4.3??!! - North (1994) Discussion

[–] virgiltx 11 years ago

There was a lot of hysteria about political incorrectness.

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[–] praisethelove 11 years ago

What do you mean?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_(1994_film)#Reception
Note the items "racial insensitivity, ethnic stereotyping...", followed by Ebert's extreme reaction to it: 'Siskel called it "deplorable"... as well as saying that it made him feel "unclean" while he was watching it.'

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[–] praisethelove 11 years ago

Wow. thats odd. I didnt see anything wrong with this film in that regard.

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[–] TheSonomaDude 11 years ago

Wow. thats odd. I didnt see anything wrong with this film in that regard.

Are you being serious? You didn't find the relentless and unnecessary jabs at Texans, Africans, Chinese, Native Americans, Hawaiians, the Amish, or French the to be the least bit offensive? As part Texan and Chocktaw (Native American), I was extremely offended by the stereotypes of how we are just plain redneck hicks that live in the desert and do nothing but eat, lasso cow, yoddle terrible songs, and eat more. And the whole bit with the "Sending our older ones out on the ice" bit in the Alaska segment was so outrageously offensive that I seriously threw my remote at the TV and nearly broke it, and I'm not even Alaskan.

Besides, all the jokes are completely horrendous. One I can remember is "Hawaii is full of lush and fertile lands, and there is only one place that is rough on our islands. Unfortunatly, its my wife." Ha, ha, ha, so funny. Or howabout when Bruce Willis says "Your name is North? Hey, thats one of my favorite directions!"

This movie is an easy 1/10 for terrible writing, shockingly awful humor, no direction, and mindblowing racial incisiveness all across the board. I'm really not sure how you liked this.

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[–] briand10 11 years ago

I read your comment before the Hawaii scenes and just want to point out the governor says "barren" not rough.

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[–] JayMusicGirl 10 years ago

People who cry "political correctness" in response to all the bad reviews the movie got need to read your comment. It's so easy to say people are being overly politically correct when you're in a majority and haven't had the experiences a person of a certain color or background or belief or so on has had.

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[–] portermiked 11 years ago

The Dark Knight is in the top 10 movies (of all time) on here; don't give too much credit to the ratings...The cast may have been bigger than the movie, but North wasn't any worse than any other 90's single-weekend kids movie.

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[–] virgiltx 10 years ago

It's actually up to 4.4 now, 30 Mar 2014. That's a pretty slow climb, but it could indicate a possible trend. Sometimes, after a movie is shown on cable or whatever, there is a surge of interest. If this becomes a standard on home view type venues then I think we'll see the rating go up.

But I think it would need to be recognized as genuine cult fave, and to be spoken well of by some major faction of hipsters or something like that. Then it will be fashionable to like the movie.

Evidence of becoming a cult movie: the two IMDb staff members who rated it, gave it a 7.0 average between themselves (as of Mar 30, 2014).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110687/ratings?ref_=tt_ov_rt

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[–] virgiltx 10 years ago

I'm posting the data below as a means of tracking how this movie is progressing in popularity.
As of 10 June 2014:

10011 IMDb users have given a weighted average vote of 4.4 / 10

Demographic breakdowns are shown below.

Votes Percentage Rating
528 5.3% 10
181 1.8% 9
438 4.4% 8
956 9.5% 7
1393 13.9% 6
1736 17.3% 5
1550 15.5% 4
990 9.9% 3
806 8.1% 2
1433 14.3% 1
Arithmetic mean = 4.6. Median = 5

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[–] virgiltx 8 years ago

Here's another snapshot, because the one just above looks like it is not the complete snapshot I posted originally. It may have been edited by someone other than myself.

The date is 2015/12/16. Please excuse the bad formatting:

11058 IMDb users have given a weighted average vote of 4.4 / 10

Demographic breakdowns are shown below.

Votes Percentage Rating
566 5.1% 10
194 1.8% 9
494 4.5% 8
1033 9.3% 7
1534 13.9% 6
1946 17.6% 5
1713 15.5% 4
1100 9.9% 3
895 8.1% 2
1583 14.3% 1
Arithmetic mean = 4.6. Median = 5

Your Rating: 8

This page is updated daily.

See user ratings report for:

Votes Average
Males 6877 4.2
Females 1852 5.2
Aged under 18 23 4.0
Males under 18 19 3.7
Females under 18 4 6.8
Aged 18-29 2571 4.4
Males Aged 18-29 1885 4.1
Females Aged 18-29 668 5.6
Aged 30-44 4859 4.4
Males Aged 30-44 3904 4.3
Females Aged 30-44 902 5.1
Aged 45+ 1172 4.2
Males Aged 45+ 944 4.2
Females Aged 45+ 220 4.5
IMDb staff 2 7.0
Top 1000 voters 359 4.1
US users 4048 4.2
Non-US users 4110 4.5

IMDb users 11058 4.4

I'll explain more later.
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[–] Jes' Sayin' (5947) 7 months ago

In 2023 still at 4.6.

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[–] TimeTunnel (4589) 7 months ago

Yep...4.5 now.
Perhaps really a little low.
But sorry, that wasn't a good movie. 🙁

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