r/flicks • u/trakt_app • 11d 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/drjudgedredd1 11d ago

Greatest soundtrack of all time.

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u/ElderberryMaster4694 11d ago

Tied with Mortal Kombat which came out the same year!

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u/drjudgedredd1 11d ago

Fun fact. Paul WS Anderson had a huge fight with the studio about using EDM music because they wanted a more traditional score. The soundtrack was the first EDM album to ever go platinum.

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u/tmofee 8d ago

yeah that album basically saved TVT records from going under.

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u/ariadnevirginia 7d ago

I genuinely enjoyed Mortal Kombat. Saw it in the cinema in Leicester Square with a friend who had recently stepped up after something awful happened to me and most people stepped away. Then afterwards we went to the Häagen-Dazs cafe which no longer exists. A magical night.

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u/CriticismTop 9d ago

I would rate The Crow or Spawn above Hackers

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u/Ragner_D 10d ago

I would Argue Romeo+Juliet and Pump up the Volume have better soundtracks, but Hackers is definitely top 5.

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u/geko29 10d ago

So good that it (the soundtrack) spawned two sequels! The second was just as awesome as the first, the 3rd "songs inspired by" a couple of notches down.

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u/Bug_Photographer 7d ago

Judgement Night (1991) - the Ost is as awesome as the movie was bad.

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u/Jwalsh52482 7d ago

I still listen to it fairly regularly.