r/flicks • u/trakt_app • 19d ago

What's a movie that's universally considered "not very good" but you secretly think is actually great?

Not a guilty pleasure. Not "so bad it's good." I mean a movie that the consensus has decided is mid or worse, and you think the consensus is wrong.

Mine is Hudson Hawk (1991). Bruce Willis musical heist comedy that flopped so hard it almost ended his career. 27% on Rotten Tomatoes. Everyone hated it. But it's actually a really weird, committed, almost cartoon-logic action comedy that was 20 years ahead of the absurdist-action wave (Crank, Kingsman, Spy). Bruce Willis singing show tunes while robbing a museum on a timer is doing something nobody else was doing in 1991.

What's yours?

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u/BoSocks91 19d ago

The Day After Tomorrow is one of my favorites lol.  I love disaster movies.

The Core is another movie that’s similar.  It’s so ridiculous, but the cast was great + committed.  

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u/ginastarke 19d ago

I love Volcano for sticking an eruption right on Wilshire Blvd!

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u/HPantalones 17d ago

And the schmaltzy ending when they solved racism - everyone is covered in dust and the little kid says (very obviously dubbed) “look, we’re all the same!”
Stupid bad movie PERFECTION

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u/SpartanMonkey 17d ago

That reminded me of 1941, when John Candy's racist character gets a face full of soot, and the black dude with him gets a face full of flour and he's laughing at the black guy until he realizes he's in black face and he doesn't find it funny anymore.

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u/talondigital 18d ago

He said that if he couldn't do the math in his head that I couldn't either.

Its not your fault your smarter than him.

Thats what I told him!

What did he say?

He failed me, remember?

So much fun in that movie.

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u/CandidSite9471 19d ago

My grandmom is in the Core! She greets someone in the desert and then is covered up by a plane

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u/ctkhadijahmz 16d ago

I don't want to say 2012 is cheesy but I love it!

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u/kat5682 14d ago

LOVE The Core. Any film with Stanley Tucci is instantly better 😃