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Booty Call
1997 · Film · 79 min
Directed by Jeff Pollack
Rushon is sexually pent-up and ready to take thing things to the next level with his girlfriend, Nikki. But when he calls for a date, she asks to make it a double — bringing along her brash friend, Lysterine, whom Rushon sets up with his lewd buddy, Bunz. Things go better than expected. As the evening transitions from the restaurant to the bedroom, the two men go on a madcap search for what will surely make the night complete: condoms.
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> conclusion is that there is something definitely wrong with the way some movies are rated. I'm not sure if there exists a fix for that, apart from us, the "normal" viewers, just starting to ignore reviews and movie-critics and then watching movies with no preconceptions.
That seems like a big takeaway from one false negative. And I agree on Booty Call, I've long put it as one of my funniest movies from the 90's. That's said I didn't watch it in the theater and if the wife and I had gone I'm not sure she would have called it a good 30-40 bucks.
There are probably 3 issues here, critic blind spots (because the median critic is probably over 40 and has some cultural lenses that are hard to shake), the lack of information you can convey with one bit of data (which is an overall goodness bit not a "funniness" bit for comedies), and perhaps the sample size (this movie has only 12 reviews on RT and half are from no-names, more reviews might not change this score though it matters for some others).
FWIW Roger Ebert loved Booty Call and gave it 3 stars so, going beyond the one bit of fresh/rotten, it can lead you to critics that like movies you do and you can follow those personally.
And RT does pretty good at giving you good movies in general - their best comedies of the 90's rightly include Toy Story 1 & 2, Groundhog Day and The Player all of which are purchase worthy.
> A movie designed to do well on a RT score needs to please everyone. The end result is something that tries to be bland, uninteresting, and inoffensive. As an avid movie goer, that is a horrible result. I would much rather see a movie that takes risks and fails than something with little ambition outside turning a profit.
I've just finished watching for the second time a non-bland and pretty-offensive (at least for today's sensibilities) 1997 comedy starring Jamie Foxx and Vivica Fox, among others. It's called "Booty Call". It has a 5.3 rating on IMDB (which is comparatively speaking pretty low) and only 25% on RT (which I guess is even lower). It doesn't matter, because this movie has made me laugh so hard that I literally had tears in the corners of my eyes and my stomach-muscles were beginning to hurt because of all the laughing. And remember, this was the second time when I was watching it, but I was still laughing my a.s off.
Now, I thought that maybe I'm the crazy one out, a stupid viewer who doesn't understand interesting and thought-provoking movies and who only laughs at "stupid" movies, but when I went to the movie's comment page on IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118750/reference) I saw that I was not alone in this, all the top comments were giving the movie a rating between 8 and 10 and the commenters were mentioning how hard they had laughed while watching it.
The conclusion is that there is something definitely wrong with the way some movies are rated. I'm not sure if there exists a fix for that, apart from us, the "normal" viewers, just starting to ignore reviews and movie-critics and then watching movies with no preconceptions.