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Of your personal 50 favorite movies, Which are the ten with lowest Imdb Ratings?

 
 
 
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Start with a list of 50 or 70 of your very favorite movies; then prune down to the ten or twelve with the lowest IMDB ratings. Here are the ten movies I ended up with when I tried that.

To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) 7.3
Across the Universe (1970) 7.4
Whale Rider (2002) 7.5
The Odyssey (1997) 7.0
Spy Game (2001) 7.1
Bound (1996) 7.3
Good Thief (2002) 6.5
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) 7.2
Deja Vu (2006) 7.0
The Late Show (1977) 7.0

Now we can classify fellow movie-fans. Or even try to psychoanalyze each other!

Most of mine are caper movies — my favorite genre I suppose. Two of the movies are musicals (and Good Thief with a mere 6.5 imdb's qualifies due to, e.g. Leonard Cohen's 1000 Kisses etc.)

I'm a sucker for sentimental; this is attested by Whale Rider, Across the Universe, Late Show, Spy Game, and even Odyssey, Good Thief.

Bound and Gentlemen Prefer attest that attractive women can boost a movie's appeal.

Is there a genre name (other than simple sci-fi) which encompasses Deja Vu and Memento? Deja Vu makes the cut — barely — because I'm a Denzell Washington fan, but I like Memento much more. However Memento is disqualified from this list by its high (8.4) Imdb rating (see thread title).

What movies are lowest-rated among your Fifty Favorite?
 
I liked Ishtar, which puts me, I suppose, in a tiny minority.
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I enjoyed Year of the Comet, about which the author said something like, "You know you've written a flop when your own family doesn't see it."

Searching for Bobby Fischer is a favorite. I imagine that people like it if they see it, but that not many see it. Somebody (Rossio?) said that they thought they had a hit on their hands after the test screenings, but the test screenings were full of chess fans, and so the test screenings exhausted the movie's target audience. In fact, this is one of the best movies. It is why I revere what's-her-name, the woman Bourne says looks tired. I hadda look it up: Joan Allen. Searching for Bobby Fischer is one of the best movies.

Off topic: The Bourne Identity is my favorite Julia Stiles performance.

Down by Law: I enjoyed it. Really. Maybe I was in some kind of mood. There are tiny bits that I remember with great pleasure. "He's from another planet." I have never actually recommended it to anybody, though, except for the guy who made me sit thru Plan Nine. You should watch the final scene of Down by Law and the final scene of Pulp Fiction back to back, not that I know what that'll get you.

Blood Simple: First movie by the Coen Brothers. I believe it was a class project or something. I thought it was fabulous, but you don't hear a lot about it.

Miller's Crossing: Third movie by the Coen Brothers. I loved it, but, again, I suspect it is under-appreciated.
 
I liked Miller's Crossing as I did another Coen Bros film, Barton Fink which did not fare well at the box office.

A low rated film I liked was Paris Trout. A 6.4 rated Dennis Hopper gem which does not even appear in his Wikipedia filmography. Perhaps I'll make my first ever edit.
 
Seen waaaay too many movies to remember. But I did compile a list of lesser known 80’s movies to recommend. Some of the lowest scoring ones that I really liked:

How I got into college 5.8
Moon over Parador 6.0
Young Einstein. 5.2
Nobody’s Perfekt. 4.9
Saturday the 14th. 4.7
Caveman. 5.8
Looker 6.1
Wholly Moses 4.7
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes 4.7
 
I don't see that many movies - I'd be hard put to think of a total of 50 that I've seen lifetime. But there was ONE movie I saw on cable TV in 1982 that I thought was fabulous, like laugh out loud funny when watching it alone, which made hardly a ripple in the movie universe, and that was Honky Tonk Freeway. It was one of those "straight to cable" movies back when that wasn't a good thing. Come to think of it, another one I saw (I was working a late shift back then and saw a lot of after midnight TV) was Used Cars. I thought it was great but I think it was another "straight to cable."
 
One I just happened to catch just last week: The Money Pit. Not a very good movie but I find it hilarious.
 
I think Dredd is a much better movie than its 7.1/10.

To me it's a work of art in the same vein as Mad Max: Fury Road.
 
I wouldn't know how to even begin to compile a list of my favorite movies. So instead, I went and looked for the top 250 worst-rated movies list on IMDb, just to see if there were any there that I could even remotely say that I liked. There was just one:

Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (4.7 stars)

I thought it was an okay movie. I liked the interaction between the two brothers, and the heroine had a nice Ripley vibe to her as a homage to Aliens.

