# What movie you like has the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score?

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**Created:** [August 8, 2015, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289 "2015-08-08T02:46:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289/61 "2015-08-26T22:42:45Z")

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> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#):
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> Moonchild writes:
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> \> I haven’t seen it in some time and my tastes have surely evolved since high  
> \> school, but I thought it was pretty awesome.
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> Are you thinking of the 1982 version of this film? RickJay was talking about the 2011 version of it. If the birthdate you give in your public profile is correct, you were in high school when the 1982 version came out. You were born well after the 1951 version came out, so you can’t be referring to that either.

My bad. Yes, the 1982 version Kurt Russell. I stand corrected. Didn’t see the 2011 version… didn’t even know there was a 2011 version.

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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-you-like-has-the-lowest-rotten-tomatoes-score/727289/62 "2015-08-26T23:18:01Z")

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**Oscar** with Sylvester Stallone, for movies I genuinely think highly of.

Checking through the 0-20% pile, I saw that **Cop Out** is rated 19% and **A Good Day to Die Hard** is rated 14% and while neither of those is a favorite, I’d sit down and watch them again if I was bored and that’s all that was available. And I’d have to call those the most egregiously misvalued films that I’ve noticed. Of all films made, there’s a whole lot more than 14% that are worse than A Good Day to Die Hard, if we assume an equal distribution of ratings. And if we assume a (more plausible) bell distribution of ratings, then it’s even more egregious. By all means, A Good Day to Die Hard is not a great movie and it shouldn’t be part of the Die Hard universe, but there are many hundreds of thousands of worse films than it.

Really, just the fact that the 0-20% classification is completely full of professionally produced, Hollywood films tells me that this ranking system is nonsensical. 0-20% should be packed with obscure, Russian propoganda films from the 60s that make no sense. [Year One](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/year_one/) (15%) might be crap, but I’d still rather put it on than 70% of all things ever put to film. And, I’d be willing to wager, it’s a worse film than A Good Day to Die Hard, so again, Rotten Tomatoes is pretty much just random numbers so far as I can tell. Why people reference it, I have no idea.

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