I actually like:
- Hackers (31%)
- National Treasure (46%)
- Bandits (64%)
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Hackers, absolute gold! People like to crap all over it because it's not realistic, but the vibe of it really fits the hacking scene. Another similar movie, that has some pretty cool hacking vibe, but people also crap all over is Swordfish, 26% tomatoes, 59% audience.
almost no movie has realistic hacking, but i always thought "Hackers" was pretty spot on (for example with the phone phreaking, social engineering). When i think about movies with unrealistic hacking scenes the following come to mind:
- "The Core" has a scene where "rat" whistles into a mobile phone to get free long distance calls (wrong time period)
- in "Skyfall" they look through a hex dump and find non-hex characters
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Okay, so I hit rotten tomatoes, checked movies that were both critics rotten AND audience rotten, and started perusing titles for stuff I thought rocked.
abraham lincoln: vampire hunter
waterworld
hellboy (how is this in here? I thought this was universally loved)
mars attacks! (56 and 53, I also feel like this shouldn't be on the list. It's too good, and not in a bad way)
x-men origins: wolverine (again, is this not considered awesome? I thought it was great)
daredevil/elektra (I enjoyed both movies)
and now for stuff I've watched at least five times:
the ninth gate
planet of the apes (2001)
avp
prince of persia
green lantern
van helsing
I'm dead serious, I was looking forward to MORE green lantern movies along the lines of that first one. I bought it on amazon having heard nothing about it (I was in a societal black hole for a few years there), watched it, loved it, and was like "sweet, when's the sequel coming out? I wanna see sinestro do his thing...wow, this did not do well. Fuck."
I wasn't super happy with ALL of the writing, but that's comic stuff in general and I thought the whole thing was still quite enjoyable. Like, multiple rewatches enjoyable. Seeing Hal Jordan on screen and having Ryan Reynolds do it was great.
Waterworld is such a great movie with a lot of misguided hate. Many dont like it because of its reputation of being an expensive flop but havnt actually bothered to watch it. I personally love it, I also enjoyed The Postman too which was another unloved Kevin Costner post-apocalypse movie
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Across the Universe
It's under 60% and it's a fucking good Beatles movie.
Every person who likes horror movies can probably name a few examples. Horror movies are somehow really weirdly understood by a lot of people, including critics. Or perhaps I watch them for the wrong reasons, I don't know.
Are you willing to provide a few examples of horror movies that fit the description?
47 Meters Down, A Cure for Wellness, A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 Remake), All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, Blair Witch, Contracted, Creep, Darkness Falls, Devil, Doom, Don't Knock Twice, Eli, Gothika, Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters, ...
There are many more.
I have no idea what is wrong with my brain, but each of these movies generally entertained me much more than movies with a significantly higher rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But critics give movies like Blair Witch 38 % and Avatar 82 %.
Edit: removed Friday the 13th and Halloween The Curse of Michael Myers because they're pre 2000.
I also thought horror would be an easy genre for this, but after scrolling through the last ~50 movies in my watchlist I only managed to find a single one that matched the description: Dark Skies (2013).
Automata 2014
Oblivion 2013
Jupiter Ascending 2015
Evolution 2001
There might be a pattern in there somewhere...
You love bland Sci-Fi
I kinda liked In Time
I didn't know In Time got bad reviews. It wasn't a geeat film, but it was good and had an interesting concept.
me neither, and tbh it doesn't have a critics score on rotten tomatos, but its audience score is at 51%
Uh that's easy. I just needed to lookup M. Night Shyamalan.
Both The Village and Lady in the Water got under 60% (the latter even under 50%). I liked them both.
Lady in the Water indeed felt like a fairy tale. James Newton Howard produced a very fitting and fantastic score for it. I enjoyed that movie and watched it multiple times.
The Village had some genuinely good twist(s) and I found it to be a thrilling watch. The soundtrack (James Newton Howard again) was also remarkable. And I liked the whole premise of the story as well as the moral of the story: you can't run from misery. It's a part of living.
I am not quite sure why Lady in the Water was received so badly. In case of The Village I completely blame marketing though. The trailer(s) made it out to be a horror movie, attracting the wrong audience and then letting them down.
Ghost rider bruh
Tricky. I mean I really like it too, but isn't every good Nic Cage film "so bad it's good"?
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