Opinions: What is a movie you genuinely like, that is rated below 60% on rotten tomatoes?

Titan A.E. only got a 50% and it is incredible and still holds up!
- Only 50%?! Holy crap! I guess they really don't wanna live on Planet Bob.
  
  "You can't name a planet Bob."
- Terrific film. One of Don Bluth's best. It's right up there with NIMH for me.
- One of my favourite animated films ever. Also love the soundtrack.
- Cosmic Castaway is a fuckin good song too

I just looked up Event Horizon and it only got a 33%. I love that movie. It genuinely really creeped me out. Few horror films do.
- That is absurd! Event Horizon is the only legit Doom movie. That was the idea all along and they even used the sound clip from the spawn cube in the movie.
  Also, although I am not a 40k fan, I know some people see this as a prequel to Warhammer 40k as the moment in which humans first get to use the Warp.
  It was ruined by execs, but it is a masterpiece, especially in the production design.
- What? I still hold that movie as the scariest thing I've ever seen. It grips me just thinking about some scenes. It's an amazing movie. Can't believe the score
- I watched that thinking it was just sci-fi while high as a kite in my teens.
  I'm still not over it.
  A+
- Just goes to show you some people (critics) have no taste. That movie was awesome!
  
  I love the dismissal of critics as a while because a movie you like scored low. It's a good creepy movie but it's no that good of a movie overall. It's very cheesy, the dialogue is poor, the story is minimal. It's got great creeps though.
- Indeed, that movie is actually scary! Like proper scary, not how most movies are.

I tend to like sci-fi in this category such as Stargate, Dune (1984), and the Riddick films.
TRON Legacy is my favorite of the bunch, however. Incredible soundtrack, gorgeous costume design, and plenty of character.
- I really liked Tron Legacy. I keep hearing the next one in the works so cautiously awaiting to see what they release next.
  
  If Daft Punk isn't doing the music, I won't even bother being interested
- I loved the film, but I can't think too hard about it. I treat it like a really long music video. It was such a fun watch.
- Stargate, Dune (1984), and the Riddick films
  I like those too, in particular Dune and the Chronicles of Riddick, but they all have audience scores above 60% (and Stargate and Dune are from the last millennium if we're sticking to that requirement).
- TRON Legacy is one of those movies where I watch it purely for its visuals and music. It's a let down in terms of story and action, but I stop everything to look at it when its on.
- I wanted to like TRON: Legacy. I didn't.
  There's one reason the original TRON wouldn't play today, and it's not the 1980s fake computer graphics. It's the pacing. TRON is slow. There's no jitter. It looks like a 1980s video game, not a 21st-century video game.
  Or, really, just contrast the Wendy Carlos score with the Daft Punk one. The original is majestic swoops through a digital dreamscape, not jitterbug pop for robot dancers.
  
  A thought that may help you enjoy Tron: Legacy - The pacing and style changes are meant to represent the changes in computer technology and specifically gaming, between the eras when the two films came out.
  In TRON, there's a mechanistic pacing that reflects the early computer clock cycles.
  In TRON: Legacy, there's a lot of imagery and plotting around characters trying to find peace, or achieve slowness, or even just rythm - trying to escape the attention starved modern algorithm.

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.
- Okay, it's not a great movie, but it's definitely fun enough to warrant more than a 17%
- Dammit, you can't submerge the Nautilus in Venice's Grand Canal! It's only a few meters deep!
- How in the world is that 17%? TIL I also like unpopular movies.
  
  Connery literally retired because of it lol
- I genuinely loved that movie. Watched it as a kid, got the DVD as I got older, downloaded the torrent when I was in college, watched it with friends for movie nights.
  I had no idea it was supposed to be bad! I loved the weird fusion of camp, bizarre situations, and genuine action. Although I did have to chuckle at one of the reviews criticizing its CGI, written twelve years after the movie came out.
- It was great up until the last 15 minutes, I remember. And it was beautifully artful. But I was a bit colored by the comics, the villain and his motives was just so much better there.

