What are the low-rated movies you enjoyed the most or think should be rated much higher?
I'm asking because an IMDb rating cutoff above 6.5+-5 seems to generally do a good job making sure I don't regret watching something. But what am I missing among the sub-6? I know they exist, but it is hard to select among seas of...bad movies.
Idiocracy. Has stood the test of time surprisingly well for a movie containing so many fart and sex jokes.
My wife and teenage step son had never seen this before, so we all tried watching it last year. Every single one of us fell asleep. It wasn't nearly as funny and entertaining as I remembered.
But that won't stop me from saying "IT'S GOT WHAT PLANTS CRAVE!" at least once a month.
I wouldn't say it was prophetic, because most of it was already there in 2000, but less virulent. But yeah, Mike Judge had to push against the industry to get it out, so at least some corpos were aware of what he was saying too. That is why it wasn't higher, because Fox tried to neglect-kill it.
Fox. Imagine that.
It's the greatest movie ever made and people who don't think so are inferior to me
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
Mate, I was fully prepared to create alt accounts and review boost it past 6, but it's already 6.2. Crisis averted.
Now the RT score though, critics got it so SO wrong.
This is definitely one of those movies you either hate or love. And I was just the right age /immaturity to love it. Showed it to some 12 year old cousins and only like 2 of 4 liked it.
I’ve always been sad that the sequel fell through.
I don't think they ever were planning a sequel. Pretty sure that was just a meta joke in the movie and all of the "preview" scenes were just deleted scenes.
Oh I had forgotten about that one. A gem
IDK about "rated higher" but I love Jet Li's The One
There's exactly 127 universes in the multiverse. Why? Never discussed. And if one version of you kills another, every other version gets that much stronger. So Jet Li plays both the hero and the villain as well as an assortment of the villain's victims. Jason Statham is in it too, as the hotheaded junior partner multiverse cop out to bring the villain down.
Weird guns! Weird tech! A prison universe! Super powered martial arts! A climactic fight in a foundry where you can tell the hero from the villain by the color of their shirt! Man I love this movie!
It's when they go through the pictures of Jet Li's victims that gets me every time. It's just him with different wigs. The one with dreadlocks is hilarious.
I genuinely love this movie. Very entertaining. Soundtrack isn't half bad either.
The ending scene of the film reminds me of the cover for the OG DOOM. But instead of a green armored space marine fighting a swarm of demons, it's Jet Li beating up a swarm of dirty prison inmates.
I actually thought this movie was a sequel to The Matrix when I saw it advertised and saw it in theaters as a result. It was okay.
I am Yulaw! I am nobody's removed!
the only thing I remember about that movie apart from the fact that I watched it with my high school best friend with whom I've long since cut all ties
but I do remember we both quite enjoyed it!
I unironically love Rubber. Not a single person I've shown has shared that sentiment haha
It's about a tire that blows things up with It's mind
Edit: doesn't anyone know how to make spoilers hidden? I wanna type something but dont want to just put it out there
I had no idea it was rated so low. Such a cool movie.
I think a lot of the Quentin D movies will be hit or miss depending on the person. It is such a strange concept for a film I quite liked but overall not his best work IMO. For more weirdness I gotta recommend Smoking Causes Coughing which I liked a whole lot more
Yes! My family could not get into it, I thought it was a riot
I saw that on the festival circuit. Still a highlight of my moviegoing career.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
I need to get around to reading the comic, I love this movie and I love its premise even more.
I haven't read the comic either!
Not to shame your taste or anything, but I've loudly chuckled when I've read this one. That's the only movie I've walked out of the theater from. Not joking. IMHO it is _over_rated, even a 0/10 is too high of a rating for that clusterfuck.
It's definitely a clusterfuck lol
I just found it to be kind of fun!
My partner talks about that movie on the regular. She loves it and finds everything quite charming and carefree.
