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The Most Hated Movie among the IMDB Top 25 Movies

posted 12 years ago by hspraj
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I don't understand you people rate movies just 1 out of 10, If they hate the movie so much they shouldn’t even bother to rate it.
Here is a countdown list of movies that got most 1 out of 10 rating among the IMDB Top 50 Movies

1. Seven Samurai
No. of Votes : 6443; Percentage : 4.90%; Current Top Ranking : 18
2. The Godfather
No. of Votes : 26840; Percentage : 4.60%; Current Top Ranking : 2
3. LOTR: The Return of the King
No. of Votes : 19845 Percentage : 3.50% Current Top Ranking : 9
4. The Godfather: Part II
No. of Votes : 12004 Percentage : 3.20% Current Top Ranking : 3
5. LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
No. of Votes : 18001 Percentage : 3.10% Current Top Ranking : 14
6. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
No. of Votes : 6867 Percentage : 2.80% Current Top Ranking : 5
7. LOTR: The Two Towers
No. of Votes : 13671 Percentage : 2.70% Current Top Ranking : 24
8. The Shawshank Redemption
No. of Votes : 20437 Percentage : 2.60% Current Top Ranking : 1
9. Schindler's List
No. of Votes : 10612 Percentage : 2.50% Current Top Ranking : 7
10. Casablanca
No. of Votes : 5652 Percentage : 2.50% Current Top Ranking : 23
11. The Dark Knight
No. of Votes : 18273 Percentage : 2.40% Current Top Ranking : 8
12. Star Wars
No. of Votes : 9975 Percentage : 2.20% Current Top Ranking : 17
13. City of God
No. of Votes : 5826 Percentage : 2.20% Current Top Ranking : 20
14. Once Upon a Time in the West
No. of Votes : 2543 Percentage : 2.20% Current Top Ranking : 22
15. Pulp Fiction
No. of Votes : 13349 Percentage : 2.10% Current Top Ranking : 4
16. The Empire Strikes Back
No. of Votes : 8558 Percentage : 2.10% Current Top Ranking : 10
17. 12 Angry Men
No. of Votes : 3993 Percentage : 2.00% Current Top Ranking : 6
18. The Matrix
No. of Votes : 10073 Percentage : 1.70% Current Top Ranking : 19
19. Inception
No. of Votes : 9227 Percentage : 1.60% Current Top Ranking : 15
20. Fight Club
No. of Votes : 8736 Percentage : 1.40% Current Top Ranking : 11
21. The Dark Knight Rises
No. of Votes : 2625 Percentage : 1.20% Current Top Ranking : 13
22. Forrest Gump
No. of Votes : 5889 Percentage : 1.20% Current Top Ranking : 21
23. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
No. of Votes : 3864 Percentage : 1.10% Current Top Ranking : 12
24. Goodfellas
No. of Votes : 3223 Percentage : 0.90% Current Top Ranking : 16
25. The Silence of the Lambs
No. of Votes : 2861 Percentage : 0.70% Current Top Ranking : 25

[–] Ethereal-Cloud 12 years ago

Don't fret, some people are just knuckleheads. I've seen glowing reviews from people that have rated a move one star. Perhaps in Azerbaijan the number one is larger that ten?

[–] kduffy-8 11 years ago

Maybe just malcontents trying to balance the scales by voting against what's immensely popular or well regarded.

[–] Mormeril 8 years ago

I wish there was a like button here. This is so true!

[–] NvadR 10 years ago

Seven Samurai would be in my top 10 of all-time greatest motion pictures, no question

[–] The-Massi 8 years ago

"Ethereal-Cloud" Wrote:

some people are just knuckleheads. I've seen glowing reviews from people that have rated a move one star. Perhaps in Azerbaijan the number one is larger that ten?

Can I ask you a question? All those knuckleheads who had rated a movie 1/10 and wrote a glowing review about it at the same time, which you seen them, were from Azerbaijan? And, do you call all Azaries as knuckleheads? I wonder, do you know where Azerbaijan is at all???

[–] phantom2-2 12 years ago

interesting stats. it's easy to guess why seven samurai tops the list:

it's in black and white (only 4 of the top 25 are b&w)
it's old (1954, only casablanca is older)
it's long (over 3 hours)

and the main reason?

subtitles (only city of god isn't in english)

a long, slow-paced, b&w film is going to be hard to sit through if you hate reading your movies.

(though i have to say it doesn't seem that long to me, the film is beautiful to watch, there's plenty of appropriate action, and the pacing provided plenty of time to read the subtitles and keep up with the film)

[–] estocade 12 years ago

Agreed. But what most people don't get is a that a long film could be seen as a mini-series.

[–] ArchStanton1862 11 years ago

Agreed. I actually find myself rather more impressed at the number of 10s for this film than the 1s. It deserves it of course, but the people reviewing it on here aren't usually the kind with the interest or attention span to appreciate movies like this.

