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The day after tomorrow is my guilty pleasure.

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Langoliers

Ok just hear me out

It has time travel and it's one of the few adaptations from a Stephen king book

...howard the duck is my standard-bearer for an unconditionally good movie which gets everything right, but it only rates 14% with critics and 38% with audiences: i'm absolutely convinced that a minority of those ratings are from folks who just didn't get it at the time and the majority are folks who've since dogpiled-on because they believe they're supposed think it's bad...

...it's not-at-all a bad movie; it's solidly entertaining from start to finish, masterfully-produced, and i love it more every time i watch it...

Freddy Got Fingered

It's sitting at 11% on Rotten tomatoes

The Fountain is a great movie that you have to watch at least twice. Also watch it stoned for bonus points.

I have no clue how it's sitting at 52% critic score on RT...

Automata 2014

Oblivion 2013

Jupiter Ascending 2015

Evolution 2001

There might be a pattern in there somewhere...

Absurdist and slapstick comedies are often a good answer to this question. I would argue that movies like Step Brothers and Wet Hot American Summer have some comic actors doing some of their best work. But people who aren’t a fan of the genre are going to shit on those movies.

I watch Joe Dirt more times than I like to admit.

Beerfest

Ghost rider bruh

Speed Racer is my favortie movie of all time and i have been made fun of multiple times because of it.

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I wasn't a big fan of 3 or Salvation, so I'm trying to resist getting my hopes up too much for Dark Fate, but it's hard. I'm just a sucker for humans and robots traveling through time to try to drive trucks into each other, apparently.

Battle: Los Angeles (37/48). I think it's a fun take on the "alien invasion of Earth" trope. Maybe that's because I play historical tabletop wargames (think Warhammer 40k, but with for example US paratroopers vs German panzer grenadiers).

Knight and Day is a light feel-good action comedy.

What's up with RT ratings though? A lot of movies I'd deem okayish have ratings < 50%.

Also if I can just flip the question a bit, one movie I didn't expect to love as much as I did (though it got deservedly good tomato ratings) was:

• Prey (2022)

I expected another in a long line of good action movies. Not the best, probably even just mediocre relative to the rest of the collection.

But I've found myself rewatching that one more than any other Alien/Predator movie, it's a truly great film.

One of if not the best Alien/Predator films ever made imo.

For me it's:

• Terminator 3 with 46% audience score and 70% tomatometer
• Gone in sixty seconds with 25% tomatometer and 77% audience score

Out Cold. It's a dumb snowboarding comedy movie, but I think it's dumb in a really funny way. It only has an 8% on rotten tomatoes but I think thats way incorrect.

If you go in expecting stupid humor it's actually got a lot of funny lines and moments.

Not even gonna front, I actually like the Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern movie.

I go with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Just like The Polar Express (which also has not the best rating) I really enjoy this movie around Christmas. Love the exaggerated characters and the absurd story :D

This was way easier than I thought it'd be. I really like the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. It's Rotten Tomatoes score is 44%.

Dude Where's My Car.

Shit has 1 star and only 47% audience score (17% on the other score).

I love the Underworld movies, and was very shocked to see they had less than 40% on rotten tomatoes.

I unabashedly love the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, On Stranger Tides. It's my second favorite after the first. I guess I just never liked the Turner/Swann story lines so ditching them was refreshing. It's just a fun and silly adventure with beautiful visuals and cool supernatural stuff. Only has 57% audience rating but whatever I appreciate it.

I personally like Doom (2015). I understand the gate but I got a special edition dvd

House of 1000 corpses, 21% on rotten tomatoes and a perfect 10/10 for me, the soundtrack and the visuals are incredible, with super fun villains to match.

Cube Zero (2004)

That's right, the prequel to the 1997 horror film Cube. Where people are trapped inside a cube that keeps killing them.

I feel like I'm cheating because it got some positive reviews, just not enough to even have a critic score. Audience score is in the 20's. I don't know why! It's a great follow up. Much better than the sequel, Hypercube. It gives us some much needed backstory on why the cubes exist and what their purpose is.

Æon Flux, from 2005. 9% on RT. I'm not sure if it's nostalgia from seeing it as a teen or if the masses weren't ready for it or what, but it was just so unique and had such a cool vibe.

Dreamcatcher (2003)

The core with Aaron Eckhartt. I can watch that movie repeatedly and enjoy it every time

The internet has ruined ratings for me. I don't even read reviews or ratings before watching something and I make my own opinion of it, usually through the trailer. Everyone is a keyboard warrior these days and everyone thinks they're experts.