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Dude Where's My Car.

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

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.

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.

I am proud to say that Young Einstein is my favourite Australian movie of all time.

Critic score or audience score? Because boy, there's a difference

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

I really liked Repo Men 2010. Rotten tomatoes has it at 21%

I'm 24 so my options are slim for "released during my adult life" but I really like The Greatest Showman and it's got a 57%. Yes, it's wildly inaccurate but dang the music and visuals are great.

My favorite movie of all time is A Goofy Movie from 1995 and just eeked out of the running with a 61%. Seriously, the movie is better than you remember it since you start to empathize with the dad as you grow up. I really recommend it.

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

Post-2000? I'd have to say probably Reign of Fire... or Bad Boys II. All time? The Man in the Iron Mask.

Fast X - 57% Momoa is a DELIGHT.
Quantumania - 46% Shame about the Kang problem.
Bullet Train - 54% - You shut your whore mouth!
Uncharted - 40% - Better than it has any right being.
The King's Man - 41% digging the spy comedy but not spy parody genre.

I would have put Shazam and Black Adam, they were enjoyable enough, but the Skittles product placement in Shazam killed it for me, and Black Adam has that whole final act that's completely un-necessary.

Sorted by rotten and newest, some of these justapositions are just hilarious to me. "Into the Deep" and "Out of the Blue" side by side? That's intentional, right?

WTF is with this movie poster? I kind of want to see it now. Description reminds me of Dead Calm with Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt15208692/mediaviewer/rm1511980289/?ref_=tt_ov_i

Holy crap, there's a live action Asterix and Obelisk? And what appears to be the worst iteration of Marmaduke ever invented.

Sad to see so many crappy movies with Bruce Willis. I know they were trying to pad the bank account while they could, but it still seems borderline abusive. :(

Pootie Tang is one of my favorite movies of all time and it’s got a 27% score on Rotten Tomatoes. It was made by Chris Rock and (pre-sex-pervert era) Louis CK and has cameos from tons of comedians. It’s objectively funny people being objectively funny if you ask me. But when it came out, film critics really did not get any of the jokes and thought it was all comedians being “random.”

A fair criticism of it is that it was a comedy sketch stretched way too far. A lot of movies are like that, obviously, but I’ve never seen one just bewilder critics like Pootie Tang. (It came out in 2001 when adults barely used internet, much less fledgling social media. Culture just wasn’t as mixed together back then and “pop” and “urban” music were on separate radio stations with little cross-over. So, I totally understand why Ebert didn’t get the jokes. But if you did or do now, it was a classic.)

National Lampoon’s Van Wilder is my pick. 18% critic rating but 76% audience score.

Dreamcatcher (2003)

I didn’t fully expect Uncut Gems to be so low. A realization I had about myself is I like cheesy jungle/archaeology movies that others may hate.

The live action Super Mario Bros movie.

I know it doesn't meet the "post 2000's" rule, but I saw it for the first time a couple years ago, so I think it still counts. I don't think it was a very good Mario movie since it took A LOT of creative liberties with the source material (tbf, there wasn't a lot to work with in 1993), but as its own thing, I enjoyed it for what it was. Definitely expected a lot worse when going into it.

Hitman

I just like the action, Timothy Olyphant, and like seeing Olga Kurylenko naked.

Van Helsing! 24% Critic Score, 57% Audience Score. Even I cringed rewatching it, but it has a special place in my heart. 🐺

Green Lantern. I think too many people had the expectation of that Green Lantern powers would be something more serious. They were always cartoonish, and Hal Jordan was always a bit of a dick. Ryan Reynolds was probably not the best choice, he's a bit too pretty for the role, but he had the right attitude. Still overall a fun movie.