# What movie you like has the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 8, 2015, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289 "2015-08-08T02:46:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289/21 "2015-08-08T17:52:02Z")
The lowest rated movie that I like, which I could find with some easy searching, was _[Star Trek: The Motion Picture](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_trek_the_motion_picture)_, at 45% with an audience score of 42%. A woefully underrated film, in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289/22 "2015-08-08T19:16:39Z")
> [@Hiker](#): > > And I seem to be one of the few people who enjoyed Len Wiseman’s remake of **“Total Recall”** (30%). Likewise. It wasn’t anything groundbreaking, but it was perfectly fine and enjoyable. Just not good enough to overcome remake prejudice. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289/23 "2015-08-08T19:50:16Z")
**Ishtar** has a 28% rating, but it’s really a pretty good movie. The main complaint at the time was its price tag, but the first twenty minutes are classic comedy. Also, it’s excellent from the point they get the camel (though the ending seems tacked on and rushed). People don’t seem to understand its deadpan humor, and Paul Williams’s songs are extremely funny (we always quote from “Dangerous Business” with the lyrics, “If you play an an accordion, you can’t get a job in a rock and roll band.”) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289/24 "2015-08-08T20:50:58Z")
Green Lantern’s at 25%, which is ridiculous. It’s got its flaws, but it’s at worst mediocre fluff. Next lowest that I can find is Repo: The Genetic Opera at 35%…it’s an actively GOOD movie…but I can understand how it would score low…gory black comedy rock opera? With Paris Hilton, to boot? Yeah, that’s a bit nichey. In both cases the user scores better reflect my opinion of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289/25 "2015-08-08T21:02:32Z")
_Sucker Punch_ and _Van Helsing_ have already been mentioned. Another movie that I feel is underrated at 23% is _[Push](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10010066-push/?search=push)_. ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289/26 "2015-08-08T21:21:27Z")
I’m pretty confident it’s Last Action Hero 37%. And I stand by liking it, that’s a great movie. Just not for its time perhaps. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2015, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289/27 "2015-08-08T22:20:34Z")
I think I must be the only person in the world who liked _A Thousand Words_ with Eddie Murphy, which got a whopping 0% on RT and was savaged even on TV Tropes. But I don’t care. I thoroughly enjoyed that film, and recommended it to my Blockbuster customers even. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289/28 "2015-08-08T22:56:24Z")
_Oscar_ (Sylvester Stallone), at 13% (though with a 62% audience score), is the lowest I’ve found so far. My wife and I both love it - I think it’s one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen. _My Name Is Nobody_ (Terence Hill) has no tomatometer score (audience score 84%). Tony Anthony’s “Stranger” movies aren’t even listed. ☹ Speaking of Terence Hill, did anybody like _Super Fuzz_? It has a 0% rating (audience score 54%). ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289/29 "2015-08-08T23:39:42Z")
Off the top of my head, it’s probably [_Waterworld_](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/waterworld/?search=waterw), at 42%. It suffered from the same problem as _John Carter_: Too many of the reviewers rated it based on the budget. But personally, I don’t own any stock in any movie production companies, and ticket price doesn’t scale with budget, so I have no idea why I ought to care about that. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289/30 "2015-08-08T23:48:57Z")
The lowest rated movie I could think of is [Hudson Hawk at 24%](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hudson_hawk/), which I remember as a funny, smart musical comedy that everybody made fun of. All other movies that I thought would rank low didn’t. The second runner up was Tank Girl, which I admit was dumb but I have a soft spot for girl action heroes. Which brought me to The Long Kiss Goodnight, which I was sure would score way low as girl action heroes don’t do well in the box office. But that got a 67% critic and 71% audience. Go girl asskickers! As has already been mentioned, is there a way to see a list of lowest rated movies or is guessing which movie you like at looking it up the only way to do this? