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[–] marzhall@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Just had this experience with The Men Who Stare At Goats. Thought it was a good watch, like 6.2 on IMDb. Would recommend

[–] FrustratedArtist@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

6-7 on IMDB is a pretty decent score, plenty of good movies in that range. If it's 5 and below it means it's right proper schlock.

[–] Welt@lazysoci.al 0 points 4 days ago

That's not how IMDb rating works. It's just an aggregate based on the number of users voting on it. It's basically useless at distinguishing a stinker from a watchable weeknight movie from a masterpiece. Rotten Tomatoes attempts to address this imbalance with a weighted scheme, which usually works better for well-known movies.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 3 days ago

I thoroughly enjoyed that one

[–] 2ncs@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I also highly recommend the book (and all of Jon Ronson tbh)

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I read the book first which made me really not like the movie. I think in a vacuum the movie is fine, but the heavy fictionalization to the point of preposterousness of something that was only one part of the book was just such a twisting. The book was about government waste, fraud, and abuse. The movie was about a wacky special forces guy who could apparently on some level actually use powers.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago

β€œThem” is also great and has Ronson sneaking into Bohemia Grove with a pre-full-on-crazy-grifter Alex Jones. I read it in one sitting.