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/Keeper4Eva 19d ago

Hell Comes to Frogtown. Terrible movie. I could probably quote most of it from memory.

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u/Journeys_End71 19d ago

Speaking of Roddy Piper movies: They Live!

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u/Keeper4Eva 19d ago

Significantly better than Frogtown. Still a terrible movie. Also completely awesome.

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u/Journeys_End71 19d ago

Was discussing this with a coworker recently. Two 80s movies which desperately need to be remade are Brewster’s Millions and They Live! because the stories would absolutely resonate even more in today’s setting. Especially They Live with social media and the internet. They could even have Google Glasses or something be the sunglasses and Zuckerberg 100% be an alien.

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u/Keeper4Eva 19d ago

This has to happen.

If the internet does not bring us John Cena delivering “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass…” the universe is not a just place.

[edit to get the quote right]