This happened to me when recently watching white chicks. Is it a good movie ? No, but how fun it is. I laughed my ass off in front of it. It was absurd.
Sometimes you just want dumb humor that doesn’t expect you to take it too seriously.
Literally (ok, not literally) every black movie that I think is a classic has like 30% on Rotton Tomatoes
Examples?
Off the top of my head: Bringing down the house, Boomerang, White chicks. Black American comedies don’t tend to review well on that site I guess
Comedies, in general, do not fare well on review sites. Some of the funniest movies have very low ratings and negative reviews.
Beerfest is hilarious
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Man I hated that movie and it felt so weird because I generally always have some sort of consensus with movies, but everyone enjoyed Donnie Darko, except for me.
Know how I can tell you watched the Director’s Cut?
Same problem, different movies I guess… Donnie Darko is a personal favorite.
I also have this disorder. The entire last 15 years has been really rough.
Alien? Masterpiece. Great audio, atmosphere, and tension, story, with realistic characters. I loved how Ripley wasn’t the main focus out of the gate and gave time for the rest of the crew to be seen.
Aliens? Trash, garbage. I hated everything about it. Drivel. Okay audio, horrible cast, bad characters, stupid conclusion. Ripley went from “scared captain” to “Fuck you I’m an alien killing badass” fuck.
I don’t normally shit on people for liking something, but to the people who enabled that trilogy to continue in the way it did…fuck you.
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Random fun fact: in older titles Hungarian translators loved giving weird names to movies (probably though it was a bit generic), so they named the first Alien “The 8th passenger: Death”, which is like kinda cool.
They probably though it was gonna be one off thing, so after they announced Aliens, translators were like, ok, what now. We cant name it the same, but still the audience need to know they are connected, so they double down, calling it “The name of planet: Death”. not as cool but crisis averted.
So when Alien 3 is announced, they are like we are fucked, but its the end of the trilogy, so go big, final title: “The final solution: Death”. (This has some wierd implications, but no more Alien movies, we can leave these namings behind.)
So Alien 4 get announced and they are finally like fuck it, we had enough of this shit, we just translate it literally. “Aliens 4: resurrection of Death”
After that, they drop transitions, like any, they release them with English title only. This has more to do with the gap between films and how the majority of sci-fi audience probably already know English, but its funny to think that the translators finally just gave up.
Post fun fact fun fact: you know those TV channels that play old dvd movies? They are stuck with these transitions. Ads on those are “Tune in for the classic hit horror movie, the 8th passenger, Death”
fully agree, ratings don’t seem to be jack to the actual movie content.
I hate how polarizing any show or movie is now, and how to so many people on the internet, if it’s not a 10/10 masterpiece, it’s “unwatchable garbage”.
A guy on here told me Castlevania was “awful, unwatchable crap” eventhough it’s an across the board good show, a solid 8. But since it wasn’t exactly what he wanted, it’s a zero to him.
It’s so much easier to be critical than to put your neck out and say you like something. I think that’s what leads to so many online communities being so negative.
There’s also what I like to call the adversarial approach to media consumption. Instead of just watching something like a normal human being, a lot of people on the internet like to approach it as a competition between viewer and creator. Your goal is to dislike the thing, the creator’s goal is to trick you into liking it. If you dislike things that others like, that just means you’re better at the disliking things competition than them.
This is too true. I like liking things, damn it.
I think there are some movies where your first impression when you walk out of the theater is going to be very different than your impression once you’ve had a couple of days to think.
Speaking of divisive movies, for the people here who watched it, what’s your honest assessment of “Babylon”? Just curious.
where your first impression when you walk out of the theater is going to be very different than your impression once you’ve had a couple of days to think.
Do people really do that? they are sleeping and then suddenly three days later they wake up at 4am like “wait a second, that movie sucked!”
This isn’t a tweet from a white person
In a world where Rings of fucking Power got made, and has people actually supporting that debasement of Tolkien’s legacy, does it really matter anymore?
Rejoice, friend, for nothing is sacred anymore…
I’d love it if people would debase my memory by riffing on my stories until the end of time.
So would literally every author.
I have the opposite effect, popular movies seem bad to me, for the most part.
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not a movie, but a video game.
call of duty black ops 3. (no spoilers, in case anyone is still to play it.)during my playthrough i was like:
- start the game
- the flashing text before the mission is way too fast to read. let’s record it and play it slowly. huh…intersting.
- this is weird… why is this exactly THAT way that it has never been done before and doesn’t make sense to do that way in general?
- this is weird… why do they mention THIS exactly? is that a mcguffin/chekhov’s gun?
- this is weird… funny that they display this character how they handle their specific, unusual situation…
- this is weird… the story starts to become awkwardly surrealistic…
- reach the finale… i know there’s more to it but i took so long to finish the game that i forgot all the clues, so i don’t QUITE understand the meaning
- insert some hours of googling/yt explanations, and there’s the big “OOOOOOOH! that’s a brilliant display of what’s happening to the main character and how it’s described in real life!”-moment.
- realization that everyone hates it either because they didnt understand what happened and think it’s the most random thing ever or because they understood what happened and think it’s lame. sadge.
Last Days on Mars was such a fun horror movie
Not me, it’s like my superpower. I can tell you if a movie is going to be a flop and panned by everyone within 15 seconds of watching the trailer.
Given that like 20% of movies are successful, simply saying that everything is going to be a flop would mean you have an 80% success rate
I remember seeing a “long-term rain forecast” scam several years ago based on that principle. They claimed to be able to tell you which days would be clear in the next 50 years with 90% accuracy, but carefully worded their pitch to not imply any accuracy for claiming what days it would rain. Because it rains about 10% of days on average, this claim is technically true regardless of the contents of the forecast.
True, but I still seem to recognize the hits as well.
Are we talking critical reception or financial success? How are you at detecting cult favourites? So many questions
Must be magic man. Or I get lucky? Or I just recognize real hype from manufactured hype a little better than others. I don’t know, lol.
they’re just pointing out how that seems such an accurate assessment
Ratings in general are heavily biased. For example, critics have a very different point of view from most viewers. And even the typical non-critic who goes on sites to rate movies isn’t the average viewer either. People like that tend to over-analyze every detail and try to look for a deeper meaning in the works. But that doesn’t correlate with your enjoyment of something.
Sometimes hearing what other people think about a movie will give me a different perspective. Either better or worse.
