Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you?

marzhall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• FrustratedArtist@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  6-7 on IMDB is a pretty decent score, plenty of good movies in that range. If it’s 5 and below it means it’s right proper schlock.

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  • Welt@lazysoci.al ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s not how IMDb rating works. It’s just an aggregate based on the number of users voting on it. It’s basically useless at distinguishing a stinker from a watchable weeknight movie from a masterpiece. Rotten Tomatoes attempts to address this imbalance with a weighted scheme, which usually works better for well-known movies.

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• 2ncs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I also highly recommend the book (and all of Jon Ronson tbh)

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  • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I read the book first which made me really not like the movie. I think in a vacuum the movie is fine, but the heavy fictionalization to the point of preposterousness of something that was only one part of the book was just such a twisting. The book was about government waste, fraud, and abuse. The movie was about a wacky special forces guy who could apparently on some level actually use powers.

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    “Them” is also great and has Ronson sneaking into Bohemia Grove with a pre-full-on-crazy-grifter Alex Jones. I read it in one sitting.

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I thoroughly enjoyed that one

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