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).

......

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.

Are any bomb films "acclaimed"?

Oh, I get it! You're looking for either unacclaimed OR bomb films!

It's wonderful seeing what Manhattan's upper East side was like in 63 in Henry Orient. Also Elmer Bernstein has written a wonderful score completely unlike his classic Magnificent Seven. Though it ends hopefully it's a very sad movie. And Angela gives one of her truly evil mother performances.

Death becomes her

Bros

Box office bomb and widely panned by critics. Eviscerated on DL. But I’ve rewatched it many times and I like it a lot.

Get Over It (2001). It's not high art, but it's a great piece of early 2000s teen comedy fluff that has a high nostalgia factor for me. Great cast.

So, I Married an Axe Murderer

Wendy Hughes ... in her day challenged Judy Davis as the greatest young Australian actress

R20 - Nope Hughes was never in the same league as Davis. Hughes never made it as an international actress as Davis did. That said I do like Hughes in some things eg. Remember Me (1985).

Under The Rainbow was pretty universally panned and even leads Chevy Chase and Carrie Fisher trashed it but I’ve loved it since I was a kid. Absolutely could not be made today but it still makes me laugh

Man from U.N.C.L.E. Truly unfortunate that we will never get a sequel. I know it isn't as unclaimed/much of a bomb as many in this thread, but it didn't get the respect it deserved at the time of release.

Agree with OP with Exorcist II: The Heretic

Some more:

At Long Last Love

1941 - the 2 1/2 hour director's cut

And two Hitchcock films: Marnie and Jamaica Inn

The transformers animated movie from the 1980s.

I feel pretty sure that I'm the only sentient human who loves MARCI X. I can't defend it artistically, but I enjoy it a Hell of a lot more than Rudnick-scripted films like THE STEPFORD WIVES and, yes, IN AND OUT. Everything that Marci's 3 sidekicks (Jane Krakowski! Sherie René Scott! Veanne Cox!) say is delicious.

Of these films I enjoyed Wonder Woman 2 and The Man From Uncle. They were fun, unpretentious and looked great.

Blackhat had Chris Hemsworth shirtless but not for long. And Allied would have worked well as a 4 hour BBC series but not a 2 hour movie.

Am I the only one who loves The Avengers with Fiennes and Thurman? The production and costume design are truly inspired.

[quote] 1941 - the 2 1/2 hour director's cut

Yes!

R69- OP here- Your choice made my day- I absolutely love this director and Only God Forgives. (He never directed another film since this one if I am correct) I just rewatched this a few months back and checked IMDB-

The production design, the absolute dread/darkness of the film, Kristen Scott Thomas plays vile SO well... The film really exists in it own universe and its so stylized. I love this one. (I think I really like films with a very specific tone and production design)

[quote]Man from U.N.C.L.E.

I really enjoyed this movie. I don't know why it didn't do better. It was generic, but there are far worse generic action films that do better (F&F).

[quote]Are any bomb films "acclaimed"?

Sure. Happens all the time.

R20 thanks for the reminder of "Dick". I saw that film when I was very young, probably around 12 years old, and I wasn't well-read or old enough to get all of the humor in it. My parents owned it on DVD when I was growing up, and I was always a fan of Kirsten Dunst, so I saw it back then. I bought it on Blu-ray over the weekend and watched it last night, and it is very smart (albeit ridiculous, but that's intentional) and has legitimately great humor throughout. I only remembered bits and pieces of it. I've always thought Kirsten has always had good comedic timing, and there was no exception here. I've been lukewarm about Michelle Williams for years, but she was also funny. The supporting cast (Dan Hedaya, Will Ferrell, Teri Garr, Jim Breuer, Ana Gasteyer, Saul Rubinek, etc.) is also fantastic. I almost didn't recognize Ryan Reynolds with all his baby fat.

R55, I worked on that screenplay...

