Okay, confessions time - let's name films that we like or quite like that scored 25% or less on Rotten Tomatoes, meaning we disagree with at least 3/4 of all listed reviews on them.

I'll go first - White Noise (2005), isn't that bad in my opinion. (it scored 9%).

A helpful resource.

(I will remind everyone that "helpful" is a very context-dependent word.)

Incidentally, not only have I not seen a single movie from that list that I enjoyed, I haven't seen a single movie from that list, full stop. I guess I dodge bad movies like Axl Rose dodges CD release dates.

Open your mind, Kenneth!

Are you saying you've never enjoyed a film only later to find out it was critically lambasted?

Gee...the only one on that list I'd seed was Battlefield Earth and agreed that it was shit. Casual browsing in the current release and DVD areas didn't yield any 25% or lower movies that I'd seen (though I didn't look too long). Plenty below 50%, but nothing under 25%. I guess I need to see more crappy movies.

Yeah, pretty much all the stuff on that RT link blew nards.

But while I wouldn't say I liked it, per se, I always thought Surviving Christmas was just an okay movie. Not a gut-buster but not the shrill piece of pro-consumerism garbage that Christmas with the Kranks was.

That, and Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is so cuckoo-bananas stupid, I can't hate it. Immensely dumb but immensely entertaining.

Interesting. Punching in some titles into Rotten Tomatoes yielded some interesting results.

You guys know Observe and Report's score is a 51%? Somehow I thought it would score higher.

Lowest I found in my quick search: Billy Madison at 45%. Stupid as it is, I can't help but enjoy it.

Glad i'm not the only one who likes "Ballistic" I enjoyed Battlefield Earth in a so-bad-it's-good way, Travolta's scenery chewing performance was hilariously awesome on so many levels. Surviving Christmas was decent as well, it's one of Stiller's more underrated films, though I kinda liked Kranks too, even though I agree that the message was very hypocritical and misguided. HATED White Noise though, stupid stupid movie.

Now get ready for another long list, here's all the films 25% or less that I enjoyed:

Rollerball remake
Catwoman
Ultraviolet
Bucky Larson
Wing Commander
Jack And Jill
Captivity
Hills Have Eyes Part 2
Grandmas Boy
Balls Of Fury
Turn It Up
Aeon Flux
3000 Miles To Graceland
Chasers
Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem
Alone In the Dark
House Of The Dead
Firewalker
A Thousand Words
Adventures Of Pluto Nash
National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
Boat Trip
The New Guy
College
Miss March
Babylon A.D.
Supercross
Extreme Ops
Delta Farce
Witless Protection
Deck The Halls
Killers
Furry Vengeance
Son Of The Mask
Envy
Gigli
Grown Ups
Big Mommas House 2
Date Movie
Shark Night
Johnson Family Vacation
Soul Plane
Just Go with It
The Cookout
Yu-Gi-Oh The Movie
Cheaper By the Dozen 2
Serving Sara
Yours Mine And Ours
Corky Romano
Good Luck Chuck
88 Minutes
Because I Said So
Material Girls
Dirty Love
Street Fighter(both movies)
My Baby's Daddy
Zoom
Man Of The House
Code Name:The Cleaner
Happily N Ever After
The Whole Ten Yards
Abduction
Feardotcom
Bless The Child
My Best Friends Girl
Employee Of The Month
Kickin It Old Skool
Date Movie
Meet The Spartans
Epic Movie
Disaster Movie
New Best Friend
The In Crowd
Without A Paddle
Master Of Disguise
Half Past Dead
Twisted
3 Strikes
Redline
I Know Who Killed Me
Just My Luck
Georgia Rule
Underclassman
Strange Wilderness
Kings Ransom
One For The Money
The Bounty Hunter
Speed 2
Bad Company (2002)


I'm sure there's more i'm missing, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head for now

Not to my immediate recollection, but I was specifically talking about the movies listed in the link I posted.

EDIT:


Well, there you go. I just found out that Observe and Report was not well-liked by critics... though it didn't quite make the <25% mark.

EDIT 2:

And how could I forget about Street Fighter: The Movie?

