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Opinions: What is a movie you genuinely like, that is rated below 60% on rotten tomatoes? (xkcd.com)

submitted 1 year ago by thebestaquaman to c/asklemmy

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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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[–] herrvogel 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People don't like it because it has nothing to do with the source material beyond some character names. It's literally a random action script that had Asimov slapped on top of it just so the studio could legally claim to be using their movie rights. No relation to the book. Nothing at all like anything the original author himself would have ever written, to the point of being disrespectful to one of the greatest of the genre.

[–] MajorHavoc 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think it's an insult to Asimov's work.

Asimov didn't write action movies or stories that could become action movies at all. But the elements in the movie I Robot are all solidly woven into Asimov's work.

But I agree it's a tradgedy that it's a lot closer to Minority report than to Bicentennial Man, Total Recall, or Blade Runner, as far as adaptations go.

I'm not mad at what we got, but we could have had a lot more Asimov and a lot less action movie tropes.

All that said, Will Smith's deliver of "11% is more than enough. A human being would have known that." is an incredibly worthy condensation of Asimov's core tension across the books.