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2015, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289/31 "2015-08-09T01:36:49Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Are we just supposed to guess what might be low, or is there some way we can look through a reverse-order list or something? I just guessed at some less popular movies I like. I was lucky to hit Hansel and Gretel very quickly. > [@Knorf](#): > > The lowest rated movie that I like, which I could find with some easy searching, was _[Star Trek: The Motion Picture](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_trek_the_motion_picture)_, at 45% with an audience score of 42%. > > A woefully underrated film, in my opinion. It does not have enough reviews on there to count. I said 50 or more reviews. I suspect the score would rise on that movie if we had more reviews. > [@SCAdian](#): > > _Oscar_ (Sylvester Stallone), at 13% (though with a 62% audience score), is the lowest I’ve found so far. 1. I love that movie as well. 2. It _also_ does not have enough reviews to count. I am not sure it’s overall percentage would rise, though. How did that movie get poor reviews? It’s really funny. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2015, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289/32 "2015-08-09T02:04:26Z")
**Howard the Duck** at Tomatometer of 14% and Audience Score of 38% ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2015, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289/33 "2015-08-09T02:33:13Z")
> [@Aquadementia](#): > > **Superman III** is at 26% and has an even worse audience rating. I don’t care. Reeve playing a dark Superman and fighting himself was one of the best things in Superman movies past or present. I’m guessing that’s mine as well, followed by _The Brothers Grimm_ (38%), _TRON: Legacy_ (51%) and _Return to Oz_ (55%). I was expecting the 1980 Flash Gordon movie to be rotten, but apparently it’s well-respected. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2015, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289/34 "2015-08-09T04:16:07Z")
I thought the Sandler-Samberg movie **That’s My Boy** was genuinely pretty funny. It’s running at 20% at Rotten Tomatoes. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2015, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289/35 "2015-08-09T09:53:22Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > The 2011 version of “The Thing,” 35%. Only movie I’ve ever enjoyed under 60 that I can find. Wow. I haven’t seen it in some time and my tastes have surely evolved since high school, but I thought it was pretty awesome. Speaking of which, I liked [Zapped!](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/zapped/?search=zapped), which didn’t fare so well on RT. Again, I was young. And horny. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2015, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289/36 "2015-08-09T10:47:02Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > The lowest rated movie I could think of is [Hudson Hawk at 24%](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hudson_hawk/), which I remember as a funny, smart musical comedy that everybody made fun of. I would not have guessed Hudson Hawk’s score was so low. I thought, like The Last Action Hero, people had reevaluated it over time (then again, The Last Action Hero is another movie with a lower score than I’d assumed). So you can add Hudson Hawk to my list, cause I thought it was pretty great. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2015, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289/37 "2015-08-09T11:28:17Z")
Moonchild writes: \> I haven’t seen it in some time and my tastes have surely evolved since high \> school, but I thought it was pretty awesome. Are you thinking of the 1982 version of this film? RickJay was talking about the 2011 version of it. If the birthdate you give in your public profile is correct, you were in high school when the 1982 version came out. You were born well after the 1951 version came out, so you can’t be referring to that either. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289/38 "2015-08-09T14:58:30Z")
I love me some [_ **Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter** _](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/abraham_lincoln_vampire_hunter/?search=abraham%20lincoln%20vampire). 35%. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289/39 "2015-08-09T15:51:38Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Also, let’s try to find movies that have at least 50 or more reviews. I guess we can find an obscure movie that has only a few reviews and ends up with a 0%. _Star Trek: the Motion Picture_ is not obscure. 33 reviews is not “a few.” > [@Mahaloth](#): > > It does not have enough reviews on there to count. I said 50 or more reviews. “Let’s try” is a rule? This is a contest? ETA: a lot of older movies do not have 50 or more counted reviews. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2015, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289/40 "2015-08-09T16:25:37Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > The Great Gatsby (the recent one) is at 48%. Yeah, it’s not Great Art like the book, but I **liked** it a lot, and thought they did a lot of cool things to translate the look and feel to screen. This is the rating I probably disagree with the most, but I’m also the least surprised about it. Oh, man. I loved it. Haters gonna hate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289.md?page=3)