Films you love, but critics hate....

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FairyScarlet

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There are films that i really enjoy, that got critically mauled in magazines and online.

Star Wars ep 1 2 3
The Hulk
Godzilla
The Island
Jeepers Creepers 1 2

What are yours:confused:
 
I must admit that I hate all the ones you've mentioned (except maybe the first Jeepers Creepers - it was watchable). I quite like the remake of Psycho - but I still don't understand why Van Sant did it.
 
I remember seeing the Christian Bale film, Equilibrium on release and, despite the fact that it was universally panned by the critics, I thought it was a great movie (definitely better than the average Matrix clones of the time).

also, I love Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller comedies, which are always slated by the critics often by default. The same thing applies to Kevin Smith movies.
 
I love Death Proof - which seemed to be universally panned, not just by critics, but by movie-goers as well.
Not Tarantino's best film, but superb nevertheless.

Other than that: Martin Scorsese's, After Hours.
 
I haven't met Mr. "Critics" you alluded to in the topic's title ;) :p "Jeepers Creepers", for example, was met with much praise in magazines such as 'Empire' (4 out of 5).

In terms of films that haven't had wide critical praise...

O.C. & Stiggs (1985)
Thursday (1998)
 
there's so many movies I love that the "critics" panned, to name but a few...
Godzilla
Psycho (remake with Vince Vaughn)
Deep Blue Sea (yes, the one with the sharks!!)
 
Was After Hours panned by the critics? I remember dragging a couple of frienRAB to see it, which I probably wouldn't have done if it had had bad reviews. Good film, anyway.

edit: Time Out's review (which reaRAB like it was written when the film was released) says:

Scorsese's screwball comedy is perhaps his most frightening picture to date as Dunne slowly but inexorably sinks into a whirlpool of mad and murderous emotions; but a tight and witty script and perfectly tuned performances, perilously balanced between normality and insanity, keep the laughs flowing, while the direction is as polished and energetic as ever. Only the nagging undercurrents of misogyny leave a sour taste in what is otherwise inventive film-making of the first order.

Very favourable I'd say.
 
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