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What constitutes a "shit rating?"
Big Trouble in Little China is 7.2/10 on IMDB, and it got positive reviews; it was, however, a commercial failure, making only half what it cost to produce. Great movie.
Wizards rates only 6.3/10 on IMDB, although it did well at the box office. That may be my favorite movie of all time.
Dredd failed at the box office but gets a 7.1 from IMDB. I think it's grossly underrated.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a 6.4 and generally gets poor reviews; it did fine at the box office. But I love that film.
If you want you get esoteric, Lord Love a Duck (1966) was a financial failure and gets only 6.3 from IMDB, but it's wonderful.
Disney's 1979 The Black Hole gets a 5.9 and didn't do well. It's a lot of fun and the ending is an acid trip.
The Prophesy (1995) got really bad reviews and 46% on Rotten Tomatoes, proving there's no accounting for taste. Absolutely worth watching.
Hawk the Slayer (1980), 5.3, is in the "it's so bad it's good" category. This includes Zardoz (1974), and Krull.
And, Dune (1984). 6.3 IMDB, total loss at the box office, and one of the best movies of all time. I kinda think Herbert might have hated it where he'd have liked 2021, but the cast, the atmosphere, the music, the hyperbolic representations of the characters; it is a masterpiece. And it features a young, mostly naked Sting (which is the lure I used to use to get my girlfriends to watch it).
S.O.B. (1981). 6.4 IMDB, but 81% RT. Box office failure. Hilarious, and a topless Julie Andrews (sigh).
Red Dawn (1984). 6.3/48%. Not my favorite movie, but worth a watch. Surprising decision to not utterly vilify (unhumanize) the Russian antagonists.
Wait what? Big trouble in little china got- Pardon I'm gonna need to process that for a moment as that's one of the few things me and my stepdad will call time out on arguments on. It's a great carpenter adventure movie. It's literally a sendup of the modenr john wayne archatype. Hell, jack isn't even stupid, he's just, to borrow a tv tropes term, wrong genre savvy. Also I recommend the boom comics when/if you can.
it contextualizes him refusing to kiss Grace Law at the end and... it is utter heartache in the best way.
Dredd ... needed a netflix mega city one police proceedural followup. with Urban's Dread showing up a couple times when thigns get above everyone's heads both to prevent his overuse and to remind everyone WHY he is feared.
I'm gonna admit i saw the Dune novels as overrated, but i liked that the 80's movie tried to have fun while telling the story.
Well at the point red dawn was made, we were starting to thaw on the russians, even as Regan kept juicing the Empire of Evil rhetoric. The message 'war destroys everyone' is a good one.
I really do not know why Dredd didn't get a sequel. I thought it did pretty well in theaters.
It didn't. It cost them $30-40M to make, and only grossed $41.5M at the box office. Studios don't make sequels for break-even films.
It got good reviews, fans liked it - even John Wagner, the guy who created the character, liked it. I don't know why it did so poorly at the theaters.
They filmed it in 3D, a BluRay of which I'm a proud owner, and it's fantastic in 3D. It also explains some of the framing of many of the shots, even though (I think) they also work fine in 2D.