Movies where Rotten Tomatoes got the rating completely wrong

Unregistered User

11-19-24

I figure we should have a depot thread for good films that Rotten Tomatoes dropped the ball on their rating of it. Be it good or bad.
Heres one of mine...

Finestkind (2023)
Rotten Tomatoes rating 29%

Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Foster, Jenny Ortega
Brian Helgeland wrote and directed this. Whenever I see that job combo I know most of the time its gonna be good.
Taylor Sheridan was one of the producers.

Id write a review but compared to yall I really suck at those. Just know its good enough to where I was inspired to come on here and make a thread where we can tell Rotten Tomatoes when they dropped the ball.

So far Id give Finestkind an 80%, Im almost halfway thru.

Allaby

Registered User

11-20-24

Cats 19 %. This is a misunderstood and unfairly maligned film that I felt delivered in an entertaining way. It's an 8/10 from me.

Corax

Registered User

11-20-24

RT and getting things wrong. This is tune with which I am familiar.

Captain Quint

Registered User

11-20-24

I tend to agree with the critics when it comes down to those debates, but a movie I really admired that the pros didn't was Factory Girl (us regular folk liked it a shade better, with a 60%, 3.5 out of 5)- my write-up...

Factory Girl (2006)
Directed by George Hickenlooper

Director George Hickenlooper makes good documentaries (Mayor of Sunset Strip) and poorly reviewed features that are loaded with great performances. Factory Girl is about Warhol muse, socialite Edie Sedgwick. At times the film seems fueled by the lethargic energy of Andy Warhol himself. It can be sluggish and distant. And yet those performances give it enough oomph to make it worthwhile. (There is no way in hell this deserves the 14% it received at RT from its top critics).

Guy Pearce is absolutely fascinating: Sometimes hilarious, sometimes frustrating, as the emotionally detached Warhol. Sienna Miller has never been better. Her Edie is a sensitive, wide-eyed, privileged/damaged waif. Who enjoys attention (shocking the upper class from whence she came) and is desperate to have everyone love her.

The only negative is the miscast Hayden Christensen as a Bob Dylan type. Hayden lacks layers, and he's a bad fit in the role. Otherwise, this was a 4-star flick for me.

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stillmellow

Basic Non-B

11-20-24

Originally Posted by Allaby

Cats 19 %. This is a misunderstood and unfairly maligned film that I felt delivered in an entertaining way. It's an 8/10 from me.

I think it's a highly flawed film that possesses a good number of perfect scenes. Every scene with Jennifer Hudson is solid gold, especially memories.

I think a lot of its flaws could've been solved by cutting most of the CGI, and making it more of a recreation of the stage musical experience. At the very least they needed to get rid of the CGI used on the cats themselves. They needed to be in their stage outfits.

I give it a 7 out of 10.

stillmellow

Basic Non-B

11-20-24

As for my choices, quite a few great horror movies have garbage scores on rotten tomatoes. To name a few:

As Above So Below
Five Nights at Freddy's
Final Destination
Dead Silence
Saw
Jennifer's Body
The Boy (ignore the sequel)
In the Tall Grass

Siddon

Registered User

11-20-24

Sing Sing 98%...it's a good film but it's not a film that's going to even crack my top twenty at the end of the year. It's one of those films where you see that the critics are afraid to be critical of the film.

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11-20-24

Originally Posted by stillmellow

In the Tall Grass feels like a Twilight Zone episode. When that's my critique I virtually always (I don't usually like dealing in absolutes) mean it as a positive. I don't say that about every horror film that has come out since the 1970s. I do get the vibe hither and thither though.

It reminded me of Triangle, so I checked that Rotten Tomatoes score, and it's 78%, so that doesn't work here. None of my choices are working.

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11-20-24

Originally Posted by Corax

RT and getting things wrong. This is tune with which I am familiar.

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11-20-24

Lake Placid - 47% - kiss my ass. Great cast, good script, good FX and Betty White telling a cop to suck her dick. This should be a 90% minimum.

Miss Vicky

MoFo's Resident Bitch

11-20-24

The Libertine (2005), 34%

Big favorite of mine. Depp is great in it. I really like the other performances too. Love the story. Love the look of the film. It's funny. It's sad. It's really entertaining.

Here's a review I wrote about it:

Originally Posted by Miss Vicky

The Libertine (Laurence Dunmore, 2004)
Imdb

Date Watched: 09/23/18
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: 17th MoFo Hall of Fame, nominated by me
Rewatch: Yes.

The film opens with an announcement from Johnny Depp as John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester. Wilmot proclaims that you will not like him, that you will like him a good deal less as we go on, and that he does not want you to like him.

But the reality is that I do like him - and this film - very, very much. Wilmot, or at least as he is depicted in The Libertine, is a fascinating character who looks upon life and the world around him with a potent mixture of boredom and revulsion. And in this film at least he cannot be blamed for that. The movie is dark and grimy. The screen practically reeks of the filth that surrounds him. Of the mud, and the s***, and the soulless people.

Though Wilmot is himself a man with little soul. Those around him who dare to care for him suffer for those feelings while he is unable to feel anything himself - except in the playhouse. And it is there that he finds himself a project, a pupil who transforms him moreso than he does her.

What really draws me into this film though is its irreverent and dark wit. Much like the film that has held the #1 position on my favorites list for many years, The Libertine is liberally peppered with sexual innuendo and sardonic humor, but it also has a lot of substance and heart. As the film progresses, I find myself laughing out loud and weeping in turns and caring very much for a character who probably deserves that caring to an even lesser degree than he claims to want it.

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Torgo

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11-20-24

The J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie from 2009 is what made me forever skeptical of the Tomatometer. It's down to 94% now, but in its release week it had a whopping 99%. It's a pretty good movie, but it's not that good. That's a score range I'd expect from your Bridge on the River Kwai's or Seven Samurai's.

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11-20-24

Death Proof

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11-20-24

Originally Posted by Torgo

I tried to watch it but I was blinded by all the lens flares. I think I have permanent retinal damage.

Torgo

At Work

11-20-24

Originally Posted by Death Proof

I tried to watch it but I was blinded by all the lens flares. I think I have permanent retinal damage.

C'mon, it's not that bad.

Oh. Perhaps it is.

Death Proof

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11-20-24

Originally Posted by Torgo

C'mon, it's not that bad.

Oh. Perhaps it is.

At least there's not too many Dutch angles

SpelingError

AKA Popcorn Reviews

11-20-24

I'd say the "fault" is more with the individual critics themselves as opposed to Rotten Tomatoes since it can't control what its critics think about the films they watch, but Gummo (39%) has always been among my favorites for what it's worth.

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11-20-24

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ueno_station54

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11-20-24

speed racer the first one that comes to mind

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