What are your critically UNACCLAIMED/bomb films that you love-

Cats.

Loved it. I get why many didn’t but it absolutely won me over.

Mixed Nuts, the obscure 1994 Nora Ephron film with Steve Martin. It’s ridiculous and I love it to death.

“The Hot Chick” with now-problematic Rob Schneider and a fabulously game Anna Faris.

When I first came out, “The Boys in the Band” was considered a self-loathing, negative film that you weren’t supposed to like. Then “The Celluloid Closet” trashed it too. When I finally saw it years later, I liked it.

“Hello, Dolly!”

I love the songs, I love the last gasp of the old-fashioned musical with elaborate sequences, I love the setting and I loved Barbra, despite her being too young.

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Showgirls.

It doesn't suck.

It used to love Doggie Chow.

It takes you to... different PLACES!

Five Days One Summer - Fred Zinnemann's last film. It starred Sean Connery.

Bombed, but I like it

"Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation" (1995) starring pre-fame Renee Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey. It is loathed by many fans of the series and bombed at the box office, but I consider it a bonafide camp classic and hilarious postmodern deconstruction of the original film. I love every deranged second of it.

Poltergeist 3. I like the concept of the vengeful spirits pursuing Carol Anne to Chicago's Hancock Building; the skyscraper makes for a nice change-of-pace from the suburbs of the first two. The whole thing has a chilly, late 80s vibe--Reagan's America beginning to freeze over. It's sad that Heather O'Rourke died before production finished, but she effectively carries the movie. Nancy Allen, Tom Skerritt, and Lara Flynn Boyle are pretty convincing as the terrified relatives, with Zelda Rubinstein coming back one last time as Tangina. The use of mirrors and doubles is clever and creepy. And yes, even though we hear the name "Carol Anne" repeated over a hundred times, and the ending was rushed because of O'Rourke's untimely death, the movie has enough well-constructed bits to make it an annual Halloween viewing for me.

White Chicks

Empire Records. I watch it again and again.

For the longest time it had only one star on IMDb, if we were considering watching a movie with 2 stars, we'd always say "but it's twice as good as Empire Records!'

"Howard The Duck"

Stupidly bizarre to the point of being truly fascinating.

Back-to-back Shelley Winters: Bloody Mama (1970) and Who Slew Auntie Roo (1971)

Olivia de Haviland in Lady in a Cage (1964)

Mame

For the Boys

[Quote] “Hello, Dolly!” I love the songs, I love the last gasp of the old-fashioned musical with elaborate sequences, I love thesetting and I loved Barbra, despite her being too young.

I vastly prefer it to Funny Girl which I've tried on several occasions to watch but was never able to make it through to the end

Rules of Attraction

James Brolin film festival: "Gable & Lombard"; "The Car"; and "The Amityville Horror". Siskel and Ebert haaated him.

The Love Guru. (I am not proud of myself for this.)

DICK, with Michelle Williams, Kirsten Dunst, and (in a career best performance) Dan Hedaya. It's a cult film, but still underappreciated.

CAREFUL, HE MIGHT HEAR YOU. An Australian period sleeper with the performance of a lifetime by the great 80s actress Wendy Hughes (who died much too young, but in her day challenged Judy Davis as the greatest young Australian actress--which is REALLY saying something when the competition is Davis!)

MARNIE, with 'Tippi' Hedren. It doesn't work on so many levels, but even so, it is compulsory watchable. 'Tippi 'Hedren gives a performance that is somehow simultaneously brilliant and awful.

[Quote] James Brolin film festival: "Gable & Lombard"; "The Car"; and "The Amityville Horror". Siskel and Ebert haaated him.

And justifiably so as did almost everyone. I remember seeing The Amityville Horror and only being scared once when a cat suddenly popped up out of nowhere. Ultimately it feels like a mediocre episode of Unsolved Mysteries, and some may find Rod Steiger's over the top performing amusing. Gable and Lombard and The Car were really vilified at least The Amityville Horror was a huge box office success

btw R15 what about another Brolin film 1972s Skyjacked which was a theatrical release but absolutely feels like a made for TV movie

I saw The Car on Svengoolie and liked it.

R14, I love Who Slew Auntie Roo

I also love Shelley's other "hag horror" movie, What's the Matter With Helen

Big Eyes

The World of Henry Orient.

Very funny, very gentle film with Peter Sellars and Angela Lansbury. An idyllic look at what teenage girls and Manhattan in general could be like in the mid-1960s. Paula Prentiss has one of the funniest supporting parts of all time as a VERY nervous Westchester housewife cheating on her husband.

I saw The Car in the theater and had totally forgotten about it ! I also liked Race With The Devil . But one of my all time faves b movie is Vice Squad with Season Hubley, Gary Swanson and Wings Hauser . I LOVED Gary Swanson madly !

R16 You're forgiven. The second half of Funny Girl really drags!

Dirty Grandpa. I thought it was hilarious. Zac Efron never looked better. He's almost completely naked. DeNiro's homophobic grandpa turns out not to be homophobic at all. He loves insulting everybody.

How could DL not love this movie? (or most people?)

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

IN THE CUNT

was where I did most of my work with Mark Ruffalo

Good one r29

I don’t understand why Race with the Devil is critically panned when it’s the one horror films that’s the most realistic.

Hitchcock's Frenzy is underrated. Excellent movie.

I really like Frenzy

"Body Shots" (1999)

Starring: Sean Patrick Flanery, Jerry O'Connell, Amanda Peet, Tara Reid, Ron Livingston, Emily Procter, Brad Rowe and Sybil Temtchine.

The film is basically a Cosmopolitan article about date rape made into a screenplay. Yet, for some reason, I didn't find it that bad.

Grumpy Cat. Aubrey Plaza voices it perfectly.

