So when the trailer for Welcome to Marween came out I was hooked immediately. My girlfriend begrudgingly went to see it with me in theaters and I absolutely loved it. She didn't like it at all and actually fell asleep through part of it but I was on board the whole way through. It's weird to explain, but I got a soft spot for grown adults who haven't mentally "grew" up and kind of find happiness in their own childish view of the world. Think like Lennie from Of Mice and Men. I really like those characters, they are really endearing to me. So I really liked Steve Carrel's performance of Mark Hogancamp.
So after all this and enjoying the movie I was completely flabbergasted seeing how panned this movie was. I can't believe people hated and how many critics and theater goers considered it a bad movie. Anybody else had the same situation with them? Well here's the floor to speak your peace on a "bad" movie that you legimatally enjoyed.
I actually loved this movie as well and really felt for Hogancamp and Steve's portrayal of him, had no idea it was considered a bad movie, I thought it just didn't do that well at the box office.
For my pick I'd probably go with Space Truckers.
It's a campy space movie that stars Dennis Hopper where he plays a ....space trucker lol, and he ends up getting into some trouble and somehow comes into possession of hauling some top secret killer robots and things go from there. Stephen Dorff and Debi Mazar are the two supporting actors that travel with him and Charles Dance plays the villain of the movie, in all of his hammy goodness (if you liked him in Last Action Hero you know what to expect).
It's from Stuart Gordon, the master of HP Lovecraft adaptations like Re-Animator, Dagon, From Beyond, etc.
Also another I absolutely love is The Relic, this is one of my favorite "Monster" movies of the 90's and I was absolutely astounded to see that it had such low scores on RT from both critics and the audience, this is imo one of the best monster movies of the 90's and came around the same time as Mimic did (which I also loved). Of the few critics that liked it was none other then Roger Ebert, who said it quite nicely when he said that it cleverly combines the horror genre and the disaster genre together.
It's got a great monster design from the master Stan Winston, a great location for a monster movie (locked in giant museum) and has a great cast of actors from the always great Linda Hunt who plays the head of the museum to the lead played by Penelope Ann Miller and the main supporting actor played by Tom Sizemore.
The only bad thing I can say about the movie is that it has some lackluster CGI at parts where they used CGI for the monster (mainly when you see it full body moving/running around) however they also made ample use of practical effects for it too, it wasn't just cgi only, only used cgi in certain scenes.