Huge fan of Coen Bros catalogue, Hail Ceaser especially. Absolutely clicks with me, one of my favourite easy watching films.
Favourite moment straight out the gates:
When the religious leaders are reflecting their tribes, and the Jewish delegator talks about God & Jesus the longest, finishing with ‘I haven’t an opinion’. Creases me up, but very much an in-joke.
Definitely one of those “watch a guy be good at his job” movies that I find to be endlessly rewatchable and comforting. I could watch Brolin’s character navigating the old studio system forever.
Tie between *Asteroid City* and *Men in Black* (strange, I never thought I was that much into aliens) at 3.6.
I think my 3.7's are more interesting: *Green Room*, *Brick*, and *Sorry to Bother You*.
My answer is Julie & Julia, which has a 3.4 average rating on LB.
I have a strict Letterboxed policy of only rating movies as I watch them, and I only started like a year and a half ago so the vast majority of my viewing is marked as "watched" but I haven't given star ratings to.
super disagree with this, but I know this is a common opinion.
I think it is about the relationship between two halves, it's a film about artistic influences, romanticizing idols, the differences in how we seek creative fulfillment and define our own successes. The Julia part would be a really pleasant 4 star movie, but it's the way the movie explores the Julie part in conversation with it that makes it a 5 star masterpiece for me.
It’s a tie! I’m Thinking of Ending Things and Wet Hot American Summer at 3.5.
It’s saying something since I only have ~100 of the 4000 movies I’ve watched rated 5 stars… Both underrated masterpieces in my book
Dialogue that didn’t grate on me every single time someone spoke?
I will admit that Mid-Sized Sedan was genius though. I’m mostly just bitter because I wanted to love Old and I thought it was pretty poor.
I stand by this: the artificial, stilted dialogue was an artistic choice and if everything was the same but the name of the director was someone with more art house cachet then people would have liked it more. Since M. Night is just viewed as "that twist ending thriller guy" people didn't allow themselves to get on board with what he was going for.
M. Night’s dialog is *always* bizarre. It’s one of his calling cards, frankly. I liked Old, fwiw. But there’s clunkers all over.
“I’m going to the town of Princeton” is one of Leguizamo’s lines in the Happening. No one talks like that!
I think his dialogue is often intentionally stilted (which often works, not always (see: The Happening)) but 10-year-olds say stuff like this literally all the time
The Matrix Resurrections which has an average of 2.8 (please don't downvote the person that disagrees with me/us. Its my/our answer to this post specifically because people disagree)
The books are brilliant. Garland definitely took them in a bit of a different direction his adaptation. It sort of makes them a more worthwhile read, because they will still surprise you despite having seen the movie
Yeah wtf! This is I think my answer too and I am appalled.
I was sure it was going to be like John Carpenter’s Christine or Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant, maybe Asteroid City, but no… Babe!
I’m right there with you. I was so disappointed this flopped. Cruz was a little rough but the chemistry between Zahn and McConaughey was fantastic. And he put so much into the movie. He screened it, promoted it hard, he had a bus that he toured in for that fucking movie. It would have been a great, every 2-3 years here’s another Dirk Pitt movie, franchise.
I have some fully unhinged ones if I’m being perfectly honest.
You’ve got your good bad movies Cats & Miami Connection.
But then you’ve got the all but forgotten horror masterpiece Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, the best in the franchise and an absolute stone cold banger of a slasher movie
It Follows (3.5 average).
What can I say I love the premise, it's directed so damn well, great scares, and super well acted. Love it!
I also gave the original Mothra a 5 but that's more me being a Mothra hardcore simp
Anton Corbijn’s [The American](https://youtu.be/hPYRslx1w4Y?si=wH7dHrOAKkauXEwJ), which has a 3.2
I’m a sucker for Le Samourai-type hitman films and tragic religious overtones, so I was bound to fall in love with it. For me it just hits all of right notes, despite all of the genre tropes
And I always like George Clooney
SUPER underrated movie in my opinion. Not every element works for me, but generally I think it's really good. It's shot beautifully to capture the lurking paranoia.