I love Femme Fatale, De Palma’s film.

I took it as an homage to 1960s eurothrillers/caper films. It’s gorgeously shot and impeccably directed. And I think Rebecca Romijn is quite good in it.

The score is breathtaking!

I went to see it when it was released in theaters. It was around six months after 9/11. I really needed a fun eyeful like Femme Fatale.

R32 It was considered a cheapy horror film when it came out. It pretty much went straight to Drive-ins and 2nd run movie houses.

But over the years, it's become a cult favorite of many. I would no longer consider it unacclaimed.

And the ending is pretty fucking campy!

One thing that bugged me. I don't care if this is a spoiler alert because its the one thing I wish I had prepared for.

Kill as many people as you want in any manner of vicious ways. Even kill a baby if you want to.

BUT DO NOT KILL THE FAMILY DOG! I hate when they do that in any movie.

"Karen" (2021). It's pretty eye-rolling bad, plays like an instructional film you'd watch during a job orientation.

Which is too bad, because Taryn Manning is genuinely menacing and spot-on. She deserved a better movie.

Mommie Dearest, of course

Poison Ivy (the Drew Barrymore film)

Dude, Where's My Car

STOP! OR MY MOM WILL SHOOT (1992)

Last month, YouTube made it free to watch, so I did for the first time ever and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it, after it was eviscerated by critics 3 decades ago and underperformed at the box office.

Although it did much better on home video via sales/rentals, it still did not entice me to watch.

Anyway, it's a typical buddy cop action comedy with Sylvester Stallone and Estelle Getty, who are believable as mother and son.

I laughed pretty hard throughout. It's an example of one of those movies that critics hate, but it's a fun watch.

R16, I was going to say the same thing as R27. “Funny Girl” is so amazing at the start and just drops off.

Norbert. I got everything in that movie and think it's pretty much a masterpiece.

R20 I'm not sure you could call 'Careful He Might Hear You' unacclaimed or a bomb. It was well received at the time but seems to have fallen off the radar in discussions of Australian films. Maybe because it really pushed the envelope in ways that couldn't be done today.

There's a sex scene where Wendy Hughes masturbates over her nephew while fantasizing about his father. The actor playing the nephew (Nicholas Gledhill) was only eight years old. Revenge comes at his birthday party with an astonishing shot where he's sitting on a sofa staring at his aunt while the other kids writhe around in mock sexual arousal because he's told them about it.

Also worth seeing for the cameo by John Hargreaves as the boy's father. Great actor who died of AIDS in 1996.

R37, I love Femme Fatale. It isn't really "thrilling" in the typical sense of a Thriller. But it's one of the most well-directed movies ever. I love the score too, one of the composer's best (he died recently).

Forces of Nature (1999)

It's such a guilty pleeasure film. Ben looked hot as fuck in it.

Connie and Carla

It’s a bawdy take on Some Like It Hot which bombed at the box office, but I adore it.

The Paperboy

That movie is straight-up bonkers from beginning to end, and I love every deranged moment from it. You know you're in for a wild ride when the movie starts with Macy Gray imitating a masturbating Zac Efron and only gets weirder from there.

R49, I have a screen shot of Matthew McConaughey (god I hate actor's names you have to look up every time to spell them correctly) naked and hogtied from that movie on my computer somewhere. He was like on his belly, his wrist tied to his ankles and I zoom into to see if you can see hole. In the film he is beaten bloody in that position, but damn if it isn't still hot as fuck knowing it is him.

Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar is mine. I love that stupid little movie. It makes me laugh. It's so innocent and sunny and fun. And Jamie Dornan is so cute singing and dancing. It's DUMB as hell, but the jokes land. It's a favorite airplane movie if it's available.

Barb and Star actually got decent reviews. I don't know anyone who dislikes it.

I'll always smile when I hear the name Trish thanks to the movie.

The Fog (1980)

Serial Mom

The Ninth Gate

The Toy with Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason.

Juliet, Naked was my favorite film of that year, but it was all but ignored and disappeared without a trace.

"Edge of Tomorrow" was shy of an outright bomb, but it drastically underperformed given the genre and how good it was.

Interiors

[quote]Hitchcock's Frenzy is underrated.

Hardly, r33. Frenzy was touted as Hitchcock's return to form and was a hit.

Fine, R58, but it isn't usually mentioned in his list of great films and I think it should be along with Psycho and North By Northwest.

I remember enjoying the Bedazzled remake when it came out, even though the critics hated it. I was about thirteen and thought that even though it was all a bit stupid, Liz Hurley was so much fun as the Devil. Kind of ironic that such a high-camp film has a homophobic segment (Brendan Frazer is horrified to realise he's gay in a certain timeline, although that was par for the course in 2000).

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I used to watch a Chorus Line all the time on vhs.

Was Urban Cowboy acclaimed by any critics?

I really like White Chicks...its a really fun parody.

R64, agreed, I feel the same way about Malibu's Most Wanted as well.

Fedora. Or “Feh-DOE-wah,” as its lead Marthe Keller pronounced it.

La Luna with Jill Clayburgh as an American opera star in Italy who ends up jerking off her teenage son who also happens to be a heroin addict.

Clifford

Soul Plane

Only God Forgives (2013)

Grossed ten million worldwide and has a 37 on metacritic.

I think it's absolutely beautiful, captivating and has a great soundtrack. Ryan Gosling and Kristen Scott Thomas are perfect in it.

To Wong foo was critically dragged as an inferior copy of Priscilla queen of the desert, but had become the better loved and remembered of the two especially by younger generations.

Reality bites also has more contemporary fans than singles, against which it was unfavorably compared uponrelease.

I don't know what you mean by 'Unacclaimed/bomb films" -- but I love Joe Dirt, if that fits.