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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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    Sander Rossel
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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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            Sander Rossel
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            That was a nice movie with a great soundtrack!

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            • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

              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:

              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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              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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                  Sander Rossel
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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: )

                    Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                    Fabio Franco
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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

                      Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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

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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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                          Reelix
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                          Antitrust (2001) - Movie about a programmer that unveils an evil plan from a larger corporation. I genuinely enjoyed the movie. Rotten Tomatoes Rating of 24%

                          -= Reelix =-

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                          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                            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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                            • 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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                              SteakhouseLuke
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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)

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                              • L Lost User

                                Howard the Duck (1986) - Rotten Tomatoes[^]

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                                Ed Attfield
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                                We rented Howard the Duck back when Blockbuster was still a thing. We quite liked it. It was stupid, sure, but it was low key, gentle and funny. :thumbsup:

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                                • R raddevus

                                  _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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                                  Michael Waters
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                                  Fantastic film! Classic farce isn't an appreciated genre anymore. "Maybe someday, we can do you."

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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 almost hate to say I like it. But I do. G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) - Rotten Tomatoes[^] Not as good as the previous one. But still really good. Liked it alot. Didn't really take me all that long. I usually like crap other people hate.

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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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                                      Kelly J Grant
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                                      I have two: The Davinci Code, and Evan Almighty. Loved both of them, 25 and 23 percent, respectively...

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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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                                        User 13966228
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                                        For me this one was easy: Cars 2 with 39 %. I can easily see why everyone hates it, but I genuely liked it. Not like it would be my favorite movie, but I like it.

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                                        • K Kelly J Grant

                                          I have two: The Davinci Code, and Evan Almighty. Loved both of them, 25 and 23 percent, respectively...

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                                          User 13966228
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                                          Wow, I didn't think The Da Vinci Code would be that low. I like that one a lot. Evan Almighty, no so much though...

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