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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Constantine - 46%

Predator - 34%

Ghost in the Shell - 43%

Hellboy - 17%

Robocop (2016) - 49%

Well, it seems like I have poor taste in movies after all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Constantine is an awesome movie.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I loved Ron Perlman's Hellboy, but the Hellboy 2019 movie was the best. Felt more like a comicbook pulp story and less of a 2000-ish action comedy. But the public and critics has spoken; if it ain't a standard superhero action comedy flick, it is a "soulless" reboot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

David Harbour had the potential to be a better Hellboy than Perlman, but the rest of the movie was ... really not very good -- in pacing, characters, or effects.

If you want a mash-up horror movie that's more fun than the critics said, go for the 2004 Van Helsing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I loved Van Helsing. It was seriously brain dead entertainment but action was great and the effects were good. I loved The Brothers Grimm, that came out the year after, better though. Horror movie, comedy, action. I passed that movie over back then because of the critics, so took a few more years until I actually got to see it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Predator came out in 1986 I think. But I totally agree about Constantine and Robocop 2016, I liked those a lot.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe they're referring to "The Predator" from 2018 (because why should movies have logical titles) where the aliens are here to

spoilerharvest autism from our children before climate change destroys humanity.

I wish I were joking.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I was not aware of that. Oh dear, that sounds like the kind of plot studio execs would come up with in the 80's while high on coke, except they are all woke now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ghost in the Shell (2017) was quite good.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Loved the characters, but the movie plot felt like a clipshow of a bigger plot that didn't fit into 2 hours. I haven't watched the anime but it probably was.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Watch the anime, everything that was great in the 2016 version is a bow to the "original". And I actually think Johansson was a great cast for the film. The way she moves is so totally Major Kusanagi.