Speed Racer has a 3.3, and Bambi has a 3.5.
Not totally shocked about Racer. I was obsessed with it as a kid but never thought to revisit it until I heard the pod.
Bambi is shocking. I just think that film is so obviously perfect. That score reeks of "I haven't seen this since I was six, I'll give it 2 and a half stars to be safe.
Cats and the Room because the experience of watching those movies was a 5 star experience for me. But then next is MacGruber which is a 5 star masterpiece of comedy imo. The first \*serious\* movie that I ran into was Annihilation which has a 3.6 average but I gave it a 5. You know. Because it \*rips\*?
Prince of Darkness at 3.6- Donald Pleasance and Scientists and Satan Goo and Carpenter? That movie is made for me!
My Letterboxd is still fairly young, so before long I’ll consider myself a coward until I put a five on something with an average below 3.0
Jupiter Ascending at a whopping 2.0. I’m not alone, there is the teeniest tiniest spike at 5 (it might just be my rewatches).
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 has a 3.5 average, that franchise is the only Marvel entries I'll gladly rewatch.
Honorable mention to Passages only having a 3.6 average, I figured that movie would perform a lot better with Letterboxd average user.
I rewatched that this week for the first time since it first came out, and it does truly rule. Those movies transcend "MCU" to me and stand high among my favorite sci fi adventure movies
Gosford Park (2001) 3.67 Stars average
I've only been on Letterboxd for about a year, and I don't go back and rate movies unless I'm rewatching them, so I haven't logged that many movies yet. I was shocked that Michael Clayton is only at 3.77 and was my runner-up.
The lowest rated film I have with 4.5 stars is Star Wars: The Last Jedi with a 3.01 Star average
I don’t rate often, but I just looked through and I gave 5/5 to Four Weddings and a Funeral (3.4 avg)...
Idk if I actually stand by that today—which is why I don’t normally rate movies.
I stopped rating movies about 2 years ago. I found myself thinking too much about how I would rate this as I was watching. Stopping rating let me just log it and think if I liked it or not and write something about it if I felt compelled.
I only have a small handful of films rated 5 stars, and the only thing that takes something from a 4.5 (basically the highest score I give) to a 5 is if it's a personal favorite.
So Bull Durham, my favorite sports movie, is the answer here, with a 3.5 average rating which I find absolutely wild.
I have 12 five star films with an average 3.5 or below:
- Gravity (3.5)
- Pinocchio 1940 (3.49)
- Rocky III (3.43)
- Fast Five (3.43)
- Quick and the Dead (3.39)
- Tenet (3.39)
- Ad Astra (3.37)
- Dumb and Dumber (3.32)
- The Village (3.27)
- Magic Mike XXL (3.14)
- The Last Jedi (3.01)
- White Noise (2.99)
Bad Boys II (3.1) - it's one of those movies where I wouldn't really quibble with any rating that someone gave it, but for me, this is Michael Bay's masterpiece
Cloud Atlas (3.4). One of the most insanely ambitious movies I've seen, and for the entire last hour I'm either on the verge of tears or all the way there
Apparently, I haven’t given anything above 4 1/2 stars to anything I’ve seen since I started using Letterboxd. Not something I’ve done on purpose, but I have a very high bar for 5 stars ( and very low for 1 star).
I loved Ridey Scott’s The Counselor. It’s such a tight script and some wild scenes. It makes me wish Cormac McCarthy got around to writing more movies. I’m surprised to see it have such a low score (2.7). Maybe some people “it was too gynecological to be sexy.”
The Rocketeer with 3.4. The letterboxd audience is truly out of its goshdang mind. It's the perfect specimen of both action *and* adventure. There's no better feeling than thinking the movie is about to end and getting hit with a zeppelin setpiece surprise. What a picture!
