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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.
What? XXX hasn't been mentioned yet?!?
The first part was a brilliant persiflage of all the boring James Bond movies (Pierce Brosnan at that time) with awesome action scenes, a lot of fun and mostly a killer OST. To this day I don't understand that most people didn't get the persiflage part, although the James Bond agent gets killed within the first minutes of the movie...
Audience score or critics score?
Netflix made that movie "Bright" and I thought it was pretty incredible.
Looks like the audience put it at 83% but critics have it as 26%
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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.
...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...
The Time Traveler's Wife is a good movie.
It's currently rated 38 for critics and 59 for audience.
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.
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.
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.
Would absolutely see all of these again: Austin Powers, Fast and Furious, I Robot, Hotel Transylvania, Pirates of the Caribbean, Police Academy, Spaceballs, Transporter.
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:
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.
The 13th Warrior.
Yes, it doesn't follow the book 100%. Yes, there are some goofy or cheesy moments. For a 90s viking adventure though, I think it's fun.
People might take issue with Banderas playing a Muslim, but Spain was once part of the caliphate that conquered northern Africa. Having a viking who speaks Greek, considering the Kievan Rus had explored the Mediterranean and fought for the Byzantines by now, added to the historical aspects of the story.
Even the original manuscripts get a bit fantasy, so I like to think of it as the movie reeled it back to a more historically accurate story over the greater fantasy on the book.
For me it's:
From Paris With Love. It's fast-paced, has funny quotes.
Warcraft - I loved that movie and hoped it would become a new franchise. The weirdest thing is there was a huge anti-campaign, like the "critics" gave it 29%, while audience gave it 76%. I still don't understand what exactly happened here.
Automata 2014
Oblivion 2013
Jupiter Ascending 2015
Evolution 2001
There might be a pattern in there somewhere...
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
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.
I personally like Doom (2015). I understand the hate but I got a special edition dvd
I'm gonna level with ya all
Langoliers
Ok just hear me out
It has time travel and it's one of the few adaptations from a Stephen king book
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.
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%.
Solo (Star Wars) comes close at 69%. It was absolutely a story that didn't need to be told and I really didn't like them trying to explain everything like, "Here's how Han got his trusty gun, here's how Han got the name "Han Solo", here's how..." blah blah blah, like I really didn't need any of that stuff, BUT I actually liked the movie regardless. It was a low-stakes movie that barely had a hint of any Sith or Jedi, it was just underworld business people doing underworld business things, it was great. Young Harrison Ford was always going to be a huge stretch for anyone, but I thought Alden Ehrenreich carried it well, and Paul Bettany was awesome in his role.
Also, Primer only having a 73% is a goddamn travesty.
Speed Racer is my favortie movie of all time and i have been made fun of multiple times because of it.
Hold My Beer.
Silent Hill sits at 32%. I've watched it tons of times. I understand why it's not popular, in terms of its mediocre raw quality. But I love it unironically and not in an Evil Dead 2 kind of way.
Half the issue with finding movies <50% that I liked is how hard it is to just get a list of movies by year... and yeah, the year range. The Toy is only 3% and I LOVED it growing up, but yeah it breaks the post-2000 rule.
Actually, hell. I apparently only have to jump into superhero movies. I thought Black Adam was the best DC movie we've had... sub-50. I liked Quantumania...sub-50. I enjoyed Shazam 2... sub-50. I REALLY liked Eternals... sub-50. Venom is sub-50 and has an honorary place in my family's marvel marathons... Boy, this is easier than I thought! I must have a terrible sense of taste!
Still going just on recent "rotten". I liked Gray Man... Sub-50. Suicide Squad...they gave it 26%???
Yeah, I'm out :)... And I think ya'll drank my beer.
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).