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[–] bektaskonca 10 years ago

WOW sir you are my hero i have never realised this points until you have mentioned it excellent observation thanks.

[–] nyk2000my 12 years ago

IMO, it's a *beep* brilliant movie, nvm bout just subtitle, nvm that it's 3 hrs, I never felt bored at all. And forget about the historical significant or values or what so ever, this is still a *beep* brilliant movie.

If you hate it so much, why bother to vote?

For all those 25, may be the exception of Once Upon a time in the west, which I gave an 8 (too long and too slow for today standard, I can't help）, I would give the rest a 9 or 10.

I watch every single one of TOP 25.

V For Vengence

[–] BadSurge 9 years ago

"For all those 25, may be the exception of Once Upon a time in the west, which I gave an 8 (too long and too slow for today standard, I can't help&#65289;, I would give the rest a 9 or 10."

I can see what makes you say that; the very beginning is famously drawn out and uneventful. But, in my opinion, it's another film like Seven Samurai in that it's engaging and doesn't feel too long by the end.

[–] spaceinvader-17928 8 years ago

Seven Samurai is even slower than Once Upon a Time in the West IMO. While there is barely any content in Leone's film, Ennio Morricone's score is really good, and that kind of fills the void in the movie. For Seven Samurai, there is almost no talking, no music and barely any dialogue. That's not saying that either of them is a bad movie, but with regards to pacing and 'slowness', I'd say Seven Samurai feels slower than Once Upon a Time in the West.

[–] Suzume-san 8 years ago

For Seven Samurai, there is almost no talking, no music and barely any dialogue.

That's strange, there's plenty of all three on the Criterion edition I have. What were you watching?

[–] mysterioman007 12 years ago

While I've never seen this movie (I'm working my way through the Top 250), why should some not rate a movie because they didn't like it? Isn't that the point of rating a movie? If everyone used your method, all movies would be tied for first...

[–] wse-jack 12 years ago

honestly I wish movies like goodfellas were higher up on that list, I mean who the hell wants to watch a movie centering around 3 extrodinaraly unlikable sociopaths with no real skills or talents who *beep* eachother over, over the course of 2+ hours....

That being said, just that peoples tops in it of itself is an example of why some of the most extrodinary films (like seven samurai), get neg reviews. People, expecialy in america are *beep* spazes a lot of the time. Look at Avengers pulling in an 8.6 being a movie with no real character development, riddeled with the most least profound cliches and no emotional story arch whatsoever... still not the worst movie in it of itself, kinda fun to a certian extent but nothing special, and the dark knight rises raking in an 8.9, also not a bad movie but AWFULL dialoge, poor sound mixing, and just all in all pointless characters and overly childish violence... People like big blockbuster bullsh**.

Its not allways bullsh** look at inception, which was epicly brilliant and had the benifit of having a 200 million plus budget, but most of it is. If you go to profound, people dont get it, if you go too dark, people are uncomfortable, if you have meaningfull dialoge, people are board, if you have a proper development that dosent involve bright shiny ass lights and explosions or rappid pace cuts people are board, or more often just dont get it.

I get that people want to be entertained, so do I, but common, any one reaching the age of 25 should be old enough to have seen enough movies to know what skill is and what isnt. but then it seems most americans by the age of 25 are realy 12 anyways (just look at the video game industry *cough* skyrim... *cough* cough*.

Anyhow, theres enough people to jogg seven samurai up to a 8.8 which is close enough, honestly its one of the few older movies to hold up to modern scrutenty as far as cinimatography and lower impact dramatic acting goes.

[–] gribfritz2 12 years ago

The 1's are fine. It offsets all the idiots who give automatic 10s instead of real ratings. It all balances out in the end.

[–] ian_buchan 11 years ago

hahaha, how well said!
I'm one of the idiots.

[–] rajebay 11 years ago

Beats me totally that anyone can give this movie a 1!
I am sure they have applauded the thousands of movies that this spawned which itself is a testament of its greatness!
But then i take solace in the fact that it is just 6600 vs 60,000 who have rated it 10!

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[–] jville2 11 years ago

IMO, All of the one-star ratings help balance out some of the fanatical tens given by fanboys. Shawshank is a decent movie, but I wish that 100,000 people would give it a ONE just to bring it down to reality = 7.0.

[–] frankzappayay 10 years ago

I watched Shawshank with my friend, I thought it was amazing and he HATED it. He thought the sappy happy ending was sickening, he seemed really angry about it! Just goes to show you can't please everyone. I can understand his point of view, although personally I hate movies that have sad endings...

[–] chamohlamb 8 years ago

Seven Samurai has "fanboys"

[–] writinman2004 8 years ago

Ah, so it should be a "7" because that's what YOU think it is? That's not how it works....