"Poorly rated" films that you just like.

You know, the films that most people claim to hate.

Just as an interesting counterpoint to the other thread.

I like Moulin Rouge.
I have a soft spot for Titanic – the schmaltz just makes it more watchable. 😀
I love Dumb & Dumber.
And The Blair Witch Project isn’t bad either, certainly far more interesting than the likes of Hostel or Saw.

Be honest – what other films generally considered rubbish do you really like?

Adam Sandler films like the waterboy and happy Gilmore…

They are by no means great films but they still get a chuckle out of me.

I don’t like anything that’s shite 😛

Seriously, Near Dark is the first to spring to mind, Blair Witch too, but I do think it’s a good film.

A life less ordinary

Most (but not all) Jason Statham films.

Demolition Man (it was on the other night, and I still think it’s a work of visionary genius).

Commando.

Not sure if it was poorly rated at the time, and I’m not sure if it was intentionally funny but..

Robocop 2..

Quite a lot of these tick the boxes for me

Ah, missed that thread.
Sorry folks.

Mr Deeds and Happy Gilmore are comic genius.

Quite like Splash as well.

HAppy Gilmore is a classic, I’ve never heard otherwise TBH.

Adam Sandler is an incredibly annoying cockbag in every film he stars in.

Ah, missed that thread.
Sorry folks.

Nah, to be fair, it’s two different things. I’ve enjoyed quite a lot of things that are well made but received poor reviews from critics and/or joe public. Definitely not bad movies, but was just surprised when I checked the ratings after I’d watched it to see it had been slated. Quite a lot of British independent movies seem to suffer on IMDB for for example. Presumably because the international element don’t “get it”?

Dude Where’s My Car

+1 for Statham’s stuff too.

Yep Statham here too

First time I saw Blair Witch Project was on a dodgy DVD before it was in the cinema over here. Watched it with a girlfriend in a dark room and we crapped ourselves. It was so original and damn scary. All the hype blew it out of proportion so I don’t think people got it really. Tiny budget, so different from anything else. Anyway, it was great. Haven’t watched it aince though.

Dez,
It was so original and damn scary.

I thought it really worked well, but I only saw it after all the hype.
Wish I’d seen it beforehand.

Anybody catch Monsters when it was on Film4 recently?
Excellent low budget Brit produced sci-fi.
Highly recommended.

Another for a Life Less Ordinary here. Great film, couldn’t believe it when I saw it had 6.something on IMDb.

Hot Tub Time Machine

Hammer Horror 😉

Dude, where’s my car?

and Days of thunder…

Anybody catch Monsters when it was on Film4 recently?
Excellent low budget Brit produced sci-fi.
Highly recommended.

Yeah, I saw it when it came out. Excellent film made on a minuscule budget with impressive special effects produced using little more than a couple of Apple Macs in the directors bedroom.

Yeah I thought Monsters was pretty good as well.

King Kong (remake). Lots to criticise, sure, but plenty to like as well.
Is Dumb and Dumber poorly rated? I went in to review it for a newspaper, expecting to hate it, laughed like a drain.

Pandorum

Dune.

Not a patch on the book, but a wonderful rendition of a Gothic space opera.

I like the chronicles of Riddick for the same reasons.

Happy Gilmore is my go-to film when I just want to aim my eyes at something cheery and not think too much. Always cheers me up – “I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast”.
“You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?”
It’s not Oscar Wilde, but it puts a smile on my fizz. 🙂

Heavens Gate. A disastrous flop.
I love it. The only cowboy film I know of that has roller skating in it.

Pearl Harbour. I hate that I love it….

I did like Titanic, it’s pretty simple- the first 2 hours is showing you things, the last hour is trashing the things you’ve seen. Everything else is ignorable. Just got to watch it for the spectacle really.

Monsters has 72% on Rotten Tomatoes, so not particularly poorly rated (although it has a lower audience rating).

Super troopers

the Monsters director got the Godzilla remake job off the back of it so plenty of the right people liked it.
Nth-ing Statham films (usually) and I liked Prometheus.

Was having this very conversation in the pub last night. I have to agree with loads of the films mentioned above – Happy Gilmore, Dumb and Dumber, Transporter and Crank films.

A couple more to throw into the mix are Nacho Libre and Peewee Herman’s Big Adventure.

Hudson Hawk.

Reminds me of another one – absolutely panned by those people referred to as “the critics”, but when I saw it I thought it was brilliant, an utter classic: Heaven’s Gate.

and I liked Prometheus

Yeah, me too. I think the critics panned it because the expectation was that it was going to be another Ridley Scott alien masterpiece. It wasn’t that but it was still a very good film I thought.

Hudson Hawk

now that’s a lie. no-one likes Hudson Hawk.

I really enjoyed The Expendables and that got panned at the time by most critics!

Another vote for Hudson Hawk here!

Me too also with Life less ordinary. Film cracks me up!