3000 Miles To Graceland got an overall 14% and I liked it. Yeah it's ridiculously over the top. Yeah it leaves no cliche unturned as far as heist movies go. Yeah it's a Tarantino rip. But I enjoy it.

Rat Race got a 44% and the assessment that only a handful of the jokes were actually funny. To me, it was paced well enough that if one gag was a dud, the next one would succeed. While the sunshiny ending came off to me as a cop-out, as a whole, this is one of my guilty pleasures.

I like Rat Race quite a bit, although some story lines are better than others. I particularly like Amy Smart, both actress and character.

But that's well over 25%. I 'm rather fond of Aeon Flux (10%) because it's fun to see Charlize Theron in an action flick. Wing Commander (11%) was pretty awful but I wasn't expecting it to be any good anyway, so I just let it entertain me and I was having fun trying to figure out Saffron Burrows' accent.

The Giant Gila Monster is at 22% with only nine reviews, but it's a classic turkey that is really fun to watch, complete with really awful songs.

I actually enjoyed The Whole Ten Yards as a guilty pleasure (4% on the Tomatometer!). Watched it with some friends in college one late night, had never seen the first, and was entertained despite myself.

The only other one from Vexer's list I enjoyed was Aeon Flux, even if that was also more of a guilty pleasure.

Can't quite find others I like below the 25% threshold, though I'm sure they're out there. Some that are close-ish that I really like:

The Cell (45%) - I find it an effective, creepy reworking of the Silence of the Lambs concept. Kind of like... The Cell : Silence of the Lambs :: Snatch : Pulp Fiction

Knowing (35%) - I'm actually surprised the Tomatometer is so high--I remember the reaction being much more unanimously negative than this.

Fantastic Four (2005) (27%) - Oh so close. I actually liked this a lot better than the Silver Surfer sequel, and rank it among superhero flicks somewhere in the middle of the pack, a good bit above Daredevil, couple notches above X-Men 3 and just above the first Hulk. I wouldn't even call it a guilty pleasure; I legitimately like this movie.

I like The Cell a lot too, but I think it's more than a Silence of the Lambs clone. Especially with Tarsem Singh as the director. That man knows his way around visuals.

For me, I'll go Blair Witch 2 (13%) which I have long championed as an interesting film.

Christmas with the Kranks, Cheaper by the Dozen 2 are both movies I thought were amusing the first time I watched them.



I agree with this. It's not <25% though

The closest thing for me is Equilibrium, which scored a lofty 37% on the RT site.

I haven't seen any of those either. I think I watched the first 20 minutes of Good Luck Chuck, but soon realized that the topless gal at the start was going to be the only good part in it.

The only two I've been able to find so far is Death Wish 2 and Embrace of the Vampire. One is 25 even and the other is 13. So I guess I only have two if I can the bar to the < 25 club. I actually liked most of the Death Wish movies, and revenge flicks in general. Embrace of the Vampire is by far the worst movie I've ever seen all the way through. I was hooked in by the lesbian erotica and still fondly remember that part.

There are two on the list that Ken brought up that I find to be mediocre: Gigli and Dragonfly. In fact, I liked Dragonfly when I saw it, but that was many moons ago. I'd probably hate it now. Grandma's Boy isn't on there, but I'd say that's a good candidate because I like it for very odd reasons, most of which have to do with pot.

I've seen four films on the list that Ken posted: Dragonfly, Basic Instinct 2, The Whole Ten Yards, and Twisted. I don't remember Dragonfly and Twisted being awful, but then again it's been about a decade since I've seen them. The Whole Ten Yards, however, was terrible; at least the original had that gratuitous topless scene from Amanda Peet.

I will say though that I found Basic Instinct 2 to be surprisingly enjoyable. Sort of in a "so bad it's good" kind of way, but I actually had more fun with it than the original film.

The Da Vinci Code comes so close (it's right there at 25%, but not <25%).

Oh wow I didn't remember The Da Vinci Code getting quite so panned. I mean, sure, it was terrible, but I figured the prestige attached to it would keep it above 25%

From Ken's list I only have seen Twisted. It was O.K.-ish but not terrible. I will have to do some more research. I'm sure there are quite a few less-than-25% movies which I enjoyed in one way or another.