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Opinions: What is a movie you genuinely like, that is rated below 60% on rotten tomatoes? (xkcd.com)

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Inspired by the linked XKCD. Using 60% instead of 50% because that's an easy filter to apply on rottentomatoes.

I'll go first: I think "Sherlock Holmes: A game of Shadows" was awesome, from the plot to the characters ,and especially how they used screen-play to highlight how Sherlocks head works in these absurd ways.

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[-] minorninth@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago

Rotten Tomatoes has both a critic score and an audience score.

If your pick has a low critic score but high audience score, that means it was formulaic or unoriginal but probably lots of fun.

Movies with a high critic score and low audience score are usually more artsy, film-festival stuff.

[-] HeavenAndHell@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Meh, it depends. I don’t use either as a solid indicator of anything because Morbius fits your first description and that movie was hot ass. Same with 2016 Suicide Squad and the Mortal Kombat reboot. All of those movies had low or mixed critic scores with moderately high to high audience scores and they all suck.

[-] MrZee@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Morbius isn’t a great one to point at as an example where this rule of thumb fails because the reviews were brigaded. It was a huge meme and would have been flooded with meme user reviews.

[-] freeman@lemmy.pub 1 points 1 year ago

A friend of mine always gets me to download weird shit (to me). That is one that sticks out. The latest request was renfield, with Nic Cage playing dracula.

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