When I was a kid, two of my favorite summer time HBO movies were Married to the Mob and Making Mr. Right.

I love Get Over It, R77! It's just so blissfully silly. Martin Short as the delusional drama teacher, the clumsy Australian student, the annoyingly permissive parents...

One of my guilty pleasures

R88, Nicolas Winding Refn directed Neon Demon and two TV shows since Only God Forgives but none of those projects have come close to OGF or Drive. I think he really blew his creative load with those two movies.

It's a great movie and I'm glad at least one other person loves it.

Bubble Boy with Jake Gyllenhaal

The World of Henry Orient

Northeast hooker with a heart of gold escapes her murderous pimp and flees to the Midwest, where she befriends a middle school boy and romances his widowed father and ultimately wins over the quaint, picturesque town.

That's MILK MONEY starring Melanie Griffith and Ed Harris

DROP DEAD GORGEOUS

It's beloved here and has become a cult favorite but I remember when it was released it got mostly terrible reviews and bombed at the box office. I loved it from day one

The trailer is pretty bad, avoiding the darker satirical humor and making it look more slapstick. I can see why audiences didn't flock to it based on that trailer

CQ from 2001, directed by Roman Coppola and starring Jeremy Davies and Angela Lindvall.

Set in the 1960, a young American man becomes obsessed with an actress playing a sci-fi superheroine (based loosely on Jane Fonda in BARBARELLA) and goes to Paris to kind of stalk her, or sort himself out, or something.

The stylish, hip film made a small splash when it came out and played in art film houses, then pretty much disappeared. It’s not great and the lukewarm critical response is accurate. But I love it and watch it about once a year.

Hot Rod (2007)

Watched it on an airplane and was stifling laughs within the first 5 minutes. It's a cult fave now but no one I knew had seen it back then so I forced my nephew into watching it and he agreed it was great. Isla Fisher was a delight, who knew.

CROSS MY HEART (1987) with Martin Short and Annette O’Toole.

I’m not sure why I love this weird, forgettable rom-com so much. The casting is a strange fit.

I think l love the set design and styling of the apartment that 90% of the film takes place in, it’s so quintessentially 80s.

I finally found a copy on DVD and watch it all the time!

Thank God It's Friday. Hideous movie with a young Jeff Goldblum, Debrah Winger and Terri Nunn but the 3 minutes of Donna Summer singing Last Dance makes it worthwhile.

Jumpin' Jack Flash and Burglar, 2 of Whoopi Goldberg's comedy flops from the 80s. They used to show frequently on HBO so I watched them a lot back then and will still tune in if I come across them.

So I decided to read up on The World of Henry Orient and George Roy Hill. It was a commercial disappointment but as we know he went on to make some pretty big hits(if you are of a certain age you probably know they were huge.)

I also looked up Tippy Walker who plays one of the two very young leads obsessed with Peter Sellers as Henry Orient. Wow was that ever a kick in the head! And boy did I have no idea. Hill married with children in his 40s had a relationship with 16 year old Walker during filming. Lunch every day which became french kissing in his office then...

It is a bit strange in the film that two young girls are obsessed with middle aged Sellers(38, but when you are 16 that is old) when at the time girls were obsessed with the teen idols of the era including the Beatles. I know Hill did not write the novel on which the film is based but Walker herself said it was awkward in that 'we were two teen girls saying dialogue written by old men.'

I enjoyed "John Carter" which bombed in 2012. Maybe it brought back a lot of memories of going to the movies when I was a kid in the 1960's. And I'm not really a science fiction fan, but for some reason, that movie worked for me.

Elizabethtown (2005) wuth Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst.

It's not on the same level of greatness as Crowe's previous films like Say Anything, Jerry Maguire or Almost Famous, but it's still very good-hearted story.

Chilly Scenes of Winter. I went through an Ann Beattie phase in the late ‘70s.

What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

Body of Evidence.

