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I'm surprised to see Batman Forever has such a low score, I loved that movie when it came out. Granted, I was in middle school at the time but I've probably seen it a half dozen or so times over the years. I had no idea people don't like that movie.

Small Soldiers (1998) - got 49% Loved this film when I was a kid and I still do.

I really like Brother Bear. I read some "rotten" reviews and I genuinely don't understand them; I can't find anything bad mentioned.

Difficult question to answer when you don't use rotten tomatoes, but the ones I've found are Mortal Engines, Fast and Furios, Oblivion (barely)

Pain & Gain only has a 50% score but it's arguably Michael Bay's best film in the last decade.

The Cable Guy and BASEketball flopped and are 55% and 41% respectively but those are two of my favorite comedies of all time.

Batman V Superman.

Too many to list, but I take Tomato scores with a grain of salt unless they're unusually low. I don't know if I just have a high tolerance for crappy movies or scores are too intolerant there. I've also seen a good number with high scores I thought should be low. Sometimes they rate movies highly just for being unusual or for having some kind of social message, but that hardly ever means better.

Transcendence 19% I'm a sucker for sci-fi with a cool concept like mind uploading

Green Hornet 44% It's funny and the fight choreography is cool

Audience score or critics score?

Netflix made that movie "Bright" and I thought it was pretty incredible.

Looks like the audience put it at 83% but critics have it as 26%

Critic score or audience score? Because boy, there's a difference

National Lampoon’s Van Wilder is my pick. 18% critic rating but 76% audience score.

Pootie Tang is one of my favorite movies of all time and it’s got a 27% score on Rotten Tomatoes. It was made by Chris Rock and (pre-sex-pervert era) Louis CK and has cameos from tons of comedians. It’s objectively funny people being objectively funny if you ask me. But when it came out, film critics really did not get any of the jokes and thought it was all comedians being “random.”

A fair criticism of it is that it was a comedy sketch stretched way too far. A lot of movies are like that, obviously, but I’ve never seen one just bewilder critics like Pootie Tang. (It came out in 2001 when adults barely used internet, much less fledgling social media. Culture just wasn’t as mixed together back then and “pop” and “urban” music were on separate radio stations with little cross-over. So, I totally understand why Ebert didn’t get the jokes. But if you did or do now, it was a classic.)

Arq (2016) has a 43% rating. I loved it.

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

Cowboys & Aliens

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