The Way of the Gun (2000), 46% fresh. I really, actually do like this movie. I know, Ryan Phillipe makes things complicated. Like, starting in the first scene with Sarah Silverman.

“There’s always cheese at a mousetrap.”

The problem that this movie faced was that there was no reward for having a long attention span. Critically panned, the Way of the Gun rewards those who get carried along in the story; those who understand the roles the characters play in each others’ lives, the Shakespearean knit in the fabric.

Longbaugh and Parker are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern witnessing the collapse of the house of and unborn Hamlet, whose supposed parents are a mob underboss and his trophy wife. His actual parents are at the shootout where he was born.

This is a good movie. Watch it.

I wonder what the sample size looks like for movies with a score less than 50% pre-2000 vs post-2000.

Writing off an entire century of filmmaking seems like a cop-out

Event Horizon is in the 30s with critics, but higher with audiences. Does it need to be both critics and audience?

I would need to do a lot of searching to find out what movies I like are poorly rated since I don’t usually check.

Pootie Tang (2001) is 27% critics, 63% audience. Is that eligible? If so that’s my top-of-my-head pick

I found a few movies that I genuinely enjoy that make the (or made at the time this was written and I tried it) bottom quartile. Malibu’s most wanted and “the crew” are movies I don’t skip by (but also never see any more :( ) basically ‘organized crime by the inept’ movies tickle me the right way

Too easy.

Ninja Assassin is one of my favorite action movies, has a sub-30% score, and I’ve paid to see it 4 times.

Absolutely fucking love that movie and could not believe it was such a flop. It’s balls-out fun from beginning to end

I actively like Star Trek Generations (48 on RT). I think it’s accessible if you’re not a Trek fan, and delightful if you are. A bit campy at times, sure. But it’s a human plot dealing with age, death, and change.