10 Movies That Got Better YEARS Later
4. Freddy Got Fingered
When it released in 2001, Tom Green's surreal black comedy Freddy Got Fingered was near-universally panned by critics, some of whom called it the worst film they'd ever seen, before it went on to win five Razzie Awards, including Worst Picture.
Yet even on original release, there were those precious few who saw something.
Critic Roger Ebert, who panned the film, nevertheless had an inkling that it might be re-evaluated some day, semi-jokingly saying, "The day may come when Freddy Got Fingered is seen as a milestone of neo-surrealism."
And while Freddy Got Fingered is still highly contested, it has enjoyed something of a wider appreciation in more recent years, as the art of anti-comedy has become decidedly more popular in the mainstream.
The film's defenders argue that its relentless vulgarity is itself an act of absurdist rebellion, and that Green is basically mocking the very fact that a studio gave him $14 million to make it in the first place.
At the time of its release, Freddy Got Fingered was so far away from the glossy, big budget comedies critics and audiences expected to see, but as comedy itself has changed over the decades, Green's film has morphed into a beguiling curiosity, even if many might understandably still detest it.