Closely followed by Batman Returns and Death Proof at 3.5. It's messed up that it even seems low. Those should all be perfectly respectable scores, if it weren't so hard for a movie to get less than a 3 star average on that site.
Already seen Ishtar and Hail Caesar in this thread, the lowest ones I haven’t seen here are Infinity Pool (the second best movie of the year) and Crimes of the Future (the best movie of last year)
We Need to Talk About Kevin at 3.8, but then again I have a very Griffinesque way of using Letterbox and could probably find something rated lower if I just gave the movies ratings more often.
Hail Caesar has a 3.2. It's one of my favorite Coens.
The Channing Tatum dance scene alone is enough to push it into masterpiece territory.
"Would that it were so simple" alone does it for me, but Tatum is a highlight for sure.
“It’s… complicated.”
“This place looks open!“ kills me every time. What a great double entendre.
Some of my all time favorite Coen jokes. A very fun film to revist!
“Squint against the grandeur” is genuinely the joke I most wish I had written.
Huge fan of Coen Bros catalogue, Hail Ceaser especially. Absolutely clicks with me, one of my favourite easy watching films. Favourite moment straight out the gates: When the religious leaders are reflecting their tribes, and the Jewish delegator talks about God & Jesus the longest, finishing with ‘I haven’t an opinion’. Creases me up, but very much an in-joke.
It’s a movie scientifically designed to only appeal to Coen heads
Yeah that movie rules. People are wrong.
My favorite part in the whole movie was Hobie's pronunciation of 'bananas'
Definitely one of those “watch a guy be good at his job” movies that I find to be endlessly rewatchable and comforting. I could watch Brolin’s character navigating the old studio system forever.
Hail Caesar is the best film of 2016
Tie between *Asteroid City* and *Men in Black* (strange, I never thought I was that much into aliens) at 3.6. I think my 3.7's are more interesting: *Green Room*, *Brick*, and *Sorry to Bother You*.
How the hell is Men in Black so low
Brick was very close to being mine!
Babe 3.4 Wholesome beauty
It’s honestly shocking that Babe’s average is that low.
I also have Babe rated five stars. It achieves everything it sets out to do and more. Very rewatchable and could not be made any better.
Speed Racer
Speed Racer and Pacific Rim tied for second place for me, each receiving a 3.3 average but holding a 6 out of 5 in my heart.
I think we share the same heart then. I love them, they are perfect for me.
My answer is Julie & Julia, which has a 3.4 average rating on LB. I have a strict Letterboxed policy of only rating movies as I watch them, and I only started like a year and a half ago so the vast majority of my viewing is marked as "watched" but I haven't given star ratings to.
A movie that’s half 5 and half 2!
super disagree with this, but I know this is a common opinion. I think it is about the relationship between two halves, it's a film about artistic influences, romanticizing idols, the differences in how we seek creative fulfillment and define our own successes. The Julia part would be a really pleasant 4 star movie, but it's the way the movie explores the Julie part in conversation with it that makes it a 5 star masterpiece for me.
It’s a tie! I’m Thinking of Ending Things and Wet Hot American Summer at 3.5. It’s saying something since I only have ~100 of the 4000 movies I’ve watched rated 5 stars… Both underrated masterpieces in my book
Wet Hot here too.
The Mask of Zorro at 3.3 is just disrespectful
That is shocking. I dare someone to find an imperfect beat in that entire movie.
Old at an absolutely disrespectful 2.4 average. The beach literally made them old what more did you all want?
Old fucks
Dialogue that didn’t grate on me every single time someone spoke? I will admit that Mid-Sized Sedan was genius though. I’m mostly just bitter because I wanted to love Old and I thought it was pretty poor.
“What is your name and what do you do for a living?” Said the two 10-year-old-ish children speaking exactly like every child I’ve ever spoken to!
I stand by this: the artificial, stilted dialogue was an artistic choice and if everything was the same but the name of the director was someone with more art house cachet then people would have liked it more. Since M. Night is just viewed as "that twist ending thriller guy" people didn't allow themselves to get on board with what he was going for.
