Name a critically disliked movie that you like anyway

[OmahaBlueDog]

We all have our guilty pleasures. Not all of us like movies just because they receive glowing reviews on "Fresh Aire." Name a movie you like in spite of the fact that you should know better.

I have many. Here is one of them.

[Turbineguy]

1. Prisoner of Zenda

The Peter Seller's version. "The King was never a well man!"

[OmahaBlueDog]

2. There are no Peter Sellers movies that are not worth watching

Even when the movie is bad, he's generally great.

[cdsilv]

3. Most of them....if a critic doesn't like then I usually will. n/t

[CBGLuthier]

49. I don't know that last PP movie, not the clip one but the last he made was painful.

When he dressed up as the Mafia wiseguy I felt a little embarrassed for him.


On the other hand I am delighted to have found an online print of The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu as I did like that odd little film.

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4. Rat Race made me laugh.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. I can't get past the opening credits on that one.

[Initech]

14. We came in the rocket car!

[GoCubsGo]

35. I wanna go to the Barbie Museum!

LOL!!! That WAS a pretty entertaining movie. Got to have some mindless entertainment every so often.

[bluesbassman]

51. You

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Squirell!

I love that movie.

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65. That was an inspired joke

[Honeycombe8]

61. I bought that from a clearance bin. Figured it'd be terrible, but I liked it! And laughed out loud!

It was actually pretty good!

[benld74]

5. Smokie and the Bandit - I've watched in Countless times!

[Archae]

6. I liked the second one better.

The third one was beyond awful, but I loved that trucks/cops brawl.

[OmahaBlueDog]

10. An American Classic

2x Academy Award Winner Sally Field

Jackie Gleason - who never won an emmy, but probably should have for The Honeymooners

The multi-talented Jerry Reed

and, of course, Burt Reynolds.

[MrsBrady]

19. +1

I was about to comment something similar, until I saw your post...

Jerry Reed

[seabeyond]

7. tremor, burbs, independence day, mars attack. nt

[Archae]

8. Star Trek The Motion Picture.

The first Star Trek movie.

I love it.

[pink-o]

11. Malibu's Most Wanted

I fell kinda bad for liking it, and honestly it probably looked a lot better as a tag line than the finished product did. But how can you not crack up at a white ghetto wannabe and 2 African Americans who were clueless about HOW to act ghetto? Especially since Blair Underwood was one of them.

[kentauros]

12. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

To me, this is Golden Age pulp Science Fiction. What could be better?

Now, if it had been steampunk, it would have been a hit. Audiences these days don't seem to care for this kind of science fiction at all. Oil well, their loss.

[GoCubsGo]

36. I really enjoyed that one!

I'm a fan of the Art Deco period, and I think that made it more attractive to me. I also like that it was so hokey.

[FSogol]

60. Same here. n/t

[Initech]

13. The Stupids!!!

[KT2000]

15. King Arthur

Joe vs the Volcano

[Brewinblue]

16. Both Bill & Ted movies.

By far Keaunu Reaves best work. In retrospect, I'm not sure he was acting.

[steve2470]

17. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_wars_episode_i_the_phantom_menace/

[OmahaBlueDog]

25. +1

If you factor out Jar Jar Binks, it's a pretty good movie with a stellar cast.

[Trunk Monkey]

18. I think every movie i ever liked was hated by the critics

But I still love Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

Alan Rickman's Sheriff was hilarious

[yellerpup]

20. "There Will Be Blood"

Won Academy Award. Hated it.

[OmahaBlueDog]

32. It's the source of a running joke in our house

Whenever one of our kids complains we were late picking them up, etc., I yell (a la Daniel Day Lewis) "I've abandoned my child."

My reaction to the final scene was completely inappropriate. When Lewis beats Paul Dano to death with the bowling pin, I wanted to applaud -- having myself felt the desire to beat the guy to death for the entire picture.

[yellerpup]

33. What a great inside joke.

Do the kids get it? By the end, I was ready to see them all die.

[RZM]

47. I think that was a good example of a director and star who are both way over the top

Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day Lewis are both talented. But they also have a tendency to overdo it and take themselves a bit too seriously. Putting them together just didn't work for me.

It wasn't a horrible movie, but I didn't think all of the accolades were deserved.

[yellerpup]

59. I thought over-the-top performances, too.

Especially in the private bowling alley scene.

[Son of Gob]

53. "No Country for Old Men" won the Academy Award that year.

[yellerpup]

58. You're right.

Daniel Day Lewis won the Oscar for his leading role in that movie, but the film did not win the Oscar.

[nuxvomica]

21. The Postman, Lady in the Water, Speed Racer

And quite a few already listed.

[OmahaBlueDog]

29. I'd like to re-cut Speed Racer

I think there's a really good film there, but 10 minutes needs to be trimmed, and I thnk they'd have done better telling the story in sequence (i.e. starting with young Rex's racing career, instead of with flashbacks)

[GoCubsGo]

37. Yep. Too long.

I do, however, like the flashbacks. I think it gives the film a bit more of an edge.

