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mother! by Darren Aronofsky. It has average scores, but I consider it to be a cinematic masterpiece.

"Freddy Got Fingered". So stupid and obnoxious that it might actually be brilliant. Arguably

and it has Christoph Waltz

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.

I don't trust and hence use these rating services. I just watch the full movie

Southland Tales - 41%

I honestly really liked The New Mutants and the idea of a superhero movie where everything happens in only one place.

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

Zardoz. 49% at RT. I genuinely love it. It's insane and weird and doesn't make sense and it's wonderful. I even have an original poster framed in my house.

Any transformers movie. I just like seeing a bunch of cars transform into robots to then fight each other.

Me: “let me just go look up Mystery Men real quick… oh.”

Ang Lee's Hulk.

It’s a smidge over the threshold (63% reviewer score and 29% audience score) but I like this one more than the Ed Norton one (and the thought of him shifting based on heartrate is so fucking dumb) and I’m just kinda meh about Ruffalo’s Hulk.

Sanctum. Was surprised to see it with an audience score of 37%.

Mine is Stealth from 2005. Not high art by any means, but a fun action movie with some pretty cool special effects. Also written by the guy who wrote Big Trouble in Little China and directed The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension so bonus there.

I loved that movie! It got below 60%?!? Wtf