What are the low-rated movies you enjoyed the most or think should be rated much higher?
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I'm asking because an IMDb rating cutoff above 6.5+-5 seems to generally do a good job making sure I don't regret watching something. But what am I missing among the sub-6? I know they exist, but it is hard to select among seas of...bad movies.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Hudson Hawk - 5.7 - It's so dumb, but I love it. Richard E. Grant and Sandra Bernhard chewing the scenery with abandon steal every scene they're in.
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I wanted to recommend The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, but it's sitting at 6.2 on IMDB, which is higher than I expected. I'm still going to, because it's great. Jeff Goldblum plays the most normal person in the film.
It's BigbooTAY!
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Freddy Got Fingered! The joke is on the studio and audience, and most did not want to laugh along...
wrote last edited by [email protected]I laughed harder at that movie than probably any other. The Redlettermedia Re:watch of it is great as well.
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I think ratings are stupid tbh.
I totally agree when it comes to what a single person rates it as (single critic reviews etc). However, when reviews are added together, it gives a idea on what the general public thinks about it. That does not mean you have to agree.
I remember when The 13th Warrior with Antonio Banderas was released, it was slaughtered by critics, but the general public loved it.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Maybe if those ratings came from a movie theater exit poll, then I’d agree. Instead it’s like most other self reported ratings online. Essentially no one enters their rating except for: the people who really liked it, people who really didn’t like it, wannabe critics, weirdos who like to spend their time rating things despite never having seen them, and bots. The vast majority of people don’t rate movies because they don’t care enough. In my opinion ratings are just easily manipulated data that often exists just to reinforce conformity of opinion.
If you look at the ratings for the first “Kissing Booth” movie, there’s tons of reviews that essentially say the lead actress wasn’t hot enough. Then you consider that despite the first movie being rated terribly, the company thought it was actually well enough received for them to make two more movies.
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Only 1 of 2 movies I have ever walked out of in the theatres. It’s so bad.
What was the other movie?
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What was the other movie?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Everything everywhere all at once
E: and I nearly walked out of the first LOTR in theatres but pushed through.
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I'm asking because an IMDb rating cutoff above 6.5+-5 seems to generally do a good job making sure I don't regret watching something. But what am I missing among the sub-6? I know they exist, but it is hard to select among seas of...bad movies.
Anaconda has like a 4. Shits at least a 6. Opened doors for a lot of actors and was pretty damn decent.
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In the army now!
5.0. Pauly Shore, Andy Dick, David Alan Greer, Lori Petty
Oh man, watched son in law recently, was funny as shit. He breaks character sometimes in the dorm rooms and is funny as hell.
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Everything everywhere all at once
E: and I nearly walked out of the first LOTR in theatres but pushed through.
To couldn't get into this either. Kung pow was good though, but I saw it as a kid.
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To couldn't get into this either. Kung pow was good though, but I saw it as a kid.
I was in high school when Kung Pow was in theatres and I went with my friends. Half way through I just got up and waited outside for them. It just wasn’t for me.
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My partner talks about that movie on the regular. She loves it and finds everything quite charming and carefree.
I'm so clueless I'm not even sure I'm thinking of the right movie
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I'm asking because an IMDb rating cutoff above 6.5+-5 seems to generally do a good job making sure I don't regret watching something. But what am I missing among the sub-6? I know they exist, but it is hard to select among seas of...bad movies.
The sparkly vampire movies. I watched them with my daughter and loved them. She made fun of them and critiqued everything.i it at wanted to find out what happened next.
Imprinted on a child and now life long lovers? I'm in, where does this wild ride end?
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I spy a fellow MST3K/RLM fan!
I'm going to throw in Time Chasers and Manos: The Hands of Fate, if I may...
Another Castleton alum I see
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Went to a showing of Cade: The Tortured Crossing and it changed my life.
Hell yeah! Any Wiseau/Breen/YKKim screening is always an incredible time.
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Those just reminded me of another one I like and has a sub 6 score: Beverly Hills Ninja
Added to the queue, thanks!
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The brother’s storyline is ridiculous and ruins the movie.
He' plays a type of person that happens in real life and unfortunately they're usually annoying. His opposational defiance was developed earlier.
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Wouldn't say I love it but I really liked Not Another Teen Movie when I first saw it. Not sure how it holds up but the parody it makes of those high school romcoms was good.
In a similar vein, Scary Movie 2 and 3 were also really funny to me as a kid.
That movie was great. I love Marilyn Manson's Tainted Love music video he made with the cast of that movie.
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I'm asking because an IMDb rating cutoff above 6.5+-5 seems to generally do a good job making sure I don't regret watching something. But what am I missing among the sub-6? I know they exist, but it is hard to select among seas of...bad movies.
I really really like the The Last Airbender movie, the M. Night Shymalan one. It's one of my favorites, unironically, and I think it has a far worst reputation than it deserves.
I also think objectively the visuals are incredible even if you think the story and characters are trash.
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Wouldn't say I love it but I really liked Not Another Teen Movie when I first saw it. Not sure how it holds up but the parody it makes of those high school romcoms was good.
In a similar vein, Scary Movie 2 and 3 were also really funny to me as a kid.
That is unironically one of my favorite movies of all time and I think it's hilarious.
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IDK about "rated higher" but I love Jet Li's The One
There's exactly 127 universes in the multiverse. Why? Never discussed. And if one version of you kills another, every other version gets that much stronger. So Jet Li plays both the hero and the villain as well as an assortment of the villain's victims. Jason Statham is in it too, as the hotheaded junior partner multiverse cop out to bring the villain down.
Weird guns! Weird tech! A prison universe! Super powered martial arts! A climactic fight in a foundry where you can tell the hero from the villain by the color of their shirt! Man I love this movie!
I actually thought this movie was a sequel to The Matrix when I saw it advertised and saw it in theaters as a result. It was okay.
