Six Good Movies with Shockingly Low Rotten Tomatoes Scores

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He is a pretty fine director

I would add AvP to that list as well.

I also kind of liked his Three Musketeers movie from a few years ago. Didn't love it, but there was some fun stuff in there.
 
@Mike and @TheRuthlessOne, I really have no business whatsoever doing this but I'm about to watch Mortal Kombat: Annihilation just to confirm that, yes, it is in fact just as terrible as I remember it being.
 
@Mike and @TheRuthlessOne, I really have no business whatsoever doing this but I'm about to watch Mortal Kombat: Annihilation just to confirm that, yes, it is in fact just as terrible as I remember it being.

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I should get super baked one of these days and watch it again. Haven't seen it in about twenty years.


Also I can't fucking believe these movies are over twenty years old now

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@Mike and @TheRuthlessOne, I really have no business whatsoever doing this but I'm about to watch Mortal Kombat: Annihilation just to confirm that, yes, it is in fact just as terrible as I remember it being.

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I should get super baked one of these days and watch it again. Haven't seen it in about twenty years.


Also I can't fucking believe these movies are over twenty years old now

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@Mike and @TheRuthlessOne, I really have no business whatsoever doing this but I'm about to watch Mortal Kombat: Annihilation just to confirm that, yes, it is in fact just as terrible as I remember it being.
I did enjoy the beginning where Cage gets immediately murdered. Did not see that coming when I was younger.
 
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I should get super baked one of these days and watch it again. Haven't seen it in about twenty years.


Also I can't fucking believe these movies are over twenty years old now

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For whatever reason, you've never struck me as a weed smoker.

And yeah, it's pretty crazy that this shit was 20 years ago. Life is going by too damn fast.
 
I did enjoy the beginning where Cage gets immediately murdered. Did not see that coming when I was younger.

So far the only positive I can identify is that the new girl playing Sonya isn't bad to look at.
 
You need to have played the original two mortal kombat games for many many hours to even be able to sit trough the mortal kombat movie.

As a former 8 and 16 bit nerd, i am able to enjoy the movie. But i have no problem with understanding that most people find the movie horrible.

Also.. Rotten tomato is a stupid site anyway. Who cares.
 
Okay @Mike, finished that. It is in fact a piece of shit. I wasn't misremembering.

Just to get them out of the way, the pros basically amount to one fairly good action scene (Sonya and Jax vs Cyrax) and several hot girls. In fact, I have a friend who, ANY TIME this movie is brought up, he makes a point to say that he thinks this bitch:


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Is hotter than Bridgette Wilson:


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I do not agree, but she's not a bad looking girl in her own right.

But yeah, that's pretty much it. One good action sequence and some hotties. That's all the good stuff. The end.

As for the bad stuff, well, it's everything else. Everything else in the movie is bad.

The effects range in quality from good enough to goddamned terrible. I mean, some of it legitimately looks fine and then some of it just looks SO BAD, as if they ran out of money before they could finish the effects for the film.

Also, the costumes look cheap as fuck and legit look like something they picked up at Walgreens during Halloween. Whenever there is a change from the first film in the costume design from the original film, the design in the original film is superior.

Take for instance Sub-Zero, a stone cold killer in the original movie:


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By the time we get to Annihilation, he's lost his mask and he's walking around having conversations with people and shit:


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That's just poor decision making.

I also think that a lot of the problem is that a lot of the stuff from the game just doesn't translate well to film. Take this bitch with four arms, for instance:


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Maybe you can make that work in the game, but it just looks kind of retarded in a movie like this. Same goes for the centaur guy. The thing about the first film is that the characters are clearly fantasy characters, but other than Goro they all still feel relatively grounded in reality. They are basically just humans with special abilities.

Take all of the above, and wrap it up into a story that does not flow and just is not interesting, and what you have is a failure of a movie.

The first film was a cool and fun fantasy twist on the "tournament movie" concept. It was basically Bloodsport or Enter the Dragon, but in the world of Mortal Kombat, and it worked. I think that with this film they didn't think they could just rehash the tournament concept but at the same time they weren't really sure where to go with it. And the end result is this movie, which is unfortunate.

For the record, according to the IMDB trivia, Paul WS Anderson, Robin Shou and game co-creator Ed Boon are all on record as saying they dislike this film. And Anderson has said he wished that he had stayed involved with the franchise so that he could've shepherded it to a better place.
 
Well in Mortal Kombat 3 video game Sub Zero fights without the mask

So thats probably why
 
Well in Mortal Kombat 3 video game Sub Zero fights without the mask

So thats probably why

Well like I said, I think there's a lot of stuff from the games that just doesn't translate well to a movie.

This is a case where maybe a little LESS devotion to the source material would be good.
 
Well like I said, I think there's a lot of stuff from the games that just doesn't translate well to a movie.

This is a case where maybe a little LESS devotion to the source material would be good.

I like it

Makes him more human and not just some zombie
 
I'm kidding

I dont really remember it but I think its probably good

I have mixed emotions about it. I don't think it's great, but I think it's cool for what it is: a series of shorts that "reimagines" the MK story, which sprung out of a fan film the director made to get the attention of Warner Brothers.
 
I don't care for Rotten Tomatoes scores, too many movies I like have low scores and movies I think are shit are rated too high. Not a big fan of this site becoming an authority on movie ratings, I'm tired of hearing the two words whenever the subject of movies comes up. Fuck that website.
 
Some more critics that should eat Tim Sylvia's fight trunks...

Young Guns - 42%
Young Guns 2 - 35%
Youngblood (1986) 38%
The Heavenly Kid (1985) - 25%
Nostradamus (1993) - 43%
Teen Wolf (1985) - 47%
Red Dawn (1984) - 50%
Hoffa (1992) - 52%
Days of Thunder (1990) - 38%
Black Rain (1989) - 52%
Tango and Cash (1989) - 33%
The Mechanic (1972) - 40%
Diggstown (1992) - 54%
Great Expectations (1998) - 38%
Reign of Fire (2002) - 40%
Eddie and the Cruisers (1983) - 33% ???????
 
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Is it me of Rotten tends to rate artsy films a bit higher that mainstream movies? They usually give high score to a bunch of garbage can´t trust that site.
 
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