[Son of Gob]

54. I agree with you on The Postman and Lady in the Water

I never saw Speed Racer.

[Tom Ripley]

22. Caligula

it's hilarious

[OmahaBlueDog]

28. I was waiting for someone to say "Showgirls"

..for the same reason.

[Tom Ripley]

34. "Mandingo" is also jaw-droppingly bad in a similar way

[HarveyDarkey]

23. Something Wicked This Way Comes

[OmahaBlueDog]

27. An incredible performance by Jonathan Pryce

And I'm a big Jason Robards fan. Very underrated movie.

[HarveyDarkey]

30. Agreed

I don't understand why it was so universally panned.

[OmahaBlueDog]

31. Critics were down on Disney at the time

Also, the film didn't quite fit nicely into a niche.

[JonLP24]

24. Canadian Bacon

I believe it mostly has negative reviews but I always split at the sides when I see that film.

[kentauros]

38. It's been a while since I've seen it

though I remember liking it, too. Pretty much any movie with John Candy is great!

[Auggie]

26. Godzilla, 1998

[kentauros]

39. 1941

Hell, even the director hates it! Also, the movie in which everyone screams!

[AsahinaKimi]

40. CUTIE HONEY

Funny as hell! Great song by Koda Kumi!!

[Flaxbee]

41. Sahara

But then again, I like almost anything with Steve Zahn in it

[RedStateLiberal]

42. John Carter

I don't think it was received too well by critics and it flopped. I finally saw it last night via Netflix blu-ray and I was pleasently surprised. Yes, it's pretty cheesy but it is based on a novel that's 100 years old. I'm a sci-fi/fantasy geek so it hit on all cylinders for me. It's just a fun movie that reminded me of my childhood and movies like Star Wars and Flash Gordon. I thought it was right up there with Avatar so, if you liked that one, check it out.

[OmahaBlueDog]

55. I liked John Carter

Contrary to popular belief, it's not going to bankrupt the folks at Disney. When overseas gross is factored in, it made about $283M, which means it about broke even on it's $250M budget.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=johncarterofmars.htm

[rppper]

43. Waterworld......

Underrated IMHO, not to mention I've always had a thing for jean triplehorn....

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[Populist_Prole]

44. 'Machete' and 'The Jerky Boys Movie'

Both are basically "so bad, they're good" and laugh at themselves.

[RZM]

48. I watched Machete with the assumption it would be so bad it was good. But I ended up disappointed

I found that it didn't rise above 'so bad, it's still bad.'

The biggest problem was the acting. They had some decent actors in there, but the only one who turned in anything resembling a real performance was Shea Whigham. Perhaps I'm partial because he's on 'Boardwalk Empire,' which is the best show on right now, IMO.

Even if a movie is campy, the actors still have to give you something for it to be fun. Jessica Alba was particularly atrocious. I was glad to see she won the Golden Razzie for that performance (among others).

[Populist_Prole]

50. The acting was supposed to be obvious and campy

It's more of a spoof on exploitation flicks than an exploitation flick.

Note how many times the cast speak lines that serve as de-facto soliloquies, as if "narrating" to point out an obvious point to the audience. It cracked me up.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

45. M Night Shymalan's "The Village"

[protect our future]

67. Me too!

[RFKHumphreyObama]

46. Just thought of another one "Curse of the Cat People" (1944)

Sure, it was not actually a sequel because it has nothing to do with the original movie beyond the use of a few of the characters in the first movie but the whole premise of the movie and the way that it unfolded was quite intriguing, haunting and beautiful. Perhaps it helped that I saw this movie before realizing that it was a sequel. It probably should have been released as a stand-alone movie instead of as a sequel to the first movie but it's still great

Home Alone 2 was another one. Even though it mimicked the first movie almost scene for scene, it was still entertaining and hilarious for me and I still enjoy watching it in reruns. The franchise should have stopped there, though

[RiffRandell]

52. Con-Air.

It got mixed reviews but I love that movie.

[annabanana]

56. (blush) I enjoyed Ishtar. . .

Also Waterworld and The Postman

(there may be something wrong with me)

[2Design]

57. All about Steve - Sandra Bullock

[frogmarch]

62. She Creature

It was originally billed as Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature but Part 2 was never made. I think it should have been. I don’t know if movie critics ever bothered to comment on it, since it was on Cinemax.

I liked it so much that I bought the dvd, and I’m not ashamed of it either. ; -)



Wiki sez:

It is the first in a series of films made for Cinemax paying tribute to the films of American International Pictures. The films in this tribute series reused the titles of old American International Pictures films, but are not remakes of the earlier films.

[T_i_B]

63. Thunderpants

I don't care what the critics say, fart jokes are hilariously funny.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

64. "The Heartbreak Kid" remake with Ben Stiller.

Savaged by critics, found funny by moi. I have an embarrassing weakness for Farrelly Brothers comedies.

[protect our future]

66. The Postman and The Bodyguard

The Postman is one of my favorites of all time. The Bodyguard got low ratings when it first came out, and I couldn't understand why...the music alone was sensational.