Flash Gordon (1980).

l get snorts for this, but the work of David DeCoteau stands the test of time.

R112, it's definitely a fun movie. And lots of nice eye candy too.

Flash Gordon rules and I still quote it to this day. (Which, according to a self-test I did yesterday, might put me on the autism spectrum.)

Klytus, I'm bored.

Not ze boahh wuhhms!

Lying bitch!

(among others)

My Life In Ruins!

I watch it every time it’s on. It’s Nia Vardolos’ best.

Also What Women Want. It’s ignored in the Nancy Meyers oeuvre due to Mad Mel, but he is fun and vulnerable and even Helen Hunt is likeable.

R25 91% on Rotten Tomatoes. Not a bomb!

I always loved that movie (though not the Paula Prentiss scenes so much). Phyllis Thaxter in some ways reminds me of my mom (but only in this one movie).

[quote] It is a bit strange in the film that two young girls are obsessed with middle aged Sellers(38, but when you are 16 that is old) when at the time girls were obsessed with the teen idols of the era including the Beatles. I know Hill did not write the novel on which the film is based but Walker herself said it was awkward in that 'we were two teen girls saying dialogue written by old men.

I don't think it's odd they're obsessed with Henry Orient. Nora Johnson, the author of the novel, based it on her teenage obsession with Oscar Levant. (She also wrote the screenplay, with her father, Nunnally Johnson.) At least when I was a teen (in the '70s) the girls I knew had some crushes on older men (Charlton Heston, Omar Sharif, etc.)

One girl I knew had a huge crush on David Niven.

I really liked Lolita and The Invasion.

Party Monster (2003)

Macaulay Culkin gives a performance that needs to be seen to be believed.

My favorite movie ever is Reflections of Evil, which is too fringe to have much of a critical response at all. 59 audience score on RT.

Plan 9 from Outer Space, Heaven's Gate, Southland Tales (maybe, I should watch it again if I dare)

I adored the 2013 Lone Ranger with Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer.

Talk about problematic.

Alan Rudoph's "Trouble in Mind" Divine plays a male gangster in a fascist dystopan Rain City (Seattle)

Babylon

R4 - Boys in the Band suffered from the overwrought psychological torture scenes that seemed to be in fashion.

From Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to Diary of a Mad Housewife - Boys in the Band had a similar arc and psychological high-tension that made it awkward for audiences with people screaming at each other.

This was obviously before people discussed such things and before therapy was so common - so I guess it was therapeutic. But that behavior seems locked in time, thankfully.

Reflections in a Golden Eye

Secret Ceremony

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

My husband would include The Fountainhead but I can't sit through it. He's a lawyer.

R128 I'll bite. What does his being a lawyer have to do with sitting through The Fountainhead?

Burlesque with Cher and Xtina- love it

Talladega Nights - hilarious

I might be the only one who liked Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate factory- pretty dark and funny. He might have been on acid while making it

Exorcist 3 Legion- probably one of the scariest movies ever.

The Long Kiss Goodnight with Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson - more fun and action and interesting than you would expect.

And it scarily predicts terrorists bombing World Trade Center and taking it down. Go to :40 sec point - talks about how 1993 WTC bombing was a ruse by CIA to get more funding.

And they'll have to bomb it again, kill 4,000 people and blame it on Muslims to work again.

But the film overall is fun - I have no idea why it didn't do better.

The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

I loved the production design.

Of course, the movie was doomed to flop cause it was released just a month after The Matrix.

[quote] It is a bit strange in the film that two young girls are obsessed with middle aged Sellers(38, but when you are 16 that is old) when at the time girls were obsessed with the teen idols of the era including the Beatles. I know Hill did not write the novel on which the film is based but Walker herself said it was awkward in that 'we were two teen girls saying dialogue written by old men.'

