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I'm Thinking of Ending Things. I love how bizarre it is, watched it like 3 or 4 times. I was surprised to see it has 50% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
mother! by Darren Aronofsky. It has average scores, but I consider it to be a cinematic masterpiece.
Apollo 18. It just has the atmosphere, sense of isolaton and impending doom.
Also Life which is thematically similar, but higher production value.
And in the same vein, Europa Report, though it has critic score of 80. One of the best hard sci-fi films ever.
Almost forgot Pandorum—that one was decent, too.
As was Prometheus (I know biologists and geologists IRL, studied biology myself—the films depiction of these folks is spot on!).
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I Come In Peace / Dark Angel (1990) - campy sci-fi action with a really interesting premise.
I watched it as a kid on VHS in the early nineties, then spent 20 something years trying to remember its name.
Hellraiser: Inferno. Producers should not have latched on to the Hellraiser franchise (I think it was a script rewritten for the purpose), but it has this cool premise of a guy entering an alternate, surreal reality.
I love the Hellraiser franchise and don’t really consider this part of it but I do rewatch this movie every few years for the cool daily-life-twisted feel.
For people with Letterboxd I found some lists where it's easier to compare with your watched movies (by hovering):
https://letterboxd.com/23warnecol/list/good-movies-with-bad-rotten-tomatoes-scores/
https://letterboxd.com/poisonivies/list/good-ratings-on-letterboxd-bad-ratings-on/
https://letterboxd.com/pakejanek/list/good-movies-with-bad-rotten-tomatoes-scores/
Now personally I've watched very few of the movies in those lists and almost all of those I've given very bad scores or have abstained to. The best one was 3/5 for Star Wars Episode I, which I though was fine.
I love Ishtar, fuck the haters