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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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[–] minorninth@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Rotten Tomatoes has both a critic score and an audience score.

If your pick has a low critic score but high audience score, that means it was formulaic or unoriginal but probably lots of fun.

Movies with a high critic score and low audience score are usually more artsy, film-festival stuff.

[–] HeavenAndHell@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Meh, it depends. I don’t use either as a solid indicator of anything because Morbius fits your first description and that movie was hot ass. Same with 2016 Suicide Squad and the Mortal Kombat reboot. All of those movies had low or mixed critic scores with moderately high to high audience scores and they all suck.

[–] MrZee@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Morbius isn’t a great one to point at as an example where this rule of thumb fails because the reviews were brigaded. It was a huge meme and would have been flooded with meme user reviews.

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago

Mortal Kombat was a fun movie, and exactly fits the description. The whole plot is basically a series of setups for characters to fight, and characters are a bit one-dimensional, which is exactly what we all want from Mortal Kombat movies.

[–] SCB@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mortal Kombat was fucking amazing dude.

[–] HeavenAndHell@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah. It STARTED out amazing in the first act with subzero and scorpion in the Japanese village, but once that scene is over, the entire second act drags and is by far the biggest act in the movie. Then when things finally start picking up again in the third act, its almost over. Plus theres stupid stuff like Subzero speaking english in 1400 japan when he was speaking chinese for the majority of the film and then a little japanese plus much more. I guess it wasn’t absolutely horrible, but definitely not amazing.

[–] SCB@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The second act is when Kano talks the most which makes it the best act.

[–] HeavenAndHell@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which then it’s bogged down by cole young, who shouldn’t have been the human surrogate for the audience. Honestly, it should’ve been Kano, which would’ve improved this movie by a lot.

[–] SCB@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

I support any opinion that results in me seeing more Kano