The movie is based on a 1956 novel of the same title by Nora Johnson, which is based on her own experiences as a school girl in the late 1940s. The girls in the book and the film 9and then later the Broadway musical adaptation, Henry, Sweet Henry) are obsessed with the film actor Charles Boyer and with Henry Orient, a celebrity concert pianist based on the actual concert pianist Oscar Levant. All of this makes sense if you remember the story was originally supposed to take place in the 1940s when Boyer was still a big film star and Oscar Levant (though ugly) was a huge celebrity--but by 1965, when the movie was released, and 1967 when the musical premiered on Broadway, it makes zero sense that two high school girls in the age of the Beatles would be obsessed with a concert classical pianist and with Charles Boyer (who by then was a very old man).

I still haven't seen In The Cut. I think so many people were just horrified that Our Meg was playing a role so different than her prior onscreen persona.

I did read the book but I probably was influenced by the bad reviews to stay away. Will have to give it a chance.

Ditto on IN THE CUT. I think the bad response were from people gleeful at Meg Ryan after she left her husband for Russell Crowe. She was great and so was the movie.

I also love GI JANE. It’s probably my favourite Ridley Scott film .

[quote] From Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to Diary of a Mad Housewife - Boys in the Band had a similar arc and psychological high-tension that made it awkward for audiences with people screaming at each other.

[quote]This was obviously before people discussed such things and before therapy was so common - so I guess it was therapeutic. But that behavior seems locked in time, thankfully.

I would also include The Lion in Winter among those works.

And I think they all have as their common inspiration O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night--when that was released no one had ever seen anything quite like that before, and thereafter there was a huge spate of dramas (most turned into films) where people would confront one another with deep dark psychological secrets they had been hiding.

R127 yeah, thank god cinema has become bland and chickenshit.

Also psychological drama still does exist.

Probably nothing r129.

But I bug him about it. He's a French speaker and some of the first novels he read in English were Ayn Rand's works. I tease him about being a closted deep adherent to her philosophy but he truly is not.

Studying law is probably what ended that possible trajectory, unlike some of his colleagues. Pure nostalgia and critisism of Hollywood treatments of popular novels is his thing.

I can't indulge him with this particular one. I find it unwatchable. He finds it bizarrely bad and fascinating.

A recent example—I thought Jolie: Folie a Deux was terrific, and I’m not being contrary just for the sake of being contrary. I think that there’s a bandwagon effect when a movie starts to receive some pans. Everyone jumps on board or they’re afraid they’ll look like they’re out of sync with the zeitgeist.

Hocus Pocus is a childhood as well as an adulthood favourite even though it got eviscerated at the box office and in reviews.

R136 - and screaming - you forgot the required screaming at each other followed by awkward silences and glances. It's so melodramatic for me.

Six Weeks with Mary Tyler Moore and Dudley Moore (1980) is a longtime guilty pleasure of mine. The protagonist, a pretty and intellectually precocious teenaged ballerina with leukemia, is a picture of good health throughout the movie and dances to great applause in a NYC production of the Nutracker before falling dead on the subway 15 minutes later (while clutching her head in agony).

Camp at its zenith.

LEGEND (1985) directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, and Tim Curry as Darkness

Although this fantasy film intended for children is now considered a cult classic, and won a British award for cinematography, top movie reviewers were not impressed by the storytelling. Gene Siskel rated it half of one star, stating "I don't want to remember any more about Legend than to make sure I include it in my 'worst films of 1986' list." Roger Ebert was more generous with two stars. Neil Gaiman told moviegoers who planned on seeing the film "...don't say I didn't warn you." Tom Shales wrote, "Legend may turn out to be legendary, but not in the way the filmmakers intended."

It was considered a box office failure, making less than its budget.

Ten days into filming, the entire vast set burned down and had to be rebuilt. Fortunately no one was hurt.

Tim Curry had to spend 6 to 7 hours a day to get full body prosthetics put on. And getting them off again was no joy, either.

