I was wondering how many of these “okay” movies aren’t really generally considered as much better movies. It’s … complicated.
Take Silver Streak. 76% RT, 6.9 at IMDb, so definitely a better movie, right? But it’s only 41% at Metacritic (which uses a weighted average).
Then there’s Bubba Ho-Tep. I remember seeing a lot of good press about this when it came out. I thought it was a very good movie. But as per the Wikipedia article on it under Critical reception: <<Metacritic gives it a weighted average rating of 57/100 based on 28 reviews, indicating “mixed or average reviews”.>> What???
More clear is Galaxy Quest. 90% RT, 7.4 IMDb and 67 at Metacritic. This is not merely an “okay” movie.
Big Trouble in Little China ranks nearly as well. I re-watched this earlier in the year and it does hold up. Well, the racism is still there, of course.
I have to go with Weekend at Bernie’s. I’ve watched it over a hundred times, and IMHO it still holds up as a silly, goofy, and just plain fun movie that avoids taking anything seriously. Coming out of the 80s, when it seems that every comedy, whether a movie or TV show, had to have serious parts of the plot in addition to the funny stuff, made it all the better.
Any of you Big Trouble people watch it for the first time as adult? I didn’t, and like Boondock Saints, I thought it was something best appreciated as a 12 year old.
And T2 isn’t an ok movie. It’s on the action movie Mt Rushmore!
Let me put forth Mystery Men. Checking around shows it at RT 60% critics and 57% viewers (where 60% is the “fresh” threshold.) Looks like critics liked it better than audiences. It didn’t do well in the theaters.
I find it ridiculously funny. Best line “I’m a publicist, not a magician.” uttered by Ricky Jay. I laughed out loud in the theater. I was the only one who did. Don’t they know … ?
2nd best bit: “Doc, you’re a genuis!” “That’s what is says on the card.”
I was in the theater watching the movie, “There’s Something About Mary” when Chris Elliot’s character is asked by Ben Stiller how things are going and Elliot answers, “Ah great…each day’s better than the next.”
I think me and maybe two other people laughed (the audience laughed at lots of stuff…that one was a whoosh.)
I had a class teaching Microsoft Office and my final exam had a section on each application, with the Word unit showing a page formatted using MS Word: numbered and bulleted lists, headings, images and captions, fonts, etc. The title of the page was My Favorite Movie:Twister. The text was things like the hammy acting, cheesy dialog, some great music, amazing special effects, etc. I try to watch it once a year.
The bonus credit questions at the end of the exam included What is your instructor’s favorite movie? And of course, almost no one got the right answer or the joke: the answer was in front of them, earlier in the exam!
Yeah. Different (and better I think) than a sleight of hand magician. What Jay did was card manipulation. He really was that good that he could put pretty much any card any where he wanted to in a deck. Amazing.