Kung Pow only has a 13% critic rating and I love that movie. 69% audience score though so that might disqualify it.
I remember quite liking Slackers when I saw it (haven't rewatched it though, so my opinion might have changed). I think if this movie every time I hear the song "She'll be comin' 'round the mountain".
The Big Hit
Movies I saw 20 years ago it seems when maybe my tastes (and me too let's face it) were a little immature. Still love Kung Pow though
- The scene with the wounds on his hands, something like:
  "does it hurt?"
  "Not really"
  Pours salt in wounds "Does it now?"
  "No"
  Breaks thermometer into the wounds "how about now?"
  "A little"
  "Aww! Poor baby!" Bandages wounds
  That scene has played on a loop in the back of my brain for decades. It's fucking hilarious. That and when the evil master reveals his name is Betty, and plays Big Butts. I loved that movie before I started smoking weed, and I loved it even more the first time I watched it stoned.
- Kung Pow is fucking amazing in short, memey snippets, but it was agony to watch as an actual movie.
  
  This is unfortunately an accurate description of that movie.
  Think of something like Airplane! or Ghostbusters. There are so many memorable and/or silly parts and lines that people remember well and will repeat over and over. But of course, each also has a real movie to go along with it.
  All the clips and lines and other zany parts of Kung Pow can be hilarious, but the movie itself is pretty bad.
- Kung Pow is a fucking delight and I still love it as much as it was the day it was released.
  
  That's a lot of nuts!

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is way better than anyone gives it credit for. It's a really fun movie.
I also really like Vanilla Sky even though critics hate it. It's a weird but good movie.
How Equilibrium has a 40% RT rating is beyond me. It's amazing.
- Yeah, I liked Prince of Persia as well! It's nothing groundbreaking, but it's a fun movie.
- Wait, people don't like Vanilla Sky‽ That movie is great!
  
  So good! After seeing it, I grabbed and watched Abre Los Ojos the next week just to get more.
- I feel like prince of Persia missed on timing more than anything. It came out too close to dragon emperor imo. And the same year as clash of the titans. It's a decent flick, but not good enough to outrun the comparisons on what all 3 did poorly. (Mostly dialog)
- I’m pretty shocked to see Vanilla Sky rated that poorly. I recall it being a critical darling at the time.
- That shocks me that Equilibrium is only 40%.. it’s one of my favorite movies

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.
- I liked Hellboy
  
  I loved Ron Perlman's Hellboy, but the Hellboy 2019 movie was the best. Felt more like a comicbook pulp story and less of a 2000-ish action comedy. But the public and critics has spoken; if it ain't a standard superhero action comedy flick, it is a "soulless" reboot.
- Constantine is an awesome movie.
- Ghost in the Shell (2017) was quite good.
  
  Loved the characters, but the movie plot felt like a clipshow of a bigger plot that didn't fit into 2 hours. I haven't watched the anime but it probably was.
- Predator came out in 1986 I think. But I totally agree about Constantine and Robocop 2016, I liked those a lot.
  
  I believe they're referring to "The Predator" from 2018 (because why should movies have logical titles) where the aliens are here to ::: spoiler spoiler harvest autism from our children before climate change destroys humanity. :::
  I wish I were joking.

I actually like:
Hackers (31%)
National Treasure (46%)
Bandits (64%)
- What!? Hackers at 31%? The one with young Angelina Jolie? The critics gotta be some uncultured swine. That movie was gold! It was The Matrix type of cool before The Matrix. It put the punk part into cyberpunk for a lot of kids.
  Also its a bad influence: Got kids inspired to learn about phreaking and phone systems.

Disney's Atlantis.
God I love that movie.

