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  • N Nelek

    What is better? To have high or low %tomatoes? Edit: I liked The Titan (2018) - Rotten Tomatoes[^] would it count?

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    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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    • S Simon_Whale

      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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        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.

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        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

          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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          Not difficult at all! Had Sucker Punch immediately at top of my head, and easliy ticked all the boxes!

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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.

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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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            • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

              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.

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                Um ...

                Quote:

                NAME A MOVIE THAT...

                Is a little explicit! :laugh:

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                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                  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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                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                    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?

                    Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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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.

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                    • R RickZeeland

                      I thought this X-Men movie rated at 47% wasn't that bad: X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) - Rotten Tomatoes[^] Although it is not the best one in the series I still found it enjoyable and think it deserves a higher score !

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                      What 47%!? I loved that movie (best X-Men movie by far :wtf: )

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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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                        Normally I do, but ... Rotten Tomatoes is the specific site for comparison here, and it doesn't rate games. So any games included wouldn't have the same range of results as the movies. Following your logic, I quite liked the Mercedes A Class series 1 (despite it driving like a roller skate) but it was unpopular with reviewers due to the "moose test". Should that count? When you are given a specific set of limitations you have to keep within, them is the rules and them is what you have to stick to! :laugh:

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                        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                          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?

                          Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                          The Great Wall, 2017, 36%.

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                          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                            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?

                            Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                            Not from my adult life, but still post-2000... A movie I really enjoyed: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) - Rotten Tomatoes[^] And here's another one, the average of the Tomatometer and audience scores is just on the edge, but I'd give this a solid 5/7: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) - Rotten Tomatoes[^]

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                              Not difficult at all! Had Sucker Punch immediately at top of my head, and easliy ticked all the boxes!

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                              That was a nice movie with a great soundtrack!

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                                Normally I do, but ... Rotten Tomatoes is the specific site for comparison here, and it doesn't rate games. So any games included wouldn't have the same range of results as the movies. Following your logic, I quite liked the Mercedes A Class series 1 (despite it driving like a roller skate) but it was unpopular with reviewers due to the "moose test". Should that count? When you are given a specific set of limitations you have to keep within, them is the rules and them is what you have to stick to! :laugh:

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                                Replace Rotten Tomatoes with Jim Sterling's "Direct to video" series and it's the same again. Different coating, same shape underneath.

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                                • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                                  That was a nice movie with a great soundtrack!

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                                  Totally agreed. Love the movie - watched at least three times! And White Rabbit is amazing!

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                                    Totally agreed. Love the movie - watched at least three times! And White Rabbit is amazing!

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                                    White Rabbit was cool, but Tomorrow Never Knows is my favorite (I even like this version better than that of The Beatles) :D

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                                    • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                                      What 47%!? I loved that movie (best X-Men movie by far :wtf: )

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                                      Nothing can beat First class

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                                      • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                                        White Rabbit was cool, but Tomorrow Never Knows is my favorite (I even like this version better than that of The Beatles) :D

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                                        Yeah love Tomorrow Never Knows as well! You know what, you're right, the whole OST is brilliant.

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                                        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                          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?

                                          Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                                          I'm a big fan of Stealth, 13% on Rotten Tomatoes

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