What movies are you watching?

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Maleficent. Rough opening, surprisingly intriguing mid-section, and a terrible, deeply flawed ending that pretty much ruined everything I liked about it. Shame.
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It's like pitchfork in reverse :)
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:I went through a spate of only downloading films that had a 90+ percentage mark on rotten tomatos..and i didnt love any of their highest rated films, so i dont trust em anymore
You shouldn't. An overly high RT score is almost ALWAYS a bad omen.
I wonder what the RT score is for Hudson Hawk?
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:I went through a spate of only downloading films that had a 90+ percentage mark on rotten tomatos..and i didnt love any of their highest rated films, so i dont trust em anymore
You shouldn't. An overly high RT score is almost ALWAYS a bad omen.
I wonder what the RT score is for Hudson Hawk?
It has no number. It's RT score can be described thusly:

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i've watched interstellar seven times
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:I went through a spate of only downloading films that had a 90+ percentage mark on rotten tomatos..and i didnt love any of their highest rated films, so i dont trust em anymore
You shouldn't. An overly high RT score is almost ALWAYS a bad omen.
This hasn't been my experience at all, but ok.
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Alex wrote:i've watched interstellar seven times
I could watch MM cry every day.
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Kaius wrote:
Alex wrote:i've watched interstellar seven times
I could watch MM cry every day.

I'm not sure i like him or not...he's just so smug and pleased with himself..both onscreen and off
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Orpheus wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:I went through a spate of only downloading films that had a 90+ percentage mark on rotten tomatos..and i didnt love any of their highest rated films, so i dont trust em anymore
You shouldn't. An overly high RT score is almost ALWAYS a bad omen.
This hasn't been my experience at all, but ok.
Makes sense, since we have very different views on movies. And to clarify:

1. By overly high, I'm talking around the 85%+ range.

2. It's mostly modern movies that this rule applies to.
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I have not done any formal qualitative research into this, but I use RT a lot for new movies and this is my impression, which may or may not hold up to qualitative analysis:
A very high RT score (like 95%+) is likely to be worth watching, but is unlikely to become a favorite of mine. I wouldn't regret seeing it, but I probably won't want to see it again.
exception: animated films, which kind of goes to show that a film getting nearly unanimously positive reviews is probably too much like a children's film.
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:I went through a spate of only downloading films that had a 90+ percentage mark on rotten tomatos..and i didnt love any of their highest rated films, so i dont trust em anymore
You shouldn't. An overly high RT score is almost ALWAYS a bad omen.
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BurtReynolds wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:I went through a spate of only downloading films that had a 90+ percentage mark on rotten tomatos..and i didnt love any of their highest rated films, so i dont trust em anymore
You shouldn't. An overly high RT score is almost ALWAYS a bad omen.
The most LV post of all time.
when you're thinking about an excellent RT score, you're thinking about a terrible RT score. when you think of godzilla, you also think of the opposite of godzilla.
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Going to a screening of Blow-Up later tonight. The only other Antonioni I've seen is L'aaventura, and it didn't send me running to go see more Antonioni. fingers crossed
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The Argonaut wrote:Going to a screening of Blow-Up later tonight. The only other Antonioni I've seen is L'aaventura, and it didn't send me running to go see more Antonioni. fingers crossed
It's a masterpiece. Of course, so is L'Avventura. But Blowup is better.
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Snowpiercer.
Really good movie I didn't know too much about before watching.
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watching St. Vincent.

Bill Murray is amazing :)
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Watching the boxtrolls.

Looks amazing
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Heaven is for Real. Probably one of the best comedies I have ever seen.
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:Going to a screening of Blow-Up later tonight. The only other Antonioni I've seen is L'aaventura, and it didn't send me running to go see more Antonioni. fingers crossed
It's a masterpiece. Of course, so is L'Avventura. But Blowup is better.
Well, I'm still not about to go run to see more Antonioni. There is definitely something to it, but I wouldn't call it a masterpiece. There are similarities to Godard, but Godard is better looking, cooler, and just overall more compelling. There are similarities to Bunuel, but Bunuel is more hilarious and subversive. I don't quite see the appeal here.
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