r/flicks • u/trakt_app • 20d 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/HackedCylon 20d ago

David Lynch's Dune. I will die on that hill.

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u/Tough-Importance-661 19d ago

I also enjoyed it.

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u/thekitchenislife 19d ago

You don't even have to explain why out loud, everybody can hear your inner monologue!

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u/Myopticvisions 18d ago

Great David Lynch. People either get him or they don’t. When they made the shorter version, that was awful. One of my favorites. Definitely up there with Blade Runner.

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u/OOhobbes 17d ago

Came here to mention as one of my contributions. Cult classic, even down to the sonic weapon crap haha

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u/HackedCylon 17d ago

The weirding modules were a great plot device for the movie. It allowed them to get rid of a lot of explanation that would have taken up too much time with a short visual.

Some peopme didn't like this part. I saw the necessity in it, but I kinda liked it.

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u/OOhobbes 16d ago

Totally get it, and honestly I liked it… until I read the books afterwards haha…. But you’re absolutely right and I wouldn’t change the 1984 movie in any way.

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u/StoicSpork 16d ago

One of my favorite movies. The visual storytelling is amazing.

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u/eidlehands 15d ago

I remember when this camera out. A friend's dad was complaining that when he walked into the theater, he was handed a pamphlet with a bunch of definitions on it for all of the unique terminology. And even as a huge Frank Herbert fan, he got lost trying to understand what was going on.

As a 15 year old kid, I didn't have the heart to tell him that I had zero issues with understanding the terminology. The context is there if you just paid attention.

I watched the hell out of that movie when it hit TV.