For me the first thing that comes to mind is Tales from Earthsea. I don’t think it’s excellent or anything and has plenty of problems but people act like it killed their dog. While it has its problems that have been covered extensively, I think it has a beautiful atmosphere and art.
IMO it would have been better received if it wasn’t advertised as an Earthsea adaptation and was just its own thing.
Not animated, but trust me, if you’d actually watched Manos: The Hands of Fate, you would not have enjoyed it in any capacity.
Even in the MST3k episode, it was an ordeal.
It is truly amazing how they managed to make an hour-and-ten-minutes feel like three hours. I (barely) finished watching it, and couldn’t believe how little time had actually passed.
Manos initially took me a few times to get through (even with MST3K), but now when I randomly run across it on the dumb industries twitch stream or the MST3K YouTube/twitch streams I get a little excited. It really doesn’t make my “skin crawl” like it used to, but it’s still terrible.
I’ve seen it with dumb industries, rifftrax, and MST3K.
I can’t imagine watching it more than once. I’ve just been trying to forget about it for the last fifteen years.
The master would not approve lol