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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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[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago (7 children)

This took a few tries, so here is everything I found.

I got Cowboys & Aliens, but technically that doesn't work for the xkcd rules because that movie came out the month before my 18th birthday. Very close though. And I guess it's kind of a case of so bad it's good, for most people, but for me, it's the James Bond / Indiana Jones crossover I always wanted and it's probably the closest thing I'll ever get.

I enjoyed Aladdin (2019), Don't Look Up, and Don't Worry Darling but I wouldn't say they are among my favorite films. They only meet the requirement for reviewer score though. And I think audience score is where it's at for this challenge. Suicide Squad works for this version of the challenge, but not for xkcd on audience score. Anyone can like a film that did poorly with critics.

This is probably going to end poorly for me, but for the rules as written xkcd challenge, I got Pixels. It's an Adam Sandler movie, and I know some people don't like those. I'm not crazy about Adam Sandler films, but this one was about video games and I really enjoyed it. I think Sandler did it justice. His experience with video games seemed to be primarily from arcades, but I think that is a valid perspective.

I watched it with my roommate during college. I guess some people hate it because they feel the original vision wasn't done justice for the short film it was based on. I might have seen some of that original short film, I can't rule that out for certain. But based on the version I found on youtube while writing this I clearly hadn't. The controversy didn't detract from my enjoyment of Pixels.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pixels

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[–] figment@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The Master Of Disguise

The turtle scene is one of the best things I've ever seen.

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[–] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Any transformers movie. I just like seeing a bunch of cars transform into robots to then fight each other.

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[–] Kingofthezyx@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Fountain is my favorite movie of all time, and it has a 52% critic score on RT. Audience Score is better-ish though at 77%, so maybe it's just the critics who didn't get it.

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[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

G.I. Joe: Retaliation Cowboys & Aliens

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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

A 60% on RT says that 6 out of 10 professional reviewers enjoyed this movie. It's not a rating of the movie itself. But my answer is Freddy Got Fingered.

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[–] BeardedPip@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Rotten tomatoes is a terrible site to sort/filter by. Dear god what terrible UI.

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[–] YodaDaCoda@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
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[–] wanderingmagus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I too liked Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, and as someone else mentioned National Treasure and Transcendence.

[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Anyone say Pixels yet?

I'm not an Adam Sandler fan, the effects folks just did a really fun job and I get a little hit of dopamine seeing retro characters in real life.

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[–] Random_user@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

The highest upvote comments really didn't understand the assignment.

[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hexed, a 1993 comedy starring Arye Gross.

9% Rottentomatoes, 36% Audience.

It's really, really dumb. I recently rented and rewatched it with my wife, who had never seen it and enjoyed it.

The lead character works in a hotel and is a serial liar / conman who meets up with the supermodel he keeps insisting is his girlfriend.

[–] Black616Angel@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

Okay, here we go:
47 Ronin (16 critic, 48 audience)
Priest (15 critics, 46 audience)

And (at least) two of my favorite movies:

Immortal (43 critics, 53 audience)

Doomsday (51 critics, 44 audience)

[–] ExploratrixLunae@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Red Sonja ruled when I watched it not too long ago. Apparently everyone hated it, critics and audiences alike, but I thought it was fun.

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[–] flatpandisk@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Just watched it the other night, 2013 RIPD. It was crazy, out there, pretty funny and just enjoyable to watch. 12% on rotten tomatoes

[–] vomityourself@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Southland Tales

[–] LengAwaits@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Small Apartments - 30%

It seems like almost no one has even seen this movie. An ex-partner of mine rented it from RedBox one night. I thought it looked dumb, but I watched it anyway. It is rather dumb, but it's also amazing. An incredibly dark comedy. My love of that movie has long outlasted that relationship.

Matt Lucas, James Marsden, Peter Stormare, Dolph Lundgren, Johnny Knoxville, James Caan, Billy Crystal, Juno Temple, Rebel Wilson, Saffron Burrows, Rosie Perez, and Amanda Plummer; An amazing, eclectic cast who deliver an idiosyncratic script expertly, managing to give us an ought-to-be cult classic that's more than the sum of its parts.

[–] UWbadgers16@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Probably Elizabethtown - Cameron Crowe movie from 2005.

[–] jtmetcalfe@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago

Southland Tales - 41%

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