Opinions: What is a movie you genuinely like, that is rated below 60% on rotten tomatoes? - eviltoast

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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    I tend to like sci-fi in this category such as Stargate, Dune (1984), and the Riddick films.

    TRON Legacy is my favorite of the bunch, however. Incredible soundtrack, gorgeous costume design, and plenty of character.

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      I really liked Tron Legacy. I keep hearing the next one in the works so cautiously awaiting to see what they release next.

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          Didn’t Daft Punk break up last year? I guess I would suggest not even bothering with considering hopes at this point.

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            yup. Although with the amount of people wanting to see them in the movie, it’s possible that they still might do it with enough cash, err I mean incentives

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      TRON Legacy is one of those movies where I watch it purely for its visuals and music. It’s a let down in terms of story and action, but I stop everything to look at it when its on.

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      I loved the film, but I can’t think too hard about it. I treat it like a really long music video. It was such a fun watch.

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        A long music video is pretty much how I sell it, lol. Also a good movie to watch while in an altered state (it’s my go-to movie when I get really sick/feverish).

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      Stargate, Dune (1984), and the Riddick films

      I like those too, in particular Dune and the Chronicles of Riddick, but they all have audience scores above 60% (and Stargate and Dune are from the last millennium if we’re sticking to that requirement).

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      Tron Legacy, at least to me, was an example of a film that was let down by poor editing, especially during the fight scenes.

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      I wanted to like TRON: Legacy. I didn’t.

      There’s one reason the original TRON wouldn’t play today, and it’s not the 1980s fake computer graphics. It’s the pacing. TRON is slow. There’s no jitter. It looks like a 1980s video game, not a 21st-century video game.

      Or, really, just contrast the Wendy Carlos score with the Daft Punk one. The original is majestic swoops through a digital dreamscape, not jitterbug pop for robot dancers.

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        A thought that may help you enjoy Tron: Legacy - The pacing and style changes are meant to represent the changes in computer technology and specifically gaming, between the eras when the two films came out.

        In TRON, there’s a mechanistic pacing that reflects the early computer clock cycles.

        In TRON: Legacy, there’s a lot of imagery and plotting around characters trying to find peace, or achieve slowness, or even just rythm - trying to escape the attention starved modern algorithm.