Films panned by critics that you like

[Pidge]

Starship Troupers

 

Good shout, I'd add Demolition Man.

[md1892]

Escape to victory, fucking love it.

Didn't Shawshank flop massively when it first came out also?

 

Good call on Starship troopers

[Trumo]

Escape to victory, fucking love it.

Didn't Shawshank flop massively when it first came out also?

 

Good call on Starship troopers

 

Shawshank Redemption wasn't panned by critics though. I don't know if Escape To Victory was or not. I know Starship Troopers divided critics, but I also quite liked it. I have a feeling many of those who hated it didn't realise it was a piss-take, several years before Team America did much the same.

[Mendoza]

The Shining and Fight Club were panned by critics on release.

[Juniper]

Waterworld' date=' 'worst film ever' or some shit it was called, thought it was alright myself.[/quote']

 

Reminds me of Warrington that film.

 

Used to work at Greenalls distilling Bottles of Vodka that had been quarantined at various locations over the world having being banned, then shipped back to the uk.

 

The Vodka? Black Death, which you see drunk by Dennis Hopper in a few scenes.

 

Anyway. Useless info but good times. Used to sneak off with a bottle every Friday evening (not to mention drinking it everyday at work as a few of us temps were left alone carrying out the 'work').

 

One day one of the Runcorn based forklift drivers got smashed on it, had an argument with his GF over the phone over nothing then smashed up about three crates of it by driving into them repeatedly. Brilliant.

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[Tyler Durden]

Having just seen serenity is on itv4 I'd like to add that, I've seen it about 20 times and I don't know why, not sure if it was panned though

[torahboy]

Citizen Kane was given lousy reviews, but that may be because Hearst owned lots of newspapers in the US and it was a barely disguised bio-pic of the press baron. Can't wait for a movie about Rupert fucking Murdoch.

[Remmie]

Godfather 3 is a great shout, I think it's still a great movie, just a couple notches below the other 2. The ending is fucking brilliant, genius move taking the sound out so you focus completely on the hurt in Michael's face.

 

Has anyone else seen Zhara/The Heat? Would be interested in your thoughts, even if you didn't like it.

[General Dryness]

Not having that, It's ace.

 

This. "Daddy Would You Like Some Sausages" and "The Backwards Man" are funny as fuck.

 

I was smoking a lot of weed last time I watched it, mind.

[redheart]

John Carter of Mars. Which I really enjoyed.

 

Alien 3 is the best one apart from Alien. The Vietnam warfilm in space that is Aliens is a romp but has no depth (even the special edition).

 

Hudson Hawk. This is simply a cool movie.

 

The Return Of Captain Invincible. Alan Arkin and Christopher Lee in a superhero music. Top stuff.

[RedBrian84]

Waterworld

King Arthur

 

And one of my favourite films ever - slaughtered on release - Labyrinth. Fucking love that film.

[Jose Jones]

Labyrinth was slaughtered eh? Yeah that is boss.

I also thought John Carter was good.

Blades of Glory and Semi-Pro are both thought of as fairly shit I think, but I liked them.

[RedBrian84]

Yeah it got battered in both critical reception (Connolly got the brunt of it) and in a disappointing box office take. It's got a hell of a cult following now though.

[Innova]

Transformers 2. Sounds ridiculous but when I watch a film like this, I'm not really looking out for how detailed the plot is, but rather the quality of the action. I felt that the action and animations were sufficient to keep me interested for the whole film.

[The Guest]

The Last Castle with Robert Redford.

 

John Carter is also very enjoyable.

[Fowlers God]

Matrix was a flop at the cinema.

 

Demolition Man is a fucking brilliant film.

[ChrisM]

Matrix was a flop at the cinema.

 

Well if you call the fourth highest grossing film (worldwide) of 1999 (behind The Phantom Menace, The Sixth Sense and Toy Story 2) being a flop then, well, yes.

 

So no. No it wasn't.

[Strontium]

Matrix was a flop at the cinema.

 

 

Fucking hell...

[Hand Shandy]

I liked Watchmen - thought they did a good job with it.

[Tom R]

The Usual Suspects was also a huge flop at the flicks ("huge flop at the flicks?" that sounds kind of kinky, doesn't it?)

 

Anyway, Waterworld is a great shout. It's actually a really good film! It only got panned because it was the most expensive film ever and made the biggest losses ever (as the set sunk twice and had to be rebuilt!) but nt cos it was shit in the sense of actually shit.

 

I'll go for Things to do in Denver When You're Dead. I loved it at the time, and was the only person I knew who'd evern seen it. Been panned heavily since and only scores 37% on Rotten Tomatoes. Derps!

 

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead - Rotten Tomatoes

[Tom R]

I liked Watchmen - thought they did a good job with it.

 

You've had a mare here.

[Fowlers God]

Well if you call the fourth highest grossing film (worldwide) of 1999 (behind The Phantom Menace, The Sixth Sense and Toy Story 2) being a flop then, well, yes.

 

So no. No it wasn't.

 

Shows listening to my dad when I was younger doesn't always work!

[Remmie]

Labyrinth was slaughtered eh? Yeah that is boss.

I also thought John Carter was good.

Blades of Glory and Semi-Pro are both thought of as fairly shit I think, but I liked them.

I liked semi-pro as well

[KMD7]

I liked semi-pro as well

 

Yeah I loved that film. 'Swamp sweaty'

[Scooby Dudek]

The Blues Brothers