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How "good" is your taste in films?

68.42.45.72

free.ranger

Or taste of it, if edible. A quiz using your selections against tomato-based ratings.
I don't see "Blame It On Rio" in the offerings, so doubt that this has any credibility.

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RE: How "good" is your taste in films? - Bill the K 09:39:01 05/06/14 (0)
Scored 80. They comment that is High Brow taste. I never thought my Star Wars was HB taste.

Cheers
Bill
Got 100 without much trying - Victor Khomenko 19:08:28 05/02/14 (4)
Some films I have not even seen.
Elementary... and totally predictable.

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- RE: Got 100 without much trying - genungo 08:13:39 05/05/14 (0)
  You left the answer boxes completely blank?
- How did you cheat? * - Billy Wonka 21:06:54 05/02/14 (1)
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  - I have connections. Nt - Victor Khomenko 04:28:26 05/03/14 (0)
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- Kobayashi Maru. nt - free.ranger 20:39:10 05/02/14 (0)
Eureka, I got an 82: more than a few years, I really didn't like ANY of the choices. The compilers seem - tinear 18:55:47 05/01/14 (3)
completely unaware of a non-English speaking film world out there.
- I re-tested and got 99! * - Billy Wonka 07:35:49 05/02/14 (2)
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  - LOL! - mkuller 08:54:51 05/02/14 (1)
    ...no 108?
    - That's Patrick's score - Victor Khomenko 19:20:50 05/02/14 (0)
      I would give him 110, but hey, 108 ain't so bad either.
RE: How "good" is your taste in films? - Mark Man 10:34:26 05/01/14 (0)
67 out of a possible 100

thanks
Mark
69. To get a 100 you should probably leave them all blank - DFaulds 06:43:49 05/01/14 (0)
There were quite a few years where I had a hard time picking anything and did leave a few blank. It's pretty depressing looking at most of those options.
My 23 year old daughter... - mkuller 20:58:17 04/30/14 (0)
...said she scored a 78.

I taught her well.
70 here so it has to be meaningless. Just something thrown together to get page hits^ - Road Warrior 16:29:33 04/30/14 (0)
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"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
If you score higher than 70... - genungo 06:18:33 04/30/14 (0)
... your taste in movies surely stinks. That list is pathetic.
Just kidding! Really though, is it possible to know how good one's taste is?
You do what you do and you like what you like - end of story.

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No one over 70? I conclude that critics can't get real jobs. - free.ranger 14:29:50 04/29/14 (5)
Folks here seem to know movies very well.
That, plus the deliberate omission of "Sahara" for 2005. That would have bumped up scores for sure.
- RE: No one over 70? I conclude that critics can't get real jobs. - mkuller 16:31:03 04/29/14 (0)
  ...hey I was excited to see Pulp Fiction as a choice in the first box - one of my all time favorites.
  
  Went downhill from there.
  
  Where was Reanimator or Repo Man?
- OK, OK...I'll sheepishly admit it...I got a 74.......However..... - Steve O 15:50:29 04/29/14 (0)
  ....I wasn't familiar with maybe 40% of the films listed...and yet my performance was "exemplary". Exemplary? I recently completed a course of study at the local community college and the minimum passing grade was 77. In the popular culture they just keep coming up with new ways of celebrating mediocrity (paraphrased from one of the listed films).
- How many would you like? nt - free.ranger 15:07:23 04/29/14 (0)
- You got a for real job, really? * - Billy Wonka 14:44:34 04/29/14 (1)
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  - ... but none as keyboard driver. nt - free.ranger 15:08:32 04/29/14 (0)
Super Critic I AM . . - Billy Wonka 13:56:52 04/29/14 (3)
65 out of a possible 100

A very high score. Your taste in films is exemplary.
- You beat me by 4, (not that this means anything at all). - Raiderman 09:23:04 04/30/14 (1)
  Most movie critics are stuck-up assholes, IMHO.
  - I am Uber Critic! Actually you have to guess what those . . . - Billy Wonka 13:04:04 04/30/14 (0)
    moronic twits would like. I doubt many chose according to there true tastes. There just wasn't enough blood and bosoms represented for me to show my true colors.
- No way! That's what I got, and you're much braver than I... - musetap 21:03:53 04/29/14 (0)
  Only four short of anymore poor 69 jokes too!
  