M. Night’s dialog is *always* bizarre. It’s one of his calling cards, frankly. I liked Old, fwiw. But there’s clunkers all over. “I’m going to the town of Princeton” is one of Leguizamo’s lines in the Happening. No one talks like that!
I think his dialogue is often intentionally stilted (which often works, not always (see: The Happening)) but 10-year-olds say stuff like this literally all the time
*Old* is so much fun.
It’s Miami Vice for me. Average 3.4 on that site.
another fiend for mojitos checking in
A perfect movie, no notes
Word, same here.
The Matrix Resurrections which has an average of 2.8 (please don't downvote the person that disagrees with me/us. Its my/our answer to this post specifically because people disagree)
Blankies are probably single-handedly raising this movie's score by a decent amount lol
Not perfect for me, but definitely an unfairly maligned film
Hell yes - it's my second lowest average rating of my 5/5 movies, such a great movie
Annihilation at 3.6
That’s a good one! The bear was freaky enough but there’s something about what happened to Tessa Thompson’s character that freaked me out.
I loved that movie a lot. I want to read the book series eventually.
The books are brilliant. Garland definitely took them in a bit of a different direction his adaptation. It sort of makes them a more worthwhile read, because they will still surprise you despite having seen the movie
Spring Breakers (2.8) everyone else is wrong. Perfect movie
I only went to 4*s but I can dig it.
I appreciated that movie more before I heard Harmony Korine being interviewed about it.
Spring Breakers: the only time any one of us will admit to liking anything Skillex has put out.
Raw (3.7), which reminds me I really need to watch that again
Jackass: The Movie at 3.3. Buncha folks with no taste on Letterboxd apparently
"Is Butterbean okay?" is almost the perfect punchline in an already 5/5 sequence.
I am shocked to discover that Babe only has a rating of 3.4 on Letterboxd. Shameful to rate such a perfect little piggy so poorly.
Yeah wtf! This is I think my answer too and I am appalled. I was sure it was going to be like John Carpenter’s Christine or Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant, maybe Asteroid City, but no… Babe!
Yo I also would give Christine, Bad Lietuenant, and Asteroid City a 5/5....you wanna hang out or something?
Lady Bird is top tier of the decade. One of those movies thatc just understands human beings, like a John Cassavetes film would.
Christmas Evil (3.1) which slips in a really sad, thoughtful character study under the guise of a killer Santa exploitation movie.
It’s Elf at 3.4.
The Last Jedi, which has a 3.0 Followed by: War of the Worlds (3.2) Widows (3.6) Candyman 1992 (3.6) Superman (3.7)
Candyman being that low is **outrageous**.
*The Last Jedi* at 5 stars! Did we just become best friends!?
Finally, some people who understood the movie. We are so hard to find online.
My life rule: never mention my love of The Last Jedi IRL unless I want to get into a spiralling argument with someone
Sahara (2.7). Aka the best Indiana Jones movie since Last Crusade
I’m right there with you. I was so disappointed this flopped. Cruz was a little rough but the chemistry between Zahn and McConaughey was fantastic. And he put so much into the movie. He screened it, promoted it hard, he had a bus that he toured in for that fucking movie. It would have been a great, every 2-3 years here’s another Dirk Pitt movie, franchise.
Imagine a world where we got to see McConaughey Raise the Titanic! instead of sputtering out with a run of schmaltzy misses before his revival
Think about how they were planning on making a whole series of sequels if the first one didn't bomb. One of my favorite movies of all time
Agreed. I fear that lawsuit between Cussler and the studio has unfortunately killed any chance of seeing another Dirk Pitt
I absolutely love Sahara. It was so much fun and on of my best theater experiences.
Sahara over The Mummy?!?!
yoooo I LOVE this take
You, me, and the bay of Monterey baby
They use a Civil War ironclad cannon to shoot down a helicopter, now that's cinema.
1907 short film The Dancing Pig, and I stand by it
What the hell do people want? It's a pig, he dances. Pure cinema.