In a 1997 interview with Tim Curry, when discussing the film, Meredith Vieira told him "If you were The Devil, I'd pay to go to Hell..." which delighted him.

A special director's cut was released in 2002 and was well received.

Xanadu

I think Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate is a brilliant film. I even like it better than Rosemary's Baby. I don't know why the critics savaged it. Johnny Depp and Frank Langella are sublime, as is the entire cast. It feels like a precursor to Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut.

New York, New York. I wanted to be a part of it.

R56 Did you know that both the director Doug Liman and Tom Cruise still hope to make a sequel to Edge of Tomorrow?

Edge of Tomorrow sounds like an afternoon soap opera of the '60s.

Mommies Dearest

Xanadu

R148 It does. There was a mystery crime daytime soap opera called The Edge of Night that ran for 28 seasons from1956 to 1984. There was also a soap opera called Search for Tomorrow that lasted for 35 seasons, from 1951 to 1986.

R150 True, I remember both of those. I think The Edge of Night used to follow To Tell the Truth on CBS.

I cannot believe someone bumped this thread. You start threads here and they do okay or they BOMB and I forgot I started this one! And finally someone commented on In The Cut! Thanks R134 and R135.

I genuinely like this film and thought the entire cast was fantastic- Meg, Jennifer, Ruffalo (my GOD he was sexy)

I liked In the Cut too.

White Chicks

And I want to add that I loathed Meg Ryan- I have never seen When Harry Met Sally. The only film I have seen with her in it was Hanging Up with Diane Keaton. (and then In The Cut)

I always found that she was a overrated cunt- I remember in an interview where she said "she started on a soap, but she was not a REAL ACTRESS - intimating that a soap actress is not a REAL actress. Just a real cunt. It was worse than I am able to even convey. I was like- What a fucking BITCH. (Whereas the amazing Julianne Moore RETURNED to the soap for its final week- and had never badmouthed it)

Even still, I really liked her in In The Cut and thought she was excellent in it. And I never hated her again after seeing that film.

I'm with you, OP. Exorcist 2: The Heretic has so much to love. Linda Blair looked her best in this movie, and that scene with Reagan channelling Kokumo as he's banishing the locusts in Africa to the strains of Ennio Morricone was pure cinematic poetry.

R100 Drop Dead Gorgeous is highly underrated and so much better than Mean Girls and Clueless, IMO.

Halloween 3: Season of the Witch. I remember everyone hating it because it had nothing to do with Michael Myers, but I think it stands on its own.

The Counselor (Ridley Scott) and Cameron Diaz in a terrific femme fatale performance for car lovers everywhere.

"Bless the Child" (2000) with Kim Basinger and Christina Ricci

In the Cut had Ruffalo's dick, so it's worth watching.

"Dirty Love". It's got a 6% on Rotten Tomatoes, but I love it. Carmen Electra is freaking hilarious in it!

"The Day After Tomorrow". I've watched it at least a dozen times.

Exorcist 3 with George C. Scott. He’s always interesting.

Monster-In-Law.

I despise Jennifer Lopez, and I despised her in this movie, too, but I thought Jane Fonda was hilarious in it, and it marked her return to acting after a 15-year absence.

Plus, Michael Vartan was pretty hot. Too bad he never had much of a career.

The best part of "In the Cut."

R164 If Michael Vartan had gone full frontal in Monster-In-Law like he did in One Hour Photo, the movie might have been a bigger hit.

R145 R53 Thank you! Yes, I agree Polanski’s The Ninth Gate doesn’t get enough love. It masterfully done, and harkens back to his creepy Rosemary’s/Tenant days. I’ve probably watched it 20 times. I’m surprised when film friends of mine dismiss it. The very end is weak, but really good films often have them. Plus it has Johnny Depp at his peak of hotness.

Grave Encounters...An obnoxious Zak like ghost hunter and crew get there’s..one of the creepiest movies Ive ever seen. I watch it over and over as it never gets old or less scary