  But now that I think about it you may be the only other person I know of that's also seen "Machete".
  
  "Machete Kills" is queued up.
  
  "Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
"Normal" (51) ...Sorry, I have no Grey Poupon. - Audiophilander 12:21:29 04/29/14 (5)
If I like a movie, I enjoy it regardless of critical acclaim or disdain (preference for popcorn or caviar makes no difference in respect to personal enjoyment). Of course, opinions on whether to see a movie can be influenced, but that's the nature of consensus reviews (ergo Rotten Tomatoes).
It wasn't a bad idea to use a base of Tomato ratings for flavor, but where good taste is concerned there should be more ingredients to choose from (larger selection of reviewed films).

Edits: 04/29/14
- I'm sending you a jar with the RR to transport it. * - Billy Wonka 07:46:04 04/30/14 (4)
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  - I'm making a note to solicit you as a backer on our next film project. - Audiophilander 11:14:25 04/30/14 (3)
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    - I may have to do some in-depth casting with the starlets. I'm in. * - Billy Wonka 13:00:01 04/30/14 (2)
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      - Sorry, we're just interested in deep pockets. - Audiophilander 14:43:05 04/30/14 (1)
        
        In Reply to: RE: I may have to do some in-depth casting with the starlets. I'm in. * posted by Billy Wonka on April 30, 2014 at 13:00:01
        
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        I have wide pockets....they will love them. * - Billy Wonka 16:44:06 04/30/14 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Sorry, we're just interested in deep pockets. posted by Audiophilander on April 30, 2014 at 14:43:05
        
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RE: How "good" is your taste in films? - Mike B. 12:12:16 04/29/14 (0)
61 and exemplary? Much of it was like wading through crap or just picking one I saw.
Exemplary... - musetap 11:25:02 04/29/14 (0)
but I didn't need THAT bonehead quiz to realize that.

Couldn't even FORCE myself to choose one from 1996.

And choosing "Titanic" over the other abysmal selections?

Yuck.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
Blame it on Rio predates the Poll by 10 years as fate would have it. Nt - geoffkait 07:39:26 04/29/14 (0)
Nt
I doubt it has any credibity either ... - reelsmith. 06:59:24 04/29/14 (7)
...especially since I scored "70 out of a possible 100. A very high score. Your taste in films is exemplary."

My favorite movie is It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Obviously my taste is questionable.

Dean.

reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is brilliant... - musetap 11:28:09 04/29/14 (0)
  every alternate viewing one decade apart.
  
  Just OK on the other ones.
  
  "Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
- No matter what your score. . . - Chris from Lafayette 10:33:53 04/29/14 (4)
  . . . your taste is exemplary? I got a 62 and my taste was "exemplary" too! ;-)
  - I'm trying to think of films that have protagonist babe musicians� nt - tinear 12:25:52 04/29/14 (3)
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    - Melanie in "The Page Turner" - Chris from Lafayette 10:29:23 04/30/14 (0)
      Love the scene where she impales the foot of the dirty old man cellist with the spike from his own cello!
      Actually, the actress is D�borah Fran�ois - only PLAYING a babe musician. ;-)
      
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    - Didn't you get 108 out of 100? * - Billy Wonka 14:34:04 04/29/14 (1)
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      - LOL! (nt) - mkuller 16:29:02 04/29/14 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Didn't you get 108 out of 100? * posted by Billy Wonka on April 29, 2014 at 14:34:04
        
        (nt)
- 68 for me... - mkuller 10:09:27 04/29/14 (0)
  ...exemplary beating an average score of 60.
  
  My wife would disagree...

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