I'm so clueless I'm not even sure I'm thinking of the right movie
I also found it entertaining. It's so bad that it is fun.
I am a so-bad-it-is-good movie enjoyer. If you want to view some genuinely entertaining schlock, I'd highly recommend:
Those just reminded me of another one I like and has a sub 6 score: Beverly Hills Ninja :D
The great white ninja!
Added to the queue, thanks!
Went to a showing of Cade: The Tortured Crossing and it changed my life.
Hell yeah! Any Wiseau/Breen/YKKim screening is always an incredible time.
The David lynch version of Dune. I find it much more enjoyable than the recent version(s). The art direction and casting are amazing.
The only clunky part is in the TV cut where they use storyboards and voiceovers to give some back history about the Mentats. Pretty sure this was not in the theatrical release though it’s been a while since I’ve rewatched it. Oh and the human close ups of riding the worms is showing its age in the special effects department.
Check out the extended director's cut sometime, you'd probably like it
stupid sexy Sting
I would kill to be that limber.
Super Mario Bros Movie.
The Bob Hoskins / John Leguizamo one? I love it.
Thats the one.
I wanted to recommend The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, but it's sitting at 6.2 on IMDB, which is higher than I expected. I'm still going to, because it's great. Jeff Goldblum plays the most normal person in the film.
It's BigbooTAY!
Robocop 2014
I think its extremely underrated.
I thoroughly enjoyed it, because out of all the sci-fi movies I've seen in the last two decades, this one has a very high likely chance of playing out exactly as indicated in the film.
We will blur the line between man and machine, and eventually have a identity crisis.
We will very likely see autonomous drone platoons being coordinated by a few or single human operator.
Those drones will likely be deployed in a military fashion first with push-back on deploying on home soil as a police force.
Until they will inevitably be deployed and used against civilians.
Also kudo's to the scene where he is stripped down to the bare parts, and the entire theater went quiet. There's a level of existential dread, when your 'being' is laid bare that the reality is... you... everything about you.... is just a small clump of grey matter.
This movie's main issue is that given the choice, I'd still rather watch the 1987 release. Like most remakes, it didn't exceed its predecessor enough to justify its own existence.
Gimme that 2012 Dredd though, that was sick.
Yeah, the original was way more entertaining, agreed.
But the original didn't really touch on the Ghost in the Machine-esque nature of blurring that line between man/machine.
Also the premise that they did it just to have a 'mobile tank' on the streets of Chicago was meh....
The premise of the newer movie, where they had to have a hybrid person in to push the narrative to achieve public opinion/support to allow robotic drones to roam the streets so they can make that sweet military industrial complex money and keep the plebs in place?
Yeah.. way more believable, if not a direct prediction of exactly what is to come.
DAMN that movie kicked ass. Definitely out did the Stalone ones and deserves a sequel or two for sure.
Haven't watched it, but I read it's pretty much a take for take remake of the original which was WAY better. The original is awesome.
Not sure where you heard that, it hardly has anything in common with the original besides the main character, general premise, and some themes. The tone, dialogue, most characters, and subplots are totally different.
Robot Jox, I watched the hell out of this as a kid.. And no it shouldn't be rated any higher than it already is.
Hudson Hawk - 5.7 - It's so dumb, but I love it. Richard E. Grant and Sandra Bernhard chewing the scenery with abandon steal every scene they're in.
Agreed!
Titan AE
Absolutely agree. Love the movie so much and in a world that loves incredible scales for sci-fi tech I haven't ever seen anything else like the Titans function in anything else.
Captain Ron
I actually like the Tom Cruise War of the Worlds good sound mixing too.
That had a bad rating? I thought it was a decent movie, decent acting, decent story, decent special effects, like most of Cruise's movies.
Hate the person love the actor, he had a long string of good movies
I think with a few changes it would be a better movie. Less screaming, a bit of a different ending and who survives. There's some good parts though. I've seen people complain that the one scene with the birds is convenient and forced to make Cruise's character important, but the soldiers were busy trying to get people out of the place and wouldn't have necessarily noticed what he did. Note that once they understood, they took action. Also RIP the one guy who almost made it.
