This is hard: XKCD challenge
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"in your adult life, post-2000"...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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xkcd: Unpopular Opinions[^] Try it: I can't find anything I liked that got less than 55% (The Dressmaker (2016) - Rotten Tomatoes[^] - and even then it was 66% for the audience!) I figured that "Last cab to Darwin" - a good "thinky" movie - would do it, but ... 89%! Deserved, but annoying score. He's right - hating something popular is a heck of a lot easier than liking something hated by the masses. Got any suggestion, people?
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_Everyone_ hates this movie but I like it. Oscar (1991) - Rotten Tomatoes[^] Do I win an Official No-Prize? :rolleyes: Oh, I just noticed...post 2000. Oops.
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_Everyone_ hates this movie but I like it. Oscar (1991) - Rotten Tomatoes[^] Do I win an Official No-Prize? :rolleyes: Oh, I just noticed...post 2000. Oops.
The cutoff date is probably so movies before Rotten Tomatoes started don't unduly skew the results.
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_Everyone_ hates this movie but I like it. Oscar (1991) - Rotten Tomatoes[^] Do I win an Official No-Prize? :rolleyes: Oh, I just noticed...post 2000. Oops.
I need to see that one again. I did re-watch "Brazil" again recently.
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xkcd: Unpopular Opinions[^] Try it: I can't find anything I liked that got less than 55% (The Dressmaker (2016) - Rotten Tomatoes[^] - and even then it was 66% for the audience!) I figured that "Last cab to Darwin" - a good "thinky" movie - would do it, but ... 89%! Deserved, but annoying score. He's right - hating something popular is a heck of a lot easier than liking something hated by the masses. Got any suggestion, people?
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I suspect it's more a comment on the accuracy of rating sites. However, my kid was born in 2001, so most movies I've seen since 2000 have been kids movies, so not many would have really low ratings anyway.
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I suspect it's more a comment on the accuracy of rating sites. However, my kid was born in 2001, so most movies I've seen since 2000 have been kids movies, so not many would have really low ratings anyway.
I dunno, Frozen[^] has a rating of 90%, and I suspect most parents would have voted it considerably lower after the 90th repeat of that damn song ... :laugh:
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Howard the Duck (1986) - Rotten Tomatoes[^]
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
me too. I liked that movie. Of course, I saw it as a child.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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"in your adult life, post-2000"...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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What if your adult life started much earlier than that?
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
In that case the challenge may not be that hard... :-D
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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xkcd: Unpopular Opinions[^] Try it: I can't find anything I liked that got less than 55% (The Dressmaker (2016) - Rotten Tomatoes[^] - and even then it was 66% for the audience!) I figured that "Last cab to Darwin" - a good "thinky" movie - would do it, but ... 89%! Deserved, but annoying score. He's right - hating something popular is a heck of a lot easier than liking something hated by the masses. Got any suggestion, people?
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What is better? To have high or low %tomatoes? Edit: I liked The Titan (2018) - Rotten Tomatoes[^] would it count?
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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xkcd: Unpopular Opinions[^] Try it: I can't find anything I liked that got less than 55% (The Dressmaker (2016) - Rotten Tomatoes[^] - and even then it was 66% for the audience!) I figured that "Last cab to Darwin" - a good "thinky" movie - would do it, but ... 89%! Deserved, but annoying score. He's right - hating something popular is a heck of a lot easier than liking something hated by the masses. Got any suggestion, people?
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What is better? To have high or low %tomatoes? Edit: I liked The Titan (2018) - Rotten Tomatoes[^] would it count?
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
Not sure - it looks like "straight to video" stock and the XKCD doesn't specify. It it a movie if it never saw a cinema? Not sure it is, technically.
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I thought Sharknado but even that got 82%
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That's the problem - you think "nobody else can have liked that!" and find out just about everyone did! I guess it's easy to hate Justin Bieber, but not so easy to like Nickleback ...
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xkcd: Unpopular Opinions[^] Try it: I can't find anything I liked that got less than 55% (The Dressmaker (2016) - Rotten Tomatoes[^] - and even then it was 66% for the audience!) I figured that "Last cab to Darwin" - a good "thinky" movie - would do it, but ... 89%! Deserved, but annoying score. He's right - hating something popular is a heck of a lot easier than liking something hated by the masses. Got any suggestion, people?
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xkcd: Unpopular Opinions[^] Try it: I can't find anything I liked that got less than 55% (The Dressmaker (2016) - Rotten Tomatoes[^] - and even then it was 66% for the audience!) I figured that "Last cab to Darwin" - a good "thinky" movie - would do it, but ... 89%! Deserved, but annoying score. He's right - hating something popular is a heck of a lot easier than liking something hated by the masses. Got any suggestion, people?
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I think that Duke Nukem Forever is actually a decent game. Sure, it gained a lot with the inventory increasing update not present at launch but in it's current state, it's very much enjoyable.
But not a movie ... ... and horribly "on rails" at times, which was one of the really good bits about the original. It wasn't on rails! :laugh:
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But not a movie ... ... and horribly "on rails" at times, which was one of the really good bits about the original. It wasn't on rails! :laugh:
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The challenge isn't about a movie as much as it's about liking something universally hated. Movies are just more of a mainstream culture than video games are.
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The challenge isn't about a movie as much as it's about liking something universally hated. Movies are just more of a mainstream culture than video games are.
Um ...
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NAME A MOVIE THAT...
Is a little explicit! :laugh:
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Um ...
Quote:
NAME A MOVIE THAT...
Is a little explicit! :laugh:
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You don't see the forest for the trees. The superficial details are different all right, but the underlying psychological mechanism is the same. Generalisation is an important skill, tons of stupid stuff happens when people fail to see analogies between a current situation and exactly the same (albeit with a different coating) having happened in the past.
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xkcd: Unpopular Opinions[^] Try it: I can't find anything I liked that got less than 55% (The Dressmaker (2016) - Rotten Tomatoes[^] - and even then it was 66% for the audience!) I figured that "Last cab to Darwin" - a good "thinky" movie - would do it, but ... 89%! Deserved, but annoying score. He's right - hating something popular is a heck of a lot easier than liking something hated by the masses. Got any suggestion, people?
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The closest I got was "The secret life of Walter Mitty" (2013, with Ben Stiller) at 51%. I liked that movie so much I was genuinely shocked when I discovered its Rotten Tomatoes score.
