It's scary that most moviegoers are idiots
(movies)I think cinephiles already know about obvious intelligent classic cult movies that were hated by idiot moviegoers, unable to understand the plot. Known examples are John Carpenter's Sci-Fi horror The Thing (1982), or Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder (2008), brilliant satire about Hollywood.
My heads up abut two other brilliant satirical Sci-Fi movies from director Paul Verhoeven, well known for his satirical style.
Obviously the illiterate idiots, clueless about what satire is, thought these two movies are just idiotic bullshit.
Starship Troopers (1997)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120201/Hollow Man (2000)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164052/