10 Rotten Movies on Rotten Tomatoes That Are Actually Good

Every now and then it’s fun to look at sites like Rotten tomatoes to see how your favorite or least favorite films perform in the critical rating algorithms on which their percentage scores are based. Sometimes it’s not so fun, especially when one of your most beloved films ends up with that dreaded green “rotten” rating.

Sure, we don’t all have perfect taste, and most of us love a lot of movies that we’d consider more “guilty pleasures” than “really good,” but sometimes a movie’s low rating feels personal. It’s important to note here that a Rotten Tomatoes score doesn’t automatically mean a movie is good or bad. It’s basically just a snapshot of the critical praise or derision a film received when it was released, and should be viewed accordingly – especially with older films whose cult appeal earned them more popularity in subsequent decades.

Still, we’ve seen bad ratings like you wouldn’t believe, which is why we decided to dig into the depths of Rotten Tomatoes’ lost low-rated movies and pick ten that we think deserve way more than they got. Some of them are more subjective than others — your mileage with a “better than you remember” swashbuckling pirate movie sequel or a paranoid Hunter S. Thompson adaptation may vary. But Superior weapon?? They didn’t like it Superior weapon?? Blade II?? Vice Miami?? Were we watching the same movie?

Most of these films received critical and fan appreciation only after they were considered failures when they were released, and while we wish they had all been appreciated in their day, we’re glad that society has finally caught up to the brilliance of Hot and humid American summer.

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