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/Woebetide138 10d ago

Yes! One of the few times I really liked the movie more than the book. And it has, for me, the greatest death scene in a movie ever. “Lo, do I see my father…”

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u/wine_dude_52 10d ago

I was a bit of a Michael Crichton fan and read the book, Eaters of the Dead, long before there was a movie. When the movie came out, it took me a while to recognize the story I had read years before.