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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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[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Pootie Tang is one of my favorite movies of all time and it’s got a 27% score on Rotten Tomatoes. It was made by Chris Rock and (pre-sex-pervert era) Louis CK and has cameos from tons of comedians. It’s objectively funny people being objectively funny if you ask me. But when it came out, film critics really did not get any of the jokes and thought it was all comedians being “random.”

A fair criticism of it is that it was a comedy sketch stretched way too far. A lot of movies are like that, obviously, but I’ve never seen one just bewilder critics like Pootie Tang. (It came out in 2001 when adults barely used internet, much less fledgling social media. Culture just wasn’t as mixed together back then and “pop” and “urban” music were on separate radio stations with little cross-over. So, I totally understand why Ebert didn’t get the jokes. But if you did or do now, it was a classic.)

[-] gutternonsense@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you my damie. Wadda tah

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