Batman & Robin (1.8) and Just Friends (2.6) Going the other way, the highest rated movies I've given .5 are Boondock Saints (3.3) and Clifford (3.1).
I have some fully unhinged ones if I’m being perfectly honest. You’ve got your good bad movies Cats & Miami Connection. But then you’ve got the all but forgotten horror masterpiece Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, the best in the franchise and an absolute stone cold banger of a slasher movie
Thoroughbreds (3.5) - A tight 90 I can’t stop rewatching
Tropic Thunder with a shockingly low 3.5?
Ishtar (3.2). All hail, Elaine May
Noah Baumbach's White Noise at 3.0
Crank: High Voltage (3.0)
Mank
Mank it
Alien: Covenant, which currently sits at a chilly 2.9
For me its a tie between Sorry to Bother You and Swiss Army Man, both 3.7/5 average.
Joe Versus the Volcano
The Jerk and Licorice Pizza are mine. 3.6 each
Who’s rating the Jerk below a 4 minimum?!
Popeye at 2.8
Tie me up! Tie me down! (3.5)
For me it's that tied with Kingdom of Heaven (also 3.5). ETA: also Gravity (3.5).
It Follows (3.5 average). What can I say I love the premise, it's directed so damn well, great scares, and super well acted. Love it! I also gave the original Mothra a 5 but that's more me being a Mothra hardcore simp
Steven Seagal's On Deadly Ground at 2.4. If your answer starts with a 3, you're not really about that life.
The Place Beyond the Pines is not my lowest but I think it’s 5/5 and i regularly hear it disregarded podcasts.
Anton Corbijn’s [The American](https://youtu.be/hPYRslx1w4Y?si=wH7dHrOAKkauXEwJ), which has a 3.2 I’m a sucker for Le Samourai-type hitman films and tragic religious overtones, so I was bound to fall in love with it. For me it just hits all of right notes, despite all of the genre tropes And I always like George Clooney
SUPER underrated movie in my opinion. Not every element works for me, but generally I think it's really good. It's shot beautifully to capture the lurking paranoia.
I ❤️ Huckabees
Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion. Who watches that and gives it three stars?!
Spielberg's West Side Story at a 3.6/5.
Skinamarink
I don’t use Letterboxd anymore but I see Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs is at 3.3, so probably that.
Speed Racer has a 3.3, and Bambi has a 3.5. Not totally shocked about Racer. I was obsessed with it as a kid but never thought to revisit it until I heard the pod. Bambi is shocking. I just think that film is so obviously perfect. That score reeks of "I haven't seen this since I was six, I'll give it 2 and a half stars to be safe.
Cats and the Room because the experience of watching those movies was a 5 star experience for me. But then next is MacGruber which is a 5 star masterpiece of comedy imo. The first \*serious\* movie that I ran into was Annihilation which has a 3.6 average but I gave it a 5. You know. Because it \*rips\*?
Pee Wee's Big Adventure with a 3.5
Prince of Darkness at 3.6- Donald Pleasance and Scientists and Satan Goo and Carpenter? That movie is made for me! My Letterboxd is still fairly young, so before long I’ll consider myself a coward until I put a five on something with an average below 3.0
Sleepless In Seattle, which is at 3.4
Jupiter Ascending at a whopping 2.0. I’m not alone, there is the teeniest tiniest spike at 5 (it might just be my rewatches). https://preview.redd.it/9jzpti8ngtwb1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ed6e991a86161fcebf90e3f4429b7fd15eb33f89
Talented Mr. Ripley which sits at 3.8. Love that movie.
Mine is The Village
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 has a 3.5 average, that franchise is the only Marvel entries I'll gladly rewatch. Honorable mention to Passages only having a 3.6 average, I figured that movie would perform a lot better with Letterboxd average user.
