no aliens or FTL travel) I know of made in the 20th century (or maybe even ever!) that is set in the fairly far future. (“The Martian” and “Gravity” are set sometime in the 21st century for sure, but this has to be at least a couple thousand years from now if not quite a bit more, although the Chrysler Building is referenced.) Really a shame it was a critical and box office failure. ☹ \*Downsizing \*(2017): At times, didn’t do as much with the “high concept” premise as I or some others might have wished. But absolutely worth seeing. \*Midway \*(2019): I don’t generally respect this filmmaker and I only went to see this because I had a free pass and it was playing on the most expensive (pseudo-IMAX) screen so it gave me the most bang for my buck. But I was really impressed! The effects and attention to detail were amazing. And even if some of the characters said things that were a little corny, I actually buy that people of their generation and in their position probably \*were \*a little corny. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2021, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-positive-movie-opinion/838082/127 "2021-06-27T17:59:04Z")
_A Thousand Words_ got a 0% critic’s score on Rotten Tomatoes, but I thought it was wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-positive-movie-opinion/838082/128 "2021-06-28T09:28:13Z")
Three that I have caught on TV recently and watched again: _Bad Boys_ (42) _Three Amigos_ (45) _Man On Fire_ (38) and, an almost dishonorable mention for _The Secret Life of Walter Mitty_ (51) which I probably saw for the third time. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-positive-movie-opinion/838082/129 "2021-06-28T17:22:59Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > _Three Amigos_ (45) I’m also a fan of Three Amigos. With the current heat wave, I feel like two of the amigos in this scene: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/L08fJmbHcPo/maxresdefault.jpg "Three Amigos (8/12) Movie CLIP - Lip Balm? (1986) HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L08fJmbHcPo) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-positive-movie-opinion/838082/130 "2021-06-28T19:23:40Z")
_Brimstone_ 2016 43% ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-positive-movie-opinion/838082/131 "2021-06-28T22:16:05Z")
Almost dishonorable mention for Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in the action/comedy _Knight and Day_ (52% critic score, 49% audience score). I love that movie. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-positive-movie-opinion/838082/132 "2021-06-29T00:03:47Z")
With comedies so much more of it is down to personal taste that it’s more difficult for them to get high ratings. I mean, Three Amigos is very unsophisticated humour, but that’s what I want sometimes. When I was a kid my friends and I loved it so much we’d re-enact scenes and do the three amigos routine - the hands across the chest thing finishing in the pelvic thrust. Thanks for the reminder - am going to add it to my watch list. ---
**Author:** ![alovem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-positive-movie-opinion/838082/133 "2021-06-29T10:50:06Z")
The Lovely Bones (2009), with a 32/52 Tomatometer/Audience score. Very well-made film, IMO, depite the ick factor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-positive-movie-opinion/838082.md?page=6)