I think pretty low for what it is
6.6 imdb
The one with the alien tube and the red webbing across the floor?
One of my childhood movies lol
This is a horror movie masquerading as science fiction. Straight up horrifying.
Kinda like coraline masquerading as a kids movie.
The brother’s storyline is ridiculous and ruins the movie.
He' plays a type of person that happens in real life and unfortunately they're usually annoying. His opposational defiance was developed earlier.
I'm not gonna defend them as super great movies but I do feel they are underrated by a point. If Bruno dropped before the world saw Borat I think it would have been better recieved.
How is Jingle All The Way at 5.6? It’s a banger Xmas classic.
Yeah that is straight shocking.
It's wholesome. Where is justice in the world?
I believe a new MacGruber is on the way
Sweet! I still need to watch the show from a couple years ago, that got better reviews lol
Wouldn't say I love it but I really liked Not Another Teen Movie when I first saw it. Not sure how it holds up but the parody it makes of those high school romcoms was good.
In a similar vein, Scary Movie 2 and 3 were also really funny to me as a kid.
That is unironically one of my favorite movies of all time and I think it's hilarious.
That movie was great. I love Marilyn Manson's Tainted Love music video he made with the cast of that movie.
Didn't know he did that; pretty funny that Jaime turned goth though the constant zoom onto his grills made me laugh. So glad that fad is no longer a thing
Freddy Got Fingered! The joke is on the studio and audience, and most did not want to laugh along...
I laughed harder at that movie than probably any other. The Redlettermedia Re:watch of it is great as well.
I'm being creative! Daddy would you like some sausages?
In the army now!
5.0. Pauly Shore, Andy Dick, David Alan Greer, Lori Petty
Oh man, watched son in law recently, was funny as shit. He breaks character sometimes in the dorm rooms and is funny as hell.
That's....uhhhh...quite a cast
UHF was a goddamned cinematic masterpiece.
Three O'Clock High is the quintessential 80s movie. Seriously, it's like someone said, hey, let's make an 80s movie. It's also got surprisingly good cinematography.
My favorite lowest rated movie is Steel, with a rating of like 3 stars on IMDB. It's got some incredibly stupid, but quotable lines.
"The alloy of those weapons is not magnetic."
"Well dip me in shit and roll me in breadcrumbs!"
"An ounce of pretention is worth a pound of manure."
Many alloys and metals in general are not magnetic, though, so I hope that line is stupid for the context it exists in.
It's stupid for the way Shaquille O'Niel says it because the dude can't act. lol
snakes on a plane (5.5)
Doonie darko
I enjoy pretty much every movie in some respects, but if you haven’t watched Deadly Prey (1987) you’re missing out.
It’s the worst story tropes of Rambo, The Room, and a 2AM cable access TV show and it’s somehow so utterly horrible that I couldn’t stop watching and laughing.
It definitely shouldn’t be rated higher. But it is almost must-watch for how bad it is. Easily one of the five worst movies I’ve ever seen.
If we’re not talking about horribly shot and scripted movies, then I’d have to say Passenger 57. Sure, it’s an overly simplistic 90s formulaic movie, but I liked it. Plus it’s got Elizabeth Hurley, Bruce Greenwood, and Tom Sizemore, as well as Ernie Lively (Blake’s dad), before they all went on to larger careers.
I always raise eyebrows with this one,
Lady In the Water
Anaconda has like a 4. Shits at least a 6. Opened doors for a lot of actors and was pretty damn decent.
Paul (2011) IMHO Frost and Pegg's best movie. Not sure why it's not rated higher, it is simply brilliant.
The Last Starfighter (1984) Epic sci fi flick that was the first to use 3D rendered computer animation. The effects do NOT hold up, but the story sure does.
