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If you look at the movies coming out of Hollywood these days, it seems obvious that they're getting worse. Cynics have gone as far as to proclaim the death of storytelling.

Movie studios, they say, are taking the easy way out: recycling old ideas that are a sure bet to attract audiences, regardless of quality. Comic book sequels for the geeks. Twilight adaptations for the teenage girls.

We process a lot of movie data here at Moki.tv, so we wondered whether this trend would be observable.
We looked at the 20 most popular movies each year, for the past 20 years. The key, we think, is to look for movies that some love and some hate, which is the likely profile of a bad movie that's "safely" manufactured for an existing fanbase. In other words, movies that are polarizing.

We looked at how polarizing each movie is by measuring the standard deviation of the ratings for each movie.
What We Noticed:
A recent spike in highly polarizing movies.
Movies like the 3 Twilight movies, the Transformers sequel, Fast and the Furious, and others all have really wide ratings distributions. These are all adaptations or sequels that appeal to an existing fanbase.

Sequels are (almost) always more polarizing.
You can filter the graph below by specific series, like Star Wars, Twilight, and Spiderman. Almost consistently, the sequels are more polarizing than the original. Studios can depend on sequels to reel in audiences, whether or not they make good movies. The one exception is the Batman series.

arogon343 wrote:I am so glad that it mentioned the twilight film's. Personaly i very much enjoyed the books. However when they prodced the movies i felt they had raped the book and made the wreched product into film to ram into pre pubesant girls eye-sockets. May be a bit graphic yes,but it shows the point.
All in all i completely agree with you sneaky.

Blackadder51 wrote:

arogon343 wrote:I am so glad that it mentioned the twilight film's. Personaly i very much enjoyed the books. However when they prodced the movies i felt they had raped the book and made the wreched product into film to ram into pre pubesant girls eye-sockets. May be a bit graphic yes,but it shows the point.
All in all i completely agree with you sneaky.

OMG Finally someone agrees with me!

The movies were pathetic compared to the book.

Also i might as well burn this now....*Burns man card*

arogon343 wrote:I am so glad that it mentioned the twilight film's. Personaly i very much enjoyed the books. However when they prodced the movies i felt they had raped the book and made the wreched product into film to ram into pre pubesant girls eye-sockets. May be a bit graphic yes,but it shows the point.
All in all i completely agree with you sneaky.

Blackadder51 wrote:OMG Finally someone agrees with me!

The movies were pathetic compared to the book.

Also i might as well burn this now....*Burns man card*

DuplicateValue wrote:That's odd, from what I've seen of the books I thought they were pretty badly written.

Blackadder51 wrote:

arogon343 wrote:I am so glad that it mentioned the twilight film's. Personaly i very much enjoyed the books. However when they prodced the movies i felt they had raped the book and made the wreched product into film to ram into pre pubesant girls eye-sockets. May be a bit graphic yes,but it shows the point.
All in all i completely agree with you sneaky.

OMG Finally someone agrees with me!

The movies were pathetic compared to the book.

Also i might as well burn this now....*Burns man card*

SneakyPie wrote:

Cho wrote:ya know... I have to watch that movie again sometime. I've only seen it once, and I absolutely hated it. But everyone else seems to adore it.

DuplicateValue wrote:What movie is it from?

DuplicateValue wrote:What movie is it from?