Stitch on 18/1/2011 at 17:18
Some of TTLG's "bad" movies according to Rotten Tomatoes:
Minority Report (92% fresh)
Titanic (83% fresh)
Blazing Saddles (89% fresh)
Fright Night (93% fresh)
Return of the Jedi (78% fresh)
Total Recall (81% fresh)
8 Mile (74% fresh)
Real Genius (74% fresh)
The World's Fastest Indian (82% fresh)
Big Trouble in Little China (82% fresh)
Galaxy Quest (89% fresh)
Star Trek (2009) (94% fresh)
Tropic Thunder (83% fresh)
Zombieland (90% fresh)
Evil Dead 2 (98% fresh)
Shaolin Soccer (94% fresh)
Battle Royale (82% fresh)
Superman II (88% fresh)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (98% fresh)
The Thing (80% fresh)
Particularly egregious infractions bolded
st.patrick on 18/1/2011 at 18:49
God forbid that somebody have a dissenting opinion :p
the_grip on 18/1/2011 at 18:58
Actually all of those I listed are great movies IMHO; I love 'em. That doesn't mean they can't be viewed as "bad" in light of modern cinematography as most are fairly well dated. If they were released as is today, I think they rightly fall into this thread. The one real exception is Battle Royale... that one is still fairly relevant as it is not that old.
Stitch on 18/1/2011 at 20:05
Quote Posted by st.patrick
God forbid that somebody have a dissenting opinion :p
Actually, my point is that the opinion
isn't dissenting.
SubJeff on 18/1/2011 at 23:01
Quote Posted by Stitch
Fright Night (93% fresh)Wow. I never knew there was so much love for this film! Well I DO think it's awesome, even if it is just for Chris Sarandon frakking chewing
up every scene he is in. Oh, and of course that fantastic seduction music he does his thing to.
Scots Taffer on 18/1/2011 at 23:04
Movie ratings on Rotten Tomatoes for movies that were released pre-Rotten Tomatoes aren't typically worth a lot as they gather up reviews from cult sites and so on that obviously love the movie in question. It's easier to find good reviews for old movies than it is to find poor reviews online.
Regardless of which, that doesn't change the fact that Evil Dead II (the only movie of mine on that list) is so bad that it's good... I know that's not strictly the category of movies we're talking about here, but it's in a closely related subset.
demagogue on 19/1/2011 at 00:26
I understood the topic mostly being about guilty pleasures, which means you like the movie not for the great and literary storytelling or cinematography but for the grist, the cheap hooks that you know are cheap but you love it for them anyway.
In that sense the list is pretty good... I mean people love Blazing Saddles because it has a black guy standing up and shouting "Hey! Where all the white women at?" to get the KKK after him, so unapologetically un-PC; Total Recall for the three-titted whore and the stomach-head; Titanic because it's so hopelessly sappy; Return of the Jedi: Ewoks; Minority Report: if it hadn't been Phillip Dick and Tom Cruise, and the cool factor of the tech & concept, would people have been as forgiven for some of the cheap plot hooks? Star Trek: The Fast and the Furious.
The fact that a lot of these movies get high ratings IMO is just a testament how many other people liked these movies for the grist too.
It comes down to how you're interpreting "bad" is all my point. I was taking it mostly as "running on grist", which is different from actually "bad" as in poorly made or just plain bad.
hopper on 19/1/2011 at 00:52
Conan the Barbarian
Army of Darkness
Running Man
Bloodsport
Tomb Raider
Creepshow
