"Poorly rated" films that you just like.

John Carter

Troll Hunter

Two movies that shouldn’t work but positively excel in entertaining me are:

Con Air
Pitch Black

One that would probably fit the original question perfectly:

The Langoliers

The most recent Judge Dredd.

Another Hudson hawk admirer here too.

Oooh!

Howard, the Duck.

Universally panned, and it’s a fun little movie.

Blade I II III – etc etc and most Vampire movies before all the teen nonsense took over which I refuse to watch (in case I like them..)
Wasn’t aware that Life Less Ordinary was “poor”
Most superhero movies!

Dude, where’s my car is a masterpiece so it doesn’t count for this thread.

Hackers[/url] is my choice. Just strikes a chord for me though not really sure why as I was never a wannabe hacker and given that I work in IT, the computery bits of it are pretty laughable.

Do the computers make that bip bip bippity bip noise when characters appear on screen? If so – classic! 🙂

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

A work of genius.

Jeremiah Johnson. Regarded as a low budget flop is my favorite film.

Lost in Translation – although i think you need to be of a certain age/life experience to really get it.

Escape from New York.

DezB – Member
Do the computers make that bip bip bippity bip noise when characters appear on screen? If so – classic!

No but they have full on VR type interfaces when dealing with file systems (on the Gibson!)

Starship Troopers 😀

Top Gun: lets be honest its pretty ludicrous but I still love it.

Charlie’s Angels: Its nonsense but has Cameron Diaz in tiny pants

Starship troopers is also very knowingly ‘bad’ though, isn’t it? Wasn’t there some fuss at the studio when they realised that the standard gungho shoot em up they’d paid for was actually subversive political satire?

“Cockneys vs Zombies”.

Rioting Milwall and West Ham zombies fighting.

“Even when they’re dead they still hate each other!”

Richard Briers as a zimmer-frame pensioner finding it hard to get up enough speed to escape a zombie attack.

Hilarious.

Taxi – (The original french one from ’98, not the godawful one with queen latiffah)

Very very silly but has some really good car chases and Marion Cotillard in the nip

Starship troopers is also very knowingly ‘bad’ though, isn’t it?

I don’t know of anyone who doesn’t like Starship Troopers. Hmm, I’ll rephrase that – Everyone likes Starship Troopers!

Hackers is my choice. Just strikes a chord for me

We’ll have to agree to disagree on that one. I thought it was a bloody awful movie, the only way they could’ve made it worse would’ve been to not have Angelina Jolie take her clothes off.

Isn’t that the whole point of this thread, Cougar – if everyone agreed then there wouldn’t be any films that meet the thread criteria…

Outland
Miami Vice (remake)
Cannonball Run

Clubber, don’t you be coming here with your logic and sensible comments.

Sorry Mr Mod, won’t happen again.

The original Judge Dredd movie.

As mentioned, Demolition man plus:

Dog Soldiers – Sean Pertwee is piss funny in it.

“How you feeling sarge?”

“Peachy. just f$%^$&£*£ peachy” (as his inside are put together with superglue).

The one where Gerard “Man” Butler murders people.

Edit: Cause someone killed his wife or something.

Dune for me too, I get grief whenever I fess up to it.

+1 for Howard the Duck. Years since I’ve that film, most likely on video & under the influence.

Dog soldiers, good call 🙂

Although not the best film to start thinking about on a solo night ride in the deep dark woods 😉

Starship Troopers

Doomsday

How high… It’s everything I hate in a film, but when I watched it it cracked me up..
Starship troopers is superb..

Taxi is NOT a bad film!

How about.. Independence Day?

Poorly rated at the time

Life less ordinary ….brilliant sublime and wonderful

its a wonderful life……James Stewart….not critically well received saved by TV

transformers …….sorry so loud I can hear them

Constantine//////love the feel and ambiance plus Tilda Swinton role

League of Extraordinary gentleman……Yesss Mr Connery

George of the Jungle…so bad but was on loop for so long in the house brilliant

The Escapist….brit prison breakout…….Brian Cox at his best.

A Team … Liam Nesson Bradley Cooper and star of the show Sharlto Copley just silliness

Reign of fire……………dragons London a bald Matthew Mc

Sahara………..no idea why really

The 13th Warrior Antinio Banderas as an arab with Vikings…..yep

King Arthur…Clive OWen and Ray Winstone….lots going for it especially a great cast

Event Horizon….epic ideas

Taxi is NOT a bad film!

I know, but it has had it’s fair share of people giving it a poor rating

The 13th Warrior Antinio Banderas as an arab with Vikings

That’s a great film. Excellent Michael Crichton book too (Eaters of the Dead is the book title).

some weird definitions of poorly rated on here – the Blade trilogy, Troll Hunter, Con Air, Pitch Black, Event Horizon, Blair Witch… Seriously?

As youre all playing it so safe, I’ll throw out…

Sucker Punch!

Absolutely panned by the critics, lousy scores on metacritic, rotten tomatoes etc, but I really enjoyed it, and its a whole lot more clever than many people (haters or fans) think. Munqe-chick also enjoyed it, she wasnt particularly bothered by the outfits but wasn’t a fan of the computer-game-style fantasy segments but loved the intro and all the hospital-set stuff.

Denis Quaid in Savior.

Agree with Suckerpunch. Loved it. Also watched Movie 43 yesterday, was very wtf, but had us laughing.

Universal Soldier Regeneration. Great video style fight scenes: