Six Good Movies with Shockingly Low Rotten Tomatoes Scores

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shadow_priest_x said:
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"You son of a bitch"
 
Badger67 said:
To this day i cant sit through 10 minutes of starship troopers.
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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.
 
A lot of people hate HOOK but I always enjoyed that take on it.

It was different than all other versions. People don't like different
 
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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You're totally wrong on that, broseph.

The director was Paul Verhoeven, the same guy who made Robocop. The dude is all about subtext.
 
Ace Ventura has a 46, that's patently absurd

old school has a critic rating of 60 (gtfoh), but the fan rating is closer to IRLw/ an 86
 
I've seen a lot of weird RT scores, but it's still the best. I'm with critics about 80% of the time, and fans the other 20%, when the two disagree.
 
shadow_priest_x said:
You're totally wrong on that, broseph.

The director was Paul Verhoeven, the same guy who made Robocop. The dude is all about subtext.
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That's too bad, RoboCop was actually good. And they did subtext much better in that movie than Starship Troopers ever dreamed of.
 
HereticBD said:
I must admit, I agree with the "Spaceballs" rating. I know it's classic and all, but I really don't think its' comedy style or gags have aged particularly well. I see it on TV all the time, and I'm either bored, or cringing at its lame jokes.
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The naked gun is still hilarious, and much better than spaceballs. Spaceballs should probably be around 70.
 
The last RT score I saw that bothered me was Gangs of new york. I think it's right around 70. Looking at movie a now? It's an 85-90.
 
there's a new Scott Adkins movie, just added to Netflix like two days ago called Savage Dog
starts off kinda bland, b action movie, but in the end it gets about as savage as humanly possible, even moreso than the most recent Rambo or the alluded to PWZ

I'm talking a machete rampage, shotgun to the face of multiple people rampage, grenade rampage, sword through a homies heart, decapition, etc...all in graphic detail

it surprisingly has a 63 on RT right now, but i shit you not the last hour or so are straight up incredible if you just take it for what it is
 
bandicoot said:
That's too bad, RoboCop was actually good. And they did subtext much better in that movie than Starship Troopers ever dreamed of.
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I still cannot believe Paul Verhoeven made both Robocop and Starship Troopers. Starship Troopers is an average film at best for me and I don't get its cult status. Just doesn't seem like a film that deserves it. Robocop however is such an amazing film and I love how it uses its ultraviolence to disguise its satire of the american culture. The commercials in the film are pretty funny and the news segments are hilariously unnerving. Not to mention it gave us one of the greatest villains in that of Clarence Boddicker played by the extremely talent Kurtwood Smith. As well Robocop is my all time favorite film. I've seen too many times to count and memorized every line in the film
 
bortt said:
T.M.N.T (1990) got 40% somehow.

And how can anyone not like Home Alone?
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TMNT is a brilliant movie in its own right. A good portion of the dialogue was way over the heads of the target audience, and the character development of Raphael and his relationship with his family is better emotionality than anything we see in modern comic book adaptations.
 
Gleaming the Cube (or on there, A Brother's Justice, wtf son) has a staggeringly low 29
The Wizard has a 26.....what about my dude Lucas w/ the powerglove tho

cmon bruh
 
bandicoot said:
That's too bad, RoboCop was actually good. And they did subtext much better in that movie than Starship Troopers ever dreamed of.
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I do agree that Robocop is the superior film.

Starship has some interesting stuff in it though. Maybe consider reading some analysis on it and then giving it a rewatch. It could change your perspective.
 
Satanical Eve said:
I still cannot believe Paul Verhoeven made both Robocop and Starship Troopers. Starship Troopers is an average film at best for me and I don't get its cult status. Just doesn't seem like a film that deserves it. Robocop however is such an amazing film and I love how it uses its ultraviolence to disguise its satire of the american culture. The commercials in the film are pretty funny and the news segments are hilariously unnerving. Not to mention it gave us one of the greatest villains in that of Clarence Boddicker played by the extremely talent Kurtwood Smith. As well Robocop is my all time favorite film. I've seen too many times to count and memorized every line in the film
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bitches, leave
 
HunterSdVa29 said:
if you just take it for what it is
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Words of wisdom my man, words of wisdom.

Too often are films getting poor reviews because they don't fall into the 'heart wrenching, slow burning sophisticated drama' subset. Some films, their entire purpose is just some fun. They don't try to be anything else, it's unfair to judge them by metrics they're not for.

For example, you can't judge a Family Movie (something like a pixar or dreamworks animation) and a Horror Movie on the same metrics, they have completely different demos and ultimately different goals.

So why pretentious prudish critics sometimes throw films under the bus for not being The Godfather or Citizen Kane is beyond me. They are capable of judging films differently, they often fawn over Marvels films. But they're far too choosey with what they will or will not give a pass to.
 
speaking of Verhoeven, Total Recall only has an 82...

at first i was like wtf, then i realized half the planet is female and was like oh ya
 
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