The Bus

If you were to take all the movies you've ever seen, and divide equally into the top 50% and the bottom 50%, what movie is likely to fall right near the middle?

I wonder if there's a movie we could all agree on as being thoroughly mediocre.

Ash Ketchum

CHANGE OF HABIT (1969), starring Elvis Presley and Mary Tyler Moore

That one falls right in the middle of MY list.

Groucho

The Dark Knight (2008)

Fist of Doom

Outbreak (1995)

A thoroughly bland, yet watchable movie. The very definition of mediocre.

OldBoy

http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/12/29/mo...de-david-wain/

a couple EW contributors...

David Wain’s Middle 10 Neither Best Nor Worst Movies of the Decade (2000-09):
10. The Mexican
9. Insomnia
8. The Terminal
7. Charlie Wilson’s War
6. Music & Lyrics
5. 3:10 to Yuma
3. Tie: Runaway Jury/Baby Mama
2. Blue Crush
1. Changing Lanes

Mandi Bierly's List:
10. Match Point
9. Cast Away
8. Troy
7. America’s Sweethearts
6. What a Girl Wants
5. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
4. Pearl Harbor
3. The Soloist
2. Coyote Ugly
1. Superman Returns

i personally thought CWW, Cast Away and 3:10 were fantastic.

Superman Returns is a good choice for mediocre.

islandclaws

Dracula (1979)

Not entirely sure how I came to that, just seemed like a middle-of-the-road movie for me.

TGM

Bram Stoker's Dracula

The Bus

Changing Lanes is a pretty good answer.

Charlie Wilson's War feel right in the middle for me as well.

Mountain Biker

Another vote for The Dark Knight

wendersfan

The Mexican leaps to mind. It was just good enough that I remember it with some fondness while at the same time barely remembering it.

Trevor

Good thread idea, but for me, I can probably eventually come up with a top 200, and a bottom 100, with the other ~3000 all in the middle. But Superman Returns, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Charlie Wilson's War and Outbreak are good choices.

sauce07

Changing Lanes is a great answer. I remember liking it but not caring at all.

Numanoid

Changing Lanes? A median? Impossible.

sauce07

you're right, if you did that you would Crash

Now there's a mediocre movie

Blu Man

Despite being a big Tarantino fan, Reservoir Dogs falls right in the middle for me. Citizen Kane, The Terminator, and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl also fall somewhere in the middle.

sauce07

GoldenJCJ

Lake Placid I might watch it if I flip by it on TV but I could never see owning it and I usually forget about it the second I change channels again.

Groucho

Is Changing Lanes the one where Gweneth Paltrow is a brunette in an alternate universe?

Hokeyboy

Dead set, middle of the pack, 5 out of 10? Of the past decade?

Troy. Once Upon A Time In Mexico. Revenge of the Sith. Or, if you want to get less genre-gimmicky, Thirteen, The Brave One, or Babel.

I could see Crash and Superman Returns there too. Maybe just a hair above.


Although Thirteen did light the "Exactly When Does Nikki Reed Turn 18" fuse...

sauce07

Nope, that was Sliding Doors.

Changing Lanes is Ben Affleck and Sam Jackson get into a minor car accident and people talk for the rest of the movie.

Groucho

Thanks!

Sliding Doors = median

Changing Lanes = below median

Trading Places = above median

Hokeyboy

What about Eating Raoul?

Groucho

Eating Raoul = above median

Regarding Henry = median

Deconstructing Harry = below median

Hokeyboy

Drop

The Bad News Bears Remake.