Six Good Movies with Shockingly Low Rotten Tomatoes Scores

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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.

Honestly, putting that bargain bin shit in theaters took some balls. On a technical level, that might be the worst wide theatrical release of all time. I can't think of many others that were that bad on every conceivable level, and had a big marketing campaign put behind them, and was treated like a real Hollywood blockbuster. Even TMNT 3 didn't look that cheap.
 
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.

Pretty much the most damning thing that can possibly be said about a film franchise.
 
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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Now plain zero.
 
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.

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.

Just to be clear, all Rotten Tomatoes does is give a composite score based on all the critical reviews.

Every critical review is separated out into and put in either positive or negative pile. The RT score is the percentage of reviews that were positive.
 
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% ???????

I will never understand why the score for Young Guns 2 is lower than Young Guns. That really felt to me like a CLEAR example of a sequel being better than its predecessor.

Days of Thunder is also regularly underrated by both critics and regular moviegoers for some reason.
 
Honestly, putting that bargain bin shit in theaters took some balls. On a technical level, that might be the worst wide theatrical release of all time. I can't think of many others that were that bad on every conceivable level, and had a big marketing campaign put behind them, and was treated like a real Hollywood blockbuster. Even TMNT 3 didn't look that cheap.

What's especially funny is that for MK: Annihilation they had about $12 million more on the budget than the first film did. And yet, it looks like 10x worse than the first film.
 
Pretty much the most damning thing that can possibly be said about a film franchise.

LOL

I know PWSA gets a lot of shit, but I'm not sure he's made a single movie I outright dislike.

Either I genuinely enjoy them or I at least think there are elements that made them entertaining enough to watch once without getting upset over it. Even Pompeii had its moments.
 
I will never understand why the score for Young Guns 2 is lower than Young Guns. That really felt to me like a CLEAR example of a sequel being better than its predecessor.

Days of Thunder is also regularly underrated by both critics and regular moviegoers for some reason.

I also think Young Guns II is the superior film, and I liked the first one quite a bit.
 
LOL

I know PWSA gets a lot of shit, but I'm not sure he's made a single movie I outright dislike.

Either I genuinely enjoy them or I at least think there are elements that made them entertaining enough to watch once without getting upset over it. Even Pompeii had its moments.

I will admit that I didn't finish Pompeii, but by the time I quit on it, there had yet to be a "moment."
 
I will admit that I didn't finish Pompeii, but by the time I quit on it, there had yet to be a "moment."

I like Kit Harington, so his presence alone made the film watchable. I also thought Keifer Sutherland hamming it up as the villain was pretty entertaining.

Also, while some of the effects are way too green screeney, some of them are also quite good.

It basically tried to be Gladiator meets Dante's Peak. It's not as good as either of those films, and I doubt I'll ever watch it again, but at the same time I didn't hate it.
 
I like Kit Harington, so his presence alone made the film watchable. I also thought Keifer Sutherland hamming it up as the villain was pretty entertaining.

Also, while some of the effects are way too green screeney, some of them are also quite good.

It basically tried to be Gladiator meets Dante's Peak. It's not as good as either of those films, and I doubt I'll ever watch it again, but at the same time I didn't hate it.

Oh, the "inspired by Gladiator" ummmm... *tributary motif* was quite apparent.
 
Step Brothers only got 55%.
Observe and Report only got 50%
Hot Rod only got 40%
Foot Fist Way only got 54%
Stupid critics.
 
Just to be clear, all Rotten Tomatoes does is give a composite score based on all the critical reviews.

Every critical review is separated out into and put in either positive or negative pile. The RT score is the percentage of reviews that were positive.

But don´t they throw their own score in the mix and give more weight to their top critics?
 
I like to kill some of those critics, in the drawing room, with the candlestick
 
My favourite 'bad' movie is The Big Hit (Mark Wahlburg 1998)
Rated 41% on RT but I love it. goofy isn't always a bad thing.
 
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One of my all-time favourite films. I was surprised to see such a split in ratings.
 
My favourite 'bad' movie is The Big Hit (Mark Wahlburg 1998)
Rated 41% on RT but I love it. goofy isn't always a bad thing.

That's a bullshit score. The Big Hit isn't even a "bad" movie.

It's a well-made film that has one of Lou Diamond Phillips's best performances of his career.
 
That's a bullshit score. The Big Hit isn't even a "bad" movie.

It's a well-made film that has one of Lou Diamond Phillips's best performances of his career.

Well, it was decent. Not as good as...

 
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