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I saw Atlantis the Lost Empire for the first time in years and was surprised by it's rating of 49% on Rotten Tomatos.
Even the audience score was surprisingly low. On the other hand Boondock Saints has an abysmal 20% critic score but
somehow has an audience score of 91%. Meanwhile, Rouge One: A Star Wars Story, which was in my humble opinion generic paint by numbers trash
has a high critic and audience score. Weirdest of all is how Spy Kids has an extremely high critic rating of 93% while the audience rating is 46%.
I've never seen that before.

It got me thinking about the disconnect between critics and audiences and I wanted to know about films you disagree with most critics on.

Just a few examples of movies I liked that got a low metascore.

Dirty Girl (2010) metascore: 37 / My Rating: 3.5/5 (very good)
Underworld Awakening (2012) metascore: 39 / My Rating: 3/5 (good)
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015) metascore: 32 / My Rating: 3/5 (good)
Open Grave (2013) metascore: 33 / My Rating: 3/5 (good)
Winter's Tale (2014) metascore: 31 / My Rating: 3/5 (good)
As Above, So Below (2014) metascore: 38 / My Rating: 3/5 (good)
Red Lights (2012) metascore: 36 / My Rating: 3/5 (good)

I believe critics were pretty harsh on most of Kubrick's films, upon initial release.

Heaven's Gate 5/5 , Pixels 2.5/5, Mortal Kombat 5/5, Terminator Genisys 4/5, The Conqueror 5/5, Exorcist II: The Heretic 3/5, Leonard Part 6 3/5, Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice 5/5, 2 Fast 2 Furious 4/5, Fast & Furious 5/5, Hannibal 5/5 off the top of my head

Remember that time the Razzies were so dumb they nominated Stanley Kubrik for worst director for The Shining?

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Garbage Pail Kids

I rue his death, but I also rue paying any attention to his opinions.

While he has written a number of books about his favorite films, he has also written a number of books about his least favorite films. Though, the only one I could find on the shelves of the local library was A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length : More Movies That Suck. Though, it is enough to show my disagreements with him--Roger Ebert.

Disagreements
2 to 0 with 2 being the highest.

Conan the Barbarian (2011) 1.5
I Am Number 4 (2011) 1.5
National Treasure : Book of Secrets (2007) 2
Pirates of the Caribbean : on Stranger Tides (2011) 2
Prince of Persia : the Sands of Time (2010) 2
Red Riding Hood (2011) 1
Season of the Witch (2011) 2
The Spy Next Door (2010) 1.5

Not that I always disagreed with him.

Agreements
Quantum of Solace (2008) 2
Robin Hood (2010) 2

(80% disagree. 20% agree.) Which is why I pay no attention to his opinions.

10,000 BC

I like this movie; it sort of has an old-school epic feel, but it currently has a Metascore of 34.

(And this is my 777th post. Lucky me.  :teddyr:)

here's some more: King Pin, The Book of Eli, Chocolat, 2 Lava 2 Lantula, 16 Blocks, Airheads, Happy Gilmore, Bloodsport, The Blob, Cut Bank, Death to Smoochy, Death Sentence, Escape Plan, Ghosts of Mars, Santa With Muscles, Home Alone, No Holds Barred, Hobo With a Shotgun, Kindergarten Cop, Machete Kills, The Pelican Brief

2004's THE ALAMO.

Far and away the most accurate Alamo movie ever made, standout performances from Jason Patric and Billy Bob Thornton - but it flopped dismally at the box office and was dismissed as an incomprehensible mess by critics.

Who the f**k are the people who hates Mortal Kombat? The sequel was hot trash but the first was a good video game adapted flick. "Those were $500 sunglasses, a***ole." That's a classic for me at least.

As for Excorcist 2...well you're on your own there lol.

For me it is Spider-Man 3 (liked it more than 2) and Napoleon Dynamite.

Red State, Suburban Commando, Sudden Impact, PCU, Promised Land, Quantum of Solice, The Purge, Road House, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Joy, Leonard Part 6


I could keep going...............

Movies we like but the critics hated?  On this board that's probably a VERY wide net.