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Opinions: What is a movie you genuinely like, that is rated below 60% on rotten tomatoes? (xkcd.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 17 points 3 years ago (5 children)

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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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    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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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    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.

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