Unpopular Opinion: Movie Edition
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Something I’ve seen going around the blogosphere and twittersphere is this XKCD comic. And I figured it’d make a nice simple post to try to figure out which movie I like falls into this. I was a bit confused with “below 50%”, however, because there’s both an audience score and the “tomatometer”, so I decided to go by either score.
I found that one of my absolute favorite movies (starring Bill Nighy and Alan Rickman) scored a solid 19% on the Tomatometer, and a 55% on the audience score. What movie, you ask? Blow Dry.
A lot of complaints about the movie seem to be that it’s “too formulaic”, which, I agree, it is. But it’s sweet. It’s a story of choosing your family. It is one of the first representations of LGBTQIA+ family that I remember seeing. Plus it’s just funny and cute, and the soundtrack is so much fun. It’s one of those movies that I absolutely have to put on when I’m feeling terrible because I just can’t help but laugh at the quips that come standard with British humor.
Besides, it’s Alan Rickman. That’s honestly the reason I picked it up at Blockbuster the first time I saw it, but it’s not what made me love it. Have you guys done this “challenge” yet?
8 Comments
Tremayne
On either score – easy, I LIKE the Warcraft movie, which has a 27% tomatometer score (but 77% audience score, so I’m not alone).
I was going to lead with John Carter, but despite it getting a widespread panning at release it has 52% on the tomatometer.
And a tip of the puritan hat to Solomon Kane, which passes on the tomatometer with 66% but only gets 49% from the unappreciative sods in the audience.
Chestnut
I love how the scores can differ so much between audience vs critic! Stuff like that is so fascinating to me.
Braxwolf
A film that I both saw in the theater and own on DVD because I enjoyed it so much is Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice starting Nick Cage. I’m not even sure why I like it, except that Jay Baruchel’s deadpan delivery has always cracked me up. It’s also possible that it came out at a time when I was looking for family-friendly movies that we could sit down and watch as a family. Whatever the case, I seem to be in the minority as the audience response didn’t even warrent the hinted at sequel, and we know how Disney loves those!
Chestnut
I haven’t seen that one yet, but it’s on my list to watch! Nick Cage movies might not always get good ratings, but they are always somehow feel good films.
Redbeard
I thought this was going to be easy, given that I liked Strange Brew starring Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis reprising their Bob and Doug Mackenzie roles from SCTV, but Rotten Tomatoes has it at 74%.
Hmmm….
Midnight Madness starring David Naughton and a very young Michael J. Fox? Nope.
I guess Star Trek V sort of qualifies, although I thought that the best part of the movie was left on the cutting room floor, and it sure could have used much better editing and cinematography.
Chestnut
I thought it would be harder than it ended up being, to be honest! V is definitely one of the underrated ones. The odd numbers get such a bad rap!
Redbeard
I’d agree completely, but there are scenes where the acting just makes me cringe.
Chestnut
That’s fair!