I, Robot, especially after reading the books. It functions as a combo of the books, but set roughly where the first book took place in, using a variant of the protagonist from the sequels. The robots taking over as they did, though, wasn't really accurate, even just regarding the laws of robotics, but it worked for the movie's conflict. In the books, they get a larger hold on humanity, but to help them go past Earth to become an intragalactic society. For a one-off, though, I can see the directions the movie took to give it that close-ended feeling. Also, the implications of robots and humans, and Spooner as a chracter were pretty faithful to the source material, IMO.
- On the topic of Isaac Asimov stories on the big screen, I nominate Bicentennial man. 36% critic and 59% audience score respectively.
  I thought it did a good with the themes it brought forth and Asimovs testing of the types of conflicts that would occur with Robots gaining sentience and humanity seeing them as just machines.
  Despite the one event near the end that would create a conflict with the laws of Robotics and the effect it should have on a positronic brain.
  Also James Horner's awesome soundtrack.
  
  I would have never guessed Bicentennial Man would have scores that low. It's a great scifi and a really well made movie.
  At worst, it sacrifices a strong ending for telling a complete scifi story, which many scifi movies do. (And I believe was the right call.)
- I would say the only thing the movie has in common with the book is that it mentions the book's main character and the laws of robotics. The book is all about weird behavior of robots that actually obey the laws but the movie just treats them as some corporate doublespeak.
  
  Yeah, I don’t think Spooner is identical to Elijah Baley, but I see they connect on the technophobe aspects, if nothing else. It’s been a while since I’ve read the books, in other aspects they’re probably vastly different.

Grandma's Boy is a perfect stoner comedy. Featuring Nick Swardson in a hilarious breakout performance. RT can kiss 15% of my ass.
- I vote Freddie got Fingered as the only better stoner comedy.
  Or comedy overall.
  It’s one of the best movies.
  
  Nothing can hurt me in my CHEESE HELMET!
- I'm thinking about getting metal legs. It's a risky operation but it will be worth it.
- Fuck RT, imdb it's over 7. That's really high for a comedy to be honest. One of my favorites and has rewatchability.

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.
- I liked Chappie a lot when it came out, I was and still am a fan of Neill Blomkamp's work, but found this one harder to enjoy over the years the more I learned about how awful the two people from Die Antwoord are in real life.
  
  I watched the interview with the kid they, "adopted" and it's so sad.
- Wtf how is it 32%? While maybe not a masterpiece it was a decent movie, I really enjoyed it as well and also cried when the robot got hurt
- Agree. Its no "MaStErPiEcE" but it was for sure not a 32%.
- I liked that movie, although the couple from die Antwoord are terrible actors, I found it a bit distracting. I still recommend people watch it.

Tron: Legacy
This is one of my favourite movies of all time. The story, atmosphere, and music are absolutely amazing!
- 100% agree! Totally surprised to see it below 60%. I thought it did really well when it came out...
- It's below 60%? That's a travesty!

Boondock Saints (Nov 99 is close enough). It's such a fun movie, but only has a 27%

The Cable Guy

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.
- I'd no idea it was rated so poorly, that's a gem of a movie! I legit just bought it earlier this month
- Wtf, I thought this was a critically-acclaimed movie.

The Green hornet with Seth Rogen. I genuinely like it. It’s a good movie.

Rotten Tomatoes has both a critic score and an audience score.
If your pick has a low critic score but high audience score, that means it was formulaic or unoriginal but probably lots of fun.
Movies with a high critic score and low audience score are usually more artsy, film-festival stuff.

Easy - Godzilla 1998. 28% audience score just goes to show the public has no taste
- I remember my parents renting this from Blockbuster when I was a kid and I loved it. Now I want to rewatch it to see if it still holds up.
- Needs more cream

I like both of National Treasure movies. With 46% and 36% ratings

Hook with it's 29% tomatometer rating. Dustin Hoffman—sexual misconduct allegations aside—fucking nailed it as Hook, and I think the general concept of an adult Peter Pan returning was pretty cool. Also, who doesn't love Robin Williams? It was a movie I loved in my childhood so I am absolutely biased, but 29% seems absurd. I still find the "Don't try to stop me, Smee" scene hilarious to this day.

2004's Van Helsing stands at 24%. It is silly but it is fun.

