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Post-2000? I'd have to say probably Reign of Fire... or Bad Boys II. All time? The Man in the Iron Mask.

Batman V Superman.

I really like Brother Bear. I read some "rotten" reviews and I genuinely don't understand them; I can't find anything bad mentioned.

Hitman

I just like the action, Timothy Olyphant, and like seeing Olga Kurylenko naked.

Transcendence 19% I'm a sucker for sci-fi with a cool concept like mind uploading

Green Hornet 44% It's funny and the fight choreography is cool

Difficult question to answer when you don't use rotten tomatoes, but the ones I've found are Mortal Engines, Fast and Furios, Oblivion (barely)

I am a lover of trash, behold my list of trash:

• The Possession of Hannah Grace | RT 21%
• Death to Smoochy | RT 42%
• Reign of Fire | RT 42%

Death to Smoochy is a great gem if you haven't seen it.

Green Lantern. I think too many people had the expectation of that Green Lantern powers would be something more serious. They were always cartoonish, and Hal Jordan was always a bit of a dick. Ryan Reynolds was probably not the best choice, he's a bit too pretty for the role, but he had the right attitude. Still overall a fun movie.

Pain & Gain only has a 50% score but it's arguably Michael Bay's best film in the last decade.

The Cable Guy and BASEketball flopped and are 55% and 41% respectively but those are two of my favorite comedies of all time.

Too many to list, but I take Tomato scores with a grain of salt unless they're unusually low. I don't know if I just have a high tolerance for crappy movies or scores are too intolerant there. I've also seen a good number with high scores I thought should be low. Sometimes they rate movies highly just for being unusual or for having some kind of social message, but that hardly ever means better.

The A Team for me. Just scrapes in at 48% rotten tomatoes. Wish they'd made a sequel.

Hexed, a 1993 comedy starring Arye Gross.

9% Rottentomatoes, 36% Audience.

It's really, really dumb. I recently rented and rewatched it with my wife, who had never seen it and enjoyed it.

The lead character works in a hotel and is a serial liar / conman who meets up with the supermodel he keeps insisting is his girlfriend.

Red Sonja ruled when I watched it not too long ago. Apparently everyone hated it, critics and audiences alike, but I thought it was fun.

This took a few tries, so here is everything I found.

I got Cowboys & Aliens, but technically that doesn't work for the xkcd rules because that movie came out the month before my 18th birthday. Very close though. And I guess it's kind of a case of so bad it's good, for most people, but for me, it's the James Bond / Indiana Jones crossover I always wanted and it's probably the closest thing I'll ever get.

I enjoyed Aladdin (2019), Don't Look Up, and Don't Worry Darling but I wouldn't say they are among my favorite films. They only meet the requirement for reviewer score though. And I think audience score is where it's at for this challenge. Suicide Squad works for this version of the challenge, but not for xkcd on audience score. Anyone can like a film that did poorly with critics.

This is probably going to end poorly for me, but for the rules as written xkcd challenge, I got Pixels. It's an Adam Sandler movie, and I know some people don't like those. I'm not crazy about Adam Sandler films, but this one was about video games and I really enjoyed it. I think Sandler did it justice. His experience with video games seemed to be primarily from arcades, but I think that is a valid perspective.

I watched it with my roommate during college. I guess some people hate it because they feel the original vision wasn't done justice for the short film it was based on. I might have seen some of that original short film, I can't rule that out for certain. But based on the version I found on youtube while writing this I clearly hadn't. The controversy didn't detract from my enjoyment of Pixels.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pixels

Just watched it the other night, 2013 RIPD. It was crazy, out there, pretty funny and just enjoyable to watch. 12% on rotten tomatoes

Southland Tales

The Master Of Disguise

The turtle scene is one of the best things I've ever seen.

Anyone say Pixels yet?

I'm not an Adam Sandler fan, the effects folks just did a really fun job and I get a little hit of dopamine seeing retro characters in real life.