10 'Rotten' Films That Will Eventually Be Viewed As Classics

9. Blindness

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 43% Why It'll Be Re-Assessed As A Classic: The critics may have initially balked at Blindness' sheer intensity, but there's always going to be a demand for dark, allegorical sci-fi as long as there's an audience seeking out something more caustic than the norm. And they don't come much darker than Fernando Meirelles' adaptation of Jose Saramago's eponymous novel, in which the entire world inexplicably loses its sight. The entire world, that is, except for Julianne Moore, unnamed wife to an unnamed doctor (Mark Ruffalo), one of many who suddenly have their vision stripped away by disease. As the afflicted are herded in a medical facility for quarantine, Moore's wife becomes the sighted messiah amongst a flock of blind strangers who quickly react to their predicament by turning on each other. What results is a depressing fight for power, as a pack of opportunists, led by a terrifying Gael Garcia Bernal, hoard the food and proceed to rape and kill the opposition. The best kind of science fiction has something to say beneath the shell of the plot - in Blindness, the argument is that mankind is, fundamentally, fatally fragile and predisposed to conflict. Meirelles' film is terrifically acted, wonderfully shot and utterly, nightmarishly horrifying.