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I’d like to see lists where both the tomato meter score and audience score are below 60

Legend(2015) has an audience score of 59% for some bizarre reason. I'd think anyone that was onboard for the permise enough to watch it in the first place would enjoy it a lot. I know I did, great movie.

Apollo 18. It just has the atmosphere, sense of isolaton and impending doom.

Also Life which is thematically similar, but higher production value.

And in the same vein, Europa Report, though it has critic score of 80. One of the best hard sci-fi films ever.

Almost forgot Pandorum—that one was decent, too.

As was Prometheus (I know biologists and geologists IRL, studied biology myself—the films depiction of these folks is spot on!).

Ditto, I genuinely enjoyed watching that

sharknado (as a comedy)

Bench warmers

Bunraku, and despite the title it's an english movie with Woody Harrelson and Ron Perlman. Its setting stands out the most as it's made as a giant paper popup book with a sin city ambiance sprinkled with some cartoony humor.

Although the movie tone is pretty serious ala Sin City, it's not a serious movie at all. And I believe a lot of dont-take-it-so-serious movies got unjustly canned a lot in '00s & '10s by critics. I'm glad to see that's changing a bit over last few years.

I honestly really liked The New Mutants and the idea of a superhero movie where everything happens in only one place.

I Come In Peace / Dark Angel (1990) - campy sci-fi action with a really interesting premise.

I watched it as a kid on VHS in the early nineties, then spent 20 something years trying to remember its name.

For people with Letterboxd I found some lists where it's easier to compare with your watched movies (by hovering):

https://letterboxd.com/23warnecol/list/good-movies-with-bad-rotten-tomatoes-scores/

https://letterboxd.com/poisonivies/list/good-ratings-on-letterboxd-bad-ratings-on/

https://letterboxd.com/pakejanek/list/good-movies-with-bad-rotten-tomatoes-scores/

Now personally I've watched very few of the movies in those lists and almost all of those I've given very bad scores or have abstained to. The best one was 3/5 for Star Wars Episode I, which I though was fine.

The Fountain is my favorite movie of all time, and it has a 52% critic score on RT. Audience Score is better-ish though at 77%, so maybe it's just the critics who didn't get it.

Big Game by Samuel Jackson. I really loved that movie and people barely know it exists.