(The only other movies on that list that I don't regret watching are "classics" that are so bad they are good, like Troll 2 and Plan 9, but I don't think they count. Also, I will watch Escape Plan 3 even though I know it's garbage, because I watched the first two movies and I want to see how they can possibly make it worse than Escape Plan 2.)
 
The problem with the OP is the problem with imdb: the rating system is berserk. This is a subjective assessment, but c'mon, it's hard to find movies so bad that they sink below 5.0. Theres's always enough viewers with impaired critical judgment to boost even the lamest comedies, most overstated and derivative thrillers, most tear-jerking dramas, and most cliche-bound horror films. I looked up some of the junkiest films I've seen in my 50+ years of being a movie junkie, and here they are, in order of descending scores:
Sitting on the Moon (1936) A dreary musical comedy from Republic Studios -- actually earned a 6.2!! This must be because in some viewers' minds, if it's from the mid-30s, it's a "classic". 6.2, BTW, is equal to Good status. (For instance, Fred Astaire's Let's Dance, while not his best film, rates 6.3,)
Flight to Nowhere (1946), a very boring b&w spy caper story (just say that insipid title to yourself) rated 4.6.
The Naked Flame (1964), low budget exploitation about a nudist religious cult, starring an inebriated Dennis O'Keefe in his last feature, a cheap-looking, grainy picture with interminable dialog scenes, rated a 4.3...far too kind.
Memorial Valley Massacre (1989), terrible and cheap wanna-be slasher film, starring Cameron Mitchell (what were the scripts like, that this guy turned down??), rated 3.8. At this point in my list, the scores begin to show some sense and cosmic justice.
The She-Creature (1956) Poor, puffy-eyed Chester Morris, in a paycheck assignment he probably wanted to forget...3.7
The Astounding She-Monster (1958) Okay, this one is so cheap it's funny. It's the one with one fully dressed set, a mountain cabin that the characters keep escaping from and then returning to, and with a "monster" woman who backs out of every scene because her costume had split down the back and they didn't take the time to make her a new outfit. (Really.) 3.7
The Guy from Harlem (1977) An attempt by complete amateurs to make a blaxploitation pic. You've never heard so many non-actors blowing their lines -- and none of the goofs are edited out, because apparently this was a one-take shoot. 2.3 (although, if you have a snarky sense of humor, it's fun to watch, at least for 10 minutes at a time)
Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) The infamous cheapo "horror" film, shot silent because they didn't have sound recording on set, then dubbed...1.8.
If anyone knows of a lower rating, please post. I'm really curious to see what a 1.2 picture would look like. (I think that the lowest possible rating on imdb would be 1.0, which could happen if every last viewer gave a one-star rating.)
So...while some of my listed films are appropriately rated stinkers, there's a huge load of mediocrities on imdb that still score above 6.0.
 
I thought "Very Bad Things" was a pretty decent movie but it only scored 6.2.

"3000 Miles To Graceland" only scored 6.0.

For some perverse reason I quite liked "Battlefield Earth" and that scored a paltry 2.0.

"Bachelor Party" I enjoyed, scores 6.3
 
TSwizzle said:
I thought "Very Bad Things" was a pretty decent movie but it only scored 6.2.

"3000 Miles To Graceland" only scored 6.0.

For some perverse reason I quite liked "Battlefield Earth" and that scored a paltry 2.0.

"Bachelor Party" I enjoyed, scores 6.3
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I saw that movie because I loved the book. It was bad, even when you're not expecting much because it's SciFi and you know to go in with low expectations. It was bad even by that standard.
 
TSwizzle said:
I thought "Very Bad Things" was a pretty decent movie but it only scored 6.2.

"3000 Miles To Graceland" only scored 6.0.

For some perverse reason I quite liked "Battlefield Earth" and that scored a paltry 2.0.

"Bachelor Party" I enjoyed, scores 6.3
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Maybe it's me, then, but I always felt that any imdb ratings in the 5 or 6 range translated into "good". When you get to 7, it's "great". Very few movies crack 8. Gone with the Wind is 8.1 and Casablanca is 8.5.
Very Bad Things has funny stuff, especially in the first half. I think 6.2 indicates a strong fan base. I own a copy and watch it every so often -- I'd probably rate it a bit lower than 6.2.
 
TV and credit cards said:
For some perverse reason I quite liked "Battlefield Earth" and that scored a paltry 2.0.

I saw that movie because I loved the book. It was bad, even when you're not expecting much because it's SciFi and you know to go in with low expectations. It was bad even by that standard.
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It is way bad but when I'm channel hopping and I see it's on, I just have to tune in.

 
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