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Inspired by the linked XKCD. Using 60% instead of 50% because that's an easy filter to apply on rottentomatoes.

I'll go first: I think "Sherlock Holmes: A game of Shadows" was awesome, from the plot to the characters ,and especially how they used screen-play to highlight how Sherlocks head works in these absurd ways.

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[–] Fazoo@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Karza@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] poggerino@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The Super Mario Bros movie. It was really good but for some reason has a 59% rating on the tomato-meter, despite a 95% audience score. Very strange and it's why I just don't trust Rotten Tomatoes.

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[–] CannedTuna@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

XKCD Alt-Text:

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.

[–] littlecolt@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] wolf@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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...

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[–] samsy@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Across the Universe

It's under 60% and it's a fucking good Beatles movie.

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[–] Nfntordr@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Judge Dredd (1995) Judge as you will :)

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[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would absolutely see all of these again: Austin Powers, Fast and Furious, I Robot, Hotel Transylvania, Pirates of the Caribbean, Police Academy, Spaceballs, Transporter.

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[–] FuglyTheBear@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Automata 2014

Oblivion 2013

Jupiter Ascending 2015

Evolution 2001

There might be a pattern in there somewhere...

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[–] Komplekx@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Guapomole@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] shapis@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Time Traveler's Wife is a good movie.

It's currently rated 38 for critics and 59 for audience.

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[–] starman@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For me it's:

  • Terminator 3 with 46% audience score and 70% tomatometer
  • Gone in sixty seconds with 25% tomatometer and 77% audience score
[–] nac82@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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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[–] Nefara@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] MixedRaceHumanAI@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

2000s Adam Sandler movies. I know there is Punch Drunk Love and Reign Over Me, but his comedy pictures are my go-to's whenever I'm extremely bored. 50 First Dates and Click are my frequents.

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[–] Sproux@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] DharkStare@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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%.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] RoyalDonutForce@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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).

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[–] TheCannonball@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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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[–] MothBookkeeper@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Rootiest@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Dude Where's My Car.

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

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[–] johnthebeboptist@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I was honestly a little shocked to find The Fountain rated so low, Tomatometer (fuck the tomatometer anyway, audience score is where it's usually at) was 52% with scathing reviews, the audience score fortunately remedied the situation with 74% cause I was seriously starting to look for another site.

And for it's opposite: The Blair Witch Project is 86% vs 56%. I haven't seen it in ages, have been planning to, but it was one of my favorite movies for a while.

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[–] abraxas@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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.

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[–] Uno@monyet.cc 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I liked Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019).

I thought it was a fun movie and I liked Rey as a character

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