Chronicles of Riddick (2004) Sequel to Pitch Black and I personally like it much better. Admittedly, that's due to I like that Riddick aims more to sci fi and Pitch Black toward horror. If you like horror more, then you'd probably like Pitch Black better.
I didn't dislike Paul but better than Shaun and Hot Fuzz? Idk man that's really saying something. Agreed on your other movies tho :)
Yes and I will stand by that statement.
Yes, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are also brilliant movies. Both movies are also in Frost and Pegg's exact wheelhouse, Britain.
Paul is another step above, because they so perfectly encapsulated the stupidity of a completely different country and culture. That's why I like it a bit better. Name US writers/ actors that could do the same thing for Britain? I certainly cannot.
Darkness Falls 5.0 on imdb. A ok horror film. I like it because it's pretty decently thought out. The minor characters do start to listen to the guy in the know once he is shown to know what's going on.
Man, this was the centre of a lot of my nightmares when I was younger.
Space Truckers (1996)
This one flew under the radar because it apparently never got a proper US marketing campaign or something, but it’s an easy contender for cult classic. It’s campy, it’s colourful, it’s got some truly great practical fx work, it’s got Charles fucking Dance in it for some reason… it’s like a budget Fifth Element, but they pay attention to space physics, sorta. There’s also pigs in the shape of cubes, for easier stacking. Anyway, kinda blew me away when I stumbled upon it. YMMV, but I highly recommend.
Hell yeah thanks for the tip, sounds awesome
Had good fun with "Getting Any!" (https://imdb.com/de/title/tt0110524/)
Rated as 6.1
Couldnt find any worse rated that quickly in my library.
I generally watch 7 and above movies only, except for horror which tends to be rated lower. For that I watch 6 and above. So maybe you should watch horror from 5.5 and above based on your general rating (if you like horror that is)?
The sparkly vampire movies. I watched them with my daughter and loved them. She made fun of them and critiqued everything.i it at wanted to find out what happened next.
Imprinted on a child and now life long lovers? I'm in, where does this wild ride end?
I watched the entire “Kissing Booth” trilogy with a friend recently. They’re cute teen rom-coms and I enjoyed all of the movies and characters. The writing is corny, but it seemed to intentionally have a kind of theater club vibe to me. I kept thinking the cast must have had a lot of fun.
Should it be rated higher? No idea. I think ratings are stupid tbh.
I think ratings are stupid tbh.
I totally agree when it comes to what a single person rates it as (single critic reviews etc). However, when reviews are added together, it gives a idea on what the general public thinks about it. That does not mean you have to agree.
I remember when The 13th Warrior with Antonio Banderas was released, it was slaughtered by critics, but the general public loved it.
Maybe if those ratings came from a movie theater exit poll, then I’d agree. Instead it’s like most other self reported ratings online. Essentially no one enters their rating except for: the people who really liked it, people who really didn’t like it, wannabe critics, weirdos who like to spend their time rating things despite never having seen them, and bots. The vast majority of people don’t rate movies because they don’t care enough. In my opinion ratings are just easily manipulated data that often exists just to reinforce conformity of opinion.
If you look at the ratings for the first “Kissing Booth” movie, there’s tons of reviews that essentially say the lead actress wasn’t hot enough. Then you consider that despite the first movie being rated terribly, the company thought it was actually well enough received for them to make two more movies.
The Dark Backward (1991) - Judd Nelson and Bill Paxton play garbage men buddies in a trash-infested, dystopian city where everything pretty much sucks.
I really liked the 2022 sci-fi movie 'Deus', 4.4/10 on IMDB.
The Lobster.
The mix of dry and absurd comedy is amazing.
The Story of Ricky
I really really like the The Last Airbender movie, the M. Night Shymalan one. It's one of my favorites, unironically, and I think it has a far worst reputation than it deserves.
I also think objectively the visuals are incredible even if you think the story and characters are trash.