IMDb Poll Board: Favorite Movie with Red Score

@Breu ..

I don't think you can.

Instead, search for movies restricted to titles you have rated.

Then, sort by your rating and scroll down until you find the top 3 with red metacritic scores.

(You might want to also place a minimum vote count to exclude some obscure B/Indie films you might have liked, but which most voters would not know of.)

If I sort like that (My Ratings), I see no metacritic badge!

That's weird.

You're on a PC, right?

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&num_votes=5000,&my_ratings=restrict&sort=my_ratings,desc

PC, yes. Windows, Firefox. I did go through the first 1000 movies with a rating of 1-6/10. I don't see another way to connect it to my love for lesser rated movies. As long as there are no specific filters, there always may be better movies I would pick. So just took the first 1000 that appear and picked three of them:Godzilla (1998):

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120685/

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009):https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1055369/

Hollow Man (2009):

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164052/

@Breumaster, try using the search I pasted above.

This will sort the titles in order of your highest rated titles, excluding those with < 5000 votes which are unlikely to have Metacritic scores

That was helpful. Thank you. Please skip my picks above. I would rather pick:

Pele: Birth of A Legend (2016):

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0995868/

Beauty and the Beast (2014):

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2316801/

Equilibrium (2002):

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/

Glad that helped.

Also, Equilibrium is a great film.

My fourth pick is:

The Life of David Gale https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289992/

Hi @Breumaster,

Good afternoon.

Jaf could not edit the OP, he wrote in a comment that it's 3 picks per user.

I liked "The Life of David Gale" very much. Critics of a certain political disposition didn't.

We do not have any death penalty in European Union. Guess where the crime rates are higher.

homicides in USA: 5-7 per 100.000 citizens

homicides in Europe: 2 per 100.000 citizens

Deterrence simply does not work, sanity does!

…and this has been true both historically and in current data.

@NYVKE​ let's make theme 5 picks, so we can reach 35 options

@jaf_ismael​ 

Cool..

Can you add Gothika w Halle Berry (c. 2003) and 88 minutes w Robert Dinero (c.2007) for me?

@NYVKE​ of course

@jaf_ismael​ 

My fifth would be 'Swing Kids":

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108265/

I'm very sorry. Didn't get that you limited it to 3 picks. I want to keep my old three. When it comes to a fourth pick in future, you can take 'The Life of David Gale'. 

When I look at the movies I picked, definitely!

@NYVKE​ I often think that at least some of them know quite a lot but I still love that as a title. Despite my respect for some critics, the process of critiques, and what it can evoke, that title captures something true. It's also funny, perhaps for the same reason that it seems at least somewhat true. 

: )

Whitney Houston singing alone is enough for the film to get a respectable score.

And maybe it was because I was very young, but the "secret villain's" identity came as quite a surprise.

"The Life Before Her Eyes" would have been great if it had been released 10 years earlier... in The Sixth Sense, Usual Suspects, Fight Club, etc. era.

By the late 2000s the twist felt blase.

Still it had a beautiful cinematography

This also often happens when novels are adapted as films or mini-series.

Sometimes, the adaptations are totally awful, but at other times, the changes are justified in order to make the story "work" in an audio-visual motion picture format; and to increase the appeal to the largest possible audience.

Then again, there are some TOTAL desecrations. 

HBO's Fahrenheit 451 stands out as one of the worst of the worst - they literally (unknowingly) made a movie that everything the book was criticising

@NYVKE​ 'Very well said and I definitely agree with everything, except that I never saw Fahrenheit 451. I've had that experience a few times, I believe, with other films or series ("hey wait, they're doing exactly what the original material is arguing against") yet I can't remember with what production exactly.

However, it reminds me of something I saw very recently, even though it's not an adaption of any kind. I saw the 2025 documentary 'Predators' and what you said about Fahrenheit 451 brought it to mind because the director asks himself if, with his documentary, he is doing what he finds problematic or at least contributing to it. His situation sounds a lot different from Fahrenheit, though, because he's asking the question and he doesn't let himself off the hook. The film ends up exploring, and to some extent indicting, his own film. I still don't know what I think about the documentary but I respect his awareness and willingness to openly question his project.

I definitely want to see Fahrenheit 451 now, although for very different reasons than I usually want to see something. 

@Jessica​ added .thanks

I always thought 'I Am Sam' had a yellow score. I wonder if it's my memory that's wrong, which of course it certainly could be, or if the score changed, although I can't imagine a reason for it to get new reviews. Does anyone know if it was rereleased or well, anything about the score? Since i first saw this movie about fifteen years ago, I've thought a lot about the film, the reviews, and a few of the points made by some critics so I'm very curious.