I really like the National Treasure movies, Domino, and Silent Hill also. But my pick is* The Book of Henry*. Is it a masterpiece? No. But certainly not worthy of the scornful 22% critics give it.
Another baffling one: Reign of Fire (2002) is at 42% at Rottenttomatoes.
It’s a movie where Christian Bale, Matthew MacConaughey, Isabella Scorupco and Gerard Butler fight dragons, for God’s sake!
Are we going by critics or audience score? I also like National Treasure, but while it’s 46% on the Tomatometer, it has a 76% audience score.
Presumably critic score, since that’s the main score RT uses. And in the example given by XKCD, Terminator Genisys has a 53% audience score.
Speed Racer, 2008 Emile Hirsch version. Highly entertaining from start to finish, great plot, great action, great effects. I just don’t understand how you can watch that movie and not have fun. Somehow only 40% at RT.
I loved What Men Want, the Taraji P. Henson comedy from earlier this year that’s at 44% on the tomatometer and 32% audience score.
NO!
I watch Speed Racer almost annually! This is absolutely a 10/10 movie. Not even joking. smh.
**Small Apartments**released in 2013 is an outstanding movie. I don’t know how rottentomatoes works but the movie has a green splat with 33% and a popcorn box (garbage can?) with 40%
Well, if we’re going by the critic score, then this year’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters was 41% (but 83% with viewers). They knew exactly what movie they wanted to make, and they made it exactly how they wanted, and the result is an excellent specimen of a kaiju movie. It’s not a very good drama or thriller or whatever, but that’s because it wasn’t supposed to be.
Presumably, the high audience score is because most of the people watching a Godzilla movie are there because they want to see a Godzilla movie.
I thought Tron Legacy would count, but it’s at 51%. Nothing else came to mind before reading the thread; I guess I’ll second National Treasure.
I found Vanilla Sky to be plenty interesting.
Sahara. I thought it was very entertaining and had a great soundtrack. Steve Zahn’s Al was hilarious. It’s an incredibly rewatchable movie.
At 14%, 2008’s The Love Guru certainly qualifies as “unpopular”. This movie is an unappreciated laugh riot.
I loved both Speedracer and Justice League.
Hansel & Gretel : Witch Hunters has a measly 14% on Rotten Tomatoes but I thought the f/x were top notch, the story moved along, and it was really fun and campy. Not sure what reviewers were expecting out of it.
I was going to mention The Ninth Configuration because given all the crap it gets on these boards I thought it must be fairly well hated, but…not. The Ninth Configuration - Rotten Tomatoes So instead I will nominate Up in Smoke - Rotten Tomatoes, poor production values and acting but boy is it funny.
Good pick, another one my wife and I liked. I mean, it’s not amazing, but it isn’t the kind of crappy movie you’d expect from the title.
I also liked The Last Witch Hunter. It had 17% RT and 43% Audience Score.
Battle:Los Angeles (36%)
It’s a military-squad-dropped-into-big-trouble movie. With aliens! It has some issues with pacing in the first act, but other than that it’s a really, really good action movie.
56% of the people who bother to go to RT to express their opinion–and given how much incel idiots hated TLJ, I’m not sure I’d take that number as significant. The critics gave it 91% fresh.
I don’t see enough movies to rank on this list, and also I’m in my forties so my watching-shitloads-of-movies days are behind me.
I liked it as well.
I vote for Year One with Jack Black and Michael Cera. Only 23 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, but I liked it. Even went out of my way to get the DVD.