Inspired by the linked XKCD. Using 60% instead of 50% because that’s an easy filter to apply on rottentomatoes.
I’ll go first: I think “Sherlock Holmes: A game of Shadows” was awesome, from the plot to the characters ,and especially how they used screen-play to highlight how Sherlocks head works in these absurd ways.
Battle: Los Angeles (37/48). I think it’s a fun take on the “alien invasion of Earth” trope. Maybe that’s because I play historical tabletop wargames (think Warhammer 40k, but with for example US paratroopers vs German panzer grenadiers).
Battle LA very much feels like it was written by people super into the military, but who aren’t actually in. Like a bunch of really gung ho people who did ROTC in college wrote it.
The uniforms and jargon, from what I remember were pretty spot on (even the combat gear from what I remember was seemingly all completely by the book looking or at least following a insanely uniform SOP) but the following of regulations was correct beyond a fault. People were still screaming out “Yes, Staff Sergeant!” like they were in boot camp as alien energy beams splashed around them.
That sense of regulation to a fault really kept pulling me out of the movie. I imagine dropping the marines from Generation Kill into the same situation and the dialog and reactions being much spicier and less robotic.
I have to ask… do you play with Army Men? Or better yet: in a pinch, COULD you play with Army Men?
Man I love this movie so much.