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Gonna go with Mortal Kombat (1995) 45%, a video game to film adaptation of a fighting game is never going to be deep, but this is a fun ride. Could add in the follow up, Annihilation (1997), 4% and the 2021 film which sits at 54% too. Don’t expect much and they are fun films.
I love the MK movie, everyone always told me it was terrible. Watched it for the first time few years back, maybe it was the lack of expectations for it, but it was fun.
Ok, Annihilation was actually pretty terrible, but the first movie was good dumb fun.
The first is infinitely re-watchable even with the terrible CGI, but the second one is unwatchable.
Same for me. That film ended my many years of obsession with a song I once heard on the radio and only managed to record half of it. The pain of living in a time before Shazam & Co existed was horrible. With no track lists on the web, the best way to identify a song was humming it to an employee in a record store.. and good luck with that.
The acting, effects and story aren't all that great, but still fun to watch IMHO. But I will always love that movie just for picking Halcyon from Orbital in its ending scene.
Jingle All the Way (the original, not the abomination with Larry the cable guy). 19% RT.
I think most people think it's too "weird", but I genuinely love it. It's got all the great 90s tropes, a cartoony core in a live action movie, an anti-consumerism message in a Christmas movie, and Phil Hartman. What's not to love?
Death to Smoochy is a fucking masterpiece.
It's a seriously amazing movie. Both Edward Norton and Robin Williams were great. I can't believe so many people and the critics missed the point.
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
STATION!
The Cable Guy
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), starring Johnny Depp sitting at a blasphemous 50%
I actually like Riddick, all three of them! Haven't checked but am pretty sure they would've gotten less than 60%
I liked:
- Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (48%)
- Jupiter Ascending (28%)
I am pretty sure every movie I really like is under 60% on RT.
Maximum Overdrive (1986): 14%
It's dumb as shit, and I will always love it for that reason.
Civil War. I don't know the rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but I do know that it is a recent movie, and 196 sent me here lol
Maximum Overdrive
Cube Zero (2004)
That's right, the prequel to the 1997 horror film Cube. Where people are trapped inside a cube that keeps killing them.
I feel like I'm cheating because it got some positive reviews, just not enough to even have a critic score. Audience score is in the 20's. I don't know why! It's a great follow up. Much better than the sequel, Hypercube. It gives us some much needed backstory on why the cubes exist and what their purpose is.
Doing the exercise right now, surprised to see that the latest Mario Movie is 59%
Every person who likes horror movies can probably name a few examples. Horror movies are somehow really weirdly understood by a lot of people, including critics. Or perhaps I watch them for the wrong reasons, I don't know.
Final Fantasy: the spirits within.
The animation felt way ahead of its time. It's been over a decade since I watched it, but I have very fond and exciting memories of watching it.
It felt ahead of its time because it was basically a tech demo showcasing their 3D modeling abilities. It was partially a foray into video media, but it was mostly a "hey, look what we can do". It came out 17 days before Final Fantasy X, which was their move into much more realistic graphics and longer cinematic cutscenes. It was basically an ad to convince people to buy the next 100 hour game.
Still a great movie tho. Shows how far you can go when you're truly passionate.
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.
I remember really enjoying the Van Helsing movie with Hugh Jackman as a kid. The world and weapons were really cool.