Unpopular Opinions
xkcd.com

Inspired by the linked XKCD. Using 60% instead of 50% because that’s an easy filter to apply on rottentomatoes.

I’ll go first: I think “Sherlock Holmes: A game of Shadows” was awesome, from the plot to the characters ,and especially how they used screen-play to highlight how Sherlocks head works in these absurd ways.

  • improvisedbuttplug@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    Chappie (32%)

    I love that movie and have seen it several times. Directed by Noel Blompkamp (District 9) and starring Die Antwoord.

    It’s extremely original and entertaining sci fi.

  • khan_shot_1st@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Sure it’s campy and way over the top. But I kinda like it for that. Plus the characters are awesome, the designs were pretty cool, and Sean Connery was great. Currently at 17% on rt.

  • Quazatron@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    Constantine - 46%

    Predator - 34%

    Ghost in the Shell - 43%

    Hellboy - 17%

    Robocop (2016) - 49%

    Well, it seems like I have poor taste in movies after all.

  • CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    Hook (29% TomatoMeter).

    But it was released in 1991, so it wouldn’t count for the XKCD version. Also the audience score is 76%, so not really an unpopular opinion I guess.

  • Motavader@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    Iron Sky!!

    Who doesn’t love a movie about Nazis hiding for 60 years in a secret base on the dark side of the moon?!?!

  • jaschen@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    Idiocracy is one of my favorite movies. When it came out, it was far below 50%, but after some of the things on the movie started becoming true, it became popular.

  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    it didn’t come out in my adult life, but I’m really young so I get a pass.

    Cars 2

    a dope ass Pixar spy movie with Lightning motherfucking McQueen.

    in this case I’m literally going"all of you are wrong" but IT’S FIREEEE

  • Kiernian@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    Okay, so I hit rotten tomatoes, checked movies that were both critics rotten AND audience rotten, and started perusing titles for stuff I thought rocked.

    abraham lincoln: vampire hunter

    waterworld

    hellboy (how is this in here? I thought this was universally loved)

    mars attacks! (56 and 53, I also feel like this shouldn’t be on the list. It’s too good, and not in a bad way)

    x-men origins: wolverine (again, is this not considered awesome? I thought it was great)

    daredevil/elektra (I enjoyed both movies)

    and now for stuff I’ve watched at least five times:

    the ninth gate

    planet of the apes (2001)

    avp

    prince of persia

    green lantern

    van helsing

    I’m dead serious, I was looking forward to MORE green lantern movies along the lines of that first one. I bought it on amazon having heard nothing about it (I was in a societal black hole for a few years there), watched it, loved it, and was like “sweet, when’s the sequel coming out? I wanna see sinestro do his thing…wow, this did not do well. Fuck.”

    I wasn’t super happy with ALL of the writing, but that’s comic stuff in general and I thought the whole thing was still quite enjoyable. Like, multiple rewatches enjoyable. Seeing Hal Jordan on screen and having Ryan Reynolds do it was great.