Tank Girl. No one liked that movie when it came out. I left the theater with the biggest grin on my face. Absolutely awesome. Still one of my favorites.
It was completely different than the comics but it was still very fun. Especially in 1995.
- You're not supposed to watch it sober.
  
  I'll have to remember that; I only saw it just after its release and don't remember being anything other than indifferent. I've never read the comic though; the author/artist of the comic is part of the duo of the Gorillas, correct?

I unironically like Sucker Punch. And no, it's not only because of scantily clad women.
- Definitely helps tho 👀
- I didn't understand the hate Sucker Punch got until I found out that the theatrical release was cut down to a PG-13 movie. To make it PG-13 they had to cut the core themes from the movie since they were not PG-13 appropriate.
  I had only watched the unrated directors cut and never saw the theatrical version so any time I talked about this movie people had no idea what I was talking about. The story and supporting scenes were completely gutted and that's why people say the movie didn't have a good story - it was removed.

"Judge Dredd" (1995)
It's fun, funny, entertaining, and while not well written, is well acted.
Honorable mention is "Demolition Man" (1993) for similar reasons. Though it's in the 60s when it comes to a rating.
It's like, sometimes I want to sit back turn my brain off for 2 hours, and just enjoy.

Rat Race is 45% and I don't know why. Audience score is 64%.
- The whole Barbie Museum bit was just fantastic. Makes me laugh just thinking back on it.
- I once took a detour to Silver City, NM just because of this movie. Spoiler alert: it is nothing like the Silver City portrayed in the movie.
  But seriously, as a kid this was the movie that if I came across it showing on tv I had to stop and watch it. It never stopped being funny.

The Cable Guy with Jim Carrey. I thought it was hilarious.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
57% on RT but its probably one of my favourite Wes Anderson films.

Genuinely surprised Sherlock Holmes was rated that low, I really enjoyed it.

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.

Batman v Superman is great, it just doesn't fit the usual super hero movie tropes in my opinion. The ultimate edition is awesome

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?!?!

Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
STATION!

Street Fighter has 11%.
It's glorious. It's a comedy that only Raul Julia is in on. Everyone else playing it dead serious, but a super hammy scenery chewing villain, with some genuinely great lines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDRnVPlRzag
It's what modern movies are missing. Especially the recent MCU fare. Jonathan Majors and Josh Brolin may well be great actors, but they're not great villains. They're a better fit for mumbling their way through a 3 hour Chris Nolan epic.
Think Tim Curry or Alan Rickman in practically anything they were ever in. The earlier movies had this spark with Jeff Bridges and Tom Hiddleston, but they've lost it now. These things live and die by their choice of villain. They are after all the reason for the movie to exist.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
I was genuinely impressed by this movie
- I thought it was great fun!

The Room (25%)

I actually Enjoy The Lost World: Jurassic Park, a lot, and though it's not as good as the original, it is definitely the only other good movie in the series afaic.
I also don't hate the 1998 Mathew Brodrick Godzilla Movie, and it was actually that movie that kickstarted my interest into Godzilla. I still watch it from time to time. Not as a Godzilla movie, but as a decent late 90s disaster movie.
I like Star Wars Episode 1: the Phantom Menace, but I'll admit it is purely for nostalgia. I remember the ad campaign from the time, and watching the movie warps me instantly back to 1999, eating Taco Bell and playing Pod Racing on the N64. It's not a good movie, but it brings me happiness.
Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a fun movie to watch. Sure it is insane and unrealistic, but it has some of my favorite Harrison Ford Quotes in the series, and for as CG heavy as they are, I do enjoy the action scenes. I definitely like it better than Temple of Doom, so for me, it's the 3rd best movie out of the 5.
The live action Super Mario Movie is legit a great movie if you understand that it is a way different thing from its source material. The movie has a great sense of humor, Bob Hopskins and Dennis Hopper are brilliant in their roles as Mario and Koopa, The set design is legit cool, and gives me heavy Blade Runner Vibes. And it has the best version of the Walk the Dinosaur song.
If we are going by Critical score instead of Audience: Godzilla King of the Monsters 2019. I was so hyped for that movie, and it delivered everything I ever wanted out of a Godzilla film. Much more Godzilla screen time than the 2014 movie, great fights dressed in great locations. Rodan popping out of the volcano was one of the most hype scenes I've seen in a G film. and my boy King Ghidorah! THEY. MADE. HIM. LOOK. AWESOME! The whole fight over DC was one of my favorite fights in the franchise, and me and my friend were so hyped, we were shouting up and down during our screening. Thank god no one was in the theatre with us lol. Yeah it was a dumb movie with a dumb hollow earth plot, but IT WAS ONE OF THE BEST MONSTER SMACK DOWNS EVER PUT TO FILM!
Wild Wild West is a dumb but fun Will Smith movie, and my favorite part about it is all the steam punk technology scattered throughout the film. Steam Punk is already an underserved genre, but especially so for live action films.
- Late for the party, but just want to give my +1 for Wild wild west. Just watched it. It's not nearly as bad as reviews paint. It's fun and has its charm.

