Your Top 10: Unsuccessful Films

[Astrakan]

At first I was going to call this topic "Your Top 10: Underrated Movies" but then I realized people would probably list a bunch of movies which may have received critical acclaim but which few people have seen.

What I'm after are movies which are generally disliked by everyone, but liked by you.

Most of the movies on my list not only received mediocre reviews, but also bombed at the box office. Yet I like them. Some of them I even love.

1. Death to Smoochy
2. Lady in the Water
3. Surviving Christmas
4. Reign of Fire
5. Brainscan
6. Lucky Number Slevin
7. The Postman
8. Mission to Mars
9. Gigli
10. Harvard Man

KM

[Pirate]

I’m not sure if this is what you were looking for, but this is a list of films that were critically panned and box office bombs that I feel have worth.

01. Howard the Duck
02. The Fountain*
03. King Arthur
04. Irreversible
05. Meet Joe Black
06. Stay
07. Jersey Girl
08. Bee Season
09. Flyboys
10. A Good Year



*I know there are a lot of members here who appreciated this film, but almost every single person I’ve talked to either hates it or has simply dismissed it as a nonsense picture. I don’t think I’ve ever been more disappointed in the critical community than with the reception The Fountain received.

[Iguana Man]

Oh dear God. I hope this thread is somehow being blocked from Tomdkats view.

I actually like a couple of those in the first post but don't have the knowledge to know which of the rest I like otherwise got shot down by "most".

[Astrakan]

Originally Posted by piratehunter

I’m not sure if this is what you were looking for, but this is a list of films that were critically panned and box office bombs that I feel have worth.

That's exactly it. Only briefer and more succintly described.

KM

[Pirate]

Originally Posted by Astrakan

That's exactly it. Only briefer and more succintly described.

KM

You sure you don't want a few more pages of detail?

[sub780lime]

You two have already hit a lot of mine

1. Clue
2. The Postman
3. King Arthur
4. The Adventures of Pluto Nash
5. Dungeons and Dragons
6. Jersey Girl
7. Lucky Number Slevin
8. Water World
9. Monkey Bones
10. Hudson Hawk

[raptors661]

Originally Posted by piratehunter

*I know there are a lot of members here who appreciated this film, but almost every single person I’ve talked to either hates it or has simply dismissed it as a nonsense picture. I don’t think I’ve ever been more disappointed in the critical community than with the reception The Fountain received.

I cant agree with you more. Everybody I have reccomended this to hates it. One of my freinds even said "Donnie Darko was way better." I have never wished some one to go both blind and deaf before that statement.

[Pirate]

Originally Posted by raptors661

I cant agree with you more. Everybody I have reccomended this to hates it. One of my freinds even said "Donnie Darko was way better." I have never wished some one to go both blind and deaf before that statement.

I don't even understand the comparison.

[thomashton]

I'm glad I am not the only one who likes The Postman.

Kevin Costner can make some seriously bad crap, but this wasn't some of it. I enjoyed it although it has been years and years since I saw it. Should probably give it another look.

[limacharliewhiskey]

I also enjoyed the Postman too. I was expecting a complete debacle based on the reviews that I read, but I really enjoyed it as a rental, and I bought it afterwards.

[billnye97]

Originally Posted by thomashton

I'm glad I am not the only one who likes The Postman.

Kevin Costner can make some seriously bad crap, but this wasn't some of it. I enjoyed it although it has been years and years since I saw it. Should probably give it another look.

I avoided it too for a great while because of the reviews but when I finally watched it I did enjoy it. The moral of the story I guess is not to put to much faith in others opinions and to check it out on my own.