This is hard: XKCD challenge
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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 ...
Quote:
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.
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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 !
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.
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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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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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!
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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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!
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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What 47%!? I loved that movie (best X-Men movie by far :wtf: )
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Nothing can beat First class
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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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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Yeah love Tomorrow Never Knows as well! You know what, you're right, the whole OST is brilliant.
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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'm a big fan of Stealth, 13% on Rotten Tomatoes
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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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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 think the qualifier in this case would be "Something everyone hates". If it's unknown, not everyone can hate it. Mine was going to be "Age of the Hobbits". But I liked it because it was so bad. As a matter of fact, it was so bad that it got sued[^] and had to change its name to "Clash of Empires"[^].
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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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Can't beat [Hudson Hawk](www.imdb.com/title/tt0102070) if you're a Bruce Willis fan. 26% (although the audience did give it 57)
