The Breakup starring Vaughniston

I actually loved everything about this film. Aniston and vaughn were funny and great at portraying a couple that shouldn't be a couple.

Meet the Spartans

I LOLed watching this. Anyone know who played the blonde son spartan character that gets killed? He's really cute.

Australia

That's all I can think of now, though I am sure there are more.

There are loads. If I started listing them we'd be here all day. For example my #17 all-time favorite movie is Staying Alive. I love it so much.

My biggest departures from critical consensus in this regard would be:
"The Brown Bunny"
"Marie Antoinette"
"Salo", I think critics were harsh on this film even though many directors cite it as one of their major influences and a major film
"Antichrist"

Also:
"Three Colours: White" - apparently, haha!
"Series 7: The Contenders"
"Mademoiselle" - the Richardson
"Irreversible"
"The Libertine"
"Trouble Every Day"
"Orphan"
"Holy Smoke"
"Spun"
"Last Summer"
"Babel", which was well-reviewed but got a huge backlash later
"Australia"

there must be more. i'll post them when i think of them

Three Colors: White, Mademoiselle, Holy Smoke, Last Summer (if you mean the Frank Perry film) were all well-reviewed.

Among badly reviewed films I liked (if not loved) -

Heaven's Gate (which has since become attained a strong reputation)

Ishtar (which contains Hoffman's best performance)

Hudson Hawk (people expected an action film, got a comedy instead)

I loved Zach Braff's film "The Last Kiss," especially Blythe Danner's performance. I found her to be award-worthy in that film.

Ditto to "Running With Scissors," in which Annette Bening and Jill Clayburgh were phenomenal.

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Amongst my all time favourite films are...........

Big Business
Charlies Angels (The fabulous first one not the terrible sequel)
Spice World
Legal Eagles
Stuck On You

Guilty pleasure - I really liked McQ's Charlie's Angels sequel (very strong film visually), did not care for the first go round.

I'm surprised no one mentioned Showgirls. A lot of movies try to be campy and to be so bad they're good, but this is one of the few that succeeds.

Starship Troopers is up there as well, to mention another Verhoeven film. Few people got this was meant to be a satire (albeit heavy-handed), and that the Federation basically represented the Nazis and the insects were the innocent party. It certainly wasn't what Robert Heinlein had in mind, but that was Verhoeven's intention.

Take - Jeremy Renner/Minnie Driver film with a narrative style along the lines of the Inarritu/Arriaga films. Saw it at the 2007 New York Film Festival, fell in love with it, waited impatiently for its release so Minnie Driver could get a Best Actress Oscar nomination, then watched it thud into theaters with a Metacritic score of 22. It disappeared without a thought.

There are many. The most striking one to me is Blade Runner.

Blade Runner was never a poorly reviewed film. Certainly the consensus level was far below what was hoped for, but my clear recollection is that for the most part the reviews were favorable, with some even being raves.

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Originally posted by seanflynn:
Blade Runner was never a poorly reviewed film. Certainly the consensus level was far below what was hoped for, but my clear recollection is that for the most part the reviews were favorable, with some even being raves.

It's got 91% on rottentomatoes.com.

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Originally posted by seanflynn:
Blade Runner was never a poorly reviewed film. Certainly the consensus level was far below what was hoped for, but my clear recollection is that for the most part the reviews were favorable, with some even being raves.

I too thought upon its initial release it did receive many poor reviews.

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Originally posted by seanflynn:
Blade Runner was never a poorly reviewed film. Certainly the consensus level was far below what was hoped for, but my clear recollection is that for the most part the reviews were favorable, with some even being raves.

Blade Runner was TRASHED by the majority of film critics. I was pretty angry by the reviews .
I find it very satisfying to see it holding up and climbing after twenty seven years.
They just werent ready for it at the time.

I'm trying to retrace this through Google; it's so damn difficult with so many different versions.

My clear recollection from working at the time is that the reviews were mixed to mixed-favorable, with some significant raves. Again, below expectations, and below what many fans consider appropriate. But poor seems way out of proportion to what the reviews were.

Here's a NYTimes article two years ago when the most recent "final" version showed at the NYFF:

<<When “Blade Runner” came out in June 1982 it received mixed reviews and lost money. The summer’s big hit was “E. T.,” Steven Spielberg’s tale of a cute alien phoning home from the tidy suburbs. Few wanted to watch a movie that implied the world was about to go drastically downhill.>>

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I'll jump on the "Running with Scissors" bandwagon, which wasn't the greatest film, but had wonderful acting from Cross, Bening, and Clayburgh.

This was the opening paragraph of Janet Maslin's NYTimes review back then - I recall it was pretty typical of the reaction - again, mixed, not poor:

Blade Runner (1982)
June 25, 1982
FUTURISTIC 'BLADE RUNNER'
By JANET MASLIN
Published: June 25, 1982
THE view of the future offered by Ridley Scott's muddled yet mesmerizing ''Blade Runner'' is as intricately detailed as anything a science-fiction film has yet envisioned. The year is 2019, the place Los Angeles, the landscape garish but bleak. The city is a canyon bounded by industrial towers, some of which belch fire. Advertising billboards, which are everywhere, now feature lifelike electronic people who are the size of giants. The police cruise both horizontally and vertically on their patrol routes, but there is seldom anyone to arrest, because the place is much emptier than it used to be. In an age of space travel, anyone with the wherewithal has presumably gone away. Only the dregs remain.

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Originally posted by seanflynn:
I'm trying to retrace this through Google; it's so damn difficult with so many different versions.

My clear recollection from working at the time is that the reviews were mixed to mixed-favorable, with some significant raves. Again, below expectations, and below what many fans consider appropriate. But poor seems way out of proportion to what the reviews were.

Here's a NYTimes article two years ago when the most recent "final" version showed at the NYFF:

<<When “Blade Runner” came out in June 1982 it received mixed reviews and lost money. The summer’s big hit was “E. T.,” Steven Spielberg’s tale of a cute alien phoning home from the tidy suburbs. Few wanted to watch a movie that implied the world was about to go drastically downhill.>>

A few acknowledged the land mark art direction. But few could envision a world exploiting artificial intelligence, or even questioning the definitions of life. Now, this concept is much closer to reality, very similar to the micro-chipping of the population by guys like L Ron Hubbard, which noone took seriously.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? NO.