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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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[-] WhiteTiger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's the difference between believing the pyramids were built by ancient Egyptian gods, and believing they were built by aliens. It just doesn't fit the swashbuckling source material the other Indiana Jones movies were built on. Same reason time travel didn't work as a plot device. It doesn't fit the genre.

I know almost nothing about the Fast & Furious franchise, for instance, but I'll bet if aliens made an appearance there it would be met with scorn as well, but they have no problem doing physics-defying scenes all the time.

[-] bustrpoindextr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's the difference between believing the pyramids were built by ancient Egyptian gods, and believing they were built by aliens.

Can you explain that difference? Because that sounds exactly the same to me, any sufficiently advanced alien culture would appear as gods to ancient civilizations.

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