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StarTrek XI = 8.1/10 on IMDB and a 94% fresh on RottenTomatoes

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In case most of you don’t know …that is StarTrek XI rating and critical reception on the two biggest movie website EVER,

pls how do you top that?

Most films on IMDB are lucky if they score 7/10 ...rottentomatoes is even the worst, many great films dont even score up to 90% .

Am just kind of scared that star trek XII isn’t going to top that:sigh:
 
Well, none of the previous Star trek films has ever topped that. It's good news as Star Trek has hit a new high.

The even numbered films did almost as well. Course, theres no way of knowing if STXI will hold up over time.

WoK earned a 7.7
TVH earned a 7.3
TUC earned a 7.2
ST:FC earned a 7.6
NEM earned a 6.4
 
In my personal opinion, I wouldn't put XI as high as 8.1 on IMDB or 94% on RT, but then again, one is a popular poll and one gauges the number of positive articles from film critics no matter how positive those articles are (from barely to exuberant). Then again, the point is to show how well-received a film was, and the height of XI's numbers is only good news for the franchise.
 
1bulma1 said:
In case most of you don’t know …that is StarTrek XI rating and critical reception on the two biggest movie website EVER,

pls how do you top that?

Most films on IMDB are lucky if they score 7/10 ...rottentomatoes is even the worst, many great films dont even score up to 90% .

Am just kind of scared that star trek XII isn’t going to top that:sigh:
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Lately, people have figured how to make the sequels even better or just as good as the first. I think the less spoilers/speculation one reads, the better.
 
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pls how do you top that?
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You don't, then again, since IMDB also ranks Scarface and Groundhog Day at 8.1 as well, it tells me that there's a lot of people on that website with poor taste.

So...who cares what IMDB says? They're full of idiots. If you like the movie, you don't need another person on the planet to agree with you or declare it good or bad.
 
STR said:
1bulma1 said:
pls how do you top that?
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You don't, then again, since IMDB also ranks Scarface and Groundhog Day at 8.1 as well, it tells me that there's a lot of people on that website with poor taste.
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Do you mean the 8.1 who voted for them or the 1.9 who voted against them? I ask not as a Star Trek fan, but as a Groundhog Day fan :)
 
The 8.1 in favor. I'm not saying it's a bad movie, I honestly can't recall what I thought of it last time I watched it. My point is that Groundhog Day, Star Trek 11, (especially) Scarface, The Bourne Ultimatum, and even Trainspotting shouldn't be considered among the best movies of all time.

Okay, maybe (MAYBE) Trainspotting, but not as high in the list as it is.
 
BillJ said:
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Lately, people have figured how to make the sequels even better or just as good as the first.
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All one has to do is watch Transformers 2 to know this is non-sense.
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It's not as if "Transformers" was that great to begin with but I was thinking more along the lines of the 80s and 90s when sequels were usually a heaping pile of shit. In the 2000s, sequels were taken a bit more seriously.
 
then again, since IMDB also ranks Scarface and Groundhog Day at 8.1 as well, it tells me that there's a lot of people on that website with poor taste.
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How dare you. "Scarface" is awesome. :angryrazz:. To explain it from an objective standpoint, the presence of "Scarface" on the list is an interesting situation. It's one of those movies that actually wasn't on the list until fairly recently (maybe within the last 5 years), and unlike most movies added recently because they're new and being hyped, I think the main reason it hit the list is because recent DVD re-releases strengthened the cult around it. There are countless movies that taint the list with their presence, but "Scarface" definitely isn't one of them. It's my favourite movie, so don't be badmouthing it, chico. :nyah:

I've thought a lot about why "Star Trek" is so ridiculously overrated on IMDB and it's pretty easy to understand. This was a big event movie. It was the movie Star Trek fans were hoping would breathe new life into a beloved, but stale (at the time of its release) property, and just like "Batman Begins" with the Batman property, it succeeded in that goal. Also, there's something iconic about it simply being called "Star Trek" without any additional title words after a colon, which gives it some extra weight and appeal compared to the other Star Trek movies.

It's not worthy of this or any best movies of all time list, though, looking at it purely in terms of quality. Especially when the infinitely deeper and more streamlined "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" isn't on the list. I enjoyed the movie, but its plot is riddled with absurdity and its villain is not one of the great movie villains. Like many post-2000 movies on that list, it's there mostly because of hype.

This annoys me because the list can be an excellent resource for finding brilliant old movies worth watching, but then these new movies voted up by hype steal spots that should go to those movies (the new ones also kick classics off the list, which is the biggest shame). Anyway, like some other newer movies that quickly ascended the list due to hype more than anything else (i.e. "The Simpsons Movie"), it'll probably drop down (and hopefully completely off) eventually. Unfortunately, the IMDB list and users are so predictable, it's a guarantee that the sequel will be on there too (kicking off another classic) unless it's a "Spider-Man 3" level disaster.
 
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The 8.1 in favor. I'm not saying it's a bad movie, I honestly can't recall what I thought of it last time I watched it. My point is that Groundhog Day, Star Trek 11, (especially) Scarface, The Bourne Ultimatum, and even Trainspotting shouldn't be considered among the best movies of all time.
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If this were a Groundhog Day board, I would kill you where you stand! [/Worf]

Ahem, but this is neither the time nor the place.
 
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Thing is, if a reviewer writes "it's good if you want a film where you switch your brain off and get dazzled by lens flares" - which is about as nice as I could be about the film - then that'd count as a positive review. If reviews were just either thumbs up or thumbs down with no other analysis, then something like RT or Metacritic would work perfectly, but you don't read reviews for that.
 
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