# What movies were pretty much regarded as stinkers, but you secretly enjoy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 13, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075 "2012-07-13T02:04:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/161 "2012-07-16T20:15:41Z")
> [@gatorslap](#): > > Dude, Where’s My Car? In the decade or so since I first saw that movie, I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to use the phrase “totally gay nordic dudes” in real life. Still waiting…😃 ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/162 "2012-07-16T21:37:41Z")
[_The Kid & I_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416891/) - I usually hate maudlin, sappy movies, and this one is as sappy as they come, but I still enjoy it. It’s a Tom Arnold vehicle, written by him, about helping a teen with cerebral palsy to realize his dream of being an action star. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/163 "2012-07-16T22:07:22Z")
> [@BlinkingDuck](#): > > Remo Williams: The Adventure begins is one of the finest movies ever made! > > The only reason it has 42% is that women don’t like it…so it goes from 100% to 50%…and 16% of guys are not really guys but some sort of demented, girly ‘men’ and so it goes to 42%. > > However, it really is 100%. Your skill with numbers is impressive! You should become a political commentator! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/164 "2012-07-16T22:08:46Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Who is the better generic Skiffy Channel small town sheriff-Colin Ferguson, or Bruce Boxleitner? Colin Ferguson, hands down. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/165 "2012-07-16T22:10:45Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Any love for _**[Mom and Dad Save the World](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104905/)**_? That movie makes me laugh… thought admittedly it’s been a long long time since I’ve seen it. Yes, hilarious. The hand grenade trap wiping out then entire squad one by one alone had me in stitches. ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/166 "2012-07-16T22:59:34Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Your skill with numbers is impressive! You should become a political commentator! I hope you are serious and not think I made a mistake with numbers… 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 16, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/167 "2012-07-16T23:50:13Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Any love for _**[Mom and Dad Save the World](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104905/)**_? That movie makes me laugh… thought admittedly it’s been a long long time since I’ve seen it. I just recently watched the DVD. It still holds up, if a little slow paced compared to what we’re used to these days. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/168 "2012-07-17T00:32:38Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > I’ve voluntarily watched AI about 7 times. It helps that my daughter likes it too. AI was well reviewed. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/169 "2012-07-17T03:28:20Z")
_Star Trek: The Motion Picture._ I’ll even go as far as to say it’s my second favorite of the Star Trek movies. I’ve never really quite gotten the hate for it, but then again I’m a sucker for these types of slow, ponderous sci-fi epics. Also, I love the gratuitous close-ups of the Enterprise. ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/170 "2012-07-17T05:19:44Z")
I still watch my copy of **Jersey Girl** from time to time. I know Kevin Smith polarizes this board but I genuinely think it’s a solidly entertaining, if not particularly _great_, movie. Affleck is charming as a douchebag-turned-doting father, George Carlin is cranky and hilarious, and there’s a full _Sweeney Todd_ number! Plus, the immortal line: “Mark my words; you’re going to give her the crotch-rot.” I don’t get the hate. _shrug_ Also, it’s been many years since I saw it but I was surprised how much I enjoyed **It’s Pat**. I’d totally watch that again. ---
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/171 "2012-07-17T08:18:01Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > _Star Trek: The Motion Picture._ I’ll even go as far as to say it’s my second favorite of the Star Trek movies. > > I’ve never really quite gotten the hate for it, but then again I’m a sucker for these types of slow, ponderous sci-fi epics. > > Also, I love the gratuitous close-ups of the Enterprise. I liked it ok, but it was disappointing that it was basically “The Changeling” with a bigger budget. A lot of us were hoping that it would have taken us, well, where no episode had gone before. A lot of the hate comes from that. It sure had great music! ---
