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  ‘Disaster Movie’: The ‘Dark Knight’ of Bad Movies

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  129 days ago in cinematvnews.com : Cinema and TV news blog · Authority: 2

  You may recall that on the very weekend of its theatrical release, The Dark Knight rocketed to the top of the Internet Motion picture Database’s user-voted Top 250 movies, with an average rating of 9.5 out of 10 after more than 47,000 votes. Observers marveled at how quickly this happened, noting that the previous #1 film, The Godfather, had held its spot for a decade. Now an event nearly as miraculous has occurred: After only a day and a half in theaters, Disaster Movie (reviewed for Cinematical by Sir William of Goss) has already climbed to the top of IMDb’s Bottom 100 list, with an average score of 1.3 out of 10. It has received more than 4,000 votes so far, 3,500 of those (including my own) being 1’s, which is as low as the scale goes. About 280 people have given it a perfect 10, too, but those must be studio shills and pranksters. You get some of those in every crowd. IMDb’s Bottom 100 changes more often than the Top 250 does. Paris Hilton’s The Hottie and the Nottie was #1 for a while earlier this year, and Bratz, Who’s Your Caddy?, and something called Ben & Arthur (now the #2 film) have all been champions at various times. While the Top 250 only counts scores from “regular voters” (still not sure what that means) and requires that at least 1,300 votes be cast, the Bottom 100 takes all scores from everyone, and there’s no minimum vote stipulation. Many of the titles on the Bottom 100 are obscure, foreign, and/or straight-to-video features. I guess ranking terrible movies isn’t quite as scientific or important as ranking great ones. (more…) Share This

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