I watch a lot of videos on That Guy with the Glasses as I enjoy watching him and some of the other commentators make fun on bad movies. One day I came across a video he did where he talked about movies where his opinion seemed very different from the general opinion. Basically, movies that he thought were good or bad, but everyone else seemed to have a different opinion.
This got me thinking, I've been using Criticker for a long time, and while it's usually really good at predicting what score I'll give a movie, sometimes it's wildly off. The predicted score is calculated based on the scores people who tend to agree with me on movies. Therefore, when a predicted score is way off, it means that I'm not in agreement with people who have similar taste as me. So I decided to take a look at the movies that I thought were bad, but almost everyone who share my tastes disagree.
In parenthesis is the score I gave the movie and how much lower it is than the predicted score.
-Dancer in the Dark (0, -67) I hate it when movies move the plot forward by having characters act like idiots. In this case, the entire movie was carried on the back of characters with a collective IQ of 12.
-Quills (14, -55) I don't understand at all what people found enjoyable about this movie. The entire last act is people being tortured or dying in horrible ways. It's an incredibly uncomfortable movie to sit through.
-Face/Off (11, -46) Nothing in this movie makes any kind of sense. I don't remember any of the actions scenes that supposedly make this a decent movie.
-The Dreamers (20, -46) Many of the scenes come across as laughable instead of artistic. It's a great example of the plot being progressed through idiocy.
-There's Something about Mary (17, -44) I think I may have been too young to really get this movie when I first saw it. All I remember is it being really gross, which I don't really care for.
-The Passion of the Christ (21, -43) Personally, I don't see the appeal that many Christians saw. Virtually every non-Christian I know was horrified by this movie and I'm inclined to agree with them.
-Bambi (29, -40) it has no plot!
-Frankenstein (39, -40) I felt bad giving it such a low score, but it's really not a good movie. It's filled with plot holes and illogical actions. It might be a classic, but it's hard to overlook its flaws.
-The Last of the Mohicans (33, -36) This may have just been a result of not being able to hear the audio very well, but I had no idea what was happening.
-Hercules (23, -35) I'm generally not too hard on movies that don't stick to the source material, but this movie was just insulting.
-Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (37, -31) I don't remember much about it, I just remember not finding it engaging at all.
-Sweeney Todd (36, -31) I told someone that the reason I didn't like this movie was because the music was bad and forgettable. They said it still had an interesting story. My response was, if it had such a good story, why did they make it a musical?
-Crash (40, -30) Did you know this movie was about racism? Subtle isn't it?
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