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.
- 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.
- 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.

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?

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), starring Johnny Depp sitting at a blasphemous 50%

I liked:
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (48%)
Jupiter Ascending (28%)

I actually like Riddick, all three of them! Haven't checked but am pretty sure they would've gotten less than 60%

Don't know if it quite qualifies, since it's sitting at a 61% audience score, but my favorite horror film Event Horizon has only a 33% critic score. I find a lot of good horror movies sit at or below the 60% mark on Rotten Tomatoes though. If a horror movie is too well rated, it's probably not very scary and not interesting to me.

Following the XKCD rules and keeping it in the 2000s and later makes it a lot harder. I could make an entire list of '90s movies that qualify.
But my answer is: Pitch Black.
Bonus answer, which doesn't quite qualify because it has an exact 60% rating: Love (2011, the space one)

Maximum Overdrive (1986): 14%
It's dumb as shit, and I will always love it for that reason.

I really enjoyed Resident evil.
I love my zombie movies and there's quite a few that score very low on RT.

The 13th Warrior.
Yes, it doesn't follow the book 100%. Yes, there are some goofy or cheesy moments. For a 90s viking adventure though, I think it's fun.
People might take issue with Banderas playing a Muslim, but Spain was once part of the caliphate that conquered northern Africa. Having a viking who speaks Greek, considering the Kievan Rus had explored the Mediterranean and fought for the Byzantines by now, added to the historical aspects of the story.
Even the original manuscripts get a bit fantasy, so I like to think of it as the movie reeled it back to a more historically accurate story over the greater fantasy on the book.

Dreamcatcher (2003)

Audience score or critics score?
Netflix made that movie "Bright" and I thought it was pretty incredible.
Looks like the audience put it at 83% but critics have it as 26%

Kingdom of Heavens. This movie just transported me but is rated 39%.
But to be fair I've only seen the director's cut, apparently there is a huge difference between the director's cut and the theatre release.

I am pretty sure every movie I really like is under 60% on RT.

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.
- Some of the stuff on your list is pretty bad, but a lot of it is intentionally appealing to a niche audience, which with how Rotten Tomato scoring works, will give it a bad score.
  Mars Attacks is an example of a love it or hate it movie. If you are on the right wavelength with the humor and style, it’s amazing and hilarious. If you aren’t, then nothing about it appeals to you.
  Rotten Tomatoes scoring favors movies that the majority of people find “Pretty ok, I guess” rather than movies which create strong reactions.
  Listing Daredevil is pretty daring though. The Netflix show, and the Punisher show which is something of a spin-off blow it out of the water.
- Waterworld is such a great movie with a lot of misguided hate. Many dont like it because of its reputation of being an expensive flop but havnt actually bothered to watch it. I personally love it, I also enjoyed The Postman too which was another unloved Kevin Costner post-apocalypse movie

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

Reign of Fire only has a 42% (Critics), 49% (Audience) rating on RT, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. The visuals and sets create a nice moody post-apocalyptic vibe, and the actors deliver decent performances imo.