**Author:** ![Deegeea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Deegeea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deegeea)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/172 "2012-07-17T16:17:23Z")
Aeon Flux - 10% on Rotten Tomatoes - I thought it was great; artistic visual scenes! Plot silly, but more coherent than a lot of higher rated SF. I mean, it was way better than Wanted, which got 71% on RT, in all areas (and which I didn’t like at all) - performance, plot, sci fi elements, action. Grease II - 23% on Rotten Tomatoes - Dumb as rocks, but funny and endearing. I enjoyed it a lot anyway. Watched it over and over on cable at the time, and intermittently ever since. Eddie and the Cruisers - 38% on Rotten Tomatoes - I loved this movie so much when it came out. Another one I watched over and over. Only rock concert I went to in college was the band that did the music for this movie. I also really liked Last Action Hero. I don’t think I even realized it was considered bad; I knew some people made fun of it but that’s common with good movies too 🙂 It reminded me of Purple Rose of Cairo, another movie I really liked 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![what\_do\_I\_type\_here](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a5b964/32.png) [@what\_do\_I\_type\_here](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/what_do_I_type_here)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/173 "2012-07-18T17:21:29Z")
> [@shiftless](#): > > _Idoicracy._ I see what you did there. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/174 "2012-07-19T03:38:47Z")
Practically every movie adjudged a stinker by Time Magazine from the 70s to the 90s earned mega bucks and enjoyed the world over. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/175 "2012-07-19T05:59:07Z")
Tank Girl was trashed by critics, and regularly makes "Worst Comic To Movie Adaptation " lists, but I like it just fine, especially the Liquid Silver scenes. And the soundtrack is fucking awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/176 "2012-07-19T06:09:09Z")
> [@Beastly\_Rotter](#): > > Tank Girl was trashed by critics, and regularly makes "Worst Comic To Movie Adaptation " lists, but I like it just fine, especially the Liquid Silver scenes. And the soundtrack is fucking awesome. God, I _HATED_ that movie. I paid $1 to see it, and walked out during the nude scenes. It was THAT bad. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/177 "2012-07-19T07:22:59Z")
The Last Boy Scout. 44% critic review at Rotten Tomatoes. It is so over the top that it plays out like a parody of action movies. The dialogue is horrible ("It’s one of them new plastic keys… the kind that _shred!_), the characters are all nasty people (even the little girl), it has every cliche in the book… and I love it. Saw it in theaters, have it on VHS, laserdisc, and DVD. The Island. 40% critic review. I think I like it precisely because I had low expectations for it… bought it on DVD for $5 simply to have something to watch on lunch break at work, and I actually enjoyed it. Dracula 2000. 14% critic review. Overly twee story with really obvious religious themes (Mary works at a Virgin Record store… hey, it’s the Virgin Mary!), but it’s an enjoyable romb and has a topless Vitamin C. Madhouse (1991 comedy). 0% critic review. It’s just silly slapstick comedy, kind of like the Tom Hanks movie The Money Pit (47%). I turn my brain off when watching either one of these. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/178 "2012-07-19T07:27:46Z")
> [@Student\_Driver](#): > > The Island. 40% critic review. I think I like it precisely because I had low expectations for it… bought it on DVD for $5 simply to have something to watch on lunch break at work, and I actually enjoyed it. > . I actually like that movie, it is one of the few realistic depictions of cloning in film. ---
**Author:** ![Imago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/85e7bf/32.png) [@Imago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imago)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/179 "2012-07-19T22:31:19Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Oh…related…Constantine. Lousy adaptation of Hellblazer? Most certainly. Bad film in its own right? By no means. Agreed. And I fucking love Idiocracy. Is it really considered a stinker? That makes me terribly sad. And holy crap yes, Boondock Saints. How can anyone not like this movie? Whatever the critics’ greivances are with it, I DON’T GIVE A SHIT! But fuck Season of the Witch. Whatever else that movie was, it was a glaring example of ignorance and religious priviledge. I usually forgive a little sexism, racism, ignorance, priviledge etc in movies just because it’s so prevalent, but seriously, somebody needs to do their fucking research. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075/180 "2012-07-21T19:02:13Z")
_The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen_, mostly because I had fun thinking up ways it could be better. For example, all the characters except Tom Sawyer get to show off what they’re famous for. Why didn’t Tom Sawyer get a chance to con somebody? Or fake his death? My husband (Doper Andy L) pointed out that Tom Sawyer should be substantially older than he’s shown to be. Maybe he’s got a magic portrait hidden away the way Dorian Gray does. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-were-pretty-much-regarded-as-stinkers-but-you-secretly-enjoy/628075.md?page=10)