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I think everyone should see the 2019 Cats. I was not bored, and I had a strong emotional reaction to the movie. Was it shit? Oh absolutely, in ways that I didn't even know movies could be shit. But it was not boring! So if I were going to recommend a movie to someone who hadn't seen it yet, Cats would be near the top of that list.

Movies that I actually love despite them having poor ratings...

• Event Horizon - 6.6 IMDB / 35% RT - Haunted house in space. Great performances from a great cast. Properly fucked up. Love seeing blue collar workers in scifi.

• Death to Smoochy - 6.3 IMDB / 42% RT - See Robin Williams go hard on the R-rating playing a children's show host on a downward spiral. One of my favorite Williams performances.

• Legend (1985) - 6.3 IMDB / 41% RT - Shot entirely inside of a huge bag of cocaine. All vibes, don't question any of it, logic has no place here. Watch the theatrical cut with Tangerine Dream, because the director's cut with Jerry Goldsmith is honestly just vague fantasy noodling, and the 80s power jams are at least 40% of the charm.

Miami Connection

Discovering it has brought me so much joy (pretty sure someone posted it here, actually). My jaw literally dropped at times as I adjusted to what I was seeing--like pure parody, but it was attempted so whole-heartedly and earnestly. The best kind of bad movie, the one that tries so hard. If it isn't peak 80's, PLEASE tell me what is so I can literally watch it tonight (if within the next ~6 minutes before I get in my jammies).

Sucker Punch. Objectively, it's not really that great of a movie. But it's one of the most fun movies I've ever seen. It's got over-the-top action sequences, an amazing soundtrack, and a genuinely unique idea for a story that I haven't really seen done before.

The final cut ended up removing a very key scene that ties a lot of the story together, which I honestly feel is part of why the movie was so poorly-received, because the theatrical release just doesn't make sense and ends abruptly. If you decide to watch it, try to find a version that has the deleted scene with the High Roller near the end. It's a full five minutes of dialogue that ties the entire story together and Warner Brothers scrapped it and it drives me so crazy. It's like an "I Am Legend's deleted ending" level of directorial blunder, IMO.

I liked Battlefield Earth

The Green Hornet with Seth Rogan was my favourite film for a long time. I did not understand why people didn’t love it as much as I did.

No idea what the actual ratings are, but the live action remake of Aladdin was absolutely shat on by most of the internet. The original Aladdin was one of my absolute favorites as a kid, so I was gonna see the remake good or bad, and... honestly, fucking loved it.

I'm guessing the main breaking point for people was the lack of Robin Williams' Genie, but Disney had the option of trying recreate that genie without Robin Williams or completely remake that character's personality. Had they gone with the former, it 100% would have 1) flopped, and 2) been kinda disrespectful to Robin Williams imo. Starting fresh was the correct choice. And Will Smith did awesome with his version of Genie.

Beyond that, it introduced just enough new shit to make it not just feel like a frame-by-frame copy/paste of the original; but overall kept the same fun mystical vibe of the original.

It earns its spot on the shelf, imo.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Tron Legacy

Guyver: Dark Hero

Strange Days (get the ultimate extended edition fan edit if you can.)

Wild Wild West

Demolition Man

Judge Dredd

Highlander II

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Jacob Barlow vs the Demonic Toys

There are a lot of fun movies that are considered garbage.

Jupiter Ascending is, in my opinion, a masterpiece. Bees can sense royalty? Fantastic. The bureaucracy android having to bribe his way through the system he was literally created to navigate? Marvelous. Don't even get me started on the air roller skates. Eddie Redmayne's four million year old teenager was perfection too. Two volume levels: harsh whisper or screaming.

It was marketed as some kind of amazing epic, so people approached it wrong I think. It was a Wachowski film. What were they expecting? I went in there assuming it'd be like their Speed Racer movie, but in space. I was not disappointed.

Second vote would be for Speed Racer, lol.

Bladerunner 2049.

I know a lot of people disliked it compared to the first one, even Ridley Scott himself. But I love the direction Denis Villeneuve took this film in.

There are a ton of comedies where the critic ratings are low but the audience is high.

Grandma's Boy 15 critic 85 audience was the one that is at the top of my head. Hot damn that is a spread, and I am with the audience.

I'm uncertain of what the ratings are in general, but there's probably some horror movie I love that's been dragged.

Maybe Insidious? Paranormal Activity 2? As Above, So Below? The Cleansing Hour?

One of those probably has a shit score somewhere lol.

EDIT because I realized how lazy I was being:

Insidious has a 66% on rotten tomatoes Paranormal Activity 2 has a 57% As Above, So Below has a 29% The Cleansing Hour has a shocking 73%

So my answer is As Above, So Below. Lol But I'm startled about The Cleansing Hour having such a high rating

Not sure if this is what you are asking for, but:

My favorite movies with absolutely ridiculus plots are:

1. Olympus Has Fallen

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   The USA is under attack by a plane that somehow got in the borders without getting shot down, while enemy ground teams posing as tourists attacks the white house, while the plane above provides support. And the country behind it is... NORTH KOREA? 🤣

2. London Has Fallen

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   Similar to before but now its some middle eastern "terrorist" that wants to kill all world leaders, with some of the Queen's Guard turning out to be terrorists? 🧐

3. Moonfall

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   The moon falls towards earth, because... Aliens... lol 🌚

13th Warrior. Solid action. Antonio Banderas and Vikings. Dudes taking care of business.

Gentlemen Broncos

Perhaps "The Missing Postman" - not sure if it actually got canned or is just unknown though.

I have two:

Chalet Girl - Romcom meets 1980s style Aspen Ski Challenge, Felicity Jones, Bill Nighy, Brooke Shields, and Ed Westwick. I personally love it. It's a great movie to throw on for a boring day, it has some feels, it's story is predictable but fun - it's not winning an Oscar but I enjoy it. 5/5 personal scale, 3/5 general rotten tomatoes

21 - Very lame smart guy meets Vegas, not a heist, not the social network - Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey. Didn't know this was that high up except for I have multiple plays of it. I watched it after having surgery and remember thinking it was amazing - and then watched it later on less pain killers and thought "Oh, well, it's fine." 3/5 personal scale, 1/5 general rotten tomatoes.

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I still think League of Extraordinary Gentlemen got unfairly dragged. 16% on Rotten Tomatoes.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/league_of_extraordinary_gentlemen

A lot of people were confused about Dorian Gray, but adding him was pretty inspired.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray

Tron: Legacy