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    Kangaroo Jack (2003) for me. It’s not objectively good but I found it silly and fun, and it’s one of my dad’s favorite movies. Never really understood why it’s so panned (9% critic and 29% audience on Rotten Tomatoes)

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    The first Silent Hill movie and the Tim Burton Charlie and the Chocolate Factory stand out for me. The consensus seems to be that they suck, but I like 'em.

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    i feel like it’s much harder when you finish a movie, and you hate it, and then find out it’s one of the most critically acclaimed movies of all time.

    this was my experience watching taxi driver. to this day, i have not been able to find a single other person who disliked that movie as much as i did

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    Congo is one of my favorite movies of all time I can recite every line in it. It’s only got a 23% on RT and like a 5/10 on IMDb but I don’t care. I still love the fuck out of that movie

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    Basically any movie-adaptation of a book. I know I’m in the minority on this, but if I wanted the story of the book, I’d be reading the book, not watching a movie that’s often merely based on it. A new spin on an existing tale is the best of both worlds imo.

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      Oh and two Christian movies I like the most, Courageous and Mom’s Night Out. Solid 7/10s that are treated like 3/10s because they’re Christian.

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    League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was my jam as a little girl… but it might just be because I ended up being bisexual and there’s a lot of beautiful and badass people in it.

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      6-7 on IMDB is a pretty decent score, plenty of good movies in that range. If it’s 5 and below it means it’s right proper schlock.

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      Like most, I totally disagree. However, it had such great potential.

      I feel the same about Valerian. The imagery was pure eye candy and then I watched it, so looking forward to a great flick, and what I got was… Valerian.

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    Death to Smoochy, my dark comedy about the mafia world inside of children’s TV show is utterly fantastic and I will not be taking questions.

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      That movie is fantastic. I had no idea it had poor ratings. Just thought it flew under the radar.

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    One thing I had to learn quickly was that my preference towards anything cultural was not in line with what my peers found good/cool, so I strode down the road of enjoying what I enjoy and let others enjoy whatever they enjoy.

    Here’s a short list:

    Roadhouse

    The 13th Warrior

    Both Ewoks movies

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        Open up your heart and let the Patrick Swayze Christmas in

        My tastes may be questionable but that is too much even for me.

        I remember seeing the first one in the theater when I was a kid and I later saw a letter my Mom was writing where she said it was a dumb movie, but the kids liked it. I was offended!

        The movies can be considered bad, for today’s standards but for what I care, it was a great way to spend some time. Where else could we se cannibal Care Bears?

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        I still enjoy the movie today.

        And I once found it in book format but the text was too riddled with errors and typos to be enjoyable and worth the asking price.

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    I actually liked sucker punch.

    Seems like alot of people didn’t get the A B C B A style of story telling that it did. I get on so many arguments with IRL people over it.

    A) real world beginning and end of movie. she is in an asylum.

    B) In her mind she is elsewhere dancing to get items to escape.

    C)her dancing is shown as boss battles because her dancing is her fighting for her life in her mind.