Comments on: Unpopular Opinion: Movie Edition

By: Chestnut

Chestnut — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 22:49:35 +0000

In reply to Redbeard. That's fair!

By: Redbeard

Redbeard — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 20:35:10 +0000

In reply to Chestnut. I'd agree completely, but there are scenes where the acting just makes me cringe.

By: Chestnut

Chestnut — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 02:08:43 +0000

In reply to Redbeard. I thought it would be harder than it ended up being, to be honest! V is definitely one of the underrated ones. The odd numbers get such a bad rap!

By: Chestnut

Chestnut — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 02:06:42 +0000

In reply to Braxwolf. I haven't seen that one yet, but it's on my list to watch! Nick Cage movies might not always get good ratings, but they are always somehow feel good films.

By: Redbeard

Redbeard — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 02:05:19 +0000

I thought this was going to be easy, given that I liked Strange Brew starring Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis reprising their Bob and Doug Mackenzie roles from SCTV, but Rotten Tomatoes has it at 74%.

Hmmm….

Midnight Madness starring David Naughton and a very young Michael J. Fox? Nope.

I guess Star Trek V sort of qualifies, although I thought that the best part of the movie was left on the cutting room floor, and it sure could have used much better editing and cinematography.

By: Braxwolf

Braxwolf — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 23:32:55 +0000

A film that I both saw in the theater and own on DVD because I enjoyed it so much is Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice starting Nick Cage. I’m not even sure why I like it, except that Jay Baruchel’s deadpan delivery has always cracked me up. It’s also possible that it came out at a time when I was looking for family-friendly movies that we could sit down and watch as a family. Whatever the case, I seem to be in the minority as the audience response didn’t even warrent the hinted at sequel, and we know how Disney loves those!

By: Chestnut

Chestnut — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 20:59:33 +0000

In reply to Tremayne. I love how the scores can differ so much between audience vs critic! Stuff like that is so fascinating to me.

By: Tremayne

Tremayne — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 20:21:24 +0000

On either score – easy, I LIKE the Warcraft movie, which has a 27% tomatometer score (but 77% audience score, so I’m not alone).
I was going to lead with John Carter, but despite it getting a widespread panning at release it has 52% on the tomatometer.
And a tip of the puritan hat to Solomon Kane, which passes on the tomatometer with 66% but only gets 49% from the unappreciative sods in the audience.