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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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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] LengAwaits@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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.

[–] ExploratrixLunae@kbin.social 5 points 1 year 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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[–] Kingofthezyx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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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[–] Black616Angel@feddit.de 5 points 1 year 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)

[–] squilox@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] vomityourself@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Southland Tales

[–] Cool_Name@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I liked Transcendence and I thought it my qualify. 19% from critics, 37% from audiences. Wow, it is over qualified.

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[–] Techyno@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] wanderingmagus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

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

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

Cowboys & Aliens

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[–] YodaDaCoda@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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[–] flatpandisk@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year 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

[–] figment@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The Master Of Disguise

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

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[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

I'm Thinking of Ending Things. I love how bizarre it is, watched it like 3 or 4 times. I was surprised to see it has 50% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

[–] MrMobius@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I just checked, The Colony is only rated 54% on rotten tomatoes, wtf!? I admit it isn't flawless, but it's a welcome addition to the sci-fi genre. Your could sum it up with : "Avatar but the Na'vi are the humans the privileged left on the devastated Earth". The old colonist routine is even more uneasy to watch when it's against your own kind.

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