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Opinions: What is a movie you genuinely like, that is rated below 60% on rotten tomatoes? (xkcd.com)

submitted 11 months ago by thebestaquaman to c/asklemmy

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Jupiter Ascending was a bit of a mess, but overall I liked it. I would contrast with Valerian, which is also a mess, and which I came close to liking, but in the end I just couldn't sell myself on it. The rest of the movie channels its influences and feels like 5th Element meets Star Wars, but DeHaan and Delavigne spend the whole movie acting like they're in a high school production of Blade Runner.

EDIT TO ADD MY OTHER COMMENT: Conversely, for all the bee gloop and DNA dynasty and flying rollerblades and other extremely weird shit that was sort of half-assedly put together in Jupiter Ascending, Tatum and Kunis had me more invested.

[–] hereticpilgrim 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I first watched Valerian a couple weeks ago and really enjoyed it. The plot and characters were fairly generic, but the rest of the movie played by the rule of cool.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

That's fair. For a "popcorn" movie, I just really need to enjoy spending time with the leads, and it just didn't click for me with Valerian. Conversely, for all the bee gloop and DNA dynasty and flying rollerblades and other extremely weird shit that was sort of half-assedly put together in Jupiter Ascending, Tatum and Kunis had me more invested.

[–] SCB 6 points 11 months ago

Jupiter Ascending is a mess of a movie but it is a great ride start to finish and I will die on that hill.

It's pulpy Sci Fi from the late 80s just played completely straight, and I loved it.

[–] ohlaph 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The ideas of that movie were interesting enough to keep my attention, but the acting was distracting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

LOL, did you mean Valerian or JA?

I will certainly say that the space station "tone poem" opening sequence bought Valerian a lot of goodwill with me... that it slowly whittled down over its runtime.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yep