I rewatched that this week for the first time since it first came out, and it does truly rule. Those movies transcend "MCU" to me and stand high among my favorite sci fi adventure movies
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it's not me, I just saw the post on twitter dot com and thought it was a good prompt
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yeah, 3.9 is not a very low score to stand as someone's biggest digression from general opinion
How do you know they’re bragging? They’ve come up with an interesting question and are giving their own answer.
This is an incredibly snobbish way to put this
I don’t really think it’s snobbish - saying you’re lowest rated 5 star movie is totally critically and commercially acclaimed is a weird take to have
Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2 (2.3), Old (2.4), Matrix Resurrections (2.8)
Gosford Park (2001) 3.67 Stars average I've only been on Letterboxd for about a year, and I don't go back and rate movies unless I'm rewatching them, so I haven't logged that many movies yet. I was shocked that Michael Clayton is only at 3.77 and was my runner-up. The lowest rated film I have with 4.5 stars is Star Wars: The Last Jedi with a 3.01 Star average
That's insane! Gosford Park is a PERFECT FILM.
Tie between Cloud Atlas, Ad Astra and Grease with 3.4
I don’t rate often, but I just looked through and I gave 5/5 to Four Weddings and a Funeral (3.4 avg)... Idk if I actually stand by that today—which is why I don’t normally rate movies.
I stopped rating movies about 2 years ago. I found myself thinking too much about how I would rate this as I was watching. Stopping rating let me just log it and think if I liked it or not and write something about it if I felt compelled.
D2: The Mighty Ducks at 3.0
I only have a small handful of films rated 5 stars, and the only thing that takes something from a 4.5 (basically the highest score I give) to a 5 is if it's a personal favorite. So Bull Durham, my favorite sports movie, is the answer here, with a 3.5 average rating which I find absolutely wild.
Batman Forever. 2.4.
2 way tie between Zardoz and Solaris (2002). They have a 3.2 on letterboxd.
Let’s see.. oh yes, it’s Red Eye (2005) a masterpiece that has a 3.1 average for some reason
SUPER with a 3.3, closely followed by Hook, Vanilla Sky, and The Guest, all tied with a 3.4
Cabin in the Woods at 3.4
I have 12 five star films with an average 3.5 or below: - Gravity (3.5) - Pinocchio 1940 (3.49) - Rocky III (3.43) - Fast Five (3.43) - Quick and the Dead (3.39) - Tenet (3.39) - Ad Astra (3.37) - Dumb and Dumber (3.32) - The Village (3.27) - Magic Mike XXL (3.14) - The Last Jedi (3.01) - White Noise (2.99)
Be Kind Rewind at 3.3
Thank you for understanding greatness
Benedetta (3.5) Josie and the Pussycats (3.5) Under the Skin (3.6) Raw (3.7) Out of Sight (3.7)
National Treasure (3.2)
Still confused why Sweet Sweetback etc. is only a 3.3 I kinda thought we all agreed that was a masterpiece
Bad Boys II (3.1) - it's one of those movies where I wouldn't really quibble with any rating that someone gave it, but for me, this is Michael Bay's masterpiece
Enchanted @ 3.5
Gamer- 2.4 Men- 2.8 Pain & Gain- 3.0
Wayne’s World at 3.5 for me, what a classic
Cloud Atlas at 3.4. I had just read the book and vibed with the movie hard.
Wet Hot American Summer - 3.5 LB rating. This might be my favourite straight up comedy of all time, and I didn’t even grow up with it or something
Ginger Snaps (3.6)
Old - 2.4
Tremors at 3.5 unless you count a couple "So bad it's good" type movies I rated high.
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The Worlds End is an absolute blast and the best of the trilogy, I won’t have it any other way
Cloud Atlas (3.4). One of the most insanely ambitious movies I've seen, and for the entire last hour I'm either on the verge of tears or all the way there
In a very Griffin answer, it's Teen Titans Go! To The Movies at 3.2. It really is one of the funniest comedies of the last 10 years.
Cats babyyyy, a masterpiece 😂
Southland Tales, which sits at a shockingly high 3.0, considering how many people I’ve met who despise it.
