Critically panned movies that you liked

[GA!]

Wasn't Blade Runner slated by critics on release? And Shawshank Redemption, or did I make that up?

Blade Runner was mixed. Shawshank was acclaimed because it is a critic/award winning type film, despite how Forrest Gump took all the honours that year.

[Noah]

The 4th Rambo movie was critically panned wasn't it?

I rather enjoyed it, for what it was.

[Mick]

Wasn't Blade Runner slated by critics on release? And Shawshank Redemption, or did I make that up?

Shawshank didn!t have a wide release, it was loved by the critics. It really got popular because of Ted Turner's hardon for it.

[stokeriño]

Echo the earlier fondness of the FF movies. I even quite like the second one even though Galactus himself may as well not even be in it.

Said fondness probably does rely on Doom being so very awesome, though.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Director's Cut of Kingdom of Heaven is a legitimately great film.

GI Jane is pretty decent.

The one that I first thought of was Ultraviolet with Milla Jovovich. Oh, while we're on Jovovich add The Messenger: Joan of Arc.

Aeon Flux wasn't as bad as some people said.

The Transporter 2 is my favourite Transporter film.

Guy Ritchie's much panned Revolver is utterly decent and Mark Strong is great in it.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Ultraviolet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elIZWU07yAo

It used the same "gun-kata" fighting style that the excellent Equilibrium used.

[stokeriño]

When I saw Ultraviolet I spent most of it imagining the dialogue being said as it would look written down on a film script - because it was so terrible that clearly no one had thought about how it would sound out loud before they approved it.

[Hobo]

Hook, I like Hook. But only Hobina seems to agree on this.

[Rocky]

Hook is tremendous fun... I still think of Rufio whenever I see that guy on other things.

[stokeriño]

Who the fuck doesn't like Hook?

[Colly]

Hook is a great film. Only crazy folk wouldn't like it.

[Benjamin]

There are so many that the board would explode. I love terrible films.

[Kaney]

Yeah, Hook is fucking awesome.

I also liked the Matrix sequels, Doom, Thomas Jane Punisher was fantastic too.

[Noah]

Was the original Punisher movie critically panned?

That'd shade the Thomas Jane Punisher movie for me, if so.

[Nick Adams]

Well, I was gonna' say Major Payne, but critics apparently liked it.

The other movies already mentioned are, for the most part on my list too (save for Howard the Duck, never seen it). However, I really do need to give an additional shout-out to Elizabethtown. Orlando Bloom really needs to do more non-action movies (because I think Elizabethtown kind of defies any specific categorization - tongue-in-cheek dramedy, maybe?).

[OctoberRaven]

Was the original Punisher movie critically panned?

That'd shade the Thomas Jane Punisher movie for me, if so.

Well, Wikipedia seems to say so.

[IDOL]

I LOVE the 2004 Punisher, Thomas Jane was perfect for it.

I also didn't think the Land of the Lost remake was a bad as people made it out to be.

Hook is one of my all time favorite movies ever. I wanted to name my dog Rufio.

[Maxx]

I liked both Punisher films from the 2000s.

Also, John Carter. Perfectly acceptable movie.

[Szumi]

It may not count because it's now a cult classic but... Flash - AAAAH! - Savior of the Universe~!

Flash Gordon baby.

[VerbalPuke]

The original Children of the Corn is another one for me, in fact for a guy who doesn't really care for horror, it's one of my favorite horror movies. From what I understand, it was critically panned and still doesn't rate too highly amongst movie goers. They were doing the creepy kid stuff before it was cool to have a seven year old boy or girl whisper something spooky (god I hate, am I the only one?).

Now I'm not going to say I enjoyed the three or four hundred sequels to it, but the original was fucking fantastic.