Inspired by the linked XKCD. Using 60% instead of 50% because that’s an easy filter to apply on rottentomatoes.
I’ll go first: I think “Sherlock Holmes: A game of Shadows” was awesome, from the plot to the characters ,and especially how they used screen-play to highlight how Sherlocks head works in these absurd ways.
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.
Constantine is an awesome movie.
Yeah. I don’t understand why it doesn’t get a lot more attention as one of the early solidly made comic book movies.
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.
David Harbour had the potential to be a better Hellboy than Perlman, but the rest of the movie was … really not very good – in pacing, characters, or effects.
If you want a mash-up horror movie that’s more fun than the critics said, go for the 2004 Van Helsing.
I loved Van Helsing. It was seriously brain dead entertainment but action was great and the effects were good. I loved The Brothers Grimm, that came out the year after, better though. Horror movie, comedy, action. I passed that movie over back then because of the critics, so took a few more years until I actually got to see it.
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.
That’s exactly what it was. They just lifted their favorite parts from multiple different iterations of the story. The original movie and the original TV show, mainly. But those two don’t even canonically fit together.
It was a jumbled mess and it sucked. The original anime, its sequel, and the original TV show are all fantastic, however.
Watch the anime, everything that was great in the 2016 version is a bow to the “original”. And I actually think Johansson was a great cast for the film. The way she moves is so totally Major Kusanagi.
Hellboy is amazing how the hell is it that low?!
They mean the 2019 David Harbour Hellboy.
The 2004 Ron Perlman one is at 82%.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hellboy
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hellboy_2019
That makes more sense. Thanks.
I lived Hellboy, and 83% of people can suck it.
And Constantine… I could watch that movie monthly for the foreseeable future and be happy.
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
harvest autism from our children before climate change destroys humanity.
I wish I were joking.
I was not aware of that. Oh dear, that sounds like the kind of plot studio execs would come up with in the 80’s while high on coke, except they are all woke now.
Yeah. Robocop 2016 is so good. I get that it’s different, and it’s reboot no one asked for.
But it’s also a solid movie.
I watched it once (on an airplane 😆) and remember really enjoying it.
I think Constantine got some redemption in past few years; a lot of people were initially angry with Keanu’s casting and the divergence from the comic book character. A little over a decade after its release I started seeing articles saying that it was much better than everyone’s initial knee-jerk reactions. I’ve always liked it and bought the DVD for it as soon as it was available.
I’m surprised at Hellboy and Robocop though as I don’t know anyone who disliked either of them. My only complaint about the Robocop reboot was it just didn’t seem … “tight” enough. Like there was wasted screen time but I’m not director and wouldn’t know what to cut.
I really, REALLY, enjoyed predator for how absolutely stupid it is.
The double suicide was a fucking chef’s kiss of campy stupidity.
Are those audience scores or critic scores? Because the tomatometer or whatever sucks now, they take way too many shitty random blogs into account.
I only listed movies where both the tomato meter and audience scores were below 60%.
I seem to have the wrong Predator, though. And that’s not bad.
I kind of agree with the hate for the live action ghost in the shell. SJH was overused for a while.
I’m on your team for that.
Wow, those are some hot takes, those movies are great
Remember that the tomatometer is not a quality rating, but more the ratio of like vs dislike. A low rating just means that it’s either a polarizing movie or one that is hard to watch for the general audience.