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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.

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[–] Komplekx@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I go with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Just like The Polar Express (which also has not the best rating) I really enjoy this movie around Christmas. Love the exaggerated characters and the absurd story :D

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[–] MothBookkeeper@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Æon Flux, from 2005. 9% on RT. I'm not sure if it's nostalgia from seeing it as a teen or if the masses weren't ready for it or what, but it was just so unique and had such a cool vibe.

[–] Guapomole@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Out Cold. It's a dumb snowboarding comedy movie, but I think it's dumb in a really funny way. It only has an 8% on rotten tomatoes but I think thats way incorrect.

If you go in expecting stupid humor it's actually got a lot of funny lines and moments.

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[–] Sputnik34@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I unironically think that Crystal Skull is better than Last Crusade

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[–] sebas@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Dreamcatcher (2003)

[–] sascamooch@lemmy.sascamooch.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The live action Super Mario Bros movie.

I know it doesn't meet the "post 2000's" rule, but I saw it for the first time a couple years ago, so I think it still counts. I don't think it was a very good Mario movie since it took A LOT of creative liberties with the source material (tbf, there wasn't a lot to work with in 1993), but as its own thing, I enjoyed it for what it was. Definitely expected a lot worse when going into it.

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[–] lemming007@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Critic score or audience score? Because boy, there's a difference

[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My friend has a theory that if the critic score is significantly lower than the audience score, it will probably be a good movie. He's been mostly right afaict

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[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pootie Tang is one of my favorite movies of all time and it’s got a 27% score on Rotten Tomatoes. It was made by Chris Rock and (pre-sex-pervert era) Louis CK and has cameos from tons of comedians. It’s objectively funny people being objectively funny if you ask me. But when it came out, film critics really did not get any of the jokes and thought it was all comedians being “random.”

A fair criticism of it is that it was a comedy sketch stretched way too far. A lot of movies are like that, obviously, but I’ve never seen one just bewilder critics like Pootie Tang. (It came out in 2001 when adults barely used internet, much less fledgling social media. Culture just wasn’t as mixed together back then and “pop” and “urban” music were on separate radio stations with little cross-over. So, I totally understand why Ebert didn’t get the jokes. But if you did or do now, it was a classic.)

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[–] Apalacrypto@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The core with Aaron Eckhartt. I can watch that movie repeatedly and enjoy it every time

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[–] couggod@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] maplealmond@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I remember liking Paycheck when I saw it in theaters.

[–] vinylshrapnel@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

National Lampoon’s Van Wilder is my pick. 18% critic rating but 76% audience score.

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[–] itsnicodegallo@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Van Helsing! 24% Critic Score, 57% Audience Score. Even I cringed rewatching it, but it has a special place in my heart. 🐺

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[–] EzekielJK@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I'm 24 so my options are slim for "released during my adult life" but I really like The Greatest Showman and it's got a 57%. Yes, it's wildly inaccurate but dang the music and visuals are great.

My favorite movie of all time is A Goofy Movie from 1995 and just eeked out of the running with a 61%. Seriously, the movie is better than you remember it since you start to empathize with the dad as you grow up. I really recommend it.

[–] stupidillusion@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yellowbeard (1983) sort of qualifies with 22% tomatometer but 64% audience score.

Critics (and John Cleese) didn't like the movie at all but my friends and I all love it! Hard to dislike a stupid comedy stuffed with an incredible array of comedians; Cheech and Chong, Most of the cast of Monty Python, Peter Boyle and Marty Feldman, Peter Cook, and many other well known comedians of the 1960s and 70s. We still quote lines from the movie!

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