Movies that critics panned..

[Guest J*ingus]

It's a shame Dice got essentially blacklisted from being in another major movie. Unless you call Brain Smasher a major movie.

I'd say it's not a shame, since Clay is bland and boring in ordinary roles, and incredibly insulting and offensive (even to a white NRA member like myself) in his "comedy".

[Guest godthedog]

i can't believe i forgot this one: 'lost highway'. panned by the majority of audiences & critics as a senseless, boring mess, & i think it's one of the best movies of the 90s (as well as one of my all-time favorites). then 4 years later lynch releases basically the same movie with naked lesbians instead of naked patricia arquette, & almost everybody loves it. it's like, "what the hell? where have you people been?"

[Guest evenflowDDT]

Full Moon movies, anyone?

 

Also, I just saw Nurse Betty today, despite the recommendations of everyone NOT to.  I actually liked it a lot... Renee Zelweger (can you believe she's one of my favorite actresses and I STILL can't spell her name?) is just so sweet in that movie, you almost want to cry at how poorly she gets treated.  I think the ending was B.S. though.

Nurse Betty got a very respectable 80% at Rotten Tomatoes, and the NY Times's reviewer said "It is easily the finest American comedy since David O. Russell's "Flirting With Disaster," another road movie that never ran out of poignantly funny surprises." A lot of people here seem to hate it, though.

Really? That's interesting, because the reviewers around here and all my friends gave it low reviews (which I guess are uncharacteristic? how reliable is Rotten Tomatoes anyway? I've heard of it but never been there).

[Guest J*ingus]

Rotten Tomatoes is probably the best overall indicator of how "the critics" liked a movie. They get as many reviews as they can from as many different sources from Ebert on down. The percentage scores are then tallied from the number of positive vs. negative reviews of the film.

[Guest imajackoff?]

Godzilla. Maybe it was because my expectations were set sort of low. I wanted a special effects movie that made me believe a dinosaur was fucking up NYC. That's what I got.

[Guest Si82]

I really liked 15 Minutes despite the fact almost everyone else hated it. I also liked:

The Cable Guy

Chain Reaction

Clean Slate

Hard Target

Mallrats

Trial And Error

[Guest bob_barron]

Godzilla. Maybe it was because my expectations were set sort of low. I wanted a special effects movie that made me believe a dinosaur was fucking up NYC. That's what I got.

Godzilla fucking owned!

[Guest El Satanico]

Godzilla.   Maybe it was because my expectations were set sort of low.  I wanted a special effects movie that made me believe a dinosaur was fucking up NYC.  That's what I got.

Godzilla fucking owned!

Just Say NO to Drugs people...Just Say NO

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

Good god, Lost Highway was a horrible, pretentious bucket of shit. Talk about a movie that started great and ended up in the gutter.

[Guest godthedog]

someone who liked 'freddy got fingered' should NOT be panning anyone else's taste in movies.

[Guest cabbageboy]

15 Minutes was a WTF kinda movie. It was going along cool and then De Niro gets killed about an hour and 10m into it! I was just stunned by that, and it really killed the movie I thought.

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

someone who liked 'freddy got fingered' should NOT be panning anyone else's taste in movies.

Ummm, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but Freddy Got Fingered was a hell of a lot more entertaining than Lost Highway could ever hope to be.

[Guest godthedog]

wait, how was 'freddy got fingered' entertaining? i mean, the characters weren't engaging, the story wasn't interesting, there wasn't anything different about it, and it wasn't funny.

 

even if, for the sake of argument, both of these movies are crap, i'd still take the pretentious crap over the low brow crap. with the pretentious crap, you can at least laugh at it & be entertained by it if it's overblown & stodgy. failed drama is funny; failed comedy is just...painful.

[Guest evenflowDDT]

failed drama is funny; failed comedy is just...painful.

I haven't seen either movie, but the man's got a point there...

[Guest El Satanico]

failed drama is funny; failed comedy is just...painful.

Ed Wood's movies could be used as an example for this since they were suppose to be serious. Also Ed Wood took them very serious...they were his art...his babies.

[Guest Si82]

I really liked 15 Minutes despite the fact almost everyone else hated it. I also liked:

The Cable Guy

Chain Reaction

Clean Slate

Hard Target

Mallrats

Trial And Error

A couple more for my list:

Airheads

The One

[Guest J*ingus]

I haven't seen either movie, but the man's got a point there...

But I actually liked Lost Highway, better than its virtual remake Mulholland Drive in fact. It's pretentious, you say? Oh heavens no, not pretension in a David Lynch flick! Come on, you had to have known what you were getting into before you watched it. Lynch is the only director around making big-budget experimental art films in Hollywood today, and I applaud him simply for being able to get it done.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

I'm going to hell for this one...

 

I know the movie sucks balls...but I love Airborn (w/Seth Green and Jack Black)

 

Worst movie of the 90s...but I really like it