Six Good Movies with Shockingly Low Rotten Tomatoes Scores

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Really, as an adult, the low 'Hook' score blew my mind. Even as a kid I would have thought that the set design and overall aesthetic of the film would have held up. It was one of my favorite movies as a kid and now I'm wondering if it was a nostalgia shade being pulled over my eyes and if it really was as good as I remember, which makes me angry.

@shadow_priest_x What are your thoughts on the movie and why did critics shit on it so badly? I'm almost certain I'd enjoy it if I went back and watched it today.

Also as a movie rater what do you rate 'Hook'? @Dragonlordxxxxx
 
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shadow_priest_x said:
The simple fact of the matter is that a lot of theaters really do take the age requirement seriously. Hell, I still remember trying to go see Hard Target with my friends when I was 12 and not being able to get a ticket because an adult wasn't with us. We had to go see Only the Strong instead.

Video games in the mid-90s were still largely looked at as children's toys. The children of that era had not yet grown up into the adult gamers of today, so of course the movie was made in a way that kids would easily be able to go see it.

Mortal Kombat ended up making $122 million on a (extremely well-utilized) budget of only $18 million. I can guarantee you--yes, I guarantee--that it would not have come close to that box office take if it had been rated R.
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All of this. Our parents generally didn't go through our games and comics with anywhere near the same scrutiny. Movies however they took seriously. And anywhere I've lived they would not let me into R rated movies under age.


I used to buy M rated games all the time, and I was never ever carded or told I needed to bring an adult.
 
Came in here expecting a bunch of GhostsofMarsLongKissGoodnight bullshit, but you're right with those movies.
 
bandicoot said:
It's fucking awful, and it's even worse hearing someone try to shower it with praise, like they planned all along for it to be a campy, self aware sci fi spoof.

It wasn't. They wrote and produced a shit movie, and people saw it while they were still young and thought it was awesome because they had shitty taste, and refuse to realistically re-review it.
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IDC what anyone says, that movie is fucking terrible. "Oh it's trying to be terrible ironically"

{<huh}


Um ok, well good job I guess?
 
Ken Fresno said:
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...and that Hook score is criminal.
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This is some bullshit.
 
Peteyandjia said:
It's one of the worst 'I want to be Quentin Tarantino' movies out there

And there are a lot of them, so that's saying something
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Huh. I never had an inkling of a hint that it was trying to be Tarantino.
 
breadfighter said:
Also as a movie rater what do you rate 'Hook'? @Dragonlordxxxxx
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I think I gave it a 3.5/5 when I first saw it in theaters (that would be roughly a 7.5/10 today). Haven't really watched Hook in a long time, so I don't know how I'd react to it with my current taste/sensibilities.
 
Aegon Spengler said:
I like all those movies

Critics can suck my ass. Who even becomes a critic anyway? How does one sell out to the point where they allow themselves to be such a lowlife, uncreative fuck that all they do is talk shit or heap praise on other people's work for a living.

waste of life imo
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I think if you can't work in the industry but you took all that time to study film your last resort is to be a critic.
 
RollSonnenRoll said:
In a way I kinda get it with Home Alone. If I remove the nostalgia and heartwarming Christmas atmosphere, it is pretty weird that this movie is played straight for an hour and 10 minutes and then out of fucking no where becomes a slapstick living cartoon.

That being said fuck you if you don't like it and if that score doesn't make you feel like a child on Christmas morning then you have no heart


Side note: first time I've listened to that this "holiday season". Feels good man.
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I'd say its somewhat a reflection of when it was released as well, its a classic bit of 80's style family entertainment released just when tastes were starting to move away from that.

You look at say The Last Action Hero(37% at RT) for example and I think it suffered from a similar kind of backlash.
 
Dragonlordxxxxx said:
I think I gave it a 3.5/5 when I first saw it in theaters (that would be roughly a 7.5/10 today). Haven't really watched Hook in a long time, so I don't know how I'd react to it with my current taste/sensibilities.
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Holy shit you saw it in theaters?? Seeing as how you've probably aged into a curmudgeon since then, I suspect the theme of staying young and having fantasy food fights would garner a lower score today from your old decrepit self.
 
Can't say I'd call Mortal Kombat a classic, even on release I viewed it as a bit of a trashy cash in, albeit somewhat better than expected with decent performances from the likes of Lambert.

Best videogame movie is like winning a medal at the special Olympics.
 
breadfighter said:
Holy shit you saw it in theaters?? Seeing as how you've probably aged into a curmudgeon since then, I suspect the theme of staying young and having fantasy food fights would garner a lower score today from your old decrepit self.
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I think it's the opposite. Having kids sorta changed my taste and exposed me to a wide variety of kids shows that I wouldn't normally watch and therefore find myself more tolerable to (and sometimes enjoy) certain aspects of family films or TV shows.
 
shadow_priest_x said:
I think it's worth giving another shot. Then go watch the documentary Overnight, about the implosion of its director Troy Duffy:


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This guy got had the world on a string for like 15 minutes.

He caught the 'next Tarantino' and 'next "IT" white boy from Boston' waves and was able to get a screenwriting deal, directing deal, and record contract, all off of his script and cult of personality. And then he pissed it all away.

And fwiw, Boondocks Saints blows.
 
Zer said:
Boondock Saints is the shit. I don't get the hate at all

Home Alone and Starship Troopers are bonafide classics too
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Space balls is a classic too even if it is cheesy
 
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