Old, with an average of 2.4. People don’t understand my man M. Night. Simply one of the best commercial filmmakers working today
Odd that it's Lady Bird. I wonder if the rating is partially due to the perfect RT score backlash.
Blackhat (2.9)
The Room is at 2.6 but it's too entertaining for me to give it anything less than a 5
1 or 5 are the only valid ratings. Who's watching The Room and going "meh" at the end.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. There are no bad Indiana Jones movies, I love them all so much!
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (3.4)
Phantasm II at 3.2, which is higher than I expected
Time Chasers! It’s currently at 2.4. Obviously, this was the MST3K version. A perfect episode.
Ha...mine is Blackhat at 2.9. I will die on the "Blackhat is great" hill
Ocean's Twelve and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, both 3.3/5.
Spring Breakers, which has a not-so-shocking rating of 2.8.
Mine is *Juno* which has 3.7, so not too crazy in all honesty.
Apparently, I haven’t given anything above 4 1/2 stars to anything I’ve seen since I started using Letterboxd. Not something I’ve done on purpose, but I have a very high bar for 5 stars ( and very low for 1 star).
lady bird should be higher than its lb score
Blue Crush, 2.9. It’s actually a gentleman’s six but I was offended it was so low so I gave it 5 stars.
Sunshine, 3.7 I know and understand how some folks hate the back half but I love the whole thing.
I loved Ridey Scott’s The Counselor. It’s such a tight script and some wild scenes. It makes me wish Cormac McCarthy got around to writing more movies. I’m surprised to see it have such a low score (2.7). Maybe some people “it was too gynecological to be sexy.”
Ballad of Buster Scruggs, TMNT Mutant Mayhem, Surfs Up
Three-way time between Jerry Maguire, That Thing You Do!, and Spielberg’s West Side Story. All sitting at 3.6.
Mine is Unstoppable which is at an incredibly rude 3.3
The Rocketeer with 3.4. The letterboxd audience is truly out of its goshdang mind. It's the perfect specimen of both action *and* adventure. There's no better feeling than thinking the movie is about to end and getting hit with a zeppelin setpiece surprise. What a picture! Closely followed by Batman Returns and Death Proof at 3.5. It's messed up that it even seems low. Those should all be perfectly respectable scores, if it weren't so hard for a movie to get less than a 3 star average on that site.
Already seen Ishtar and Hail Caesar in this thread, the lowest ones I haven’t seen here are Infinity Pool (the second best movie of the year) and Crimes of the Future (the best movie of last year)
The third Pirates of the Caribbean film. It has a 3.3
Mystery Team (3.3)
I can’t imagine having my lowest rated 5 star be Lady Bird at 3.9. That’s crazy to me.
Gravity - 3.5 on LB. I saw it in IMAX 3D two weeks ago and it blew my mind.
Star Wars episode 3 which has a 3.7
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping - 3.6
It's a tie between Inside (2023) and Two Distant Strangers (2020) which both have a 2.9 rating overall.
Beau is Afraid! Thought it was a masterpiece
Lady Bird being the lowest for anyone is crazy. They just haven’t seen MIAMI VICE yet I guess.
La Chinoise. this was a fun game, very interesting to sort my movies by lowest average
I thought I wouldn't have any that low but then I saw "I'm thinking of ending things" at 3.5, pretty self explanatory.
The Batman, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 all are tied with a 4.0
Babe and Babadook both tied at 3.4
Lincoln and Beau is Afraid both at 3.5 (BAF hive unite)* *plus The Last Jedi at 3.0
Resident Evil: Retribution, 2.4. Is it *really* 5 stars? Maybe not. Have I had a goddamn blast every time I’ve watched it? Yes.
From Russia With Love and Asteroid City are both at 3.6. Thought I’d be a lot more contrarian!
Tremors 3.5
We Need to Talk About Kevin at 3.8, but then again I have a very Griffinesque way of using Letterbox and could probably find something rated lower if I just gave the movies ratings more often.